BussyCat
@BussyCat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 day 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? 5 days 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? 5 days 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? 5 days ago:
Does an AI exist that uses no copyrighted products for its training?
- Comment on forbidden dots 1 week ago:
Well it can activate water itself and make F-18, H-3, and N-17 from just H20
- Comment on forbidden dots 1 week 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 1 week 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? 2 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" 2 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" 2 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" 2 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 2 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
From 2006-2012 we had decently reliable, simple to operate vehicles, that got not shit gas mileage
- Comment on Sad but true 4 weeks 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?? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Curvy would at least make sense but chubby?
Like if you are going to be fatphobic can you at least make it funny?
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 weeks ago:
The point is that may people will instinctually call mushrooms a vegetable
If we take that same example and add 4 categories and then add milk as another item I am still willing to bet the average person will put mushrooms as a vegetable and make the categories fruit vegetable dairy meat even though vegetables aren’t real and you could have a category of animal products.
Now if you only quiz the biology majors you might get a different result but in the U.S. only 38% of people are college educated and the most common major is business
- Comment on Not a meme, just superpawsition 4 weeks ago:
Did it actually help people understand it?
In my experience most laymen’s explanation involve knowledge of the word superposition but not any clarity on what it is and they treat the cat in the box as a real cat
Every once in a while someone seems to understand it but that seem mostly limited to people who had to take a class on quantum/ statistical mechanics
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 weeks ago:
Apple, tomato, peppers, and cucumbers are all fruits
Mushrooms are mushrooms
Pork is meat
But if you give the average person those it’s much more likely they will make the categories fruits, vegetables, and meat and put mushrooms in the vegetable category
- Comment on Not a meme, just superpawsition 4 weeks ago:
Thank you, schrödingers cat is one of those things that a bunch of people have heard of but it seems nobody actually understands
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 weeks ago:
Take a piece of paper with 3 squares drawn on it
And hand a person a picture of an apple, tomato, pepper, cucumber, pork cutlet, and mushroom and ask them to put the pictures into the squares and then label each square
Average person will definitely label a box as vegetables and put the mushrooms in it
- Comment on Why do video game leaks (such as the huge GTA VI videos leak) cause "low morale" for the staff working on it? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not done and it’s annoying. Logically speaking management knows what you are working on so if you are working on a 25% complete deliverable they have a reasonable expectation what that should look like. When management doesn’t do that it’s also annoying.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It’s not about a persons “only human connection” but it is a human connection that is being taken away.
It’s literally not even about nobody liking you either… as you automate everything it becomes harder to meet people too and harder to have normal conversations so you end up as this weird sad person who sees a person asking for connection and responds by telling them they need a prostitute of to figure out why nobody likes them
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 1 month ago:
What do you call people who wear red and black swastikas and say heil Hitler while doing a salute typical of the Nazi party?
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
I’m not saying that is the norm but more so that it may not be just internal misogyny that causes the poster to reach their conclusion
- Comment on This should be true 1 month ago:
First everyone gets back pay, then people need to work a bunch of overtime after the shutdown to make up for work, so will actually cost even more money.
But even if that wasn’t true, employee salaries make up less than 5% of the budget so a 35 day shut down (the previous record) would make up less than half a percent of the budget