arsCynic

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[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Definitely.

Also, I stand corrected: the "e.g." was preceded by a dot and capitalized, so my picks indeed seem silly haha. Those are two of my favourite artists so my choice was primed. 🙃

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

“The average person has one Fallopian tube.” ―Bo Burnham

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ah yes, "feasible full self-driving next year since 2012-something never-tells-a-lie"-Musk claims "AI, not tele-operated". Let's trust him implicitly.

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

While you made me laugh out loud, those belong to the "and…against our whole corrupt system" part of the sentence, not the "many artists do not have plenty of money".

Feel free to append the list ;)

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Buy merch from your favourite artists/bands instead and be vocal about taxing the rich. Also stop using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, et cetera. The EU Parliament has plenty of money, many artists do not, yet the latter have way more reach than wearing an EU t-shirt, and plenty of artists are vehemently against our whole corrupt system. E.g., Massive Attack, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, et cetera.

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

Who needs cocaine when you can watch Bækkel.

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

Oh lol To avoid any further ambiguity, Im criticizing your webpage.

You're a bad person aren't you.

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Vivaldi mail requires you to be an “active community member” in the Vivaldi community

Shit, didn't know. Thanks for pointing that out.

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 12 points 4 days ago (4 children)
[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I'm sorry you feel that way. To avoid ambiguity, I'm criticizing your argument, not you as a person.

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

What do you mean “skill against skill”?

Like your boxing example.
On lichess.org new accounts gets the average Elo rating from where they can work their way up or down. In sports one can simply go to a club and start off with the beginners or where they or a coach think they could manage and work their way up.

Another way of interpreting your comment is dismissing differences and simply making people all compete against each other. This would obviously exclude all women from most sports so you’d have to be a pretty committed misogynist to think that was preferable to gendered sports.

This wouldn't be misogynist but bullying because heavyweight men/women would beat up featherweight men/women too.

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's always there, but that doesn't mean one constantly hears it. I'm listening to music a lot, so then I don't hear it. When I skateboard or do any other sports I don't hear it, et cetera. Only when it's quiet I sometimes become aware of it, but because of habituation I usually unconsciously ignore it just as quickly. It does happen that sometimes in bed I keep focusing on it to the point it annoys me, but fortunately that's rare. Not being able to experience absolute silence in a forest anymore disappoints me though; c'est la vie.

That being said, I'm probably in the camp of people whose condition is mild. It must indeed be horrible for people whose tinnitus overpowers all other sounds.

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