At least it’s easy to remember the conversion between hours and seconds.

As a white dude, I would be horribly embarrassed to do something like that. I hope the guy in the story learned a lesson from it.

All nationalism is brain rot.

Ignorance is bliss. Weed is pretty good, too.

I’m totally in agreement that the observer effect is not caused by consciousness, but…

What is consciousness to the universe anyway? It’s nothing but a system of electrical impulses,

This is a claim unsupported by evidence. I submit to you that just as we can explain the observer effect without invoking consciousness, we can also explain cognition without it. We can’t even prove consciousness exists at all! I know I’m conscious because I directly experience it, but I can’t prove to another person that I experience anything, nor can I prove to myself that anyone else experiences anything.

I know my consciousness, memory, and brain are intimately connected. I know that what people describe as a loss of consciousness on my part is strongly correlated with gaps in my memory. I know those gaps correspond to time periods when people tell me I’m unresponsive to stimuli. I even know other people become unresponsive in connection to same kinds of things that cause gaps in my memory, and they likewise describe similar experiences to mine when, say, they ingest substances that I’ve found to alter my behavior, and which feel like they alter the quality of my consciousness.

All of that is to say that we have very good reasons to suppose that consciousness (if it exists) interacts with the world of measurable phenomena all the time, and that other people experience consciousness. But what we can’t do is measure the difference between a conscious being and a p-zombie. There’s plenty of correlation, but correlation is famously not causation, and we don’t have a testable theory that would explain the causal link, or allow us to test whether, say, a cat, a tree, or an LLM is conscious.

I think my family may have had a later generation VCR then yours, because I don’t remember ever getting my hand stuck, and if you pressed the rewind button while playback was stopped (not paused) it would rewind at like 10x the regular playback speed.

Yeah, I think I would’ve have gotten it in 2019, but kneeling definitely isn’t at the top of my mind as a form of protest. And even at the time it seemed odd to me because kneeling is almost always interpreted as a show of respect.

Adjusting the tracking on a VCR.

I’m American and I didn’t get the reference.

Except there are a ton of right wing positions that don’t benefit anyone except the politicians who use them to keep their supporters angry and afraid. I’d go so far as to say left wing policies are primarily about helping people and right wing policies are primarily about hurting people.

I award you one tyranny point for telling people what to do.

The idea that someone trying to commit suicide would shoot themselves through the cheeks implies a truly staggering level of incompetence. The whole point of shooting yourself in the head is to have a quick and painless death. Shooting random holes in your body first is the opposite of that.

People who don’t care about enshittification, or who don’t think about it specifically in connection to Reddit, aren’t here because they’re using Reddit instead.

Recognizing that Republicans are monsters who will do literally anything for power doesn’t require any paranoia, just observation.

Going by that definition, almost any learning experience is trauma.

Is not pedantic to question why you’re using a common term in a way that almost the opposite of what it normally means.

I’m sure you preemptively provide citations for every claim you make.

That motherfucker singlehandedly proved that free speech in the US is a myth.

Go down this list any tell me how many traits don’t apply to Republicans. https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

Eek, that makes my skin crawl. Taking what you said literally would imply that π² = π.