Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]

“The real issue is that they let you choose your pronouns in the Ad/Character Creation screen!”

“You died. Watch an ad to respawn.”

What even is this? A bunch of unrelated researchers making vastly different claims from one another awkwardly lumped together. I don’t know of any paleontologist that thinks that a mass extinction event is just “one really bad day where everything dies” which seems to be the definition the author of this article is using, it’s well known that it is a sudden event (geologically speaking, which can still be across millions of years) that causes a collapse in biodiversity and food webs and the extinction of individual species and genera as a result. This article seems to be implying that because entire branches of life didn’t just suddenly all die out overnight, extinction events never happened. Especially damning that they give a definition of the term at the end of the article which, if it were at the beginning, would prove almost every one of their points wrong.

I don’t want to say that this was written by AI, it’s easy to jump at shadows, but the way it just kind of seems to forget the topic at hand and rambles without saying much really does at the very least feel like “I need to hit that word count” type of writing.

Looking at this pop-science author’s catalogue, I see a lot of disparate subjects, he seems to trained in Geology and Paleobiology, but this article reads like it was written by an amateur. It doesn’t help that most of his other articles written (and many of his books) seem completely unrelated to his specialisation.

What’s the point in being a science communicator if you fail to actually explain the underlying science that you’re talking about, and how your writing will be received by the public?

In Stalin’s case in 1950, only 5 years after WW2, I don’t blame him for not wanting to escalate things to WW3, all while knowing the US had nukes and the USSR didn’t really. Keep in mind this was before our modern idea of M.A.D. and it wasn’t known if nukes would just be a regular part of warfare going forward or not. A pragmatic decision to not aggravate the US does make sense considering what the USSR was dealing with at the time. They didn’t even know if they could win a war against the US, and didn’t want to take that gamble.

The important thing is that you have found a way to declare yourself smarter and superior to everyone else. Well done!

No investigation, no right to speak? More like, No investigation, I NEED to tell everyone how smart I am for not investigating.

It is kind of amazing how the AI grift is rapidly going into the territory of every other grift at this point, I can’t think of a common grift that someone hasn’t tried to shove AI into.

Who even is Sidney Sweeney anyway? What sort of great acting roles has she done? I’ve never seen her in anything, though I’m guessing the way these nerds seem to obsess over her, she has a big rack and was in some marvel slop, right?

Edit: Reached out to a friend who played AD&D in the 80s, and it seems like attitudes toward roleplaying as genders other than your own varied from table to table, but it certainly wasn’t a rare thing to see.

The main thing I remember being told about this from older dnd pals, was as long as people weren’t doing it to be a creep, it’s fine.

abobos

This guy? Yeah, he should get to feature in more games for sure.

Yeah, I think this is it. It’s the same reason people fall in with obviously harmful cults, or hang out with quote unquote “bad crowds.” It gives a sense of community that they otherwise lacked.

I’ve never heard of a person who is socially well adjusted and has a strong support network of caring individuals falling into fascist beliefs, it’s always someone at a low point in their life, someone who is desperate for a connection to others that they feel like they lack. Then fascists come along and tell them that (insert scapegoat here) is the reason they don’t have that, and they’ll happily believe it if it means they get a sense of community.

This is treated as a “big scary militarisation of space” thing, but it’s also much more likely that the real issue is space junk, you don’t want your extremely expensive satellite getting hit by an old piece of a randoms satellite and getting destroyed.

As a bonus, most of this pollution was done long-after DuPont and 3M realised these chemicals were long-lasting, leaching into water supplies, and poisonous at smaller concentrations than they could even measure. But they did make a lot of profit!

Office jobs will rapidly become like the Chinese room thought experiment, except instead of people passing around notes with Chinese characters to emulate human interaction, it’ll be English and the AI will generate it all, both the initial statements and the responses. People will be little more than a button clicker for hundreds and hundreds of AI generated “conversations” via email and documents.

You’re supposed to make sure they can’t just get out and leave before you start actively fucking them over. Musk is so incompetent he can’t even do company towns right.

Occasionally research is produced.

Unfortunately even the most efficient capitalist system still produces some bugs.

I would say that all of these sorts of people would follow the same sort of idea, a kind of anti-dialectical materialism, not even “idealism” but a straight up denial of material reality and the idea of opposing viewpoints, because their ideas are so far removed from reality that even reality itself is seen as a threat to them.

I would say that US republicans are Fascist though, hell, I’d say most American liberals would be perfectly fine living in the 4th Reich as long as it is presented to them in a way that suits their sensibilities. But I also have a very low opinion of America, so I am quite biased.

Really shows how fragile the fascist worldview is. They cannot allow anyone to oppose them, regardless of how minor or how much of a non-threat. They must expend massive amounts of resources making sure their viewpoint is the only one allowed, because even the mere idea that they could be wrong is enough to challenge their entire worldview.

As always, when they say “not political” what they mean is “not making me forced to recognise my own dogshit politics.”

These guys have obviously never seen me eat a bento. I inhale that stuff. A place near me has really nice bento so I get it pretty much every chance I get.

Bro, how can someone debunk your argument when it isn’t even bunked?