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  1. Aldarion

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Which is not a bad perspective. It is kind of off for a grown man to be drinking some fizzy fruit flavored drink. A lot of Americans have infantilized tastes, and its weird. I have that same reaction every time I hear an adult talk about eating chicken nuggets. Its like do you prefer the ones...
  2. Aldarion

    Yellowjackets

    The ending just doesnt even attempt to answer the only interesting question they built up over the seasons. How did they get back to society but no one knows about all the killing and eating? NM, we won't even bother addressing that, heres some interpersonal drama bullshit instead!
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    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    The Mandela Effect describes two divergent past timelines. I'm starting to wonder if Sylas doesnt come from a third, where they had a totally different set of movies and cartoons in the 1980s.
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    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    What the fuck are you talking about? Superfriends was the major attraction on Saturday Morning Cartoons on the major networks in the early 1980s, when I was watching cartoons as a young kid. I feel like you either beamed in from a parallel dimension or youre basing all of this on like some...
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    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    FTFY (PS, Superman has been the best known superhero and the archetype for all other superheroes for our entire lifetime)
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    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    This is bizarre. You just have some weird antipathy for superman and are trying to project it on everyone else. OR youre Gen Z or something? Either way, its best not to assume the rest of the world shares you unusual views. Most of us saw those movies repeatedly as kids. Superman has been...
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    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    absolutely mind bottling and before somone gets upset about gramar nazi ing, this is exactly what happens when we don't grammar nazi. otherwise literate people start actually saying things like "tow the line"
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    Depression

    It generally works best if its hand washed for about 5 to 10 minutes, seems like a shame they left that part out
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    Depression

    Aside from divorces with shared kids, etc., there is just nothing good to be gained from staying in touch with exes. I'm skeptical its ever done innocently. "You used to suck my dick but I'm totally not thinking about that right now we're just chatting and being friends". uh huh. sure. 8...
  10. Aldarion

    House of the Dragon

    Thats where GRRM got addicted to sniffing his own farts about "subverting expectations". Obviously the whole series was leading to an epic showdown between Jon Snow and the Night King, so GRRM had to do something different and subversive. It really would have fixed a lot to just go ahead and do...
  11. Aldarion

    Weather

    Nope, thanks! Looked it up. Arent they still bolted on? Are these floating houses dragging around big chunks of concrete? Again, I'm not arguing, just trying to imagine how a house goes from attached to its foundation to floating intact down the river
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    Weather

    I thought that was code everywhere. Note, I'm not saying ytou're wrong, just that I'm surprised. So what, the frame is just like sitting on a gravel base or something?
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    Weather

    Wild. We keep seeing videos of whole houses floating downstream. Every time it blows my mind. How is it that the nails hold the frame together better than the big ass bolts hold it onto the foundation? I'm not saying its fake or proposing some conspiracy theory or something, just saying...
  14. Aldarion

    Neuromancer

    Just look on the bright side. When an adaptation is announced there is always the question, will it suck? When they release casting like that it answers the question without wasting a single second watching it. I just file it away like The Dark Tower: a book someone should have adapted to...
  15. Aldarion

    Weight Loss Thread

    Absolutely. I'm not a big advocate for rules like this, but if we're already requiring companies to list all that shit on the label, the portion size needs to be realistic. Your muffin example is a good one, but really if you pick up almost any package thats obviously a single serving, it'll...
  16. Aldarion

    Weight Loss Thread

    I think you make some reasonable points. Certainly exercise is healthy for a lot of reasons, and fat fucks should absolutely be encouraged to exercise. We should just be clear that its not whats causing the weight loss, which is specifically and directly caused by the amount of food shoveled...
  17. Aldarion

    Weight Loss Thread

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-brain-on-food/202507/i-keep-exercising-but-im-not-losing-weight Good article does a nice job of summarizing the data we've known for a while
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    The Prepper Thread

    You wouldnt need the third if the medical establishment hadnt cut off part of your penis
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    The Prepper Thread

    I know lots of people who consider it perfectly normal to just drop by the store literally every day to pick up food for dinner or whatever. We can debate the cost benefit tradeoffs of adequate prep for real SHTF scenarios of months or years, but a hell of a lot of people are literally not...
  20. Aldarion

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    For what its worth my kids did too, on that particular question. But I did discover that one of them had a whole row or two of the table they hadnt memorized My comment was based more on my experience with college freshmen
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    You don't seem to get my point. Youre acknowledging that most advances are accomplished by a small fraction of the population. But you're still trying to use those advances as "evidence" that the population isnt getting dumber. Whats 7x9?
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Thats an interesting argument. What fraction is humanity is contributing to those advances? You don't think its possible for a tiny number of people to make advances while the rest of humanity gets rapidly dumber? If not, why not? Also, have you interacted with any people in the last 20 years?
  23. Aldarion

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Absolutely. Same here. Now think about how many times over the course of your life you've done math in your head, using that ability. Uncountable numbers of times. Now imagine a life lived without that ability. Imagine that adding up, over the course of a lifetime. All the errors, all the "I...
  24. Aldarion

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    I swear some of you are just determined to learn the exactly wrong lessons on this subject. The people who said we'd become stupider when calculators replaced memorizing multiplication tables were exactly right. Ask a random kid today, whats 7x9. Yes. We are becoming stupider at each step...
  25. Aldarion

    Interesting, Non Political News

    https://gizmodo.com/study-says-u-s-babies-are-missing-a-key-gut-microbe-fueling-allergy-risk-2000619622On today's episode of "Why are modern humans fucked up?", Their discussion of root causes was pretty lame though We've replaced natural childbirth with elective cesarean sections, and...
  26. Aldarion

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    I dunno man I'm on board with about 99.99% of fat shaming, but a professional chef putting on a few extra pounds doesnt seem like the worst thing in the world to me
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    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...
  28. Aldarion

    Marvel Universe stuff

    You misspelled Zendeya But its ok, who can know how to spell a fucked up made up name? I probably misspelled it too
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    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.
  30. Aldarion

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    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...
  31. Aldarion

    Watchmen (2009)

    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...
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    Interesting, Non Political News

    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...
  33. Aldarion

    Interesting, Non Political News

    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...
  34. Aldarion

    What tickles your pickle

    Rural Oregon They're all red states, just some of them have blue cities big enough to distort the vote
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    You know you're getting old when.....

    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...
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    What tickles your pickle

    "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...
  37. Aldarion

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    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
  38. Aldarion

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    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...
  39. Aldarion

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

    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
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    Weed Culture

    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...