ameancow

@ameancow@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon pitches the next big movie adaptation of a video game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  going, FULL MAGA.

  zoom in on Schnieder doing a goofy face while wearing a red baseball cap as a slide whistle plays “Who’s afraid of the big, bad gays?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brib Cuddles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  remember they predate upon other birds’ chicks, etc.

  Wait 'til you see what humans do!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It happens...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How TF old are you people anyway?

  Are you all literally as old as the kid in the pic? Who can relate to this??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bit of salt makes it taste more savory⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, avoiding contention is why we’re in this mess and why the world is segregated again.

  But I’m not going to say “Go argue on the internet” I am going to tell everyone to get the fuck over their social issues and just TALK to the people in your life who hold shitty positions and are either dimwitted about politics, uninvolved or being brainwashed by social media. They can be turned, I do it ALL THE TIME and I feel like I’m the only fucking human left who doesn’t feel overwhelming fear engaging with another human ffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bit of salt makes it taste more savory⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The deflection/projection is strong in that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bit of salt makes it taste more savory⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy isn’t a competition.

  All social media is competition. We just don’t like admitting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has regrets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry to hear that, I know the feeling and it sucks. It’s better after growing up and starting your own life and making your own way, and I hope you’re proceeding in that direction.

  My parents reminded me every “anniversary” of when they changed their mind in the clinic and decided not to end my mother’s pregnancy. I heard that story from my earliest days and never understood why they told me that over and over at the time. I get it now, and I feel more pity for my late parents than myself anymore. Some people are completely incapable of being adult enough to bring a new life into the world with actual responsibility and care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bit of salt makes it taste more savory⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet I could harvest bags of salt from a “look how sassy i am” terminally online account like this, but some of us have better things to do than just make other people mad for attention. Have a good one out there. Hope you don’t get banned from everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bit of salt makes it taste more savory⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anyone cares. Nice two pages of ban history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has regrets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a ruined brand-new life almost a half century ago, I endorse this message. I promise ya’ll would have been FINE without me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is not satire this is not satire this is not satire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  anarchocapitalism is still anarchism

  Sounds more like people who want to have luxuries and comforts and money but don’t want to have anyone telling them what they can and can’t do.

  Sounds about right for the current fascist techbro community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is not satire this is not satire this is not satire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also my plan, but for real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree and have also done plenty of reading on the topic.

  I don’t disagree to say that “you’re wrong and even wild silly things are possible!” but I’m saying that it’s a lot more accurate to say that we don’t know what real-world systems can and cannot do. Your model is from a pure mathematical and physical point of view, which would be correct. But we don’t know if our knowledge of quantum mechanics and physics broadly is even complete (probably not) so I have grown quite fond of the far more succinct answer of “I don’t know.”

  Generally people get really invested in this because it either validates or invalidates some belief, mystical or material, about the universe, but I don’t think it’s an answerable question until we find out if infinities can even exist in a tangible way. Most likely not, at least in our limited understanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nature is music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: you may actually hear a black-hole spin if you’re close enough. It’s possible for gravitational waves to reach the same amplitude as sound waves, which would probably cause your eardrum to activate as space contracts and expands past it, so you would “hear” something, but we don’t really know what it would sound like, likely a hum or high-pitched thrumming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Given long enough periods of time, if your typewriters were magically immune to entropy, they would eventually start quantum teleporting into each other, and eventually would accidentally create perfect clockwork mecha-godzilla made entirely out of typewriters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have argued with plenty of theists, they tend to cherry-pick parts of every idea to validate their extreme fear of death/God, so they hyper-fixate on the idea that “fantastic things” can happen with infinities, without addressing the problems that also come from infinities.

  The idea behind the monkeys/typewriters thought experiment is to highlight just how actual infinities would be in our universe, it’s an argument against things like gods occuring, because in an infinite, unbounded universe there would be an infinite number of infinitely powerful beings negating each other all out over large enough scales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re talking magical, biologically accurate monkeys, then they will eventually shit out models of every scene of your life, replicated in perfect detail in monkey feces. Not just once, but an infinite number of times, and also in every possible configuration your life may have ever existed in, every choice you could have made. An infinite number of times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a female friend⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the better clarification we need to make is that this is 4chan and thus utterly made-up bullshit, or designed to further an agenda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a female friend⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell that to the surprisingly large number of men who threaten fucking violence against a girl for not wanting to go out with them.

