markovs_gun
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- Comment on We're going backwards 15 hours ago:
As opposed to Airbnbs which ask guests to clean their own sheets and I guess use the honor system that they actually did it.
- Comment on We're going backwards 15 hours ago:
Never book through Hotels.com even for actual hotels. Just look at the price and call the hotel directly. They will always price match because Hotels.com takes a cut of bookings through their site so they always win out if you book directly at the same price instead of going through hotels.com
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 1 week ago:
Honestly I know I’m going to get a lot of hate for this but from my experience the average Lemmy poster seems kind of dumber than the average reddit poster, or at least more anti-intellectual, outside of certain instances and communities specifically dedicated to tech stuff. I really don’t get it because Lemmy is more confusing to set up than Reddit and I always imagined people who were into the fediverse to be on the more tech savvy side but I’m constantly surprised at confident incorrectness and how much it gets upvoted.
- Comment on Drama 1 week ago:
You are thinking about this from the perspective of a normal person, not someone who is sad and pathetic enough to do something like this. These people are most likely deeply disempowered IRL and being a mod of a large subreddit is probably all they have going for them so they are way too invested in it.
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 2 weeks ago:
ITT- a lot of people who are very confidently wrong even about basic facts about this.
Jesus flipping tables wasn’t aimed at the priests and church authorities, but at people who were based in the outer area of the temple selling supplies to make sacrifices and offerings prescribed in Jewish law (see the book of Leviticus for more descriptions of these sacrifices). Jewish law at the time required a lot of animal sacrifices and monetary offerings at the Temple, and Jesus didn’t seem to have any issues with these- after all, they were a core part of the religion at the time and again, the Torah explicitly states that priests are supposed to live off of Temple offerings (note that in this passage the priestly class are referred to as “Sons of Aaron”). So it would have been odd for Jesus, as someone who at least according to the Bible was very knowledgeable about scripture and Jewish law, would have been surprised at that aspect.
What he was mad about was the commerce occurring around this system. The Gospel descriptions of this event discuss “moneychangers” and people selling doves. These are people who exchanged Roman currency for traditional Jewish currency (which is what ancient monetary offerings were denominated in) and sold animals (and based on other writings in the Torah, probably spiced cakes as well) that could be sacrificed in the Temple on the purchaser’s behalf. As for why this made Jesus mad, that is up for debate. The obvious answer is that it represents greed and people making money off religion, but the large amount of sacrifices required by Jewish law at the time really encouraged this behavior just from a practical standpoint. Myself I think he would have been completely fine with it had it been happening right outside the Temple instead, but the Temple was considered an especially holy place, where God’s presence literally descended down to Earth to be with mankind in the innermost portion, which each concentric ring acting as a sort of “air lock” for ritual impurity.
So the problem was not that the priests were making money from religion (again, this was required by Jewish law at the time) but that these other people were hanging out in the Temple treating it as a marketplace rather than as an exceptionally holy and highly ritualized space. Understanding this is kind of difficult for modern people because we don’t really treat religion the same as people did back then, and especially from a Christian standpoint we tend to view religion as a matter of personal belief and not impurity that occurs as a natural consequence of things that happen and that must be cleansed before encounters with the divine.
- Comment on IT'S TIME! 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people live this way too. They just keep working and getting fatter until they die of a heart attack at 60
- Comment on IT'S TIME! 2 weeks ago:
Some do, actually. Most plants that taste good basically rely on being eaten as part of their reproductive cycle.
- Comment on do no harm 4 weeks ago:
There is a board game called Wavelength where you play on teams and try to get your teammates to guess where a randomly placed dial lies on a spectrum. The game is really about guessing what your teammates will think the two extremes are because everyone has different ways of thinking. For example, on a spectrum of cold to hot, you could think of it from like ice to fire or from absolute zero to the Planck temperature. It’s very interesting and I think it’s good to play because it shows that people’s perceptions differ even on pretty basic things.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 4 weeks ago:
A lot of hate in the comments but IMO this is one of the few things that LLMs are actually really good for. It’s a shit job nobody wants to do that LLMs are really good at. Notice that they said 70% and not 100%. Yeah that means they’re probably going to have 30 people doing the work that 100 people used to do but people are still in the picture overseeing things. Automation isn’t, by itself, bad. The bad part is that our whole society is built on the idea that your entire value as a person is based on being able to work and make money and job loss is way worse than it should be.
