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New comment by sojournerc in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

sojournerc — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:57:20 +0000

Can _any_ man get pregnant?

No not all women get pregnant, but they generally have the plumbing to do so. My wife and I have tried for years without luck, yet no doctor has ever asked if we tried getting me pregnant instead. Smh

New comment by sojournerc in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

sojournerc — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:31:22 +0000

Can men get pregnant?

New comment by sojournerc in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

sojournerc — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:59:36 +0000

https://www.petlink.net/microchip-search/

It seems the various chip companies share registry data, doesn't have to be state run.

New comment by sojournerc in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

sojournerc — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:27:42 +0000

Coloradan with all chipped pets for decades. Not sure where you're coming from. Our friend was reunited with a cat with a chip that was lost for a 6 months. Shitting on the US is great for karma these days

New comment by sojournerc in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

sojournerc — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:18:18 +0000

You pay contractors to fix open source bugs? Tell me how that works

New comment by sojournerc in "I canceled my book deal"

sojournerc — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:38:25 +0000

Right, nobody needs cabinets or doors because... AI. /s

I'm a professional woodworker. One-off tables in a garage might not be a great business, but millwork, built-ins, and cabinetry in homes is a great business. You're likely not exposed to cabinet or architectural woodwork shops that build high-end homes, or that just do renovation for that matter.

New comment by sojournerc in "AI is forcing us to write good code"

sojournerc — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:52:17 +0000

Why not just search out the independent sources and ditch the middleman?

New comment by sojournerc in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

sojournerc — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:27:30 +0000

Comfortable clothes aren't necessary. Food with flavor isn't necessary... We should all just eat ground up crickets in beige cubicles because of how many unnecessary things we could get rid of. /s

New comment by sojournerc in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

sojournerc — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:53:14 +0000

Food is frivolous!? Good God the future is bleak.

New comment by sojournerc in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

sojournerc — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:02:34 +0000

You don't think tradespeople are contientious, intelligent, or productive? That's the whole trouble with this filtering signal. It's bogus and has created elitism around professions that are just as hard if not harder than pushing computer keys.

New comment by sojournerc in "I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced"

sojournerc — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:47:15 +0000

So your theory is that a dominant military force is using a missile that costs at least 5 figures on random fisherman, with no intel or reason for targeting... Forgive me for thinking that it might be a bit more nuanced than that.

New comment by sojournerc in "Why does Swiss cheese have holes?"

sojournerc — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:01:17 +0000

The context of the thread is "swiss" on a menu in the US, which makes it obvious that it's cheese, and not a guard at the Vatican, same as cheddar on a sandwich is obviously not referring to an English town. It may shock you to find out that things are named differently in different places. smh

New comment by sojournerc in "Why does Swiss cheese have holes?"

sojournerc — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 22:38:12 +0000

It's like saying "cheddar". Cheese is assumed

New comment by sojournerc in "Delivery is killing restaurant culture"

sojournerc — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:19:12 +0000

Better yet, beans and rice are nutritional, can be cooked in a variety of ways, and are exceptionally affordable.

New comment by sojournerc in "A definition of AGI"

sojournerc — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:48:22 +0000

That's still using language. My dog has theory of mind in the real world where things actually exist.

Also, those results don't look as strong to me as you suggest. I do not accept that an LLM is conscious nor could I ever unless I can have a theory of mind for it... Which is impossible given that it's a stochastic parrot without awareness of the things my five senses and my soul feel in reality.

New comment by sojournerc in "A definition of AGI"

sojournerc — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:05:12 +0000

Consciousness is observable in others! Our communication and empathy and indeed language depend on the awareness that others share our perceived reality but not our mind. As gp says, this is hard to describe or quantify, but that doesn't mean it's not a necessary trait for general intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind

New comment by sojournerc in "What if tariffs?"

sojournerc — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:26:53 +0000

Fair enough. It popped to mind because I just heard it.

After looking it up, I found it was produced and recorded in California, by an American label.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sk8er_Boi

New comment by sojournerc in "What if tariffs?"

sojournerc — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:31:38 +0000

100%. I'm excited to find somewhere not playing disco and skater boy, and instead supporting their local music.

Hell, here in the UK I'm happy to hear Sheeran even though he's not really my style typically.

I don't mention that because I like American cultural dominance, merely because it is so ubiquitous.

I was in the middle of South Africa in the oughts and there were bootleg Britney Spears albums... Kind of shocking and I honestly don't exactly understand the appeal of American pop, but it's widespread...

New comment by sojournerc in "What if tariffs?"

sojournerc — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:56:23 +0000

I'm not sure it's all that new. During the Bush Jr. years America was not highly thought of.

I'm an American traveling through Scandinavia and Northern continental Europe for the last three weeks, now in the UK.

I haven't experienced a bit of grief. Their opinion of our politics is generally separate from how they treat me personally, and I do the same for people of other nationalities.

American cultural dominance is everywhere. I can barely find a pub or restaurant not playing American music, for instance.

New comment by sojournerc in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

sojournerc — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:53:59 +0000

Usually a pardon is for a conviction with some level of ambiguity or prosecutorial misconduct. Hunter himself admits to the privilege of being pardoned.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5568271-hunter-b...