In my experience people get really weird and defensive when they feel guilty about the masking stuff, so while it's for the wrong reasons, using mostly positive motivation instead is still good advice. Usually. Sometimes you get assholes ofc and they need to know it
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oh wow that's fun
real though, why couldn't it have been outdoor cats?
This is just incorrect, read theory
https://www.essentiafoundation.org/the-fantasy-behind-sabine-hossenfelders-superdeterminism/reading/
that's not what I read at all. Physical "determinism" is something I actually believe in and it's entirely different from the idea that the universe itself "knows" what's going to happen. Regular physical determinism can't explain faster than light information sharing in quantum physics- Regular physical determinism would assume that the "normal" physical laws interacting is what would predetermine anything, which can't explain faster than light interaction without some extra part. Superdeterminism seeks to be the belief that either the universe intrinsically "decides" everything that will happen before it does, or has some sort of weird invisible law dictating it, separate and superceding from the laws of physics that we know, including quantum physics. Hence the "super". All you described was normal determinism (which is still fucked over by quantum physics even if superdeterminism is real because it just doesn't make sense for anyone to be able to physically understand how superdeterminism works. What would happen if we did? We would act on information about what we find out happens but we would be super-determined by the universe to do that but we would be able to see that because we figured it out so we would act on the fact that the universe decided we would act on it but that would be decided by the universe too so we would see that because... which is different from normal physical determinism because each realization is arguably explainable by physical processes and isn't pre-determined, just inevitable due to physics.)
Some Redditor:
Superdeterminism is dismissed because it is not a "useful" theory. It can't be falsified, but in a superdeterministic universe falsification itself would not be real. The fundamental process of science would not be "real" in any meaningful way. In a superdeterministic universe, the outcomes of experiments no longer reveal anything about any underlying laws - because those outcomes can be scripted. Statistics as a science ceases to work, since statistics is heavily reliant on concepts of probability and independent variables.
In other words super determinism seems to be the belief that the laws of physics themselves are an illusion, and rather than things being the result of other things, we simply perceive them as such because some sort of hidden, probably unknowable internal mechanism predetermined both in advance. So you don't test something and get a result because the laws of physics would determine it, you test something which was predetermined by the universe and get a result which was predetermined by the universe but neither are intrinsically related in any way other than the fact that they have illusion they are due to the spacing in time.
Some Redditor:
In superdeterminism the entire[ty of a] home run event is preencoded in the ball and again in the guy. There is a variable in the ball that says “at time x, you will change direction and fly over the fence”. There is a variable in the guy that says “at time x, you will swing the bat at this angle”. Momentum and velocity are not why the ball flies. This is a well crafted illusion by the universe in superdeterminism. The ball flies for unknowable reasons that strangely approximate the appearance of our laws of physics.
the only way free will is relevant to debate or things like this are relevant to debate is if it's the kind that has a puppet master making us do stuff AND it's possible for us to kill them
we literally have to pull back our production amount. I am not saying this because I'm a hippie, I'm saying it because I'm a Marxist and a literal defining feature of capital is its tendency towards creating exponential and endless industrial growth. Said growth has to be pulled back eventually because otherwise it sucks. I don't have a problem with people enjoying things or having luxury- Quite the opposite in fact. I just think capitalism is incapable of doing it sustainably and a TRANSITIONAL SOCIALIST ECONOMY THAT INVENTS SUSTAINABLY SOURCES FOR THE SAME LUXURY is necessary for humanity to survive ,
let me guess. he rips on veganism too? I wouldn't be surprised, what an unserious fool
our ability to calculate that statistic is a product of the same neuroses that makes our unstoppable drive to consume the entire earth continue forward forever
no and this take is fucking insane. it's because we have an elder god of capital urging us towards collective suicide under threat of mass starvation is what's causing us to consume the earth. counting extinct insects is literally directly disincentivized by our current economic structure for the exact same fucking reason that structure is destroying everything with reckless abandon. hence why this useless fucking article disapproving of the practice was written. read theory or shut up (the unabomber's shitty ass manifesto doesn't count nor does Zerzan "the disabled dying is just how it has to be" PrimitivistMan)
many people spent millennia having access to rational thought without committing genocide, fix your angloid brain, murder isn't equivalent to "progress"
this is irrelevant though, the context is the survival of the human race and it's foreseeable future, not the theoretical animals that could emerge from the post-nuclear ashes millions of years in the future
but isn't blaming oil companies for misinformation a far less strong accusation if you preface it by saying that publicly available information just doesn't matter in this case?
thanks this is the silliest thing I've seen passed for science in recent memory
This specific theory would be irrelevant materially too, correct? Because you wouldn't be able to detect what the universe "knows" without woo woo magic. In fact wouldn't the end result just be some sort of other explanation but with "works due to natural laws" replaced with "a physics wizard did it"?
