Meron35
@Meron35@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I am actually so thankful for the AI voices.
I used to feel guilty for dismissing videos with thick accents because I couldn’t tell if it was the content was trash or I just couldn’t understand the accent.
Now with AI voices I can confirm that the content was indeed just trash.
- Comment on Truly, it was the end of an evangelion 1 week ago:
Spoiler
OG series: bad ending Rebuild movies: good (?) ending Upcoming: true ending
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 1 week ago:
The Gen Z state is simply the rational response in dealing with customer facing situations where either 1. the customer is problematic, or 2. if the worker genuinely doesn’t know what what to do.
Responding or engaging to problematic customers (racist, homophobic, misogynistic) can only lead to conflict, reprimand, or lawsuits.
Responding with inaccurate information or simply saying leads to conflict, reprimand, or poor reviews.
Both have worsened as people have become more polarised, and management cuts funding and hours for training.
- Comment on Eboni Dark'ness Clucking Raven Way 1 week ago:
Even applications to Gregg’s (UK bakery chain famous for sausage rolls) require 1000 word personal statements
- Comment on get zapped, idiot 1 week ago:
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- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 2 weeks ago:
Did the professor willingly do this? Around/after COVID a lot of universities were forcibly claiming the lectures recorded by teachers in previous semesters as their own IP so they could lay them off. Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s yet another cost cutting measure.
- Comment on Have a good day <3 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Thank you, Nvidia 🙏😇 3 weeks ago:
Damn even DLSS 5 doesn’t know the correct size of his face
- Comment on Anon misses flash 4 weeks ago:
It never died though? The Devs just pivoted to different platforms. Itch, Newgrounds, and even the major app stores have endless content from indie devs.
Flash games were just never mainstream enough. And let’s not forget that the most popular flash games were those shitty FB games, like FarmVille and Candy Crush, or that the shitty mobile games all started off as clones/ports of already popular flash games, like Angry Birds/Crush the Castle.
- Comment on Anon introduces himself 4 weeks ago:
Nuzzle nuzzle
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- Comment on butts n beans 5 weeks ago:
It’s a new form factor, you’re supposed to place it between two buns like a hotdog
- Comment on OP figures out love languages 5 weeks ago:
Unironically good advice though.
Some relationship experts recommend taking elements of treating your SO more like pets, because we are way more patient towards them, understand and reciprocate their needs for affection better, and don’t expect them to perfect.
- Comment on It's literally science 1 month ago:
🖥️🦐
- Comment on Strange Times 1 month ago:
Savage
- Comment on Get. Out 1 month ago:
That tracks for finance though. Many in that industry are the grind hard in your 20s-30s, retire in Thailand in your 40s type.
- Comment on The Duality of Lemmy 1 month ago:
Yes.
Spoilers for every Monster Hunter plot:
The monsters in the wild are becoming way more aggressive/crazy, resulting in not only the ecosystem going out of whack, but also endangering human settlements.
You start off as a rookie hunter by culling them, and as you work up the ranks you discover that the source of this imbalance is actually due to a mysterious new monster (not actually that mysterious because it’s usually the cover art monster).
You gradually gain more experience and kill the flagship monster, graduating low rank (the first half of the game), roll credits.
But it turns out the mysterious new monster only invaded the ecosystem because it was escaping from an even bigger threat, the new Elder Dragon of the game, whose awakening is a once in a 1000 year occurrence and is causing even more mayhem in the ecosystem.
You work up the ranks again, and slay the Elder Dragon, graduating high rank (second half of game), credits roll for second time.
Rinse and repeat for the G rank DLC/expansion, where you also get some new areas.
Canonically everything is done for the ecosystem. Gameplay wise there is significant dissonance as you genocide multiple species just for a 1% drop to upgrade your corpse dress.
- Comment on Louis Rossmann spent the week using AI to get his repair business #1 on google - The Modern Internet Is a Joke 1 month ago:
Kagi also has SlopStop. Basically sponsorblock but for AI slop.
SlopStop | Kagi’s Docs - help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html
- Comment on Louis Rossmann spent the week using AI to get his repair business #1 on google - The Modern Internet Is a Joke 1 month ago:
The default experience depends on what you’re searching for, usually traditional search engines fall apart pretty quickly when it comes to anything related to a possible purchase, or more technical/esoteric info.
Tbf, one of Kagi’s killer features is its ability to up/down rank websites, which means you also need to spend some time customising it to your tastes. No more Pinterest, quora, medium, etc
- Comment on [Video] Australian police violently beat up protester with his hands up at demonstration against Israeli president Isaac Herzog visiting. 1 month ago:
New affordable housing policy
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 2 months ago:
More like bill of wrongs amirite
- Comment on It's barely a science. 2 months ago:
No need to convince me of Econ 101 BS, economists themselves are well aware of it since at least the 1980s. That’s why basically every unit of Econ above the 101 level shits on it, and any good Econ 101 shits on itself.
As a general rule of thumb, anything in economics before 1970 basically ran on vibes due to lack of data. Unfortunately, current day undergrad Econ 101 lags at least 20 years behind the current consensus.
