yesman

joined 3 years ago
[–] yesman@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

you have to play. There are chess websites where you play slow games, each player has like 3 days to make a move. The trick is to get about 20 of these games going. In this way you have a series of chess puzzles presented to you every day. And it can be really exciting to win a game that's gone on for 3 months.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Is that "hat" gold? Thing would break your neck.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

With competitive shitting, bowling, and darts, you could have a fat-man triathlon.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 42 points 15 hours ago

It's sad to see a mod community impose the concept of IP on itself. But I can understand the frustration of seeing your project being shit on by slop holes.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Tell them your hurt to learn that they are capable of unconditional love and support. Ask them if they'd have loved you more if you raped a few children, or was racist AF.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In 1995: a virtual boy

In 2015: an Oculus Rift

In 2026: a Steam Frame

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Diesel is in a crisis and the regime is floundering. You may not roll on diesel, but almost everything you buy does.

Diesel prices are a huge problem and it's going to get worse the longer it's like this.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Because ~~prediction markets~~ gambling companies have a marketing strategy where they sponsor news outlets in exchange for reporting the predictions to feign legitimacy. CNN is probably the worst, but it's everywhere.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

IQ is not an objective measure of intelligence. Nothing can be because intelligence is colloquial and subjective. If I told you that I had an instrument that could objectively rank all humanity by beauty, smart people would see the problem immediately.

IQ depends on their being one kind of underlying intelligence. No such thing as 'book smarts' or 'street smarts'. Emotional intelligence is also fake. Just logical problem solving and spacial recognition.

IQ is racist. IQ consistently shows that black Americans have lower IQ than other groups. White supremacists love this fact because they view it as scientific evidence that black people are inferior.

"Race" is biologically incoherent, but "black American" is the most incoherent of all. Barack Obama is a famous black American. But his mama is a white lady named Durham and her people are British. In the Jim Crow era South, 1/16 black ancestry made you 100% legally black. That's one great-grandparent. White and black Americans have been cross pollinating for 400years. Sometimes even consensually.

"Black American" is not a coherent biological category. Therefore, when IQ tests mark differences between these groups, it can ONLY be measuring social difference because their is no biological explanation.

IQ is not an objective measure of intelligence and any study based on it is faulty.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is the silver lining of competing with conservatives. Their ideas are bad and don't work.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

I read yesterday that her boyfriend got life with the possibility of parole for the same crime. He was 17. I know our justice system isn't a precision machine and two trials are likely to vary wildly in procedure and outcome. But still... that's got so sting.

 
 

I've got an elderly cat that became my responsibility through... circumstances.

He's a lot of work. He has zero personality or charisma. Worst of all, he harasses me for wet food his whole waking existence. Food motivated is not the word, it's the only thing he knows, or cares about.

I'm not going to be sad when he dies.

 
 

I'm in the bottom half of Appalachia, if it's a regional thing.

 
 
 
 

All anyone cares about is which powerful man gets embarrassed. And I recon it's more likely that Maxwell will get out early than any predator gets jail.

There were HUNDREDS of victims; it went on for decades; and nobody gives a tiny shit. Have you heard anybody propose a law, a task force, even a blue ribbon commission to find out how this happened or make sure nobody does this again? Are their any more resources for victims because of this?

Our society accepts that men of wealth are entitled to abuse people. And sexual abuse is all in the game. Because at the end of the day our legal system is constructed to protect these people from the rabble, not hold them to account.

A pedophile is political designation to strip rights, dignity, and legitimacy from enemies. Children being harmed is beside the point.

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