snellickers t1_jah8gpd wrote on March 1, 2023 at 12:39 PM

Reply to comment by thegoldengoober in The imperfect translation between thoughts and language by LifeOfAPancake

Oh totally. It’s an amazing idea to put your consciousness in the hands of plutocrats like Elon Musk. I can’t think of any downsides to this.

snellickers t1_j9b66vy wrote on February 20, 2023 at 5:21 PM

Reply to TIL: While in office, President Jimmy Carter had to physically defend himself from a rabbit. by Forever_Overthinking

So yeah the rabbit thing has been some big supposed metaphor for Carter’s weakness or whatever for decades.

Meanwhile trump for example had endless humiliating episodes (toilet paper on shoe on AF1 ramp, umbrella on AF1 ramp, Jesus just AF1 ramp humiliations is its own trump subgenre) that somehow never added up to one fucking Jimmy Carter rabbit.

snellickers t1_j97hc4f wrote on February 19, 2023 at 9:06 PM

Reply to Climate change and the projected savannization of the Brazilian Amazon threaten most land-based mammals that live there, new research shows. The “savannization” here refers to when lush rainforest gives way to a drier, open landscape that resembles savanna but is actually degraded forest. by MistWeaver80

With the world’s population over 8 billion and still climbing, we have no chance at fixing this. Zero.

The decision not to take overpopulation seriously in the 1970s doomed us as much as anything.

Overpopulation is hopelessness.

snellickers t1_j7m31e6 wrote on February 7, 2023 at 8:01 PM

Reply to The often misused buzzword Paradigm originated in extremely popular and controversial philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn's work; he defined the term in two core ways: firstly as a disciplinary matrix (similar to the concept of a worldview) and secondly as an exemplar by thelivingphilosophy

Just as an aside, the ubiquity of the word trope, while not always misused, bugs the shit out of me. I still remember when it emerged in Village Voice movie reviews back in 2004 or so. Nails on chalkboard to me.

snellickers t1_j6p7tir wrote on January 31, 2023 at 10:37 PM

Reply to TIL the "Minnow" from Gilligan's Island was named after the then chairman of the FCC famous for his criticism of (among other things) formulaic TV comedies by karl2025

Related: I will still never forget the look of disgust on my dad’s face when he found me watching Gilligan’s Island before (elementary) school one day.

And he was right.

snellickers t1_ixsy5mt wrote on November 26, 2022 at 2:24 AM

Reply to For most Americans, housing was a key component in personal wealth accumulation. However, racist housing policies eroded black wealth in pre-WWII American cities. Black families paid a 28% premium to buy a home on a majority white block, after which their homes lost 10% of their value. by smurfyjenkins

Pre-2022ish, Reddit almost as a whole refused to acknowledge structural racism against Black people. Just absolutely refused to believe it existed, exists and will continue to exist.

It’s at least a step forward that the site mostly seems to realize it’s very real now.