Not_mikey
@Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Is it more accurate to call current 'Artificial intelligence' (AI/LLM) as Counterfeit Intelligence? 1 week ago:
Calling llms “glorified predictive text” is like calling humans “glorified bacteria”
Both have the same goal: guess the next word; survive and reproduce, But the way they accomplish that goal requires orders of magnitude more complexity in the case of a human or LLM.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
Anyone got any meth stocks I can invest in?
- Comment on When you are startled by what you see 1 week ago:
Her names actually sailor peg, and she lost her leg.
- Comment on The irony of arguing with someone who read about it in a history book vs. you having lived it 1 week ago:
Yeah, if I have kids and my dad starts talking to them about what “really happened during the pandemic” I’m yanking them out of that conversation as quickly as possible to prevent them going down some idiotic rabbit hole.
- Comment on I getting more and more enraged seeing self proclaimed leftists resorting to ghastly Gen AI to bastardise their rather humorous ideas. 2 weeks ago:
Anyone know any studies comparing the energy usage of an AI image generator vs manually photo shopping. If a person spends say a half hour on a computer finding a photo and editing it in photoshop to this quality it could cost as much electricity as an image generator.
I think people are starting to overestimate the energy usage of AI while underestimating everything else we do. Like an image like this would take my computer ~30 seconds to generate, meanwhile I’ll use my computer for hours at a time to play games and don’t think much of that.
- Comment on Capitalism 2 weeks ago:
if you need sperm source locally
But the quality of sperm in my area sucks, I know , I’ve tried it.
- Comment on Pressing question 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's Burning Man 2026 week... 4 weeks ago:
A wook is a sort of modern day hippie but with none of the politics and even more drug use that hop around music festivals usually seen wearing psychedelic clothing and dread locks as a white guy.
Diplo is a dj
- Comment on Extra Milky 4 weeks ago:
Probably want to finish that off with a shot of insulin too.
- Comment on Attorney general: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools 5 weeks ago:
Conservatives out here proving to the normies that they can be more annoying and puritanical then the “cancel culture woke left” ever was
- Comment on Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians 5 weeks ago:
the vast majority of people who have ever existed lived during the period of modern recorded history
You sure about that, this says that 117 billion people of our species have ever lived. Writing is around 5,000 years old, and initially was used for accounting so history doesn’t come around until later, whereas the species is 200,000 years old.
Idk what your classifying as the period of modern recorded history though. Maybe you could say that period started in the 2nd or 3rd millennium BC in the middle east, but that doesn’t mean it started everywhere. At that time there were tons of people who lived without writing, and that continues on until very recently. So even after history was “invented” only a fraction of people lived under societies that practiced it until ~200 years ago.
I’m not going to do all the math but it seems to me a majority of people who ever lived, were not a part of societies that recorded history.
- Comment on Bring it back 1 month ago:
The land of the rising sun becomes the land of the setting sun.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 1 month ago:
*boomers finally cashing in there absurd housing appreciation
Younger generations: we can finally use some of our family money to get on the housing ladder
Private equity nursing homes: not so fast, you gotta give us half of that or grannies going to the streets.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 2 months ago:
This is why buying new cars is dumb,
A used Hyundai sonata 2024 is ~20k USD A used Hyundai ioniq 6 2024 is ~24k USD
Yeah it may be more upfront, but most people finance any way and your monthly payment will be offset buy your fuel savings.
There’s enough of a stock of used EVs, quite often with low mileage, at this point that cost is becoming less of an issue for people then the perceived lack of convenience. That and dealerships not promoting them because they get less maintenance fees and there lower margin then a giant SUV or pickup.
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 2 months ago:
How common are these in the rest of America? I see them pretty often here in SF but assume it’s just a techie Elon stan thing.
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 2 months ago:
Yeah, billionaires like UBI because they can pretend they care about the plebs, but in reality they know it will just cause inflation, which there stocks won’t be effected by, and push even more money into the stock market to protect against inflation, inflating there portfolio.
- Comment on They had to destroy him, for he had grown too powerful, and had forgotten his mission 2 months ago:
One of my neighbors from japan was telling me the biggest problem safety wise over there is from bear attacks.
