WoodScientist
@WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on is this normal 41 minutes ago:
Think you want to be bred now? Wait until you have SRS, if that’s your cup of tea. T_T
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 45 minutes ago:
Oh, the CEO should also be caned…rectally.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 19 hours ago:
We need to start taxing companies more that put undue burden on the infrastructure and environment. Do you require your employees to come in to an office for work that could be done from home? You should have to pay a double employer payroll tax for every employee you do this to. We need to start taxing the vanity of CEOs.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 19 hours ago:
This CEO should be immediately canned for incompetence. Anyone who can’t understand the sunk cost fallacy has no business running any organization.
- Comment on See the leaked teen social media ban tech trial report that has experts worried 1 day ago:
Meant to post that somewhere else?
- Comment on See the leaked teen social media ban tech trial report that has experts worried 1 day ago:
No, you read it the right way the first time. The site thought I had uploaded the image of a child, and then it accused me of being a creepy pedo that’s searching for images of kids. As though I had taken a picture of a random child in public then uploaded it hoping to find more. And it threatened to refer to me to law enforcement. Remember, the site works by uploading an image and then using an AI tool to find other images of the uploaded face that have been posted elsewhere on the net. Their AI thought I had uploaded the image of some kid and was trying to find more of their images posted to facebook or other sites. Their AI accused me of being a pedophile.
All for uploading a picture of my own face. I honestly don’t know whether to be flattered or terrified. Frankly, I feel a little bit of both.
- Comment on See the leaked teen social media ban tech trial report that has experts worried 2 days ago:
I do get told I look young for my age. But that’s no excuse for the software. I get told I look 30. I don’t get carded while buying alcohol. My husband, who is the same age as men, never gets dirty looks when we’re out in public like he’s with someone half his age. People may read me a little bit younger than I am, but no one is mistaking me for an 18 year old.
- Comment on Anon gets philosophical 2 days ago:
How did Plato trap all those people in his cave?
- Comment on See the leaked teen social media ban tech trial report that has experts worried 2 days ago:
This morning I experienced this tech going wrong first hand. Someone mentioned and I decided to try a site called pimeyes. It lets you upload a photo, then it will try to find other examples of your photos posted online. Well I uploaded one of my photos. And it returned this:
I am a 38 year old woman. I don’t recall using this site before, and I sure as hell have never used it to search for kids. I uploaded another photo, and that one worked. But still, that is a fucked up message to send someone just based on some shitty AI age estimation algorithm. Someone with a different face might always trigger the “minor” filter.
And while this was just for an image search site, it’s much more serious on other sites. People do a lot of essential communication on social media platforms. What happens if you’re completely shut out of all social media sites because you have a face that the algorithms decide look under 18? What happens if it’s something even more important, like your bank’s website or a government service page?
It’s ridiculous that that they would claim 85% accuracy as some great success. That’s a horrible success rate in this context. That means millions of people will be incorrectly flagged as minors and potentially lose access to entire regions of the internet. And how long until they start using this facial recognition, not as proof of age, but as proof of identity? How long til you have to scan your face to apply for government benefits, retirement, or access other government services? And what happens to those people who the face scanning algorithm just fails at? A 15% failure rate is awful. When you’re imposing something on the entire population, you shouldn’t even consider applying it until the success rate is more like 99.99% accurate. If the tech just isn’t that good, then it simply shouldn’t be used.
- Comment on All downhill from there 6 days ago:
Ah yes, there is a surprisingly common mutation in Georgia that causes humans to be born with an additional elbow and forearm on each arm. The Atlanta mutation it is commonly called. This is why, famously, people born in the state of Georgia are prohibited from participating in any Olympic event that involves throwing or hurling objects.
- Comment on All downhill from there 6 days ago:
Then later in history…
An hawk flies down and attacks you, joining the wolves and the humans. They’ve got the fucks birds in on it now! God is dead.
- Comment on All downhill from there 1 week ago:
You know, this is actually the type of fear that the zombie horror genre really reverses back on us. Classic zombies are not fast. They’re not smart. They can’t run, climb, or plan elaborate traps. They no sharp claws or terrifyingly large teeth. You can outrun them at a brisk walk.