- Comment on Interesting observation 5 weeks ago:
Lame joke stolen from Pitch Perfect
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 1 month ago:
I love that I can literally see the lady on the left’s nipples through her shirt but God forbid I see the word “Nudes”
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 month ago:
No, I suspect OP’s native language might not be English.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 month ago:
I am in the transition age range of people who have trouble reading analog clocks and I must admit I had trouble with it until I started wearing a watch as an accessory as a teenager. The issue isn’t that it’s hard, it’s just something that you need practice at to do quickly and a lot of young people just don’t look at analog clocks to tell time very often. It’s not a matter of being stupid or not being taught how to do it, it’s like mental “muscle memory” that just isn’t built up in a world where digital clocks are everywhere, including in your pocket 24/7
- Comment on necessary read 1 month ago:
Good thing no disastrously bad rulers came to power in those days…
- Comment on got this ad and uh 1 month ago:
Nah a lot of racists are super anti Israel because they hate Jews.
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 1 month ago:
That’s not my problem. If the Free Market™ works then prices will settle out where they need to so that I don’t have yo bring my own snacks and they don’t have to overcharge for them. Otherwise, the Free Market™ doesn’t actually work and they can get fucked anyway.
- Comment on one bright second 1 month ago:
I feel like reading this story is an internet nerd Rite of Passage. It had a huge impact on me when I read it as a teenager and I think about it a lot.
- Comment on one bright second 1 month ago:
From what I understand, the universe would just be in equilibrium. Nothing but cold particles floating around.
- Comment on Republican? Democrat? There is a third option: 1 month ago:
goatse.ru still gets you that good old school Internet shit though.
- Comment on Simpler times? 2 months ago:
I meant age appropriate goth baddies :(
- Comment on Simpler times? 2 months ago:
As someone who lived through 2006, I can assure you I would have enjoyed being in this situation then just as much as I would now, possibly more.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
You’re a dumbass for playing along with such insane bullshit but I’m glad it worked out for you.
- Comment on Anon makes games 2 months ago:
Also consider that on top of money being different, most people weighed goods against the local currency because coins were the most standardized objects they had access to. So not only does the local currency change, but as a result, the system of weights and measures does too.
- Comment on Anon makes games 2 months ago:
This is one of those things where it’s basically impossible to make a game with more accurate economics that is actually fun. The fact of the matter is that medieval wealth inequality was just too big for most people to wrap their heads around and would make gameplay really weird. Adventurers would in fact need to be buying equipment with the equivalent value of gold coins, but such wealth would dwarf the costs of pretty much any “normal” stuff you could buy and would cause weird balance issue. For example, a pound of cheese in medieval England cost half a penny, but a good sword could cost 480 pennies. Think about how many swords you encounter in a video game. Even if you sold them for a 100th of the high end price, you could still buy 9 lbs of cheese for a single sword and if cheese is meant to be a healing item then it probably has to be total trash to balance how cheap it is compared to adventuring gear. Or you could say a low quality sword can be sold for 5 gold and a cheese is 1 gold and make it a normal healing item. It’s just hard to balance if the economy is realistic. As for credits, it’s just hard to imagine what the hell trade will look like in the future and everyone kind of understands credits as a concept.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The skeleton skateboarders sounds an awful lot like the Wild Hunt
- Comment on relationship 2 months ago:
- Comment on Yea well it still can't have an existential crisis like humans can! Take that! 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s intentional, but I think the sheer quantity of AI slop and web crawlers trying to train new AI models is the main problem. Good websites are blocking access to search engines to try to slow crawler traffic, while shitty websites are being made at an unprecedented speed. I legitimately don’t know how you fix this as a search engine provider.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 2 months ago:
Right but conversations about science where all parties are wrong and nobody is willing to actually look shit up are completely pointless. It’s the exact same problem that caused the situation in the OP in the first place.
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 2 months ago:
I honestly think it’s absurd you can be doing something for nearly 30 years (longer than a patent lasts) and then try to get a patent on it retroactively. That seems like a completely insane cheat code for the patent process.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 2 months ago:
Clocks existed then though. The oldest clocktower in Europe that still exists was built over 100 years before Galileo was born, and time measurement existed longer than that. You can measure time fairly accurately with water clocks which had been known for thousands of years before Galileo. Not having “modern” pendulum clocks yet doesn’t mean that they didn’t have any way to measure time. Even without water clocks you can get decently reliable measurements of time with rhythmic chants (think how today we might say "one Mississippi, two Mississippi, etc.). Early alchemical recipes often include time measurements in chanting a specific prayer or passage a certain number of times during a specific step. Sure you’re not going to get milisecond level accuracy this way but you don’t really need that for a lot of things. Hero of Alexandria built mechanical automata 1500 years before Galileo using pulleys and weights as timers. Time measurement not only existed before pendulum clocks, it was pretty decent.
