"That’s right, Snake. Warmth is a physical phenomenon produced by a variety of factors, typically the sun. It occurs most often in tropical environments, but it can even be found in arctic climates…especially between two people. But did you know humans are also capable of generating something known as “artificial warmth”? "

“Hrrm… artificial warmth, huh?”

“In fact, artificial warmth technologies have been incorporated into your sneaking suit. There’s a copper lining which is powered by recaptured electrochemical activities from your body, which acts as a sort of radiator.”

“…So you’re telling me I don’t need anyone else as long as I’ve got this suit on.”

“Well, I guess that’s one way of putting it…But, don’t forget about the ‘nice’ part, okay Snake?”

The files in question:

Dear [redacted],

Just [redacted] 5 [redacted] girls at the party last night. What a great time!

Yours, [redacted]

What do you mean bro words are my favorite meme format it’s so flexible

I’m white and I wear shorts - hah! It’s funny because it’s true!!!

Whitestown lol. Reality is so on-the-nose sometimes

In my experience, it’s because as part of becoming millionaires they also become obnoxious money-obsessed losers who are totally unenjoyable to talk to

Thanks for sharing your experience! That makes a lot of sense and it’s pretty relieving to hear it honestly. I’m not always about buying into the whole “natural=good” line of reasoning, but biology is nuanced, and sometimes natural really is good. But I’m glad that our bodies are legitimately adaptable when it comes to sleep. I suppose that makes a lot of sense, since daylight hours vary a lot by place and time of year anyways.

I truly think that a good amount of these people could be personally executed by Trump shooting them in the chest, and while Trump says “I know what you are and I hate you” they would lay there dying and say “Oh it’s okay, I know you didn’t mean that. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. I still support what you’re doing overall.” or possibly even “I guess I do deserve to die if you say so”.

Now I will say the majority of even the maga team is not this nuts. But some definitely are. Many humans have unfortunately had the privilege to never interact with the kind of person who will truly never change their mind. I’ve known one or two, and it’s a really mind-expanding experience, almost like you’re meeting an extraterrestrial. It’s hard for people who haven’t seen them to believe 👽 lol

What about the other way around? Are there artists on Bandcamp that aren’t on Spotify? I would imagine that Bandcamp has more small indie artists and Spotify has more major ones, right? That’s great that they have the editorials. But what I really crave is some sort of “tracks similar to this” feature - a lot of times I’m in a very particular mood or looking for something very specific where I know one or two songs that hit the mark and want more.

Yeah this is the kind of thing where you really need statistics. This sticks out because it’s a prominent example of something new, an autonomous vehicle, doing something notable - killing an animal for the first time (or at least one of the very first well-publicized times on record).

For people’s reaction to this to be that this is because it’s an autonomous vehicle is the same sort of cognitive bias that causes things like, " The first person to get a math problem wrong in class was a girl so it seems like girls are bad at math". When of course it could be that the probability of boys and girls getting problems wrong is equal, and that the girl was simply the first one to get a unlucky roll on the dice of the universe. It could even be that boys are more likely to get problems wrong, and the girl was especially unlucky. It could in fact be that girls are more likely to get problems wrong, too, but this single instance doesn’t give us enough evidence for that. It could be that boys actually have gotten more problems wrong, but we only hear about the girl getting the problem wrong due to sociological biases, or vice versa. Etc.

I get that we shouldn’t trust corporations, and it’s not fun to defend a corporation, but it is important to defend rational thinking. And the rational way to approach this is to employ statistical methods to judge whether a vehicle being autonomous truly makes it a bigger risk to animals in the road or not. Any other line of reasoning is not right for this kind of problem.

I’ve been thinking about this too. Does anyone know if band camp is any good for this sort of thing?? I know that you can listen to some music there.

Music is one of the few things where I actually like for the service to have a recommendation algorithm. I don’t think Bandcamp has anything like that. I’m not opposed to switching up my ways of discovering new music and instead just finding it by engaging with communities… But let’s be honest that isn’t quite as effective nor as plentiful as a good algorithm. If bandcamp doesn’t really have any way of discovering artists then it just seems sort of supplementary.

Yeah rereading my comment, I see what’s confusing about it - I’m condemning the people who condemn purity tests. I support the purity tests (aka having standards for our representatives).

Noooo but muh purity test! We need to take what we can get! The DNC should have banned Mamdani from running so that Kamala could run in New York instead and if you think that’s a bad idea that’s just because you let your delusional perfect fantasies be the enemy of the good , well, the okay , er… the…

This is peak archaeology/anthropology. Things that really fundamentally overturn assumptions so widespread that we don’t even realize we’re making them. Makes me wanna try sleeping like this for awhile - in conjunction with not using any lights past sunset of course. I wonder if it would be nicer? Or maybe the fact that we have the artificial lights that alter our circadian rhythm actually make it totally fine to have one continuous sleep instead?

It’s hard to bust any conspiracy theory in direct proportion to the stupidity of the theory, simply because that corresponds directly to the stupidity of the theory believers.

This information will surely only be used to inform rational and socially progressive ideas about gender

I don’t have time to fully respond to this right now, but I just wanted to say that I do understand and sympathize with the things you’re bringing up here. I was hoping to engage with you politely, and my feelings are hurt by your insults, but I understand your anger. When I said I look forward to your counterargument, I meant that earnestly and respectfully. I’m sorry for upsetting you with my reply - I was hoping to lend an angle of positivity to you that you may not have considered, not discount your own view.

It allows individuals to distribute content to a network of hundreds of millions of people, with a very low barrier to entry, and in ways that are not centrally controlled. If my government is banning certain types of speech or information, websites in other countries may still be accessible with it. People in my own country may even make sites with that information, as it’s fairly easy to bypass those laws. The Internet holds all sorts of content that pisses off billionaires. Piracy, privacy tools, the Internet Archive, government document leaks. Think how I can read about the Epstein files so easily by searching or asking about it here on Lemmy - and then think about how much harder it is for me to find that information from a news company, if it’s even possible at all. Why do you think governments and billionaires around the world are so eager to monitor and centralize and rewrite the fundamental workings of the internet? They are coming after the internet because it is a threat to them.

I look forward to your counterargument.

Not the internet, but billionaire controlled platforms. The Internet is one of the best tools ever for fighting against centralized power!