What(?? I don't even know this lady, wtf is super determinism too. Does she think that there's a god deciding our decisions? Because I don't think you can get more deterministic than our thoughts being defined by our experiences, unless you just start making stuff up or genuinely believe in the supernatural
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Fuck this show. Yeah, it is technically enjoyable, the production's competent, the writing's coherent, and all the IP loyalist signifiers are there. And if you need someone to complain about how some aspect of those things fell short, you can find that anywhere on Reddit or YouTube movie "criticism" channels.
Yes, this show has somehow managed to avoid the curse of incompetent production that some magic user cast on live action adaptations. Unfortunately the result is something way more horrific than any mess of mangled CGI you can laugh at with friends on a lazy afternoon. It is instead the eerily perfect, hollow shell of the original series possessed by the utter death drive of capitalism. Unlike other series, who often don't even have enough depth in the original for this to happen to them, The live action ATLA was somehow killed on a level far deeper than shitty production value or low sales. One could argue that it was killed the moment the merch factories started churning years ago, but that's out of the scope of this post.
To watch the live action ATLA is to literally witness the recuperation of actual writing and art. The ever-present, disgustingly rare in American television, criticism of imperialism is faded to only the remnants they were forced to leave in due to the skeleton of the plot, instead portraying those who suffer from the war, yet still want to take action, as jaded bullies and cowards. Jet's portrayal is somehow made a MORE liberal and inaccurate depiction of revolutionaries than the original show's. Instead of being a genuine rebel simply going "too far", a portrayal that would unfortunately be an improvement now, he is a random terrorist who kills innocent people in the in his city he lives in because he dislikes the people who are trying to invade it and don't yet. live. there???????? Because he thinks King Bumi isn't doing enough????????? So he randomly bombs people??????????? 
. I think they were trying to make Jet and Bumi mirror the "Bernie-bro radical left" and Joe Biden IRL, basically trying to both sides things, but if that's the case than it's even worse because America is the country????? Doing the imperializing???????? Not the one BEING imperialized??? 
That is, unfortunately, the most mild affront of this adaptation, granted mercy only by the utterly shit, "I hate violinists so I'll make a violinist kill people" tier depiction of the original character they adapted. There are far worse crimes in this adaptation, and I wish they were just failures to adapt the plot or the characters.
The show's minimum, bare bones criticism of toxic masculinity and misogyny has been completely removed and stripped away, entirely deleting Sokka (now Sokkka)'s character arc from the show. Of course, the damage to the characters doesn't really matter that much in comparison to the whitewashing and erasure of even the most basic fucking critique of oppressive systems. Unfortunately it doesn't even stop at the removal of political criticism; The entire philosophical breadth of the show has been flattened and reduced to basic tropes. Aang's commitment to life and an uncompromising belief in freedom has been obliterated, and not even the shadow of it remains. Aang is no longer a child grappling with immense obligations, but instead a child who simply went on a ten-minute joyride to clear his head and then had his whole world taken away from him. Rather than grappling with the show's nuanced themes of adulthood, responsibility, freedom, and childishness, they opt instead to have Aang be scolded by every adult he meets about his lack of responsibility, with a complete dearth of pushback (minus a single "power of friendship" moment against Bumi, who is now a cynical old boomer), even from Aang himself, even though he DIDN'T EVEN RUN AWAY IN THIS ADAPTATION!!!!!! 
WHAT AM I EVEN SUPPOSED TO TAKE FROM THIS??? ???
Any themes or interrogations of redemption, grief, and loss are killed along with Uncle Iroh's empathy. While, ironically, we have an entire scene where Uncle Iroh the smol bean war criminal is BUWWIED by an MEANIE soldiew who's angwy JUST because his city suffewed a dwaught because of Iroh 🥺. Iroh taunts him and lords over him as being morally superior (despite being a FUCKING WAR CRIMINAL), and it is unfortunately very obvious that we are supposed to sympathize with Iroh in this scene, and view the soldier as unreasonable. Turning a character who is meant to represent someone who realized the horror of war and imperialism only after their own son was lost in combat, to a war criminal who we are meant to forgive even though he isn't sorry, because he doesn't do the war crimes anymore I guess??????
deeply unserious show. Live action shit sucks anyway
I'm also fairly sure it didn't even pass the fucking Bechdel test.
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I think it's exactly what I said, then. Shame is a strong social motivator but not a good personal motivator. I think that's because social shame stands in the way of being seen as cool and good by people around you, which turns it into sort of a positive motivator by making friendship and social interaction necessitate self-moderation of the thing shame is being used to moderate.