But what makes them so dangerous is that they’re relentless. If they get your scent, they’ll follow you and keep following you. Blow their legs off and they’ll crawl towards you. Remove all their limbs and they’ll slither like a snake towards you. Only destroying their brain can stop them.
If you’re on foot, it is virtually impossible to escape them, as they’ll just keep on coming. And while you need to sleep, they don’t. They can just keep right on shuffling towards you 24/7. If on foot being chased by a zombie, your best bet is probably to find a river you can swim across that will sweep them away. Oh, and of course, they are rarely alone.
Zombies are predators that turn our species’s natural hunting strategy back upon us.
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 1 week ago:
Ecocide.
- Comment on All downhill from there 1 week ago:
Imagine being hunted and killed by a team of power walkers.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' proposals would make online-only games "prohibitively expensive to create", argue EU lobby group 1 week ago:
Good.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
I ask you again. Why did they choose this plane? If your answer is, “lol, IDK, I guess they’re just dumb.” Then you’re probably missing something very critical. You haven’t even bothered to answer why they chose these planes. You just whine about it.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Again then, please illuminate us. This is a pretty well organized group. They don’t just pick targets randomly. If you have all the answers, illuminate us on why these planes were targeted instead of just whining.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Well don’t leave us in the dark. Why didn’t you bother explaining what the planes were actually used for? You’re clearly trying to portray the Palestine activists as cliche violent anarchists who destroyed government property for no rational reason. That is really the only reason you wouldn’t explain why you think they did what they did. Likely it’s something that’s still clearly genocidal, but you didn’t want to mention that so you could get that “moving the goalpost” zinger in.
So let’s actually look into this, as you failed to do so in order to muddy the waters.
Oh hey, they’re mid-air refuelers.
So we’re not talking bombers carrying out bombing runs, we’re talking about flying gas stations that top off the tanks of the fighters and bombers carrying out bombing runs. These war planes directly used to enable genocide.
Any sane person would call this “a distinction without a difference.” You didn’t bother explaining what they actually vandalized (really just painted) because you wanted to make it seem like they torched a random civilian airliner or something equally irrational.
But I guess this is just “moving the goalposts” in your warped reality.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 1 week ago:
Can confirm. Nothing beats not having a boss.
Life pro tip. A machete and a shovel are very useful tools in achieving this state.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 1 week ago:
Depends on how your mathematical system is defined. In the mathematics system this teacher is using, negative numbers simply do not exist. The answer to 5-6 is the same as 5/0: NaN. Is this mathematical system incomplete? Yes. But, as has been thoroughly proven, there is no such thing as a complete mathematical system.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 1 week ago:
I really don’t get this attitude. I’ve taught many classes, and making mistakes is just part of teaching. Unless you’re just reading from a textbook (and even those can be wrong), you’re going to make some mistakes. I’m a human being; sometimes I’m going to get stuff wrong. I try to minimize the errors, and it’s not like I’m teaching subjects I’m unqualified to teach. But to err is human. Maybe it’s different because I’ve taught undergrad students rather than K12, but IDK. I just really don’t get the attitude of an educator that feels they need to conjure up an aura of unerring perfection.
if I make a mistake in some derivation, I’ll just admit it, usually with some self-deprecating humor. A few things I’ve said to address it when it happens:
“Whoops! Guess the coffee hasn’t kicked in yet!”
“Whelp, contrary to popular opinion, I am not infallible!”
“Well, I’m clearly not infallible, guess I’ll never be pope!”
<Delivered with obvious sarcasm.> "No, you see, that was intentional! i was just testing you to see if you would notice my error! Obviously it can’t be that I made a mistake!’
“Whelp, as you can plainly see, I am clearly drunk!”
I’ve said all these and other things in front of entire classrooms of students. I don’t make mistakes often. But if you teach enough, it does happen. And it’s always a bit annoying to the students, as they have to back up, maybe correct their notes, etc. And I try to lighten that annoyance with some levity. So I try to make my lectures as correct as possible. But when mistakes do happen, i just try not to make a big deal about them, I dismiss them with some light humor.
