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- Comment on Don't Engage with Trolls 4 days ago:
I don’t even think this is controversial in any way, in fact I used to assume this was just common knowledge after Cambridge Analytica…
I deleted, as in permanently, totally deleted my FB presence when that came out… but everyone else I explained … basically what you’ve just explained … to, thought I was insane or overreacting and paranoid.
…
Its simple.
Engagement, usage, time on platform is being optimized for.
What drives these things most effectively?
Hatred, outrage, extremely offensive things.
…
… And they know that they can, through exposing people to such things, make said people more extreme and hateful and anxious and depressed.
Zuckerberg stated at one point that his goal with Facebook was to be able to profile (and manipulate, but he didn’t say that part) users so well that he’d be able to predict what they’d post next.
He really did/does just view all social interaction as a very complex problem that can be ‘solved’, like a physics question can be solved, to make a predictive model.
They literally know that their business model is to ruin social discourse, ruin peoples mental health and their lives, to polarize society.
It should not be surprising in any way that, well now society is extremely polarized and mentally ill.
- Comment on Don't Engage with Trolls 4 days ago:
Yep!
Facebook figured out how to monetize trolling.
Over 10 years later, it’s destroyed society, but made them a lot of money.
- Comment on Violets or blue? 4 days ago:
This isn’t an aneurysm, its a just a somewhat mistyped, rough rhyme.
Roses are red, I call my dad pops, If I see a weeb lewd a loli… I’m calling the cops.
Lines 2 and 4 rhyme at the end, the syllabic count per line isn’t perfectly symmetrical, but it doesn’t take too much effort to deliver aloud as a stupid joke version of the classic rhyme.
‘lewd’ is being used as a verb instead of an adjective.
Not everyone in the internet posts things with a physical keyboard, the mistakes could all be explained by autocorrect.
Take all that into account, and it is not completely incoherent gibberish word salad.
- Comment on The Force 5 days ago:
Ok now someone has to make a skyrim mod where the rats have a 2% chance of doing the fus ro dah attack at you, but it uses the sound clip from the 80’s Dune movie of Paul using the amplifier.
- Comment on Diatomic 5 days ago:
I think this is how Terrence Howard actually thinks physics works.
- Comment on Anon tries to take care of his little bro 1 week ago:
I recently got an email reminder to pay for a toll via an e sticker thingamabob on my car.
Problem: My car got stolen over a year ago.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 1 week ago:
Kin.
It’s not precise, but it is accurate
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 1 week ago:
They consistently make promises for things that will exist in the future, which then takes them years beyond their expected timeframe to achieve, or just never do them because some other past promise or promise they will make later makes an original promise either totally unworkable or wildly different.
So, so many missed deadlines, which uh, actually were just aspirational.
And… this is a game that sells you ships, gear, for hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of real world dollars.
Some crazy promise will be made and oh, turns out that means we have to rework something like half the game’s systems to support that, but also they’re adding new content constantly that is always in some limbo state between following the old system’s paradigms and attempting to follow the new system’s paradigm.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 1 week ago:
Jesus fucking christ, that was their fundamental approach?!
… Did they ever come anywhere close to a dynamic server model, with dynamically sized in game zones being handled by dynamically changing server clusters, dependant on player count in an area?
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 1 week ago:
So, a bit of discussion about a hypothetical me has spawned from this and I’ll say some things here:
I am from the US, have mostly rented in the PNW.
I am aware that smoking is bad and can affect other people, and that idiots running grills can be very dangerous, but I’m old enough to remember when these used to be a major use case for residential balconies.
AFAIK, generally, you can still do these things if you own (or even rent) a house in a lower density area with a balcony or patio.
Hell, I’ve lived in places and with roommates who are entirely capable of nearly burning down an apartment complex by not knowing how to cook on the oven/range in their apartment, or by just smoking inside and woops that cigarette butt or spliff or joint missed the tray.
I’m not saying it should be the case that we ignore safety concerns in more dense housing, I’m more just pointing out that things which many people are used to be able to do on some kind of residential balcony are not actually doable as more and more people live in rentals.
As for clothes lines, decorations, hell in some places even public drinking of alcohol on a balcony all being technically legal to some extent but still being against a rental contract:
Surely you are aware that the landlord and property managers hold basically all the power in these situations unless you have the time and depth of pockets to legally challenge their usually illegal frivolous stipulations.
They can just fine you and threaten eviction or withhold your security deposit, and it will almost always be 5x to 10x less expensive to just accept this than to attempt to challenge it.
Hell, I have literally never received my security deposit back, anywhere I have ever rented, despite doing no actual ‘damage’ to the unit. They will always just invent some reason to withhold it.
… Anyway, my main drive here isn’t that you should just be allowed to do whatever you want on an apartment balcony, its that these balconies are functionally useless to the renter due to them being designed as an afterthought to drive up rental costs, as well as having all kinds of functionally real restrictions unless you want to get into a legal fight with your landlord.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 1 week ago:
You add tiny, mini, useless balconies so that you can check off another tick box on a zillow or trulia search, justify an increased rental cost.
Then you make the balconies as small as possible, as featureless as possible, and throw a whole bunch of rules into your rental agreement that prevent you from actually using them for basically any reason: Can’t smoke on the balcony, can’t dry clothes on it, can’t cook on it, can’t display any thing like a flag or banner on the balcony because of some made up aesthetic code, etc.
I’ve lived in a lot of different apartments of differing quality and location, and while I’m not saying that modern apartment residential balconies are entirely a scam, they very often are.
- Comment on Implants 1 week ago:
I can recognize it, but am not fluent enough to respond in kind.
- Comment on Implants 2 weeks ago:
Damnit! I missed it auuuugh!
