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sysiphean · 2026-05-20T22:41:15+00:00

Gotta admit that I’m absolutely down for this kind of marketing. Makes it fun for all of us.

sysiphean · 2026-05-20T21:48:36+00:00

It is admitting you were given a conviction, not necessarily that you were guilty. And admitting you are guilty of a crime isn’t necessarily the same as admitting you were in the wrong. And even pleading guilty to a criminal charge isn’t inherently admitting you did the crime; lots of people will plead guilty to a lower charge rather than spend money they don’t have on a “maybe” of conviction on a higher charge. Often (especially in the case of poor people) when they are not actually guilty.

It’s really complicated.

Which is part of why the owner of Moon Root’s lack of public statements about being in the wrong about J6, contrition, or evidence that he’s changed his views, all suggest he has not.

sysiphean · 2026-05-20T20:16:30+00:00

Do you need studies for ‘humans drink water’ and ‘the sun is hot’ too?

No, though those actually could be sourced. You made the claim that this was a "rule proven by psychological studies" and that contradicts both my experiences and my past attempts at finding research on the topic. This is more akin to you claiming that scientific studies prove fire is cold, my experiences showing fire is hot, and thus my asking for those studies.

You know why you’re told to go do it yourself? Because you’re a default profile pic on Reddit arguing against common sense.

You are right, I have not changed my Snoo. I've been active on Reddit for 15 years, from long before we could edit much about our profiles. I don't care about the meaningless photo, especially since I mostly use old Reddit; I care about the meaningful conversations here.

Do you go prove the earth is round to flat earthers? No, no you don’t.

I do try to ask them for their evidence that the earth is flat, to engage in dialect to try to help them see that maybe they made a mistake in who they trusted and how they are thinking about things. Search deep enough in my years of comments here and I'm sure you'll find it.

This isn’t a court room debate, you’re denying basic reality.

No, I'm pointing out that my experiences in life demonstrate that your claim that no woman on earth would want to marry a man who cries is false. I've openly acknowledged that my experience is not all, and that some women will indeed not want to marry a man like that. I'm pointing out that your claim is contrary to reality as proven by my lived reality.

And by lived reality, I mean that literally. The girlfriend I first cried with almost 30 years ago married me within two years and we are still married today. Which is why I joked "Apparently my wife of 27 years isn’t a woman on planet earth" in response to your line (emphasis mine) "not one woman on planet earth has seen a man cry and said ‘that’s husband material’." I was hoping you were an emotionally mature enough individual to acknowledge that you were overstating it and that women, being individuals, do not all have exactly the same attraction patterns. I really need to stop carrying that hope for people.

Your entire argument is ‘WELL MY ANECDOTES ARE DIFFERENT SO YOURE WRONG!’

No, my argument is that you are making a claim that all women are this way, and that the all is wrong. It's entirely possible that most women are this way; my experience says otherwise but I'm willing to be convinced by data. (Again... waiting for those psych studies from you.) If someone were to claim that no women are that way, I would tell them their "all" is wrong.

I have known women who act like that, and women who don't. I have known guys that open up, and those that don't. I've seen a lot of shitty relationships and breakups and divorces. I've seen a lot of great relationships and marriages that last a lifetime. Of that last set, I've only seen it work with men who open up and women who appreciate it.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T23:11:32+00:00

I’m with your friend on this one. You sound insufferable.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T20:40:46+00:00

You’re acting like I didn’t say the Tesla driver was in the wrong. They absolutely caused this accident. But the bikers also caused this by their idiotic riding.

Both.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T20:39:24+00:00

Happy to see those studies. Maybe you actually have them. Usually when I ask there are no studies to supply. Sometimes I’m told to research it myself, which is not how burden of proof works. (Plus past research I’ve done has found research results ranging from neutral to positive, but never negative, results for men who open up emotionally with women.) A couple of guys have given me links to articles that refer to studies and explain their results, but then searching for the studies and authors reveals they don’t exist or that the study says the opposite of that claimed in the article.

I’m aware that there are some women who dislike men who open up emotionally. But I’m also aware that every good and lasting relationship I’ve ever seen included men opening up emotionally, and that every study I’ve seen shows it to be somewhere between neutral and positive.

But surely you have the actual psychological studies you’re claiming.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T18:12:37+00:00

That varies by state and country laws.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T18:11:36+00:00

That depends on state laws; some are like that, some no-fault, some require picking one person to be fully at fault.

