thedirtyknapkin
@thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
- Comment on The future is bright... 1 hour ago:
i mean, it’s meant to have meaning. it makes sense in a way.
part of the idea behind palantir is that they’ve collected basically every picture on the internet for ai to be used in ai facial recognition. that includes your time profile. Trump also recently bragged about using palantir in some way to kill people in iran.
so it’s supposed to make you aware of that fact that if you put your politics on your tinder profile, Trump may one day use palantir to hunt you down.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 day ago:
i didn’t say you should be centerist lmao. i said that extremism is real and something to watch yourself on. I’m very far left, that why I’m on this forum you goof. that doesn’t mean leftist extremism isn’t real.
left vs right is just defined by vague political goals and ideas. so say anything is more or less of that is impossible because the scale is undefined. that’s not what matters, the point is that if you don’t police your own beliefs you are likely to fall down dangerous rabbit holes.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 day ago:
it’s more about power balance. a mod on a forum has no real meaningful power over anything that matters.
“the government” is too narrow of a term, but it does need to be a person with power and control over others. right now corporations are the real centers of power in this world. they are largely authoritarian.
people saying they don’t want to hang out with you is not that.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 day ago:
authoritarianism is when the government that has real control over things that matter does it. when a private citizen kicks you out of their club it’s just called a disagreement.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 1 day ago:
the farthest extremes on either sure are unrealistic and deluded. just because you like one side doesn’t mean they dont get crazy when you go far enough. it’s VERY important not to lose site of that.
yes a communist utopia is unachievable. yes there are people who are actively pursuing that impossible goal. that does not make them unleft.
- Comment on irony is pressing 5 days ago:
sadly more and more sites are rejecting many of the easily accessible mail forwarders and temp email services.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 3 weeks ago:
it happens to me so infrequently that i don’t usually catch on to what’s happening until it’s too late 😅.
basically ruins my whole week every time. makes me paranoid it’ll happen again any second. then it doesn’t. then i forget. then i relax. then it gets me…
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 3 weeks ago:
you basically just want to stretch whichever muscle is seizing up. if it’s your calf you want to pull on your toes.
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 1 month ago:
it’s like when people say Australian beer sucks because of fosters, or that Japanese cooking sucks because the gas station sushi in your landlocked nation is shit. it’s very disingenuous.
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 1 month ago:
the other 50% is mostly water. anerican cheese is basically just a hardened cheese sauce. it’s cheese emulsified with water or something similar to make it melt easier. it’s not some unholy amalgamation of horror. it’s just melty cheese.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 month ago:
i mean with those games it feels like you get one every game third generation at this point.
elder scrolls 6 is going to become halflife 3 at this point.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 months ago:
yeah, $500 is tough to get into astro with.
plenty for general photography, but astro can get gear heavy fast. astro landscapes are becoming more accessible as more fast lenses get cheaper, but the kind of astro that needs a tracker is just pricy.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 4 months ago:
aah, but it didn’t say steam, it said boiling water.
smaller gas generators based on internal combustion engines don’t boil water though, right?
- Comment on Not impressed 4 months ago:
I’ve only ever known Christians to think fish aren’t animals. I’m pretty sure that’s something random that the Vatican decided for bending lent rules or some shit.
at least in my life most people do not have a “reasonably underseood line” where they arbitrarily stop considering animals as animals due to their perceived lack of communication. they have a line where they stop caring about them, but that’s usually about how cute they are, not about how they communicate. if more people understood koalas better they’d be way less popular.
most people just don’t actually think that much about it. trivia is for the people that do think about things. and it certainly should at least have its answers checked on google.
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 5 months ago:
there’s nothing about negatively affecting others lives?
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 5 months ago:
so successful sociopaths and narcissists don’t have a disorder?
i don’t think that’s quite right.
- Comment on Anon buys a car 6 months ago:
would only work if buying in full and would still require a messy title transfer and taxes when he gives the vehicle over.
the best way would be to have the non-buyer do the first part then the person that actually wants it does the second.
that said, it would still probably give you a big hit to your credit score unless buying outright. if you can afford to buy the cat in cash you probably don’t need to be running two man cons for a discount in the first place.
