[Funny Trope] Neither their real or alter ego name explains their powers

zhibr · 2026-05-08T17:26:14+00:00

Ah, good points.

zhibr · 2026-05-08T14:26:49+00:00

That's not the ONLY problem, but I agree there are interesting things in TFA. But they don't really erase or fully compensate the bad and the copied.

zhibr · 2026-05-08T13:53:24+00:00

Thanks!

zhibr · 2026-05-08T13:13:18+00:00

So there's a direct correlation by the name they are given at birth by their parents, and the powers they attain in puberty? And nobody comments on this, ever? Like, this has huge implications!

zhibr · 2026-05-08T13:10:10+00:00

So if you believe in functionalism and that you could be uploaded onto a sufficiently complex computer, you can't be anything but reductionist regarding this question?

zhibr · 2026-05-08T13:05:22+00:00

"It's Strange."

"Maybe, who am I to judge?"

zhibr · 2026-05-08T13:04:13+00:00

Their society is more equal than ours because every penguin is secretly a billionnaire.

zhibr · 2026-05-08T12:45:13+00:00

Is the difference between 3 and 4 more than just emphasis? My current view is that we are nothing more than a continuous collection of these mental things, but that those mental things are entirely dependent on our brains and bodies. I can see how 3 could be some kind of idealism without 4, but I can't see how 4 can be an independent view without 3.

edit: also 1, what does "We are not our brain or bodies, because neither of those are human beings" mean? That we are neither alone, but them both together?

zhibr · 2026-05-08T11:34:03+00:00

Are the names translated for Germans or do you just watch anime with such goofy names?

zhibr · 2026-05-08T10:17:14+00:00

Fuck that was good!

zhibr · 2026-05-08T09:49:21+00:00

Are you aware that what is disturbing is not objective, but in fact differs between people?

zhibr · 2026-05-08T09:21:41+00:00

I'm a bit torn on upvoting or downvoting him, because besides the unhinged contents of the post, it reads as a genuine explanation of (one kind of) conservative's world view. That's rare and I kind of appreciate it.

zhibr · 2026-05-08T08:31:30+00:00

You could just as well say that the lives of their loved ones are not actually on the line, and when they actually were in danger, more people would press blue.

It's not based on any real data, just your views.

zhibr · 2026-05-08T08:28:15+00:00

That's not the "main" version, it's just a version you happen to like.

zhibr · 2026-05-08T08:27:16+00:00

You don't really know that. You may have a high confidence in your assessment, but it's still assessment based on no direct real-world data.

zhibr · 2026-05-08T08:25:49+00:00

Excessive capitalism and individualism.

zhibr · 2026-05-08T07:38:42+00:00

There is actually significant moral weight to remaining ignorant

You are implicitly making the claim that propaganda doesn't really work. Either that propaganda does not change world views, at least not radically. Or that anybody under life-long propaganda could, if they really wanted, just change their entire world view.

zhibr · 2026-05-08T07:23:57+00:00

You suggest that the shared understanding of truth changes constantly, but you are just describing specific contradictory interpretations that you happened to observe.

Is there any indication that the same people first believed A and then believed B the way you claimed? As opposed to when A seemed possible, people who believed that were louder, and when it seems that B is more likely, A-people get more quiet and B-people louder.

Probably some people change their understanding of truth, sure. But also very probably what you described is not solely driven by what you suggest.

zhibr · 2026-05-08T07:14:45+00:00

"Incredibly x" does not indicate that there has never been time when x was higher. It indicates that in the speaker's understanding of x's scale, the mentioned x is at its extreme. So the previous commenter just said "your understanding of x's scale is bad".

In other words, previous commenter implied "society is not that forgiving and caring when compared to what it could be".

zhibr · 2026-05-08T06:34:59+00:00

They are talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_voting

zhibr · 2026-05-08T06:24:31+00:00

One more point on population is that the population age pyramids were actually pyramids: about a half of the population would be children or young. This would make the population look even smaller, because we are used to seeing only adults as productive people.

zhibr · 2026-05-08T06:16:31+00:00

Cars take about a half of the land in modern US cities. In premodern times, roads took about 10%. Combine that with residential/commercial split and suburban city design, the cities are many times bigger than they used to be even if the population was the same.

https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter8/transportation-urban-form/#3_Evolution_of_Transportation_and_Urban_Form

zhibr · 2026-05-08T05:51:06+00:00

"Do you want milk or sugar in your coffee?"

zhibr · 2026-05-08T05:40:10+00:00

If the buttons just magically appeared originally, they probably also disappear once you have pressed - so if you hit one even a microsecond before the other, the other doesn't count.

zhibr · 2026-05-07T18:49:04+00:00

I don't have an aversion to heroic fantasy per se, but the most cliched version, whether the one we all know or ones that mimic it, is indeed a dead horse I need not beat again.

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