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- Comment on How possibly? 3 days ago:
I’ve tried to bring this up before, but I personally don’t believe everyone should be treated the same.
In an ideal world where we had an objective way to measure this, I would prefer that we lived in an absolute meritocracy.
Some people are a better fit for a particular purpose than other people due to racial advantage, gender advantage, physical advantage, age advantage, or any other number of advantages that they have been gifted by the miracle of life and talent, or that they have earned from dedication and struggle.
In my ideal world, if you remove all of the things that are not important to the task at hand, and only judge based on who is most fit for the task at hand, then the people who are the best fit would get the most appropriate reward for their capacity.
As a nonwhite male IT worker, my ability to lift heavy objects is secondary to my ability to fix a printer. If a female can fix printers better than I can, she’s more than welcome to have the job at the same pay they would have paid me for it.
- Comment on How possibly? 3 days ago:
I personally don’t like the idea of the phrase toxic masculinity because I don’t believe that the masculine energy is toxic in and of itself. I feel like a more appropriate term would be pseudo masculinity. Because that implies that people are not naturally this way, but they are forcing themselves to act this way in pursuit of some perceived ideal of masculinity.
I mean, humans are frequently guilty of using terms that mean a very specific thing in a much broader sense as a shorthand for clearly communicating what we specifically mean in that instance.
For instance, I have heard people are use the phrase “toxic masculinity” to describe boyfriends that don’t want to do the dishes, when the actual correct term is “lazy piece of shit”, but for some reason, when communicating this information to other people, it is easier for them to ascribe an issue with the sex of the person than an issue with the sex of the person, implying that the only actual fix is to repair your emotional relationship with your own sex instead of accepting that everyone has a human responsibility to contribute to doing the chores around the house.
Once again, I reiterate that masculinity and masculine energy is not toxic, any more than femininity and feminine energy is toxic, and I also exhort anyone that took the time to read this much to do their best to effectively and accurately communicate using specific language rather than emotional shorthand.
- Comment on Muad'Dib Dib Dib 4 days ago:
I think you should reverse the images, Kyle McLaughlin was the better muadib
- Comment on opportunities 5 days ago:
They are thinking very highly of the torque handling capability of the arm of that trebuche compared to the support its base provides.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 6 days ago:
Well, this one’s for sale for $23,000, if it’s something you’ve got to have
- Comment on If a US bank only insures your money up to 250k does that mean I have to visit four different back to have a million dollars insured? 6 days ago:
I don’t have the money to test this, but I imagine that there are other insurances available for people with more than $250,000 in cash assets.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 6 days ago:
Dopplegangers are literally one of the most terrifying scary monsters.
It tracks you down. It learns everything about you. It hides in your house. It kills you. It takes over your life. Nobody ever finds your corpse.
Like so far, you are the only person in this thread to have an actual scary monster.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 6 days ago:
My first truck was an 86 Chevy, and it had one of those in it, and the fucker broke, and that was the most embarrassing $5 I ever had to spend at an auto parts store.
Cause I didn’t know what to call it cause I was a stupid teenager and I was just like, I need that little thing you play with with your foot to turn the lights on.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 6 days ago:
A friend was out looking for a classic car and saw this and sent it to me. Image
- Comment on Is LM Studio's GUI safe despite being closed source? 1 week ago:
Okay, one, as many people use it, it seems like it would be fairly likely that they would be caught if they were doing something shady.
Two, the program does not have access to anything other than the text conversations you are having with it, so it’s not like there’s an awful lot of PII that could be exfiltrated through the software.
I would say that you are just as safe using LM Studio as you are using Ollama, at least for now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What the fuck did you do to my wife?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Legally, I can get a no fault anullment if you don’t put out within the first 30 days.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 1 week ago:
I would argue that hiding information is not always lying.
There are lies of omission, but it depends on if you are asked about the things you are omitting or not.
And even if you are, it is possible to steer the conversation away from the thing without actually telling a lie.
Politicians do it all of the time.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 1 week ago:
I work with lawyers and I have to say lawyers are by and far either the most or least ethical people you have ever met.
And success is not determined by your ethics as a lawyer.
The best lawyers find the points of the truth that are the most salient to their case and push those.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You would say something like that, wouldn’t you?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah, I mean, there’s a way that you can tell the truth in a way that hurts somebody and a way that you can tell the truth in a way that doesn’t hurt somebody.
Like if your girlfriend has a fat ass and she asks that if her dress makes her ass look fat then you can say “the dress makes your fat ass look like the fat ass that it is” or you can say “it complements your curves”
Neither one is a lie, but one is intentionally spiteful and hurtful, and the other one is like, okay, you obviously like the girl you don’t care about how fat her ass is.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 1 week ago:
I feel like it’s the kind of shit that a bunch of drunken college kids would do as a prank.