- Comment on Is it? 7 months ago:
show a map of the land area it takes up and you might actuality convince some people it’s not lol.
it could be like milk lovers trying to call almond milk bad for the environment due to water usage. despite cow milk being infinitely worse. the propaganda machine did its job well. if you bring up non dairy milks to an American conservative in 2025, nine times out of ten they’ll feel the need to smugly tell you how terrible almond milk is and how we shouldn’t be allowed to waste all that water on it. if you try to tell them that cow milk is worse they’ll just tell you you’re wrong and that the data is lying.
i straight to showed one of them the hard numbers on how much cows are putting out greenhouse gasses and she just said “that can’t be right”. it didn’t FEEL right to her so she just didn’t believe it…
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 7 months ago:
no no, it just needs your location data every second to make sure it’s set to the correct time zone. Microsoft and their 1.8 million partners decided that the clock can’t work without your location data.
(I’m joking, for the inevitable person that’s going to try to disagree)
- Comment on poaceae 8 months ago:
sure, but they also don’t call eating an apple “eating trees”. it would still be fair to call applewood based products “beaver food” or “cardboard” if someone told you to eat it.
- Comment on I love cosplayers :D, they usually have a sense of humor 9 months ago:
yeah, they are the lower level atronach. you basically blew past them.
if you go to the atronach forge at frostcrag spire you can still spawn one with some fire salts.
- Comment on because of the implications 9 months ago:
makes me think,
for thousands of years all of our cooked meats would have been rotated over open wood fires. they’d be smoky delicious barbeque. I’m sure some ancient people were even covering it in making it intentionally smoky.
do you think the first gas stoves got pushback from people that liked the smoke? i mean it must have been weird the first time they tasted things that weren’t smoky… then again, I’m sure there was plenty of stuff that just didn’t get that smoky on the open fire. and the convenience of not needing to go outside or build a wood fire was absolutely worth it. and we eventually figured out that some things are quite a lot better without smoke…
i suppose all of this is why we still have grills and smokers today, even though most people also have a stove. people really like that taste. so yeah, i guess everything was bbq before a more convenient option became avaliable. we all know how much people love convenience. I’m sure that was just as true 1000 years ago as it is today.
- Comment on RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it' 9 months ago:
it’s it’s gotta be something very difficult that no one has ever fund before.
- Comment on AI boomer trait 10 months ago:
the only reason to write that book would be for when i would inevitably get to post the “don’t create the torment nexus” meme for tons of social media impressions.
though knowing what impressions are pegs me as a creative who won’t get to post on social media from the mines.
- Comment on AI boomer trait 10 months ago:
the robots won’t be equipped to fix it. there will be no one left to tell they got it wrong.
- Comment on AI boomer trait 10 months ago:
same reason harlan ellison wrote i have no mouth and i must scream i suppose…
- Comment on AI boomer trait 10 months ago:
nah, it’s going to be the opposite.
if other computer technology has been anything to go off of then only those who lived through is adaption and watched it progress will know how to spot it. those who grow up with hard to spot ai will just accept that they can’t see it and think we’re weird for trying so hard to prove things are ai. they’ll also think we’re weird for caring.
our boomer trait will be doing art instead of asking ai to generate images and video.
- Comment on 'Lilo & Stitch' passes 'Sinners' to become 2nd highest grossing film of 2025 10 months ago:
it’s not a sign of quality, it’s a sign of what’s to come. these companies will keep putting out things that work. sadly these live action Disney remakes sell very well even though everyone seems to hate them. that’s what this tells us. if not for this info we’d all just be sitting around scratching our heads over why they keep doing them. this at least tells us why.
- Comment on Definitions 10 months ago:
ah yes, ignoring that is actuality a polygon, implying a closed shape with straight sides much like this ignores the “weapon” and “used for thrusting or striking” parts of the definition.
not hard to make things fit a definition when you just ignore parts of it.
- Comment on Touch grass. 10 months ago:
yeah, quick psa for passing readers.
never plant bamboo unless you either want to live in a full on bamboo first and drown out every native plant around you or are ok With spending the rest of eternity fighting for you life to stop it from spreading.