yesman

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Philosophy, not even once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High Art 🧐🎩⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say the ubermench protagonists who are assholes, but their behavior is justified by being superior is a bigger problem. Think of Sherlock, Rick Sanchez, or Tony Stark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long could one survive with only water and beer and no food?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Beer has very little salt. Sodium is essential for basically everything your body does. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia

  Youtube vid about a dude who consumed nothing but beer for 6 weeks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfrdKXEdPFU

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High Art 🧐🎩⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys are crazy! Joker is a nuanced and thoughtful study on the ripple effects of sustained trauma and Joaquin Phoenix’s performance is perhaps the best of his carrier. No, wait, sorry I was thinking of “You Were Never Really Here” (2017)

  Anybody notice the Batman villain as social anxiety trend? Leger’s Joker channeled Islamic terrorists, Phoenix’s channeled lone wolf shooters, while Dano’s Riddler was an incel?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christopher Nolan Calls Zack Snyder’s ‘Watchmen’ a Film ‘Ahead of Its Time’: It Should Have Been Released Post-‘Avengers’⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Paul Verhoeven is such a mixed bag. You get inspired trash like Robocop and Starship Troopers together with actual trash like Showgirls and Hollow Man.

  But I don’t agree that the timing would have made much of a difference. If anybody took more notice of the movie, it’d be the chuds who mistake the lampooning of fascism as glorification. I’ve been quoted Rasczak’s class lecture about force and democracy unironically more than once.

  A friend of mine screens tender matches by asking potential dates about Starship Troopers or Fight Club. It’s hilarious bc the chuds think she’s chill af right up till she unmatches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, I am calling on manufacturers to improve their sealing glues⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What we need to talk about are the built-in ziplock style closers on plastic bags that are everywhere now. Even makers of premium foods can’t seem to get this right. I can only think of one product where the closer is an improvement on having nothing.

  Boar’s Head Deli meat. I guess the guys who sell spam for the price of a good steak can spare the expense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two reasons

  1. The market is saturated. Everybody pretty much already has insurance and they only shop for it when they have a reason to. So you want them to have your companies name on their mind when the time comes. The biggest source of new customers are people who switch from someone else.

  2. GEICO was having name recognition problems when it transitioned from covering government employees exclusively.(Government Employees Insurance Company) This is where the lizard mascot came from. It was a huge success and other insurance companies followed suit. What we have now is a sort of arms race where all the major companies spend ridiculous amounts on advertising, but nobody wants to scale back for fear of being buried by their competitors ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨De omnibus dubitandum⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Philosophers overuse Latin? Wait till you hear about medicine and law.