Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Luke Smith" channel.

  1. Karl Popper most likely could not deadlift more than Plato, therefore he is wrong.
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  2. Luke Smith: "Windows sucks lmao" Windows users: "We know."
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  3. Luke told me she was from another school so we don't know her.
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  4. It's just how long it takes to upload on his rural internet connection.
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  5. Mail your DIY projects to people you don't like.
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  6.  @MrSlashStudios  the number of different CPUs is too bloated
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  7. I don't mind that a recipe database is monetized, the issue is that we went from static banner ads to collecting every single bit of personal information, a video starts playing automatically, etc
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  8. I fucking hate when I accidentally swipe too hard back to the top and the page starts refreshing on something like the youtube home page.
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  9.  @bibekgautam512  "But I certainly do listen to experts" - Which experts? Experts can have biases. Experts can be put under pressure. You mean you listened to a talking head on TV. But if you take the time to read the literature you'll see that cloth masks are only effective - about 60 percent - when made from multiple layers and multiple types of fabric to combine mechanical and electrostatic filtering, and nobody wears those because they're hot and restrict breathing. Surgical masks are disposable, and most people are reusing them. Surgical masks need to be replaced due to humidity, nobody's switching masks after wearing them for hours. Nobody's using masks like PPE, and incorrectly worn PPE gives the wearer a false sense of security. People are touching the masks. And most of all, the masks are meant to stop droplets when everyone's worrying about aerosol transmission. Any unsealed area will just allow aerosols to jet out of your mask. "And experts largely agree on the usefulness of the masks." - No, they don't. They told you they didn't work when this whole thing started. "And what you said about exhaling - that's such a slippery slope of an argument." - It's not a slippery slope. How is it a slippery slope when we've already seen people brutalized by state agents over masks? If you claim my breath is dangerous right now even though I am healthy, you have no moral standing to say your breath is no longer dangerous a year from now. There's no slippery slope, only consistency. Since we're criticizing fallacies, you might want to stop using arguments from authority and shut up about experts.
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  10. When I joined the internet it was pre-social media and I knew about RSS but never understood how to implement it. I'd like to know more about it too.
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  11. Not his quote, apparrently.
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  12.  @keveinkevin4422  you're missing the point, semiconductor fabs are billion-dollar facilities that require centralization. Buying from ebay doesn't negate the fact that there's only like 3-4 RAM OEMs and everything else is rebranded.
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  13. Because the "global pandemic" doesn't care that you're wearing an unsealed mask. It's not a preventive measure, it's a talisman and it "works" by making people feel safer. And also, when this pandemic stops, you and everyone else will not stop exhaling dangerous pathogens. So if we consider exhaling to be an aggression upon others that justify cops beating the shit out of you in public for refusing to wear a mask, you better not stop wearing it for the rest of your life.
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  14. So a fancy indexing system? I remember when Google worked and I could find any document I wanted.
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  15. People will flog me in the streets for saying this, but maybe if creating an account had a small monetary cost, normal people could easily access them but spammers would get pelted with massive operating costs.
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  16. "precision" in stamped sheet metal and routed wood lol Handmade stuff will literally have better fit and finish. It takes time while a machine does it in seconds. You can't outfit a whole IKEA store with your models but they'll probably better built. I have IKEA furniture. It's useful and practical, but fragile. If the back panel of my shoe drawers were any thinner, they'd be cardboard.
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  17.  @JK-pi6ji  in the old days people learned those things without formal academia, most of the population probably needs tutoring to understand the concepts and reading at the library isn't enough... but academia isn't entirely necessary to learn, it's only necessary to put it on a resume so you can tell an employer that you've learned
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  18. ​ @Oakette  the "there's an app for that" phenomenon ended, people just use the social media apps, the car ride app, the banking/sending money app, the supermarket loyalty card app, etc. Apps are basically just delivery mechanisms for functions which already existed in browsers and allow them to ask for all sorts of permissions so they can gather data. You no longer have a market where you can just throw money at app development and hope one succeeds like when smartphones were the new frontier.
