VirtualOdour

@VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry to be a bother...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought people agreed about being born gay and stuff? Are you saying you think it’s a choice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I day dream about what I’d say if I was elons friend. There are a lot of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shock & Awe Dick Slithers Out Of His Neocon Lair To Endorse Kamala Over 'Depraved' Trump⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fun how the right learns the people they elect are pieces of shit a decade or two after they’re out of power, if only it could see what the rest of the world sees before the election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a special request⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever seen a church made out of bones in America?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to find greentexts in their natural habitat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just because computers are better at everything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I alleviate bitterness due to lack of intimacy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, couldn’t agree more. He doesn’t sound like he even likes women, just feels he should own one and probably wants regular sex (on his terms only). I almost feel guilty writing a post trying to help him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I alleviate bitterness due to lack of intimacy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘I never want to make it obvious’

  This is a huge red flag to women, what you’re essentially doing is trying to create a power imbalance where you maintain the safe and defended position of acting not interested while they take all the social risk of putting themselves out there. This gives you a much better position in any conversation or disagreement and it allows you to hold the power of humiliation over their head - a situation no one wants to be in.

  The fact you’re targeting women in this way that you feel are more attractive than you exacerbates it because it makes it seem that you don’t really care about them at all and just want to tick the hot gf box.

  People often say that women hit on men in happy relationships and this is somewhat true but not because they’re horny homewreckers but because the guy has stopped acting creepy and manipulative towards them and just seem like decent normal people. When you say you don’t flirt what you mean is difficult to tell because you’re obviously targeting these women and talking to them, even asking them out and getting rejected apparently so I don’t know what you’re actually doing but it’s not acting normal, friendly, and like you consider them anything but a target to throw your Pokeball at.

  No one, including you, wants to date someone that doesn’t make them feel good and add to their lives in a positive and joyful way - in what world does ‘you’re hotter than me therefore I want you as a possession I can have sex with’ make someone feel any of those things? That’s the vibe they’re getting when you refuse to give them even just flirting, who is going to say ‘oh i met this guy, he’s cold to me and makes me kinda feel awkward I can’t wait to spend more time with him’

  Make someone feel good, enjoy spending time with you, and demonstrate that you’re the sort of person worth getting to know better - which by the way includes being open to self change and personal improvement. Let them see that they will be happier in a relationship with you than not being in a relationship with you.

  And this means also that you have to find someone that will be happier in a relationship with you, women aren’t interchangeable and they exist on a much more complex scale than ‘hot body = value’ which is where your head seems to be stuck, looks are one of the least important parts of a relationship which is lucky for a skinny ballet arms boy like you… you need someone you can talk to, can laugh with, can feel safe with, can grow and explore with.

  And yes if you don’t want that sort of relationship and want a woman that only cares about outward appearance then get jacked and earn a shit load of money, seems like a miserable life to me but I’m in love with a fat woman (who I admit is very attractive) because we understand each other and support each other and enjoy each other in ways I never even knew possible - we bonded over shared interests, fell in love over long and tender conversations, and worked through difficulties by being honest and caring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a surgical puncture to the skull relieve a pressure headache?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also we don’t really know why they did it, could have been religious or a punishment for all we know

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Comments like this make .me angry even though I know you can’t actually make it happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK riots: Judge hands down longest jail sentences yet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The uk isn’t like Texas where you get gunned down for trespassing or shoplifting, life and peace is valued over property. Please don’t try and export your capitalist obsession for property over people to the rest of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK riots: Judge hands down longest jail sentences yet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, when you actually look at a lot of protest movements lemmy blindly supports they’re deeply problematic in many ways, of course people want easy answers and glib heros so they’ll get mad if you try and demonstrate nuance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went into these two videos expecting them to be overblown and petty, totally changed my mind with a good solid string of evidence and explanations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vsauce2 has some amazing ones, the videos about problems with the justice system are well worth a watch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Show HN: Visual A* pathfinding and maze generation in Python⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks interesting, I might play with it if I get a chance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will We Have to Pump the Great Lakes to California to Feed the Nation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s far cheaper than it used to be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well look at gta online, moders and hackers have so much more power when the session isn’t run by the company. it alao allows them to find exploits much easier if the server tools are available to run locally. Also If you don’t want people being able to give themselves all the weapons and money and mess up your game that means game states can’t transfer between servers which means you could invest weeks in a campaign only to have the server close.

  I prefer locally hosted stuff but there are obvious benefits which draw game companies to choosing to control the hosting process

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breast Cancer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything medical is slow but tools like this tend to get used by doctors not patients so it’s much easier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breast Cancer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth noting the type of comment this is in response to is arguing that home users should be legally forbidden from accessing training data and want a world where only the richest companies can afford to license training data (which will be owned by their other rich friends thanks to ig being posted on their sites)

  Supporting heavy copywrite extensions is the dumbest position anyone could have .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breast Cancer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t understand how they work and that’s fine, you’re upset based on your paranoid guesswork thats filled in the lack of understanding and that’s sad.

