lyth

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[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The image only contains consenting adults who look very happy to be with each other (the perspective on the muzzles could use a little work though), so no, not very problematic. It is problematic if you're making an active effort to stop browsing porn and you still got far enough for your web browser to load that text.

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

sauce lot to, it fries things a french barbecue like on of on I works

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We can have this talk if you ever pass Kolanaki's comment total

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's meant to roughly gauge how clearly you picture things in your mind's eye by asking you which apple you see when prompted to imagine one. #5 references the lack of a mind's eye in people with Aphantasia (coincidentally this Wikipedia article has this same chart as a header image)

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Years are ordinal numbers, the kind of number that tells you which place you finished in a race, and as such cannot have zeroes or negatives. You're living in the 2,024th year since the instant that began the Common Era. "0th" and "-1st" are not valid expressions for years for the same reason that you can't place 0th in the Olympics

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 38 points 5 months ago

Besides the immediate threat of mass rioting and an armed resistance no matter who you're flogging, public torture as entertainment is a very, very bad precedent to set, and only serves to build up a culture of antipathy. Imagine how the wider justice system would change once that's normalized.

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 months ago

Ex-conservative here, this reeks of an extremely angry person hoping to prove something about social contagion and "trans people want to bring femaleness back to 50's stereotypes", and minus the comedy at the end of the first paragraph this is roughly how I would have written it about 10 years ago if I'd had the guts to lie to hundreds of people. Read their post and comment history (before they delete their account) for other signs like "I experienced misogyny and it gave me awesome gender euphoria"

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm contacting you from an alternate timeline to tell you that I'm still angry

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago

No, and for my one-minute abridged defense:

  • Gen 1-2 definitely didn't happen and were written by two different groups with different religious views using two different creator-god names
  • Noah's Ark definitely didn't happen, and the story repeats itself all the time because it crushes together the Yahwist's and Elohist's writing in a manner especially suggestive of natural human authorship
  • New Testament claims that the human lineage is as young as is reported in Gen 2 (Luk 3:38) and has Jesus - presumably the same entity as God - suggest multiple times in two gospels that the great flood was a real event

That's about enough to deconvert already, and it keeps getting worse the deeper you take things

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I wonder what it sounds like to physically speak something in parentheses

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 19 points 7 months ago

Congratulations, you've invented the Martingale betting system and are well on your way to becoming an adept probability theorist

The short answer is that casinos account for this by changing the profit returns and the odds of making a profit at all so that catastrophic losses are much more likely

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

pros: exceedingly small chance that the one decision-maker and everyone who succeeds them are correct about everything all the time and we reach utopia

cons: likely genocide

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