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- Comment on oh fuck 😨 23 hours ago:
Yeah.
If you’ve known any schizophrenics… well, a part of their whole thing is persistent delusions.
Things you cannot get them to change their mind about, to try and comprehend in a different way, realize are false or are incoherent.
Bigotry is subset of that, and, while certainly not all, some of schizophrenics I’ve known have had one form or another of bigotry as one of those things they basically can’t abandon, a mode or element of their thinking that never goes away.
The whole conceptual ‘problem’ is… with a schizophrenic… how do you know what parts of them are ‘the schizophrenia talking’, and which aren’t?
You can’t really.
Its a whole different way a mind can work, its a kind of neurodivergence.
Like, I’m autistic, a different kind of nuerodivergent, and I attempted to autistically understand the thought processes of the schizophrenics I knew, trying to map out categories and flow charts and triggers and conditions.
… this didn’t work.
They often don’t understand their own thought processes, or will tell you two obviously logically mutually exclusive things are both true at the same time, and this will not bother them and they will just emphatically tell you its not inconsistent, with further logic that is also fairly obviously inconsistent.
But what kinds of thinking is ‘disordered’, and what kinds of thinking … are logically consistent?
I could find no overall pattern to that with the schizophrenics I knew, nor even really any rhyme or reason that could stably describe a singe one of them.
But, sometimes, the flipside of that, will be them explaining a way of thinking about something… that actually is valid, and is basically fucking wild, revolutionary, but it actually does logically check out when you work through it.
And then sometimes its a mix of both.
The best way that I have of understanding schizophrenia is basically that the pattern recognition and thus decision making framework within such a mind is radically different than ‘the norm’ (again I’m autistic so that’s also reliant on my understanding of ‘the norm’), and I can’t really describe it in any more detail than that.
- Comment on oh fuck 😨 1 day ago:
Entirely seriously, I agree.
I’ve personally met a number of schizophrenics who are… astoundingly good at doing things in code, that work, but are extremely divergent from conventional ways of doing things.
- Comment on oh fuck 😨 1 day ago:
Terry Davis was an insane bigot, but goddamn, could that dude code.
Beyond that uh, I wash my hands of this.
- Comment on anal + doggy = ultimate loophole🫶 1 day ago:
… Basically yes.
… … you might say the entire situation was quite the cock-up.
- Comment on anal + doggy = ultimate loophole🫶 1 day ago:
I mean, I’ve known a considerable number of Christian women who have argued that if you just take it up the ass, you’re still a virgin, so it’s just anal untill marriage, and thus you’re a virgin when you walk down the isle, so its all good.
90s/00s purity culture logic.
- Comment on oh fuck 😨 1 day ago:
Arguably this is a heretical perversion of TempleOS, as obviously this is a direct digital interface with God, and obviously God already knows everything about each and every one of us.
- Comment on commitment 1 day ago:
Goddamnit if that isn’t one of the best throwaway gags in the history of television.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas Remaster Hopes Go Into Overdrive as Support Studio Drops Tease 2 days ago:
… presumably it would ‘break’ basically all of them, given that this is a remaster, aka, a different game, the same way that the GTA Definitive editions are remasters of the original games.
The Creation Engine is now … what, 15 years older?
And if they do what they did with the Oblivion remaster, it’ll be a frankenstein of UE5 and the Creation Engine.
So yeah, you’d have to make all the mods all over again, perhaps with a few very rare exceptions…
But it wouldn’t break the original FONV.
… Unless they just just decide to do that, like they did with FO4.
- Comment on commitment 3 days ago:
I mean, setting realistic, achievable goals is a very good strategy and mindset.
… and also that looks like a pretty darn good pizza.
- Comment on big facts 3 days ago:
my piceses, my piceses!
goblin monches on raw wriggling fish
- Comment on big facts 3 days ago:
I… am not entirely certain whether or not the tech actually existed, when the Dark Night came out, to build the hyper spy system…
But it definitely exists now, to at least some extent.
Fortunately,
the AntichristPeter Thiel is probably more or less in charge of it, so, all good! - Comment on big facts 4 days ago:
You can map out the inside of a building and figure out where objects are, and when movement occurs, with WiFi.
You cannot do this with magic woo woo nonsense that equivocates and conflates terms across different domain specific meanings, and then attempts to build a world view out of confused, meaningless/contradictory gibberish.
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 4 days ago:
Well, if you’re coming from a Windows packground, a flatpak is roughly, to the user at least, similar to an exe.
You download a flatpak, install it, blingo blango it has its own environment that is essentially sandboxed, as it pulls in its own dependencies and such.
But, you’ll need to either go with a linux distro that comes with flatpak support pre-configured, or, set up flatpak support on a different distro.
Once you’ve got either of those, there are free app ‘stores’ for flatpak that make it extremely simple to browse, download, install a flatpak program.
Then you just click, download Alpaca, run it, and its got a menu, add new models, search through what it has access to, “Qwen 3”, 8b parameter variant, download, then use it.
I am personally using Bazzite at the moment, I used to use a bunch of Debian, variants of Debian (Ubuntu, PopOS), have futzed around with Arch and even Void… Bazzite is so far the happy medium I’ve found between stability, extensibility, and also being pretty close to cutting edge in terms of driver updates and kernel updates.
If you wanna try WSL (which is named backwards, but whatever), I… I have no idea what you’d have to do to get flatpaks working… on… Windows… but if you think you can, best of luck!
- Comment on Ariana Grande: The Last Racebender 4 days ago:
That’s honestly good to know that you as a Spanaird (and your fellows) don’t identify as Hispanic.
