Th4tGuyII

@Th4tGuyII@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Their attitude towards us really depends on what their evolutionary pressures were. If resources were/are plentiful, they might have a less aggressive nature and simply wish to meet us.
  Otherwise, we might be on the chopping block.

  As for us. I imagine a decent portion of humanity would immediately default to rampant xenophobia or weirdly sexual obsession.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everyone knows we don’t poop. it’s all flowers and rainbows.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Her underarm hair was visible?!

  Never mind Jeffery's paedophile cabal, how will higher society ever get over such controversy as a woman's armpit hair being visible??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨girl, ruuuuunnnn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pulled a pretty girl with progressive dating values and fucking moans about it.
  With a personality like that, he was the lucky one, and I'd bet many others would've gladly taken his place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wanna have a perfectly healthy guy take 1 recreationally so i can use him as a human dildo for hours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enjoy the peace of impotency?
  Surely he doesn't think his penis actually has a brain right?
  Its your brain that makes you horny, and it will still make you horny even if the equipment don't work anymore.

  If you're that horny-brained that its causing you stress, your best option (aside from therapy, cause that's expensive) is to get offline and find a hobby to distract your mind with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a good metric??

  Isn't this just stating that you're letting something with the coding ability of a toddler run amok through your product, having to constantly be bug-fixed by your remaining engineers?

  This is exactly what Microsoft started doing, and its so far worked out terribly for them. Loads of their new software updates have had unacceptablely large bugs for even simple like task manager!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not a good sign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But how will we get more money to the shareholders if we stop pushing humanity towards extinction!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wing boy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor book. Nothing short of the crappiest, soulless literature out there deserves to be desicrated with wing sauce like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games throw weight behind California bill that would force companies to either keep games working independently after server shutdowns or issue refunds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm not even slightly surprised. Sounds like the exact MO of Stop Killing Games.

  You don't have to keep services running forever, that's not fair at all, but you should have to give people the tools to do it themselves - because people should be able to preserve these experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annon was an oracle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was first released in North America, parts of Europe, Australia, and South America in November 2013

  Unfortunately so, welcome to getting old

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally though⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. I imagine as a PhD its easier to avoid since you're doing new research, so you're presenting unique information with (in theory) unique sentences.

  Whereas for a lot of undergrad students, up until the tail end of their degrees, they're writing about fairly extensively covered topics, so you're much more likely to accidentally steal wordings from others who have already written about them.
  In fact at that stage, I'd bet having too low a plagiarism score would more likely indicate you're barking up the wrong tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally though⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuinely. As a student I don't think I ever saw a Turnitin score for my work below 40%.
  There are only so many ways to wrute a sentence about the same thing, so its impossible to not accidentally plagiarise someone's works.

  I remember one lecturer telling me that they don't really look at the % unless its something aggregious like +70%. But more often they're looking for patterns in what it highlights.

  Loads of tiny highlights with individual sources are likely to be a false positive, but big chunks of highlights from only a couple of sources is likely to be a true positive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While it certainly seems like a bunch of idiots taking the piss - the reality is that our GP system is in utter shambles, and has essentially forced people into using A&E as an intermediate.

  Think about it. Besides pensioners and SAHPs, who actually has the time to sit by the phone at 8am in the morning and call the split second the GP opens for just a chance of seeing them that day at a time that is most likely going to be during your work day - meaning you'll need to get permission just to go!

  Oh, and almost no GP has an option to book appointments in advance, and those that do often have them weeks in advance.

  So what exactly are you supposed to do??
  Fight on the phone every day, possibly for multiple days on end, or wait so long for an advance booking appointment that you may very well end up needing to go to A&E anyways!

  The only other option that has recently opened up is going to your pharmacist, but they're already busy enough as is, and will likely end up buggered the same way if we don't fix our GP system first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're Not Bad At Job Hunting—30% Of Job Postings Are Fake⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies keep ghost jobs active for several reasons:

  To build candidate pipelines for roles that might open later

  To signal growth during hiring freezes

  To leave approved positions stuck in limbo due to budget cuts

  To satisfy internal posting requirements or HR quotas

  So in other words companies are ghouls willing to turn what is already a grueling process nowadays into an even more gruelling one simply for the sake of gaining more metrics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahead of her time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  "Could" is doing about as much lifting in this article as Atlas lifting the world.

  I'm holding my reservations until something actually comes along

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far-right thugs throw rocks at Filipino NHS nurses on way to work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely disgusting.
  Poor nurses trying to save lives and they're paid back by having these racist EDL cunts throwing rocks at them.
  Should get Keir Starmer send these pieces of shit over to Rwanda instead, and see how long they last.

  As @theskyisfalling said, these are the same ignorant arses that brought us Brexit, and continue to make our country look like an absolute laughing stock on the world stage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A kick right in the selbstbild⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Arguably their biggest mistake was trying to fight both world superpowers at once, in the USSR and Great Britain backed by the US.
  I can't imagine how they thought that would go well, but thank fuck they did, cause I wouldn't want to see the world they envisioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old AF⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that complex life as we know it is only about 500-600 million years old, around the time of the Cambrian Explosion, the only image that comes to mind is two Eukaryotic cells getting frisky, having a one replication stand, then parting ways

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman's UBI study finds that money can buy happiness • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Duh. The phrase is meant to mean an excess of money can't buy you happiness - having enough money to pay off what you need to, and being able to spend some on yourself without worrying where your next paycheck comes from will of course make you more happy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh god, that can't be good...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes you wonder how long it'll be until even the worst AI images are indistinguishable from human-produced images

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anon has movie night⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most Greentexts are, but it's often more fun to joke as though it were not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is one sniff away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You got me good with that punchline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anon has movie night⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon managed a double homicide on the movie night and his social life in one go, all while being completely blind up his own arse. That shit's impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is one sniff away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  at the end of the day my right shoulder smells of women's perfume

  That's gotta count for something right?

  If you have to ask this question, you know it doesn't count.

  Also, I think you'd be better trying to flirt with the Salsa ladies than sniffing for their perfume on your shoulder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon freezes time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And that is why you should always test newfound superpowers on a small scale before blowing your load on freezing time for 6 months you depraved Anon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The theory that we live in a simulation involves simulants running their own simulations; wouldn't that require impossibly more resources for the main sim?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have said, our reference of time comes from our own universe's rules.
  Ergo if rendering 1 second of out time took 10 years of their time, we wouldn't measure 10 years, we'd measure 1 second, so we'd have no way of knowing.

  Simulation theory is, at least for now, unfalsifiable. It's always a nonzero possibility because by the nature of it there's always a counterargument for any evidence against it, just like how most religions operate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children is bugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They're noisy, very noisy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children is bugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it's a beautiful name, who really cares if it's named after a genus of Cicadas?
  There are worse sounding "normal" names out there.
  Plus it's named after OP's passion, I think that shows a lot of love

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long does it take for neurotypical (or just typical) people to get over a minor fight?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with ASD, I can't say I've seen that much difference in the time it takes NT/ND people to get over a fight.

  While I have seen some consistency across the sexes, in that guys seem to hold onto arguments for less time on average, even that varies quite a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🥲🥲🤡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I too am absolutely pumped to live in a world where humam artistry is all but confined to the wealthy, and we all get AI generated pseudo-art instead! Woot woot!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To all you outside of the US...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I suppose the answer I'd give is that because of how right-wing the US is compared to much of the Western world, it becomes a patient zero for whatever the far-right is cooking up - which inevitably influences far-right groups in other Western countries