NielsBohron

The Paradox of Tolerance writ large in real time

The most based Burzum fan.

Add a faux table-top on the pool table for hosting game nights and I am 1000% behind the whole game room sitch.

Ok, here we go…

I’m going down, down, stung a frog like a clown

Sugar, I’m going down stinging

ISIS the American post-metal band, not ISIS “the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria”

100%. The only redeeming quality of boredom is that it encourages you to go out and gain other interests and skills in the absence of other entertainment, but that’s more in the “I’m done with my homework and have nothing to do for the next 2 hours until dinner” sense. And even before smartphones, TV, booze, and weed easily filled that niche if you weren’t careful.

It’s just that a majority of them now seems to be incapable of focusing on anything for more than a few minutes.

I teach chemistry at a college and I don’t think it’s any different than the past; it’s just more obvious. When I was in middle school, I would tune out all the time, but I didn’t have a smartphone, so I brought shitty fantasy novels to read under the desk. In high-school, I would tune out all the time, but I didn’t have a smartphone, so I would just leave or draw band logos. In undergrad, I would tune out all the time, but I didn’t have a smartphone, so I doodled or wrote song lyrics in the margins of my notebook. Even in grad school, i would frequently just straight disassociate my way through lectures when I ran out of attention span (so every 5 minutes or so).

There’s tons of pedagogy and andragogy research that shows that humans in general only focus for 10-15 minutes at a time (and it’s even shorter for teens and males in their early 20’s), and that’s remarkably consistent across generations. I don’t think people actually have shorter attention spans; they just have an easy way to mindlessly fill that void that is harder to come back from without an interruption. Frankly, my students from Gen X all the way to Gen Alpha students do pretty good at paying attention, but even my best students still zone out every few minutes, and that’s fine. It’s just human nature and the limitations of the way our brains are structured.

or “water closet” in the UK

Like any decent Lovecraftian work, it looks like a big ol’ bag of NOPE.

Conan is public domain in the UK, although I doubt that was the case when Hero Quest was first released

The original Conan stories will be public domain in the US in 2027, I think

Bolt Thrower is ok, but I prefer the true Caveman Battle Doom

It wasn’t Pantera themselves that made me suspicious at first, but their most fervent fans always seemed far too invested in the Confederate flag to make me feel comfortable

The burden of good taste is always knowing that nobody you met will ever know what the fuck you’re talking about when it comes to music.

tell me more…

I’m an AI/comp-sci novice, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but does running the program locally allow you to better control the information that it trains on? I’m a college chemistry instructor that has to write lots of curriculum, assingments and lab protocols; if I ran deepseeks locally and fed it all my chemistry textbooks and previous syllabi and assignments, would I get better results when asking it to write a lab procedure? And could I then train it to cite specific sources when it does so?

I thought for sure this was an Onion article

I’m not saying that just because someone says you’re gay, you can’t correct them without being homophobic. I’m saying that the people that people that go out of their way to make sure everyone knows they’re not gay, who get offended at the idea of being mistaken for gay are acting homophobic.

I grew up in approximately the same era as you in a very conservative area, and yeah, there was a lot of homophobic behavior and slurs. But if someone asked if I was gay in this day and age, I think anything more than a quick correction is over-reacting.

But hey, that’s just my opinion; you’re welcome to yours. Have a good day friend!

And if they work that hard to make sure everyone knows they’re not gay, then bonus! You also found out that they’re homophobic.

I don’t know; Vance is even slimier and has more devout and regressive religious beliefs, so Trump dying actually might make things worse (as satisfying as it might be)

Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Eric Church, Kacey Musgraves, Miranda Lambert, River (fka Sarah) Shook…

Edit: Brandi Carlisle, Margo Price, Trampled by Turtles, Sierra Ferrell, Molly Tuttle, Old Crow Medicine Show…