Bless your heart. Go play quietly in your room, the adults are talking.

Have to get some shit done. I’ll read through later and respond.

You’re so close. So close. Brain in a box…

I’m not convinced you’re not doing some sort of elaborate troll as you prove my point so well.

If it is a troll, you’re a fucking master of your craft. You work so well against the things you claim to believe.

I get ERR_CONNECTION_RESET when I try to look at the site.

I don’t know that I completely agree. Science suggests that there is an objective reality, it is our percepttion that is not objective.

Perception is reality, Plato’s Cave and all that.

Humans are mostly driven by emotion and using logic to make decisions, even only at the personal level, is difficult and rare. Leaders, political and religious, use that emotional thinking to consistently short circuit logic and rationality. They drive emotional thinking in whichever direction to achieve their goals, usually at the expense of the people.

Personally, I’ve had ‘good’ results over the last few years deliberately divorcing emotion from the decision process and just looking at the facts as best I am able to understand. Watching everyone around us going nuts: friends and family into Qanon and MAGAtry, vaccine denial, etc. It’s been painfully educational.

Best I can tell, most people are functionally illiterate and irrational. (Illiterate may not be the correct word, un-critical maybe?)

I now think that most people of the left are the same, maybe a little better. Tankies here on Lemmy are a great example, they’re so emotional that their brains have fallen out. I fall firmly on the left even if I think that most of us aren’t really thinking and are actually working off what feels correct.

So, while I do think there is objective reality, I don’t think most people are even trying to work off it. I’m not sure that we can. So, functionally, reality is pretty subjective.

I do know that, personally, I’m driven to try and gain as accurate a worldview as possible given the facts and science available to me.

I have almost no mysticism left in me. I do feel awe at the natural world, the cosmos, my love for my people. I’m comfortable allowing that feeling guide some of my decisions. I don’t think much personal harm will come from a deep respect of nature, for instance.

After losing my religion, I have defined my life’s purpose as taking care of my people. It’s arbitrary and emotional, but it brings me comfort.

Now, that’s a different angle on viewing these things. Or at least I’ve never heard it phrased that way. Interesting. Thanks for the insight!

Now, that’s pretty funny.

Clearly this is a couple of straight guys, probably in the military, that are locked into a game of gay chicken.

Tightly, firmly, locked.

Nuke a godless communist gay baby seal for Christ!

I miss that T-shirt, I think my mother and ex-wife conspired and burned it.

You can get concentrated permetherin, mix with water and apply with spray bottle to cotton clothes/socks. It bonds to the fiber and keeps the ticks off. Lasts several washes, longer if you don’t dry clothes with heat.

Much cheaper to buy the concentrate instead of the premix.

Spray outside, allow clothes to dry outside. Stuff is pretty much harmless to humans. When still wet or in concentrate, it is absolutely deadly to cats. After it has bonded to your clothes, it won’t hurt the cats. Doesn’t work if you apply it to your skin, the skin oils or something deactivate it.

Haven’t had a tick in years since I started using it.

I appreciate the in-depth response. I was really just having some fun trolling engineers. You’ve been around the block so you understand the arrogance inherent in pretty much anything technical. It’s totally immature but it also makes me grin.

I was amusing myself. Trolling engineers can be pretty fun and this is a target rich environment. I’ve seen a lot of bad engineering over the years and sometimes it’s just plain cathartic to make fun of them.

My bad, not design authority as that’s a specific thing. They are allowed to design and the guy rubber-stamping often doesn’t catch much.

Ultimately, this is a religious issue. Engineers are heathens that should be burned at the stake. Occasionally, you meet a good one who’s been housetrained by the people that actually do the things.

Yup. Thing is, it’s known that ‘machinists’ coming out of trade school aren’t worth a damn for years. The same is true of enginneers, yet they turn them loose on CAD and they create designs that make everyone miserable.

This is one of the big problems with SpaceX/Blue Origin/Firefly. The designs are piss poor because the majority of their engineers are green.

Engineers shouldn’t have design authority until they’ve spent a few years manufacturing.

Only thing dumber than a mechanical engineer is an electrical engineer trying to design a housing.

You want to understand the deep magic, talk to electricians and technicians.

All hat, no cattle. Too much truck, not enough dick. Just like jacked up stupid trucks, it’s suburban men cosplaying. They’re imitating a culture they aren’t a part of and don’t understand.

Funko pops are collectible kitsch like beanie babies were. However, they have even less utility because they aren’t a stuffed animal. I don’t keep up with it because I don’t like them, but I bet it uses the same artifical scarcity model to drive sales due to rarity/collectability.

They’re art the same way abstract non-descript prints in hotel rooms or corporate offices is ‘art.’ A real artist designed it, but that doesn’t mean it’s not shit art. Take the same artist who is applying the funko formula and support them so they can produce whatever they want.

Burn shit corporate art.

Yup. There’s also McDoodles, Booger King, Taco Hell…

Depressingly acurate.