Darlose

Watched the new Frankenstein movie and was a bit disappointed. Was a pretty interesting adaptation, but characters felt kinda flat, was pretty obviously in how it handled its themes, special effects not always that great. Felt like it should have been a better movie than it was.

Man, Bugonia is really good, kindof a bad date night movie, though.

Fire smoke? Are you under the impression most Americans just have wildfires going in their backyard all the time? There are a few spots in the country that are relatively fire prone (and have been for thousands of years), but most Americans don’t live in those places

Yeah, that is a good point, short term relationships probably don‘t require same things at all

Sorry, I wasn’t implying you had those attitudes, just talking about the attitude you mentioned others having

That is interesting. Among people I know, long term romantic success and success in careers are very strongly linked (for women and men). I wonder what studies are on that?

But I think everyone would be understanding if you said that getting a particular job or degree made it easier for you to get a girlfriend. The problem with your statement is the defeatist attitude and overt self pity

Like, money makes everything in life easier and working to be more financially stable is a good goal for maintaining relationships, but obviously you don’t really need to be financially stable to find a partner. Not like all men or all women are financially stable or rich.

Sure, but you can acknowledge reality and still not advocate for manosphere-style self pity. An easy way to get someone to listen to you is to acknowledge their reality - lying to them won’t help.

Money helps you do cool things and have free time. Lot easier to meet people/maintain a relationship when you have hobbies and can afford to go on dates. Dressing nice probably doesn’t hurt either. Obviously everyone has different interests and different standards for partners.

They also changed its taste some years ago, it no longer tastes weird nowadays. Coca-Cola owns it now.

Woman have wider hips and less pronounced external genitalia. Even a woman with no concept of personal space is less likely to spread her legs as frequently. Women are also more likely to wear skirts/dressed and are more used to having their appearances policed

Like, the Northern Spotted Owl being listed as endangered came with a major economic cost, but the big money interests lost.

Compared to what would be politically possible now, I’d say it is. Some places have cut thousands of jobs just cause a species listed as endangered led to protections of an ecosystem. Any law that can lead to effective enforcement of uneconomical policies that are publicly unpopular is pretty strong

The human population just keeps chugging away and collapse of biodiversity and climate change have not stopped human population from increasing or from growing in prosperity, health, and life expectancy

Men, people used to say that all the time. Overpopulation crisis and all that. Of course, people realized the implications of that (nobody views themselves as being surplus population) and those views became gauche in time, especially as neo-Malthusians like Paul Ehrlich were proved wildly wrong

But that awakening wasn’t enough to stop collapse of biodiversity and to stop climate change. Very effective as an ideological movement, but few Americans live lives intentionally following any ideological movement, people still want cheap essentials

My concern is that the spiritual awakening kinda already happened - massive shift in attitudes towards nature in the 1960s and 1970s, which had a massive impact on the world - Endangered Species Act ludicrously strong, needed very unique circumstances to be passed.

Yeah, that is fair. Decisions regarding utilities irrelevant for most people. So maybe diet is more important, but also people are going to make unsound dietary decisions for deeply held cultural reasons too - most people aren’t going to consider going vegan

How is that condescending? I feel like offering practical solutions is respecting that people have full lives with other interests. Utility use and diet two of the only things an individual can do to live sustainably

Oh wow! I just saw this for the first time a week ago, so cool!

Are you suggesting he should publicly praise RFK Jr.? Or that he should go other and assassinate him? I can’t tell if your post is in support of RFK Jr. or not

The cool thing is that once you know something exists, you start to see it. You first start birdwatching and think every bird is a robin or chickadee or grackle. Then all of a sudden, every other bird seems to be a Great-Crested Flycatcher or Black-Throated Green Warbler or Rose-Breasted Grosbeak

Foster, by Claire Keegan

Are you more likely to have a positive emotional response to learning if you are engaged with a lesson or if you are distracted by phone notifications from texts and TikTok?

Learning is just hard and can require some degree of intellectual discipline. Yes, good teachers will try to be engaging and help students want to learn, but plenty of students will still find immediate positive feedback from their phones distracting even from stuff they like learning

Eh, you can find people of all political stripes who can’t defend their position, leftists included. Perhaps leftists skew towards highly political aware people, since the average person likely is less drawn to narrow political philosophies

The “left,” if we are viewing it as a monolith, is wrong constantly, on a variety of issues (housing, trade, agriculture, reading instruction), any decent left winger should be able to acknowledge that. Major communist regimes forced to abandon ideology for pragmatic concerns (Vietnam and China)

I mean, I feel like that statement says a lot about how your sense of politics and personal identity are intertwined. Having right and wrong be defined by left and right and polarizing every discussion along that axis is a way to make discussion of politics really stressful for you.

LLM’s are just an extension of people, though? Anything a LLM does is just a human accomplishment, right? I don’t really see how people being able to develop pattern-recognizing software renders humans less special.