Exenith

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by Exenith 12y ago
Keep the regular job. Just buy a cheap van, and rent a 24/7 parking space. You can figure out the rest. Buy takeaways or use a gas stove for food, use a 24/7 gym for showering/toilet, and go to your job for the internet (alte
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by Exenith 12y ago
Why? There's plenty of consumer drones around already, heh...
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by Exenith 12y ago
All this self-help woo never worked for me. It probably won't work for you, and I don't think it actually works for the people regurgitating it. You're probably just spoiled, like the rest of us. You spend all your time aroun
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by Exenith 12y ago
Mainstream culture doesn't exist? That's hilariously wrong. Kanye West would like you to twerk to some Hunger Games and The Hobbit, and take a selfie on Snapchat while #hashtagging about it on Twitter. Just don't take a naked
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by Exenith 12y ago
Would you end 2 lives if it saved millions in the future? Someone concerned with direct empathy wouldn't. Someone concerned with the human condition might. Anyway, I'm not saying that it was right, because that holds the assumptio
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by Exenith 12y ago
As far as I'm concerned, all of these drug markets are an absolutely fucking wonderful thing for society. Even if you think drugs should be illegal, incredibly violent cartels still exist. Markets like Silk Road can take all their powe
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by Exenith 12y ago
The notion that there is an ideal form of moneymaking for each person is a piece of self-help dogma, not an evidenced fact. To the best of my knowledge and experience, there's no viable job or business that would sustainably make me ha
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by Exenith 12y ago
I also have doubts that the benefit is due to monogamy. Hell, I have doubts that the benefit is due to a relationship. It could merely be because the people have a close companion. How many friends do you sleep in the same room with, wake u
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by Exenith 12y ago
When it comes to a lot of electronic music, there is no recording necessary and the artist is the person who mixes/masters. No need for money there Side ramble: I've never understood why people paint "real" bands as bein
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by Exenith 12y ago
Some rudimentary consideration of what life is like in a tribe would suggest that greediness and hoarding are evolutionary weaknesses. If you take too much for yourself, others in the tribe get pissed off and get rid of you. If you have a t
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by Exenith 12y ago
This guy is completely innocent and has done no wrong, yet he feels so guilty and tip-toes around everything, just because he has white skin and a penis. That's can only be the result of a movement that is sexist and racist. That'
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by Exenith 12y ago
It's pretty fucking rash to say that an attempt to impress someone is equivalent to objectification and sexism. It might reflect an inability to accept rejection, but I would hardly compare it to subhuman treatment (which is what objec
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by Exenith 12y ago
As someone with a major in Artificial Intelligence, and who seriously just got back from watching Transcendence... The movie was well-researched, and surely enjoyable for anyone contemplative. But they had to be farfetched to push the story
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by Exenith 12y ago
So this free website that serves billions of people makes money off the data you knowingly give it to target advertisements. That's what is considered evil nowadays? Does it escape people that this is the only way we're going to g
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by Exenith 12y ago
Am I the only one who feels a real mental disconnect with the people complaining about Facebook? I read interviews by developers there, where it's pretty evident that they have reasonable perspectives (i.e. they aren't evil), then
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by Exenith 12y ago
Well, of course you are going to get majorities of risky (or even careful) people in particular subsets of society (e.g. Wall Street, Silicon Valley). However, I find people in general have always gotten upset when it comes to criticism. I
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by Exenith 12y ago
Let's put that straw man logic more realistically: P1. If you want to have a good degree of health without requiring modern medicine, you should eat food that gives you a good degree of health without requiring modern medicine P2
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by Exenith 12y ago
That video didn't debunk anything. It's just 22 minutes of straw man. It's never been about eating exactly what hunter-gatherers ate, and it has never followed any assumption that the hunter-gatherer diet is best possible die
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by Exenith 12y ago
Equal opportunity does not necessarily mean equal interest. A complete lack of sexism does not necessarily mean equal interest. You are following the assumption that there would be 50/50 proportions of interest (and therefore skill, an
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by Exenith 12y ago
Because the proportion of men and women is not a measure of how sexist the field is.
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by Exenith 12y ago
It doesn't matter how many women there are in the field. If men and women are of equal worth, then why are you looking to get more women in? The men there aren't good enough for you? Now, I understand that some women avoid working
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by Exenith 12y ago
I don't like the "read a book" advice. I end up staying up til 6am reading the goddamn book.
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by Exenith 13y ago
That's nonsense. Facebook is in every home. Being bought by them obviously helps Oculus to be in every home. I'm not exactly cheering over this acquisition, but if one thing's certain, it means Oculus is going to be all over
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by Exenith 13y ago
All you can go off is that? Palmer Luckey basically denied all of your concerns. Even that quote doesn't mean you'll be forced into Facebook's dungeon. It means they want to come up with their own software metaverse, and yes,
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by Exenith 13y ago
There's no indication that they have changed the business model. In fact, that has been explicitly denied. The community is going to fracture, sure: crazy people who jump to conclusions on one side, and reasonable people on the other s
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by Exenith 13y ago
I'm pretty disappointed in most people's responses. Here's two real, actual taboos that no one wants to touch with a 20ft stick: 1. consensual incest 2. consensual pedophilia All of these things are just utterly shunned. It w
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by Exenith 13y ago
I try to avoid these topics, but it's almost sad to see how easily you've all rushed to her side. It seems the magic word of the 2010s is "sexism": utter that word, and people will defend you no matter how little evidenc
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by Exenith 14y ago
You're probably right. It seems like a crutch for some people. Instead of battling through it and becoming stronger, they escape to the Internet and never truly overcome the issue. Personally, getting rid of the bigger pleasures in my life
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by Exenith 14y ago
Funnily enough, I started doing this last week when I realized that I'm on the Internet instead of learning the things I want to be doing -- martial arts, dancing, woodwork, metalwork, mechanics, hunting, chemistry, making friends, learning