hansolo
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- Comment on deep words. 1 day ago:
Three eyes?
gasp you stole one of Stevie’s eyes?!?!
- Comment on deep words. 1 day ago:
But…he’s never seen me.
^Am^I^even^real?^
- Comment on Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’ 1 day ago:
“We uploaded 9 million trashy romance novels to teach it how to love. But now…now we teach it how to fuck.”
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 1 day ago:
Straight to jail.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 4 days ago:
I appreciate it. In the last year or two they’ve gone downhill considerably. Isolating themselves during COVID seems to have really done a number on their mental health.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 4 days ago:
Oh shit, sorry man. My parents are wrapped up in the same kind of stuff, like drinking bleach as a cure for everything. My apologies to bring that up in that way.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 4 days ago:
OOOhh - which community? Not going after your mom, I just love a good conspiracy community. Most forums seem pretty insular, so it’s always nice to get a lead on a new one.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Only 40 minutes a day for Drag Race history? Hardly enough time!
- Comment on Almost halloween tbh 4 days ago:
Put on my skeleton jammies and start TEARING SHIT UP! Go Team Skeleton!
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 4 days ago:
I mean, try as we might to blame Zuck or whatever like this is a new problem, it’s also a standard with humans that we do love our own toxic self-reinforcing mess sometimes when we get in a groove with it. The Taliban literally fought and won two wars to uphold their brand of misogyny, ignorance, and general illiteracy. Nazis. The Confederacy and all their vestigial holdover racism. The Communist Revolution in China where they just executed academics because math and physics did not support the CCP.
The barriers previously were just access to a wider group of people with one’s own brand of mess, and the point of the internet in general was to lower the friction of communication. For any many bronies out there living in Bumblefuck, AL that have finally found their people, there’s just as many old forums like Something Awful that still exist that are cursed corners of the internet, and have been since the 90s. They’re just the internet version of that shithole bar in your town where it’s all methheads and bikers and generally terrible people.
You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the Facts of Life. The Facts of Life.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Amazing opportunity to make some machine that sprays a thick bright yellow layer of plastic on a banana, that you peel off and then peel off the probably greyish-green real peel under that because yarg.
- Comment on HAWT 5 days ago:
We need a Myers-Briggs style 2-axis chart about what additions mean what personality traits.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 5 days ago:
- When leadership changed hands they had a “yellow alert” over not constantly increasing ad revenue fast enough.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 5 days ago:
Facebook actually did start off that way if you’ll recall, and you don’t have to use your real name on FB still. I was sad when my friend’s dog’s profile got deleted for very obviously being a dog. I hated FB from the start, and it was around 2010ish is when they started to get too serious about themselves.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 5 days ago:
It’s really only just a few platforms that are more toxic than average. “Social media” includes things like WhatsApp and Signal, which are functionally similar enough to email threads that they don’t compare to Twitter where everything is public-facing.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 5 days ago:
No.
Search engines exist and tell people how to spell things, simple math, and get them to things like recipes and wiki pages.
Top Google search right now in the US is emmy winners. That’s a search for information, not conformation bias.
People also can’t seek confirmation bias of they don’t know where to start.
Why confidently start of a comment with “No” and gamble with absolute when that’s a net losing tactic over the long run?
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 6 days ago:
Google search is total shit because spammers figured out how to SEO their way into results.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 6 days ago:
On the whole, I would argue it has been.
Social media, on the other hand, fuck no. But the internet in general absolutely.
Knowledge sharing and research are amazingly easy now. Things that would have taken going to a library and possibly ordering 2 or 3 hard to find books, maybe several long distance phone calls, all to get 30 year old info, are now replaced by digitized records and some dude’s website.
Access to scientific research is shockingly easy now. You’re seconds away from reading up to the minute research on anything.
International standards also help. I can use my credit card anywhere on earth. Translate speech and text in real time. Email anyone anywhere. I can learn when the common scams are in a place before I go there. It helps make connecting with people possible anywhere.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 6 days ago:
But that’s on us as people electing leaders. Authoritarians exist with or without the internet, and don’t just show up one day with some cheat code to get into power. The internet didn’t create any of this from scratch.
- Comment on Are Americans quarks? 6 days ago:
It’s a really famous movie and very highly rated.
- Comment on Are Americans quarks? 6 days ago:
It’s a SciFi movie from 1997. Very good, worth watching it.
- Comment on Friends are a bloatware. 1 week ago:
Doesn’t matter, as much info as you shared gets put into a profile. Then what WiFi networks you connect to, your location, plus your old FB profile, all get triangulated to others. So Meta still cares because if you rejoin FB next week, it’ll suggest people it knows you are physically close to.
I use a creeper FB account at work with zero info even close to me IRL, and because our external IP addresses are the same, of auto suggests any of my colleagues that log on to their FB at work.
- Comment on Friends are a bloatware. 1 week ago:
Right now they collect meta data to map connections to reinforce FB and IG relationships to keep you in their ecosystem. They’ve been trying to work out to ads like Viber has for years.
- Comment on Are Americans quarks? 1 week ago:
Both comments are references to the movie The Fifth Element
- Comment on Clock logic 1 week ago:
I never confirmed this, but I noticed that in parts of West Africa, people wouldn’t say “afternoon” until after 1:00pm. Since greetings were important, I started noticing it more and more when peoe would say “good morning” during lunch at 12:30pm. As if the 12 noon hour is still part of the time segment.
- Comment on Are Americans quarks? 1 week ago:
Sorry, correct response was “Leeloo Dallas Multipass.”
- Comment on *static intensifies* 1 week ago:
Evolution? Don’t you know that humans were created by the Annunaki? The entire Babylonian creation myth is clear as day, with the alien scientist Enki using DNA from his own sperm spliced with pre-modern humans 6 million years ago. Our pattern-seeking hybrid brains made us good workers, just like ChatGPT we were smart enough to do some of the jobs without getting too full of ourselves. We make mistakes and weren’t good enough to operate their starships, just mine gold. They selected for some intelligence traits, but elements of our ape ancestors remain as well, for example, your mom.
- Comment on Awooga 1 week ago:
TITIL
- Comment on Awooga 1 week ago:
It doesn’t say explicitly that this happened to BOTH boobs. It’s entirely possible that this only happened to one of them.
- Comment on Are Americans quarks? 1 week ago:
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.