TerminalEncounter

TerminalEncounter , 2 days ago

Lady Gaga

I bear no resemblance. I can’t sing. I just think she’s neat.

TerminalEncounter , 9 days ago

Top is new york

Bottom is singapore, I think

TerminalEncounter , 17 days ago

You should try doing it on purpose at least once

TerminalEncounter , 1 month ago

🙄 jagoff

TerminalEncounter , 1 month ago

The US doesn’t have the capability to do shit like that anymore. Rate of profit is way too anemic.

TerminalEncounter , 1 month ago

You may have never realized, but big ol bubble butt on a dude is considered very attractive lmao especially if it’s muscle.

There’s exercises that might make you leaner instead of bulkier but I don’t think there’s anything that can strictly feminize, I think this is the eternal struggle of self-styled femboys.

TerminalEncounter , 1 month ago

A big butt is masc. Ever seen baseball players? They got nice big butts. They get scouted at least partially on the sizes of their butts.

You will not exercise your way to a truly enormous giant butt. If that’s your goal, I’m sorry that you likely won’t achieve it. You can exercise to a big ol nice butt that can turn heads but I wouldn’t worry about it being “feminizing” cause… plenty og hot dudes have big butts

TerminalEncounter , 2 months ago

Boys rule

TerminalEncounter , 2 months ago

They were told what it would do in the study.

TerminalEncounter , 2 months ago

The Golden Rule got kind of expanded into the Kantian Categorical Imperative - instead of what one should do to be moral, it tells us what we should not do. So he says, “do not treat people as purely a means to an end, because they are human and have intrinsic worth” for example, don’t lie, don’t cheat, etc. Which isn’t a bad way to live life. Of course, he said it’d be wrong to lie to an axe murderer the whereabouts of your loved ones on the grounds that it treats even the axe murderer as a means to an end rather than as a person… so not perfect anyway. Ideally, if everyone is following the Golden Rule or the Categorical Imperative then there is no harm ever done. But we don’t live in an ideal world.

Socrates said “there is no moral evil” because he said it was impossible for anyone with sufficient knowledge to act in an evil way. Because, in his view, if they knew enough they would act in their best interests - which means limiting harm and never treating others poorly. For him that meant education and the cultivation of certain virtues meant people would act well instead of giving rules to say what is the right or wrong way to act - except his virtues were made up in Antiquity lol so didn’t really include a lot of respect for women’s rights for example.

Sometimes Justice and Doing What Is Right demands we get some retribution or are made whole after some harm was done (for example, being abused by a person in authority) or even act punitively to prevent future harm (like removing those teachers from their jobs, maybe even banning them from ever working with anyone vulnerable, not just children). In that case, it’s wrong to keep treating someone well when they’re harming you - it’s only going to encourage further harm to someone else.

Maybe treating them as you would have them treat you might include “hey, if I’m acting like a dick and abusing people - tell me and others and do everything you can to stop me from doing that.” Sure, that’s “badly” for narcissists who think they can never be wrong but not for people who aren’t, right? If I said something harmful carelessly, I would hope to be corrected! There’s certainly a class of people who really think treating them “well” means doing whatever they say to do and accepting all punishment, earned or not. IMO, they have a very poor understanding of what being treated well really means lol

TerminalEncounter , 2 months ago

Science and religion are often compatible, I know of some Hindu thinkers (for example) who say scientific knowledge is to be taken as truth and religious truth should not contradict it - just that this scientific knowledge cannot explain the whole mysteries of the cosmos. You might be aware of “the god of the gaps” and arguments like that, or that God somehow created the universe using the laws of physics as we understand them. Historically, scientific thought and religious thought were often united and people pursued science and philosophy due to attempting to understand God (like many Islamic scholars in the 7th century or like Renee Descartes who ultimately sought to prove the existence of God by pure reasoning). Science as a complete system of belief without some religious aspect is actually a fairly recent phenomenon that likely had very little to do with any particular scientific discovery.

Indeed, science can do very little to explain why things happen. It’s great at explaining how - e.g. science is great at explaining how fire burns or how a calculator can display an answer but it can be iffy on why. Now, “why” fire burns is probably more of a malformed question like what’s north of the north pole but we’re human, we like to ask why and seek purpose. Meaning makers.

