Peruvian_Skies
@Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 1 week ago:
You’re complainong that tooany people of the “wrong” kind are represented in media and I’m the one who lacks tolerance? Man, I thought maybe you were just ignorant but it turns out you’re actually mentally handicapped.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 1 week ago:
In that case I’ve already explained why you’re wrong.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
You sweet summer child. That market is less than 0.1% of the total smartphone market and its continued existence is against the wishes of the oligopoly. Where there’s money, there is a way, but the money is working against us.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
This is only relevant as long as someone is selling hardware with an unlockable bootloader. The scenario where that isn’t the case in a few years is unfortunately realistic.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 1 week ago:
You’re thinking about “documentaries”. There’s this whole other uniberse of films commonly referred to as “fiction”. Or are you upset that Hobbits are overrepresented in The Lord of the Rings, blue aliens in Avatar and people who can fly in Superman, too?
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 2 weeks ago:
The reason is simple: all the main symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder involve behavior which is harmful to others.
In this, it is different from most forms of neurodivergence. Like psychopathy, it is a kind of antisocial personality disorder, in the sense that people who have it are harmful to society. Autism, ADHD, bipolar, BPD and even schizophrenia do not necessarily cause the sufferer to become harmful to others - in fact, the person afflicted with these conditions often harms themselves on an attempt not to inconvenience others, and only harms others unintentionally, while the narcissist does so intentionally and deliberately. People don’t demonize narcissists. Narcissism demonizes narcissists, and people recognize that.
- Comment on Anon performs magic at work 2 weeks ago:
Don’t be a jive turkey fool, lad. Just be groovy about it and don’t mellow the poor fellow’s swing.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 2 weeks ago:
Let me repeat myself: there is jo such thing as “overrepresentarion”. There isn’t, and shouldn’t be, a law that states that TV and movie producers have to follow census data strictly in their casting. That would be stupid.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 2 weeks ago:
No such thing.
- Comment on Have you know???. 2 weeks ago:
Very recently. And even if I never had, that’s an old argument. The human brain is capable of doing so, even if some given human never does. AI is incapable of doing so by design.
Let me explain this in a way you Americans can understand: The human brain is a gun. Even if most people just use it to pistol-whip others, it can shoot bullets. AI is a greasy cheeseburger. It will never shoot a bullet, and it’s also bad at pistol-whipping.
- Comment on Have you know???. 2 weeks ago:
Remixing isn’t innovation.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with people being gay as long as they do it in secret and “normal” people don’t have to acknowledge it. /s
- Comment on Have you know???. 2 weeks ago:
Actually imagining. The fact that we have created previously unheard of tools such as the hammer, the wrench, the automobile and the profylactic condom is ample evidence that we can actually innovate, somethibg that artificial “intelligence” is ibcapable 9f doing by its very design.
- Comment on The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era 3 weeks ago:
You are completely correct. And these are all reasons why the more heavily a company relies on AI for critical applications, the more likely it will be to go bankrupt. This is inherently a self-fixing problem.
- Comment on The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era 3 weeks ago:
I firmly disagree. Once this bubble bursts, AI “features” will swiftly be removed from any software suite with a plan of remaining relevant. Everyone in the know has been painfully aware from the start that AI is a worthless technology. It’s only a matter of either the common man catching on or the industry pushing it so hard that it breaks the existing infrastructure. We’re moving firmly towards the second scenario.
- Comment on Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. 3 weeks ago:
Ad blockers violate copyright law like breathing violates patent law.
- Comment on Anon shares a family moment 3 weeks ago:
But is it groovy to be funky?
- Comment on Some heroes don’t wear capes 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 5 weeks ago:
No, Sepultura is a Brazilian metal band. You’re thinking of Sophocles.
- Comment on Anon tries running live USB Linux on his dad's computer 5 weeks ago:
You mean Sriracha.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 month ago:
Plus, if you had two-day battery life, when the battery inevitably degrades, you’ll still have solid battery life.
But the companies want you to buy a new phone when the battery degrades.
- Comment on Anon is a game dev 2 months ago:
Except in 99.9% of cases nothing gets fixed after deployment either. That’s just an excuse not to admit that from the get-go.
