knightly
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- Comment on Where do I find game demakes? 23 hours ago:
Lol, worst autocorrect ever. XD
- Comment on Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director 1 week ago:
If it’s the user’s responsibility to secure the operating systems they use then isn’t it both illogical and immoral for Microsoft to keep the source code secret?
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 week ago:
Because my partners are picky eaters and I literally cannot get them to even try vegetarian meals. If it doesn’t have beef, pork, or chicken then they won’t touch it. >_<
- Comment on Does light have an infinite lifetime? 3 weeks ago:
Photons would have to experience time in order to decay, but we know that they do not because they travel at the speed of light. It’s impossible for anything moving that fast to experience anything.
If photons experienced time, they would be unable to travel at the speed of light.
- Comment on Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’ 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like a good time for a union drive.
- Comment on When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why? 5 weeks ago:
It varies by culture, but the short explanation is “Victorian morality”.
- Comment on Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code 1 month ago:
Now hurry up and reverse it so I can start growing one. XD
- Comment on Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show 1 month ago:
We’re there already, an Australian team got started on the project months ago: theconversation.com/a-new-supercomputer-aims-to-c…
- Comment on You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
Sounds like an advantage to me…
- Comment on Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show 1 month ago:
Feels like a bit of a loop back there. “It can only ever be as smart as human output. So we’ll always need humans.” To… What? Create equivalent mistakes?
Should have finished reading the comment:
a human will always be needed to determine if the results make (real world) sense.
Maybe LLMs in their current form won’t be the drop in replacement, but it’s a critical milestone and a sign of what’s around the corner.
You’re right, but not in the way you think.
It’s only a matter of time before these compankes start trying to simulate human brains. We need state recognition of legal personhood for digital humans /before/ corporations start torturing them for profit.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 1 month ago:
We’ve got that too, this is just a backup / team-specific monitoring tool in case anything falls through the cracks. Got a six-nines uptime record to maintain. XD
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 1 month ago:
A work script that generates a report of SSL certificates and their expiration dates for multiple applications in prod.
- Comment on Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts 1 month ago:
11 Nazis
- Comment on I have attempted science. 1 month ago:
Numbers 5:11-31
- Comment on I have attempted science. 1 month ago:
He says they’re Catholic and personally do not believe in abortion, but that he also believes his religious beliefs shouldn’t be shoved on Americans and shouldn’t be the basis for legislation.
Then what was he doing at an anti-abortion rally?
- Comment on I have attempted science. 1 month ago:
You can be pro life and still see that those policies are needlessly cruel.
Not reallly, the whole notion of anti-abortion politics is that the rights of pregnant people are secondary to the rights of fetuses. It’s cruel by definition.
There’s a big gap you can fall into while being pro life between forcing women to carry dead fetuses until they become horribly sick and suggesting that healthy fetuses be carried but maybe given up for adoption.
Both ends of that “gap” involve an eliminaton of the right to bodily autonomy for anyone that is or might become pregnant.
Honestly his response there sounds like he’s not one of those insane people.
It sounds like he wants to distance himself from the slow-rolling clusterf&%k that is the state of abortion rights in this country without distancing himself from his anti-Christian belief that life begins at conception. The Bible itself has a recipe for herbal abortifacients and explicitly states that human life begins at first breath.
- Comment on I have attempted science. 1 month ago:
I’m sure all the women rendered dead or permanently infertile by the abortion bans passed since then can appreciate the nuance of Pyle’s belief in the separation of church and state. /s
- Comment on I have attempted science. 1 month ago:
In April 2019, a Twitter post by Pyle from 2017 resurfaced regarding the pro-life rally March For Life. According to some reporters, Pyle’s tweet expressed support for, or defended, March For Life. The tweet caused many fans to turn against Strange Planet and its creator, in a controversy described by at least one outlet as an example of the Milkshake Duck phenomenon.
- Comment on Supernova Absorption for Nulification 1 month ago:
In short, no.
Precenting a supernova would require halting the gravitational collapse of the star as it runs out of fuel. This means either feeding the star faster than it can burn (our sun is too small to nova and still burns through 600 million tons of hydrogen per second), or removing the iron, silicon and other metals from the core of the star faster than they can build up (slightly fewer hundreds of millions of tons per second).