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  19.  @NotOrdinaryInGames  "you would not survive without technology and knowledge" - but then we'd be extinct. "I did not know clothing and fire and stone tools and arrows weren't technology" - I don't know how to tell you this but most species on Earth do not use fire, stone tools or arrows. And they're alive. We've evolved from species that did not have those abilities and it's generally considered that the Homo Erectus was the first of our ancestors to harness fire and stone tools. Something had to come before them.
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  20.  @bibekgautam512  "wearing a mask - completely sealed or otherwise - will reduce the risk of you getting exposed" - But the issue is being presented as the mask protecting not you, but others. If you don't wear the mask you're killing grandma. It's nobody's business if I'm exposing myself or not, so the issue has been switched around to make me responsible for exposing others even if they're wearing a mask. "whether government should make masks mandatory(which I sense that you're trying to argue about) is a different discussion altogether" - It isn't because if the "preventive" measures are not enforceable under law, there's no humiliation going on. "I'm not from the US" - Me neither. "But humiliation wouldn't be at the top of things I'd feel at such a scenario." - I mean, considering that the worst has passed and a massive amount of deaths happened because of sheer incompetence (or malice, if you want to wear the tin foil hat) allowing the virus to spread to nursing homes and killing tens of thousands of elderly per country, I do sit back and look at how governments shut down the economy, destroyed businesses and jobs and now we have to wear silly shit on our faces for god knows how long over something that was entirely avoidable but also not as serious as advertised. So I start to worry about shit that's gonna affect me more than the coof. Such as the move to cashless.
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  21.  @James-lg1mh  Okay. Then most people don't have the opportunity to be independent because they don't want to save money for a few years living with their parents. Seems like it's their problem and it's not Luke or Sam who are at fault. This is a perfect example of how on the internet we constantly talk past each other, yeah nothing you're saying is incorrect but you're talking about not wanting to live at home when the topic is not being able to save money.
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  22. The answer is being more efficient in space usage, not compressing one's life to a tiny house.
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  23. Everything is destined to fail if you don't give us a reasonable timeline. Thanks Marx, without you I'd think things can last for ever.
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  24.  @verbosed  "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"
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  25. No amount of buried reasons would justify a chain of subcontractors ending up with a person driving hundreds of miles to move a computer from one room to another. By involving so many companies the opportunity to steal secrets actually increased.
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  26. There's a Two Generals Problem joke hidden there.
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  27.  @jonathanolson772  No, it isn't relevant. You're arguing why certain cryptos aren't valuable, which isn't the point. The point is that creating an infinite number of altcoins does NOT negate scarcity. I'm only talking about ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES. I can't figure out what's worse, the fact that you're not reading or the fact that people are updooting the comments of someone who barged in a discussion and started mouthing off about unrelated topics.
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  28. The real big brained take is that we introverts should create our own compound rural community.
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  29.  @yoshikhurazi1769  Okay, you're not entirely incorrect, the issue is that we've focused on asymptomatic spread (which in general makes sense, because you can quarantine the visibly sick) and the mechanism for asymptomatic spread bypasses the masks entirely. On the general public and masks, surgical masks are good, even homemade cloth masks are good and in some studies have outperformed surgical masks. N95 masks are generally the best performers but also the least practical. The issue is, surgical and cloth masks stop droplets. Against aerosolized viral particles, they do nothing. Even the cloth mask studies that found that multilayer, multimaterial cloth masks were performing acceptably against aerosols did the testing by wrapping the cloth sample over a tube and warned that their methodology doesn't measure the effectiveness of a real mask with unsealed surfaces. The issue isn't the general public and the masks they wear, it's the fact that we're so focused on asymptomatic spread that we're essentially declaring normal animal exhaling to be a biological hazard. The "credible" people are just telling people to wash their hands and wear a mask. Don't say what constitutes a mask and you don't lose your credibility.