  No one is stealing from society, ‘society’ isn’t being deprived of anything when ai looks at an image. The research is pretty open, humanity is benefitting from it in the same way Tesla, Westi ghouse and Edison benefitted the history of electrical research.

  And yes I’d you’re about to tell me Edison did nothing but steal then this is another bit of tech history you’ve not paid attention to beyond memes.

  The big companies you hate like meta or nvidia are producing papers that explain methods, you can follow along at home and make your own model - though with those examples you don’t need to because they’ve released models on open licenses. Ironically it seems likely you don’t understand how this all works or what’s happening because zuck is doing significantly more to help society than you are - Ironic, hu?

  And before you tell me about zuck doing genocide or other childish arguments, we’re on lemmy which was purposefully designed to remove the power from a top down authority so if an instance pushed for genocide we would have zero power to stop it - the report you’re no doubt going go allude to says that Facebook is culpable because it did not have adequate systems in place to control locally run groups…

  I could make good arguments against zuck, I don’t think anyone should be able to be that rich but it’s funny to me when a group freely shares pytorch and other key tools used to help do things like detect cancer cheaply and efficient, help impoverished communities access education and health resources in their local language, help blind people have independence, etc, etc, all the many positive uses for ai - but you shit on it all simply because you’re too lazy and selfish to actually do anything materially constructive to help anyone or anything that doesn’t directly benefit you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activision revive Warzone's Caldera map as open source (yay!) but say it's to help train AI (booo)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s great, ai is important and useful and good training data is important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is suspicious⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so weird, I’ve seen people’s comments removed on my videos for totally innocuous things but if you go to any big creator every comment reply is the craziest shit being spammed by obvious bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a question⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t they warn against reusing too much because it breaks down into carcinogens?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids and their computers these days.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s tragic because a lot of these people aren’t just missing competent literacy but all the skills required to understand the world around them, and even worse often those ways of understanding have been replaced with religious nonsense by the people that raised them.

  Imagine trying to make sense of the world when you think scientists work like preachers and prophets simply saying whatever feels right or suits the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an anthropologist⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We haven’t even hit the steep bit of the curve yet, wait until you see where we are by the end of this century!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never believe the hype.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends which state, many have a legal requirement to give sickpay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never believe the hype.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He should have used his available sick days, what’s the point of fighting for rights if no one uses them?

  His foolish stoicism did nothing but benefit a corporation, endanger the public, and make it less acceptable for his colleges to take sickdays when required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon freezes time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s OK, they’ll know not to mess with me.

  Especially after the news cycles through hundreds of otherwise inexplicably brutal events like ‘oil company boardroom welded shut full of heaters’, ‘bee killing pestocide.producer found locked in a room full of wasps’, ‘putin awakes in room full people he’s been oppressing’, ‘guy who invented mobile game adverts could only leave his house after clicking on a very small button that’s actual hit box is slightly off the graphic’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stoke-on-Trent couple fined £1,200 after clearing up rubbish⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need good citizen protections, an extension of the laws used when providing aid that shield from liability, similar rules should exist to protect people who improve their local area.

  It’s bad enough the council won’t do anything about the problems but evil they punish others for trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academia to Industry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re absolutely delusional if you think no one wants code done quicker and easier, and that’s not to .mention the endless other things it makes possible like giving people access to vital services like heathcare in their native language, etc, etc.

  These are things that are going to totally change the world for the better, removing power from corporations and giving to to people. You may not understand that because you’re not involved in actually doing anything productive but it’s a reality everyone can see.

  Yes things have been scams there are also things that have dramatically changed the world for the better, heathacare and education in remote and impoverished areas all entirely depends on the mobile networks. They’re also now absurdly cheap, the cost and effort of sending text used to be prohibitive but now you can video chat with your whole family all day every day at no extra thanks to a technology which became ubiquitous.

  As for your very wise solution of ‘just hire more developers’ yes that is why corporations are able to capture and control markets, a world where only the rich have the power to make things and compete is a horrible late capitalist hell - stop defending capitalism just because you’re used to it, yes you have an affluent life thanks to the suffering of others which is great for you but I don’t want to live like that, I don’t want to require children to slave in cocoa and coffee plantations or starving mothers to work 16 hour days in fast fashion garment factories when we have the ability to free those people and give them good lives by harnessing ai to help automate boring and laborious tasks.

  Capitalism is not as good as you seem to think it is, learn about the reality of capitalism beyond your glib bubble and you’ll realize that ai tools are vital for a fair world and a world at peace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academia to Industry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well get your news about it from scientific papers and experts instead of tabloids and advertisements.