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I don't want to come off as bullying, but I think it'll benefit from you if you learn to handle situations like this. So I'm gonna keep replying. Sorry.

Why do you consider timekeeping systems to be arbitrary?

I don't want to come off as bullying, but I think it'll benefit from you if you learn to handle situations like this. So I'm gonna keep replying. Sorry.

What's "arbitrary" mean?

He's fully aware that he's a complete fraud.

Correction: an amateurish autocrat.

Properly implemented machine learning, sure.

These dimwits are genuinely just gonna feed everything to a second rate LLM and treat the output as the word of God.

I live in SW Finland on the coast of the Baltic Sea. It's wet and cold 90% of the year.

We still have this sort of book exchange in the entrance way to my local shop. A tiny bookshelf/night desk. Not too common though, I can't think of any others right now.

But like the weather shouldn't be the issue, that's just an engineering problem at that point. I imagine like a glass doored fridge with some dehumidifiers placed inside should probably work in most places to protect books.

You're basically refusing to take an L that you've already taken. Yeah, it's a cringe expression. So is "cringe", but times evolve.

As I said, you've already "lost". You can't address the topic, but yet your ego keeps forcing you to come back and reply. I've been in threads like these for months. The thing is, I can say whatever and address anything said in the thread, while you can't.

What’s the definition of “arbitrary” and why do you think timekeeping systems are arbitrary?

So now you're in the "I'm gonna return every few days, so my profile won't look as silly when all my childish answers aren't packed one after another, but spread over weeks"-phase?

Like I said, I've genuinely been down this path hundreds of times before, seen your exact "tactic" employed. You have nowhere to go, and you can't address the topic at all. Check mate. You've lost, and now you're just digging deeper and deeper.

What’s the definition of “arbitrary” and why do you think timekeeping systems are arbitrary?

You can mix truths in with lies and that would still absolutely be considered dishonest, but you cannot mix lies into truths and still be honest.

Depends on how you look at it. For instance if someone asks about a subjective matter, and you know they're not asking because they wish to know your opinion about the subject matter, but because they need psychological reassurance or some such thing.

For example "does this make my ass look big"? Or "do I look good in this dress?"

Would you consider a person dishonest for reassuring someone who might have struggled with weight and confidence issues, even if they might not regard that person personally attractive to them?

Is it lying? Perhaps. Is it dishonest? Unless you think there's some objective standard for what is a big ass and what is good-looking, then it's gonna be hard to argue either of those are lies, no matter what the scenario. You can also do "well no, that doesn't make your ass look big, it looks the same size both with and without pants" or "no, that dress doesn't make you look good, you always look good".

"Never cruel or cowardly. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind."

I've often thought about it.

Generally probably you just slowly learn what not to say or do to not get in trouble and keep your head down and hope you get through it.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOsQDFuB3bqczBIz-a66NvwaOBSyiCo9z

Colditz is a nice show. The Kommandant isn't a Nazi, but a member of the Reichswehr, and often finds himself in the difficult position of doing the right thing or following orders.

It's a bit more nuanced than when Finn in the new Star Wars shows changes sides from the empire to the rebels and two seconds later is blasting his former mates accompanied by loud "yee-haas".

Took me a while to realise it's because Trump administration is aggressively scrubbing anything to do with "diversity"

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But yah, my favourite one as well

Ah yes "NATO pls if you'll just surrender and go away, we pinky-promise not be bad anymore"

With Operation Spider's Web, (and Russia trying to launch massive counterattacks against civilian populations and still only managing to kill only two people) is showing that Russia might not have as strong of a position as they think they do.

C'mon, 2A people. Get your rifles out and take that bad boy down. /s

I get your point but also I'm a pedantic Lemming, so I want to point out that in the middle-ages, castle would purposefully build uneven steps. People familiar with the castle would soon get used to them and they'd be no bother, but an attacker running upwards will surely trip. And they'll trip because of the stairs. Or will it be their own fault for not looking at each individual step to give your body the information it needs?

Just rhetorical exercise, I don't actually care at all about one side or the other.

(An added stair fact, round staircases would ascend in a clockwise manner, so that right-handed defenders would have the advantage over right-handed attackers whilst fighting in the stairs.)

Ugh, no.

One can't argue that personality disorders are inherently genetic. You can argue there's a significant genetic component, but to think that someone is just going to be a narcissist despite how you would rear them is... well, bioessentialism.

Edit oh wait sorry. You asked you didn't argue. Everyone is born like that, yeah, like everyone is born without object permanence. Then you develop it very early on. Just like you develop a sense of self-criticism as your cognition grows. Some just never do.

Finding someone attractive and wanting to fuck them are two distinct things.

I can appreciate someone being very fucking attractive indeed, despite not wanting to fuck them due to me not wanting to fuck people in relationships.

It's like imagine someone really fucking sexy to you. Now imagine you have no condoms and you know they have full blown AIDS. Does that perhaps make you less willing to fuck said person? Would for me.

I still remember some of the channels used. Vaguely, but still. News, which time a program is on, and when you're alone in the room, checking out the naughty adverts, as there might even be rudimentary boob graphics in the style of old Nokia logos.

I'd argue the genie wants to do everything I wish, regardless of the amount of individual wishes.

I mean I was really concerned about that as well, having been on the ferries which go from Turku to Stockholm. As I said though, they're kinda tiny in comparison. They're not like ferries between France and the UK or Ireland and the UK, but like more cruise ships.

Icon of the Seas is like double the length of the cruise ships I've been on (Vikin Line Isabella ~160m, Viking Line Grace ~218, Icon of the Seas 360m) but the point I made once was that just a medium storm in the archipelago of Baltic Sea, that boat was going kinda hard side to side. As in the water in the pool splashed out like a third or something and you could not walk straight in the hallways. It was bloody fun though, one of my first proper times of getting drunk.

We didn't really realise it at the time with my buddy, but the ~50 year old guy buying us 14-15y olds drinks in a sauna was probably a bit of a nonce.

Anyway, my point was that if those ships go that bendy in the Baltic Sea, wtf would this do in the Atlantic? However, some engineer pointed out that 1) it's gonna be cruising in the Caribbean and 2) the stabilisation tech that's built in a ship so much larger per tonnage is gonna make it way more stable. Plus it's way newer so the tech is better as well.

Because if the pool splashed around as much as the medium size jacuzzi we were in with the nonce, then I'd be scared to go to some of those top pools.

I don't remember the specifics, but I do remember that the guy convinced me.

I'm from the city which builds these.

We built the previous largest record ships as well. I drove people to an event when Oasis of the Seas launched, iirc.

This somehow seems much taller from this perspective. Bet it's the lense a bit, but also, it's the fact that the ships are so big that driving next to them gives you no sense of their scale. Or height, at least.

Although I know that in comparison to the ferries we actually use, these are humongous.

And even the ferries feel absolutely huge when you're standing on the top deck and looking down at the sea.

I don't have like much thalassophobia or the fear of heights, but leaning over a railing on a cruise ship in the middle of the night to gaze at the abyss really does chill a person a little. I just wonder how that would feel at the top of one of those highers decks. Especially in a storm.