insickness (u/insickness)

insickness commented on Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean phys.org/news/2024-08-din... · Posted by u/geox

MisterTea · a year ago

Simple rebuttle: the devil put those foot prints there to test their faith.

insickness · a year ago

I subscribe to Bertrand Russell's hypothesis that the earth was created five minutes ago. Events that you remember do not necessarily have to have happened; memories were put in our minds. Impossible to prove wrong.

insickness commented on Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern hallofshame.design/ryanai... · Posted by u/popcalc

dabeeeenster · a year ago

I can never understand why people pay for Priority boarding! Would you rather stand on a runway/in a gangway tunnel/sit in a plane seat as opposed to sitting in an airport waiting lounge? It absolutely blows my mind.

Most people with priority boarding also queue, standing, at the desk the moment they get to the boarding gate. WHY?! You have a seat already?!

insickness · a year ago

The only reason I do it is because if you get on the plane last, there may not be any room for your bag in the overhead compartment near you.

insickness commented on Ask HN: Am I dead meat already? · Posted by u/tHrOwAwAyXQWE

insickness · a year ago

Based on the grammar and spelling mistakes in your post, I suspect that your written communication skills might be holding you back. It's quite easy to paste those paragraphs into ChatGPT and say "rewrite this." It will provide you with a clear and error-free version. I recommend doing this for every email you send. It can significantly increase the respect you receive from both your current coworkers and potential employers. Even though I have good grammar, I still use it for half the emails I send to see if they can be improved.

insickness commented on US has the highest rate of maternal deaths among rich nations. Norway has zero cnn.com/2024/06/04/health... · Posted by u/hilux

sshine · a year ago

> ... murder by a spouse ... is not what “maternal death rate” typically measures

That is a good example.

While perhaps unrelated to pregnancies, it is incidentally another difference between US and Norway.

insickness · a year ago

You can't say that from these statistics if the statistic in Norway does not include murder by spouse.

insickness commented on Covid Subcommittee Releases Dr. Fauci's Transcript, Highlights Key Takeaways oversight.house.gov/relea... · Posted by u/Jimmc414

veidr · a year ago

You are. When there's an active pandemic killing thousands (would become a million, just in this (outlier bad at responding to it) country), "science" doesn't require having a peer-reviewed ten-year old study that has been published in Nature and survived challenges.

In such circumstances, just being familiar with the latest related science, and the fundamental concept of science, qualifies you to take your best (informed) guess. Making kids wear masks made sense in absence of data that showed it wasn't effective, because it's been so effective with other, similarly airborne-transmissible diseases.

> The “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation forced on Americans by federal health officials was arbitrary and not based on science.

Again, "we could wait to conduct studies whether 4 feet is good enough, or 9 feet is required; or we could take our best shot since thousands of people are dying each day", and base our decisions on scientific data previously collected, in extremely similar pandemic/transmissible-disease contexts, even if it might imperfectly match the present scenario.

insickness · a year ago

This is a slippery slope. These policies had a vast affect on the lives of millions of people. Business were shut down. Schools were closed. People were instructed to stay in their homes for years. Simply saying, "Well, we made our best guess," is absolutely not acceptable. When the government curbs human rights, they have an obligation to weigh and justify the costs with scientific evidence.

insickness commented on After Furiosa flops, Hollywood could be facing a biblically disastrous summer bbc.com/culture/article/2... · Posted by u/UUjiasuqi

ameister14 · a year ago

There are a lot of reasons for this, but for me, a big thing is how absurdly long movies are now. I look at movies and at this point will reject some that just feel like they will take too much time.

I saw Furiosa, it was fine, but it was about a half an hour longer than it should have been.

It's 148 minutes long. For comparison, Mad Max was 93 minutes long, The Road Warrior was 96 minutes long, Beyond Thunderdome was 107 minutes long, and Fury Road was 120 minutes long.

insickness · a year ago

That's why I didn't see Dune 2 in the theaters. No way I can sit for three hours straight. It's just not fun after two hours.

insickness commented on AI Ruined Quora jonn.substack.com/p/how-a... · Posted by u/orcul

insickness · a year ago

> Fully automated luxury mansplaining

It's surprising to see gendered, pejorative language thrown around in an article that has nothing to do with gender.

insickness commented on Man who mass-extorted psychotherapy patients gets six years krebsonsecurity.com/2024/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

mocha_nate · a year ago

“After his attempt to extort the company failed, he emailed patients directly, threatening to reveal what they had told their therapists. At least one suicide has been linked to the case, which has shocked the country.“

—black mirror type stuff

insickness · a year ago

6 years is not enough jail time for this.

insickness commented on Chechnya bans music outside the range of 80-116 beats per minute smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

kelnos · a year ago

That's also incredibly dumb, but at least they attempted to criminalize the actual activity they found objectionable. That's at least a rational way to write the law.

This BPM law is a complete joke, though, through and through. It won't actually accomplish what they (supposedly) want, and will just cause trouble for people.

And to be completely fair, my own country is/was dumb too: in the 1920s many places in the US tried to ban jazz music, and I believe they used tempo as part of the regulations. I don't know if there were ever any laws around it, but rock'n'roll also experienced backlash from establishment types.

insickness · a year ago

New York City had laws on the books until 2017 banning dancing in bars that don't have a "caberet license." I remember going out to bars and seeing signs on the wall that said "No dancing." We thought it was a joke until they came up to us and told us to stop dancing. Places could get hefty fines. It took a big activist push to get the law repealed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Cabaret_Law

insickness commented on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites arstechnica.com/civis/thr... · Posted by u/duringmath

bluecalm · a year ago

I kinda wish they get what they wish for and pirating movies becomes impossible. I think modern Hollywood movies are somewhere between poison for your brain and propaganda. The world is going to be a bit better if people stop spending time watching them.

I also think they are cutting the branch they are sitting on. If kids and young adults lose access to piracy they will develop other interest and won't spend money on movies once they have disposable income.

One way or another I support them. It's a win-win if their wish is granted.

insickness · a year ago

> If kids and young adults lose access to piracy they will develop other interest

Entertainment is a lot more fungible than these companies realize. Pour cold water on movies and people will watch TV. Dampen that and people will play video games. Make me hate Reddit and I'll go to youtube. Start forcing ads on youtube and I'll go to instagram. etc.