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- Comment on rawr xD 1 day ago:
Sun bears are definitely justifiably cursed.
So when she first said this. It was long ago, a time when red pandas were much less popular. So many in the group did not know what they looked like, I among them. From her fear, I inferred it must be something like, well, a panda, but red, and maybe skinnier and freakier. Then she pulled up a picture, and everybody lost it
- Comment on rawr xD 1 day ago:
This was asked of her. The answer was no, and the reasoning was that they won’t walk like that. She knew it was irrational lol
- Comment on rawr xD 1 day ago:
I once knew a lady who was terrified of red pandas for exactly this reason, the fact they would stand on two legs “like a human” despite not being human just freaked her out. So maybe there’s something to it.
- Comment on Kinky 1 day ago:
Dolphins stay freaky
- Comment on Margot Robbie makes a bold statement with ‘naked’ dress postpartum 2 days ago:
Fair enough. As long as you don’t want laws passed on that basis, I figure differences can be differences. Otherwise I may be inclined for us both to try some further mutual persuasion.
- Comment on Margot Robbie makes a bold statement with ‘naked’ dress postpartum 2 days ago:
- What is problematic about being scantily clad?
- It may be odd, but at some point a white person dating a black person was odd. That didn’t make it wrong to do.
- There are many tribal cultures where women do not cover their breasts, and children in those cultures don’t seem bothered by it. There are cultures where nude beaches are acceptable. Is it possible that adults only project their own socially-induced discomforts with the sight on breasts onto children? Not every human feels the same supposedly intrinsic wrongness at nudity as you do.
- Note that you are conflating nudity with sexuality. Surely nudity and sexuality are not identical, so we should be careful to make sure we’re not using them as synonyms.
- Comment on Margot Robbie makes a bold statement with ‘naked’ dress postpartum 2 days ago:
The comments on NY Post articles always make me want to board the next rocket launch off Earth. People are soooo sex negative. People ask “why” to this shit, but the real question is why not? What’s so horrible about a naked person? And the dress is really ornate and pretty. But we have to make it about her being egomaniacal, or slutty, or shameless, or a trend follower, blah blah blah. Maybe it’s just a cool dress and she doesn’t think a body is intrinsically sexual, or that sexuality is intrinsically shameful, or so many other preconceptions that these commenter morons would never even think of. “I respect my husband too much to wear a dress like this” - yuuuuck! I could write a whole essay about all the things wrong with that comment alone.
- Comment on Kmart broke privacy laws by using facial recognition technology, commissioner finds 3 days ago:
Crazy how when a huge company breaks a law and wrongs thousands of people, the “punishment” is being asked not to do it again. Can I get that punishment next time I commit a crime? Rob a bank and…oh well, just don’t do it a second time buddy!
Now wait. Let me really be fair here. There is an actual difference. Robbing a bank is known to be illegal, whereas the way in which Kmart broke the law was arguably not known to be illegal. I’m not being facetious here, this is an actual important difference.
But…let’s say then that I did something like that. I break some law unknowingly, or by mistake. Will I then merely be asked not to do it again? I doubt it…and so the point stands.
- Comment on You donkey 1 week ago:
This has gotta already be a popular kink within the restaurant industry
- Comment on No I'm really not sorry. George Floyd was a father too, and before old Charlie had his personal turning point he called him a scumbag. 1 week ago:
Better, but not ultimately valid :)
- Comment on No I'm really not sorry. George Floyd was a father too, and before old Charlie had his personal turning point he called him a scumbag. 1 week ago:
The “he’s a father” line has got to be the most slave-morality, don’t-ask-questions, get back to work and serve the Economy, don’t make trouble for the system, obvious bullshit I’ve ever heard.
One can make plenty of better arguments for why not to make fun of him posthumously, so why pick such a bad one? Oh right, because the vast majority of our society has never been educated to care about the logical validity of an argument, but only its emotional gut-feeling truthiness.
- Comment on gun, nuts 1 week ago:
The Black Panthers got a lot out of theirs. It’s very likely that African Americans wouldn’t have rights in America today if not for those guns.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
Fair, fair
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 1 week ago:
The best thing that could possibly come of his death is if nobody ever spoke of him or thought of him again
- Comment on Anon doesn't enjoy anything 1 week ago:
I’m so full of purpose I don’t even notice the need to masturbate which gnaws at my consciousness every moment, which always sings its endless siren’s song of sin, I go the entire day without paying a single thought to my aching cock which throbs urgently for release by any means. It’s so great bros
- Comment on Anon doesn't enjoy anything 1 week ago:
The feel-good (and still very fake and gay) greentexts were always the worst, and largely because of these cringe messages. Implying becoming Christian was the first step. I wouldn’t be surprised if these types of posts are just grassroots conversion attempts from various evangelists.
- Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine 2 weeks ago:
Took me awhile to get back to this, but yeah I agree that it seems at least conceptually solid. The big barrier is that, like jarfil mentioned, you’d need at least 200 million sites indexed, so you’d need a good amount of users for it to work. And the users would need to consent to running some software that basically logs all the pages they visit. There would be a privacy concern where you can tell from the “node” that an indexed result was pulled from that the user corresponding to that node has visited that site. This could maybe be fixed by each user also downloading indexed site data from others aside from what they personally use, thus mixing in their own activity with others indistinguishably? Probably clever vulnerabilities in that too though.
Structurally it seems a lot like DNS. If only DNS servers were fine storing embeddings of site content and making those queryable, it would seemingly accomplish the same idea, aside from it being in the hands of DNS operators. Of course, that massively multiplies the amount of data these servers need to an impossible degree.
