The Pitters' Place

Anakin McFly

What happened to this thread? covfefe so it's possible in principle for the informational aspect of pain to be conserved while eliminating the subjective aspects. I agree this works for the examples you mention, but not for others - like avoiding an accident. Your brain can't cause you to jerk away...

Anakin McFly

lol yeah you don't want to see that. she included close-up photos of the toilet bowl, and along the way I stopped looking. wtf is wrong with this person. I've reported her to Gmail (for violating their terms of service), the Hawaiian police (so someone can check in on her and find her a much-needed ...

Anakin McFly

This is because hedonic adaptation is a specific thing physical parts of the brain do which electrical stimulation of that sort can override. Oh, ok. That's interesting. Usually suffering just happens for no reason and for no benefit. I agree, hence not talking about specific instances of suffering...

Anakin McFly

oh man she just spammed me with extremely obscene photos of her butt and naked body slathered in shit. :( :( :( :( :(

it's nauseating and now I want to completely destroy her.

Anakin McFly

The pleasure a person gets from a drink after days of thirst is qualitatively more than one would get otherwise I doubt it's just qualitative, since it possibly results in a greater release of endorphins and other happy chemicals that can be quantitatively measured. There's also how certain things ...

Anakin McFly

I noticed there wasn't a thread yet. [none] on one hand I completely empathise with the woman's account and found it horrific. I think most people (straight cis men especially) are woefully underestimating how difficult it can be to say no, especially if the other person is stronger and/or more powe...

Anakin McFly

I agree, though as a philosophy itself it's very depressing. I find that the way it (or David Benatar) defines suffering and pleasure is too simplistic and mathematical, and doesn't account for things like how suffering can sometimes amplify pleasure or create it where previously there was none - e....

Anakin McFly

I went to r/antinatalism and believe that its existence is contributing to the net suffering of the world. Just a few minutes on there and the depression is creeping back in along with the existential dread I try very hard to get rid of. Are antinatalists depressed because of antinatalism, or are th...

Anakin McFly

tbh my one reservation about lab-grown meats is that it's almost inevitable that some lab, somewhere, is going to start producing human meat and that gives me a lot of existential horror at how we are all food, everybody is potential food, everything alive on this planet is food

Anakin McFly

Those aren't liberals though; those sort of people usually hate liberals, but they're often conflated with liberals anyway, so your statement was true in that sense.

Anakin McFly

This was an educational thread on why it's been feeling colder than it should, some of which I figured was the case: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/7qa468/the_reason_why_it_feels_so_cold_even_if_its_just/?st=JCEH7USW&sh=069066cd - we are a very windy country, so there's a lot of win...

Anakin McFly

From the programmer's blog: (spoiler tags in case you'd rather keep the mystery intact) 'Mjeyds'. On the imdb board bbcode syntax, there's a particular smiley that you markup using this bizarre word. People occasionally ask what the term means, and I've always enjoyed the mystery, being one of very ...

Anakin McFly

D: On the flip side, I was chilling with another Singaporean friend in NYC during a heatwave and the news was going on about how people were being hospitalised for heatstrokes. We thought it was nice cool weather and didn't get the fuss. Just looked this up in Wikipedia and found a study summarised ...

Anakin McFly

Anakin McFly

Temperatures have dipped to about 22-24C (72-75F) over the past few days, occasionally as low as 21, which is practically freezing. Naturally, people have been breaking out their winter clothes, scarves and all. Volunteers have been going out to distribute blankets to homeless people. Restaurants ar...

Anakin McFly

I prefer what these people are doing: http://www.perfectdayfoods.com/ - it's actual cow's milk, but produced in a lab without the cows. Other startups have been working on culturing leather and other animal products, so it's a fascinating field that will hopefully one day help to meet demand and pos...

Anakin McFly

oh no you didn't. [none] From what I gather, it's possible that he knows someone in her family - which is entirely possible, since he has a huge extended family in Hawaii and she lives in Hawaii. She mentioning him coming by her house when she was 5, and a couple more times when she was older. But t...

Anakin McFly

So this is becoming far bigger than I would have thought. After a tearful rant she sent an email with her personal information and passwords, saying that it's mine and she did all this for me and she loves me etc. So, naturally, I went into her email account, since she was practically telling me to ...

Anakin McFly

idk, I haven't been keeping up with her. What's Oprah been up to lately, other than starting wars and global warming?

Anakin McFly

So this happened on my facebook feed: - a friend who's a woman of colour made an excited post about Oprah's Golden Globes speech and how it's so good to hear strong black female voices in the media - random dude: "Oprah may be a woman, but she is not a spokesperson for women. She is an elite ne...

Anakin McFly

...ok, that's weirder than cockroach milk.

