exasperation

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Go to space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill from that day ⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2001? As I remember that song didn’t become a dominant Christmas song until Love Actually came out in 2003, and still took a few years before it became the single most popular Christmas song on the radio, first reaching number 1 in 2019.

  As of this picture nobody (including Mariah Carey) had any idea what that song would become.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  some can be toxic if you dont prepare it correctly though right?

  This is true of many different types of foods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives in 2056⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Vampires are extremely gay coded though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw your zodiac sign, tell me..⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was just a dominant brand of dishware in the U.S.

  Corning, one of the world leaders in glass manufacturing and materials science, figured out how to make thin tempered glass that was lightweight, very durable, resistant to thermal shock, and safe to use in microwaves, dishwashers, and up to medium temperature ovens (350°F/175°C is the manufacturer recommended max). It became the dominant dishware brand in the U.S. as a result, for “everyday” use.

  Personally I don’t like the heat transfer characteristics (poor insulator which means hot food makes the dish hot to the touch) and don’t mind thicker plates/bowls for most situations. But I can see why they became immensely popular, especially for families with kids.

  Side note, Corning spun off its consumer products division in 1991, so the company that makes the Gorilla Glass in basically everyone’s cell phones is now technically different from the company that made all these kitchen dishes, even if they were once part of the same corporation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon travels overseas⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was very dry and bland, not really that good, yet I looked up the nutritional info and apparently this small burger alone was over 1200kcals??

  Fried food hides a lot of fat and carbs in the fried breading. There are a lot of calories in that crunchy matrix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon travels overseas⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you can, but it takes a lot of running to expend the calories taken in with a pretty typical American diet, especially when you account for the increase in appetite exercise typically brings.

  But it is possible. If you can burn 2000 calories on a single run, that’s a lot of room to maneuver to fit your macros while eating a significant amount of junk food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dances with Wolves and The Last Samurai and Avatar are white soldiers who integrate themselves into some “exotic” (that is, non European) culture and slowly adopt their ways and renounce their previous military loyalties. Then they are called upon to take up arms and coordinate tactics against their former side.

  Pocahontas as told in the movie is more of a woman who learns to play peacemaker. There’s not that much cultural exchange, and nobody switches sides to fight against their former team.

  Pocahontas as actually happened, historically, is more the story of a native teenager kidnapped, forcibly converted to Christianity and married off to bear a child, and paraded around England as a novelty, until she died far away from her home at the age of 20, maybe 21.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon travels overseas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  also nearly half of adults overweight

  One thing worth pointing out is that the “overweight” category (BMI between 25 and 30) actually has lower all cause mortality than the “normal” category (BMI between 20 and 25:

  pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37405977/#gid=article-fig…

  I think that suggests that being merely “overweight” probably isn’t a significant health problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  aight this scene takes place in Mexico so lemme color grade it very Mexican, but also it’s a flashback to the 50’s so I’m gonna dial down the color saturation and digitally add some film grain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t imagine putting in the effort to even try to be attractive and build a connection with someone else, much less in a way that I’d have to hide from my wife and kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I handle it just fine now, but I did lay some groundwork before kids to make sure my life was going to continue to be easy even with the added responsibility of parenting:

  • Insignificant commute. I can leave my house and be at my desk at the office in about 10 minutes, even during rush hour, because the bike lanes still flow efficiently.
  • Small home. I don’t want to fuck around with house maintenance or even cleaning up around the house any more than is absolutely necessary, so I don’t have excess rooms in the house and don’t have big spaces. I also don’t fuck with yard work so I have only a small patio with a few planters for a modest garden.
  • Flexible career that I actually like. I have a decent chunk of work to do in any given week, but most of it can be done on my own schedule, so that I can start my day late or end my day early as needed, so long as I can find the time elsewhere to fill in as needed. This did take some work to find a career that I like and that actually complements my strengths (several complete resets in my 20’s and 30’s, including going to law school as an older student), and then advancing in that field long enough to where I just have credibility to get things done without other people supervising me. I do work more than 50 hours per week fairly regularly, but I largely do it on my terms.
  • Money. My wife and I both earn more than average, and we were already rich before we had kids. That gave the flexibility to do things like take unpaid leave for each kid being born, paying for childcare when they were young, grabbing takeout on days when time is tight, etc.
  • Social support network. We have some family nearby, and they can help in a pinch (and we in turn help them as necessary). Our neighborhood social group is amazing, with a lot of other parents and similarly aged kids who can provide the social and emotional support for navigating the very real challenges of parenting. We don’t feel like we’re doing things alone, and we have a village. Many of these relationships predate parenting, too, so in a sense we knew that we had that ecosystem of friends and family to continue to grow with (even if we wouldn’t have been able to predict in advance exactly which friendships would thrive and which would wither after kids, we had the baseline to be able to be flexible with that).

