Posts by Lanny

1. 2016-05-24 at 2:12 AM UTC in Favorite shell?
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   zsh is one of the first things I install on a dev machine. I don't do too much with it above and beyond it's bash compat, mostly some prompt ricing and its vi emulation, although the latter is pretty shit on the whole, it's better than nothing. I have this fantasy of writing a shell that's runs vim in a subproc (so it loads your .vimrc) and shuttles keystrokes and visual state back and forth from the shell. Also adding some s-expression syntax to disambiguate multi-line constructs hopefully making editing them something better that a total nightmare.
2. 2016-05-23 at 3:58 PM UTC in Fuck da police
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   lol, Bill Krozby, I haven't even posted in this thread and already you're in damage control mode.
3. 2016-05-23 at 4:50 AM UTC in A video of me molesting my mom and screaming AHKMAH must see
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   I thought it was only your dad that molested you or whatever...
   
   Why go full autism on your mom?
4. 2016-05-23 at 12:38 AM UTC in Sex Crime Investigators
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   I recall an interview with someone with this position. He stated that he had seen infants with the umbilical cord still attached being molested.

   
   Sounds like something you could make up and no one would ever be able to call you on.
   
   It is an interesting idea though. I imagine you really only need to look a kiddie porn under whatever trivial clerical conditions a couple of time per case, there would only be so many per year, I can't imagine there's a specific person who's actual job is to watch kiddie porn. I like thinking about that dude though, if he did exist. What would he tell his friends about what he does? You think of a lot of funny/tragic situations to come out of being accustomed to that kind of thing, as it's easy to be, and the societal expectations that every kiddy-rape is a personally-horrific thing to witness.
5. 2016-05-22 at 5:34 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4kdok0/im_officially_done_with_oculus_and_listed_my_rift/
   
   Reading some bad things about Oculus. I mean, it is Facebook, it shouldn't be too surprising if this eventually occurred and was speculated on, the main concern, from the start.
   
   Lanny, have you thought about cancelling your preorder and eventually (I remember your post stating you were too busy too likely use it much for some time) ordering the Vive? It does seem to have better hardware, and comes with room scale and controllers already available.

   
   
   That link is just some guy bitching with no actual critique of oculus.
   
   Although I am considering jumping ship for reasons other than the hype train that seems to run consumer VR discussion, "wait N months for motion controllers you have to buy at an undisclosed price" is pretty stupid and the steam partnership says something.
6. 2016-05-22 at 2:45 AM UTC in How do you fancy my new distro?
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   [greentext]>notepad++[/greentext]
   learn2vim noob
   
   Also is that KDE? Ubuntu has shipped with gnome for ages.
7. 2016-05-21 at 9:11 AM UTC in I go to the 3rd interview on Monday
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   To first gain capital you must work. This is why I don't have an LSD lab yet, its only a few thousand dollars to cook a kilo of pure LSD worth $1million dollars.

   
   Plus the contacts to acquire precursor which are worth significantly more than a few thousand dollars.
8. 2016-05-21 at 4:50 AM UTC in Anyone here ever had near death experience / out of body experience?
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   I experienced a near drowning as a kid. No crazy visions or anything but the memory is pretty interesting, very non visual but the experience of, uhh, like the way the water felt, being enclosed on all sides, like I was the only solid thing in an endless universe of molasses is extremely vivvid. It was almost tranquil despite the physical struggle.
9. 2016-05-21 at 4:17 AM UTC in Laying down in your dad's bed with the windows closed withdrawing from Mucinex
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   I genuinely didn't know you could abuse mucinex recreationally
10. 2016-05-20 at 5:46 AM UTC in I'm a pedophile, not a monster
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    Which one of you sick fucks is this?
    
    http://www.salon.com/2016/05/17/im_not_a_monster_a_pedophile_on_attraction_love_and_a_life_of_loneliness/

    
    
    Honestly, can you find a real moral fault with the guy? I can't say his preference is aesthetically pleasing to me but the idea of someone being guilty of psychological states seems... well it's not strictly incomprehensible but it seems really dumb
11. 2016-05-18 at 4:03 PM UTC in i got attacked at work again
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    you're not a real person, you're a fat faggot and a coward
    
    

    
    
    
    
12. 2016-05-17 at 4:47 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    *ahem*
    https://www.reddit.com/r/RCSources/

    
    I went around to the vendors I've used in the past, a couple of new ones, none seem to have MXE although I do seem to have one with 5-MAPB in stock which I've been keeping an eye out for for a while so that's nice. The only Chinese vendor (as in ships-from, I assume most vendors are selling Chinese stuff) I ever used has closed shop, but the ban is still in place so I don't know why they'd have it again.
13. 2016-05-17 at 3:59 AM UTC in Timbre is what we say when we run out of words to describe sound
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    Lanny you're a beautiful soul but hasn't the language suffered enough?

    
    It's wordy and obnoxious (I was shitfaced when I wrote that) but I think it's a valid construct.
14. 2016-05-17 at 12:23 AM UTC in i got attacked at work again
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    and the fucking cops wanted nothing to do with the situation, yet they will arrest someone for jay walking or anything like that but a homeless nigger isn't worth their trouble they let him go

    
    One self-destructive, undereducated, impulsive prole getting their ass kicked by another. The police don't concern themselves with cats fight over dumpster scraps, why on earth would they care about you? It's only when real people get involved that the police care.
15. 2016-05-17 at 12:12 AM UTC in Got attacked at work
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    kek, when did i ever strike a customer? are you talking out of your asshole again?

