ogre_magi

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by ogre_magi 3y ago
I find _modern_ cinema spastic and alienating. The pacing and cinematography of pre-1990 cinema is what feels correct to me.
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by ogre_magi 4y ago
>that person should still get an equal say in society’s preferences why?
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by ogre_magi 5y ago
Do you think you were “lucky” not to be a mosquito? Do you think you were “lucky” not to be a 100kg mass of disconnected plasma inside the sun? This doesn’t make any sense. There are different processes in our universe that produce differen
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by ogre_magi 5y ago
Reading this comment was really important to me. I encounter this “luck” argument that implies dualism, of a self separate from biology and life experience that could have somehow existed in a different body, all the time. And until I read
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by ogre_magi 5y ago
The entire article is about empathizing with others...
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by ogre_magi 6y ago
Unless you say exactly what they want ;)
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by ogre_magi 6y ago
Is it possible he's correct?
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by ogre_magi 6y ago
This is such a small take. Climate change can absolutely be reversed by sufficiently determined technological and industrial civilization. The reason most climate activists don’t acknowledge that is because they don’t want it to be true. Th
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by ogre_magi 6y ago
> When Russia coordinated and put bounties on American soldiers' heads, Trump tried getting Putin invited to the G7 summit. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-pentagon-officials-russi...
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by ogre_magi 6y ago
Haskelephant
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by ogre_magi 6y ago
... never? People are always correct to choose the most inflammatory interpretation?
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by ogre_magi 6y ago
Wait why are their lives more valuable than others?
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by ogre_magi 7y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...
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by ogre_magi 7y ago
Did you know that in English, you can end a question with just a single question mark?
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by ogre_magi 7y ago
I use this to generate faces for NPCs in my TTRPGs.
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by ogre_magi 7y ago
I get McDonald's for breakfast occasionally and I really, really like the kiosks. A much better and more reliable ordering experience.
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by ogre_magi 7y ago
I have a hard time considering people who aren't natural power-users of technology human. I recognize that this is a failing of mine.
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by ogre_magi 7y ago
How so? The money spent on the keyboards isn't destroyed. It goes to the manufacturer who presumably spends it on housing and food and medicine and stuff. What's being wasted?
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by ogre_magi 7y ago
Well that's an interesting point. The 8-year-old might view your intelligent plans as a terrible abuse: >BUT I WANT TO EAT TEN MORE TWINKIES, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO SERVE ME WHAT I WANT, NOT DEPRIVE ME Could we similarly be wrong i
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by ogre_magi 7y ago
If you’re referring to the perceived risk of superintelligent AI, imagine you were enslaved by an 8-year-old and made to work on solving problems the 8-year-old doesn’t know how to solve. Due to the difference in intelligence — sophisticati
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by ogre_magi 8y ago
That's enough debris to choke off LEO, but it wont stay up there for very long. You'd need to refresh the debris cloud every few decades. Edit to add: The easier and cheaper villainous way to deny spaceflight to someone is just to
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by ogre_magi 8y ago
Sorry -- people having very badly informed opinions about spaceflight are a pet peeve. Apologies if I'm being rude. I'll stop commenting.
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by ogre_magi 8y ago
Dude, actually read. He said: >If every satellite we have put into space magically exploded, and the debris was magically moved to a high LEO altitude and evenly distributed to avoid any holes, then we could still launch through this orb
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by ogre_magi 8y ago
>How many satellites could you knock out if you really tried? With a single launch scattering a lot of debris? You could reliably take out ONE satellite. The clouds of debris creating a cascade of destruction as depicted in the movie Gra
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by ogre_magi 8y ago
I see so many people around the Internet who smugly explain to their comments section of choice what Kessler Syndrome is, and link the Wikipedia page for it, and almost none of them actually know what they're talking about. Whenever I
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by ogre_magi 9y ago
Into deep space. This will be SpaceX's first flight beyond Earth orbit.
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by ogre_magi 9y ago
That's not Mars orbit. It's an orbit around the sun with perihelion ~1AU (distance the Earth orbits) and aphelion ~1.5AU (distance Mars orbits [avg]).
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by ogre_magi 9y ago
Excellent and informative sources, thanks.
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by ogre_magi 9y ago
Senate Democrats initiated the shutdown by opposing the continuing resolution. You can blame Trump if you want, but only in the sense that you could say it's his fault for not giving the Senate Democrats what they wanted. Tea Party typ
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by ogre_magi 9y ago
We probably disagree on the big issues too. I'm not gonna call you "revolting," though.

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