BussyCat
@BussyCat@lemmy.world
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 days ago:
That is just such a strange law
I tried googling it because I was curious and the only thing I could find was about temporary structures
Is there a name for the law that I could search?
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 days ago:
So woodland that can’t have a permanent dwelling is affordable but woodland that can is cheap?
Like that would make sense if the construction of the building was different but if it’s simply just how often you can spend time on your own land that’s ridiculous
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 days ago:
Not from the UK but why can’t you live in a cabin?
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 days ago:
A car weighs 2000-4000lbs and can be produced in a mostly automated factory
A reasonable sized house still weighs 50-100k lbs that’s a lot more material and you have the land it is built on. It then takes multiple people days to build.
Houses being as affordable as cars is a pipe dream
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 days ago:
The time scale is the other big difference. A credit card is intended to be paid off at the end of the month and gives you much better fraud protection than a debit card
Products like klarna instead have you pay off a tv over months and offer you no real benefit besides racking up debt
- Comment on No parking pavement marker being right beside a parking slot 1 week ago:
Am I missing something here or what’s the problem? There are parking spots and there is an area where you can’t park that’s clearly marked.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
Ah I thought you were the person with 200 tabs
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
Isn’t there a vast improvement by having a clean set of tabs that you can read the names of compared to 100 little tabs that you have to click through?
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
Why not just close them and open them back up later? Like you can bookmark the pages so you don’t lose your spot but I find it annoying to find the tab I am looking for at around 10 I would imagine it’s much worse at 200
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 weeks ago:
Racism towards clankers? Maybe I’m not up to date on my lingo but aren’t clankers, robots, I.e. not a race? Or am I missing something?
- Comment on Had to look this up 3 weeks ago:
You can make fun of stereotypes without being racist.
This is literally just a commentary on how JK Rowling wrote her other characters like Cho Chang and Kingsley shacklebolt.
No reasonable person is offended by the joke because it’s making fun of the stereotype not of the actual race.
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a question of ethics because why would I pay money for what I consider stolen property?
Courts ruling one way doesn’t make something ethical.
Personally I would never knowingly pay someone money to ask an AI that was trained on stolen data to generate a picture that they then print off. More so I would judge anyone that did pay more than the cost of printing it on a paper. It’s not art to ask a computer to use stolen art to make a prompt
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 3 weeks ago:
Because it mean the product you are getting is just someone else’s stolen work. Courts have said lots of things are legal that are unethical. When you ask an AI to make art it just is stealing that from other people’s art
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 3 weeks ago:
Does an AI exist that uses no copyrighted products for its training?
- Comment on forbidden dots 3 weeks ago:
Well it can activate water itself and make F-18, H-3, and N-17 from just H20
- Comment on forbidden dots 3 weeks ago:
Pu 239 which is the kind that we use the most since it’s the most fissile has a half-life of around 25k years and alpha decays so its very unlikely that it is heat from radioactivity. It may be heat from forging.
- Comment on DEI4All 4 weeks ago:
DEI is not about having quotas for X amount of every group even though people like to spout that nonsense. It’s about removing hurdles that people may have that may seem innocuous
For example if a job that is done fully remote is requiring people to interview in person a DEI analysis would look at that and say that’s not very inclusive of the disabled who may struggle to do the in person interview even though they can perform all the duties of their job with their disability so we should offer remote interviews
Like all other initiatives that start off fine, you also do just end up with some upper manager who tells some random middle manager with no experience to make things more DEI and that middle manager does some stupid shit
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 5 weeks ago:
But James Bond is supposed to be a bland forgettable name since Jaymes is an uncommon name for a woman it would be much more rememberable
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 5 weeks ago:
If nfl is owning a business then high school ball is being a cashier.
Claiming that a high school business teacher is unqualified because they don’t own a business is like an nfl coach being unqualified because they can’t play at a pro level.
This is also laughable for high school where the teacher gets paid trash and needs to teach only the most basic level of info
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 5 weeks ago:
Playing at the college or high school level is not even remotely comparable to playing at the professional level it’s like comparing a manager to a ceo
A quick google search of the best coaches brings up
Bill belichick (never played pro) Vince Lombaradi (made it to semi pro but not pro) Don Shula (did actually play for 7 years) Bill Walsh (never played pro) Paul brown (never played pro)
So 1/5 played pro yet they are able to coach profesional athletes, it’s almost like it’s a different skill set
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 5 weeks ago:
And those amazing football coaches would get trounced if they tried to sub in to play
Especially at a high school level (since they don’t teach PE in college) their job is to teach you the fundamentals like knowing the difference between macroeconomics and microeconomics.
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 5 weeks ago:
It’s not lazy. They put a key on the vault with only a single key that can open it and gave that key to your friend. your friend then either gave that key away (got phished), made a bunch of copies of it and left them around town (reused passwords), or the rarest option he let a maintenance guy in who swiped it (installed spyware). None of that changes the fact Microsoft doesn’t have another key, but considering how that email is written it looks like another phishing attempt…
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 month ago:
It’s just lobbying to get their interests. They aren’t specifically pro rep or pro dem they are pro google
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 month ago:
They lobby both parties, people are just talking about the Trump donations now as he is currently in power
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 month ago:
And in the same day the crime was at the lowest someone still got killed, and the day the stock market rose to a new high some stocks went down.
Just because a problem exists doesn’t negate that it was the best time period
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 month ago:
From 2006-2012 we had decently reliable, simple to operate vehicles, that got not shit gas mileage
- Comment on Sad but true 1 month ago:
Women have much higher rates of being sexually assaulted than men. But unwanted sexual harassment can increase with both sexes which is an objective negative. More attractive women are also more likely to have their intelligence questioned compared to a more attractive male. There are also issues of not knowing if people like you for your character or just your appearance that negatively affects everyone. The point is life isn’t just better in every way if you are attractive there are some downsides as well
- Comment on Not Looking for a recipe or a how to guide. But when meth rolled thru my town they called it either redneck speed or bathtub speed. With all chemicals did people really do it in a bathtub?? 1 month ago:
Comparing a drug manufacturer who supplies drugs to people in hospice care and an insurgent group is such a strange comparison.
Did a pharma company make a drug that could cause harm to patients? Yes.
Did they pretend it was less harmful than it was? Yes.
Did they encourage over prescribing? Yes.
Did they intentionally try and kill off their paying customer base? No.
- Comment on Just to make this clear 1 month ago:
Your preference is posting the image on the left and saying I like this
Your phobia is posting the picture on the right and saying eww
Your weird and non funny if you are posting anything about it in a subreddit dedicated to shitposting…
Like imagine a person posted “what I mean when I say I like dark men” and the picture on the left was an Italian man and the picture on the right was an African man. Wouldn’t you think that is vaguely racist? And wouldn’t you also be really confused why someone randomly posted that here?
- Comment on Just to make this clear 1 month ago:
Curvy would at least make sense but chubby?
Like if you are going to be fatphobic can you at least make it funny?