Honestly, I’m glad I make mistakes. I wouldn’t want to teach if I didn’t. Part of teaching is making students feel confident that they have the ability to wrap their heads around concepts that may be very challenging. And if even the instructor can make mistakes? Well then students hopefully won’t feel so frustrated and demoralized about the ones they make.
It’s a fine line to walk while teaching. On the one hand, you want to be an authoritative source of knowledge on whatever topic you’re teaching. On the other, you need to be human. And part of that is not trying to portray yourself as some infallible god. Because ultimately that’s not what you are. And kids are clever and perceptive; they can see through your bullshit. If you make a mistake and try to cover it up, they will see through it, and they will lose respect for you. Aside from a few reprobates, most kids have enough emotional intelligence to realize that ultimately you’re just a human being trying to do your best, and that some errors are inevitable. Students are perfectly willing to forgive imperfection. They’re far less willing to forgive dishonesty.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 1 week ago:
Did your teacher believe in the hollow Earth theory?
- Comment on Anon describes experience 1 week ago:
To add insult to injury, when they had Spanish class, the fucking teacher taught us that “purple” was “porpuda” and “lizard” wad “lizardo.”
That’s ridiculous! Everyone knows the correct world is lizarda! Spanish is a gendered language, the genders matter! /s
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Palestine Action are heroes. We should be singing songs about them, not prosecuting them.
Remember, legality and morality are only vaguely related. Beyond the natural crimes of murder, rape, etc. laws are just politics by another name. And the wealthy and powerful write laws to advance their own corrupt interests. Many moral obligations are criminalized, and many things that if there is a Hell will surely get you sent there are perfectly legal.
Those planes deserved to be vandalized. Hell, they deserved to be set on fire. It’s a shame they weren’t destroyed completely. If those planes are being used to carry out a genocide, then they should be destroyed. That is the simple absolute moral truth. If the law says otherwise, then the law is wrong. Anyone violating it still needs to keep the consequences in mind. But outside observers should not be afraid to speak truth to power. What Palestine Action did was not wrong; it was an act of heroism. The UK should be electing these people to parliament, not prosecuting them. Want courageous leaders who will actually stand up to powerful interests and do the right thing, even when it’s hard? Well it seems you just found that exact rare kind of person right here.
Destroying planes that are bound to assist in bombing in Gaza is simply the morally right thing to do, regardless of the law. It’s no different than a Jewish resistance fighter in the 1940s setting fire to a cattle train about to go collect prisoners for transport to Dachau. Sometimes destruction of government property is the only morally correct choice available to people.
And we shouldn’t be afraid to say this. People in the UK should be contacting their politicians demanding a full pardon for these heroes.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
You would have said the exact same thing about the Holocaust.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Doesn’t mean it’s not the morally right thing to do. Aircraft that are being used to bomb innocent civilians should be vandalized. Hell that’s the minimum. The morally right thing to do is to set them on fire. Legality and morality are only weakly correlated. Obviously the law says what the powerful want it to say, but that doesn’t mean it’s right or just. Setting fire to a UK plane that is being used to genocide people is no different than setting fire to an empty train in 1944 that’s about to be sent out on a run to gather up people to take them to a concentration camp. Sorry, but that’s just the simple truth of it. You can cite evil laws you want, but you might as well be citing the laws of Nazi Germany. Everything they did was legal as well.
Some things are just wrong. And enabling them is wrong. And we shouldn’t be afraid to say that. The people who vandalized those planes did nothing wrong. They’re victorious heroes. We should be memorializing them in song and story. The laws of evil men are not even worthy of consideration, beyond the practical choices of those choosing to engage in such acts of bravery and heroism.
- Comment on What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas 1 week ago:
How about this? On the front, an image of Charles signing a decree condemning trans women as pedophiles. On the back, a painting of an obese King Charles furiously masturbating to child pornography while an anti-genocide protester is chained naked in the same bed. That’s the truest representation of the UK I can think of right now.
- Comment on What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas 1 week ago:
How about renditions of the movie Threads? That seems the most optimistic projection for the UK’s future on its current path.
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings and I still don't understand how this thing works. 1 week ago:
How? Generations of clever people ignored the naysayers who told them, “just do the work like the rest of us, you lazy bastard.”
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Except when it comes to trans people. Judicial review doesn’t apply to trans people.
