Taldan
@Taldan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 days ago:
The psychology of those incels would be fascinating to study
They enjoy insulting and humiliating these women for doing sex work, then they go ahead and pay for it
Granted that’s been the history of sex work for thousands of years, this is just one of the most direct examples of it. Wonder if it boils down to them wanting to project their own shame and guilt on the women
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 days ago:
Is that the show where the guy invites on OF models, then insults and humiliates them? Where the models are only going on there because they so many of his listeners then subscribe to their OF?
- Comment on smoooooth 1 week ago:
ACID SHARK VOLCANO
I think you answered your own question… because that sounds so damn cool
- Comment on smoooooth 1 week ago:
Had to look up the place. Looks like the temperature gets a bit over 100F (38C) in some places. Acidity isn’t an issue for the diver, although it could be damaging to their gear. Search results suggest this picture was taken at ~160 feet, which is a reasonable dive for any technical diver
I’ve done a similar dive profile in Yellowstone looking at hydrothermal vents. It’s a reasonable dive for any experienced and qualified diver. I’m guessing they didn’t have a technical diver, with equipment, on hand. It was likely much easier to drop a camera and bait
- Comment on Fun Facts! 1 week ago:
I’d bet on more submarines in the universe. Trillions upon trillions of galaxies in the universe, each having billions of stars. At least a few are going to have submarines to add to the count
- Comment on An oopsie occured 3 weeks ago:
I actually had this happen once. Dasher got in an accident
The app just showed his car going in circles around the point he crashed
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 3 weeks ago:
In many cases it’s cheaper to get delivery than to drive
About the only reason I would need a car is getting groceries or food. The median cost of car ownership in the US is over $10,000 per year. I choose to not own a car and instead pay for delivery. I save a ton of money doing it. The time savings is just a bonus
Since you’ve indicated you’re a judgemental dick, you probably won’t take the clear L here, and can’t argue against my circumstances for using delivery, you’ll likely try to attack me, as a person. To get ahead of that: I do leave the house plenty. I just prefer to walk and bike everywhere. Most stores are inconveniently far away, and I’m quite limited as to how much I can carry back with me
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 3 weeks ago:
can I take your swearing at me and telling me to be silent
He clearly said Sharon. Are you sharon?
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 3 weeks ago:
They wouldn’t even accept us beginning to get ready to leave until our clock out time, because up to that point we are supposed to be working
Even the US outlawed that. What country do you live in where that’s normal?
In the US if you’re required to do something for work, at work, you’re on the clock. For example, if you have a uniform you’re required to wear, you clock in then out it on
Lots of employers break that law, which is why wage theft is by far the #1 form of theft in the US, but it is the law
Similar thing with responding to work messages outside normal work hours
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 3 weeks ago:
It’s an initial proof-of-concept. It’ll be developed into more complex games eventually, that’s not really an issue for it
The main issue is that it’s just a facade. It completely lacks the foundation required for a game. It’s a world without hard rules, which is a terrible experience for any user. The game isn’t determining cause and effect from actions. It’s just guessing at what would come next
What’s the point of decorating an in-game house if the next time you go there, the AI forgot what was supposed to be there?
What’s the point of completing quests if the AI forgets what you’ve completed?
What’s the point of getting new gear if AI hallucinates what gear you have?