- Comment on Implants 2 weeks ago:
Autism works in mysterious ways.
… That or I’m still working through an astounding amount of gaslighting from being surrounded by malignant narcissists for a very long time.
Probably both.
- Comment on Implants 2 weeks ago:
Sure thing sweetie :)
- Comment on Implants 2 weeks ago:
You know, you are correct.
You absolutely could be toxicly positive from a position of basically 0 privilege, such as maybe an ascetic who thinks that the solution to the problems of poverty is to actually embrace or accept suffering, and not do anything to change it.
- Comment on What's next? A new poem by Confucius? 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if it is as obviously and openly horny and lewd as many other Sumerian/Babylonian texts.
- Comment on Implants 2 weeks ago:
I know this is a joke but my autism is on a roll:
This is an example of passive aggressive behavior, not toxic positivity.
- Comment on Implants 2 weeks ago:
In a lot of uh, fast food social media (Insta, Tiktok, Twitter) ‘toxic positivity’ is basically used anytime anyone commits a single offense of being too optimistic or endearing in a way that gives someone an instant knee jerk ‘ick’ or something, when they’re in a bad mood and just wanted someone to also be as angry or depressed as them, in the moment.
…People who do not have narcissistic personality disorder understand that there’s a bit more to it than that, namely long, established, continuous patterns in someone’s behavior which indicate that this person has an enormous amount of privilege, do not realize this, to the point that they become blind to serious concerns and problems, and then those problems become worse and worse because of the toxicly positive person’s nonsensical advice being detrimental and time wasting, or just vapid meaningless platitudes.
And then also, the privileged person often become overwhelmed when anyone lays out the basic facts of their reality compared to the privileged person, and then also they usually then get angry with the less privileged person for pointing this out, and now its your fault that you made me feel bad.
This can also happen at a large scale, where an entire organization or group acts like this.
- Comment on Implants 2 weeks ago:
Gee how could you tell rofl.
- Comment on Implants 2 weeks ago:
It reeks of toxic positivity, its associated with privileged, usually white, usually christian, suburban and boomer wives/moms who get to sit around at home all day, in a home, whilst doing nothing, who often admonish their own children for not being positive and grateful enough, while said children have worked far harder than they have, and are more educated than them, but will likely never own a home.
- Comment on Suggestions? Games that won't make me feel alone? 2 weeks ago:
Hahah, there are dozens of us, dozens!
But no seriously if you can get past the extremely weird … basically early 00’s style mmo control scheme… for what nowadays you’d expect to be third person ARPG controls… Kenshi is an absolutely incredible game, and it’s got a lively modding scene as well.
- Comment on Suggestions? Games that won't make me feel alone? 2 weeks ago:
Kenshi.
The world is brutal, but its possible to pay for some company, buy some slaves, or maybe, juuuuust maybe, find a quirky friend.
- Comment on u can just do stuff 2 weeks ago:
… And you do this, manually, to all or almost all of your posts?
Or is your user account from an instance where that is done automatically?
- Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 2 weeks ago:
But that only works if the satirization is still somehow stylistically distinct to be recognizable as a satirization of your brand.
You could put Wendy’s, Walmart, Northrup Grumman, Tyson, Bank of America, whatever, into this, and just change the last line a little bit, and I still would not be able to determine if its satire or not.
Twofold reasons:
1 Corporate Advertisement in general is almost completely stylistically played out. Almost everyone has tried almost every approach. It’s all just blended together, at least for me, into ‘insert nearly any kind of rhetoric or style or music or imagery here’ followed by: So buy the thing.
Sure, there are still some general trends for certain marketed product types … but …
2 Is anything on Twitter/X genuine? First we had a whole bunch of brand accounts acting like increasingly twitter brained idiots, then we had Musk’s disastrous takeover and blue check fiasco with people impersonating corpo accounts running wild, now the bots are even more widespread AND the general corpo trend seems to be ‘yes actually just have AI generate/do everything’, why wouldn’t text only posts currently be able to be handed over to an edgy ChatGPT model?
Like… this image, the account has some kind of silver tick or badge or something.
Is that from older Twitter era meaning its verified?
Was the account hacked?
Was this image photoshopped?
- Comment on u can just do stuff 2 weeks ago:
No, I explained what a saddle point is and how a saddle point can be misidentified as a local or absolute maxima or minima if all you do is look for a point where the slope is 0.
… anyway, is this a glitch on my end or … how do most of your comments have 0 upvotes… and also 0 downvotes?
… I thought lemmy automatically gives every post 1 upvote by default.
- Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 2 weeks ago:
Was this an actual real post or satire?
I genuinely have no clue.
- Comment on u can just do stuff 2 weeks ago:
I mean … sure?
Just have a continuous graph that looks like two little hills, but far away there is an even bigger mountain.
You’d then have two saddle points somewhere between those two little hills and the big mountain, though they might not be as visually distinctive as the image here.
Don’t think I said you cannot have local maxima that are not saddle points.
Hell, even the image of the graph shown could be some kind of small scale topographically phenomenon, and what look to be going off to infinity in this small scope might actually top off as local maxima.
The actual function isn’t shown.
It could be very simple, or it could be an absurdly complex polynomial that just looks like the simpler version when you zoom in.
Something like a 3d version of this:
- Comment on Woman Calls 911 When 100 Aggressive Raccoons Show Up in Her Yard | The Washington State resident fed some friendly critters for years. Then, their mean friends turned up. 2 weeks ago:
“Local Idiot Learns Why You Shouldn’t Continuously Feed Scavenging Pack Animals, Neighbors, Common Sense Vindicated”
- Comment on Incels 2 weeks ago:
Not sure about a smooch, but I could use a seal hug haha!