Peruvian_Skies @ Peruvian_Skies @kbin.social

Posts

0

Comments

135

Joined

2 yr. ago

Pretty much.

Edit: I'm an idiot.

That photoshopped meme of Obama putting a medal on himself also fits.

Poor white people whose peasant ancestors were left jobless and homeless due to being unable to compete with free slave labor should pay reparations to the descendants of the people who were forced to work for free, while the rich descendants of the slave owners who dislodged one group while exploiting the other put their blood money in offshore accounts and laugh as the poor people squabble over crumbs.

Exactly. But AFAIK every Denuvo game eventually gets cracked, so at least we will have the pirate copies. From a preservation standpoint, a dumped ROM is much better than a physical cartridge anyway, since it's more portable and easier to back up. It's the contents of the cartridge minus the physical limitations.

It's telling that these people allegedly believe a person to literally be an all-wise God but they still think that they know better than him.

And what's with "that doesn't work anymore" as an excuse? Why doesn't that line of reasoning apply to genital mutilation, female subservience to husbands, homophobia and all those other pre-Jesus positions that they still continue to justify based on their alleged faith?

The hypocrisy is transparent. They might as well come out and say that they'll just believe whatever is convenient and expect other people to treat those beliefs as sacred. I might actually respect them a little if they did.

Take my morning medicine with a tall glass of water, then roll over and sleep for some 20 minutes until it kicks in and I can force myself to get up. Then, breakfast, water the plants and shower.

Dehydrated water: just add water.

Good, maybe in two or three more years Windows 11 will be useable. Right on time for Windows 12 to roll out and drag Microsoft users back to the Stone Age again.

That's just because we don't let children get drunk.

I think there's a clear subjective difference between consciously spanking a child as a form of discipline, as a rational decision and with the absolute minimum force required for it to work, and hitting a child as a form of punishment guided by negative emotions. In the first case, you're doing it to improve the child's life in the long run. In the second, you're just being violent towards someone weaker than you because you're the lowest of the low.

It's like the difference between a tasteful nude photograph meant to highlight the beauty of the human body and porn, or between using dissonance in music to create tension and using it because you're a bad composer. There isn't a set of general, objective rules to distinguish the two, but if you see it, you immediately know which one it is.

There's a difference between time not passing and not existing. To a photon, space (in the direction of its movement) doesn't exist, as its origin and destination points are the same. But time does not pass - the axis of time is there, but the photon never budges in either direction, like a rock buried in the middle of the desert doesn't move in any spatial direction on a human timescale. The photon's beginning and end aren't simultaneous, quite the opposite. Since it can't move in time, they might as well be infinitely far apart.

What exactly do you mean by "gifted"?

Photons exist, so there is the perspective of a photon. Most may not be absorbed but that's irrelevant because some are. And when they are, their perspective - like them - ends. Like yours does when you die.

The photon does not experience time, but we do, so from our perspective they can be emitted and absorbed even though from their perspective they are timeless. Again, like us. Before you were born, you didn't experience being not alive. From your own perspective, you've always existed, even though from the perspective of someone older than you, there was a time when you didn't.

How exactly is it racist?

Thank you so much, I'm going to keep that quote in my hat from now on.

I tested high on the IQ scale. I'm single, unemployed and have trouble making friends. I agree with you completely. Having a high IQ does not substitute for life skills nor does it make you happy.

The flip side is that having an extremely low IQ can make it very hard for you to navigate the world and perform basic tasks.

I'm not even going to check if that's misattributed because I want to believe that it isn't.

I don't resent anyone else for not being able to do what I do, because I'm aware that I can't do stuff that others can.

IQ is just one kind of intelligence. I have a high IQ (or had one ten years ago when I took a test, anyway), good body awareness, passable social intelligence and really, really low emotional intelligence. I suck at dealing with my feelings. So for every time somebody is complaining about some problem they have where I find the solution trivial, you can bet there's another time when I'm complaining about some stuff I'm dealing with where they're thinking "duh, just do this, that's obvious".

I wouldn't say I "cope" with it. I just accept it. People are different, we all have our strengths and weaknesses, and I think that being bothered by other people's weaknesses is a huge weakness in itself. I have a bit of that weakness (I think everyone does, it's frustrating to see people stumble over stuff that you take in stride) but when I feel that way, I just remind myself that it's my own weakness that makes theirs bother me in the first place, so it's my problem and my fault, and I move on.