spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on Did Biden ever release Trump's Resolute Letter? 2 hours ago:
They say Biden is still waiting to talk to Trump to this very day.
- Comment on Reach out and touch someone rule 19 hours ago:
The suit is there to reduce fatalities and minimize injuries, not to avoid every poasible injury.
Sometimes there are situations where touch and feel is critical, although my understanding is that the preferred approach today is remote detonation where even the suit is away from the likely blast radius.
- Comment on This should be the right address.... 1 day ago:
“Ethical”
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 1 day ago:
These attitudes often stem from their inability to form relationships.
Because of how they think making them have awful personalities.
- Comment on YouTube diluting my recommended videos feed with AI-generated “music” that pretends to be made by an actual artist 1 day ago:
We are well past the tipping point of malicious websites being indistinguishable from legit sites unless tou pay attention to extra informatjon like the address bar. I would say that most of the websites I used to enjoy have gone to shit between ads and ditching their better writers for cheaper staff or AI. Most of the internet is crap.
But there is stilll enough helpful content that the whoe thing isn’t worthless and I doubt it ever will be.
- Comment on YouTube diluting my recommended videos feed with AI-generated “music” that pretends to be made by an actual artist 1 day ago:
I am adding this disclaimer due to repeated questions about the genuine authenticity of Popsie Funk and his music.
I don’t think that the artist in question is faking this.
All that being said, while this particular case isn’t, I suppose one could imagine such a “trying to pretend to be human” artist existing.
They were trying to fake it, and added the disclaimer because people bugged them about it. They still worded the disclaimer as if Popsie Funk was a real person (his music).
- Comment on YouTube diluting my recommended videos feed with AI-generated “music” that pretends to be made by an actual artist 1 day ago:
The internet will never be useless. There will always be a large number of sites that are not capitalist hellholes that only exist to steal user’s data or scam users or do other malicious things. This may be down to things like credit unions, federated social media, and non-profits that exist to make the world better, but there will always be something that is out there that keeps it from being useless.
- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 1 day ago:
I can’t think of any sayings or phrasings that would be universal across the entire globe.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 1 day ago:
They do have unrealistic expectations.
Those might include standards, limited preferences, or an expectation that a relationship is just going to magically happen despite not doing the things that are necessary for a relationship to start.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 1 day ago:
Most of the people that fit your description that I knew in the 90s had relationships with other outcasts, the people they hung out with. Hell, I probably could have fit that description and had no issues dating!
‘Normal women’ includes all kinds of women, but the context implies that they are choosing some kind of stereotypical type of woman which is limiting their dsting pool. Their bitterness and hatred comes from not changing their behavior to attract the type of women they were interested in.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 1 day ago:
It is not illegal everywhere.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 1 day ago:
Nobody is celibate against their will. They might have difficulty getting into relationships, but they are also choosing not to use the services of sex workers.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 2 days ago:
Incels are defined by how they think, not what they are.
- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 2 days ago:
Adding “those” in front also alienates them further. So by saying “those people”, you are distancing yourself from them, despite them being your family.
Great observation!
- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 2 days ago:
“Those people” can be a racist or classist dog whistle, but isn’t always, and also there isn’t really an alternative.
The vast majority of the time ‘they’ or ‘them’ works in the same sentence as ‘those people’ when refering a goup since you already need context for who you are referring to. I can’t even think of an example where they or them doesn’t fit.
Description of a group of white people from Georgia.
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I heard they like fried chicken.
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I heard those people like fried chicken.
Hell, the second one sounds racist even after making it clear I was talking about white people, and I typed the words!
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- Comment on Is there a difference in meaning between the words *people* and *persons*? 2 days ago:
For example, one time I was talking about how my sister and her family/household travel often, saying, “Those people travel a lot,” and the person repeated those people and gave a slight laugh. I’m wondering if I may be giving some sort of unintentional implied message when I use that word.
I joke around friends who accidentally phrase things in ways that could sound like bigotry/racism if taken out of context, and it sounds like that it what the person was laughing about.
‘Those people’, when used while judging or looking down on somebody is a common way for bigots and racists to avoid using slurs around non-bigots/racists. Something like “The park was a lot more fun before those people showed up.” while nodding in the direction of some people with darker skin. Or saying that ‘those people’ are doing something unacceptable.
It isn’t a people vs person thing, it is specifically the phrase ‘those people’.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 2 days ago:
I nominate beigepilled.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 2 days ago:
So blackpilled = incelpilled?
- Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 2 days ago:
A big part of where she excelled in votes was because she spent too much time in safe states and didn’t spend a lot of time campaigning in the states that ended up being decided on thin margins.
- Comment on Amazon orders workers to return to the office five days a week 2 days ago:
At least they get two days a week to work from home!
- Comment on Is Ryze Mushroom Coffee Just Another Craze? 2 days ago:
Yeah, cold cream of mushroom soup or nothing!
- Comment on Big Penny! 4 days ago:
…increasing the bridge’s hunger.
- Comment on UPDATE: Here is the final design of the Humorless Toaster, that this wonderful community helped me pick yesterday! (Needless to say one of the previous versions was unintentionally problematic) 5 days ago:
Awesome!
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 6 days ago:
Employment is like dating, there are frequently things that happen outside of the process that impact the process and there are often reasons to avoid direct rejection even if the reasons are different.
Jobs might be posted and then the position itself is made redundant during the interviews, so they are no longer hiring. Or they liked your interview, but want to offer you something else and have to do the HR circus to make that offer happen and the whole thing falls through. Or during the interviews they decide they want to change the position into something else. Orbthey are incompetent and HR forgot to follow up on the job offer. I have seen all of these happen!
Then there is the all too common scenario of finding out the candidate is a woman or a minority and sone jerk killing the process. Can’t admit that so they ghost. They might have a valid reason not to hire, but don’t want to be sued for giving a reason. They might also have posted the thing to meet a requirement although they know who they were going to hire from the start. I have seen all of those as well.
Or they don’t want to tell a candidate they didn’t meet the position for fear of violence. This is likely being over cautious and not specific to the applicant!
Or the applicant reminded an interviwer of someone they don’t like.
These often line up with dating because they are all things that have no real specific explanation that can be given as what the csndidate can even do to change. Knowing they are possible won’t really impact how the interview/dating should go in the future either, because they are all external to the interview or dating process.
So the best way is to come to terms with the fact that there is likely to be someone who is a better fit, or the position wasn’t really stable anyway, or you didn’t want to work or date them anyway if they didn’t follow up.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 6 days ago:
Republicans have been taught to ignore reality and give in to their hatred.
- Comment on What causes a CFL to suddenly start working again 1 week ago:
This is the most common one for me. The smooth connection on the base just doesn’t connect as well as the kinda rough old incandescent bases and I have had to gently pull on the little tab it pushes against in the mount to get a better connection.
Have on in the bathroom that I messed with earlier this week after the bilb started practicing for a horror movie.
- Comment on 75% of all PS5 owners prefer Performance Mode according to PlayStation 1 week ago:
I think console players are catching up on the massive difference between 30 FPS and 60+ FPS in first person games where the camera can move quickly. As TVs have improved along with the consoles, and some titles are able to be played at 60+ FPS, people are noticing the difference compared to newer titles that aim for 30 FPS as a trade off for detailed graphics and motion blur.
Plus performance mode reduces the number of times a game might stutter or have short periods of time where the frames have a massive drop compared to their normal rate.