The Sand Trap

Rydwolf Programs

00:43

TIL one of the "A"s in the long variants of LGBTQ+ is "ally"...which makes no sense to me

Straight cis people who support non-straight-cis people are still cis-straight-people and that's not who I, or presumably anyone else, use the acronym to describe

lyxal

Well looks like I'm not getting out of here any time soon

That was unironically the first thing I got btw

Ginger

01:33

@RydwolfPrograms coulda sworn you TIL that already :p

Rydwolf Programs

02:08

I think I did lol

user

Jan 18 at 3:28, by Rydwolf Programs

Wait why is one of the As in the long LGBTQ+ expansion "ally"

Rydwolf Programs

LGBTQ+ are the (social) minority genders/sexual orientations/a few other random things some people include and some don't. Allies, who are cis and straight, just aren't a social minority (and while it's debatable whether or not they're a numbers-minority, depending on where you draw the line between someone who isn't actively hateful and someone who's actively an ally, there's not really an aspect of discrimination/not being able to be yourself/etc.)

user

Is there an official definition of LGBTQ+? Does the official one include "ally"?

Rydwolf Programs

"Official" according to whom?

I don't think there's really anyone with the authority to make one official

user

idk

I kinda assumed there was a committee out there standardizing acronyms and stuff

maybe a dictionary?

Rydwolf Programs

02:20

And given how much argument and discourse there is over whether things like intersex, asexual, etc. count, I don't think an official definition would be able to exist

user

If people don't think "asexual" should be part of it then ally certainly shouldn't lol

Ginger

@RydwolfPrograms the Gay Agenda-makers, of course q:

Rydwolf Programs

04:12

I should be able to vote

Wasn't "no taxation without representation" a founding principle of our country?

I pay taxes, I work, I drive on public roads

I attend public schools and in far less than the time period between two elections will be old enough to get drafted to fight in a war

The law affects me and I pay for it to be created and enforced

Rydwolf Programs

Patents should not exist

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@RydwolfPrograms why tho?

Rydwolf Programs

We don't live in a world where a mad scientist or visionary genius can invent some brilliant breakthrough and drive their carriage down to the post office to ensure nobody steals it

Nowadays patents only protect anticompetitive business practices

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@RydwolfPrograms we kinda still do?

Rydwolf Programs

And due to increasing globalization any patents that really do need protection, those rare simple and actually smart inventions that a single person or small team can come up with, will just get stolen by someone in some other country

@zoomlogo How

Name one thing from the last century that wasn't developed by a big team at a corporation or government

zoomlogo

04:20

@RydwolfPrograms people still steal?

Rydwolf Programs

They should be allowed to

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why?

Rydwolf Programs

Because an idea is no longer one person's property

zoomlogo

hmm but what about the people who want to be credited

Rydwolf Programs

It's the work of employees, and those who register the patents are profiting off of either government funding or anticompetitive business practices

@zoomlogo Patents have nothing to do with "credit"

And do you think the people working for tech companies get credited for things the companies patent?

Patents slow innovation

zoomlogo

04:21

@RydwolfPrograms oh

oh

Rydwolf Programs

Look at proprietary patented compression and media formats

zoomlogo

what about them?

Rydwolf Programs

Look at all the pharmaceutical products that cost hundreds of times what they should because nobody can compete

Patents cost lives

zoomlogo

ohh i am starting to see now

Rydwolf Programs

@zoomlogo They hold back how advanced our compression and media formats can get. And you see that all across tech

Someone/a team of people invents an algorithm or standard or something that improves on what currently existds

Then patents make a big mess of it

People can't use and improve on it

Pharma patents are especially bad, since the research is typically funded by the government, so the pharma companies basically get to develop drugs at no cost, then squeeze ridiculous sums out of sick and injured and suffering people for decades

Sure patents reward R&D, but they also hold back R&D on new things

And limit how society can benefit from inventions

And since competition is like, the whole reason the free market is supposed to work, taking it away completely breaks it

R&D can be sponsored by government grants, and the company that gets there first has the advantage of...getting there first. They have a jump start on the infrastructure and stuff

That's all that's necessary

There are a few cases where patents actually are nice to have, but those are mostly abuses of how patents work

E.g., requiring anything that has a Rydwolf Serial Bus port to implement a bunch of other rigorous stuff in order to get the patent licensed to them