Kinda jealous tbh
- Comment on It's rigged 2 months ago:
Most people don’t have enough capital gains to tax. If they do have capital gains it’s either in there house and unrealized or in a retirement account and deferred. Raising the capital gains tax almost exclusively targets the wealthy, not necessarily billionaires but still top quintile.
Raising this rate could discourage investing.
What else are people going to do with there money then? Keep it in cash and lose even more of it to inflation then you would with the tax?
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 months ago:
This is sometimes done on a state by state basis in the US. Execution varies between states too, some states have it so if you sell stuff in bottles and cans you must also be able to accept returns, whereas other states you have to take them to a special facility which no one does except the hobos you were mentioning.
- Comment on I’m personally just not a fan of Busch 2 months ago:
I get the societal norm angle when we’re talking about armpits/ legs because you can see those. A girl could go to the beach and see all the other women/girls having shaved legs / armpits and feel gross or ugly for being the one with hair there and feel judged because it’s on display.
With pubes though you’re not going to see others so you don’t know the norm or have as much expectations on how a women should look, and other people, besides intimate partners, aren’t going to see yours so you don’t feel as judged.
- Comment on We are not the same 2 months ago:
RIP Gustavus Adolphus
- Comment on "Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer" 2 months ago:
Ads on social media must suck. Glad we’re all here on lemmy where we get inundated with communist propaganda instead of consumerist propaganda.
- Comment on Zebra!! 2 months ago:
Wow, I have a very distinct line on my arm where my skin gets lighter, always wondered why but now I know
- Comment on Entombed 2 months ago:
Yes, especially once agriculture comes into play and people become sedentary they burn through a lot more wood then will naturally grow if not controlled by rules and laws
If you’ve ever had a bonfire imagine how much wood you went through, then imagine having to keep that fire going, at least at a smolder, all day long to heat your home and cook your food.
- Comment on Entombed 2 months ago:
They actually weren’t and that’s also probably why we aren’t heading towards an ice age. Due to solar cycles the earth should’ve started cooling about 7,000 years ago but it didn’t and instead we entered the warmer holocene, perhaps due to mass deforestation and early agriculture releasing tons of CO2 and methane:
- Comment on Entombed 2 months ago:
Probably not incidental, if the population was sedentary they would probably burn through the trees faster then they would naturally grow back.
Humans, especially in northern latitudes, burn through wood pretty quickly for cooking and warmth.
- Comment on Entombed 2 months ago:
Eh, it’s not as if the romans were too kind to the forests. So if you’re going back in time kill Caesar too before he genocides gaul of the protectors of the forest the Celts
- Comment on No room for romance when there's rising and grinding to be had! 2 months ago:
You really aren’t on that grindset if you have time to fuck your wife. True leadership is about delegating these sort of tasks so you can free up your full potential.
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 2 months ago:
that’s clearly been programmed into your brain. Has very little to do with reality.
I’m an American , none of this has been programmed into my brain, if anything I got programmed to think the soviets are bad through my education. I’m just reading Wikipedia.
Meanwhile you started this off with a propaganda meme with false numbers. You seem to be projecting because if anything your programmed through your schooling and national mythology that hypes up the winter war.
You don’t seem to want to accept that finland was more urbanized for some reason even though you’ve given no sources and I’ve given two which you don’t want to address.
Just because st Petersburg exists doesn’t mean the rest of Russia is just as urbanized. China has tons of cities with more then 10 million but it’s still less urbanized then say belgium which has no cities bigger then 10 million. They’re on different scales, just like Finland and russia
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 2 months ago:
you have zero sources
I just gave you two sources, they say that in 1914 Russia was 2% industrial workers while Finland was 12%. Are you denying these numbers or that 12 is greater then 2?
Yes Finland was an agrarian society but Russia was moreso, again the source says Finland was 66% agrarian while Russia was 80% . 80 is greater then 66, idk how to spell this out clearer.
So either give me some sources for different numbers on industrial workers, or explain to me how 2 is greater then 12 and 66 is greater then 80