Like they’re all standing around laughing at the people that are actually believing this shit and laughing even more at the people that get upset.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 week ago:
But, and hear me out, if the people that were constantly freaking out and terrified all of the time were to chill a little bit, the world would improve dramatically, almost instantaneously.
We are in a period of time where calmness is the most vital thing for our leaders and for the people.
And if you can’t make it yourself, store bought is fine.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 week ago:
I have never had my amygdala scanned so I don’t know where I sit.
I know I am very liberal/leftist as far as politics go, and I don’t really care about the differentials of definitions of those terms. It just means that I am anti-conservative and pro freedom, and I don’t care what the correct word for that is.
But, that being said, like, most of the time I’m pretty calm, but when I am not calm, it is very, very difficult for me to regulate my emotions, even as a full-grown adult.
I typically have to lock my body and everything to keep from reacting yelling and screaming and everything when I have powerful emotions.
I’ve gotten very good at that, but it is always painful and a struggle to not react based off of the emotions of the moment for me.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 week ago:
I’ve been saying this forever, but, like, these people really need to go back and reread Chicken Little. They’re getting Fox News, getting scared, and reacting based off of what Fox is telling them, and not what the Chicken Little’s are telling them.
The sky is not falling.
Take a deep breath, calm the fuck down, and chill. Everything’s okay. As long as we stop freaking out.
- Comment on ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2 weeks ago:
I gave myself seven years because they’re typically only warrantied for five. It’s a new technology that basically puts an air conditioner on top of the water heater, and instead of blowing the hot air outside of your house, it shoves it into your water.
Even though it’s built like a tank, there’s always the chance of early failure because the system is far more complex than “electricity through resistive coil makes heat” like normal electric water heaters.
- Comment on ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2 weeks ago:
Yes, Vimes.
- Comment on ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2 weeks ago:
If you live in America, you should definitely check with your power company. There are a lot of initiatives that will give you $500 off. A hybrid water heater which will decrease your power bills in exchange for a slightly larger upfront cost.
Mine cost $1,600 after the discount, but my power bill dropped ~$35 a month, and it spits out enough cold air that by having a fan in the basement I can cool my entire house throughout most of the summer without using my HVAC at all.
Which means that if it lasts seven years with regular maintenance, it will have paid me at least $35127 - $1600 = $1320 to own this water heater.
It’s literally the Grimes Boots theory in practice, but for water heaters.
Because I had the money to buy the more expensive higher quality item with new technology, I ended up getting to have more money in the end.
- Comment on I'm sure a good lot of you, like me, had been anticipating/dreading that moment when we say, oh fuck this is it, for real. Like the BIG oh fuck. My question is, how ready are you? 2 weeks ago:
I hope I will keep my general knowledge and intelligence but be isekaied to a world with magic because fuck this whole science bullshit.
What do you mean I’m stuck on this planet?
What do you mean if I’m lucky I get 90 years, the last 30 of which suck? The first 30 have also sucked. And from what it looks like the middle 30 is also going to suck.
What do you mean I have to work in a cubicle for like 45 years of my life, which already sucks, but sucks more because of the cubicle?
Fuck this shit, give me some magic, tell science to go suck a fat one.
- Comment on Make sure you know what your kid is getting themselves into 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the Mexican dirt weed I used to get as a teenager, you could smoke half a joint by yourself and be buzzed.
I quit when I was 18, but then I moved to a legal state and I took one puff and was legitimately stoned for the rest of the day. Like, could barely control myself.
The modern stuff is super strong.
- Comment on OP figures out love languages 3 weeks ago:
I mean, what on earth makes you happier than someone you care about being excited to see you?
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, you’re not wrong, but also try your best to primary candidates outside of the two parties, if you’re in the US.
While it is true there are no good kings, we should try to get as many halfway decent people in the office as possible.
Once primaries are done, then under no circumstances vote for Republicans. And if the option is between a Democrat that might narrowly win and a third-party candidate that might narrowly win, then vote for the third-party candidate. Otherwise vote for Democrats.
- Comment on Real Height 📏 3 weeks ago:
If it makes you feel better, it kind of hurt my brain for a minute, too. And I’m supposed to be good at math.
It boils down to my legs are 5 inches longer than her legs, so adding 5 inches to her height by swapping legs would take 5 inches from my height, and the reason why our individual heights are different afterwards is because of the 2 inch differences in our torsos.
- Comment on Well I could walk them through it step by step 3 weeks ago:
If I remember correctly, it was also a somewhat common method of murdering your husband to drive a nail into his skull. The tiny wound would be easily hidden and apparently quite a few people got away with it.
- Comment on Real Height 📏 3 weeks ago:
The last girl I dated was 5’10", and I’m 6’1", for comparison, but when we sat down next to each other, she was a good 2", taller than me, because my legs are much longer than hers, but my torso is shorter.
If she had my legs, she would have been 6’3"