So I can ensure compatibility is maintained

Which IIRC is a tactic the USB-IF uses to keep at least one part of USB sane

user

04:30

In Accelerando, the first protagonist makes a bunch of these meta-patents and then gives them away for free so anything covered by them can be used by everyone

Don't think that'd work in real life but still amusing to think about

Rydwolf Programs

@RydwolfPrograms (But that can already be partially accomplished through trademarks)

(Like how HDMI does it)

lyxal

@RydwolfPrograms I thought that was because big pharma controls the prices

And because of lobbying

Rydwolf Programs

Well they control the prices because nobody can compete

lyxal

That's not because of patents though

Rydwolf Programs

If they didn't have patents I could open a company that manufacturers the same drug and charges half as much, still making a ridiculous profit, and cutting off their profit almost completely. We'd race to the bottom and settle on the fairest price. Invisible hand.

@lyxal It is for things like insulin in the US. Do you have any counterexamples?

lyxal

04:36

The rest of the world

That's my counter example

Rydwolf Programs

Y'all don't quite have the issue we do, for insulin at least :p

Which is proof that patents can be a major cause of this, if not the only one

lyxal

Do patents apply only to the country of issue?

Rydwolf Programs

Yep

lyxal

Ah well that explains it then

Rydwolf Programs

And presumably the weird legal tricks pharma companies use to keep their century-old patent in the US don't work elsewhere

lyxal

04:39

But isn't it also insurance companies being silly with prices?

Rydwolf Programs

Insurance doesn't affect the cost of the drug itself, right?

They just pay some of that cost

lyxal

I don't know, I'm just trying to remember the reasons y'all's healthcare is so expensive

Rydwolf Programs

Ridiculous inefficiency and complexity due to a large degree of privatization

lyxal

But even if there weren't patents, I think that without regulation, big pharma would still find a way to squash competition

Rydwolf Programs

If I gave you even a cursory overview of our healthcare system you'd think I was satirizing it :p

lyxal

04:42

I know shit is so fricked over there that I'd believe you lol

Rydwolf Programs

@lyxal They could try, but at least what they'd be doing would be legally questionable, laws could be made to target it, and competitors would have a chance

Patents totally legitimize the monopolies that currently exist

lyxal

You say that but taxation lobbying exists and no one challenges that

Rydwolf Programs

Lobbying's pretty complex

lyxal

No doubt corporations with interests in keeping profits would figure out that complexity for their benefit

Greed is a surprisingly strong motivator

Rydwolf Programs

The current US tax code is longer than the whole Harry Potter series. The average bill is longer than a novel

lyxal

04:45

I'm talking about how tax could be free and easy for everyone but there's that one company that makes it so that only their shitty software can be used for free and you have to go to an accountant otherwise

Rydwolf Programs

And due to the inefficiencies in our government and limited number of staffers, lobbyists are basically necessary just to understand and help write these ridiculously complex bills

It's not possible to just get rid of lobbying, our whole legislative system would fall apart

And it's also hard to write laws restricting the people who make a living convincing legislators what laws to (not) write :p

lyxal

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboTax

That sort of stuff

Medical companies could do that

Rydwolf Programs

Yeah but tax law is pretty far from what's keeping pharma companies from having competition

Lobbying's great at stopping things from being done, or adding tiny little exceptions that marginally benefit one party, but not at actually getting new things done

lyxal

I think my point is more skepticism that things can change easily in regards to healthcare for y'all

I gotta go for now though

o/

Rydwolf Programs

Oh yeah no way will it change in my lifetime unless there's a war or something

The US is so bad at doing anything at all that it's going to take something truly historical to cause lasting change. WWIII sorta stuff

The main problem is that when it's conservatives vs. progressives, and your government system is so slow and complex that doing anything at all is hard, conserving the status quo is easy and progress is hard. It's a system naturally biased against change, and we are long overdue for change in practically every aspect of our government and society over here.

You're born. You have no government ID so you're assigned an insecure social security number which has been kludged into a sort of national ID system.
You're a small child. Your parents can't spend time with you because work and childcare is ridiculously stupidly expensive.
You're old enough to start going to school. School kinda sucks in a ton of ways and also there's a teacher shortage.
You're old enough to start working and paying taxes. Have fun earning $7/hour and navigating the ridiculous complexity of our tax system.

Honestly I'm kinda waiting for some huge awful thing to happen

A medium scale nuclear war. A capital invasion part II that actually works and leads to a small skirmish killing a thousand rioters and government employees. A pandemic with a 25% mortality rate. Waves of increasingly violent protests and clashes that ultimately escalate to small battles.