Because I have had to work with data sets, in the US, with ‘race’ data, that has to be in compliance with US govt standards, and… yeah ‘Hispanic’ just doesn’t make any sense, even when you go into the ‘logic’ of it.
In defense of those southern Spaniards, the US govt. can eat my white dick.
Oh I fully agree.
I’ve got a bit of Italian heritage, and… oh dear lord, you’ll get a similar kind of nonsense happening with southern Italians / Sicillians… Italians in general weren’t even considered ‘white’ untill… the 70s?
- Comment on He'll arrest you with his nippies ❤️🔥 4 days ago:
You answered the question by saying ‘because it is’.
No, its not.
Yes, ‘cool’ is subjective.
Popular and cool are not the same thing.
Many of the movies with a cult following now were basically commercial disappointments or even failures.
Art doesn’t exist purely to make money.
That’s ‘content’ you’re thinking of.
- Comment on can't they js fix their moderation already 🙏😭 5 days ago:
Same kinda AI that determines whether or not yo’re a terrorist, by the way.
- Comment on He'll arrest you with his nippies ❤️🔥 5 days ago:
Making money != being cool.
If your sense of style is dictated by what is profitable, your style is consumerism.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 5 days ago:
I broadly agree with what you are saying here, but, I think you are overlooking something.
The Steam Frame.
It has its own internal ARM chip, is capable of running smaller games entirely self contained within itself.
And… as Proton is a translation layer (FeX) that makes Windows games run on Linux… Valve has been massively either themselves aiding development of, or funding development of a similarish kind of translation layer that converts x86 calls to ARM.
Which can also work with Proton.
So that means that a Steam Frame is technically capable of running many .APK (Android) games.
So… while things are tumultuous right now with the RAMpocalypse… Valve is laying the groundwork, in technical capacity, for mobile games to be broadly playable on its hardware, so its much less of a stretch to imagine that they could at some point open up an APK section on Steam’s storefront.
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 5 days ago:
I use the Alpaca flatpak, it just lets you download a variety of models, manages them all inside a contained local environment.
Even has some tools support that is expanding, basic web searches, speech to text, text to speech… and if you can find a GGUF format model, supposedly Alpaca can run this manually, and there’s a good deal on huggingface.
Unfortunately, if you’re running Windows, I… have no clue how to set up an LLM there.
Also your tin foil hat thing isn’t even tin foil hat.
Like, various people in the AI space have outright stated that they want to see a paradigm where everyone just rents compute time from them because PCs are othereise too expensive, while acting like it just happens to be the new reality that everything is so expensive, for some reason.
Nvidia went from gaming GPUs being about 50% of its business to something more like 5%, in about 5 years.
Fortunatelt the AI bubble will be popping soon, as … everyone has run out of money to lend.
Unfrotunately this will destroy the economies of the West.
Yay capitalism!
- Comment on Ariana Grande: The Last Racebender 5 days ago:
… I guess you’ve found a new folder after the horny posting spree, hahah!
- Comment on Ariana Grande: The Last Racebender 5 days ago:
I see you did not even mention Carthage, as is tradition.
- Comment on Ariana Grande: The Last Racebender 5 days ago:
It gets massively more complicated the more granular you get.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of distinct people groups in Latin and South America.
Many of them can directly tie their lineage back to the Maya, Aztecs, etc, and those societies themselves were amalgamations of many different people groups.
There are a ridiculous number of variations of Spanish that have different vocabulary, pronounciations rules, as a result of merging with local languages in different ways.
… ‘Hispanic’ is roughly the American equivalent of ‘European’.
Oh, he’s European, he’s from Europe.
Oh, he’s Hispanic, he’s from south of the US.
Are proper Spaniards, people actually from Spain … Hispanic?
Uh well… according the the US government, basically, maybe. Are they brown? If yes, Hispanic.
That is pretty much how it works.
www.pewresearch.org/…/who-is-hispanic/
As with most race-based terms… it doesn’t actually make barely any sense.
- Comment on Trending 5 days ago:
Huh, I’m not the only person that ‘bakes’ to Led Zeppelin.
- Comment on Anon likes geography 6 days ago:
Goddamnit that one’s my favorite outta this thread haha!
Here’s my try:
Kathmandu?
… I dunno, can he? What can cat man do?
- Comment on Administrative task management 6 days ago:
I am a nerd of many realms lol, your pun actually made me go check, ‘wait, is that a Sig?’, haha!
- Comment on Administrative task management 6 days ago:
92% sure thats a Beretta 92 FS, possibly the compact variant, but very good pun either way!
Maybe we can cause a causality loop if someone shops it into a Sig P226.
- Comment on Administrative task management 6 days ago:
I would like to think that the timeline we are currently in would have been terminated had she pulled the trigger.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 6 days ago:
It doesn’t need to work well.
It needs to sound like it will make more money for MSFT’s board.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 6 days ago:
Nah, shifting heavily toward being B2B.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 6 days ago:
Sorry to burst your bubble but the new head of Xbox has literally 0 experience with video games.
The woman that everyone was sure was Phil’s second in command, being set up to be his replacement?
Yeah she just got told she was being overtopped, and she then seemingly just retired, she just ‘resigned’, not even a new position in MSFT or at another high falutin’ gaming company or anything.
The new head os Xbox is mainly a data scientist and project manager, managed instacart and other online etailer type apps.
Her speciality is using data to precisely squeeze as much money as possible out of a given service.
Which is what she will be doing.
