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New comment by theclansman in "Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram"

theclansman — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:59:34 +0000

The whole Zuckerberg pretending to be conservative now that Trump is in power has been hilarious really. Like being in the Joe Rogan show, saying companies need more masculinity or some shit. How about we don't let private companies do whatever the fuck they want?

New comment by theclansman in "Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram"

theclansman — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:52:10 +0000

It's hilarious to me that so many people are just noticing the censorship of these sites. But hey, I guess that's a good thing right? Surely we all want freedom of speech now.

New comment by theclansman in "’Brain rot‘ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024"

theclansman — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:25:26 +0000

I've noticed that younger fellows like to correct people while using the crying emoji, and point disturbing stuff with the skull one. Tears of joy is probably not ironic enough for them.

New comment by theclansman in "’Brain rot‘ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024"

theclansman — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:13:39 +0000

That's actually not that easy to do when people are expected to be living alone at a certain age. Finding a partner could be good for you but that's also not so simple. I think most people would prefer hanging out with others rather than scrolling tik tok (you might enjoy alone activities but tik tok scrolling comes out of boredom), but sometimes they have no choice. It's like the way we live is pointing us specifically in that direction, at least by default.

New comment by theclansman in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

theclansman — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:44:43 +0000

Anybody can do everything if we restrict everything to things everyone can do.

New comment by theclansman in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

theclansman — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:40:17 +0000

I saw a lot of this when I went to college for engineering, some professors had this ability (or willingness) to make hard things simple, and others did the opposite, it was the same with the books, I dreaded the "exercise for the reader" shit, I don't think I ever did any of those, so those were all proofs I never got.

New comment by theclansman in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

theclansman — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:57:39 +0000

And that's obviously bad because incels are not real people with feelings.

New comment by theclansman in "Programmer in Berlin: Culture"

theclansman — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 08:53:01 +0000

The conclusions a lot of people draw from universal healthcare are, frankly, insane most of the time. I've seen people saying that people in Europe are happier because of free access to therapy (as in, mental health), which implies a lot of things, but is not even true. Going to therapy here in Norway is extremely expensive. The idea that someone would indulge in risky behavior just because a doctor will "fix you" for free is also ridiculous. This person clearly didn't think too much about it considering how people eat in the US.

New comment by theclansman in "Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf]"

theclansman — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:57:56 +0000

I've always found weird how people draw conclusions from small correlations, specially when other studies show the opposite result. They call it hypothesis, but weirdly enough these conclusions often coincide with their world view. Look at that, now I'm the one drawing conclusions, must be human nature to try to make sense of things. But what I've found is that often reality is counter intuitive, and that's more fun.

New comment by theclansman in "Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf]"

theclansman — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:50:58 +0000

I knew that smoking crack meant I was smart

New comment by theclansman in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now"

theclansman — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:16:34 +0000

What exactly would be the difference with what we have now? We already have physical addresses.

New comment by theclansman in "I Turned 72 Today"

theclansman — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:03:35 +0000

And they're loving it, of course when they read stuff like "ignorant people are the loudest" they all feel like they're the knowledgeable quiet ones.

New comment by theclansman in "I Turned 72 Today"

theclansman — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:52:44 +0000

It's hard to not be cynical when you read stuff like "Envy is like drinking poison expecting the other person to die." which is like 2 different inspirational quotes taped together, I heard this one about hatred rather than envy.

New comment by theclansman in "Doom Running on a Toothbrush"

theclansman — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:56:41 +0000

That is so disappointing lol, all this time I thought it was running on the actual pregnancy test hardware.

New comment by theclansman in "Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why"

theclansman — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:21:16 +0000

Keto has nothing to do with eating less, in fact you can eat all you want as long as is the appropriate foods.

New comment by theclansman in "Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs"

theclansman — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:43:19 +0000

Honestly I've been using Firefox for more than 10 years and never felt the need to switch. Every time I try a new browser there's features from Firefox that I end up missing. And seeing the shitshow with the ad blockers in Chrome there's no way I'm trying that lol.

New comment by theclansman in "Omegle 2009-2023"

theclansman — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 09:23:32 +0000

I'm still nostalgic about the pre-facebook internet.

New comment by theclansman in "Omegle 2009-2023"

theclansman — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 09:20:55 +0000

That's an extremely simplistic way to dismiss the problem. Depression wasn't something that was invented or discovered in the last decade.

New comment by theclansman in "You don't need to work on hard problems (2020)"

theclansman — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:36:49 +0000

I'll try to apply this as I've been battling the problem of my job being too easy and never applying what I learnt in school.

There were so many interesting problems and theories in school that you never see as a regular developer, often I think that I have a job that any person could do with a few months of training (does this make me a narcissist? Is the complain here just that my job is unglamorous or is wasting your skills a legit concern?). I guess I haven't matured enough, or maybe I'm not really sold into the impact my company is making.

New comment by theclansman in "Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA"

theclansman — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:33:59 +0000

I don't understand what are these immense benefits, to catch more criminals? Since when has throwing more people in jail reduced crime? I guess this would stop someone who is plotting a murder but a school shooting is gonna happen either way.