Recent content by Aldarion

Its shitposting day so I'm not getting worked up about this, but this comment often gets intended in a serious way and it misses the point. Sure, you could argue "Mary" is a made up name too. In theory there was a time far back in the past when someone first named their daughter "Mary". In the...

You misspelled Zendeya But its ok, who can know how to spell a fucked up made up name? I probably misspelled it too

I'm not joking at all. Society is enthusiastically running as fast as it can toward a huge fucking cliff. When I point this out, people tell me get out of the way old man. On second though, I guess pointing out something so funny does count as a joke, even if I didnt mean it as one originally.

Just wait til the next big jump. Your cell phone analogy is perfect. The internet was basically fine until they put it in everybodys pocket. Portable AI powered apps are going to do something similar for the destructive potential of AI. I see a future where the majority of human activity and...

He actually defended doing it too. This is a vision of the very near future. Where everybody just fakes everything with AI generated slop. And then they sincerely try to defend it, saying "yeah but I suck at writing so its ok" Within the next 2 to 3 years there will be wearable glasses with...

Putting aside whether you believe in any religion, I don't think thats a fair summary of their behavior or motivation. Having enough kids to put the population well above replacement levels is what happens naturally if you just fuck and don't interfere with the process. And its generally...

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-global-fertility-crisis-is-worse Our species is literally on track for self inflicted extinction. The fertility crisis is much worse than popular media admits, this article does a very good job of laying out the problem. BUT it ignore variation across...

Rural Oregon They're all red states, just some of them have blue cities big enough to distort the vote

I can't even agree that forums are social media, at their core. If you sit down and list all the features that make social media bad, basically none of those features are shared with forums. What they have in common is only that they're both online, and involve interaction between people...

"the next generation is fucked", they say. I recently attended my daughters middle school graduation, where each student in the class had prepared a little statement about their plans and dreams. Over half the girls included "start a family". Over half the boys planned trade school or blue...

Youre ignoring the point completely and just distracting with a trope about "old people always dislike change, get with the times old man" and bitch I got old

People keep making exactly this same argument as they outsource each piece of human cognitive ability to machines. "I'm not a better person because I can remember phone numbers" "I'm not a better person because I can navigate by road signs and maps" "I'm not a better person because I can write...

Oh come on. Thats an unflattering pic but the SNW version of Nurse Chapel is reasonably hot and feminine, and afaik as straight as a graduate of star fleet academy can be. You can tell she's aiming for almost a 7 of 9 kind of thing. Obviously you're correct for several others but shes not bad

I agree, I think theres as much variation in response to THC as there is in response to alcohol. (e.g. the Asian "I can't drink or I turn red" gene) With that said, in my experience people who tend to have a lot of anxiety in normal life often freak the fuck out on weed, while normal with...

You've been sitting there for hours. Cramped into a tiny seat, with strangers touching you on both sides. No personal space, you're sitting their breathing in their gross smells while they're literally in direct physical contact with you. But now you have a chance to finally stand up and get a...