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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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?

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?

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

You can't think of any differences between the particles that make up ships and the "particles" that make up light?

It really started during covid in my experience with scientific supply companies. Used to be if the website said it was in stock, it was in stock. You'd order and they'd ship within a couple days. Then we started getting these bullshit emails "hey that item you just ordered, the supplier says...

Ah yes, culinary critiques from the culture that brought us ketchup and hotdogs on spaghetti

What the actual fuck

All of that is correct but it doesnt change the number one rule at all. Every single person seated in a row number lower than yours gets off the plane before you do. If I'm on the plane I enforce this for 100% of the people seated behind me. It can get hilarious. If only someone up in row 1 or...

Probably! I doubt 0.5c is even possible anyway and if it is, it'd be way too fast to use safely. I'm saying that fundamentally I don't think the answer to interstellar travel is to move so fast you can't even see obstacles in your path, let alone avoid them. The answer has to be prepare for a...

I never understand the focus on FTL when if you hit fucking anything at FTL, you're dead. And shit comes at you too fast to react, because FTL. Forget the physics, its irrelevant. FTL would be a guaranteed death sentence if you used it for the kind of distances you need FTL to cross. The...

This is hilarious and awesome https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-country-is-fining-impatient-airplane-passengers-who-stand-up-too-early But this is ridiculous No, there is exactly zero controversy. If you're in row 21, every single goddamn passenger in rows 1-20 gets off the plane before...

I'm with you, Fuck Ellie, but the whole reason Abby and her mad scientist child murdering father wanted Ellie is cause she was so valuable. The whole reason they tracked down Joel and killed him brutally was cause he prevented them from doing this. Then she's back - that ""cure"" they've been...

I couldnt finish this, and I have such a lack of self control with sci fi that I read all Herbert's son's books The first time I turned it off, he was in bed with this baboon lookin chick and his own clone. I got so bored I tried again. FF that scene, kept going. Next thing you know we have...