Only way change is gonna happen

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05:04

WE ARE JAPANESE GOBLIN

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Rydwolf Programs

I'm a fan of fixing things from within the system but the system does not work. Also not enough comrades for a social revolution. Only option is to wait around for some fireworks and drive a wedge into the crack it forms.

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@RydwolfPrograms reddit users are nerds by normal standards; se users are nerds by reddit standards :P

Rydwolf Programs

Looking forward to the 2024 election and hoping Trump wins and doesn't hold back this time

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fr

Rydwolf Programs

I want chaos and I want it now

Anyway, 'night comrades o/

Unrelated String

05:07

i forget when i got voter registered but i'm pretty sure i did unironically vote trump for exactly that reason in the latest presidential election

Rydwolf Programs

(I'm not a commie btw, democratic socialism ftw)

@UnrelatedString lol nice. Texas has open primaries so you can bet where I'll be on super tuesday :p

Unrelated String

nice

user

06:14

@RydwolfPrograms Remind me to never vote for you

Ginger

12:08

@RydwolfPrograms If a friend of yours says he's not a communist, he might be a communist.

Ginger

13:18

My favorite contraction in the English language (that I have actually heard people use) is "you all would have done" -> "y'all'd've'd"

2

and yes it's pronounced exactly like it's spelled

Rydwolf Programs

14:36

I've never seen 'd for "done"

So I am doubtful of your contraction

Ginger

~~"doubtful contractions" would be a good name for a band~~

Rydwolf Programs

"Not sure about this baby I'm in the middle of having"

Ginger

15:06

well I guess we're screwed /j

I knew something was wrong when we made it to March without any worldwide disasters

Rydwolf Programs

^

Seriously what's up with 2023

2020 has COVID, 2021 had the capitol riot/winter storm, 2022 had Russia, this year's running late which concerns me

Ginger

Top 3 Anime Villains:
1. COVID
2. Trump supporters
3. Russia

Rydwolf Programs

15:53

In other news a guy just walked into my class, stated loudly "Gentlemen, I have just teleported bread", and sat down

Now he has gone up to the teacher and asked "if [she] would like a whiff of [his] sourdough"

I guess the ladies and nonbinaries do not get to smell his bread

Sadge

math scat

16:10

@Ginger ratio lmao

Rydwolf Programs

I don't think we'll see a nuclear explosion in any case lol

I don't forsee a situation where someone's like "yeah lemme use one nuke, that's it, I'm good"

Altho that headline's so vague it could be interpreted as referring to a nuclear test

Which isn't unlikely

North Korea's gone a while without trying to be edgy

@user I don't need your votes. You can just go out and buy tanks. Why would I need votes?

One tank is equal to like, several hundred votes I reckon

math scat

19:55

Senitrolang time

so; it’s kinda hard to use the default opencv function to detect heads

finding the body is going to be more difficult

Rydwolf Programs

20:07

I think you should try to find bodies first, then check for head-like and limb-like objects

Ginger

me after lyxal happens

Rydwolf Programs

Finding hat-wearing characters might be hard

Maybe looking for a semicircular arc, a jawline let's call it, would be easier

You'd have to beware of Adám's beard but no hats to beware of

math scat

@RydwolfPrograms hmm fair point

although, I could try out the edge-detecting method.

progress

Idea: detect edges, if edges > 10, then find the connected contours

DLosc

@RydwolfPrograms ಠ______ಠ

Rydwolf Programs

20:31

The Democrats aren't really able to or willing to fix anything

Whether they're progressive in ideology or not, they're effectively conservative in action

user

i guess your tanks would fix that

Rydwolf Programs

Once the static friction is overcome, things can be done more easily, and nothing gives a sharp push like having a president who's a complete idiot and who decides to abuse their power

user

Btw, are you considering ever bringing tanks back? It was quite fun, and I'd been working on a thing to use it on phones

Rydwolf Programs

It's like how mass shootings lead to efforts to add gun control laws, but then once people are talking about guns, it gives the conservatives an opportunity to pass gun "rights" laws

@user Maaaaybe ;-|

user

@RydwolfPrograms Republicans would still stay pretty loyal to their party unless Trump goes completely insane

And a complete idiot of a President could veto stuff even if people wanted it passed

Congress could veto that veto but that'd need more unity across party lines than we have

Rydwolf Programs

20:34

Sure but if the options are "nothing gets done" or "nothing gets done and the US gets really chaotic" I'd rather the latter

user

Why

if I had an option between what I have now and something worse, I'd pick what I have now, no matter my current condition

Rydwolf Programs

There's three groups on the "change" axis: Progressives, conservatives, and reactionaries. The first and last both want change, and of them, there are many more progressives. But since conservatives are probably either a plurality or close to it, and the progressives and reactionaries more or less cancel each other out, nothing gets done.

