ricecake

@ricecake@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self sacrifice is honorable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  no one will ever know it was you and the company is not allowed to tell others.

  That’s absolutely not true. The generally accepted policy is to only confirm dates of employment, conduct, and if they would rehire. The can share anything that isn’t a lie.

  Additionally, if you commit sabotage you can have charges pressed against you. Serious ones with possible prison time. That would show up with even a rudimentary record search.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's actually that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They would have done better to make it more about talking someone into it or pestering them than about “hesitation”. Maybe “reluctant” would have been better.
  Sometimes people need to do a little internal status check. “I had a headache all day, am I not feeling it or would it be a fun alternative to ibuprofen?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's actually that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If, as you say, consent doesn’t matter for animals, then you can’t rape one at all and we can fall back to the more conventional “abuse”, “mistreatment” or “animal cruelty”.

  Your “contextual inference” seems to be the inference of consent, so I’m confused by what you mean. If consent doesn’t matter then clearly it doesn’t matter if the goat is tied to a pole.

  I’m not seeing the hypocrisy. If you kill a goat, you’re a goat killer. If you buy a puppy, you’re a puppy buyer. If you fuck a goat you’re a goat fucker, and unless you passed the impossibly high bar of proving consent, you’re a non-consensual goat fucker, commonly called a “goat rapist”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's actually that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can adequately prove to me that the animal understood and consented then what happens between you and the goat is your own business.
  It takes more than enthusiastic participation: it also requires the ability to appropriately conceptualize what’s being consented to. It’s why drugging someone and then using their enthusiasm as consent doesn’t fly, or why a 13 year old can’t consent to a relationship with someone much older than them.

  A goat understands goat sex well enough that we all generally agree they can consent if they’re obviously into it.
  A goat does not understand interspecies sex well enough to consent, regardless of their interest or arousal.

  At best your claim is that sometimes it’s closer to “statutorily raping” an animal, commonly known as “rape”.

  So put the horse back in the barn before you let the horse out of the barn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, that technique is actually an attempt to avoid a major problem in road development: you make a road, and now it’s easier to travel so people use it and it’s congested. So you make it bigger and traffic flows again, and so more people start using it and it gets congested. This keeps going until you have the freeways in Texas: 26 lanes of bad traffic.

  Instead, one notion is to make the road wider only when it needs to be. It usually keeps traffic more mitigated for a few years before habits adjust.

  The real fix is to start removing lanes from the highways. People will find other ways to get there and schedule travel as needed. Or they’ll move out of the suburbs so they can get to work, or, the most ridiculous notion, they’ll vote for the creation of the most basic of light rail systems.

  Realistically they’ll bulldoze another 50 mile stretch of urban housing so people can drive easier for the 4 busy hours a day for the next few years, until we eventually entirely demolish the cities to make way for the roads that bring people into them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There will probably be a small logo, a mark, or, commonly, a depiction of a fly.

  Pee on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There will probably be a small logo, a mark, or, commonly, a depiction of a fly.

  Pee on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Test ride⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all cops in all places are all bad all the time. They’re always part of a deeply broken system and all the other parts of the usual rant about cops, but that doesn’t mean they never do a good thing.

  Most cynically: it’s basically a free bump to their performance numbers.
  Most leftishly: a business called, which is closer to who they work for.
  Most probably: theif was still there and someone was close enough that they’d be doing more than taking a meaningless report to file.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Witness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously fake launch picture. Have you ever noticed that our images of rocket launches increase in quality at nearly the exact same rate that our ability to simulate smoke on graphics cards increases?

  It’s like they’re not even trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. You really don’t respond well to people disagreeing with you do you? You went from embracing the future to “Yankee pigs can rot”. Certainly the enlightened thinker you are.

  I take it you don’t see a connection between the 1905 and 1917 revolutions? The only thing that matters is they weakened the tzars, and then we should immediately stop looking when he was deposed a decade later? Or ignore the flaws in the Democratic reforms that led to said revolution?

  you’re a mopey incurious sadsack

  Buddy, you don’t know me. I was under the impression you were 15, but I try to keep uncharitable judgements to myself and assume the best.
  Thinking the problems with America that can make people feel hopeless is deeper than a sophomores understanding of world politics doesn’t make someone “mopey”.

  What was your goal with talking if disagreement is this intolerable to you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In any case, you’re still taking a very American-centric view. Ok, suppose that the loss of global hegemony doesn’t result in anything getting better for Americans. So?

  I feel like this is the crux of the pointlessness of trying to communicate to you in a nutshell. Of course I’m taking an America-centric view. We’re in a thread about woke Americans being depressed. That’s called being “on-topic”. Arguing that Americans should be happy their lives, and the lives of everyone around them, are getting worse because it means that some people somewhere else have lives that will stop getting worse is going to get an academic nod of catharsis, at best. I’m seriously questioning if you’ve ever actually talked to or met people before.

  make my neighbor not think we should hang trans people? Hopefully yes

  Ah, I see you actually haven’t talked to people.
  Nightmarish bigotry of all sorts has existed far, far longer than anyone could plausibly argue that it’s because of American hegemonic propaganda.

