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  • it’s about being able to read emotions:

    a large portion of autistic people have trouble reading emotions in others.

    that’s why they’re often drawn to things like books, comics, animated content, theater, and, like in this example, robots that clearly express their emotions.

    speaking for myself (diagnosed ASD), it’s the ambiguity that bothers me more than anything. i like it when things are nice and clear, neatly organized, and generally don’t require a lot of attention to interpret.

    interpreting the environment is taxing enough, adding a lot of emotional interpreting on top can quickly get overwhelming, which leads to poor mood, performance, and ultimately just straight-up headaches…again, this isn’t a hunch, it was part of the ASD diagnostic test.

    so i can imagine how much easier it is for kids with similar problems to relate emotionally to something that shows it’s emotions in clear, easily recognizable ways, rather than having to guess constantly. that constant guessing gets real tiring, real quick…





  • mother of slippery slope…

    everything you’ve said so far takes place in some fantasy world that exists only within your own imagination.

    the law failed. the democratic process failed.

    your argument boils down to: “please let’s just give the tyrants everything they want from us! it’s the law!”

    seriously, is this your first day on earth?

    do you simply lack any and all perspective?

    and to top it all off: the sheer disregard you show for the countless lives this CEO cut short is frankly breathtaking.

    you claim to care for all human life and think everyone deserves a fair trial. that’s well amd good…how could that possibly have ever happened under the current state of affairs in the u.s.? when HAS it ever happened? what makes you think it possibly could?

    this was the only way that murderer would ever face justice, and deep down you know that.


  • of course there’s hypocrisy here:

    you are treating the choices of the two people in question as equal. they are not.

    the CEO was in a position of power, abused that power, and suffered the consequences. that is justice fulfilled. not the preferred kind, but still justice.

    apart from that, the democratic process spectacularly failed, on this exact topic: obama DID try to enact healthcare reform, but was blocked at every step.

    if voting does absolutely nothing, you’re not leaving people a whole lot of options.

    the justice system does nothing to help, the voting process has failed to help…what is then left?

    this isn’t some horrific, abstract, morally ambigous consequence of a cascade of nebulous events.

    there is a very clear cause and effect.

    push a boulder off a hilltop; it will roll downhill.

    leave a person no other option, but violence; it will end in violence.

    it’s a strictly logical consequence.

    there is no moral ambiguity here at all. it was a clearly warranted action, with known causes.

    cause and effect is a matter of physics, not philosophy.

    if you want to blame anyone, blame the republicans: they are the guilty ones here. they are directly responsible for the circumstances that allowed this situation to happen in the first place.

    yes, it’s not an ideal outcome.

    but it was inevitable, sooner or later. and it’s frankly amazing it hasn’t happened MUCH sooner, and MUCH more often.

    this wasn’t a “flaw” in the “democratic” system of the U.S. this is a consequence of the oligarchy working as intended. the intent just happens to be self-destructive in this case.

    what this CEO did, was the equivalent of smoking at a gas station; are you really surprised he got blown to bits?

    i guess it really comes down to: Fuck Around; Find Out.

    well…he did find out, didn’t he?

    (and don’t assume i’m a U.S. citizen. it doesn’t matter, and i’m not.)


  • kinda defeating yout own point here:

    the guy made the concious decision to ruin strangers lives for nothing but his personal greed every single day.

    that was HIS choice, HIS action, HIS decision.

    well…actions tend to have consequences.

    this was a direct consequence of actions the CEO willingly made, repeatedly.

    nobody forced him to. nobody compelled him to.

    so yeah, he DID choose exactly this, no question about it.

    the hypothetical voter in your example indirectly chooses his judgement, this CEO chose directly, all by himself.

    so as you can see: the CEO very much DID vote for his fate. he voted every single day working for UHC.

    your comment is the absolutely highest form of hypocrisy.




  • would be nice, but isn’t true according to Douglas Adams himself:

    Inspiration for the number 42

    Douglas Adams revealed the reason why he chose forty-two in this message .

    “It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘42 will do’”.

    personally, i think it’s way funnier that it is actually, completely, deliberately meaningless ;)





  • all of the words you listed that use a soft g are loanwords from other languages (pretty sure they’re all french) soooo…yeah. no wonder those have different pronunciation.

    when you look at anglo-saxon words the difference becomes clear:

    • gift
    • graveyard
    • ground
    • gay

    all hard g’s.

    mixing up languages is the common denominator here.

    the G in GIF stands for graphical, neither english nor french in origin, hence the confusion about pronunciation.

    alternatively; English is a terrible mess, and the only “correct” pronunciation is reached through general consensus. if the majority pronounces something a certain way, that’s how it should be pronounced.





  • this is not true.

    it entirely depends on the specific application.

    there is no OS-level, standardized, dynamic allocation of RAM (definitely not on windows, i assume it’s the same for OSX).

    this is because most programming languages handle RAM allocation within the individual program, so the OS can’t allocate RAM however it wants.

    the OS could put processes to “sleep”, but that’s basically just the previously mentioned swap memory and leads to HD degradation and poor performance/hiccups, which is why it’s not used much…

    so, no.

    RAM is usually NOT dynamically allocated by the OS.

    it CAN be dynamically allocated by individual programs, IF they are written in a way that supports dynamic allocation of RAM, which some languages do well, others not so much…

    it’s certainly not universally true.

    also, what you describe when saying:

    Any modern OS will allocate RAM as necessary. If another application needs, it will allocate some to it.

    …is literally swap. that’s exactly what the previous user said.

    and swap is not the same as “allocating RAM when a program needs it”, instead it’s the OS going “oh shit! I’m out of RAM and need more NOW, or I’m going to crash! better be safe and steal some memory from disk!”

    what happens is:

    the OS runs out of RAM and needs more, so it marks a portion of the next best HD as swap-RAM and starts using that instead.

    HDs are not built for this use case, so whichever processes use the swap space become slooooooow and responsiveness suffers greatly.

    on top of that, memory of any kind is built for a certain amount of read/write operations. this is also considered the “lifespan” of a memory component.

    RAM is built for a LOT of (very fast) R/W operations.

    hard drives are NOT built for that.

    RAM has at least an order of magnitude more R/W ops going on than a hard drive, so when a computer uses swap excessively, instead of as very last resort as intended, it leads to a vastly shortened lifespan of the disk.

    for an example of a VERY stupid, VERY poor implementation of this behavior, look up the apple M1’s rapid SSD degradation.

    short summary:

    apple only put 8GB of RAM into the first gen M1’s, which made the OS use swap memory almost continuously, which wore out the hard drive MUCH faster than expected.

    …and since the HD is soldered onto the Mainboard, that completely bricks the device in about half a year/year, depending on usage.

    TL;DR: you’re categorically and objectively wrong about this. sorry :/

    hope you found this explanation helpful tho!


  • and your source measured the effects of one single area that cathartic theory is supposed to apply to, not all of them.

    your source does in no way support the claim that the observed effects apply to anything other than aggressive behavior.

    i understand that the theory supposedly applies to other areas as well, but as you so helpfully pointed out: the theory doesn’t seem to hold up.

    so either A: the theory is wrong, and so the association between aggression and sexuality needs to be called into question also;

    or B: the theory isn’t wrong after all.

    you are now claiming that the theory is wrong, but at the same time, the theory is totally correct! (when it’s convenient to you, that is)

    so which is it now? is the theory correct? then your source must be wrong irrelevant.

    or is the theory wrong? then the claim of a link between sexuality and aggression is also without support, until you provide a source for that claim.

    you can’t have it both ways, but you’re sure trying to.