TheBananaKing @ TheBananaKing @lemmy.world

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Humans are horribly, miserably energy efficient.

Seriously we evolved as exhaustion predators: pick an animal and just keep walking after it until it drops, then eat it. That's our whole schtick. We are the goddamn terminator.

Just being alive and breathing uses up about 1500-2000 calories a day.

An absolute bastard of a workout will use up maybe 100 on top of that, which makes up for like a spoonful of peanut butter.

As such, you can't practically lose weight via exercise alone. You need to bring calories-in down to less than calories-out.

The tricky part is doing it in a controlled and sustainable manner so you don't just say fuck it and scarf down two whole pizzas for lunch in a week's time because you're hangry and don't care any more.

Well, yeah. Same organs, longer tubing, slightly different cell types lining the insides.

Also the scrotum is just fused-together labia majora (you can even see the seam), and the penis is just an enlarged clitoris that wraps round the urethra.

Maleness is just a minor tweak added in post-production.

Yep, they're just modified ovaries; they're plumbed into the abdomen and all the wiring comes from there.

Mix that with a nice dessert wine, and you get garum marsala

So, only the rest of the world gets superior technology.

The investors will love that.

Amazingly, I'm not a big fan of slavery.

Butlerian Jihad when?

The mind is what the brain does .

When the brain stops doing, the mind stops being.

There is no darkness, there isn't even nothing, because there's no you to experience it.

Where do the ripples on a pond go if the water dries up? There are no ripples, because there's no longer a pond for them to be on.

I'm a sysadmin, so non-game stuff is my entire day job.

When I use my PC at home, it's a variable split between internet, media and gaming, depending what I damn well feel like at the time :D

Always assume your data is in N-1 places at all times.

Any drive can and will fail at any time, no matter how well it was working yesterday.

I've had people in with their entire PhD and years of research on one single drive, with no backup - just gone.

If your data is only in one place, it will be in zero places soon enough.

Disposable or replaceable data - which honestly is going to be 90% of your stuff - meh.

But anything that you need and couldn't replace, that shit needs backing up to AT LEAST one other place.

As for the rest - drives can fail slowly, or they can fail fast. When they fail slowly, you start getting a couple of disk errors here and there, and you may just be able to order one in time to replace it.

When they fail fast, they just drop like a heart attack.

There's no way to know in advance. If your data is safe, then you'll either be out a few days while a replacement arrives, or you'll be just about able to copy stuff across. At that age, I wouldn't trust it farther than I could spit it. It could work fine for years more, but the moment you rely on it for something important, it'll give out on you.

It's not black and empty. There's no you to feel those things.

The mind is what the brain does. It's a process, not a thing. It doesn't 'go' anywhere, and it doesn't sit there chewing on a lack of input either.

The brain stops doing, the mind stops being.

As for the point of it all: smoke 'em while you got 'em. Live your life, and try to make the world a bit better for others.

After all, there's nobody running the universe. Nobody to take care lest a sparrow fall. No justice, no redemption, nobody balancing the books. The only thing in the entire universe that gives a damn if we live or die is each other.

You want a purpose, there's your purpose. To do what only people can do: care about people and try to make their time on this rock better than it otherwise might be.

I think you've drawn the wrong borders around concepts, and are getting tangled as a result.

Regardless of how we'd like things to be, morality is just plausibly-generalised threat perception.

If people habitually went around doing that kind of thing, would you feel threatened by that?

If so, then you will feel the emotion of outrage, and you will consider the act to be Wrong.

Killing people and taking their stuff? But I'm a people, and I like stuff - I don't want that to happen! That's Bad and Wrong!

And that's the reason dehumanising the outgroup (or drawing a hard distinction of kind) is the first tactic used by oppressors: Oh goodness no, we aren't killing people and taking their stuff; that would be awful! Nonono, we're killing :demographic: and taking their stuff; that's completely different and can never come back to bite you or yours, so relax, it's fine.

And of course, sometimes all your choices suck, thus the whole concept of trolley problems. Which threat makes my world less safe: a cold-blooded one-guy killer, or a useless five-guy allower-to-die standing there with his hands in his pockets? Are me-and-mine more likely to be in the big group of victims or the little one?

The choice you consider 'best' depends on these kinds of questions.

Threat perception is the engine that drives your moral framework. You can go and try to build a system out of words that will predict its moves, but that system is always going to be a crude imitation of the real thing, and there will always be edge-cases that throw up conflicts.

Framing things in terms of how it affects categories-you're-in can be a bit unflattering, so most people try to bury it in their system of words.

When you do get that cognitive-dissonance feeling where your gut and your brain disagree on what's right, it's generally because your words are too specific, narrowing in on little details instead of the bigger picture.

It's definitely good to pause at this point, unpick the conflict and try to derive a wider principle that gives better answers - though you could fairly argue that this isn't really moral flexibility, just getting better at describing the morals you do have.

Real moral flexibility would be reassessing threats in their various contexts, and examining which categories of threat go where in the likelihood/severity matrix, and letting that inform your emotional responses. And yes, that's a very good thing.

Yes. Zionists are nazis. It's not hard.

Racist, expansionist, genicodal fascists heavily into ethnic cleansing and lebensraum. Sound familiar?

It was never about the specific ethnicities, it was about power. Back in the 1930s, Jews made a convenient target - they were isolated and 'other' enough, and they were slowly gaining equality.

The nazis were able to exploit the fear and resentment this caused, declare Jews the great enemy, and ramp up to a campaign of extermination to bolster their power and give cover to their ongoing invasions.

These days, Jewish people aren't occupying the same social niche. You can't exactly get people to riot about Elaine, after all.

However, LGBTQ (especially T) people make a fine substitute in the US, as do Latinx people.

And in Israel, they have the Palestinians to pick on.

It's the same game, same tactics, same everything - only the specific names change.

In wolfenstein? No.

Inglourious Basterds is pretty good

Look at the weather, your whole damn country is getting raided by ice.

he wants to play xbox so bad

Whining about downvotes gets you an automatic downvote.

Asking how to evade a ban is asshole behaviour and gets you a downvote.

Expecting people to give a shit about reddit gets you a downvote

Dragging your reddit grievances in here and expecting people to take your side gets you a downvote

Nobody cares about forum drama on another fucking platform, especially one they joined lemmy to get away from.

YA THINK?