The decline of religiosity wasn’t really driven by science showing biblical stories weren’t real, it’s a process driven by material reality and class relations. Although many people considered themselves Christian or religious in the west, they were very Deist and didn’t think God had much influence with the world apart from answering paradoxes like what was the primum movens etc.

Going further back, religion wasn’t a choice or something to reason to - it was just your life and your community. In medieval Europe, you didn’t really reason your way into a system of beliefs they all tied together into an economic system called the feudal mode of production. You just were a Christian and so was everyone you knew. Maybe some monks debated some esoteric aspects of theology but most people just lived their lives. This lasted for a while through to the Enlightenment and the emergence of capitalism in the 17th century. Except for some malcontents and rebels, people still didn’t reason towards being Christian, say. It was just your life - more like a hangover from that older mode of production and social cohesion than something necessary to maintaining capitalism.

Fast forward to the actual decline of religiosity and rise of spiritual none-of-the-aboves and nothing-in-particular. This was a process started in the mid 20th century (not really in WW1 which was conceived often as a holy or religious war by the soldiers and officer class including miracles and appearances of angels and so on). In reaction to the rise of consumerism and individualism - now religion became a choice or affectation! This is where we start to see the irreligious begin their massive growth but especially by the beginning of the 00s. It’s tempting to say Quantum Mechanics, GR, a scientific basis for cosmological origins like the big bang are responsible for the loss of religion - but in my view, these just coincided due to a third cause (that of economic changes and the settling in of mature capitalism).

TerminalEncounter , 2 months ago

Some herbivores can’t digest their food all the way, cows get around it by having more than one stomach and also chewing their cud (vomiting up from first stomach and rechewing). Rabbits do the same thing as koalas, partially digest their food and eat their poop.

TerminalEncounter , 4 months ago

How did this make it past review? I guess case reports might not have a peer review process

TerminalEncounter , 4 months ago

I beg of you, just eat beans it’s so much easier than trying to fix industrial meat agriculture. There will never be a fix for it that makes ut affordable and green.

TerminalEncounter , 4 months ago

Yeah not though, that’d be dope. The big Leibniz style S integral is just as good as cool stussy S. Fuck it do it

TerminalEncounter , 4 months ago

Tiny charter shredded in tiny shredder

TerminalEncounter , 5 months ago

They will move heaven and earth to get Ukraine more money even if they don’t think they can win - imagine if they worked this hard for something like M4A lol or I guess that’s a reach anyway, but pick some lower fruit

TerminalEncounter , 6 months ago

Couldve flipped the sign every operation to make it even longer, just make sure you’re not off by one or change it while x <= 1000

TerminalEncounter , 9 months ago

Yes m

TerminalEncounter , 10 months ago

Ah but have you considered just how much capital has been accumulated and concentrated in fewer and fewer hands?

Czechmate commies ♟️

TerminalEncounter , 10 months ago

Landlords

TerminalEncounter , 10 months ago

jagoff

TerminalEncounter , 10 months ago

Losing weight will only really help your self esteem (probably your health in general which can be appealing to others as well). You’re putting yourself out there which is important, try not to make everything you do a search for a potential romance though lol.

25 is very young to think you’ll never meet someone. Doctors and Lawyers can take a while to get to finish school so you’re not exactly alone. If you’re awkward at 25 it’s not a big deal tbh, don’t sweat being the only single guy in your friend group. I’m sure there’s a few guys you know in committed relationships who may wish to trade places with you

TerminalEncounter , 10 months ago

I’ve done a couple NICU shifts, it’s so hard to imagine those babies dying not cause someone made a mistake or they just couldn’t make it, but cause we ran out of power… ugh it’s a pit in my stomach

TerminalEncounter , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

People do it now with stuff like Replika. Think of how they’re treated. Perhaps in a society with lots of AI, embodied or not, people would care less. But it’s definitely a little weird now especially with how limited AI is.

If some general human level is AI emerged like in Her, I’m sure people would fall in love with it. There’s plenty of lonely people who are afraid or unable to meet people day to day. I think I’d see them with pity as they couldn’t make do with human connection, at least until I understood how advanced and how much interiority this new AI had - then I’d probably be less judgemental.