You’re going to need some very unrealistic scifi to accomplish either of those. Either some mechanism for pulling gigatons per second from the bottom of the star’s gravity well, a plentiful supply of gas giant planets you can drop into it, or both.
- Comment on Does more knowledge/awareness have a tendency to reduce enthusiasm for some subjects/activities? 1 month ago:
Maybe depression, maybe ADHD?
I’m in the latter group and it’s definitely a thing to lose interest in a topic once I’ve delved beyond some critical threshold of complexity.
- Comment on Does more knowledge/awareness have a tendency to reduce enthusiasm for some subjects/activities? 1 month ago:
The expression “to learn how the sausage is made” is almost ancient, but not every subject is a sausage factory.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’d ask “So how many dudes have you slept with?” but I don’t think that one works on most of us furries =3
- Comment on How can a person be very sad, irritated or angry and still not show it on their face ? 2 months ago:
Same!
I’m nonbinary and spent the last 25-ish years suppressing my feelings in order to blend in at school and work. One ends up getting very good at masking themselves, wearing a “Resting Neutral Face” so often that it becomes a reflexive defense mechanism.
I finally escaped Texas a couple of years back and got started on hormone therapy, which has been amazing. My friends and relatives have all commented on how much happier I seem now, but I haven’t been able to drop the mask entirely as of yet. I still have a hard time showing negative emotions, Anger and sadness are wired in like a PTSD trigger that numbs my expression before anything more than concern reaches my face.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m quite curious to learn about the particular mechanisms behind the phenomenon as well, but what I know for sure is that my plural friend got a big boost to their self-esteem and overall mental wellness when they came out to me and got an affirming response.
Whether their alters are distinct individuals, shards of a fragmented self, or something else entirely, I’ve found that taking people at their word when they tell you who they are and treating them how they ask to be treated to be a mutually-beneficial social habit. They get the comfort of not having to mask themselves around me, and I get to learn from a whole new perspective on the human experience. 🤗
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I rather enjoy “y’all” as a plural second person pronoun. =D
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I had a plural friend back before they started building communities for themselves online and the consistency of their identities over the years leads me to suspect that there is a biological basis, but the scientific research on the topic is still in its infancy.
That said, there is some adjacent research that seems to point in that direction. The Internal Family Systems Model is a perspective on psychotherapy that begins with the assumption that all individuals contain multitudes, and works to restore mental balance and harmony by identifying the disparate parts of one’s self and addressing the conflicts between them. There are multiple studies over the last three decades showing therapies based on that model to be effecatious for the treatment of depression and other psychological symptoms in some populations.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They’re calling that one “Dissociative Identity Disorder” these days, and it’s clinically distinct from plurality.
DID is usually a trauma response, one marked by memory gaps as the separate personalities are partitioned off from one another. One can’t switch identities consciously, but rather does so involuntarily as a stress response.
Plurality is usually benign and doesn’t involve notable memory gaps as the different alters can be co-conscious and are not strongly partitioned apart. Plural individuals can often switch which personality is “fronting” consciously. Rather than a disorder, it’s an uncommon form of neurodiversity.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah!
The Royal “We”, aka the “Majestic Plural”, is the use of a plural pronoun to refer to a single person holding a high office.
For plural folks, using a plural pronoun to reference the multiple persons existing within a single body is also appropriate (though I don’t know if that usage has a fancy name yet~). And when referencing these persons individually, we just use their own pronouns the same as with non-plural folks. 🤓
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sadly, many educational institutions still teach a prescriptive form of English that fails to acknowledge this, but singular “They” is centuries older than using “You” instead of “Thou”. It was already in common use way back in Shakespear’s time. If thou thinkst this confusing, change thyself before demanding others change for thine own comfort.
Also, some people are plural, so the ambiguity of “they” is inclusive to them.
Also-also, the only other pronouns in common use that aren’t explicitly gendered are “it/its”, which works just fine for me but some people find dehumanizing. Nonbinary and agender folks often prefer “they/them” over "it/itsx or neopronouns.
Also-also-also, “picking new words to use” is extremely non-trivial for pronouns because it requires the entire English-speaking population to relearn fundamental communication habits. It’s much easier to simply accept the fact that singular they is extremely common.
- Comment on Are people in the stock photos real? 2 months ago:
Yes and no.
The actors can be met in person as they are real, but the generic characters they portray are not.