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The Most Disturbing Painting

ChaosEngine says...

I'm not really a fan of straight-up horror movies. I don't have anything against them, they're just not my thing.

(Honestly, I'm a big scaredy-cat )

But I have heard good things about CITW, so I shall man up and watch it from behind the sofa.

newtboy said:

Noooooo! Travesty.
Watch it.
So good....so very good. A totally different horror movie that's not just another rewrite of a classic, even though it starts out like every other teenage sex romp/horror movie, but then......no spoilers, just watch it. Hilarious and scary.
Side note, keep an eye out for a Reaver in the mayhem... Easter egg.

The Truth About Wireless Charging

ChaosEngine says...

Not really, no.

It simply reveals that there is a hidden cost to wireless charging that most people are unaware of.

lucky760 said:

What's this "truth" advertised in the title? It implies it's going to reveal something widely believed about wireless charging is false.

The Most Disturbing Painting

ChaosEngine says...

Yeah, I assumed that was the case, but I've never seen the movie.

RFlagg said:

I'm going to guess he means the movie Cabin in the Woods, at which point there's probably a painting in the dinning room. It's been ages since I saw the movie though, so not sure I remember it. (I remember the painting/sculpture in Devil's Advocate, which then had to be edited a bit on further releases to be less like the original artist version as he didn't give permission to use it. Sort of unrelated though...lol)

The Most Disturbing Painting

ChaosEngine says...

Thanks for the promote. Do you have a link to the painting? (Googling "The Hunt from Cabin in the Woods" just gives me images of cabins in the woods!)

newtboy said:

Good and creepy, but I liked The Hunt from Cabin in the Woods better.
For a dining room mural, it's amazing.
*promote

Homeopathy Explained – Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud?

Homeopathy Explained – Gentle Healing or Reckless Fraud?

ChaosEngine says...

Hmmm, even though I love Kurzgesagt and this is an informative video. There are easy answers to the questions posed at the start.

How does homeopathy work? It doesn't.
How did it become what it is today? People are easily swindled.
What can modern medicine learn from it? NOTHING.

Yeah, they go on to talk about viewing the patient as a person, etc, but that is not that important. I don't want my doctor sitting down and having a chat with everyone, I want them to treat them and move on to the next patient. Maybe when we get to our AI-led post-scarcity utopia, but right now, medicine (like everything else) is a game of finite resources. Do you really want to waste the time of a highly trained (and highly paid) medical professional? Because while they're talking to you about your vague sense of unease, someone else is dying.

How This Island Got 10% of Their Money by Chance

ChaosEngine says...

The sad thing is that Tuvalu isn't going to be around much longer to spend that sweet sweet tld money.

In addition to being tiny, it's also barely above sea level and so incredibly susceptible to climate change.

Basically, they're in serious trouble. Even the best case climate change scenarios probably still spell doom for Tuvalu.

Millennials in the Workforce, A Generation of Weakness

ChaosEngine says...

Fair points, but I think there’s a big difference between understanding the circumstances of a particular demographic and then assigning characteristics to the members of said demographic.

“Black people are more likely to be pulled over by the police” is a verifiable fact.
“Black people are more likely to commit crime” is a different kettle of fish.

I know that’s not what you’re saying though.

HenningKO said:

The trap is assuming a particular individual belonging to a group shares all characteristics of the average member of the group. Or that a particular individual acts how they do because they are a member... that's fuckin' bigoted and ugly.

That said, I don't see why we can't generalize about a GROUP. In general, black people have a much tougher experience of this country than white people. In general, people born twenty years after me have a much different cultural, social and material experience than I did. In general, people of 100 years ago were way more outwardly racist than people of today. Are these generalizations unfair? They don't match every single member of the group, so should we stop trying to recognize broad cultural forces at work over time on large populations of people? You certainly are free to argue that any of the particular generalizations he made are inaccurate or even too dangerous to be spread, I saw a few... but to say that the act of generalization IN GENERAL is taboo...?

Historians 100 years from now won't hesitate to lump our primitive asses all together...

Millennials in the Workforce, A Generation of Weakness

ChaosEngine says...

Honestly, I down-voted this for the title alone. The video isn't that terrible, but it falls into this bullshit "generation" trap.

Here's some facts:
baby-boomers? not a thing
Gen x? not a thing
Millenials? also... not a thing

These are all lazy, bullshit shorthand ways of lumping massive groups of people together based on the date they were born and conveniently, the problem is almost always either:
- those lazy kids or
- old people who had it easy.
Funny how the people writing these videos/articles almost never seem to blame their own generation.

FFS, stop generalising large groups of people like this. If you do it based on race, people (rightly) call you a racist. So why is it ok to do it based on age?

Newsflash: some "millennials" are lazy/entitled/whatever. Why? Because they're PEOPLE.

I've worked with "boomers" and "gen x" people who wouldn't know a work ethic if it punched them in the face and I've worked with "millennials" who work their damn asses off, only to find out (as @MilkmanDan pointed out) that companies these days generally give zero fucks about their employees.

When you and your mates go snow boarding for the first time

You can do it, Lars!

ChaosEngine says...

As the old saying goes “if you’re not hospitalised, you’re not trying”

Or something like that... I dunno, I’ve hit my head a lot

NaMeCaF said:

Or break your neck. You know, two sides to everything

You can do it, Lars!

It's not easy to be a tram driver.

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