bionicjoey

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bionicjoey,

Who the fuck doesn’t leave their phone on silent/vibrate?

bionicjoey,

Tbf that’s just because the pythons never could figure out how to end a bit

bionicjoey,

Gandalf at the end of the battle of Helm’s Deep

bionicjoey,

You should try writing with your hands instead of your heel

bionicjoey,

Jan Misali reference or are you just stating a fact?

bionicjoey,

What if the dog is Lawful Evil?

bionicjoey,

Hey that ugly naked dog comes in a non-naked variety and they are cute as heck.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Crested_Dog#Breedin…

bionicjoey,

All dogs are boys and all cats are girls

bionicjoey,

I was very surprised with how much I like that community. I was expecting a bunch of dumb memes from astrology girls, but it’s just jokes about actual fantasy witches.

bionicjoey,

My Bichon/Poodle mix is aggressively friendly with people he isn’t familiar with. Does that count?

bionicjoey,

I really hope someone got fired for that blunder

bionicjoey,

Hooray! Two of my favourite web comics!

bionicjoey,

Julian: “we have to do FRONTIER MEDICINE”

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bionicjoey, (edited )

Generally a good approach is to try learning the rules of logic. Logic is all about proving things to be true using only facts. It can also be helpful to try some logic puzzles or riddles which can only be solved using hard logic. Note that this won’t automatically make you a better critical thinker, but it will help you exercise that muscle.

Also, it’s helpful to play devil’s advocate. If you hear someone making an argument, try to imagine how you would dispute that argument if you disagreed with it. It doesn’t matter if you actually agree or not, just imagine you did and think about what your counter argument would be. This is what high school debate teams have to do; they are given a topic and a position and have to defend their position.

It always helps to be aware of the facts, or at least of how to find facts. If you see a debate happening where you can’t tell who is right, do your own research on a site like Wikipedia and try to see what the truth is for yourself. Not every argument has a correct answer, but you will at least be able to see where each side is coming from.

bionicjoey,

For me, downvote typically means either “this adds nothing to the discussion” or “this was made in bad faith”

During travel, what can I prepare beforehand as meal, which can be eaten without access to fire or microwave?

I’m going from Hong Kong to Iceland next month. I’ve read that everything there, including food, are quite expensive. So my wife and I have been researching on how to prepare meal or snack that we can eat during the day instead of going to restaurant....

bionicjoey,

Just buy groceries and cook them in your hotel while you’re there instead of eating at restaurants. My cousin did a trip to Iceland a few years ago and that was his strategy.

bionicjoey,

One of the only good things spez ever did was when he first came on as CEO they updated the front page algorithm to promote more small and niche communities and limit how much one sub could dominate the front page

bionicjoey,

It’s almost like loudly announcing contempt for your userbase is not good for a website where virtually 100% of their value is derived from the loyalty of their users

bionicjoey,

I personally never browsed TIHI. It was always one of those where linking it was more of a meme than actually browsing it in my mind. Similar to how a lot of people would comment “/r/unexpectedjohnmulaney” but very few people were actually subbed to /r/unexpectedjohnmulaney. Because who the heck wants a bunch of pictures of comments referencing John Mulaney jokes in their feed? It’s the old “subreddits as hashtags” bit.

All that being said, it sucks because I know TIHI actually had more of a community than most “hashtaggy” subreddits. My understanding is it was a bit like a blend of ATBGE, MildlyInfuriating, CursedImages, or DIWhy.

Reddit is killing real communities, and killing their own history in the process. All those comments throughout the ages linking “/r/TIHI” now link to a dead sub. As much as I may have found those comments annoying, there were people out there who would click that link and go browse or maybe even subscribe to TIHI as a result of those comments.

bionicjoey,

Thanks, I hate being right.

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