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- Comment on I will not elaborate 2 weeks ago:
Gen-X is based? Really?
rebellion is when you listen to music your mom doesn’t like and also caring about things is gay
- Comment on Anon judges books by their covers 2 weeks ago:
the people who cause problems in retail environments are not the people who would think to mask the intentions their body language communicate
that being said, people will still surprise you and it’s usually right when you stop expecting them to have any capacity to surprise you
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
tying it to income means in a few decades inflation just shrinks the number of people who can actually benefit
If you own one residential property and also live in it, no taxes on that. Multiple properties? That’s taxes. Unfortunately, most primary education is funded by property tax, so you’d have to change how that works (and maybe actually pay teachers while your at it). Fortunately, none of this has any chance of ever getting implemented.
- Comment on Let's gooooo 3 weeks ago:
…the coca plant could already do that…?
- Comment on no ragrets 3 weeks ago:
being human is about communicating and learning new behaviors. Both of those take work and practice, so there’s selective pressure for a narrative that justifies not putting it in. If there hadn’t been the alpha/wolf thing then we’d just be having this conversation about some other silly story that served the same function.
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- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 month ago:
The people who are getting real mad over Republican voters don’t really care that Rs and Ds have the same foreign policy. The frontier of empire is coming home, but acknowledging that would mean acknowledging we export suffering.
- Comment on Anon visits a bookstore 1 month ago:
that’s what Archive Of Our Own is for
- Comment on Feelin free 2 months ago:
People said the same thing about not having kings
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 3 months ago:
McDonalds canned their automated ordering experiment, and that was across 100 stores and lasted several years.
I am not convinced this replaces labor. Like any advancement in hardware or software, it can expand the efficiency of labor. But you still need people to do work. People who own things for a living would really really like that not to be the case - their interest in this is not rational decision-making, but deluded optimism.
- Comment on Excellent anti smoking ad 3 months ago:
gotta agree
nicotine is more addictive than cocaine, I’d never touch the stuff
but gun to my head? I’d take a cig over a vape any day. looks soo much better
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 3 months ago:
I think labeling things made by AI is a reasonable request. In this specific example, someone who’s buying 4K Wallace & Grommit is doing so out of a love of claymation and Ardmen’s work in it. They want it in high definition specifically to see the details that went into a handcrafted set and characters. Getting a smoothed over statistical average, when you payed for it expecting the highest quality archive on an artistic work, would be more frustrating than just seeing it in lower definition.
More generally, don’t people working with these models also want AI output to be properly labeled? As I understand it, the model starts to degrade when its output is fed back into itself. With the rapid proliferation of AI posting, I’ve heard you can’t even make large language models with the same level of quality as you could before it was released to the general public.
I’m also kinda skeptical that this stuff has as many applications as are being touted. Like, I’ve seen some interesting stuff for folding proteins or doing statistical analysis of particle physics, but outside highly technical applications… kinda seems like a solution in search of a problem. It’s something investors really really like for their stock evaluations, but I just don’t see it doing much for actual workers. At most, maybe it eliminates some middle-management email jobs.
- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 3 months ago:
kinda sucks to be less free than the fucking geese
- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 3 months ago:
I guess you can draw that comparison, but then human territories are exponentially bigger than anything an equivalent social animal might claim as “at at your risk area”. A traveling pack of dogs can just go around another pack’s territory. We can’t do that, we’re boxed in. There’s no neutral space left. I guess you could argue there’s international waters, but that’s practically inaccessible to most people.
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 3 months ago:
Is there a criticism of AI you wouldn’t categorize as reactionary?
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 3 months ago:
could you define reactionary for me?
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 months ago:
This is an english meme about the one event in Chinese history that gets repeated in english-speaking spaces over and over and over again. This isn’t attempting to make an argument to a Chinese audience. Why shouldn’t we draw comparisons to similar things in the US? What else would we talk about? Just a whole thread of “yeah, that’s bad” again and again? For every time this gets trotted out?
- Comment on Cillian O'Sullivan To Play Roger Korby in Strange New Worlds – Trek Central 8 months ago:
I wanna see Curzon Dax in SNW. Pretty sure the timetables match up there, given he negotiates the Khitomer accords.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 8 months ago:
You are looking for a Great Man of history to pin this on. You’d rather believe someone nefarious is in charge and pulling the strings from an ocean away, than to see this for what it is; an empire with no real conscious oversight. A pile of self-interested businessmen, politicians, and militarists doing whatever they can to line their pockets, profits above all else.
The US has, per capita, the largest prison population and, outright, the biggest military on the planet. If there’s a road to ‘unfreedom’, we traveled down it a long time ago.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 8 months ago:
You’d rather believe Trump is result of foreign interference, that our own institutions would never result in this without being sullied from outside. It’s fan fic, it’s Cold War nonsense.
Trump is the consequence of our political systems, of our spiteful culture, of our economics that promises success and leaves people sick, broken, and in debt. So what if the Russians had a few hundred Facebook posts? That “seed” would not have taken if the soil weren’t already fertile. Frankly, I don’t think it made a difference. We were barrelling toward Trump with or without the oh so spooky slavs typing on a keyboard.
- Comment on Rockposting 9 months ago:
On the one hand, you can read it as a parody of late 20th century life - like, haha imagine a caveman clocking into work
but on the other hand, Flinstones and its far future counterpart Jestsons kinda suggest an inability to imagine anything different. Automobile-ized suburban development frequently gets presented an the human ‘default’. As though we just default to this, rather than it being one of many ways cities and society could be organized.
- Comment on Anon hates his neighbors 10 months ago:
work customer service long enough and being intolerable starts to be appealing
- Comment on Anon hates his neighbors 10 months ago:
Squidward is churlish and often over-reacts when his personal time is intruded upon. Maybe his neighbors don’t recognize when they’re being intrusive, but they do value Squidward’s company. It took drastic conditions for him to realize he values their company as well.
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 10 months ago:
And there certainly wasn’t a neighborhood where your highway on-ramp currently is.
- Comment on Anon shares their highschool mascot 10 months ago:
Big cats, wolves, eagles, and uncomfortable caricatures of people. Heaven forbid a school ever choose, like, a local frog or hedgehog or whatever for a mascot.
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 10 months ago:
“AI” will never shake the connotations science fiction has given it. The association is always going to skew towards positronic brains and Commander Data.
In the world of Actual Machines, “AI” is a term that should barely be tolerated in advertising departments, let alone anything remotely close to R&D
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 10 months ago:
That’s the interesting thing about empire, it’s self similar. A whole class of people may grow up geographically in or near the core, but their experience of life has more in common with someone in the semi- or outer periphery in terms of access to necessities or stability of life.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 10 months ago:
Eeyp. If you remembered the stuff that isn’t memorable, you’d run out of memory.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 10 months ago:
electrocuting an elephant to death, and for no better reason than tabloid advertising, kind of stands out in the historical record
that’s not to say Edison was PURE EVIL, just that I always remember the elephant alongside the more humanizing factoids. [Once, he asked a math student to find the volume of a lightbulb. The student started doing all kinds of caliper measurements and geometry calculations. Edison just filled the bulb with sand and tipped it out into a measuring cup]
- Comment on The miracle of childbirth 10 months ago:
wot if they’re running on hexagons rather than squares? HM? Or 3D dodecahedrons?..wait do those tile?
