TotallynotJessica

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

Eh, most terminally online people are or were.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

Yes dumbass. Most countries that could be imperialist were imperialist at some point.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

Until empirical measurements can be made, it’s not science.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

Thank you. I didn’t edit my post and have no idea where you saw “empirical math,” so I was as confused as you were. I did however realize that a way of exploring mathematical concepts can be scientific. Using existing rules of math like algebra or calculus has led to us discovering new ways to use math and even new mathematical concepts. The process of long dead mathematicians discovering things like geometry and calculus was scientific in that they had a hypothesis based on past details and measurements, tested it, and found it applied to the real world. Math itself is a construction that doesn’t constitute science, but science can be done in the field of mathematics. This is because science is fundamentally a process.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

Science can’t prove all true things, or even prove anything with absolute certainty, but you can get closer to the truth through science. Some things might not be knowable through science, but if they aren’t knowable, they probably wouldn’t have a real world use. If parallel universes exist and there’s no way to access them or prove they exist, then it basically might as well not exist. It would make no difference if there are no consequences of it being real or not. Unless there are consequences of something existing, something we can do with the knowledge, it only satisfies our curiosity. It sucks, but that might be the practical answer.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

What do you mean by “casually mention something conservative?” Maybe they’d say something like, “you and my son should start a pro life group at your school” assuming I’m also conservative and pro life. This actually happened to me growing up, and needless to say, I stopped spending time with that kid. He always treated me well as did his mother, but I couldn’t get close to someone that was in favor of banning abortion.

I didn’t let them know in the moment where I stood. You don’t need to immediately turn into a weirdo or call them out, you just need to stop associating with them. The funny thing is that was during my more enlightened centrist phase, and even then I knew that shit was unacceptable. Women deserve to choose, and no true friend would want to take away someone’s rights like that. That’s what the previous poster probably meant. That behavior isn’t unhinged, it’s called having a moral compass. Damn straight we should apply our politics to everyday life; life is political baby.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

It isn’t my job to change everyone’s minds and get them to rethink the shitty things they’ve been taught. However it also isn’t my job to just accept bigotry and hatred, especially for someone as vulnerable to it as I am. I get that if you’re a neurotypical cis het white man you can just ignore the consequences of conservatism, but people like me can’t.

I’ve spent my fair share of time with bigots and edgelords, and you know what? They may put up with you for a time, but eventually their prejudices turn them against you. They’ll make jokes at your expense, and those I can handle, but when things get serious, when there’s an actual disagreement or conflict, they’ll see things like your race or sexual orientation as a weakness that makes you inferior to them. I have plenty of empathy for people who don’t know any better, but when someone could see you as less of a person than them, as a toy they can play with, that’s hurts.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

An uninformed blue collar Republican might not have the same blame that a GOP politician has, but that doesn’t mean they don’t contribute to that terrible politician being in office and being able to oppress people like me. I genuinely wish I could give everyone in America the knowledge I have so that they can make more informed decisions about who to support, but I haven’t found a way to do that yet. Go figure.

The big issue is that the ignorant Republican voter is a threat to me, even if they don’t have the same culpability for their actions as a well educated Republican. I don’t want to damn that person to hell or send them to prison, but I will do what I need to do to protect myself. A great amount of the harm and bad things that happen in the world are caused by people who don’t know any better, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t prevent them from doing those things with reasonable force. It’s not about punishing people or making people who do bad things get what they deserve. Punitive justice is overrated, but we still need to get some form of justice in reducing harm and preventing bad things if possible.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

Republicans are almost always wrong on everything, and even when they are right, they’re either on the same side as everyone else or they’re on the right side for the wrong reasons. The main problem with the Democrats is that they’re moderates unwilling to roll up their sleeves and do what it takes at best, or simply grifting at worst.

However, on trans rights, there’s no contest. Dems are almost entirely right, with Republicans being so far in the wrong that they’re not even worth talking about. For a bunch of out of touch politicians, democratic lawmakers are doing a decent job on that issue in particular. This is obviously thanks to a ton of hard work by outspoken advocates, but the major improvements they could make would really be less specific to trans people, like better civil rights protections or better access to Healthcare.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

We should honestly. Many lives would be saved if more people vaccinated for the flu. The vaccines for covid are safer than most vaccines last I checked, so taking it or not is less personal risk assessment and more doing a public disservice if one opts out. We should probably make access to participation in public life be contingent on taking safe, low risk, public health measures like getting vaccinated. Just like how food prepers are required to wash their hands to serve food, everyone should be required to take certain vaccines in order to take public transit or receive government funded Healthcare.

Covid has become like the flu in that it’s seasonal, isn’t going away, and is less fatal than other diseases, but that doesn’t mean we should go back to business as usual. Covid was a warning shot from nature that disease is a major threat we were ignoring. We need to double down on making sure we’re better prepared for the next one. Heaven forbid it’s as deadly or scaring as polio, the plague, or smallpox. We frankly got a failing grade on how we handled covid, so we better study up.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

I wish I was skilled at girl kissing 😫

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

In what way?

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

If you don’t die 47 times fighting your first marauder, can you really say you’ve gotten the Doom Eternal experience?

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

No one can have literacy in every subject or have wholely original thought on everything. Everybody, including the most critical of thinkers, need to rely somewhat on trust and authority in experts and people with specific knowledge.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

I love bananas, but recently I became allergic. Seems related to my longstanding latex allergy. It’s too bad.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

Person on the right died from two minutes without food. Probably was feeding it all to those chihuahuas for months.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

In the past LTT would have responded to the testing allegations in a more mature way, but they seemed to have gotten arrogant and big headed. The sexual harassment allegations make sense considering they don’t seem to have a HR department. Considering the size of their company, this was a disaster waiting to happen.

Edit: They do have an HR department, but it clearly didn’t work.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

Tbf, having binocular vision and better depth perception would help someone irl.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

It’s either that or info dump.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

Get the forced to jitters

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

Tf is going on with that dog on the bottom of the screen. Why does its paw look like that?

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

Tbf, people shouldn’t be ass clowns with natural forces.

TotallynotJessica, 8 months ago

I don’t know about the Captain America one. Many of the people I’ve met from that generation weren’t homophobic.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

Magic is just what you don’t understand. Everything is a mechanism. Even if there was magic, a human soul, the afterlife, God, it would still operate under certain logical rules and principles. Eventually, unless there was something keeping us from obtaining knowledge, we would be able to apply science to magical forces. Science will eventually understand everything it is possible to understand, which might honestly be everything.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

I never said we’d be able to understand or prove everything, just that there is some logic underpinning reality. It might be that some things are fundamentally unknowable, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist to be known, just that we’ll never know it.

I also don’t get what the halting problem proves about reality. It might be possible that infinities or unresolvable results are real, so long as we can still exist. The cosmological principle proves that we have to live in a reality that it is possible for us to exist in, otherwise we wouldn’t be here to observe it. So long as the infinities or uncomputable problems don’t prevent our existence, it might represent reality. If the equation doesn’t allow us to exist, then it doesn’t represent reality.