I still need to read up on what primitive indexing really looks like and how much space it takes to store per site.
- Comment on Choose wisely lemmings 2 weeks ago:
Stolen from GeneralSam:
Chairdolf Sitler
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 3 weeks ago:
Asking if people could spot the antichrist has always seemed paradoxical to me. Isn’t the antichrist’s defining thing that he will deceive people into following him? Lost cause imo
- Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine 3 weeks ago:
Hrrmm. Webrings it is. But also, the search engine problem seems like one calling out for a creative solution. I’ll try to look into it some more I guess. Maybe there’s a way that you could distribute which peer indexes which sites. I would even be fine sharing some local processing power when I browse to run a local page ranking that then gets shared with peers…maybe it could be done in a way where attributes of the page are measured by prevalence and then the relative positive or negative weighting of those attributes could be adjusted per-user.
Hope it’s not annoying for me to spitball ideas in random Lemmy comments.
- Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine 3 weeks ago:
Never heard of Kagi before, article convinced me I don’t wanna use it anyways…lol.
Wasn’t the original Google search algorithm published in a research paper? Maybe someone with more domain knowledge than I could help me understand this: is there any obstacle to starting a search engine today that just works like that? No AI, no login, no crazy business…just something nice and rudimentary. I do understand all the ways that system could be gamed, but given Google/Bing etc.'s dominance, I feel like a smaller search engine doesn’t really need to worry about people trying to game it’s algorithm.
- Comment on Birds of peace 3 weeks ago:
ADHD brain is multi-threading
- Comment on Birds of peace 3 weeks ago:
I like how this style of writing seems to honestly reflect internal deep-level thought processes. It feels like debugging into the assembly level of consciousness.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I am always very proud to say I am a bad driver for this very reason. I am a very bad driver. But I am a better than average bias-recognizer
- Comment on do what you love 4 weeks ago:
This is PURE speculation, but I feel like this could be caused by the only people who feel comfortable getting a philosophy degree are wealthy connected people. I know a lot of people from my high school that have stereotypical “be poor forever” degrees and are doing great - but if you knew them in high school, you’d know that they had millionaire parents. All the poor kids went for safer degrees because they knew they’d need money.
- Comment on New project, new energy 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I have had some luck with this I suppose. Like taking a break for the 1 year plan to do a little 1 week side quest.
- Comment on New project, new energy 4 weeks ago:
My first thought was “but all my projects are so big it’ll be years before I can do another one”, which is making me think my problem is project scope. But then, since I’m into solo game dev, there’s only so much scope reduction I can do…
- Comment on FBI arrests US gymnastics academy coach accused of sexually abusing young girls on child porn charges 4 weeks ago:
I normally hate to engage with this sort of content because, like, many obvious reasons and non obvious ones. But sometimes curiosity gets the better of me. And this quote:
"Gardner would ask girls if they were sexually active and call them “idiots, sluts, and whores.” "
I just…why is this particular form of creepiness so common? I see this a LOT on horny Internet communities like shudders NexusMods (I remember back when Skyrim mods weren’t all weird coomer garbage…) and also in a lot of the Reddit “jack off to celebrities” communities. Before you ask “y r u looking at these” - my friend and I have the (admittedly strange) pastime of finding and perusing these communities to basically laugh at their members and rage bait each other. Probably not the best use of time but it hit the spot in college. Anyways. It’s like people get a boner just by calling someone a slut, and it always strikes me as such a deranged maneuver. And what really interests me is that it’s usually coupled with a judgemental tone, you know? Like, fuck me, dude. Do you want them to be a slut or not? On the one hand you’re jacking off to calling this person a slut, but on the other hand you seem to legitimately hate sluts. It’s always struck me as such a foreign and disturbed sexual trait that I just can’t wrap my mind around. And I’m a pretty damn kinky and creative person. I mean, of course I get it, it’s like it’s hot that they’re slutty but you judge it on a “moral” level. But it just seems that such a kink would self-dissolve under the slightest bit of analysis. Like if nobody was a slut then that would put an end to your fun now wouldn’t it? The hypocrisy of that kind of garbage just drives me mad (Reminding myself of that Norm MacDonald hypocrisy joke here). I know you’re not supposed to kink shame, and I guess it’s not the kink of calling someone slutty I’m shaming here, but the hypocritical pairing of it with legitimately non-sexual dislike of sluttiness. It’s just soooo trashy. Of course it boils down to the dumbest monkey brain mentality imaginable: “I want everyone to be slutty for me but not for anyone else”. Such nasty egoism.
Anyways, what a stupid and silly thing for me to hone in on among the much worse things this guy has done, maybe even poor taste of me to go on this tangent but I’ve already written my essay so whatcha gonna do. But I think it’s interesting to note. It certainly supports my long-standing feelings that these people who get off on slut-hating have serious issues and should be avoided. Red-flag kink for me.
- Comment on New project, new energy 4 weeks ago:
Truest thing ever. I TRULY need to overcome this because, not to sound un-humble or anything, but I (and probably everyone else who has this tendency) am totally capable of creating and finishing some pretty awesome stuff. But if I keep going like this, I’ll never finish anything…I know the shitpost comm isn’t maybe the most fitting spot for this discussion, but, like…does anyone have any advice?
- Comment on How I Hacked McDonald's (Their Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Their Secret Sauce Recipe) | bobdahacker 4 weeks ago:
Really incredible. This is what I imagined hacking stopped being like in 1995. I applaud Bob for having the inner fortitude to not just exploit them for infinite nuggies. The fact someone got fired for it probably contributes to why the security is so bad, corporations truly don’t deserve white hat hackers.