ChairmanMeow
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- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 3 days ago:
On Thursday the Reform website was updated to accept cryptocurrency donations. There was a disclaimer stating that all donations were subject to Electoral Commission rules and that anonymous donations were not permissible.
They don’t accept anonymous donations. So that doesn’t appear to be a concern at least.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 5 days ago:
Gender dysphoria is a mental problem, in the sense that it causes mental distress to be in the wrong body. The treatment is not therapy, it’s surgery to correct the body to fit the mind. A therapist can help identify the cause of the distress, but if the cause is the body then that therapist will recommend surgery.
I recall seeing research suggesting that trans people’s brainwaves more closely match that of their “desired” gender than that of their sex. It reinforces the idea that being transgender isn’t a mental issue, it’s a physical issue that causes mental distress.
A trans man isn’t a woman who merely thinks she’s a man, it’s actually a man inside that skull. Only the body underneath it is wrong. It’s as if tomorrow you woke up in the body of the opposite gender. That will (after the novelty wears off) start distressing you. Trans people didn’t wake up like that, they were born with that feeling.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 5 days ago:
Why did the Guardian even bother to write this article? It isn’t really newsworthy imo.
- Comment on ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code 5 days ago:
I think the point is that even if LLMs suck at task A, they might be really good at task B. Just because code written by LLMs is often riddled with security flaws, doesn’t mean LLMs also suck at identifying those flaws.
- Comment on White House Health Report Included Fake Citations 6 days ago:
So scientific fraud then. Will anyone be punished for it though?
- Comment on Dammit dad 2 weeks ago:
Goldilocks no?
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 3 weeks ago:
It will read a dump from the ROM. The project obviously can’t be held responsible for how you may have obtained that ROM.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 3 weeks ago:
Those are the references to where the assets are located in the original ROM (that’s the data inside those json files). There’s no actual asset in there.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 3 weeks ago:
You can’t do what you say, because the original ROM is required to get the assets. Just this repo gets you nowhere w. running the game.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 3 weeks ago:
Decomps are legal because no copyrighted material is being distributed. They typically require the original ROM to run (eg for assets).
- Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying all schizophrenics are prone to be Nazis, don’t put words in my mouth. I’m well aware of what the Nazis did.
I’m saying that West’s schizophrenia is likely making him prone to Nazi sympathies, evidenced by his apparent lack of those sympathies when he is on his meds. In his case these two are very strongly correlated. Schizophrenia is a very complex mental disease that manifests differently in different people. We don’t know exactly what goes on in his head, but we know he isn’t sound of mind. Hitler is theorized to have had a form of paranoid schizophrenia too. West specifically seems to believe that black people are “the real jews” and that Hitler was therefore right to kill the “imposters” or something stupid. The reasoning he presents does fit with paranoid schizophrenia.
To be clear, schizophrenia is a disease that we know how to manage, and most schizophrenics do so just fine. West in particular is an idiot for not taking his meds. And of course his diagnosis doesn’t absolve him from the responsibility of his actions. But they are clearly related in his case.
He is also egotistical and seems to have some kind of messiah-complex. That does appear to just be him being a piece of shit.
- Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it 3 weeks ago:
Oh no it is. West has iirc quite severe schizophrenia, and he’s not taking his meds for them due to paranoia (the meds are “stifling his creativity” you know).
He wasn’t a Nazi before. Since he’s off his meds, he turned total Nazi. And iirc in the brief time where he started taking his meds again he apologised for some of the Nazi stuff. And now he’s off them again so it’s Nazi o’ clock.
Seems very causally related tbh.
- Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it 3 weeks ago:
He has genuine and severe mental illnesses. He’s off his meds at the moment due to his paranoia about them.
It’s incredibly clear when he’s off his meds, as when he’s on them he turns a lot more reasonable and not Nazi at all.
- Comment on doctors 3 weeks ago:
The reason for that is that surgeons are rated based on their success percentages meaning they’ll recommend against risky surgeries.
The upside of this is that surgeons aren’t operating willy-nilly on people and will make a proper risk assessment. The downside is that overweight people have an inherently higher risk of complications from surgery, so some surgeons will pass.
