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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im curious what they will come up with⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that “Anti-woke” ideology has been revealed as a psyop by the Epstein files, I’m very curious to see if Trey Stone and Matt Parker will choose to reckon with their own contributions or if they’ll double-down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im curious what they will come up with⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The long arc of the South Park plot follows Trey and Parker’s political development from bitter, unknown California Republicans with sarcastic, nihilist tendencies to disillusioned Big Hollywood Conservatives with sarcastic, nihilistic tendencies being forced to reckon with the fact that their past attempts at satire have either had no impact or have actually reinforced the perceived social ills they originally set out to mock.

  Al Gore’s reappearance in S22E06 “Time to get Cereal” exemplifies this, even after he is proven to have been right about ManBearPig all along, this later appearance shows him as still being a huge weenie that cares more about being acknowledged as having been right than wanting to actually solve the problem. Having belatedly acknowledged the existential threat, Trey and Parker still can’t bring themselves to issue a call to action, and everything goes back to normal after they kick the can a little further down the road.

  The smug, sanctimonious tone has been a constant throughout, as if they still imagine that the greatest sin is caring about things. They’re so heavy-handed about it that they lampoon this aspect of their own show in Kyle’s “Don’t you see,” and “Y’know, I’ve learned something today” closing monologues. Even when he’s telling a real political truth, like in the banned S16E06 where the text of the monologue is an admission that terrorism works and the subtext is a refusal to acknowledge their own contributions to post-9/11 anti-muslim discrimination, their only advice to the gingers that act as a stand-in representing all minority groups facing irrational discrimination is that they just need to get as violent as the most aggressive extremists so that people will respect them. Which is itself a smug, sanctimonious way of suggesting that they can never be respected as people, only either seen as lesser or feared as an enemy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. But at least that bubble is popping. Soon we won’t have to worry about AI mania anymore. XD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes a lot of sense though, from the description it sounds like they’re trying to build an NPU out of memristors. We’ve been expecting them to show up to do this kind of math for a bit, since they’d cut a lot of redundant computation out of the layered matrix calculus that NPUs are optimized for if we can make them small, fast, and reliable enough.

  And it’s not just for “AI”. A lot of problems, like physics modeling or speech recognition, can be reduced to matrix math. An analog, programmable memristor network can do that kind of calculus almost passively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the opposite of harassment isn’t so much celebrating the targets as defending them directly. In that case, the opposite of kiwifarms is community defense. Everything from infiltrators watching kf from the inside to give the targets an early warning to the folks who provide safehouses for people that can’t stay at home or publish personal infosec guides to help reduce one’s target profile. Every little bit can help when you’re the target of a harassment campaign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Move to Washington D.C. or Cheyenne Wyoming, if you’re inside the blast radius then you won’t have to live to see the world end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "feel" gender?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As an enby who’s best described as “the polar opposite of an agender person”, I experience gender both intrinsically and extrinsically. Dysphoria is a good example of the former; I used to have a deep and profoundly uncomfortable sense of “wrongness” about my body, like the feeling of wearing your shoes on the wrong feet but for skin texture, body odor, the shape of one’s hands, vocal pitch, etc etc etc.

  Extrinsically, I’m mostly seen as a guy, which can be irritating when it results in getting called “Sir”, or a pleasant experience when someone recognizes that I’m not one of the guys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe‽

  We don’t have much of a basis for comparison outside of our solar system just yet, but we should have better data soon.

  And it being “normal” would just make it more science fictiony. =D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Our planet is scifi as hell. We’ve got natural magnetic shielding to protect our UV-blocking ozone layer from solar winds. This planet is so damn cozy<3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well I take the gremlin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hiking survival gear⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  She does at least have a trash bag on her, so she might be OK if she polices those cups effectively. =/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What types of cleaning products do you *really* need to clean the bathroom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any kind of soap for basic cleaning, but you don’t can substitute water and elbow grease in a pinch.

  For sanitizing, get a hypochlorite generator. They’re cheap (you can get them on Amazon for less than $25), and use electricity to turn a pinch of salt and some water into the same dilute bleach solution that Hospitals use to sanitize surfaces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unvarnished stainless steel can be non-stick if you use it right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you ladies doing tonight ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to hack one of these machines so I can dial in a precise and repeatable mix. =3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have, and you’re absolutely correct. There’s shades of Tribes in the momentum mechanics and something about them tickles my pathfinding brain something fierce. My biggest request would be a less-punishing endless mode so I can play around with the maps and builds more leisurely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been there⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I interpreted the “beautiful starry night” in the context where most of the populated world lives under so much light pollution you can barely see any stars…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are You Working on Wednesday⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SSL expiration monitoring scripts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become irresistible to women⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [Groundskeeper Willie Meme]

  Damn taxonomists, they’ve ruined taxonomy! XD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, he’s just the one who gets credit for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did I used to be homophobic? Am I?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether it’s a choice or something that was imposed upon them isn’t really relevant, deprogramming either case needs therapy with some extra steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Luigi showed the world that if you write your manifesto on your ammo then the media will spread it everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I realized I wanted to stop living in Texas the first time I traveled outside of the state in my early teens.

  I tried once in my 20’s, but I was too homesick for my partners to leave them behind. It took another 15 years after that point before the universe conspired to let me move to Colorado and bring them with me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is "human husbandry" called⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Parenting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve continue building up their new game Deadlock with a big update with six new heroes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is this game for? Mobas are so 2007…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order and remain on strike⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint, everyone doing hourly work should be paid starting the moment they begin their commute, plus half an hour of prep time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just watched this video yesterday called "we're not ready for superintelligence" Is there any truth to it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoops, slipped a couple of digits. XD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Multiple" future Hardspace projects are coming, as Hardspace: Shipbreaker devs Blackbird Interactive take full ownership⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both of these are very good ideas.

  Getting multiplayer to work well sounds like a very real challenge, given that the physics are complicated enough to slow the game to a crawl when a core blows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just watched this video yesterday called "we're not ready for superintelligence" Is there any truth to it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, it is a zero risk because superintelligence isn’t real.

  Corporations want digital slaves so they can stop paying for human labor, but human-equivalent intelligence requires human-brain-equivalent compute. It can’t be done any easier, because if it could then something on earth would have evolved brains which use that more efficient algorithm.

  The human brain costs about 10 watts of energy to run. Simulating an entire brain in real time would require more compute than the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, which costs about 30,000 watts of energy to run.

  They’d need to model a digital brain with a digital body in a digital environment and then train it to perform the desired task, all the while justifying the billions of dollars being spent on the project as somehow leading towards something better than just paying a human to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Laundromat????⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because if they don’t then I won’t use their chatbot.