bss03
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- Comment on 📡📡📡 19 hours ago:
I think the problem is objectification. It’s fiction and fantasy, but in the case of a live-action movie, there’s a real person under the fictions, and we need to remember that.
- Comment on my current daddy fling born in the 1970s 4 days ago:
I’m trying to deal with reality, but my hardware was issued in the 20th century.
- Comment on brand new sentence 5 days ago:
I was agreeing with and “yes, and”-ing your post.
The image is denigrating him based on something entirely outside his choices and control; that’s unfair because “after such heavy sedation, we all look pretty goofy”.
- Comment on brand new sentence 6 days ago:
You know how some of the genes associated with red hair are also associated with resistance to pain killers? Would it be appropriate to tease someone because they carried those genes? Or, would it be hate speech?
This is like the opposite: he could have an innate sensitivity to the medication and what’s why he went “goofy balls” to require a wheelchair.
I got “lucky” with my wisdom teeth; I was conscious during the whole removal procedure and was even able to drive myself home. But, I didn’t have any choice in how deep / what orientation my wisdom teeth ended up in while my bones were fusing as a small child. It could have been a much more difficult procedure and made me “goofy balls” through no choice / with no control of my own.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
I communicated with my manager and came in late or left early. I’d usually do dental and medical appointments in the morning, and governmental stuff in the afternoon, but whatever I could schedule.
It helped that I was salaried, so the missing hours didn’t affect my take-home pay. But also, I could make up the hours by staying late, if needed.
I know this won’t work for everyone, and it would be good to change the system to work for more people.
- Comment on World Map 1 week ago:
We need a new Poe’s Law: Satire or AI?
- Comment on Welcome to industrialization, bitchass 2 weeks ago:
The same states spent another 100 years successfully fighting against equal treatment. The war wasn’t about modes of production; it was about the definition of personhood.
(I’m from Arkansas. We’ve got some crazy Christian Identitarian sects that still openly racist, and don’t believe Jesus saved non-whites.)
- Comment on That's a no 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Science says OP is wrong: acg.aaa.com/…/zipper-merge-keeps-traffic-moving
ISTR there being some indication that as speeds increase, merging further away from the “final merge point” can help, but that’s for designing roads with permanent lane reductions, not for temporary lane closures due to construction, accident, etc. But, I also couldn’t find that science when I looked for it.
- Comment on Nope 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I figure once (signs of) life showed up in the atmosphere, galactic civilization probably started isolation/quarantine procedures until we can show we are actually social, civil, and communal instead of violent, competitive, and individualistic.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 3 weeks ago:
I’m just too used to setting up DHCP and including the single gateway address in that.
Setting up a routing advertisement daemon and just letting devices use their (MAC-derived) automatic IPv6 address is significantly different, so I haven’t learned it yet.
It also doesn’t help that I’ve never been under an ISP that provided IPv6 connectivity, so I’d only be able to connect to IPv4 external endpoints anyway, unless I separate got a 6-in-4 tunnel service of smth.
- Comment on wat 3 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future breaks this down.
- Comment on Drink up 5 weeks ago:
Repost. But, because of that, I get to share the name for this I learned last time: “Billy Irish”
I doubt I’ll get to try one, I’ll have to get off the bupropion first.
- Comment on Borders 1 month ago:
If you look closely, it’s hard to find a “border” in the picture that isn’t crossed.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Mirror enforcers are a lot more serious than that. Just ask Lake (nee: piluT) from the “Infinity Train”.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
He’s not trying hard enough. You can touch tongues, too. No entwining, but maybe in the P-reversed universe, that’s just taboo.
- Comment on Wake up sheeple 2 months ago:
classic story of the US spending millions on developing pens that write in space while the Soviet Union just issued pencils
You used “story”, so I’ll assume you know this is mostly untrue, but for any of the lucky 10k that hasn’t heard: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen#Uses_in_the_U.S._…
- Comment on Intellectual Debate 2 months ago:
Stupid long horses. /ref
- Comment on No fear! 2 months ago:
This is a repost, so I’ll just link to my response there: infosec.pub/comment/17474305 (Basically, “we” didn’t; lots for deaths and injuries prevented by pads and helmets.)
- Comment on Let's ask this AI app! 2 months ago:
AI app: Great picture! That a “fls Brown cup”; it is delicious and fatal!
- Comment on How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us? 2 months ago:
Next time, try it without the “Appeal to Nature” / Naturalistic Fallacy.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 months ago:
You don’t get to blame me for your reactions, only my (in)actions.
When no words accomplishes the task just as well, it’s not selfish to avoid small talk. The fact that you mind to rude or impolite is your problem, not mine.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 months ago:
That is the disconnect Im referring to…the fact that people are taking jobs thinking that they get to dictate what the job entails, even after being told what the job entails, even after signing documentation saying they agree to what the job entails. Where does that come from?
I don’t know, but I saw something similar in my father (RIP). He would agree to something, then get some benefits, then later attempt to “renegotiate”. That sort of behavior isn’t something “GenZ”. Some people just want to squeeze water our of rocks, even if it is deleterious to their relationships.
Similarly, I’ve certainly had employers that, despite my job duties clearly not covering the task would ask and expect me to perform other tasks “for the good of the company”. It’s fairly common these days for job offers to include “and other duties as assigned” because employers want to have all the power, and I’m fine with workers (of any generation) just refusing to comply.
It does sound like the employee was being unreasonable and maybe should be dismissed, but that doesn’t get the task done either, so maybe the “do it, you have no say” approach isn’t any better. And, I have no idea how I’d handle it. I kinda don’t like delegating stuff anyway, so if I thought the task was important I’d do it myself unless someone happily volunteered. But, I know that might not “scale” the way it needs to make the business work.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 months ago:
Laziness is my choice and a virtue in my profession and my preferred operational method…
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 months ago:
you’re being paid a wage in exchange for your labor and we need your labor on this specific task. “So I don’t get a say in it?” Well, NO, you don’t…what on earth would make you think you think that?
Yes, they do. They can just go home, or walk around the block, or work on something else. No matter what your employer tells them, they aren’t a slave at any point in time.
Will there be consequences? Absolutely. They might get fired. They might get sued. If the task is sufficiently important the State might consider them not doing the task criminal negligence.
This isn’t entitlement, it’s choice and freedom, and perhaps having different priorities than the person assigning tasks. Everyone, including GenZ: Do you, and if you can try to spread joy and reduce suffering.
Do remember tho, someone has to keep the infrastructure working, and it’s often not clear where in joy in that lies.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 months ago:
why words wen none good
(I’m GenX, [1980] but I’ve always thought a lot of “polite” “social” habits are dumb.)
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 months ago:
workflow in which temporary assets shat by AI would be useful.
Collecting VC funding, particularly demonstrations or even gameplay captures.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 months ago:
Sure, once crunch times starts, you’ll have plenty of free time/people to audit the code and resources to determine if they were AI generated or not.
Fuck (this particular use of) AI.
- Comment on omg hes just like me 2 months ago:
Seems dangerous. There are sections where you wouldn’t want the floss pulled taut, and certainly not the whole thing.
I wonder if it was just a magic / fx video; at least the “to floss himself” bit.
- Comment on Gottem 2 months ago:
I actually think you have to go so slow that your (propbable) position extends to the other side of the wall. Unfortunately speeds that slow are incompatible with (the processes of) life.
- Comment on Gottem 2 months ago:
Nope, the Aussies quantum entangled whole atoms, and were able to do a Bell test on objects with rest mass. It’s news: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp9n5QwVgu4