  There were tradeoffs, to be sure. We were older than average when we had kids, and that might translate into lower energy levels for each stage of childhood, and may eventually mean that we get to enjoy less overlapping time as adults. We live in a small place so we do need to basically leave the house regularly so that our kids don’t get bored, and that’s more of a challenge in the winter when outdoor spaces aren’t all that pleasant. During COVID, while working 100% remotely, being close to the office wasn’t all that much of a perk.

  And we got lucky on other things. Our children are healthy and (mostly) well behaved, so we don’t have to worry as much about a lot of things other parents have to deal with. We also really get along with our own parents, so there aren’t challenging dynamics with the grandparents/in laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  even single

  It’s worth pointing out that coupling up often buys *more" leisure time, at least before kids. Many household tasks benefit from volume where doubling the output doesn’t actually double the work to be done (cooking, laundry) or where combining households basically consolidates two tasks into one (bills, cleaning, home maintenance).

  I didn’t have all that much free time when I was single, but those dual income/no kids years were glorious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dan Flashes Mcdonalds is a very aggressive store. I mean, you walk by a store and you see 50 guys who look just like me fighting over very complicated shirts, you go in. Yes, you do. You go in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like a buffet would fix this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  physically uncomfortable

  such an unnatural position

  Have you considered that he’s been standing with his shoulders rotated forward for most of his life, and that his feeble body falls right into this position, rather than a neutral position where he’d have to expend strength standing up straight with a strong looking torso?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He makes a great point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand any dog barks

  That’s obviously false. Any dog owner knows when their dog is begging for help getting something out of reach or being let in/out of a gate, which barks mean “hey someone’s at the door” or “squirrel” and which yelps mean pain. Beyond that, growls and body language can communicate quite a bit, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the catalyst that actually causes (financial) bubbles to burst?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The big players in AI aren’t highly leveraged

  It’s not traditional leverage but the recent deals being announced where the AI companies are raising money from Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Google, AMD, Oracle, etc. and paying it back in stock or purchase commitments have a certain circular bootstrappy notion to them. The formulas for the valuations rely on feedback loops that are less stable and might create runaway feedback conditions at the slightest hiccup.

  In any highly capital intensive business, you always run the risk that the thing you build is worth less than the cost it took to build it. And when that happens, collapses can happen pretty quickly, as everyone invested in these companies rushes towards the offramp.

  I can think of a few catalysts that could trigger that initial realization that the thing made isn’t actually worth the cost to build it:

  • A new model comes out from a competitor that was cheaper to build and almost as good. (Deepseek reminded everyone that this might happen.)
  • New money stops coming in and the companies building things have to tighten their belts. This could be driven by a failure to monetize as much as previously modeled, so that the value of the company itself is questioned.
  • Some kind of legal flaw threatens the entire foundation of some expensive models.
  • Some kind of technical flaw causes one company’s flagship model to lose the race against other companies.
  • Some key personnel are incapacitated in a way that robs the company of its momentum (this almost happened with the board of directors revolt at OpenAI).
  • Something else I haven’t thought of.

  But once a hiccup happens, something built on so many self-reinforcing loops is less resilient against the unknown, the chaos of the real world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always question those who are the "teachers"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You just mixed being strong with being fat.

  Strong people can look fat. Powerlifters, strongmen, shot putters, football linemen, and other athletes where really high strength are important tend to carry a lot of body fat, too.

