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  • It's air being disturbed. Microphones have no brain. Deaf people can still feel bass vibrations caused by speakers disturbing the air. It's a fully physical phenomenon that happens regardless of there being an observer.

  • I have to say that I think if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, it still makes a sound. I think this riddle / philosophical conundrum is solved.

    Why? Sound is air being disturbed. The air is still disturbed regardless of if anyone heard the effect.

  • "dubious"

    It's a fucking lie.

  • Dude is probably hung like a horse

  • Then watch the episode.

    They aren't fucking Colbert Report. I know. I watched all of it.

  • I do mean that it would be out of character to show deforestation as heroic, and that yes it must have been satire

    They looked for these angles. They did a similar thing with trying to make tobacco companies look heroic.

    Look man, it's not some kind of hidden thing that they were (or maybe are) right libertarians. It's well documented for anyone who cares.

    I think there was even "South Park Republicans" floating around in the vernacular for a time (the reference is probably still on Wikipedia).

  • It actually was their intention. They did a similar number for very many other issues. They were consistent in their libertarianism, and they were basically the animated version of Penn and Teller's Bullshit for a pretty good stretch in that era. Many of their episodes tackled the same issues in much the same way.

    Penn Gillette was arguably more of a public mascot and mouthpiece for libertarianism, but both shows were heavily steeped in it.

    Watch it again with open eyes. There are lots of examples.

  • I watched the first episode when it aired dude.

    Watch the episode about hybrid vehicles, starving Africans, goobacks, etc, etc, etc forever.

    Back when South Park was extremely relevant they and Penn and Teller's show Bullshit were basically the mechanisms for poisoning everyone with libertarian ideology.

    (Though I feel obliged to say they are at least funny unlike today's right wing comedians.)

    They were all funny to me as a twenty something. I watched all of them. Their politics still consistently sucked balls.

  • Dude they're known libertarians. They moderated over time like all semi-rational people when exposed to Trump, but they had early episodes depicting the people tearing down the rainforest as heroes.

  • He fell asleep in the hair chair which is why his hair is darker.

  • Brought to you by the American Americans for America committee for America

  • But that's their whole demographic.

  • Eh.

  • No. But I do feel slightly bad about it.

    Don't have kids I guess? 🤷

  • The scammer-in-chief

  • I'm of a split mind about this one. On one hand it seems like an accidental thing, on the other Trump makes such a big deal out of meaningless bullshit on a regular basis that I'm persuaded to be temporarily braindead and say keep the rabbles rousing.

  • A game where you walk around an existing town and fix things. It teaches you real stuff about how the things you're fixing work. For instance, you can fix light switches and do so using examples of how real wiring works.

  • Where are those belts with the fake spikes on them?

  • I agree partially: banning AI generated code is a little nuts at this point.

    BUT it isn't "just a tool". No mere tool requires tech companies to set up illegal energy plants. No mere tool requires the construction of data centers that consume more power than whole cities. No mere tool requires the acquisition and destruction of untold amounts of rare books. No mere tool requires trillions of dollars in funding without any proof that there will ever be an ROI. No mere tool requires a money furnace to operate. No mere tool requires constant, costly maintenance and development so it doesn't get out of date. No mere tool requires hundreds of billions of dollars of investment only to see little in terms of quantifiable improvement in the tool. No mere tool requires constant chirping about fictional possibilities of super human intelligence and singularities in order to stick around.

    No hammer is built with the promise of replacing the carpenter. No pencil is built with the promise of replacing the architect.

    AI is much more than a mere tool. It's a fucking cult of autocomplete enthusiasts.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    What's with all of the infinite canvas webapps?