JayDee

@JayDee@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brain blowing orgasms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not how your comment reads. It reads like you think every trait exists as an advantage and propagates because it is a benefit. Plenty of traits propagate as side effects, which is how their comment read to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brain blowing orgasms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point the other guy is pointing out, is that good and bad evolutionary traits are often connected - or more helpfully stated, evolutionary traits can have both benefits and drawbacks which don’t immediately seem related to the same trait.

  It’s quite possible that octopi sex dementia is just a drawback to another trait which is very beneficial, so the dementia was just a bad aspect of a good trait that propagated forward. This happens all the time in different animal biologies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brain blowing orgasms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everything in evolution ends up having a point. So long as a problem does not impact the propagation of children it can end up moving forward to the next generation.

  I would guess that if there is an Evolutionary reason, it’s probably that octopi with this drive reproduced More than octopi that didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bottom line is that all crypto is fiat with gimmicks at the end of the day. The only value it has is the perceived value. While with the USD you have a government body proclaiming it’s value, along with a vast network of businesses willing to honor its value with goods and services, with crypto you have a patchwork of individuals - mostly crypto hoarders - proclaiming it’s value, with very few legitimate businesses actually accepting the currency.

  If you have the spoons, you should watch this full breakdown. It covers both crypto and NFTs in-depth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I guess we are fucked now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Akira kinda moment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You aren't even a big fan of piazza but you know you are not turning this down⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think ‘snack’ cakes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even that they only accept people that abide by their views - it’s just that they are oblivious to those outside the scope of their lives. They are not people who hate immigrants or other minorities, they’re people who never interact with minorities at all and so get no pushback when they just passively accept the idea that they are stealing all the jobs in the US. They don’t know any trans people and so when they hear that trans people are groomers, the in just go “that’s horrible! Someone should do something about that”.

  We need to remember that these people are a large portion of half the US we constantly have to fight against. They’re not all just a hateful swarm, there’s variety within that mass. They’re our relatives and our neighbors. A large amount of these people are really just insanely gullible and don’t see past their own noses. That gullibility is a mark on their quality, yes. They can still be decent human beings, despite that. They can also be corrected if you get them to understand, which I’ve done before. Many others have done the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can still be charismatic, a good neighbor, someone who stands up for friends when things start getting rough, a caring person that worries about those around them, and still hold the most batshit insane political ideas. I happen to know multiple people like this.

  People are complex, and plenty are good people who have been led to believe the most outlandish shit. They are gullible and don’t put enough thought into what they accept as truth. It is just as attractive to people on our side of the fence to paint everyone else with a broad assumptions. It is the nature of Evil, because evil is ultimately a boring thing that we all do every day without thinking about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My main use of ai.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, AI text extraction can be very powerful. It’s arguably the thing that neural network systems are best at, and one of the first things. We got them to do.

  There’s alot of promise in using this kind of tech for quickly digitizing massive swathes of books. The more complicated part, however, is converting any images in-layed in the text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are talking about the outcome being pointless, but I’d go further and say that the process of completing college is bullshit as well.

  Forced to live in shoebox dorm room for the first year or more in many colleges, being given lectures that are quite simply shit the majority of the time - to the point that it was the norm to just stop attending lectures and basically just self-teach yourself the textbook - and often taking tests that fail to actually meaningfully test your comprehension of the subject. Then you leave, and quite often you completely forget a large portion of what you studied as you enter the job market and never have to apply that knowledge again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sorry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eat fruit like an animal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  prior comment edited for ya.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re correct, they do not strap guns to improvised attack drones. they’re not necessarily single-use either, though. A kamikaze drone will detonate its payload while its still attached, which is an option. There is plenty of footage of IADs which use a servo to just physically drop a payload onto targets from above, and those could potentially be used over and over. I think the kamikaze version is able to be more effective, for a variety of reasons, but both versions seem to be seeing use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s not necessarily with a bullet. Most improvised attack drones drop explosive payloads, since it’s both simpler to set up and simpler to use. Outfitting a drone with a gun takes making a complicated system for aiming it, while a payload drone just needs some 3d-printed parts, some extra wiring, and usually just a single servo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GarandThumb did some tests in a video a while back. IIRC he did both choked and not, along with different types of shot and slugs. everything but birdshot was pretty effective out to a couple dozen yards? I’ll track it down and drop a link after I’ve rewatched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for answers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say that both Malcolm X and MLK ultimately failed at their end goals, personally.

  My bigger point was that the holy week uprising was able to progress things forward more in one week than either movement could do in the many years they were active. To be fair, I do not think the level of vigour and organization shown in the holy week uprising could have happened without the many liberation groups’ prior work.

  Ultimately, the use of violence is complex and how to effectively use it is just as complex. We should be discussing how to use all tactics and methods available, and not view violence as the only important component.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for answers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nelson Mandela was released on the terms that he would preach peaceful protest, as the movement he had formerly been leading was a serious threat to the South African Government.

  Reverend Martin Luther King Jr was a proponent of peaceful protest, though it could be argued he was losing faith in it near the end when he was assassinated. right after his death, the Holy Week Uprisings occurred, which saw immediate action from the federal government to pass the Civil Rights Act.

  At the same time, acts of violence lie on a spectrum, and I think there is a fair amount of conversation to be had about what degree of violence and what type of violence are most effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean by ‘cheater’? Like ‘scammer’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not following.

  Markets were originally decentralized, and while that has its problems, a decentralized market is miles better than a monopolized market.

  Like, are you thinking of Etsy or Amazon or something? Because those are all run by a single point-of-sales and logistics collectives.

  What we’re talking about is basically building a means for getting all the websites around the web of small shops and such (or in this case all the various game store fronts like steam, itch.io, GOG, and EPIC GAMES) and giving you client which allows you to browse and order from them simultaneously. All that store’d have to do is add the protocol to their server and add themselves to a list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Each server would likely have to utilize a payment service. In that fashion it’d be no different than how stores host their own websites you can order from. In my mind, the federated protocol would simply be a means for a person to browse stores similar to how one can navigate a mall or market.

  For games, the further benefit after would be that via a client of the protocol, you could then download your games from the various stores in a singular library page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Federated marketplace protocol really should happen at some point.

  Like, it seems like a very clear solution to an online monopoly risk. Maybe I’m wrong, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiny pocketsies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep a boxcutter, pry bar, and a pair of tweezers in mine. I keeps maxwell’s equations in my inner coat pocket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intruder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychopathy as a diagnoses is bullshit. People disassociate in different ways during traumatic events and as a coping mechanism for heightened stress all the time, and this reads exactly like that.

  This does clearly show the kid is well-conditioned for being a cop, though. He seems like he’d be great at ‘just following orders’. at the same time, he’d probably be good as a paramedic or a fireman too, since all those occupations require you to emotionally disassociate to get your job done effectively.