MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Oop oop hrk! >=[
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
In this regard, I absolutely have come to agree.
I always say: “The Internet should be for anyone! But it shouldn’t have been for everyone .”
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
There it is. Now you can all see it! This is the violence inherent in the system!
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
You’re right, I try to remind myself to marvel at the incredibly cool science we wield every single day.
But I’m also pained because I understand where the “boring future” folks come from too:
Where would we be if all this incredible technology was actually designed for humanity and not simply for profits at all cost? If optimizing for humanity was the target instead of exploiting it?
Smartphones, for instance. Small, networked computers! In your pocket! Wow! I’ve always wanted a pocket laptop! But they sure don’t feel like it. They’re designed to be content (mainly ad) delivery devices and data miners first, and useful machines second.
(There are some tiny niche actual-computer palmtops now which are pretty cool.)
I think that’s the part that gets people kinda depressive about modern science breakthroughs. The coolest stuff, the working folk don’t even get to tangibly feel much benefit from.
Discovery is locked behind paywall research journals and implementation is marketed in the interests of capital and used against us to make us work harder for longer hours for less pay.
What’s happening to space is a VERY stark illustration of all this. NASA unifying humanity and working globally on projects like the ISS was INSPIRING.
Now it’s all about private interests and their stupid desires, like space hotels for the elite.
I bet we’d marvel at technology designed for human beings, and not sheer exploitation.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
“You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby…”
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
“They said I could become anything, so I became everything.”
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
Bursting through the doors OUTSIDE in a panic.
Looking at some random shocked person pointing toward the park.
Rushing to the park to see grass.
Sobbing uncontrollably feeling all the grass.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 2 weeks ago:
The worm is calling the shots here.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 3 weeks ago:
Oh goodness, it’s mounted to his HIP. At first glance I thought this was a whole other level of parody product lmao.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 3 weeks ago:
“But this supplement was just researched and developed by an exceptionally clever homeschooling mom who wanted to take on big pharma!”
- Comment on do what you love 3 weeks ago:
That’s something I hope to bring to the table as a digital artist someday.
I already know there’s plenty of hyper-introverted socially awkward artists who could absolutely flatten what I can do, but I feel very comfortable empathizing, working in teams, and figuring people out. I hope that’s seen as an asset some time.
But for now, I aim to just do it for myself, and talk too much. :)
- Comment on do what you love 3 weeks ago:
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RhinosColleges don’t play, they freaking charge your ass.” - Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 3 weeks ago:
Looking at OpenWRT, good Lord I still want this for routers.
For printers would be nice too though. I’m honestly surprised we can’t just build kit printers the same way we can build 3D printers, I mean, could we?
Using something like Klipper but more kinda like CUPS?
Get toner or ink in generic containers that attach to print heads? I dunno it doesn’t seem far fetched.
I’m honestly done caring that “the normies won’t want it because everything that isn’t a smartphone with a one-button app scares them.”
What will start as “enthusiast printer kits” should force openness on the printer industry at large.
- Comment on Go on, keep them. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 🚨 PLATYPUS PSA 🚨 3 weeks ago:
On the pain scale.
- Comment on On Black Holes... 3 weeks ago:
I had a few in highschool that scared me big time!
But I had to give them back at the end of the year.
- Comment on On Black Holes... 3 weeks ago:
Wish I had answers, but converse to your handle, people expressing this kind of vulnerable, raw curiosity so that we all might learn something, is exactly why I love the Internet. :D
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks ago:
As a Christian Anarchist, I often find myself lonely and without a third place as well, because of what churches have become.
Yeah, I still haven’t found a church that I felt I belonged in. I got close once, but they couldn’t pay skyrocketing rent hikes and got taken over by a larger, faker, church. One that was more about feel-good seminars and recruiting free labor volunteers than anything Jesus actually had to say.
Churches of old in the US used to be based. People of today wouldn’t recognize them. They helped the poor and were a third place and looked out for each other, they were also pro-union, and this became a huge “Problem” for capitalists, who saw Christians as annoying leftists who didn’t share their pathological obsession with money.
