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- Comment on wat 5 days ago:
Because parallelism is not relevant.
I did not suggest you ought to discard anything.
I have considered your point. I then addressed the framework you seem to be using to build that conclusion. You’ve assumed axioms from what you see as related disciplines are still useful in a context you’re admittedly ignorant of. I suggest that familiarizing yourself with domains on which you are ignorant will provide the answers you’re looking for.
It’ll also explain why others already familiar with the topic find your reasoning falls short or isn’t interesting enough to meaningfully engage with.
- Comment on wat 5 days ago:
The way you’re talking about the CMB and the questions you’re asking about it suggest that you’re unfamiliar with the topic’s particulars. I’d start here: en.wikipedia.org/…/Cosmic_microwave_background
You’re making intuitive assumptions based in what you currently believe you know. Some of the concepts you’re using to framework your thinking simply don’t apply.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I replied to a similar thread from the lemmy.world selfhost community here: lemmy.world/post/24406909/14550114
My reply reviews what concerns you might want to consider before running your own email server.
To address your post specifically: yes. Kind of.
You can purchase a domain from a registrar. You don’t really own that though. You have to renew your registration periodically so it’s more like renting than owning for those at the “consumer” level. Still, if you register a domain then you can manage its Domain Name Service (DNS) records. Email routing is handled by DNS Mail Transfer (MX) records.
Once you’ve got a domain name you need to decide if you want to selfhost or purchase email services that let you bring your own domain. Both are doable but bringing your domain to a service provider is likely the better path for you.
Tuta mail and Proton mail are popular providers that let you bring your own domain.
- Comment on systemd 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ant warhammer 1 month ago:
If I wanted to introduce someone to the genre then Empires of the Undergrowth would be my first recommendation.
The gameplay, narrative, and progression mechanics are top-notch. The developers understand what makes RTS mechanics compelling and have designed systems that are more intuitive and accessible for everyone.
For instance (no spoilers) unit groups are built-in to base management. No hotkeys or group micro management required. It happens automatically as a functional result of more obvious concerns.
My only critique of the game, if I were forced to offer one, that the UI can seem a bit clunky at first. That aside though the team’s expertise and care shine through in ways which prove the user experience was well considered throughout development.
It’s fun, too!
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 1 month ago:
Oh, buddy. Ooooof.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 1 month ago:
I was ignorant but curious.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf
She’s got a Doctorate of Philosophy in English Literature from Oxford, is a feminist author, and conspiracy theorist. At a glance I can understand why she’s developed a reputation of a certain color.
Care to share any specific grievances?
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 months ago:
It is also a sexual innuendo.
- Comment on Is "dark humor" generally acceptable or is it just my parents/culture more sensitive towards jokes? 2 months ago:
I’d argue that isn’t even dark humor. The joke’s focal point is how ridiculous that position is. You’re taking up an untenable and patently absurd position in faux support of the initial absurd position. That’s ridicule. Now I will grant that lampooning a rhetorical opponent’s position can lean “dark”. Unless the punchline relies on taboo for the heavy lifting though it isn’t crossing that line.
You didn’t say anything offensive or taboo. You criticised someone’s bad take using contemptous analytic hyperbole. I grew up with this kind of humor in my family. It was mostly used as a learning tool which avoided direct confrontation of idiocy while allowing the temporarily embarassed idiot to save face, realize they weren’t thinking clearly, and choose to be in on the joke at their old self’s expense. There are other choices, or course, but if you chose to die on mount stupid then you’d better expect to get buried underneath it as well.
Your family doesn’t seem to be receptive to that brand of social therapy. That’s ok. My point is more to encourage you that you didn’t do anything wrong (and that it’s even normal to joke like that elsewhere).
Your mom might not think you’re funny… But I do!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No, silly, you’re thinking of Ken from MXC (and right you are, Luddite). Schwifty-Five is just a song.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 4 months ago:
One way this question could be interpreted and restated is: Trans people don’t have blanket immunity against critique, right?
If that is the legitimate heart of your question then: No. They do not. No one does.
Let’s say some puppy kicker happens to be trans. I publically and vocally oppose their puppy kicking. They respond by labeling me transphobic. That’s nothing more than a weak response from a bad person using their minority status as a cover for their shitty behavior/beliefs.