  1905, when Russia humiliatingly lost a war against Japan (a non-European power, so this came as a huge shock), the result was a wave of strikes, revolts, and mutinies that resulted in a revolution - the end of Tsarist autocracy, the establishment of a constitutional monarchy, and a broad democratization.

  By “broad democratization” do you mean… The Soviet Union? I would hardly use the early to mid 1900s Russia to be a good example of things getting better after a loss.

  As for your war analysis, I don’t actually care. I only responded to it because I think you’re giving it undue weight. “Bombed so heavily they must surely be running low on bombs by now” is not the sign of imminent defeat you seem to think it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re gravely exaggerating the significance of the iran war we currently have. The resources brought to force and the scale of losses are miniscule, and there’s no grounds to even say what “winning” is for either side.

  That’s entirely aside from the point though. You’re arguing the a crack in the facade of hegemony is more responsible for emotional distress than a stark reminder that your next door neighbors are horrible bigots. That people should be comforted that people they don’t know will lose power.
  Will Trump losing power make my neighbor not think we should hang trans people?
  Will a loss of US influence in global affairs cause us to build a social safety net?
  Will embarrassing the US military spur a wave of environmental reforms?

  The answer is “no”, because why would it?
  I think you’re thinking about global politics a lot, and assuming it must be on everyone else’s mind as well.
  I don’t think you actually know why people are exhausted and depressed, and you sure as shit don’t know what would improve that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you think things need a more complex explanation?
  Do you really feel like this Iran incursion is somehow significant feeling compared to Iraq or Afghanistan?
  Do you actually think that the hegemonic status of the US really enters into the consideration of most people, to say nothing of having a significant impact on their emotions? Do you think an awareness of that would actually make people feel better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a simpler explanation: people who aren’t shitbags are made unhappy by being beaten down by shitbags, and the shitbags becoming more openly shitty.

  You don’t need to bring a geopolitical philosophy into it.

  The failing power of the empire and the rising resistance of the global south instills them with a sense of nihilism, because we are supposed to be enlightened and civilized (though we can no longer be said to be, with the rise of overt fascism in the west), while our enemies are regressive, authoritarian barbarians - two equal evils fighting each other, with no hope for anything better

  No one is being instilled with a sense of nihilism because of a loss of American influence in the global south, and no one really gives a shit about our enemies and their moral character. People care about stuff like “healthcare”, “poverty”, “civil rights”, “not burning the world”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What countries have the word “America” in them? How many countries in the Americas are “united States”?
  What do you call a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

  For the record, The United States of America is the only country with the word America in it’s name. Our immediate neighbor, The United Mexican States, is another country you could, but no one would, plausibly call the United States.

  The British isles contains two countries, Ireland and the UK. One of these is the home of the British, and the other would be much happier if you didn’t call them that.

  Insisting that you not refer to the people of a country by the most unique name in the countries name, because the geographic region has that word in common is … Odd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And you didn’t even read past the first sentence I see.

  Saying they’re the same because they both use a neural network is roughly equivalent to saying things are they same because they’re both manipulating kinetic energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … How if flying a spaceship different from driving a car? They’re both controlled applications of kinetic energy to move people or objects.

  At the end of the day, it’s all a pile of transistors and the only thing that is of import is the intent behind usage.

  In one case it’s saying you can use a neural net to take something rendered at resolution A/4 and make it visually indistinguishable from the same render at resolution A.
  The other is rendering something and radically changing the artistic or visual style.

  Upsampling can be replicated within some margin by lowering framerate and letting the GPU work longer on each frame. It strives to restore detail left out from working quicker by guessing.
  You cannot turn this feature off and get similar results by lowering the frame rate. It aims to add detail that was never present by guessing.

  Upsampling methods have been produced that don’t use neural networks. The differences in behavior are in the realm of efficiency, and in many cases you would be hard pressed to tell which is which. The neural network is an implementation detail.
  In the other case, the changes are more broad than can be captured by non AI techniques easily. The generative capabilities are central to the feature.

  Process matters, but zooming out too far makes everything identical, and the intent matters too. “I want to see your art better” as opposed to “I want to make your art better”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not bullying, that’s enforcing social mores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The list is realistically so much longer.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no precedent at all. Precedent implies that it happened, which it didn’t.
  Something being thought of and dismissed is just not evidence for that thing being done.

  It’s not like it was even that original of an idea. There had been two plane hijackings by cubans in the past year. Proposing “what if a third went wrong” is hardly a masterclasses in outside the box thinking.

  We’ve done other false flag operations. Other terrible things to domestic civilians.
  Using that time we didn’t actually do anything as an example is just odd.

  Personally, I think people like it just because it has a cooler name. “Mongoose” just doesn’t have the same ring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The list is realistically so much longer.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And? What happened next? Did they do an operation Northwoods? Did we go to war with Cuba? Was Johnson more aggressive on Cuba than Kennedy, or was he actually more engaged on diplomatic fronts?

