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agamemnonymous,

You’re dead wrong, it’s totally reasonable.

agamemnonymous,

When you realize that’s why your parents were like that

agamemnonymous,

Obviously not universal, but generally parental strictness/harshness/unfairness is them trying to spare their children undue suffering from mistakes similar to those the parents themselves made in their youth.

agamemnonymous,

Legally hard-capped multimillionaires?

agamemnonymous,

And gave corn

agamemnonymous,

What evidence do you have that human creativity is anything other than remixing?

agamemnonymous,

I’m in the GURPS pipeline now. Dead simple or brain meltingly complex, or anything in between.

agamemnonymous,

Ehhh, once it clicks, GURPS boils down to 3d6 ≤ skill level + modifiers. All the “game settings” are just tools to accurately map the character and world concepts into appropriately priced skill levels and modifiers. The more comfortable the GM gets with pricing, the more they can just wing it and go with a modifier that feels right.

You don’t “swap” rules, you use the same rules for everything. All the rulebooks are just guides for keeping modifiers balanced, although the canonical GURPS universe is predominantly a setting-hopping/genre-changing monstrosity so that might be of interest to you.

Bambu X1C Purge and Prime

I’m considering pulling the trigger on an X1C but the waste is a huge turn-off. I know there are options for purging to infill or a sacrificial object, but last I heard there’s still a considerable amount of purge/prime. Can someone who’s played with the settings tell me honestly how much progress has been made in reducing...

agamemnonymous,

Do I bring my future knowledge? I could have totally stopped that kid from getting into Harambe’s enclosure

agamemnonymous,

sideways wiping

Excuse me?

agamemnonymous,

He takes them off when he transforms

agamemnonymous,

I’m team knitting-spool

agamemnonymous,

Some are bi

agamemnonymous,

Well, he said he tried multiple times to get reallocate it with no luck, so I assume it was pretty specific.

agamemnonymous,

I think this is the response that summarizes why someone would have an issue with this:

A class of men used their time and resources to build an old-boys-club to help each other. This is widely regarded as a bad thing. There are actual solutions that would address the underlying issue of special interests giving certain demographics an advantage, like anonymizing applications to circumvent discrimination and ensure the most qualified applicant gets the job regardless of demographic. Instead, the approach here is to make a new old-not-boys-club to give an advantage to different demographics.

That’s the issue here. The response to gender discrimination isn’t to take turns, it’s to eliminate unfair discrimination entirely.

agamemnonymous,

Yes, a level playing field is one where no one has an unfair advantage, not one where all the various unfair advantages balance out.

agamemnonymous,

That’s what leveling the playing field is, removing the unfair advantages. Like anonymizing applications.

As stated elsewhere, there are other hurdles besides gender Identity which obstruct applicants. Equality of opportunity by selectively advantaging demographics immediately devolves into absurdity. You have to accurately quantify the exact degree of historical disadvantage and precise proportionate counter-advantage for every demographic, normalized by demographic, and accurately combined to address intersectionality. Every attempt at which obviously creating ripples of advantage and disadvantage to infinitesimally complicate the calculus, not to mention how you even quantify any of these values accurately in the first place.

And you must do all of this, because otherwise you’re just making a new tier of privilege to join in on oppressing the minorities who slip through the cracks and don’t have advocacy groups to devote time and money to give them a helping hand.

Or, like I said, you could focus on stripping away existing advantages instead of starting new ones, so your efforts benefit everyone disadvantaged.

agamemnonymous,

It’s more like acknowledging that under such a system of selective advantages, many underprivileged demographics slip through the cracks because they’re not one of the vogue disadvantaged demographics. You’re left with towering historic advantages, surrounded by a hierarchy of new trendy advantages, rising in proportion to the power of their advocacy groups. That’s not a level playing field, it’s a city skyline.

agamemnonymous, (edited )

A step in the right direction for those with well-funded advocacy groups. For those without, it’s a further step in the wrong direction. Either demographic-based discrimination by private entities is a problem or it isn’t. You don’t get to morally vindicate selective bias because it was biased in your favor this time. Eliminate the bias.

agamemnonymous,

We’re all alone, for all time

agamemnonymous,

The only rational conclusion is to hack the Sims to include another simulation

agamemnonymous,

I’d probably start with Socrates-Plato-Aristotle. They weren’t the first, but they basically formed the framework through which we think about philosophy. As you look into specific ideas in that context, you’ll find references to people who disagreed with, reinforced, and transformed their ideas. That’s when I’d start going down rabbit holes one at a time based on interesting historical responses.

agamemnonymous,

There are a handful in the West, and several in the East. Thales predates him in Greece, Confucius predates him and provides similar insight to philosophical frameworks in the East, not to mention many others around the world and further in the past. It’s fine to start at one point and then research previous influences later.

