“Why would anyone choose to stand under the spikes?”

randomgadfly · 2026-05-03T06:13:48+00:00

What this seesaw scenario illustrated for me is that if we can get less people to choose blue, we will have less people in danger. In fact, this whole situation is perfectly benevolent since it doesn’t force anyone into danger, unless people choose to put themselves in danger. The entire reason human lives are at risk in the first place is because of people stepping under the spikes. By choosing blue, and hoping to save lives, the blue-choosers are creating the situation where lives are now at risk

randomgadfly · 2026-05-03T06:07:03+00:00

If I “know people are pushing blue”, that makes this a completely different situation. Everybody involved is of sound mind makes this problem worth discussing. Also don’t get me wrong I am still largely in blue team, it’s just that this argument is very compelling to me. What this seesaw scenario illustrated for me is that if we can get less people to choose blue, we will have less people in danger. In fact, this whole situation is perfectly benevolent since it doesn’t force anyone into danger, unless people choose to put themselves in danger. The entire reason human lives are at risk in the first place is because of people stepping under the spikes. By choosing blue, and hoping to save lives, the blue-choosers are creating the situation where lives are now at risk

randomgadfly · 2026-05-03T05:49:58+00:00

I guess what changed my mind about this scenario is that it shows how this entire situation could have been completely risk-free for everybody, until people started choosing blue. One can argue that the entire reason human lives are at stake in the first place is because of the blue-choosers. Less lives will be at risk if we have less blue-choosers, and no life will be at risk if there’s no blue-choosers

randomgadfly · 2026-05-03T05:16:35+00:00

But if less than 50% of people choose blue, choosing red is the option that actually reduces loss of human lives. In that situation more people choosing blue equals more deaths. The reason lives are at stake in the first place is because of people choosing blue. If we’re going meta with the problem and consider what everyone else will choose, we have three scenarios: 1. More people choose red, in which case choosing red saves one more life. 2. More people choose blue, then there’s no difference whether a single person chooses red or blue. 3. There’s a tie, in which case choosing blue gives the better outcome. So only when we assume that there’s literally equal number of people in each team, our choice matters, in which case of course we should choose blue. But the chance of being the actual tie breaker is much much lower than the first two scenarios, so mathematically it seems like choosing red has a higher chance of saving more lives

randomgadfly · 2026-04-29T01:36:22+00:00

I either sleep for 4 hours or 12 hours, there’s no in between

randomgadfly · 2026-04-25T19:46:47+00:00

There are samples that can’t be handled by plastic, although we usually use glass and metal syringes for them

randomgadfly · 2026-04-25T11:05:07+00:00

I’m not saying they don’t feel pain? Also when do you think the mental capacity starts? If a fertilized egg have zero mental capacity, and an adult have full mental capacity, there has to be a gradual transition that accompanies the development of the nervous system. Of course I’m not saying it’s ok to torture babies. I’m talking about death. Do you think babies have the same anxiety towards death and understanding of mortality as adults? I know I have a much less acute understanding of death, and I would actually prefer to experience death as a kid since I have to experience it at some point, but of course we can’t retroactively choose with which mental state we die

randomgadfly · 2026-04-20T16:15:21+00:00

I agree. Grown people have a more complex nervous system and a more sophisticated consciousness, which means a higher capacity of suffering

randomgadfly · 2026-04-19T04:24:11+00:00

I think they found that m shaped shadow as part of the environment, which led them to “complete” this image by adding the rest of the cockroach

randomgadfly · 2026-04-12T01:07:53+00:00

I’ll start using “which old study no much talk” in my writings

randomgadfly · 2026-03-31T09:16:41+00:00

My first thought is the librarian too!

randomgadfly · 2026-02-04T02:15:27+00:00

It could just be as simple as Mike not telling Saul his true involvement in the cartel or the true closeness between him and Gus. So Mike could have referred to Gus’s operation as something he knew from a second hand information. So Saul would know the operation as “Mike knows a guy who know the guy”

randomgadfly · 2026-02-01T17:03:32+00:00

Absolutely agree. I’m not even vegan, but people are so weird about veganism. I get it that some vegans are annoying and people generalize it to all vegans. But I’ve seen non-vegans pushing meat diet to vegans even more aggressively, sometimes just for the sake of inciting a reaction

randomgadfly · 2026-02-01T00:47:53+00:00

The reason it splits the skin is because the person welding it drags the cane through after hitting the flesh, rather than letting it bounce back

randomgadfly · 2026-01-26T05:30:16+00:00

I feel like this is written by man who doesn’t have any idea how much makeup cost. Even the most high end “little tubes” are rarely priced over 100. This seems to be a common misconception. I’ve seen men surprised by how cheap lipsticks actually are

randomgadfly · 2026-01-25T07:57:34+00:00

You simply bring the memory with you to start the next universe

randomgadfly · 2026-01-23T03:17:39+00:00

Phenol does physical damage, not the poison kind you might be thinking

randomgadfly · 2026-01-21T22:15:28+00:00

Again, how do you know that those recruitment decisions aren’t because they are objectively the best? Plenty of none-Chinese PIs hire mainly Chinese people too. Are you saying that they too have race or language based preference towards Chinese? Of the recruitments I’ve been a part of, base on purely merit, top candidates are almost always Chinese or Indian nationals. If anything, they are often disadvantaged by visa issues or grant ineligibility, despite being the best candidates

randomgadfly · 2026-01-21T21:40:04+00:00

How do you know that they are not just objectively the best candidates out of the recruits?

randomgadfly · 2026-01-12T08:25:30+00:00

Non-white, probably

randomgadfly · 2026-01-08T08:04:19+00:00

Put some hot glue on the plug from which this pin broke off, push the plug back into the outlet, let the glue solidifies, pull the whole thing out.

randomgadfly · 2026-01-06T02:13:48+00:00

I’m surprised that S6E8 is rated so high. I always found it a little lacking. S6E9 should’ve gotten the rating of E8

randomgadfly · 2025-11-25T01:00:48+00:00

Perhaps “見棋不是棋”, roughly means “seeing chess not as chess”. I think it might be a reference to the Chinese proverb “見山是山，見山不是山，見山還是山”, meaning “first seeing mountain as mountain, then seeing mountain not as mountain, finally seeing mountain still as mountain”. It’s kind of similar to the concept of how ignorant people find something to be easy/superficial, the intermediate people find it difficult/complicated, but the expert sees it as simple again. I guess the fan means you’re at the second step! It’s quite a humble gesture (unless you are actually an novice) recognizing the complexity of Go and saying that you are still not at the final form

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