    
    As I recall it was when some guy wanted to sign a receipt on your car and you decided somehow that was just going too far so you slapped his hand to get him to stop. No you might say "slapping isn't striking" but I want you to think long and hard about wether or not that makes you look like any less of a retard.
16. 2016-05-16 at 6:14 AM UTC in A giant penis urinating on children
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Pretty sure that's not arms
17. 2016-05-16 at 6:09 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Yeah, give it a go. Kinda like with stims I think you need a certain kind of personality or at least a certain headspace to enjoy dissociatives. I don't think I fit the bill, I could never see myself really craving that feeling. On a total level it's kinda distant and cold although there's a certain charm in that too. No way to know until you try though.
18. 2016-05-16 at 3:45 AM UTC in Got attacked at work
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    So a whole group of people each independently decided that you getting assaulted is a good thing, so much so that they actually hugged the assailant afterwards?
    
    Are you sure these people didn't just have a legitimate reason to hate your dumb guts? Like we already know you've been scolded for pissing off customers multiple times, one time going so far as to actually strike a customer.
    
    I have a hard time believing all this really came out of nowhere, especially when contrasted with the possibility that you're just so self absorbed you don't realize you're a laughing stock or simply reviled.
19. 2016-05-15 at 7:51 PM UTC in zoo's are fundamentally wrong
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    If morality were an absolute "fundamental law", something could be immoral even if every human disagreed. If, instead, human feelings and desires are what ultimately count, then that is a subjective morality.

    
    That's not true. Consider utilitarians: they're generally realists (the believe in an objective morality) and yet human feelings are the only subject of moral inquiry under such a system. Yes, human mental states, well being, is "subjective" in that it is contingent upon individual minds but that doesn't mean we can't make objective statements about subjective states. For example, it's pretty uncontroversial that beauty is subjective, but we can say objectively that beholding beauty is a positive experience. Likewise the nature and causes of happiness may be contingent upon and variable between moral agents but that doesn't mean we can't coherently and objectively express a duty to maximize it.
    
    

    Given that an objective morality would be highly undesirable, why do so many philosophers and others continue to try hard to rescue an objective morality? I suspect that they’re actually trying to attain objective backing for what is merely their own subjective opinion of what is moral.

    
    Aside from the fact that most philosophers pursue an objective ethics simply because they believe such a proposition is true, there are also practical concerns as well. Subjectivist moral theories serve as very poor foundations for things like laws, governance.
    
    

    Correct,, it is an opinion, a perspective, a consideration, something we deem.

    
    But there are true opinions. "The sky is blue" is an opinion, but it's also an objective fact.
    
    

    If we were not around to deem the world to be right or wrong the world would not be right or wrong, it would only be the world.

    
    That was exactly the point of the example, we consider a world of completed genocide to be bad even though there would be no on in such a world to have moral judgements about it. We can posit a world without and still call it bad, meaning the "bad" we're talking about in such a case is not wholly dependent on moral subjects.
    
    

    Our moral sense is one of a number of systems developed by evolution to do a job: the immune systems counters infection, the visual system gives us information about the world, and our moral feelings are there as a social glue to enable us to cooperate with other humans.

    
    That's not what I was talking about. Most constructivist systems posit a world where we had evolved without moral intuitions would still be bound by the same moral mandates, that reasoning populations, regardless of an evolved intuition, would discover a moral theory through inquiry.
    
    

    I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure what you're saying here. How can an abstract object be objective? What does this have to do with morality?

    
    An abstract object is non-subjective because it's properties are not subjective. We naturally consider arithmetic theorems to be factual, but their existence* is still dependent on minds. Constructivist morality is similar, it owes its ontological status and the truth of its propositions to moral agents and yet is not subjective. The analogy is supposed to illustrate that things can be mind-dependent but non-subjective.
    
    *or whatever quality you believe they possess as to distinguish them from things like, say, unicorns
    
    

    What would "objective morality" even mean? Yes, humans have an intuition about it, but that intuition was programmed for purely subjective and pragmatic reasons, and thus is a hopeless base for establishing absolute morality.

    
    That generally why philosophers don't take moral intuition to be a sufficient base for moral systems on its own.
    
    

    When asked, the advocate of absolute morality explains that it is concerned with what one "should do", regardless of human opinion or desire. When asked what "should do" means they’ll replace it with a near synonym, explaining that it is what one "ought to do". But if you press further they’ll simply retreat into circularity, explaining that what you "ought" to do is what you "should" do, and thus beg the whole question. They can’t do any better than that, though they’ll likely appeal to human intuition, which won’t do for the reasons above.

    
    There's a difference between using human intuition to characterize a fundamental idea like "ought" and trying to use intuitions as evidence for normative propositions. At some point any description of a thing, if pressed, must regress towards experiential analogy.
20. 2016-05-15 at 7:04 AM UTC in zoo's are fundamentally wrong
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    If some nigga was like "here, come not worry about any survival pressures and just chill the fuck out taking it easy and straight up DGAFing for the rest of your life" I'd be all over that shit, zoo like if the tits