There is no progress in an AI generated game because everything is made up as it goes. Google would need to fundamentally change their approach to allow for that
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
30% is the standard retail markup for many things
It most certainly is not standard in retail. Most retail stores have a margin of a couple percentage points. Walmart, for example, is ~3% net margin most years
Unless you’re trying to compare wholesale price to final consumer price. In which case I would say that’s a silly and pointless thing to compare, but even then it’s far smaller than 30% across retail and varies wildly based on the individual item being sold
A 30% cut is only really common in the tech sector where the underlying economics make it feasible
- Comment on Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' 4 weeks ago:
The market is going to be flooded with so much slop. It’ll be incredibly difficult for regular game developers to get any sort of budget to compete
We as consumers need to find a way to reward quality games
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 5 weeks ago:
These blocks look very different as a person on the street. They mostly only look bad from above where you can see all of them together
We have some burtalist apartment buildings in Minneapolis. They’re generally desirable apartments
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 5 weeks ago:
The USSR collapsed entirely in the early '90s
Safe to assume everyone is aware they had severe societal issues
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 5 weeks ago:
I hate it. Feels so restricting. Cant go anywhere without driving, and evenbdriving a block is a huge pain in the ass because of all the traffic and traffic control
- Comment on Are people still fooled by this dumb quiz's? 1 month ago:
normal humans are - by and large - smart enough to get the job done
Jury’s still out on that one chief
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 month ago:
What type of corn are you referring to? I’m not familiar with the history of corn, but what you’re saying doesn’t match my experiences with any variety
Dent corn is used as livestock feed, and is generally considered the less edible version. Sweet corn can be eaten by humans raw. Basically every variety I’ve ever seen can be eaten if boiled long enough
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 1 month ago:
It looks like this chart is based on mass, rather than number. By number hydrogen is >90% by itself
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 1 month ago:
Some do apparently or they wouldn’t keep making the videos
Whole lot of people are desperate to make money. They’ll keep doing it for a while even if it isn’t making money. Multi-level marketing schemes as an example. A few make a ton of money on MLMs, more than 90% lose money. They’re still everywhere
- Comment on Off the Rails 1 month ago:
Considering the human eye is basically backwards, I always found it funny people would try to use it as an example of an intelligent creator
Like we seriously have all the working bits in the path of light, permanently blocking our vision in spots. We just hide it with some post-production brain magic, and I’m supposed to believe that’s evidence of an intelligent creator?
- Comment on Not so fast! 1 month ago:
Housing got cheaper in Japan. They went from the most expensive housing in the world to the cheapest in the industrialized world
They did it by removing barriers to building housing, and incentivizing building homes. The downside is that rich people can’t profit as much off housing, which is a non-starter in many other countries
- Comment on Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills 1 month ago:
Don’t need that if you know the right people
- Comment on OP has a realization 2 months ago:
Plenty of “supernatural” things exist.
We can fly through the air with nothing connecting us to the ground at all - flight was as fantastical as magic to early humanity.
Psychic powers? We can already silently communicate across the world in fractions of a second - is that not functional telepathy?
Chaos magic? We have the ultimate earth rending fireball spell. We call it nuclear arms.
To repurpose a saying about alternative medicine: Supernatural phenomenon proven to exist is just science
- Comment on OP has a realization 2 months ago:
It’s crazy to think how fast we’re moving through the universe without encountering much of anything; energy or matter. Thanks heliosphere and the vastness of the universe
…Still makes me uncomfortabel to see visualized though
- Comment on OP has a realization 2 months ago:
When they come up with that model, it’ll be able to explain both how protons are formed, and show that the 9th planet, Vulcan, exists…
- Comment on Totally unhinged 2 months ago:
Do they?
I’ve never met one. I’ve seen plenty of rage inducing posts online though. I’m sure somewhere, someone like this exists, but it’s probably rare enough most of us would never encounter someone so socially maladjusted in our entire lifetime
Which isn’t to say entitled people don’t exist - they do - more so that this level of oblivious entitlement is unlikely to continue existing into adulthood. Eventually it comes in conflict with reality and they learn acting like that only ends in mockery
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 2 months ago:
Man, I feel that deeply. Working in tech has destroyed any joy I got from technology. After several years I got burnt out so badly that I had to take a couple years off
Now here I am, only a couple months back into working and every moment I spend actually doing the work is torture. I used to love it, now I’d be happy to never use technology in a productive way for the rest of my life
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 2 months ago:
It was AI – Actually Indians
- Comment on French Anatomy 2 months ago:
This would probably rupture a humans organs
Anyone around for early '00s internet knew that already…
- Comment on Radon 3 months ago:
The problem, to me, is that not everyone on a boat is catching fish. There are plenty of different roles. It’s just that people outside the industry don’t have a concept of the nuanced differences between roles, so it gets simplified to “I catch fish” even if they aren’t involved in catching fish at all. Most people outside of tech have no idea between the different roles that exist in tech either. It wasn’t too long ago where no matter your role in tech, you’d tell laymen, “I work in IT” as a catchall for any technical role