  Fat doesn’t mean strong, but very strong very often means “fat” looking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s even funny the way the parent comment described it: a female town right next to the regular town.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more of a BYO protein meal kit, with shelf stable seasoning+carb in a box, where you’re expected to add your own protein.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Canned green beans are great. I don’t care how many fancy meals I eat, there’s always gonna be a place for that nostalgic flavor.

  And canned corn is basically my preferred method of adding corn to soups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can release some of the stuck on flavors from silicone by heating it in the oven to 250°F/120°C for 20-30 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Depression: Part Deux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a very high confidence in the statistical significance, but a relatively low effect (in that the difference between eating cured meats every day and eating no cured meats ever has roughly a 1% chance of making a difference in cancer incidence).

  Basically, about 4% of people who never eat cured meats get cancer in the GI tract (from throat to stomach to colorectal) at some point in their lifetimes, whereas people who eat cured meats every day get cancer in the GI tract about 5% of the time. On the one hand, that’s like a 20% increase in cancer risk, but on the other hand, that makes a difference to only about 1% of the population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This man is suffering⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is in no way condoning the practice, only describing why it happens, but a lot of dudes actually derive some kind of pleasure or satisfaction at knowing they’ve made someone else uncomfortable. That motivation generally steers them towards in-person interactions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fact⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at the video of her running, posted on September 29. A video posted on September 27 also shows short clips of her standing or walking or sitting with knees bent, showing that her femurs and tibias are proportional length. There’s a video called rapture prep posted on September 22 that includes a thumbnail that is a side shot with her knees bent, showing the ratio of femur to tibia.

  I think it’s a normal proportioned short person whose camera angles tend to lengthen her upper body and shorten her lower body. And maybe a preference for high waisted pants that may trick the eye into thinking the hip hinge is higher than it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fact⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s just short. And this image is taken from pretty close, so that little changes in distance to camera make a big difference in apparent length.

  A typical smartphone camera’s default “1x” zoom tends to be a pretty wide lens with a short focal length. So you stand up close to your subject when taking pictures or video.

  And people’s faces tend to look better when shot from at least eye level, especially with wide lenses from up close.

  So if you imagine a 1.5 meter tall person photographed from 1.5 meters away, at height level, standing straight, the top 1/3 will take up about 18.435° of visual angle. The middle 1/3 will be 15.255°. And the bottom 1/3 will be 11.31°. So just like that, 0.5 meters can look 60% longer on the top portion of a subject than the exact same length, 0.5 meters, on the bottom of a subject.

  As a result, there’s a warped perspective where the things that are higher on a person’s body or torso look longer, and things that are lower are further away and therefore smaller.

  Bend the knees slightly and the difference becomes even more skewed.

  We don’t notice these things with our eyeballs because our visual cortex corrects for these things with a three dimensional model of the world around us, but still photos don’t go through that same processing when perceived, so sometimes perspective plays tricks on perceived size/distance.

  For a quick demonstration, pull out your phone and take a selfie from above your head, looking up at the camera. How small do your feet look, and does that match the real world appearance as you perceive them in real life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Atlas can automate Lemmy shitposting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Smart quotes are the default in certain interfaces (most notably the iPhone), so they’re not really a reliable indicator or bot-ness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell yeah⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re telling me a crab ran this goon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is forever alone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t just go up to women they don’t want random men approaching them,

  I think many people can benefit from understanding how to strike up conversations with strangers generally. If you’re already comfortable making small talk in a line, with your seat neighbor at a bar or communal table at a restaurant, talking to fellow dog owners at the dog park,v or getting to know people during a meet and greet at a conference or happy hour, swinging by a new colleague’s desk just to say hi and get to know them, you’ll get a sense of what types of interactions are comfortable and flow naturally.

  If you’re not comfortable approaching men, women who are with their significant others, people clearly outside your dating age range with small talk or simple conversations, it’s hard to build the skill and experience of approaching women you’d like to date if you don’t already have the foundation of approaching people you don’t want to date.

  It’s also a great way to address the actual core premise of this post, that there are a lot of lonely people who could use friend making skills too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Richest American to FAFO?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He suffered from mental health and physical issues, blamed it on CTE, left a note requesting that his brain be examined for CTE, and was diagnosed with CTE after his death. All that is consistent with targeting the NFL headquarters in that building.