Anakin McFly

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Anakin McFly

omg

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Anakin McFly

I've contacted Hawaiian social services with screenshots. Hopefully this will brighten their day.

Anakin McFly

Oh man, after I blocked her she signed up at my website and now I'm bracing myself for more spam. I could delete her account, but she could just make another one. I'm starting to think she has multiple personality disorder, because I found more threads of her talking to herself under different names...

Anakin McFly

No need to be sorry. :P It's provided a lot of entertainment in my workday. From what I gather (gmail sends blocked messages to spam), she's now triumphantly convinced that we're all Keanu and trying to deceive her with multiple email addresses and fake names, but she's got us now. On the one hand I...

Anakin McFly

gah she sent: "You lazy, slant eyed, gay for cock fucks. Try moderating your own boards. Figures that reeves would have a bunch of cock hungry ass jockeys working for him." and I was about to block her just for that, because I did nothing to deserve this from a complete stranger I've never...

Anakin McFly

She's definitely not phishing. I don't think she has the presence of mind to do that. Her thought processes are all over the place in a way that might be impossible to fake, and it's perversely fascinating.

If she spams me again tomorrow I'll block her.

Anakin McFly

Started with this email conversation between her and someone named Jeff, which she forwarded to me along with a bunch of other people who are not Jeff: http://i68.tinypic.com/a2ywxk.jpg and this, left in my website's guestbook: http://i63.tinypic.com/dhe0y8.jpg I told her I wasn't Jeff. http://i65.t...

Anakin McFly

Happy New Year!

Anakin McFly

Happy Holidays. (That's what we're meant to say isn't it?)...

I thought so, but yesterday I encountered an atheist on Twitter who was furiously ranting about how people no longer wished her Merry Christmas or implied that she didn't/shouldn't celebrate it, so I don't even know any more.

Anakin McFly

I just did my first reset with 137 kittens after 574 years. I was playing a lot more actively, though, and it's ruining my life. :P (If you haven't already, you can refresh the game to get a present box! It adds 10% happiness and carries over across resets. You can open it sometime around January, t...

Anakin McFly

I like the comments on that article.

Everworld was great. There was also the Remnants series by K.A. Applegate, which was darker than the other two.

Anakin McFly

Merry Christmas!

Anakin McFly

haha thanks. My initial response was to dismiss him, but he has a fairly high reputation in the natural health sphere, and my dad seems to read his site a lot - and he's far from dumb; he's got a masters degree and everything (though not in medicine). So I wasn't sure if he knew something I didn't (...

Anakin McFly

my parents keep sending me articles from there warning of the dangers of wi-fi and suchlike. I googled and apparently he's been subject to criticism from medical authorities and the FDA, which my dad says is only to be expected because his studies will potentially cause harm to big pharma and other ...

Anakin McFly

I liked it a lot. Definitely more than Rogue One, which I never quite got the hype for. and I love the porg collective.

Feeling lukewarm

I see what you did there.

Anakin McFly

844 years? D:
That's slightly terrifying. I've only been at it for 230.
(You can click on the 'Stats' tab to see how many hours you've played. I'm at 51 now.)

Anakin McFly

I've now been playing the kittens game for 30 hours.

I don't even know what I'm doing with my life. Though it's a good game to have running in the background when doing menial tasks at work.

Anakin McFly

i clicked on a link from there, and wtf. "As far as some of the more politically sensitive sections of the American ruling class are concerned, the current sexual misconduct scandals have two principal benefits. First, the purge of prominent figures in Hollywood, Washington and elsewhere on the...

Anakin McFly

This darn kitten game though. I feel like it might be too slow. It has a reset/prestige system, but after 2.5 days I'm still not far enough to use it to good effect. It has a lot going on though; and I still keep unlocking new modules. A few things are a little unclear as to how they work, and the ...

Anakin McFly

It's sulfur + steel to craft bullets.

The game also lets you make spears from teeth.

Anakin McFly

The thread title needs to be more descriptive. For a moment I thought he'd been accused of something.

Anakin McFly

Haha yeah, same here. I ended it too quick.
Sulfur lets you make bullets!

Anakin McFly

There's also the kittens game: http://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/

Anakin McFly

I'd heard about it before but never got down to playing it until this week. :D How many hours does it take to finish? I'm not sure - I think I took maybe 5 hours or so. It could be a lot shorter or a lot longer depending on how fast you reach certain objectives and which random events occur. Looks l...

Anakin McFly

it's awesome go play it

http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

best played without any spoilers. I finished it in a couple days, which was faster than expected.

Anakin McFly

lol

also when I saw his name my first thought was "isn't he a TERF"

Anakin McFly

Happy birthday, aels!!

Anakin McFly

D:

...pics or it didn't happen

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