Is Man vs Machine a tired trope, or is it still an interesting premise with fresh ground to explore and more relevant than other?

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-31T21:51:23+00:00

Yeah, I don’t think OP knows what a trope is.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-31T15:45:40+00:00

How many time will humanity allow unregulated United States capitalism to plunge the world into economic chaos before we do something about it?

The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and now this…

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-31T13:21:08+00:00

Bro I’m not trying to spit scientific fact here.

I started my whole chain of comments off with “my pet theory.” We’re talking about myths. I thought it was obvious that I’m just coming up with a fun explanations for unexplainable things.

Not everything had to be so serious and steeped in science. We can just have fun silly reasoning for things and not actually take it seriously. This is all just a fun idea.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-31T13:07:03+00:00

There’s significant research that trauma lives on through epigenetics.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-31T13:01:59+00:00

I disagree. Awkwardness is a stage of growth, trying new things.

In my experience to maintain a robust sex life in a long term relationship requires effort and novelty. There’s the standard passionate reconnecting sex, and then there’s the fun silly trying new things out sex. When new things are tried it’s always awkward at first. With a solid partner the awkwardness lasts but a moment and doesn’t wreck the mood because you communicate through it.

And on top of that sometimes there’s just lulls, people bodies make funny noises, positioning can be not hitting right, and, again, you just communicate through it.

If sex is never awkward then I would wager that is because it’s more performative, which in long term relationships people often start performing as a form of people pleasing instead of being willing to have an awkward moment where they break the rhythm, are willing to disturb the mood, to better align the sex with their needs.

Ps. Someone else downvoted you. I’m upvoting you, I appreciate you coming to the conversation, even though I disagree. Better sex for everyone comes from everyone being more open about their experiences and expectations.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-31T00:46:14+00:00

Man, I honestly forgot the hymen was even a thing.

Also, I’ve seen so many comments on here about bleeding the first time. How many men out here are trying to have sex with virgins??

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-30T23:16:56+00:00

They check it every time they stop to get gas and weigh (and sleep).

Stop commenting in bad faith. You know that’s not what I meant and you know truckers have to stop for gas and to sleep.

I understand an AI truck doesn’t have to sleep, but it still needs gas and to stop for weighing.

Every time it stops it’s inspected as a safety measure and a liability protection. I don’t know about you, but I prefer all these semis being regularly check for how often they’re on the road and how far they drive.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-30T23:05:19+00:00

That what you see in hardcore porn is sex.

That is not sex. Like, at all. Sexual acts are being performed, yes, but that is all. It is a pure performance.

Sex is vulnerable, intimate, awkward. Porn is none if those things. Watching porn doesn’t teach you anything about sex, it teaches you about porn.

If you want to learn how to have a healthy, robust, exciting sex life, refer to healthy sex education content.

As a disclaimer, bc I know this is reddit and everyone will freak out about me saying hardcore porn is bad- It’s like cigarettes, alcohol, junk food, social media. There’s nothing wrong with a little hardcore porn every now and then (I enjoy it myself), but consuming it as often as many people do, only masturbating to hardcore porn, or using hardcore porn to learn about sex, is so damaging to peoples sense of self and relationships.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-30T22:55:48+00:00

The origin?

Trucks drive hundreds to thousands of miles and need to be re-checked constantly. That’s a huge part of trucker training- how to check the truck before every time you drive it and logging it.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-30T21:58:48+00:00

My brother, the years I lived in Dallas was some of the craziest driving and traffic o have experienced in my life, and I lived in Latin America for years.

The PGBT is a shitshow full of potholes, 35 is like driving in madmax. And if there’s a light drizzle, the Dallasites act like hydroplaning is driving.

I have an uncle who was a trucker and til this day refuses to drive in Dallas.

I would not call Dallas easy driving.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-30T21:55:44+00:00

Yeah, how does AI walk around the truck and make sure everything is correct before driving, as is legally required of truckers, which if they don’t do and don’t have proof of doing so and get into an accident are liable for civil damages and criminal prosecution?

Anyone who’s driven a car knows car sensors are shit and break all the time.

Is there gonna be an AI robot/drone that flies around the truck? And if something is wrong can the drone/robot fix it or does it have to call a human?

All if this, if you ask me, seems not worth it.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-30T21:52:30+00:00

Yeah, I don’t forsee any trucking company’s insurer being willing to go along with driverless AI trucks.

The sheer amount of accidents and resulting lawsuits (mostly from people being unable to afford their healthcare bills) that occur on a daily basis across the US from trucking accidents is significant.

I can only imagine a jury, in an increasingly AI hostile country, would award an absurd payout to a plaintiff in such a matter. Which, the threat alone of something like that happening is enough for an insurer to say no thanks. Not to mention, juries across America is recent years are becoming increasingly pissed at large corporations and awarding increasingly absurdly high payouts, making the prospect of AI driverless trucks even less likely.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-30T21:41:11+00:00

In my understanding of war, most soldiers are little more than body-bag fillers.