agamemnonymous,

Why do overwhelming popular policies, like drug reform and universal healthcare, fail time and time again, while overwhelmingly unpopular policies, like tax cuts for the rich, easily succeed time and time again? Capitalism inevitably becomes thinly-veiled bourgeoisie authoritarianism. “Vote with your dollars” means those with the most dollars have the most votes.

agamemnonymous,

Read the title as “Queen’s brain may help…” which puzzled me I must say

agamemnonymous, (edited )

That sounds like a swell, materialist solution, but it just kicks the can down the metaphysical road and creates more questions than it answers. What parts of the brain interact to create it? What is the subjective experience “made” of? Some kind of energy? How much complexity is required for it to emerge? Are there levels of consciousness? Are babies born with a consciousness that grows more robust over time, or does it pop in at some discrete level? Does the galaxy have an emergent consciousness, it’s certainly more complex than the human brain. What about the universe?

Even if “it’s an emergent property” is true, it’s not a very useful answer. It’s like saying babies come from the hospital, it skips over the part we’re asking the question about.

Panpsychism is probably the most scientifically conservative explanation of consciousness. “Energy fields permeating the universe and interacting with each other” is the model scientists use to explain many, many phenomena, from electromagnetism to mass.

agamemnonymous,

No one’s been rude though, I don’t know what you’re considering “rude” or “vile”

agamemnonymous,

For me, this is less an emotional support philosophy, and more an earnest curiosity about the nature of consciousness and reality.

agamemnonymous,

Except freedom of information and freedom of action are two of the first things to die without regulation. Company towns and crooked newspapers are hallmarks of low-regulation.

It’s easier to vote bad people out of positions of power in a powerful state than it is to prevent them from abusing executive roles in powerful conglomerates.

agamemnonymous,

It’s strictly speaking not libertarian, but libertarianism is a left wing ideology and the post is clearly referring to the right wing self-ascribed “libertarians” who do in fact argue against regulations roughly indiscriminately…

I never said it’s easy to vote them out, I said it’s easier than holding corrupt private executives accountable, for the same captured market illusion of choice reasons.

Don’t understand what you’re trying to say in the last part, don’t think your assessment really reflects my goals, sorry.

agamemnonymous,

I just don’t see the distinction. Without a government with actual regulatory teeth, those corrupt executives are just as liable to lock people in. Dismantling state power just gives those executives more opportunities to abuse their power. You can’t reduce government and expect private interests to not fill the vacuum. The concept that private executives with no voter accountability would be less corrupt than politicians is wholly ridiculous.

agamemnonymous,

They are one of the most popular, and most diversely flavorful, styles. They’re not the “worst” by any metric but your narrow opinion.

agamemnonymous,

One 5¢ bag please

agamemnonymous, (edited )

Definitely be open about being married. They don’t need your life story up front, but you save a lot of time on doomed conversations if they start off knowing that. I’m not sure about any homosexual apps, but back when I used it PoF and OKC had options to specify things like that in your profile so people could filter by your relationship status.

agamemnonymous,

Sympathetic resonant induction. The interaction of frequencies is the underlying principle of both string theory and music theory. Assign various “flavors” of string which resonate with different elements/colleges/domains, spells sung or played properly in tune manipulate the fabric of reality.

Develop a musical language, look into Solresol and Enochian for some inspiration. Include monasteries with gongs and singing bowls, church organs, choirs, anything like that. Religions lean heavy into “the Word”.

agamemnonymous,

Hardest class so far? Favorite class so far?

agamemnonymous,

Jealous, I suspect you’d have to have a pretty baller prof to make Schrodinger equations fun. You’re right, a passionate professor is the difference between misery and epiphany.

agamemnonymous,

Clausthaler Dry-Hopped (the brown bottle, not the green). It actually tastes like a beer.

agamemnonymous,

Actors have to be married to kiss on screen

agamemnonymous,

What’s funnier still is that the complement when you replace “bad” with “good” works too. Perfectly balanced.

agamemnonymous,

At house eating dorito

agamemnonymous,

It’s that the Navy Seal copypasta? I swear I can almost make it out

agamemnonymous,

Almost certainly the Navy Seal copypasta. I can tell from some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few copypasta in my time.

agamemnonymous,

Ever read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality?

agamemnonymous,

I’m not sure Mary Sue is the right trope. Although half the point is highlighting all the pointless stupidity of the original, so it’s hard not to come across as condescending.

agamemnonymous,

It’s dunking on basically the entire wizarding world being paste-eating levels of stupid in the original, as well as lampooning cringey fan-fiction. I think you might have missed an element of self-awareness.

agamemnonymous,

Of course not, but is there another option with similar regularity and exposure to such a wide variety of people? It’s a societal microcosm.

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