It’s not because they think these people don’t need it, it’s because they think it’s too risky. They’re usually not wrong about that, you just need to find a surgeon willing to take the risk or, if possible, reduce the risk by losing weight.
- Comment on Marvel Officially Retitles Thunderbolts as The New Avengers 4 weeks ago:
Rumor has it that Marvel was worried it would bomb, and naming it “New Avengers” would put them in an awkward position moving forward. Thunderbolts was the backup-insurance-title basically.
Now that the movie seems to be doing well, it’s getting its proper title.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 is reportedly playable in its entirety and could be announced this year 4 weeks ago:
No, HL:Alyx functions as a sort-of prequel. The ending of it does provide a stepping stone from which HL3 could pick up again.
- Comment on John Lithgow Says He Was Surprised by Backlash Over Joining ‘Harry Potter’ Series 5 weeks ago:
Not the guy you replied to, but:
In 1983, he announced in the New Statesman that Hitler had his reasons for exterminating six million men, women and children. “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity,” he said. “I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”
That’s… pretty fucking anti-semitic ngl. He’s basically victim-blaming Jewish people for the Holocaust. Also “picking on them” is quite a eufemism for “industrially genociding”.
That’s got nothing to do with zionism or being anti-Israel.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
You might have a bad time with all the plagues that have gone extinct since then.
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 5 weeks ago:
That’s a dark blue suit though, matching the dress code. Trump wore a much brighter blue.
- Comment on Anon gets dommed by his barber 5 weeks ago:
How about you actually put some product like wax or gel in your hair so you can style it properly?
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 1 month ago:
I mean, non-voters aren’t much more progressive really. They’re more likely to be independents (in the US at least). See:
They do skew a bit more D, but not massively so. They’re also largely non-white, less well educated and poorer. It’s a bit of a toss-up whether any of those demographics skew R or D.
I don’t really see much evidence that they’re more progressive, more centrist at best really. Although I suppose if you flatten political beliefs on a 1-dimensional axis, that does mean more progressive on average.
Do note that this differs per state, and voter turnout is also correlated with general results skewing harder in a certain direction. Complexities all around!
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 1 month ago:
Most non-voters don’t hold significantly different beliefs than the voting population. In non-competitive states, it means motivating them to vote is unlikely to tip the scales. Why bother tipping the results from 60% to 55% by spending millions on it? Better to allocate those funds to a 53% to 48% potential flip.
In battleground states they do try to reach these people.
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 1 month ago:
It happened six times: …wikipedia.org/…/Category:Non-cardinals_elected_p…
Pope Urban VI was the last to have been elected without having been a cardinal, in 1378.
- Comment on 'Madame Web' Outstreamed 'Deadpool & Wolverine' in First Weeks (Despite Flopping in Theaters) 1 month ago:
Not sure that says all that much, each service caters to different audiences anyway.
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 1 month ago:
Actually any Catholic man could be Pope, but the cardinals usually pick one of their own.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 1 month ago:
Could well be European. EU Windows installs are significantly less bloaty than shit than US installs are.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 1 month ago:
If the tariff is too great the cost becomes unspreadable. Spreading cost requires other regions to still afford the new price, and with numbers like this that’s unlikely.
About one-third of Switches were sold in the US. Spreading a 145% tariff means hiking everyone’s prices by 40-50%. That will murder sales in other regions.
Better to eat a 30% temporary loss that adds pressure on Trump to reverse-course than to eat an even higher loss and face backlash worldwide for making others pay for Trumps idiocy.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 month ago:
If you copy everyone else you’re not going to be profiting much, as your product isn’t competitive. You have to keep iterating on an idea to stay ahead of the competition.
IP law lets companies stop innovating after they’ve come up with a product, because other companies cannot directly compete using the same or a similar design.
Did Android phones stop innovating because Apple did a smartphone first?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 month ago:
There are only 3.5 billion jobs worldwide. A good amount of those work for the government, in the army, in the public sector, etc…
I’d be surprised if it manages to get above a billion to be honest. Remember that copyright is a fairly recent invention.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 month ago:
How about requiring IPs to belong to a specific person, with a set expiry of say 10 years? Corporations wouldn’t be able to own IP, only pay for the rights (for the first 10 years).