  I’m not saying you’re entirely wrong, but it’s not the only side of the story. Generally all people are really bad at handling emotions with other people, we need to make a stronger effort to turn these criticisms inward and figure out if our fears of other people are justified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, and I think it’s an absolutely fascinating area to study, because it does touch on some very important questions about our universe. We still don’t know if on the most fundamental levels, if our universe is constrained in some way, or if given enough time everything can change including those constants. I think about this a lot, but there are a surprising number of people who can’t grasp the ideas and problems, so apologies if I came on strong, I just want to make sure we’re all talking about the same things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In a literal and real universe, if you had real magic and could organize this in reality without it collapsing into a singularity instantly, then not only would you indeed get Hamlet instantly, you will also get monkey poop sculptures in every possible configuration, including models of us typing these words on PC monitors made entirely of monkey feces. They would just be fecal scultpures because, as you said, a monkey can’t poop actual electronics so pooping an entire, working internet with two people chatting is impossible… probably. You would get typewriters thrown around randomly until some collapse into black holes, until some accidentally form whole, working machines, until some mix with the poop sculptures and create models of whole worlds. If you want to limit it to a mathematical thought experiment, then yes you can make points about key distribution and so on, you can make limitations that will constrain the outcomes, but in the real world all we really have to create those limitations is the speed of light, which would constrain contradictory outcomes in an infinite model.

  Again, the idea is to understand that infinity is an absurd idea, and we can’t work with infinities in any meaningful way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could get the same result throwing an infinite number of typewriters down an infinitely long mineshaft, but there will be even fewer people who would understand it 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But they still would be limited to only what monkeys can actually do with typewriters given enough time or monkeys to do everything a monkey will do with a typewriter.

  Not arguing this at all, I think a lot of people get hung up on this though because they don’t actually know what’s “possible or impossible” in our universe, which may not in fact have a good answer. All that aside, it’s just a thought experiment to reveal the inherent problems with working with infinities, because the number of “possible” things that can happen are quite radical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  haha no, if you have a magic infinite sized room with an infinite number of magic, immortal monkeys, with an infinite number of typewriters with infinite paper and ink, you don’t even need to park the m,onkeys in front the fucking keyboard, you will instantaneously have all the works of Shakespeare and every other book ever published and every book never published, and probably an infinite number of volumes of books that reveal every secret of the universe. (The hard part will be finding them.)

  Instantly.

  Just by having the means for anything random to happen to those keyboards on an infinite scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people don’t get the thought experiment at all.

  I’ve seen 300+ deep comment chains on reddit with people arguing bitterly back and forth if a monkey could even operate a typewriter, and how it’s absolutely impossible to get monkeys to type out a book, etc, etc, etc.

  I hate it here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space Quarry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but I still think there is something more haunting about a landscape that you know hasn’t been touched by anything since maybe before Earth existed, every dust-grain on that surface has sat there for millions and millions of years without being disturbed by so much as starlight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space Quarry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That one will stick with me a for a long time. Something about it reminds me of some cosmic perspective of our cold, lonely universe, the vast, VAST fucking stretch of time those rocks and gravel have drifted through boggles the mind. Utter darkness, glittering stars, cold infinity in all directions for billions of years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every REAL MAN knows that going to the bathroom is totally gay, it’s a place where men go and pull out their dicks and handle them, sometimes right in front of each other and they listen to each other’s body functions.

  Real men will go pee in the parking lot to assert dominance, trust me, this is how you do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  read that as “jaw breakers” at first and was about to make a really confused reply. I guess that means I’m not actually a nazi if that’s where my head goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am really about to throw my morality away and start grifting the FUCK out of these clowns.

  5G defense necklaces, vaccine-removal potions, distilled masculinity in a bottle, magnets you shove up your nose to keep trans kids out of your bank account, whatever, you name it. Since we’re about to lose foreign production it’s time to fire up those 3D printers and Etsy accounts.