That said, and I cannot stress this enough; that is not how your question reads and the above is an overly charitable interpretation.
If that is not the legitimate heart of your question then all I can do is refer you to the bible: genderdysphoria.fyi/en
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 5 months ago:
The use of currency in an open market is not Capitalism. This conflation is propaganda used by Capitalists to further the “Capitalism is a Natural state” fairy tale.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 months ago:
“Stop pulling! You have to press in to release the trap.”
- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 5 months ago:
“01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101”
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 6 months ago:
If I must to trade one thing to get another then what I recieve is not free.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 6 months ago:
I’m not confident you’re participating in good faith here but, on the off-chance you are; I’m not sure I take your point.
Can you substantiate your initial claim? “The floor on confidence in knowledge is now basically nothing” seems too broad a statement to meaningfully defend.
Even if we assume you’re talking about US 8th graders you’ll have to be more specific. The US has seen degraded academic performance across the board but the degree varies by State (and often again by County).
What’s “necessary help” is up for debate as well. There’s a hint of something I can agree with here though. I do agree that, for certain vocations, it’s important for individuals to have firm graps on the fundamentals. Programmers ought to be able to code without IDEs and Mathematicians work problems without calculators. I don’t agree that the common use of good tools by those professionals results in the brain-drain bogeyman you seem to be shadow boxing.
What am I meant to be alarmed about, exactly?
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 6 months ago:
An exquisite typo.
- Comment on ... huh... 7 months ago:
This is an affront to Starfish everywhere.
- Comment on Tell me I'm wrong 7 months ago:
😐😑🙄⬆️
- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 8 months ago:
That makes sense. Not a misconfiguration on the site’s end then. Thanks for the clarification.
- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 8 months ago:
Weird. I’ve tested on a desktop and mobile device. Both loaded the archive.is link via Tor Browser (no extensions) without a problem in both “Normal” and “Safer” modes. “Safest” mode fails at the CAPTCHA page but that’s expected.
Maybe the node(s) you were connected to were having issues with that domain at the time.
- Comment on Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World 8 months ago:
What browser are you using and with what plugins?
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 8 months ago:
This is true! Saying figs is wasps is silly in the same way that saying plants are dirt is silly. Like… Kind of? From a certain odd perspective, “sure” with caveats. It’s a reductive understanding that’s neither literally nor technically true but who am I a botanist? No. I’m not. I do know a lot happens between pollination and the fruit we might eat though and most fig varieties we grow for food or buy from stores aren’t the kind pollinated by wasps anyway.
I found a decent write up with more detail here: www.treehugger.com/are-figs-vegan-5203202
Dirt is the byproduct of life after its been on a planet for a while. Plants figured out how to recycle life and death’s leftovers. Then mushrooms came along and filled the gaps in weird ways. Animals eat the plants and fungi. Other animals eat those animals. Siiiimbaaaa, right?
We typically don’t think we’re eating our ancestors when having a salad. We aren’t beholden to the idea that we’re eating wasps when munching figs either. Even in the odd case where we’re eating those specific kinds of figs.
- Comment on Me too. 9 months ago:
Weird flex but… Ok.
- Comment on Me too. 9 months ago:
That makes more sense. Thanks for the response! I’m not sure if can agree with your conclusions. It may be that I’m still missing context you’re working within. My best guess is you’re assume some axioms that I am not. That doesn’t necessarily mean I think you’re incorrect. We might just be operating with different frameworks.
I agree that strong emergemce and weak emergence seem different by your definitions. I’m not convinced strong emergemce is a thing. Is there a compelling argument that the perception of strong emergence is actually a more complex weak emergence that the observers have not fully understood?
Something something Occam’s Razor / god of the gaps something. I find these sorts of discussions quite compelling. Thanks again for engaging. :)
- Comment on Me too. 9 months ago:
I don’t see how either sentence follows. Rephrasing your comment and supplementing it with context to explain your reasoning may better communicate your point.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 10 months ago:
Ublock origin is the only way to fly these days. I’ve walked a few family members through using the Element Zapper and explained how the plugin identifies which domain is loading the content and why websites do that now. They’ve all taken to it pretty well.
Having a default backup browser for sites that give too much grief when they can’t get all of their spyware to work correctly definitely keeps me sane and made adoption less stressful for the uninitiated. I give myself three or four tries to make a shitty site work before either abandoning the site and trying an alternative or, if it’s important and necessary, loading it raw in the backup browser.
