whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world
you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 1 day ago:
It’s projection they don’t want to remove pedophiles from their own ranks, and demonizing a scapegoat minority group they can blame their own failures on.
They really wish these articles were about trans people instead of clergy
bishop-accountability.org/…/are-catholic-clergy-m…
- Comment on It's why they tried to get rid of it 2 days ago:
Ah hell, that’s how I first read it then I second guessed myself on the irony later!
- Comment on It's why they tried to get rid of it 2 days ago:
Whether there is another cause that is common to both events is irrelevant to the example. The example is to demonstrate the fact that while A and B are correlated, neither A causes B nor B causes A are true predicates. Just like the discovery of Pluto and autism diagnosis are correlated to start around the same year, there’s no evidence of the casual link where discovering Pluto causes autism diagnosis or autism diagnosis causes Pluto discovery.
- Comment on Hurry it along chucklenuts 2 days ago:
Alt: picture of a projector projecting
- Comment on It's why they tried to get rid of it 2 days ago:
No, the opposite; it’s a classic example showing that correlation doesn’t necessitate causation.
- Comment on It's why they tried to get rid of it 3 days ago:
Shark attacks cause ice cream sales
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
This is it, relational databases are normalized under forms, deduplicate is usually a term used when talking about a concrete data set from data sources like a database, not the relational data model in the database itself.
- Comment on made a sticky 1 week ago:
Congratulations on appeasing middle managers, the laziest people taking the most and doing the least are at the top of the hierarchy, not the bottom.
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 1 week ago:
I have a similar modest proposal to solving the wealth inequality hoarding problem of billionaires
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got a pair of vortex pok3r 60%'s that I’ve used daily for around a decade with no issues, each were under 100 USD, they might have inexpensive keyboards with the features you’re looking for. Before that I used a keytronic that was built like a tank but not a mech.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
A consideration to the ending of slavery in the United States was the advent of photography. Film was used to share the horror of the Nazi concentration camps in WW2 because they knew there would be people who deny history. Israel denied access and targeted journalists in Gaza for over a year for a reason.
Public perception sways from indifference to protests when they can’t look away from the destructive results. It’s the whole reason black sites like Guantanamo Bay exist in the first place and were used to hold extradited citizens without due process for years, they want to pretend the Constitution doesn’t exist and they haven’t sworn oaths to it and will do everything they can to hide their crimes.
- Comment on I guess we are fucked now 3 weeks ago:
That big goopy mess at the end was mostly just lasagna
- Comment on USA Question | How much is a dozen large eggs near you? 3 weeks ago:
$4.99 a dozen at the closest full grocery store near me in the Midwest
- Comment on Megaladon't 3 weeks ago:
My favorite dinosaur is the flamingo
- Comment on U.S. Employee engagement sinks to 10-year low 5 weeks ago:
You get what you pay for
- Comment on Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions? 5 weeks ago:
Dead cells and rogue legacy 1/2 were a lot of fun. Check out nethack if you want something more casual for mobile or in a terminal, it’s a classic. Switch specific I’d say check out dead cells or Isaac.
- Comment on Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer 1 month ago:
I think it takes focus over the search results based on specific search terms or maybe semantics like is it a question an AI would likely be able to answer.
Searching ‘some search’ gives results with an icon for AI but nothing inline: Image
Changing the search to a question like what’s the current Java version puts clear focus on AI results: Image
- Comment on Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer 1 month ago:
It’s a tool, like a hammer or a clock or a glockenspiel, that can be used for good, neutral, or bad goals.
Unfortunately most AIs are developed, trained, and administrated by authoritarian structured capitalist corpos that are designed to require maximizing profit and minimizing cost instead of meeting humanity’s common needs and goals.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 1 month ago:
Don’t buy a pressure washer, rent one. You won’t need it very often, and if you do consider a business it’ll let you try one or two first before committing to a purchase. Also learning a musical instrument is really fulfilling for a lot of people.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 1 month ago:
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn’t have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 1 month ago:
This is the answer or similar enough I got when I was Catholic
- Comment on Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share. 1 month ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The government also ramped up the interest rates on student loans while universities increased the price faster than inflation, I paid around 3-4% in 2008, the lowest was around 2.7% in 2020, currently they are close to 7%. The whole thing should be covered by state and federal taxes we’re already paying to subsidize them, but it just keeps getting worse to squeeze every drop of blood from people who weren’t born with a trust fund.
- Comment on McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr. 2 months ago:
It is complicated to try to push something without a spine, no leverage to do anything but whine more
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 2 months ago:
“news”
- Comment on Memory is a fickle mistress 2 months ago:
The same people working for David Zaslav who pushed discovery and history to be almost entirely pseudoscience and low effort variety/reality TV are currently running HBO’s streaming service, Max.
- Comment on Standoff 2 months ago:
We used to have hominid cousins living at the same time as modern humans like neanderthals and denisovans. I don’t think there’s a consensus answer on what wiped them out, ecological changes over the last ice age reducing the availability of resources that they couldn’t adapt to maybe, or prehistoric wars maybe and only the most vicious and violent hominid group survived, or some combination of changes and fighting they couldn’t adapt to quickly enough.
- Comment on What gives you hope to keep going? 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t say I’m completely hopeful or doomed, the world is filled with terror and beauty. There are no gods or kings it’s just people. Historic and scientific education can help reduce anxiety about the unknown, change your own beliefs and behaviors to improve the situation locally before joining organizations looking to make broader changes. Learn what your fears are and face them, otherwise it will cloud your judgement and influence your decision making process.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 2 months ago:
When I played on PC more EverQuest, counterstrike, TF2, wow, Skyrim
After playing more on console ff14, elder scrolls online, pillars of eternity 1/2, and souls games (ds2, ds3, bloodborne, elden Ring)
I also like to play Indies and smaller games but those are the ones I keep going back to
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 2 months ago:
"What can change the nature of a man?"
- Ravel, Planescape: Torment
