ShellMonkey
@ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 week ago:
Myself as a cis male don't particularly major 'need' to associate with the stereotypical guy things, and enjoy plenty of things historically associated with women. That said though I feel my more native strengths are things attached to men.
Why makes for a gender though seems much more tied to society and the expectations of each, and are really a fluid thing that changes as we go along in the world.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 1 week ago:
The number of songs on places that are 'not available in my region' despite being saved previously when played might dispute that.
- Comment on Education is important. 1 week ago:
Looks like greenland
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Start with he premise that energy is not created or destroyed, it only changes state. Pushing processors to perform a task uses energy and creates heat to rearrange numbers and pixels. Combing through huge numbers of data vits takes a lot of energy. If you've ever worked with systems larger than a desktop you know how much they can draw.
My whole home lab uses about 700 watts for basic server duties. To power a single 3090 GPU to run some larger models my PC needed a 1000 watt PSU. Extrapolate that out to a commercial size org and you can see where the major power draw comes in.
- Comment on Am I the only one who feels weird about AP News links dominating some communities? 2 weeks ago:
They're one of the most respected sources, it makes sense to link to them rather than some semi-tabloid where possible.
- Comment on Thank god! 2 weeks ago:
Bert on the cob
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 2 weeks ago:
I'll give ya a hint, women, or any other involuntarily grouped together association of peoples (gender/race/sexuality/etc) are not a monolithic block that should be generalized in some fashion.
Taking issue with A woman is one thing, saying ALL women is another. An individual is not the standin for the group.
Groups that one wilfully joins who act badly as a standard protocol can be shit on all you like. Nobody is going to flame you for shit talking a nazi, but saying 'women (or pick a group) are like this' always has exceptions.
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 2 weeks ago:
An interesting point, to some extent I think that response can be strongly correlated to generational lines. Those of us born not of this century can be a bit curmudgeonly and take it as an attack on the self rather than seeing it for the impact on society.
The phrase 'man up' has a different connotation when it was instilled from a young age to mean 'be strong' rather than being seen as an isolationist closed off mindset.
It takes time, even for those willing to learn.
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 2 weeks ago:
Today we have a new poster Bob, coming in fast and furious on comms across the spectrum...
Ooh! It seems 'King' tried to pull the 'women bad' card, and I just don't think that'll work out for him...
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The words of a panicked person trying to thing of the questionable (and wholely unrelated) distraction they can on the spot. If you know this is coming you should probably be prepared at least.
- Comment on How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results? 3 weeks ago:
Guess that'd depend on how muchos needed/taken and how well it's absorbed. Far as I've ever seen the seasonal affective disorder (usually what people look at for D-ficiencies) tends to be a subtle shift rather than a solid good/bad moods.
- Comment on Oechslegrad 4 weeks ago:
Tried, but things got so slow the picture hasn't made it here yet.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 1 month ago:
Given my black thumb tende to kill anything not tougher than dandelions I'll take what I can get.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 1 month ago:
Poned, but occasionally pew-ned for reasons
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Since when is RegularJoe gonna be constipated?
- Comment on Are You Need Loan ? 1 month ago:
I am needing to Robin Hood up this joint and to redistribute some wealth, not to shill more debt load.
- Comment on here comes the truth 1 month ago:
But they have accepted themselves for who they are, that's part of the transition. You just got a catch up.
- Comment on Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition 2 months ago:
Consistency has, somewhat ironically, never been a hallmark of conservative politics. The good ol days where great, but let's not have a discussion about THOSE parts of them.
Perhaps one of the largest differences between the parties is that while conservatives try and mask and claim their bad past was no big deal, liberals typically admit they fucked up and look to improve.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Don't know about on PlayStation but: https://borderlands.fandom.com/wiki/Good_Touch
An unlisted effect occurs with game controllers using vibrate that breaks the fourth wall. While the character wields the gun, the controller will vibrate continuously even when not firing.
- Comment on When Bad Math Spreads Misinformation 2 months ago:
Far too early to math all the numbers, but one note to this is that it's entirely possible to start with a median metric and switch to mean from there, their argument being how that's not possible right off the bat.
Start off at a median number, which statisticians love because it flattens out the effects of excessive weights on any particular segment, such as we have in the USA with a small number of obscenely rich people.
But then strip the anomaly from the dataset and recalculate the mean and get a proper average. The median may not move any meaningful amount, but without the anomaly the mean becomes more true to the sample.
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 3 months ago:
Tell a Minnesota native it's gonna be 32 degrees and they'll be out in shorts either way you measure.
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 3 months ago:
It's the one part of Murica measurements that makes decent sense. Science aside I just want to know what to wear that day in a human scale.