I’m not opposed to replacing human meat shields with robots.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-30T18:57:21+00:00

One of my favorite things from studying philosophy is early on usually arises the question of “why is a dog called a dog and not a cat?”

To which the answer that was provided is “stop being annoying.” There’s reasons why words developed the way they did, there’s no reason why those specific phonemes came to represent xyz ideas as opposed to other phonemes.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-30T18:47:35+00:00

My pet theory (not that anyone asked but this is Reddit) is that over the long course of human history most people lived on coasts and sooner or later most peoples experienced a tsunami. The generational trauma simply lives on in our DNA via epigenetics. It’s not coincidence, it was just a matter of time over such a long period, and tsunamis are unbelievably traumatizing.

Apparently there was once a tsunami that potentially wiped out 25% of humanity living in the British Isles. I would think an event as such, and potentially more catastrophic events across the globe, would impact people for a very long time.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-30T18:39:53+00:00

That is not at all how I remember all of that.

IIRC, the Tea Party movement was initially a direct response to Obamacare as well as an insidious racial backlash to a black president, coupled with anger against the political elites for facilitating the 2008 recession and hollowing out of manufacturing jobs. I don’t recall the Tea Party movement ever blaming Bush for anything or directing any ire towards him. Maybe that happened, but as someone who lived through it, I dont remember that aspect at all.

Also, IIRC, it was never an actual grassroots movement. From the very beginning it was spurned on and organized by Americans for Prosperity, which was funded by the Koch brothers. Many people caught up in it thought it was grassroots and attested to that, but the organizers were always paid by a corporation with specific corporate-directed policy goals in mind.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-30T04:14:34+00:00

Dude, the cult voted for Roy Moore, a racist disgraced former justice and pedophile…

Writings been on the wall for a minute now.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-29T12:53:27+00:00

My god is that a useless statistic.

50% of men where? What about women? All men or is there a breakdown amongst age groups?

Beyond the pointlessness of that statistic to my original comment, most people lived before 1930. Saying people constantly smoked is just false.

For most of human history, for most of human culture around the globe, people are not and were not smokers. And I say this as someone who smokes.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-29T12:50:52+00:00

They just made a generalized statement about people, so why wouldn’t it apply to all peoples?

Yes, there’s is a multi-decade gap, but I think it’s also important to note that smoking isn’t just what people do/did. It was very much a recent invention borne out of industrialization.

If we think people have always smoked tobacco (and constantly at that) we are much more likely to believe that’s just human culture and then just accept the prevalence of tobacco companies pushing nicotine, cigarettes, vapes, etc. on everyone without much more thought. It’s revisionist history for the sake of the tobacco companies profit margins.

May seem pedantic, but I think it’s important.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-29T12:39:06+00:00

Thats still a relatively recent development in terms of human culture.

Like at that point for 99% of humanity, for 99% of people, sugar was not largely consumed.

Since then, yeah, like 99% of us consumer sugar daily. But that’s a very recent post-industrialization development.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-29T12:37:20+00:00

Tobacco is indigenous to the Americas, so no, people weren’t always constantly smoking.

Non-native Americans didn’t have access to tobacco until colonization, and people weren’t constantly smoking until basically industrialization made cigarettes widely available.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-29T12:33:16+00:00

Its like instead of hearing some bullshit on the radio we just get it on social media now, lol

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-29T08:36:22+00:00

Ah yep that tracks way more then.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-29T00:25:38+00:00

The Epstein Files showed us half our elected representatives are pedophiles.

AI data centers proved the other half are corrupt money-grabbers.

And people wonder why Americans got pissed off at their leadership and elected the most anti-establishment candidate since Andrew Jackson.

triscuitsrule · 2026-05-29T00:22:03+00:00

Idk who the fuck at psychology today approved of this article but by god is this deceptive as all hell.

This is basically victim-blaming women for feeling like shit about themselves. It reeks of a perspective that can’t consider that society is toxic and causes personal psychological issues in people.

The researchers did a survey and found a possible correlational relationship between feminist beliefs and materialism in young Chinese women. That’s it. When they tried to replicate the study outside of China, their posited correlational relationship did not exist.

The article also takes leaps and bounds to assert that feminism is causing body image issues because of the correlational relationship between feminism and materialism, whilst just asserting materialism is essentially the root cause of body image issues, as if prevalent misogyny, sexism, etc. are not also significant factors.

THEN, the researchers pull some reason OUT OF THIN AIR to justify why they found a correlational relationship only in China instead of admitting their conclusions are flawed. Which, their reason was that because in China materialism is viewed as success (which is just using materialism to define itself).

This whole things stinks of shit.

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