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  30.  @Bagginsess  Uh, not really. When going deep into CS a ton of mechanics that stuck around due to old school FPS engine tradition/deliberate balancing are completely abstracted from the real world. Maybe through making custom maps and running scenarios to teach people you could use it as a teaching aid, but the actual gameplay is pretty specific to CS. Now I can't stop thinking about the guy who got sick of the military simulator they used in training and started shooting at his squadmates, ended up facing actual charges for disturbing the exercise with virtual friendly fire.
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  31.  @moltonlava  I'm an "EsSeNtIaL". I'm not putting my life on the line. I get exposed to hundreds of people per day, and so are my coworkers. None of us died. What conspiracy theories? Italy's health minister or whatever the position is called said the same thing. Yeah a lot of people died in Italy but many had 2-3 co-morbidities. Trust the experts until they disagree with me, then they're conspiritards.
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  32.  @milesrout  I wouldn't trust New Zealand with my future because it seems to be going the nanny state route and it's the billionaires' backup plan.
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  33. Based and Ea-nasir-pilled.
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  34.  @egg5474  Holy crap dude. Who said anything about monero or glowies? All I said was that creating an infinite number of altcoins DOES. NOT. NEGATE. SCARCITY. Do you think that creating cheemzcoin will cause bitcoin to crash? If your answer is yes then present your case, if no you agree with me already.
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  35.  @yt-xe8ws  It's pretty fucking funny that every time someone explains how real life works your type of people always defaults to "hurr you're defending capitalism" as if that was some kind of insightful thought. You and everyone else had the opportunity to take all this shit that you're outraged that is being monetized and do it for free, but you people prefer to complain than actually doing something meaningful. Based Luke Smith simply creates the site, you sit here and complain. This is further proof that people who can transcend the left-right paradigm are driven enough to subvert the system, meanwhile low status people stick to their dogmatic ideologies hoping they catch on and ride the wave.
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  36. "doing well" - just ignore the forced relocations for the purpose of ethnic cleansing, genocide, political repression, etc.
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  37. Bad faith interpretation.
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  38. "actually thinking extensively is not a requirement to playing LOL or CS etc." - couldn't give less of a shit about LOL but if you're playing CS like you mean it there's an economic metagame running underneath the surface. You can throw spoiler rounds where your team's objective is getting the enemy team to spend their resources on valuable weapons while your team saves their money, and instead of strictly trying to win the round your team can just try to cause as many casualties as possible to the enemy so that they lose their weapons.
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  39. Wikipedia isn't even a "source". It links to sources.
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  40.  @russellzauner  Even in a city filled with an impossibly high rate of "good people" you can't do your own thing without stepping on others' toes. If it's the people and not the location, pick a location with less people. Also, Chernobyl is pretty alive.
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  41. I mean, most fraud would be just elderly people dying and the family keeping it a secret. There's ways of detecting the fraud such as having a QR code on the check and requiring photo ID to make the deposit, even locking the check to the account of the recipient. It would discourage serial killers, not the "my grandma is sick at home" relatives who could deposit in her account and use her debit cards.
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  42. 12:34 Nvidia releases RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards to the public, 2018 (colorized)
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  43.  @will.davlin  And those parents are kinda missing the point. There's a difference between not wanting to raise a deadbeat and the "out of the house when they get to X years" meme.
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  44.  @person800  he took the Juchepill
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  45.  @StarEclipse506  "right wing internet dwellers use it to describe people who unapologetically espouse right wing views" - maybe because you're only used to reading right wing internet interaction but literally anything can be called "based" for going against the norm. For example when someone writes a completely incomprehensible mess people respond with "based strokeposter" or when people go off on insane tangents people reply with a "based schizoposter". There's also the "based and X-pilled" reply, where X can be substituted for anything.