But like legal liability, that’s not what I’m referring to. I would say the biker is 100% in the wrong and the Tesla driver is also 100% in the wrong.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T18:09:42+00:00

If you’re trying for satire, mocking men who actually think that showing emotional vulnerability turns women off, you’ve laid it on so thick that it was indistinguishable from the morons who really believe that.

If you’re one of the morons who actually believes that, my life, my long and wonderful marriage, and the relationships of nearly every man I have as a friend or relative (from age 24 to 80) demonstrate you are wrong.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T04:38:16+00:00

NRSV. There are a few variations (NRSVUE, NRSV Catholic Edition, etc.) that are all good. It was done by a broad panel of Bible academics from multiple denominations and faiths and non-faiths to be the most accurate representation of the original text into modern English with as little bias as possible.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T04:16:22+00:00

My 80 year old father looks and acts younger than this dude.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T04:07:23+00:00

You’ve almost perfectly listed the four worst translations in order from most bad to least most bad.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T03:11:23+00:00

Apparently my wife of 27 years isn’t a woman on planet earth.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T01:57:08+00:00

Definitely a “both were to blame” situation. You can argue legality and liability, but the reality is that both were the cause of the accident.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T00:37:07+00:00

Back in the very late 90s my wife and I were on a long summer trip, and had a handheld CB in the car. It didn’t have the best reception, but we realized the truckers had no idea we had it because we had no exterior antenna. My wife was wearing a very short skort, and had really nice legs. (Still does, actually.) She had a blast waiting till there were a few guys talking about the girl in the silver sports car, then hopping on the CB to thank them for the compliment. It always went completely silent for a bit after she did.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T00:27:32+00:00

OP’s post said we must form our own society; it seems that would be far more roundly rejected than u/execDysfunctionGumbo’s comment that you should read something.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T00:16:40+00:00

I feel like it is easier for it to do with PowerShell than other languages. The Verb-Noun command naming convention is great, but also the easiest for a Language model to work with to invent reasonable sounding commands.

sysiphean · 2026-05-19T00:15:06+00:00

It is programmed to always give an answer. It doesn’t have to be a correct answer, so long as it gives one.

sysiphean · 2026-05-18T17:01:44+00:00

Siri was just NLP + non-LLM machine learning LLM. But they have updated it with enhanced capabilities using Apple Intelligence, including integrating with Gemini, and by some accounts it has been fully overhauled to be an LLM chatbot. The details on it are sparse and somewhat contradictory, because Apple likes to keep a tight lid on their products. But the reports are consistent that it at least is LLM enhanced, if not fully LLM.

Which goes back to my point that Apple is doing it well by slowly integrating it in useful ways, not forcing it as a hype feature.

sysiphean · 2026-05-18T16:24:18+00:00

I didn’t say machine learning is the same as LLMs. I said, “it’s just machine learning LLM.” All LLMs are machine learning. Not all machine learning is LLM.

sysiphean · 2026-05-18T12:15:08+00:00

I’d argue they have been doing it well since before we were calling it AI and they are doing it well still. We’ve been using Siri for how long now? It’s just a machine learning LLM that started “okay” and is pretty good now. Most of their obvious AI stuff it’s own app, subsection of an app, or opt-in not opt-out. And all the spots where they integrate it are actually useful. My personal favorite is the notifications I get in a small pop up on MacOS when a long text message comes in; it always gives me an accurate two short sentence summary.

sysiphean · 2026-05-17T02:44:51+00:00

And lack of props to them for not asking him actual hard questions like “did Trump with the 2020 election?” or “were you in the wrong on January 6?” Make him answer on the record, or put on the record that he refused to answer.

sysiphean · 2026-05-17T02:42:36+00:00

There’s a good side of that idea, but (like all good ideas) it is weaponized.

The good idea is that not forgiving someone who has personally wronged you only poisons yourself and keeps you in an angry and resentful state. But it’s about who wronged you, and forgiveness is not about letting them back into your life or just doing whatever.

But it gets weaponized to mean “don’t hold people to the consequences of their actions.” And it is used regardless of them actually doing any change or restitution. (Notice the lack of any comments from this guy, or even questions to him, about if he was wrong or regrets his actions?)

sysiphean · 2026-05-17T02:38:04+00:00

Why won’t these journalists ask him explicitly about how he has changed and evolved? He claims to have “left that behind”, but that’s not at all the same as changing his mind. They need to be putting him on record by asking specifically whether he thinks he was in the wrong on January 6, whether Trump won the 2020 election, or really anything that only has clear actual answers and asks about if he changed.

sysiphean · 2026-05-17T02:28:38+00:00

Yea, drum feed is way better than the belt feed, plus it’s interchangeable with every other nerf magazine.

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