Photuris

@Photuris@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instacart is urging the Mayor of New York City to veto a bill that would require the company to pay its workers minimum wage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a case of:

  1. Corporate greed (“we could profit 18 billion and pay our workers a fair wage, or profit 30 billion and give them peanuts and lobby govt. to keep it that way”).

  2. Tipping culture run amok (“let’s guilt the consumer into paying their wages via tips on top of what we already charge them for the service, rather than simply paying them a wage or salary for their labor to begin with”).

  They say you grow more conservative as you age. That’s not happening to me. We need more labor unions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart, low in cholesterine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, exactly. And forget about restaurants (unless they specifically cater to gluten-free [and even then, you’re playing roulette]).

  And yes, 100%, unprocessed fruits, veggies, eggs, dairy, and meat products from the perimeter of the grocery store are the safest. Cooking most things from scratch is the best strategy.

  Even then, again, sometimes meats are pre-seasoned or brined. Ya gotta be careful and diligent.

  Look, eating a mostly from-scratch “Paleo” or “Weston A. Price” diet is objectively the best way to go for everybody, Celiac or not, vegan or carnivore. Nobody disagrees that unprocessed farm foods are better than factory food snacks. Alas, cooking every damned meal every day when you have a career and other obligations is tough. Processed foods do find their way in.

  You do the best you can, and diligently read every label, building a list of the “good guy” brands. (For what it’s worth, Siete and Primal Kitchen are fucking godsends. Goddamn I love Siete).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart, low in cholesterine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, been burned before. Adding “gluten free” isn’t as stupid as it sounds.

  Been burned by the adhesive on paper straws. Been burned by instant coffee (flavorings, apparently). Been burned by “plain” hashed brown potatoes (spoiler alert - they weren’t so plain, because of cross-contamination in the packaging facility - they didn’t clean their conveyor belts between product runs. That took some legwork to figure out). Been burned by fucking apple sauce (malt; and also, why?!).

  Imagine living in a world wherein all food products might have at least a little bit of rat poison in it. You’d start really appreciating anything intentionally labeled “rat poison free,” even if it’s something that “shouldn’t” need it (like “plain” bacon).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart, low in cholesterine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds ridiculous, but you’d be surprised how often wheat makes its way into ingredients such as “spices” (like tamari, for example), often unlabeled as such.

  If you have celiac disease, you figure this stuff out over time. I’m glad to see bacon labeled as “gluten free” - it means I can trust it. Packaged bacon might have seasonings or glaze applied to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot take: killing the internet is a good thing. Once the internet is dead, we go back to physical media and physical interactions. We become free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ultra high iq⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so there is a pattern to this, and it has nothing to do with IQ per se.

  It has everything to do with political alignment. And it’s a multi-variant association (1. booty v. boobs, and 2. race / ethnicity / religion).

  I’ll use US-centric political terminology here.

  Hear me out:

  1. Men who prefer big healthy asses tend to lean left/Democrat/liberal/progressive. Men who prefer big boobs tend to lean right/Republican/conservative/fash.

  2. Men who are willing to date outside their own race / ethnicity tend to be more progressive than those who prefer to stay within their own race / ethnicity (although progressives can happily find partners within their own ethnic group, too; whereas conservative almost always look within their own ethnicity first).

  So, an appreciation for big booty Latinas signifies a. someone who leans left (booty), and b. a progressive willing to date outside their own race (assuming he’s not also Latino).

  A progressive / Democrat / liberal / lefty can also date PAWGs, big booty Black women, etc. and be perfectly happy.

  A Republican will only date someone within their ethnicity 95%+ of the time (some exceptions exist, but it’s relatively rare), and they ALWAYS prefer big mommy milkers, caring very little, or naught at all, for booties.

  So there you go. This is 100% anecdote, but one day, I guarantee, the research and science will back me up on this, as soon as someone conducts it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great game, but I could never play it for more than ten minutes at a time before getting woozy and nauseous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the first time since COVID, more than half of Fortune 100 companies have mandated workers fully return to work as hybrid options wither⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the life of me I can’t see the benefit to return to office. I don’t know why they push it so hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I let everyone know:

  1. Text messages are for asynchronous communication. That’s literally what they’re designed for. I will not communicate over texts synchronously.

  2. I will respond to texts within 2 days usually. Do not expect an immediate response.

  3. If you need me immediately or within short order, call me.

  4. If you call me for non-urgent matters that could have been handled over text, I might not pick up the phone right away. The boy who cried wolf, and all that.