If change is going to happen, conservatives are out of the picture

user

@RydwolfPrograms Do you happen to have the server side code anywhere? So that one of us with more free time could recreate it?

Rydwolf Programs

And progressives have the advantage

Chaos means change

Change means progress

user

No it doesn't

Change can be good or bad or useless

Rydwolf Programs

20:38

The people who want good change outnumber the people who want bad change.

user

Roe v Wade getting struck down was change. It certainly wasn't progress

Rydwolf Programs

Tbh you're probably right but at least chaos would feel like something at all is happening

And change in the wrong direction gives us things to be angry about

user

@RydwolfPrograms It's not just numbers, it's power. Putting a crazy person in one of the most powerful positions in the US isn't going to help the good guys

@RydwolfPrograms You'd need a lot of it for a revoltion to happen, though

Rydwolf Programs

We need someone who will be the villain and show just how shittily our government was designed

Y'know how Trump started doing some shady pardons and stuff near the end of his presidency?

I want four years of that

Might cost a lot now, but it's an investment in future change

DLosc

@user This

Rydwolf Programs

20:42

Nah, I want to see just how bad it can get

DLosc

I don't want to blow up the world, I live there

Rydwolf Programs

Way more people will live here than live here now

I'd rather peel off the band-aid now than leave it rotting for the next generations

user

15 hours ago, by user

@RydwolfPrograms Remind me to never vote for you

:P

Rydwolf Programs

On the other hand, chances are if Biden gets reelected he dies a week in and we get the first female president

DLosc

@RydwolfPrograms As long as you're okay with the possibility of getting shot and left to die slowly in a ditch when things get bad, that's a coherent position to take. Personally, I disagree.

Rydwolf Programs

20:48

How many people die from awful healthcare, how many live in constant pain from lack of access to medicine or treatment they need, how many people will grow up surrounded by hate and misinformation, die from gun violence, etc.

The cost of continuing on our current trajectory is a lotta bullets and a lotta ditches

Half a million deaths to end gun violence would pay for itself in terms of human life in a decade

Lack of health insurance kills just as many as gun violence

And that ignores the fact that proper healthcare and the public health initiatives that go along with it and the better access to healthy food and exercise and stuff would probably save more than that

Cars kill a whole lot of people

Public transit means a lot less cars

user

I don't see why you think that chaos now would solve things, and that it's the only way to solve things

Has this been shown by history or something?

Rydwolf Programs

Even if you ignore quality of life, change would save stupid large amounts of human life

It's worth a bit of a down payment

user

As far as I know, when someone starts doing crazy things and there's something like a coup, things stay crazy for a while

Rydwolf Programs

@user I don't know if it is. But I know what we're doing now isn't gonna do a thing.

DLosc

@RydwolfPrograms I don't believe any amount of violence is going to end gun violence.

user

20:54

@RydwolfPrograms The down payment here isn't a bit of money, it's people's lives

^^

Rydwolf Programs

As I said, a finite amount of lives now in exchange for twice that within a few decades is still net lives saved

user

Our system may make it hard to get new laws passed, but not prohibitively so

Why not just stick with that?

Rydwolf Programs

I'm the sort to spend hours writing a script to automate something that takes ten seconds a day

I'd always prefer a single known cost over a potentially indefinite repeated cost over time

And I'm disillusioned with the US's politics and its government

I'm not necessarily advocating for like, a violent revolution here

But trying to play centrist in between nazis and people who don't really want to do anything isn't the move

Ginger

so, uh, what's your plan to cause chaos

Rydwolf Programs

Wait

And add straws to any camels that wander by

Ginger

21:01

ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS IS FOLLOW THROUGH MY [0 Step Plan!]

look, if Trump gets re-elected and I get shot by a crazed gun-wielding maniac for not licking his boots I'm blaming you /hj

