InputZero

@InputZero@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on what field you’re studying. Some fields of study, like social studies, move very quickly. So it’s not uncommon for someone studying one of those subjects to exclude research that’s even 10 to 15 years old because things move so quickly.

  A different subject, say hydrologic engineering has been studied for hundreds of years and doesn’t change very quickly. So a publication from 1994 could be just as valid today as it was then. Every topic is different and without more context the meme as is, is just meant to incite a reaction. Not to tell us about something that actually happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dunning-Kruger⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re confusing sex with gender. Both are a spectrum but sex is a biological spectrum of sexual organs in a living creature and gender is a quality, projection and performance of a person that also lands on a spectrum.

  The confusion is because they both use male and female but sex and gender are different things. Gender can change throughout a person’s life. A person’s sex is consistent throughout life and can’t be changed. A person’s gender can’t change their sex. Sex also isn’t as simple as xx is female and xy is male, there’s a whole bunch of things that can’t put a person in one, both, or none of those categories. Gender is even more complicated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I don't have my lunch my sugar crashes and I get sleepy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Free earplugs, that’s communism! /S

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, and as someone who’s been driving the same stick shift for almost 15 years now, you can take it from my cold dead hands. I haven’t seen anything with a beltless cvt, and I haven’t seen an automatic transmission I like more than my five speed, except in traffic. The tech exists, although it’s not available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just EVs, modern beltless CVTs and automatic transmissions make manual transmissions practically obsolete. With a wider set of gear ranges and way better performance and reliability they’re better in almost every way than a stick shift. That said, doesn’t matter how good a transmission is if it’s undersized for the engine, so I’m not say the transmission in any particular vehicle is good, just the tech has developed in recent years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is also when I conveniently forget you called, making your preferred method of communication incredibly slow compared to texting.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because 9 times out of 10 it’s a spam call and picking up marks your number as active so it gets called more often. It makes looking for a job so much worse because I have to answer almost every call. Most are spam calls but I can’t afford to miss an employer calling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not how evolution works. Evolution doesn’t have a plan, it doesn’t wait, or speed up. Evolution just happens and our human ancestors would have continued to evolve regardless of agriculture. The path that evolution takes could have been very different but it would have happened. The human species is still evolving and will continue to do so until it’s extinction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess I'll starve⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In America all bread is so full of sugar that it’s all cake bread. Brioche in America is a cake bun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's impossible to lose⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the size. A 65 year old who’s been working hard their whole life might get a small golden parachute and those ones are less unethical. CEOs and world leaders get the enormous golden chutes and there is no way to make one of those without child labour, slave labour, and other forms of exploitation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What year is it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that movie would have been very different without Robbin Williams as Adult Alan. Imagine if the movie we’re a drama and not a comedy. It’d be a harder gut punch than Requiem for a Dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Fire at the disco; fire at the, Gates of Hell!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if you accept a single payer health care system and like it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Free" Speech Absolutist™⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the old adage “the laws that free me, bind thee”. Although I’d argue that I should include the extreme left wing as well with the way I worded it. It’s just that the extreme left is so few in number they’re statistically insignificant. Perhaps I’m just being pedantic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Request denied. We are informing you that should you choose to ignore your contractual obligations by neglecting to perform, we will be forced to recover any potential damages because of your actions through binding arbitration. We thank you for being part of the Amazon family and your continued dedication to our family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's PC works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m rocking a Ryzen 2700x since 2018, or early 2019, and it’s still working like a champ. Granted Cities Skylines 2 is a bit much for it but I’ve been playing Baulders Gate and Helldivers with about a 100 fps average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He should have kept smoking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon memes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll agree that the last season wasn’t as good as the first three, but it was still good. The finale was amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your bank details?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a single authority falacy, in this case there is only one opinion, the person who’s protecting their financial information, to promote the idea of not looking into someone’s bank account. When there could be a legitimate reason to look into a person’s finances.

  In all seriousness in so far as the meme is presenting itself single authority is prudent. Like what if every decision about yourself everyone was always a stakeholder? That would be hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates Apple⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did you have to bring homosexuality into this? I thought we were past using gay as a pejorative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games have you sunk the most time into?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Play smaller and taller. Playing a wide game is tougher but not impossible. Also don’t do what I do, do not have a custom built species for every origin. There’s a lot of origins now and it’s a little cluttered. Just build a race you like and get playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games have you sunk the most time into?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally! Someone with over 1000 hours in a game. I think I have over 3000 hours in Stellaris alone. Granted I’ve definitely walked away from that game in the endgame for over an hour and come back with practically nothing changing. It’s a very slow game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives a piracy history lesson⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s remarkable how people can see right past what was actually happening and only see what they want to see. Netflix was never trying to be the good guy. Netflix didn’t offer low prices out of the goodness of it’s hearts. It doesn’t have a heart, it has a ledger. The reason why Netflix offered a lot of content for a low price is because the company was trying to disrupt traditional cable. It was always the plan to increase prices, Netflix didn’t become greedy, it always was. It’s just that for a time the companies greed aligned with the publics greed. Once that relationship was no longer beneficial to Netflix it raised the prices, that was the plan all along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then the incentive becomes to stop a whistleblower faster if they had a dead-man cache than if they released it all at once. There’s no guarantee that the whistleblower is being honest or is capable enough to undertake something like that but there’s always a risk that the whistleblower may disclose that information anyway. Better to stop the whistleblower by arresting them first and deal with the potential fallout than negotiate. Now the whistleblower’s reputation is ruined, if they’re behind bars they’re effectively silenced, and they’re as good as dead to society without all that messy work trying to fake a suicide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon on hobby communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even know what you’re on about. I would understand the joke in this context if you had said ‘Making art is a heretical activity.’ because that plays into the grim dark lore of WH40K. Was saying homoerotic a typo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon on hobby communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First off, I don’t think tiktokers have as much influence over the cost of a hobby as inflation and every other market force that has increased prices. Everything is more expensive and blaming influencers doesn’t help.

  With that said, it’s like Gen Z saw Millennials being Hipsters who pay wayyyy too much for ‘vintage crap’ and said ‘Hold my vape,’ then went and did the same thing to literally anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon on hobby communities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re both couldn’t be more wrong. It’s obvious that my way is better than both of yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the easier way to switch from solar DC to grid AC is to just have a flywheel between the grid and the solar power plant. It might not be as efficient as a capacitor bank or super capacitor bank but it’s dead simple to implement and it’s extremely reliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting analogy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably looked a lot more like birds than reptiles too because taxonomically speaking birds are actually dinosaurs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How was trying to get a job different THEN vs NOW⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While there are no laws that really stop an AI from doing whatever, there are already laws to stop someone from doing that. It might be difficult to find a corporation like UHC guilty of fraud when they use a faulty AI to refuse health care, it’s pretty easy to go the other way and charge a person for using a corporation’s AI in a way they did not intend.

  A corporation causes a million deaths, no one bats an eye. Steal a million dollars from a corporation and everyone loses their fucking minds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the funniest programing bugs ever. Gandhi’s code was meant to be the least aggressive AI in the game, but if something made Ghandi become even less aggressive it could overflow backwards and set his aggressiveness to max. This creating a Gandhi that wanted to always be at war.