  5. I do not always have my phone on me 24/7. Sometimes I am untethered. I return calls far more quickly than I respond to texts, because I assume a call is more important than a text. It had better be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The solution to guns is to ensure that only the state can ever have guns.

  Why? Because the state will never be taken over by bad actors who seek to destroy democracy and institute autocracy.

  The well-meaning liberal-minded and just people in power today will be in power tomorrow and forever, so we can always trust them to have all guns, hold the cryptography backdoors for all consumer electronics, hold the reins on banking, have sophisticated mass surveillance capabilities, curtail free speech and open protest, intimidate rumblings of labor unionization, clamp down on people advocating for Palestinian people, disproportionately imprison brown people and immigrants for infractions that white people walk away from consequence-free, and so on.

  Why? Because terrorism must not win, and we’ll never ever change what the poorly-defined word “terrorism” means on a whim based on current perceived political enemies or anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good to practice, because one day you may need to shoot fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IoT has gotten way out of hand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exhaustion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve often thought that 90% of success is having enough energy. I wonder why some people have the energy to get out of bed in the morning and do a bunch of shit, while the rest of us struggle to screw up enough energy reserves to want to live another day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call Of Duty: WW2 pulled offline amid hacking claims after it starts messing with PCs and citing random lawyers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And now I’m officially 100% done with gaming, since that’s the last game I’d continued playing from time to time (when I have a spare few minutes and a whim to fire it up, that is).

  Oh well, part of getting older. I think I also have Halo and a Modern Warfare on that XBox, but, meh. WWII was the best CoD (the most fun, at least to me).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More sites in general are blocking mullvad traffic lately (in my experience), and I’m not sure what, if anything, can be done about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus actually said something about that, it turns out. Not that it matters to these knuckleheads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe someday 😌⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody told me all this when I signed up. I was simply instructed to pick an instance, and I did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always wanted to sail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel guilty saying it, because I know I was in a privileged position, with a job that could be done remotely and living close to nature, but I fucking loved COVID lockdown. I can’t remember being so happy since childhood. Everything just slowed down, and I spent more time with my family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was on a work call the other day, listening to my peers complain about European work culture - “They just leave at 5:00 sharp, even if the project isn’t done! They’ll say ‘we’ll just pick it up in the morning and finish it then’ as if that’s good enough!” “You can’t contact them on weekends or vacations at all! They don’t even read and answer email!” “They take such long vacations! And just disappear! It’s so frustrating!”

  I wanted to scream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Regional accents I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ðð = voiced “th” (“this,” “thus,” “weather”) Þþ = unvoiced “th” (“thing,” “thong,” “with”)

  IIRC, these (ðese) letters come from Old English and Old Norse, and were later dropped in favor of “th” for both the voices and unvoiced consonants.

  But I’m not an expert. That’s the gist anyway.

  Some folks want to bring these letters back. I get it, and I actually like them. But it ain’t gonna happen.

  Anyway, “ðey” missed one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus also healed the sick.

  Alas, working and receiving healthcare do not have to be inextricably linked. It’s nuts that our health insurance is tied to employment here in the US.

  In fact, having a social safety net encourages entrepreneurship.

  This guy sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radio transmissions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I unironically love Latinisation (and Greekification).

  “Crabification” would have worked just fine to express this idea, but “carcinisation” sounds so scientific and erudite.

  People dog on English, but I think it’s really cool how we have other ancient source languages to pull from to coin “smart” words when needed. And when you dig into the etymology of the “fancy” word, it adds texture, layers, history, and extra context to the whole thing.

  Ok, that was a tangent. Carry on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Automation is going to chew up jobs faster than new ones are created, too.

  Reduce the value of white collar labor, and white collar workers will flood to the blue collar trades, drastically reducing pay there as well.

  Not a suitable environment for growing large families.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But the general public (myself included) doesn’t really understand how our own reasoning happens.

  Does anyone, really? i.e., am I merely a meat computer that takes in massive amounts of input over a lifetime, builds internal models of the world, tests said models through trial-and-error, and outputs novel combinations of data when said combinations are useful for me in a given context in said world?

  Is what I do when I “reason” really all that different from what an LLM does, fundamentally? Do I do more than language prediction when I “think”? And if so, what is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus Christ software’s about to get far, far worse innit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Land of the Free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t regret deleting mine. I don’t need any of that shit, fuck ’em.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol here in the US there are no such protections. You have to fend for yourself.