There was a VERY concerted and well documented conspiracy by the moneyed class to infiltrate and rot American Christianity into the often capitalist, Republican-talking-point drooling zombie it is today.
Highly recommend Behind the Bastards: How the Rich ate Christianity to see just how deep this goes.
The Church used to be a threat to these barons and tyrants and bigots, rather than their lapdogs.
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks ago:
This reminds me of the people who genuinely fall for “romance scams”, and the scammer has all the personality and vocabulary of a wet paper bag.
And yet somehow someone will believe they’re some hot (barely literate) U.S soldier stuck in Kuwait until they can get a flight home to meet the victim for only $2000… Wait, $1000 more… But then there’s a $500 fee… And then…
Blows my mind…
- Comment on Discuss: 1 month ago:
I immediately heard this in Link’s voice.
I can imagine a sparrow hopping back and forth now:
“Hup, hup hup, (wing flap) hyaahh!”
- Comment on functional 1 month ago:
Wait, you’re totally right! I had it turned around!
Quaternions avoid the gimbal lock issue, and are more efficient overall, but they’re a bit more complicated to understand.
Euler is more user-friendly on the editing side of things, and easier to understand, but it’s got some shortcomings.
Both are an option in Blender and Godot for instance, because one might suit a given situation better than the other.
- Comment on functional 1 month ago:
Oh sweet! That’s the magic that makes rotations work intuitively in Blender and game engines! :D
… Still can’t say I understand it but I sure am grateful!
- Comment on US education 1 month ago:
What a coincidence! I had a very similar path! My elementary mis-education was largely a fundie school using Abeka as well. Their weird religious nationalism was so crazy when I look back on it. It’s amazing they could actually publish this crap.
I wish I still had all the old books we had to get because that would make for a good laugh (and possibly an embarrassment campaign.)
Like c’mon we were kids how were we supposed to know? But also it just felt so bullshitty, like a written form of that awkward feeling you got when it was really obvious adults were lying to manipulate you and thought you were stupid.
It was in California, so eventually I had to move to the state curriculum also, around middle school, for my grades to actually count.
Honestly, that requirement saved my intellect. I went to a secular charter school where I was pushed into interacting with so many different people of different perspectives, and I would be a much crappier person without that experience.
Even today the damage isn’t gone, there’s still so much untangling and deprogramming to do.
These “curriculums” are child abuse.
After all that, I still kept my faith, not because of that upbringing, but in spite of it.
- Comment on data transfer 1 month ago:
9 months later:
Wife: (goes into labor)
now playing: E1M1.wav 🔊 - Comment on Dandelion cannon 1 month ago:
🎵Da-doo da-doo…🎵
- Comment on well? 1 month ago:
Those are all really interesting factors to consider and I appreciate the response!
I’ll come clean, when I wrote it, I was just making a funny, like… A “decaying vacuum” would suck less over time. . .than a black hole. Lol XD
To your point though, less likelihood of finding other life is such a wildcard, for sure. (Less likelihood of meeting cool benevolent spacefarers…but also less likely to be spotted by something like Mass Effect’s Reapers, or accidentally bring home Xenomorphs or extragalactic pathogens lol)
And…not being able to ever see the beginning of everything…my curious mind says that’d be such a bummer but also…oddly beautiful? I’ll have to ponder that…
- Comment on well? 1 month ago:
Well, that might suck slightly less in the long run?
- Comment on I LIKE CORN! 2 months ago:
“Hwat in cornnashun!?”
- Comment on Our dancers have infinite curves 2 months ago:
Believe it or not, mathematics majors who didn’t put “engineer” on their resume. :(
(This is not meant to insult anybody, aside from whomever is responsible for this “degree market value” idea.)
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 2 months ago:
Unfortunately same with Bill Nye. He seemed so pissed at getting recognized by people at a Symposium.
Like geeze dude sorry you inspired people as kids and encouraged them to pursue science and they’re excited to meet you.