That’s why the Card, Angrist, and Imbens paper was such a big deal. They used (natural) experimental data, and found out that using Econ 101 supply and demand to study the labour market doesn’t work. That’s why there’s an entire field called labour economics, which is only taught at the graduate level.
Most policymakers probably only learnt Econ 101 maybe 4 decades ago, so they’re impression of Econ is probably six decades out of date.
The Death of “Econ 101” - www.currentaffairs.org/…/the-death-of-econ-101
- Comment on It's barely a science. 2 months ago:
I’m so tired of this flack that economics gets, that it is somehow “lesser” because it is a “soft science.”
Economics does run randomised control trials. Economics does adhere to testable hypotheses. Economics does use rigorous statistics/maths.
You how sometimes grants/government programs are randomly allocated? Those are live, randomised control trials, and if you read the fine print you’ll find a project number for researchers studying the effects of rental subsidies, health insurance, etc, one of which being the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment. Those cancerous recommender algorithms, which are the culmination of millions of live A/B tests? Developed by the Econ PhDs poached by Big tech.
Oregon Medicaid health experiment - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/…/Oregon_Medicaid_health_experim…
It is true that many hypotheses cannot have experiments run. But this makes it even more impressive when economists find natural experiments. For example, the 2021 Nobel Laureates Card, Angrist, and Imbens studied the effects of minimum wage by looking at the towns on the border of New Jersey/New York, which had implemented different minimum wages. They found that increasing minimum wage did not increase unemployment, completely contrary to ahem conservative wisdom.
The Prize in Economic Sciences 2021 - Popular science background - NobelPrize.org - www.nobelprize.org/prizes/…/popular-information/
In contrast, many of the supposed “hard” sciences cannot run experiments either, or also adhere to untestable simplifying assumptions. Ecology, physics, geology (just to name a few) all study systems which are too large and complex to run experiments, yet the general public does not perceive them as “soft”.
The difference is that economics is unfortunately one of those fields where lots of unqualified people (read politicians) have lots of strong opinions about, and in turn has a disproportionate influence on everyone. Those criticised austerity measures in the wake of the GFC? That was due to politicians implementing the policies of the infamous “Growth in a Time of Debt” by Reinhart-Rogoff paper, which was published as a “proceeding” and hence not peer reviewed. During the peer review process was found to contain numerous errors including incorrect excel formulas. It didn’t matter - policymakers liked the conclusion, and rushed its implementation anyway.
Growth in a Time of Debt - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt
If you look into any awful policy, you will see a similar pattern. Even Milton Friedman, as an ultra hard libertarian for advocated for lowering taxes and abolishing all government benefit programs, recognised that poor people need some assistance, and so actually advocated for replacing benefits with a universal negative income tax (an even more extreme version of UBI). It didn’t matter - policymakers of the Reagan Thatcher era heard the lowering taxes and cutting welfare part, and didn’t do the UBI.
- Comment on My morning routine in 2026 2 months ago:
- Comment on Drag 2 months ago:
Shannel should be the guest judge
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 months ago:
Unfortunately this is an increasingly unviable strategy, because even “good” creators have started using clickbaity titles and thumbnails, even if their content has remained the same. Some have even retroactively changed the titles/thumbnails of their older videos to this style.
Clickbait is engineered by behavioural scientists to be as addictive as possible, and has been proven to trigger similar neural pathways to other addictions, such as drug or gambling.
Basically every creator with a shred of self awareness has admitted that they hate creating clickbait thumbnails, titles, and phrases like smash that like button and subscribe; they end up doing it anyway because A/B testing with randomised thumbnails and titles clearly show that they work.
The live A/B testing in particular obscures whether a creator employs clickbait or not - you may be under the impression that a certain creator has remained principled, when in reality you were just allocated to the control group by chance.
I feel that it’s one of those situations where the game is rigged, and the only way to “win” is to change the rules yourself.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 months ago:
Look into DeArrow (by same creators of SponsorBlock), which offers crowdsourced “de-clickbaited” video titles and thumbnails.
- Comment on Anon watches Super Size Me 2 months ago:
Not disinformation. A 2006 study explicitly studied and showers that while a heavy diet fast food diet is not good for your liver, it cannot explain the extremely poor liver conditions Morgan presented in the documentary.
10 years later, Morgan admitted that he was a heavy alcoholic during filming.
Fast-food-based hyper-alimentation can induce rapid and profound elevation of serum alanine aminotransferase in healthy subjects - PMC - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2565580/
A Big Mac Attack, or a False Alarm? - WSJ - wsj.com/…/a-big-mac-attack-or-a-false-alarm-15271…
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 months ago:
Ubisoft asked the Rayman team (who have produced some of the best platformers) to develop Prince of Persia The Lost Crown, regarded as the best metroidvania of 2024.
It failed to meet sales expectations, so they disbanded the teams and cancelled the sequel.
Turns out gamers™️ do vote with their wallets, and they vote for churned out sequels.