Rydwolf Programs

This is the US you get shot anyway

math scat

oof

Ginger

time to move to Canada ~~and die in real life~~

/srs maybe I should move to Canada, I hear they have 50% fewer gun-wielding maniacs

math scat

I dunno if chaos is going to do anything, but Trump is a bit too extreme IMO

Rydwolf Programs

The gun wielding maniacs aren't really the main concern. There's not many of them. The suicides and routine homicides are the big issue

Ginger

21:05

or maybe Britain

DLosc

@RydwolfPrograms I get the disillusionment. And maybe I'd be more on board with "tear it down and start over" (in theory; in practice, my own life is too comfortable to want big changes; I realize that's a bit selfish of me) if I had any confidence that the result would be better than what we have now. I just don't have that kind of confidence. Chaos leads to more violence which leads to harder, less empathetic people, which doesn't improve society.

Ginger

^

DLosc

I'm already worried about how far we've gone in that direction. I don't want to go farther (if it can be helped).

math scat

Is chaos the only reasonable way to make progress, though?

Rydwolf Programs

Maybe not

~~But it sure is easy to build sustainable mixed-use development and public transit infrastructure on top of a crater~~

Ginger

21:08

the problem with this plan is that most humans, including me, don't want to die (even for later gains) because we, and most likely our children, won't be around to see any of those gains

Rydwolf Programs

♬ Everybody wants to change the world, everybody wants to change the world, but noone, noone wants to die ♬

Ginger

exactly

math scat

- not the 1800s

Ginger

@RydwolfPrograms you're also betting on the US existing long enough for Trump to be re-elected

math scat

@RydwolfPrograms I don't know much about America, but the things I've heard about South Dakota make me think America does need public transport.

Rydwolf Programs

21:14

We spend a trillion dollars a year on military we're not going anywhere

@mathscat South Dakota?

That's oddly specific, why South Dakota?

math scat

well don't people usually drive to high school there?

Rydwolf Programs

They drive to high school everywhere lol

Legal driving age is 16, so pretty much all upperclassmen are assumed to drive to school

Ginger

^

math scat

... Have I been living on a rock all this time?

Rydwolf Programs

America is incredibly car-centric

We still have school buses, but you only take the bus if for some reason you're like, financially or legally incapable of driving a car

DLosc

21:20

@RydwolfPrograms Except some big cities (I've heard that New York City is a major exception to car culture)

Rydwolf Programs

Yeah I mean big cities are kinda too dense for everyone to own a car

But sooo much of America (population-wise not necessarily land-area-wise) is awful American-style suburbs

@mathscat Yes

DLosc

@mathscat Part of the problem is size. South Dakota is over half the size of Germany, but it's got less population than Estonia. So public transit would require a large investment from a very small tax base.

math scat

huh, under a million?

Rydwolf Programs

Most of America has a super low population density

DLosc

@mathscat 909,824 according to Wikipedia

I had some trouble finding a European country with a comparable population: "Oh, Belgium seems small, let me try that one--nope, it's got 11 million" :P

Rydwolf Programs

21:30

You could give everyone in South Dakota 20 hectares of land

(how big is a hectare?)

So about 50 football fields

DLosc

@RydwolfPrograms This line made me think of Calvin and Hobbes, lol

Rydwolf Programs

It'd only be around 2.5 hectares per person for Texas, mostly due to Dallas and Houston I'd bet

DLosc

Population density of South Dakota: 4 people per square kilometer
Population density of Belgium: 376 people per square kilometer

Ginger

22:16

what

mm yes my code is definitely in Danish

Rydwolf Programs

22:37

Where does it say anything about Danish

Ginger

aw hell

wrong screenshot

that one

sorry lol

Rydwolf Programs

TRUMP gets caught X-RAYING in Minecraft (AI Voice Meme)

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They're getting more accurate

Obama sounds less accurate but this is the best Trump one I've heard

user

@RydwolfPrograms I mean, I'd be fine if aliens were to come along and atomize the Earth, as long as it was done so none of us would feel anything

Rydwolf Programs

Wtf noooo

Leave me out of that

user

I would not be fine with only like half the world getting blown up though

Rydwolf Programs

22:42

Pain is the least bad part of dying

user

@RydwolfPrograms Your death's a sacrifice I'm willing to make :P

@RydwolfPrograms It's literally the only bad part of dying

The pain the dead person feels right before dying and the pain their family and friends feel

Rydwolf Programs

?

