Slashdot Mirror


User: butchersong

butchersong's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,063
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,063

  1. -- insert immigration joke here

  2. Re:And why would anybody in the future care? on A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is '100 Percent Fatal' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    This is redundant anyway. We're already living in a simulation and death already reboots us into a new infant form. This is would be a simulation within a simulation and in that simulation a copy of us would exist while in the lower level simulation we're carrying on as before.. and what happens when that simulation within the simulation decides to found a company to preserve the consciousnesses of those in the simulation of the simulation?

  3. Unless you take a non-materialistic view of the universe and assume consciousness exists outside the body with the brain acting like something of an antenna... they are. They commit suicide each time they use a transporter.

  4. Re:One of the biggest stories of the decade on YouTube, the Great Radicalizer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think it is simpler than this. When you allow people to produce their own content and associate freely, they tend to cluster together into distinct groups. Hell, I have a farm and several breeds of chickens. The chicks are raised together from 1 day old and even once they begin maturing will instinctively cluster together into their own types in the coop. It's a little depressing to think on overmuch but this is something very deep in us.

  5. Re:Youtube is racist on YouTube, the Great Radicalizer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Now do a google images search for "european history" or "white couple".

  6. Re:African roots on What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a difficult question to answer if you want to take it seriously... which I'm not sure I do but sub-saharan african is really a unique sub-species compared to say east asian. Probably some mongolian type would be fair. They would at least represent a group with some denisovan and neanderthal dna admixture that the majority of the world shares.

  7. Re:What ever happened to defending unpopular speec on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I find it really concerning when you have a video of white patriots holding guns and making speeches against anyone that is not white.

    white/black and this is pretty much the historic definition of your average black panther rally. Would you suppress that group as well?

  8. I don't care anymore. At all. I'm sure Disney will manage to squeeze money from the franchise for years to come simply because the notion of Star Wars is so firmly embedded in our collective consciousness but there is no wonder or even much in the way of nostalgia left for me.

  9. Re:self driving cars will do the same in fleet mod on Studies Are Increasingly Clear: Uber, Lyft Congest Cities (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Once a significant number of cars are automated it would seem to make sense to have some sort of coupling / decoupling mechanism in place front and back of vehicles to optimize distance, drag and energy use. At that point, what is the advantage a train has on a car?

  10. Based solely on taste I kind-of enjoy Waffle House. They're one of the few places you can get a decent tasting breakfast sausage (sage, red pepper) but their ingredients are really poor quality and their menu prices aren't exactly cheaper than any local breakfast places you might be able to find. The way I see it, any breakfast place that doesn't serve butter isn't really worthy of respect.

  11. Re:Sadly on Antarctica Is Losing Ice Faster Every Year (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You are using the word "science" as if it were some ephemeral thing. He posted math. Fairly simple math really. If you can't be bothered to think about it enough to refute the numbers.. what business do you have posting criticizing him? You don't like his use of base 12 as a unit of measurement? Really?

  12. Re: "Probably" doesn't cut it. on Antarctica Is Losing Ice Faster Every Year (qz.com) · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Isn't true on Why Decentralization Matters (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a real problem though. Take Gab.ai... whatever you think of the platform itself, they are committed to free speech. It was this commitment that got them booted from the Apple store and from Google play for "lack of moderation". You now need to download the apk manually if you wish to use it which in this day and time basically makes the platform a non-starter. As much as it is a buzzword these days, blockchain seems like the answer.

  14. Yep. I was reading this article and thinking about introducing these into one of my land locked ponds.

  15. Alternatives are good enough on Facebook Really Wants You To Come Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I never used facebook very much and got a similar email recently. Honestly, I prefer Minds. The community is small enough that I don't have to deal with the vitriol of random relatives in my feeds or 1k friend requests as soon as I create an account..

  16. Re:If I lived in West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    West Virginia is an absolutely beautiful place to live. What isn't so great is the current epidemic. Personally I'd like to do away with all prescription opiates. The "chronic pain" they address cannot outweigh the suffering they inflict on communities. Next remove them and all forms of welfare. Keep it if you want in your large cities but over here, it would be better that men would have to struggle and work to get by again. The biggest problem in these regions is lack of purpose. Men need work. One thing we have in WV and KY is plenty of soil to grow crops in. Not many though are going to work all day to grow some corn and beans if they can get a welfare/disability check that lets them buy more food at the grocery and spend the day sitting on their ass.

  17. Re:Good on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump actually has a history of renegotiating contracts and saving a bit of money. It doesn't take much more than a willingness to be involved to do this but few presidents in the past have wanted to sully themselves with such mundane work. Take the recent work he did on the F-35 https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

  18. Re:What makes the US Government so special? on Intel Told Chinese Firms of Meltdown Flaws Before the US Government (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Extreme nationalism gave us the US which wouldn't have existed without the expansionist and nationalist tendencies of its citizens. Also, most every other nation in the world throughout history.

  19. Re: They need to give him a JOB on A 15-Year-Old Convinced Verizon He Was the Head of the CIA (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    "Aye-up govnah. I head of the CIA. I'm a bleedin' high flier of 100% US decent and I need access to all yer files..." Genius.

  20. I agree that it is likely that viewers are harsher with movies after driving to a theater and paying x dollars specifically for that showing but still, Netflix has rating scores as well and can also see how many people re-watched the movie. The probably have fairly good methods for measuring audience enthusiasm for a project.

  21. Re:Is it all that unexpected? on Genes that Your Parents Don't Pass To You Still Shape Who You Are, Study Finds (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't really see how they can easily claim to link this to nurture rather than nature. How do we know that gene x in combination with gene y and z doesn't influence the expression of gene b that is passed on the child?

  22. Hello. I don't often get a chance to talk to people that live in the 1980's. I have some bad news about Michael Jackson and Bill Cosby...

  23. Re: It's their fault! on Salmonella Probably Killed the Aztecs (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    'veto' power over a consensual sexual encounter. That has absolutely nothing to do with them being 'loose' or 'dirty'.

    Women who sleep around are dirty. They are not desirable mates and they spread disease. Men default to dirty and disease spreaders. That is why the gay community is so plagued by STDs. Having veto power means taking responsibility. That's just the way things have always been.

    Could you get a little more red pill? I can't quite hear your sad, angry little ego coming through in your post.

    There's nothing sad or angry in my post. I provide for my retired parents, my sister and any girl I happen to be seeing. I do this happily. If there is an intruder in the house or on the farm I am the one expected to take care of it. This goes back to the old saw that "there are not atheists in fox holes". I truly doubt you would send your wife to check on a strange noise in your stead and I doubt that if attacked it would be she stepping between you and the danger. Women by and large do not protect themselves or build concrete things. They have jobs today participating in the service economy or as "middle men". Women are essential to a good life. They participate in the economy that sits atop the real economy -electricians, plumbers, engineers etc.

    I'm not sure what you mean about police protecting you. If that is what you are relying on keeping you safe you're in trouble. Police will be happy to arrest the person that assaults you and collect evidence. They won't be there for the actual assault.

  24. Re:B-b-b-but it HAD to be whitey's fault somehow! on Salmonella Probably Killed the Aztecs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Indian tribes were hitting the buffalo pretty hard -for hides. It was market hunting that killed them. The actual slaughter was carried out in a pretty egalitarian way. White men were more efficient but there is a solid argument that with market conditions, buffalo would not have survived long simply due to Indian hunting. Of course, you would then blame the white man for the market itself.. and that isn't unfair but it doesn't exactly leave the tribes pristine.