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  46. It doesn't hinge on any assumption. I had this account permanently deleted for "hate speech" and I managed to appeal. I have a pretty good idea of what caused it and someone got butthurt over a joke. Now when engaging with someone I have to think "can I be my normal self and trash talk a bit or I have to handle this with kid gloves?" or else there go my playlists, etc. I can think. I don't care if I get downvoted (apparently downvoting doesn't even do anything anymore on YT comments). But my behavior has already been altered because I'm forced to play by a set of rules that first get interpreted by a bot, then some moderator farm in a developing country, and I have to worry if what I say can be misinterpreted as something that goes against the rules by these systems all because someone got salty and decided to report me. "I don't think there's anything insidious going on on the fountain pens subreddit, for example." - But there is. Not in a way that matters, but there is. A community can rally behind one fountain pen and call everyone who disagrees an heretic. It hardly influences the world at large but if you had a bad experience with Company X and think Company Y is better, you're fighting an uphill battle.
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  47.  @tkmonson  "Your personal experience does not match everyone else's experience." - What does that even mean? Yeah, I had a personal experience with my ban, but even the people who burn through multiple accounts on twitter or whatever and don't care end up changing some of their behavior so they can last longer and engage more people. I'm not just interjecting some specific anecdote, this is almost universal. I was part of the Deterrence Dispensed subreddit and the nuking of that place had repercussions on other subreddits, which now take care to not do the same things that allowed Reddit to come up with a BS excuse to nuke the place. It's a shock collar and punishment discourages certain behaviors. "Yes, they CAN do that, but they don't." - But they do. I've seen this happen on communities about anything. You enter a subreddit, try to explain why someone's wrong, instantly banned. Or if they're nicer, you get downvoted to hell. "All human groups have the potential for good or bad." - Whoa, tremendous piece of information. Sure, groups can be good or bad. That's not the point at all. The problem is when you create these levers that drop treats and shock collars that punish, and condition people to the point that dissent is seen as an assault on the place that needs to be dealt with. In traditional social situations people can have simple disagreements and still be polite towards one another and if you're in a group you can always talk things over. I'll say it, we're not meeting each other on neutral ground. People reading this thread are probably more likely to agree with me than you. The thing is, this is YouTube so nobody gives a shit, I could get 50 likes and that wouldn't affect you at all. But if we had an argument on reddit in my home turf you could get ganged up on and lose a ton of karma for every post. You can say "I'm smarter than this, the numbers don't affect me" but if you then want to post on a subreddit that requires a minimum karma to post, you'll either have to farm it (probably just post Trump's face and text saying "Blonald Drumpf is the worst!") or create a new account. And you'll be more careful with your disagreements with that account. Right there your behavior is already being manipulated to fall in line, even if you consciously recognize you're walking on eggshells and that account isn't the real you.
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  48.  @tkmonson  "move on and do something else" - Where do you think you are? "go look for a place where you can be yourself." - You find a place and that place is denied hosting. You find a new host and now that host is threatened by payment processors. Want a place? Step one is creating your own bank. "you are ultimately the one choosing to do it" - Again, that's the rationalization part. Humans are really good at it. It doesn't matter what your choice is. You were forced to make one, when you shouldn't have to. That choice already took control away from you. "they are only forcing you to change your behavior on that platform or subreddit" - So? You're not able to disseminate your ideas or disagreements. Just by forcing you to wear a mask, the social control aspect already won because now you can't propagate dissent by convincing others with your arguments. "Treats only control you if you eat them uncontrollably" - This is cope. The treats in this case control what people see. "Shock collars only work if you put them on. " - The only way to not put them on is to abandon social media. Congratulations, you've arrived at the same conclusion we did except through the most roundabout way.
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  49. Is he an alcohol-enjoyer while driving too?
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  50. Endless shitcoins are not an issue because whenever there is no demand for alternatives nobody has an incentive to accept them as form of payment.
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