+1 for LibreWolf too. Dope project.
- Comment on shrooms 10 months ago:
Well, two, actually.
- Comment on House members erupt into a screaming match following senators forced removal from press conference 11 months ago:
Preface: I’m American. I grew up in a Christian Conservative home. I was homeschooled, went to Christian Conservative schools, and attended a “Bible College”. I escaped after college and have been self-educating and trying to help others escape since then. The post below got a bit long in the tooth but the answer to your question is tough to explain succinctly. Bear with me if you can.
Most Americans have been coerced since birth into wage slavery that intentionally denies them any legal means of fulfilling their basic needs. This is true for “upper class” and “impoverished” Americans alike but by different methods. American corporate culture and common political propaganda brainwashes people into believing the fault for this lies with their neighbors and extended family. This has trapped many in generational self-oppression and conditioned them to believe that this is both normal and necessary either for their own survival or the survival of some principal(s) without which society crumbles.
They are discouraged from participating in deep introspection, engaging in political dialogue, keeping up with current events, etc. This is perpetuated not only by their peers and leaders (if their leaders speak to them at all) but by the same systems on which they are dependent.
Access to information leads to education and freedom. That’s bad for business. It’s also why almost all of the American Progressive movements (such as they are) are led by those born after Gen X (which is a topic I’ll set aside for another thread).
So… What’s going on?
A plan set in motion during the sixties as a response to the Civil Rights movement and integration; crystalized in the seventies by Paul Weyrich, the Heritage Foundation (yes, that one), and Jerry Falwell et al; normalized in the eighties using abortion as a wedge issue and fabricating the “right to life” movement; and has been co-opted by the survivors of the fall of aristocracy (now known as oligarchs) to seize power over the means of governance, justice, and national self-determination.
Politico has a great article from over a decade ago that covers the rise of the American Religious Right in more detail: politico.com/…/religious-right-real-origins-10713…
Many Americans are completely unaware of the origins and motivations for the beliefs they’ve adopted and now identify with. They vote along party lines without even knowing who the people they vote for actually are or what they intend to do with the power afforded them. This isn’t an accident. It’s a coordinated attack on the common people whose perpetrators wield the people’s ignorance as an orbitoclast and treat misinformation like an opiate. Citizens can’t be appalled by the behavior in that video if they never see it, can’t be convinced it’s real, or are deluded enough to think it’s always been that way.
There’s still hope but we’re short on time and don’t yet have effective strategies against the tacticians at the top of the pyramid. I don’t know what the path out of this looks like yet but I know we’re at a disadvantage, that we’ll need help, and that free information and education are key parts of it. My ancestors were forced to flee from the Nazis. They wouldn’t have survived without the compassion of strangers working for the common good across language barriers and disparate ideologies. I still have family in Europe who lived through that reality. I’ve met them and heard their stories. I know what’s at stake and how bad it can get.
I’ve heard that small men only cast long shadows when the sun is low in the sky. I think that’s true and that night is upon us. If the shadow of America hangs over the world after the sun has set then it is cast by powerful few using the husk of Liberty as a shadow puppet. Her torch a bonfire and its fuel the working class. All made fat and docile: ready to burn while blaming their friends for the inconvenience. The point is not the spectacle though. This Hydra is cold-blooded and it needs the warmth of the flame to survive. We’ve got to figure out how to deny it that foothold.
That’s what the ever-loving fuck is going on.
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 1 year ago:
I’d like to tack on that this point can be used to highlight why this is so. It’s a deep concept that can be explained simply and produces a lasting positive impact.
Everyone has fantasies. Sometimes we want them to be realized. Most often: we don’t. Many people carry internal shame because of their fantasies and some of those people have difficulty with intimacy because of it.
Good sex with other people requires our investment in their comfort and pleasure. This can be emotionally complex and fulfilling to navigate. Masturbation is free of those complications but we often make up the difference via fantasy. This is normal and there’s no need to confuse one space for the other. Masturbation and sex may fulfill similar basic needs on the surface but, in practice, they are very different exercises. It’s normal for one’s preferences to be different for each and for those preferences to shift over time.
Don’t worry about “normal”. Focus on having a healthy, honest, and emotionally aware sex life instead.
