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  • There’s not really a way around this, and I think one of the explainer channels actually went into depth about it.

    They gave an example of how everyone learns that the earth is a sphere, but once you ‘dig deeper’ you find it’s not actually a sphere because it’s elongated at the equator (making it a spheroid.) You can then ‘dig even deeper’ and find that the earth isn’t really a spheroid, it has mountains and all kinds of other inconsistencies that don’t matter to most people but can make a difference to an expert.

    The real takeaway is that we should not consider ourselves experts, or even significantly more knowledgeable about a subject because we saw a video on one of these channels. They’re for entertainment first.














  • The Linus Torvalds version of conquering the world is hardly the Genghis Khan version.

    An interesting point to make.

    Richard Stallman is definitely my biggest inspiration. I never considered it as a masculine or feminine thing, just an example of someone who is correct while most of his peers are wrong.

    The pen really is mightier than the sword, and it has been for awhile. That’s why the ruling class doesn’t want us to have any of our own ideas.

    Some of these guys didn’t get the memo. They probably never had a good male role model to guide them on how to adapt to modern society.



  • I completely agree with this.

    I’m not an ‘anime fan,’ but there is good anime out there like Paprika and Aku no Hana. They really push what the medium is capable of and don’t just rely on tropes to appease people with low standards.

    It’s tough to recommend anime to some people because their opinion of the medium has been tainted by anime fans that will accept whatever slop is shoveled in front of their face.