Ginger

but if you die you're dead

user

and if you're dead you don't feel anything

Ever hear any corpses say "man, this sucks"? That's right :P

Rydwolf Programs

Pain's like the only part of dying that sounds cool. It's an opportunity to feel something you'd never ordinarily be able to safely experience

user

22:43

???

Are you ok

Do you actually want to feel pain

Jo King

"safely" lmao

Rydwolf Programs

Well not more than once

user

Or are you just being funny

Rydwolf Programs

Aren't you curious tho?

user

No

I hate pain

Rydwolf Programs

22:44

Like I'd rather not be stabbed, but if I was, I'd want to know what it's really like

user

You could just Google and see what people have said about it

~~Or move to England~~

Rydwolf Programs

What are the consequences? You won't have any ability to reflect on the pain and that's what causes the damage

The scary part about dying is not existing

Well, not being able to think/be conscious

user

Why?

Rydwolf Programs

Because that's...me

user

If you don't exist, then nothing's going to harm you

Nothing scary about it

Rydwolf Programs

22:46

@user If I don't exist I have already been harmed completely and totally

user

It's life that's scary. All sorts of horrible things could happen to you or someone you care about at any time

Rydwolf Programs

Existence is meaningful

It's the only thing that's meaningful, almost tautologically

user

Nothing inherently has meaning. Living may be meaningful to you, sacrifice might be meaningful to someone else, pizza ismeaningful to me

Rydwolf Programs

Sacrifice is meaningful if you do it for something

Because then you create change, and you exist through that change

user

Leaving a legacy behind isn't the same as existing

Rydwolf Programs

22:49

Not a "legacy"
Nobody has to know or care that you existed, you just have to have made a change

I think we have different views of our underlying purposes that no amount of arguing will change :p

user

I guess, yeah

Rydwolf Programs

From what I can tell you're...pretty nihilistic

Whereas my goal is to create the most (positive) change possible

Utilitarianism-style

user

What I want is for no one to have to suffer

Negative utilitarianism-style :P

Ginger

jeez kids, could you lighten up a little?

Rydwolf Programs

But that assumes the most happiness someone can feel is perfectly neutral

user

22:51

@Ginger Sir, that is racist

@RydwolfPrograms No?

Rydwolf Programs

As soon as people can feel above neutral, by terminating that you are causing a reduction in happiness, which is effectively the same as increasing suffering

user

I know people can feel absolutely ecstatic, and that's something to factor in, but reducing suffering is more important

Ginger

@user ~~ARE YOU ASSUMING MY GENDER?!~~

Rydwolf Programs

Everyone feels pain and sadness and stuff. But that is or should be outweighed by happiness.

user

I'd rather feel nothing than feel sad sometimes and happiness sometimes

Rydwolf Programs

22:52

What about sad rarely and happy most of the time?

Ginger

shame TNH is frozen, otherwise I'd ask yall to move it there

user

@RydwolfPrograms I'd weight sadness, anxiety, etc. far more than happiness

@RydwolfPrograms Depends on the intensity of the sadness

Rydwolf Programs

Sure, but taking weighting into account

Say for every unit of pain or sadness you feel, you get two units of happiness

user

If you're asking whether I would stub my toe so i could feel absolutely ecstatic the rest of the time, sure

But there's a limit to how much sadness I would take at a time

DLosc

^^^^^^^

user

22:54

Those carets are confusing me

DLosc

1 min ago, by Ginger

shame TNH is frozen, otherwise I'd ask yall to move it there

user

Ah lol

Rydwolf Programs

@user So you'd rather get small doses of sadness interspersed with a larger amount of small doses of happiness, rather than large doses of happiness, and all the pain at once?

user

Oh well, I'm off to get a small dose of happiness (gonna watch the Big Lebowski) :P

Rydwolf Programs

Personally I'd rather feel happy for long periods of time then get all the bad stuff out of the way in one intense burst

user

22:55

@RydwolfPrograms Yeah

I'm fine stubbing my toe every few hours, but not getting stabbed once a week and being normal for the rest of that week

Rydwolf Programs

Although one thing to consider is sensory adaptation or whatever it's called

user

Ok actually leaving now, bye. as yyou said before, we're probably not going to bridge our differences :(

Rydwolf Programs

If you feel happy twice as often as me, maybe you'd just adjust to feel equally happy and scale things

Like how if you eat lots of salt in your diet, things taste less salty

DLosc

~~and you get high blood pressure~~

Ginger

~~and you die~~

(for context I define "lots" as "two tons")

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