Ohh! Sorry for projecting! I gotcha now.

I like all sorts of escapism. TV, Movies, Games, Books are all doorways to me.

I’d consider watching TV shows on a personal server watching TV. TV doesn’t need to be live airing. I just saying cuz I too mostly self host, but wouldn’t tell people I don’t watch TV. I think it’s more whether you’re consuming that medium at all or not.

I recall seeing a study from a major university that basically showed how having money directly translated into political influence. We are a straight oligarchy.

We’re still overdue for a eugenics war and WW3 before Star Trek timeline.

KHAN!

Plex Server. Enough content there for lifetimes.

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Data shows that something like 80% of guys on dating apps don’t get any attention from women. I don’t remember the exact figure. But dating apps are a tough demoralizing place for most men. I’d say branch out in your hobbies and focus on self improvement and hopefully you’ll bump into the right person with some shared interest.

Are you going to therapy for your social anxiety and over thinking? Cuz even if you got a match on the apps, you’re still going to face those issues when you actually meet up.

One thing I’ve seen reported in recent times is that men hardly show up to singles events and speed dating type things anymore. But that might be a lot of pressure for your social anxiety if you showed up somewhere and you were the only guy in a room of women.

Uh yeah, I’m not going to go to jail over dishonesty. I’m not going to play martyr for some unknown mass of strangers that doesn’t care about me. And you talk about SA and those victims but prison is also a terrible fate unto itself that your argument entirely ignores. It’s like flippant to send someone to prison for years. Imagine if people were that dismissive about SA. Like prison conditions aren’t arguably worse being a risk if consistent SA and who knows how much other horrors.

Should I now counter argue that you bringing up SA without acknowledging the horrors of prison is dismissive of men’s issues because of a for profit prison industrial complex?

Everything affects everything. You bring up something, someone is always going to bring up another side. That’s how discourse works.

But yeah, at the end of the day, my answer is ya, I won’t punish the innocent in order to punish the guilty as a general rule. It may not be utilitarian, but that’s what my gut says is moral. And that’s the best I can go on.

Reminds me of the moral dilemma in the movie Unthinkable.

Questions:

1. Would you be ok with you or someone you love more than yourself being sent to prison on a false accusation as long as a larger number of guilty people also get imprisoned?

2. Do you think false accusations don’t happen?

I generally take people at their word in my day to day interactions. I’d believe you if you told me something. But I wouldn’t enforce laws on people with only eyewitness testimony. Eyewitness testimony has been proven unreliable.

Sounds like you have some form of autism. As a neurodivergent I feel like we need to be aware of the ways in which our natural mannerisms and thought processes can be misinterpreted by others. But I also feel like everyone is entitled to their feelings. They can feel violated by your words because they didn’t understand where you were coming from. You can feel hurt that people assumed the worst. It is what it is. You need to own your part in what happened, but don’t beat yourself up about it either.

If it was an honest misunderstanding, that happens. People who want to fight or be a victim are going to do that. People who want to understand are going to seek understanding.

Wouldn’t things only be as infinite as your zoom level? Zoom out to solar system, zoom out to galaxy, etc?

Aren’t ellipses basically two joined halves of parabolas?

You might like to try Kerbal. You can see a parabola become an ellipse as your velocity and altitude reach a point where you miss hitting the planet on the way back “down.”

AI is being trained on human output. Has anyone given thought to how deranged human output is?

I have Firefox but gave Brave a shot too. Works fine for me. I’ll use anything that gets around YouTube ads.

The Killdozer

Heemeyer held various grudges against town officials, neighbors of his muffler shop, the local press, and other Granby residents. Over about eighteen months, Heemeyer secretly armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete.

On Friday, June 4, 2004, Heemeyer used the bulldozer to demolish the Granby town hall, the house of a former mayor, and several other buildings. He killed himself after the bulldozer became stuck in a hardware store he was destroying. No one else was injured or killed.

Cheated, secret other kid. The works!

My dad got remarried but I didn’t attend that. Didn’t see any point in honoring a ceremony that he already proved is meaningless.

I’m no kid brainologist but that looks like solid science to me!