- Comment on With all the animals that die in the sea, is it possible they get pickled in there? 2 months ago:
The sea is not “a salt brine in itself”. You need a much higher salt concentration to pickle anything than what you find at any point in the ocean. Enough to prevent microbial life forms from surviving and consuming whatever it is you’re trying to pickle, which is why it doesn’t rot while pickling.
- Comment on How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads? 2 months ago:
uBlock Origin works 9n Firefox for me. No ads on YT.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Thanks for the comprehensive lesson. Not living in an English-speaking country, I was utterly confused.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 4 months ago:
Oh, absolutely. Proverbs is full of wisdom, for example. And in the NT there’s some fishy stuff like Jesus cursing a fig tree for not bearing fruit for him even though it wasn’t the season, or when he made a herd of pigs commit suicide. The reputation of OT=bad and NT=good isn’t deserved. But to be fair, Jesus never said to stone the gays or that slavery was okay and 99% of the rime people discuss bigotry in the Bible, they’re talkong about one of these two.
Every religion has its good and bad parts.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 4 months ago:
Fair enough. I never said that people have to go back to the OT to find bigotry. Just that they often do.
and importantly rejects pretty much all Jewish law, supplanting it with the particular interpretations of one rabbi who is also the son of God but is also God himself.
Was Jesus actually recognized as a rabbi, though? I think he was just a preacher and not part of the official hierarchy, such as it was. This is irrelevant to the point you were making but it got me curious.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 4 months ago:
I didn’t say that “Christianity” itself quotes the Old Testament for purposes of bigotry, but that the fact that some Christians do even when said bigotry contradicts Jesus’s teachings, which is indisputable, is proof that Judaism is indeed packaged into Christianity in a certain form. And the point of view under which it can be called Judaism for export is really quite simple: Judaism considers Hebrews to be the Chosen People and everyone else is just out of luck. At best, you can marry into the religion. Jesus comes along and in a manner of speaking opens up access to the Hebrew God for anyone willing to follow him, regardless of their bloodline. Hence Judaism for export. Christianity quite literally took several Jewish ideas, such as their creation myth, and packaged it with a new doctrine that allowed it to be exported to other peoples.
Let’s not throw around words like antisemitism with such carelessness. There is bigotry in the Old Testament, such as the infamous Leviticus 20:13. Mentioning this is neither an attack on an entire race of people nor an implication that bigotry is somehow exclusive to Judaism, which just for the record, it most certainly is not. I’m trying to have a good faith conversation comparing different belief systems, and I don’t have the filthy habit of judging a human being’s worth from their religion, or worse, from their ethnicity.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 4 months ago:
Those are all valid points. Still, Christian Cosmology is the same as Jewish Cosmology: the world as an artifact created and ruled by a single all-knowing monarch who is in essence different and separate from it. And Jesus did define himself as coming to confirm the teachings of Judaism e.g. in Matthew 5:17, although in practice his teachings were very different - hence Christianity not being considered a Jewish sect but a separate religion. And because of this claim he made, the Jewish scriptures were received into Christianity, bringing along several beliefs that simply have nothing to do with anything Jesus ever thought was worth mentioning and several more which directly contradict his teachings. So there is of course this powerful connection between the two that can’t really be severed.
As for “multiple gods through the Trinity”, I wouldn’t put it like that exactly. Rather than being similar to Greco-Roman polytheism, the doctrine of the Trinity seems to me closer to the Hindu Trinity of the Godhead (Brahman, Vishnu and Shiva). Hinduism is of course polytheistic but these three gods in particular are not separate persons but different aspect of the same entity that manifest in different circumstances. A crude analogy would be if a person adopted one identity at work, another one at home with their family and another one while asleep. It’s still the same person, but fulfilling different roles. So it is with the Holy Trinity of Christianity. Hence what Paul said in Philippians 2:5-8:
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death — even death on a cross!
In any case, this is a very interest8ng discussion.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 4 months ago:
You’re welcome! It’s always a pleasure to geek out about something I find interesting.
