Making a meta post today because oh my god this line is so emblematic of how hilariously awful this film’s writing is, and I need to point it out to other people.

Until they do that, their PM shouldn’t be getting up in front of cameras and crying like a whiny little removed about how a video game portrays their history.

Apologize for Nanjing and maybe there’s a snowball’s chance in hell you have a leg to stand on.

Edit: he said “It is an insult to the nation.” It’s a nation which is broadly too cowardly to recognize and apologize for the senseless and solely perpetrated murders of hundreds of thousands and rapes of tens of thousands. Your nation’s government has no honor for this, and no microscopic “insult” in a game can sink you lower.

Another brain drained. Thanks, fascists.

To be sure, I agree with your interpretation of your first point. I was establishing that as part of a pattern rather than an end-all “you can’t do science without a degree in that field”, especially since applied CS is monumentally important to every field. It’s that lack of formal education in cosmology combined with a pattern of only citing oneself for support of one’s arguments combined with this being a long-held and broadly successful assumption combined with numerous cosmologists using a variety of methodologies which they think are acceptable combined with no cosmologists choosing to use his algorithm combined with ostensibly using his time with The Independent talking almost exclusively about deep cosmological implications.*

* This last one could be The Independent’s fault; it’s technically possible Shamir talked their ear off about CS stuff and methodology and previous attempts and what he wants to do going forward but The Independent only ran with the juicy sfuff.

Inbred Marty McFly on the left there.

Dude, after reading the paper from start to finish, this whole thing seems off.

• The guy’s an associate professor of computer science and has no degree in cosmology, but he’s talking about cosmological implications of these findings.
• Every single paper cited supporting his argument was written by himself (in exactly one case, it was written by himself and a coauthor). In total, Shamir cites himself 106 130 times.
• Numerous other papers by numerous other authors (some mentioned by this paper in attempted rebuttals) using a variety of methodologies find this not to be the case.
• It violates the cosmological principle used by major and highly successful models of the universe.
• The way he performed this analysis was an algorithm which he wrote. When he cites papers that have used this algorithm, he only cites himself, indicating no other academic in the world has thought this algorithm is seriously useful for this application.
• When speaking to The Independent (which is of really middling quality), instead of speaking about the data itself and how he arrived at it, he (again with no formal background in cosmology) starts talking about the most clickbaity possible implications of this data.

It’s totally possible Shamir is right and that there really is a massive bias. That would be extremely cool. However, he’s published numerous papers on this over the last decade yet still seems to be the only one who agrees with it. Which to me is highly unusual.

They said less beer, not less alcohol

So I gave you an article showing that cannabis legalization also corresponds with a decrease in alcohol in general, not just beer.

Buddy, I KNOW.

You’re strawmanning what I’m saying as “all drugs are bad except weed, which is a gift from God”, so I gave you something more concrete (health information) that you can’t strawman to fuck and back. That’s why I linked to both articles. Hope this accommodation to your illiteracy helps. :)

Dude, I don’t use cannabis or alcohol. I have no personal stake in this game. I care about this solely from a public health perspective and acknowledge that 1) cannabis is substantially less unhealthy than alcohol and 2) cannabis legalization correlates with a decrease in alcohol sales. I don’t care how long you’ve been alive; being alive longer isn’t an argument, so quit being condescending and piss off.

Damn, not as many people pouring literal poison down their throats now that weed’s legal for most people, huh? Something something world’s smallest violin. Fuck you, alcohol industry.

Or you know… it just means no updates and we’ll all probably be fine.

Dude, I would be hesitant to use an OS more than a month after EOL. I hope you realize that your OS no longer receiving security updates is a really, really, really bad thing. People staying on Win10 instead of upgrading to Linux or macOS or downgrading to Win11 is going to be zero day heaven.

Kyiv*

Why did the AI slop give the man in the water a puppy in his hand

The Dixie Chicks did 9/11.

I like my shitposts to run the gamut from as understandable and easy as possible to obscure shit 30 people will get.

I show them, I’ll record everything.

That’s a common urban legend. The studies following the participants and scanning their brains simply stopped once the patients turned 25. This got warped and bastardized into “the brain stops developing at 25”.

Looks like the spiritual advice was followed: Trump did, indeed, rape children.

Some crabs can swim.

Hey, OP, do you have any thoughts about putting your app on F-Droid?