TerminalEncounter , 10 months ago

The suffragettes won 😲 🫨

TerminalEncounter , 11 months ago

From the river to the sea
Palestine will be free

Hush now, hush now
Don’t you cry
Palestine will never die

TerminalEncounter , 11 months ago

There’s like words and longs, could probably play with that a bit. Also, a kb is 1024 bytes because it’s 2^10, could play with that too lol.

TerminalEncounter , 11 months ago

Guess what the English call dish soap

TerminalEncounter , 11 months ago

The stars actually aren’t changing color (besides variables potentially but they don’t change in seconds), they’re changing cause the atmosphere is distorting as the light reaches your eye - one of the reasons we put observatories on like mountain tops and space is that there isn’t as much atmosphere distorting the light (there’s some newer observatories that can counter-distort their mirror to cancel out atmospheric scintillation).

You can see the milky way if you go somewhere with low light pollution! It’s quite breathtaking. Also every star you see with your eyes is in the milky way. You can also see planets with your eyes, but I think that’s just Venus (which is reflective enough to see) they look like stars but move day to day. You can see some supernovae when they happen, sometimes they’re bright enough you can see then in daytime even. The movement of the stars over the year is highly predictable, even over centuries and milleniallia, some of the real old old structures like Stonehenge are aligned with the movement of the night sky. Because our planet rotates, the stars move, except (if you’re in the northern hemisphere) for Polaris which only kinda wobbles over a year - it wasn’t always Polaris, it had historically been other stars (were talking long long ago history not a lifetime lol), Polaris is in Ursa Minor in the night sky if you wanna find it 😀

If you keep a journal of the night sky you’ll probably notice a lot of the same stuff our ancient ancestors did! We have the disadvantage of light pollution but the advantage of thousands of years of scientific advancement and written and oral knowledge.

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

I dunno how they’re gonna go about that considering Russia could just veto that attempt to strip them lol and citing PRCs permanent security councils seat is just silly.

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Why kill everyone when you could instead reverse the tram and kill the guy putting all these people on tracks

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

I’m a little bias short and stout, here is my handle here is my spout

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

Healthcare environmental team, they clean up everything and are literally front line for IPC

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

I like saisons and kettle sours, not always easy to find those

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

If it were up to me 17°C/63F, I can manage pretty good by blinds and windows open in the evening but I like to run the A/C an hour or two a day to help. In the winter, just leave the windows open to cool off its like -20°C out that’s good enough to cool it to whatever feels good. I can’t stand heat.

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

Had it on VHS, I thought it was good but I was a little too young to appreciate it properly I think.

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

Yeah it’s way closer to TOS than TNG, which is fine by me! They haven’t gone to that well in a while

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

If all your income is from wages (like most people) the IRS already knows what you made cause your employer had to file w2 forms and withhold taxes. You just have to fill out a bunch of forms and hope youre right! Sometimes they fuck over waiters and stuff cause they get a lot of tips and don’t always claim their tips, which is just so shitty.

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

Apparently the UK has some of the highest (maybe the highest) binge drinking rates in the world and highesr alcohol consumption per capita - kinda goes hand in hand. I wasn’t surprised to read it, some of the lads and ladettes start drinking Friday after work and don’t stop until Monday morning. Crazy stuff, like out literally all night, wake up still buzzed, get another few rounds in with your mates and just keep going.

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

He was good in Re-animator too

I wonder if star trek writers ever even hesitate if they come up with a new weird alien guy that’s gonna have more than couple appearances or if they know the role is gonna go to Combs anyway lol

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

It’s called the S. On the hexbear instance we have it for a few words, like the Japanese gambling game with the balls (paremovedo). I don’t mind a word filter but sometimes it can be a little too strong, lol.

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

My hands are tide

What am I gonna do with detergent hands

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Tom is such a good pilot he broke the warp barrier, turned into a lizard, made his CO turn into a lizard, had sex with her, and returned back to human form all in a 30 minute episode. Top that

TerminalEncounter , 1 year ago

I would wear 2041 right now