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thatoneuser··on What Ancient Romans Used Instead of Toilet Paper
You sound like you enjoy eating shit lol
thatoneuser··on When Women Outrun Men
Thanks for supporting my point lol
thatoneuser··on When Women Outrun Men
Seriously doubt there are 300lb dudes running many ultra marathons. I recently read that book by the ex marine dude who did them. He was a freak in the low-mid 200s and he talks about how he destroyed his body pushing thru it. On top of it runners have sugar and whatnot they eat on the way, so op was making a conservative estimate.
thatoneuser··on Is Your Offer Letter a Contract? Of Course It Is
The tech giants (or other corps) have spread the fantasy that if you piss one of them off then everyone up there will know and black ball you. Basically unless you don't do anything super illegal the odds of fucking over your employer coming back to haunt you are relatively small. But the fear that it will keeps people in the order the corps want.
thatoneuser··on Austria: Vice-chancellor caught on secret video
This is an interesting conundrum. The govt can't outright pay media to spin a certain narrative (...obviously this happens but it has to go thru abstraction layers to get around laws) meanwhile a foreign entity doesn't really care and can just buy them out.
thatoneuser··on What Ancient Romans Used Instead of Toilet Paper
...so you have to use your hands to clean shit out of your ass? This does not sound like a good thing.
thatoneuser··on What Ancient Romans Used Instead of Toilet Paper
OK I've seen the bidet crowd grow for years. Never used one but how does it actually remove all the filth? If I got shit on my arm or something I wouldn't be satisfied squirting some water on it - I'd scrub scrub scrub. I just can't see how it does as good a job. Any input?

Also - how do you prevent the bidet from becoming a fecal squirtgun? It sits inside the toilet no? Aren't you in effect washing off with everyone's shit mixed in?

thatoneuser··on We Are Especially Unfortunate to Die, When Our Descendants Could Be Immortal
...neuroscience? Are you implying that rabbits have the ability to understand the metaphysical concept of death like humans? If so where is your supporting evidence? Death is much more complex than simple things like language or long term planning and rabbits can barely do either.
thatoneuser··on We Are Especially Unfortunate to Die, When Our Descendants Could Be Immortal
Yeah totally, neuroscience is "simple speculation"...
thatoneuser··on We Are Especially Unfortunate to Die, When Our Descendants Could Be Immortal
Humans absolutely don't just rely on impulses. Have you ever read about the evolution and capabilities of the human Brian compared to animals?
thatoneuser··on We Are Especially Unfortunate to Die, When Our Descendants Could Be Immortal
Thing is its not like most medical procedures stay inaccessible for that long once they're proven to work. Maybe zuck would be fortuitous if he was on his deathbed and something came out, but give anything a few years and it'll be available to the masses. And that hopefully will become more true with time.
thatoneuser··on We Are Especially Unfortunate to Die, When Our Descendants Could Be Immortal
Found the rabbit.

But seriously they aren't aware of death they just act based on evolutionary impulses that in the past made their ancestors not die. A prey creature has zero cognition of its own death.

thatoneuser··on We Are Especially Unfortunate to Die, When Our Descendants Could Be Immortal
Eh I assume medical science will be an exponential curve where this chain would only be a thing for the oldest generation that goes through it. I mean 100ish years ago cocaine was a cure all and now we have a protein that can individually identify and replace genes.
thatoneuser··on Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about system
How many millions of miles have these cars self driven and people lose their minds about a handful of deaths. I mean don't get me wrong - it's death and I'm atheist. It's a big deal. But how many deaths did people incur in the first years of cars? Hell you could die just from the crank on the front kicking back and crushing your skull - and that was just to turn the things on.

People take risks when new tech comes out. If they wanna be the Guinea pig then let them do it. Everyone sees musk as two faced and playing both sides but honestly - if you're an adult paying for a tesla then I'm fine with it being in your hands to decide if you're willing to roll the dice. Marketing or not, no one should be stupid enough to think ANY device has a 0% chance of killing you, let alone a computer driving.

thatoneuser··on Fiverr is a happier marketplace than Upwork as there is no race to the bottom
So instead of you submitting a proposal you make a profile and they come to you. So... How does that change the dynamic of cheap asses only hiring the lowest cost workers and workers racing to the bottom?
thatoneuser··on U.S. cancels $929M in California high speed rail funds after appeal rejected
I have yet to see a proposal for this type of infrastructure that makes intuitive sense. Not that intuition trumps engineering but the locations for these are usually head scratchingly odd.
thatoneuser··on Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Making people miserable and unable to understand the world outside these addictive platforms. I know so so many 20 somethings who genuinely don't understand the facade that is social media. They're giving up their youth in pursuit of a drug and they don't even realize it.
thatoneuser··on Is Prison Necessary?
Yeah I was nearly assaulted by someone of that description a bit ago and it was a very unpleasant experience.

Do you know how prisoners often look and carry themselves? It's weird you're making the point you're making.

thatoneuser··on Is Prison Necessary?
Perhaps you can, perhaps you can't. I'm all for helping people not become criminals but until we can do that we have to protect innocent people.
thatoneuser··on Xi Jinping's colleagues rejected an 'unequal' trade deal
...yeah those places need work too. Idk what abuses we have at the southern border. People illegally cross and they are detained. This is very typical border policy.
thatoneuser··on Xi Jinping's colleagues rejected an 'unequal' trade deal
You seem to also be skirting over the latter 20th and 21st centuries where China has been stealing ip and violating human rights.
thatoneuser··on Oh shit, git (2016)
It's called sarcasm /s
thatoneuser··on Oh shit, git (2016)
That's true. Probably why the teaching has such a knowledge gap.
thatoneuser··on Oh shit, git (2016)
Git isn't hard but it's usually taught like absolute shit. From the get go you're told to use 4 commands, 2 of which are usually not explained and when they are it's often hand wavey. From there on its usually people pontificating about high level philosophy while failing to give concrete working examples. At least that was my experience.

I'm decent at got now for the work I do so I'm cool with it. It really is an awesome tool. But for some reason its just collectively taught like shit.

thatoneuser··on Oh shit, git (2016)
OK hot shot. Tell everyone here how you've never fucked up commands and had to blow out a repo and start over and how were all idiots for having done that.

It's a tool. Any tool can be confusing if the person isn't taught how to use it. Git requires teaching so there's a lot of room for misunderstanding.

thatoneuser··on Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition
This is something I truly believe is draconic. Men have virtually zero reproductive rights. If the conversation comes to it, I will bring it up. If you dislike it you are free to choose another platform.

It's not a tangent it's a direct corollary.

thatoneuser··on The Gentrification of the Internet
But at the same time everything's gone from a dank esoteria to polished standards. In the sense of visual aesthetic the internet has been "gentrified" I'd say.
thatoneuser··on Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition
I've never seen a law in the US that would make it so, but I'd be happy to see one.
thatoneuser··on Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news outlets
Following politics it certainly appears exactly that way. The news has become a sport of reading both sides and assuming the truth lies somewhere very orthogonal to the information provided.
thatoneuser··on What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat
Actually MK is a great fighting game. One of my favorite.
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