  I’m not forgetting anything. It just doesn’t fit with any narrative that makes a lick of goddamned sense. Like, Kennedy rejected Northwoods because he was worried the troops might be needed in Europe, so starting a war in Cuba would be a bad move.
  He was strongly in favor of every other operation they proposed as part of the larger plan.

  Why would a massive conspiracy exist to kill Kennedy for rejecting a plan and then… Not do the plan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The list is realistically so much longer.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, and feel similarly about the inclusion of operation Northwoods.
  It’s most prominently a horrifying plan that was rejected and remained classified, with the proposer being replaced shortly afterwards (it’s entirely possible that’s a coincidence).

  Someone thinking of something horrible and then not doing it isn’t evidence that they would do something similar. There’s no particular reason to think they hid evidence because they admitted in the same deeply classified documents to doing far worse things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern problems require modern solutions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I get that. As I said, it’s the surprise that confuses me. I understand “ugh, why are we putting profit in _____”. It’s that someone would go “whoah, hold on, people are running daycares for money?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern problems require modern solutions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m honestly slightly confused by this response. Any business type will end up with some that do well, open more locations and get some manner of central office. It’ll inevitably be some manner of corporation because that just how we structure any business beyond small. The daycare is where the kids go and the office their handles local stuff like contact forms and medical notes, and corporate office handles billing and such.

  Like, yeah it’s weird for something as personal as childcare to be a franchise, but no one gets too worked up about corporate pharmacies and that’s literally trusting a stranger giving you a bottle of drugs to eat not to hand you the poison they keep a few feet over.

  It’s weird and kinda dystopian, but I’m confused by the shock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And significantly, if you needed someone to actually do a job that wasn’t made obsolete by the removal of material scarcity you’d need to find a way to make it meaningfully enticing to them. Material scarcity is the driver for so much suckage that it’s almost mind boggling how much would change if we even made a significant dent on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Waste and trash also aren’t an issue because of the aforementioned replicators. Waste and trash become the food. Energy is cheap, next to free, and about as clean as can be.
  Why would you live in squalor when you can just as easily push a button and teleport the trash and grime into the nothing?
  Education is cheap and easy because we have both plenty of educated people, and sentient AI. Same for medicine.

  It’s one of the few pieces of media that has traditionally outright agreed with the spirit of what you’re saying. There’s no need to shit on its message that if we find the cause to work together, we have it within us to develop fully automated luxury gay space communism because we’re more alike than we are different, and an exploration of those differences will bring us together.

  The difference between a post scarcity society and the good place is that it’s not that there’s no problems, it’s that there’s no significant material problems. And it’s not like the entire galaxy was like that.

  Cynicism becoming conflated with realism is boring.
  At it’s heart, the expanse was explicitly not post scarcity, so comparing it’s treatment of inequality with one where those problems have been solved is silly. It’s like saying the expanse is unrealistic because their spaceships are too fast, and Apollo 13 is a more realistic portrayal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cops pay Anon a visit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but why bother? They can just turn off the body camera and shoot them in self defense. Same outcome and way less work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, first off he wasn’t actually doing it after Celsius existed as a temperature scale. He made it a solid 18 years beforehand.
  Second, there are some issues. Specifically, ice freezes at 0, but it doesn’t stop getting colder. So if you have a bit of ice, that doesn’t tell you the temperature, just that it’s below a threshold. Boiling is more convenient because liquid water can’t get above 100, but you do have to consider side pressure.
  Fahrenheit used brine because as it freezes it forces salt out of the ice, making it more resistant to freezing. It self stabilizes its temperature, which is immensely handy.

  None of the people designing their scales envisioned that using the basic reference points for common calibration would be a thing. Just like how we don’t calibrate them with brine, ice, steam or butts today, instead relying on how we marked down how electrical resistance changes as a function of temperature and then calibrated reference numbers to get the scale right.

  It’s important to remember that the people in the past were largely not stupid, they simply hadn’t found out something we take for granted or they had priorities that we don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you get in the bathtub with the bike pump and have the hose connected to a nozzle going out. You might need something stronger that shrinkwrap depending on what you get, but your bathtub is invariably able to handle 1 atmosphere of pressure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, hear me out: a bathtub, some shrinkwrap, a bicycle pump and so e good old fashioned grit and determination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m one of those people who knows we should standardize, bit also finds Fahrenheit just very convenient.

  Like, when people say it’s 50 out, I immediately know that it’s going to feel about halfway between what I know 0 and 100 feel like. No one can even put up the pretext of doing that with Celsius, because not even the most pedantic person ever bothers to tell you when it’s 100 c out.

  In seriousness though, the Fahrenheit scale isn’t non-sense, it’s just addressing things we don’t much need help with anymore. The zero point was chosen as a temperature you can create reliably without particularly sophisticated tools, and the range is so freezing and boiling are 180 degrees apart, putting them on the opposite sides of a dial.