Qwel
@Qwel@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on 4 days ago:
The issue isn’t how unlikely the situation is, it’s “why would you choose harrassment”.
He is not just saying that she is a man, he is saying that she is a scammer. In your 90% chances that she is a man, she might also be trans-adjacent (everyone knows there are no horny trans on lemmy), and still not be a scammer. It is trivial to find out whether she is in fact a scammer, as all communications are public. Scammers do not like niche platforms composed entirely of scam-hardened people where all communications are public.
I’m not going to make arbitrary numbers here, I’ll let you bayes-vibe your own. Given how easy it is to actually find out, and how likely he is to be defaming and how bad it could be for her, he should be contacting an admin rather than make public “meme” accusations. If he did in fact believe she was a scammer and could harm people, I hope he would try to get her banned rather than just be toxic for internet points and let people get scammed. Especially bad when the accusations are repeated, by him and different people.
BTW I think 90% chance is way too much. Anyways. I’ve been told it wasn’t very nice to spend my days transvestigating, and here are everyone running an excavation. But I guess it’s ok since everyone’s doing it :shrug:
- Comment on 6 days ago:
You guys are insane. Unusal people exist. Lemmy DMs are visible by instance admins. Ask them if they see any DMs that looks suspicious.
And then maaybe stop defaming her? Like, this post should be ban worthy by any reasonable instance and community rules?
Is it me or is it always the 50 years olds that say this shit? Like idk maybe you guys are particularily bad at guessing how gen Z behaves. I definitely know at least one woman IRL that would post like that. Two if I’m being generous. Not a majority but they fucking exist. And it turns out Lemmy isn’t exactly filled with the most normal normies.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 6 days ago:
This isn’t exactly what I was searching for, I was more interested in the “independant farms” part
In France, most “family ran” farms work on rented land and under an exclusivity contract that forces them to sell all their production to a single company. This leads to a situation where the few billionaires that buy food from everyone get to set the prices at which they buy different crops (and therefore what the farmers produce), and whether to export it. In other news, France is exporting wine while malnutrition rises and the major food charity is running out of fund as the demand increases. The government has stepped in to fund the charity, but still, we end up prioritizing exporting alcohol over feeding locals.
I would be more interested in how the system decides what is exported and produced, rather than in what is currently exported and produced
- Comment on That's how the world works. 6 days ago:
That sounds impressive, I never heard about it. Do you have some resource about it? I don’t know how to search for it and Google is, like, you know
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
man is a woman-made problem if that helps
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
Making food from pure electricity would be a cool sci-fi thing
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
Regardless of nationality, don’t expect your billionaire overlord to have ethics if it comes at the cost of a 0.7% revenue loss
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 1 week ago:
“ch” is sometimes pronounced “k” in some languages, including english
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
The issue here is that the filter is taking a not-realistic graphism and forcing it to be realistic (and, along the way, completely changing unrelated artistic intentions). The desired outcome would be to leave thing as unrealistic as they were, as intended initially. It’s not related to being picky about realism.
If an AI company takes Ocarina of Time, turns it into a realistic game while changing everyone’s hair color and skin tint, and claim it is obviously superior, gamers are not going to be happy. The inside of that tree is not going to inspire the same feeling when using fully realistic lighting.
The goal posts did move a few years ago, as a lot of people got bored of realism and more into stylized 3D. All the realistic games kind of end up looking the same and the Sifu-Lorn’s Lure range of polygon count is much more exciting.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
It just isn’t the same person. Makeup was added, hair coloring, veins in one eye but not the other, lip and nose texture were changed to be rougher, lighting was put on the back of the jaw to make it look square, even the skin tint was changed. It’s not a bad image, it’s just not the design that the author was going for, at all.
- Comment on why 3 months ago:
“penis” is masculine while “bite” is feminine, too
I would argue that “chauffeuse” for feminine drivers and “chauffeuse” have drifted appart so much that they should be considered different words, homonyms. A feminine driver should be called a chauffeuse, and theorically an easy boy could be called a chauffeur. It will not happen because nobody uses the slur this way, but that’s unrelated to the grammatical structure of the language. Wouldn’t call it built-in.
Words meanings always slide around and we have markers in some of them that determine whether the word describes a man or a women. Since we treat women and men differently, it’s not surprising that the feminine variant might end up with different connotations than the masculine one. But the words in question do not have gender, they inherit the gender of who they describe. It’s a different thing, unrelated to the assignment of genders to objects
To be clear, I am not defending the idea that you should give gender to things, nor that you should change the suffix in all the words that refer to women. I think it’s stupid and I wish we didn’t even have pronouns in the first place
- Comment on why 3 months ago:
You’ll be right 50% of the times. Or 33% in german. And it doesn’t match between languages. Like, cat is a she in german and a he in french. Often synonyms have different genders : une lettre/un courrier (both mean a mail).
The issue is that you are searching your mind for correlations between gender and sexism-related, which is often easier than searching for non-correlation. If I ask you “quick, think of a singer that wears leather”, you’ll find one instantly. But if I ask “quick, find a singer that doesn’t wear leather” it takes a while.
If you want a better impression of the phenomenon, open a dictionary, go over words one by one and count the points.
*And also “organ” (the instrument) in french is male when singular and female when plural. “C’est un bel orgue” and “Ce sont de belles orgues”. *
- Comment on why 3 months ago:
How does anyone manage to keep allll the words pronunciation and spelling they know is a mistery, craming pronouns on top of that isn’t that much worse
- Comment on why 3 months ago:
You will be understood, it will just give people a small pause.
Sometimes it may cause confusion, like “the phone (he) went through the washing machine (she) and now <she/he> is broken” changes meaning if you get the pronoun wrong. But then if you are used to disambiguate that as you have to in english, it shouldn’t happen too often
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 3 months ago:
fyi, the drivers for AI and gaming are not the same. They’re in the same project, but they don’t use the same parts of that project. I wouldn’t use them to argue for the stability of gaming.
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 3 months ago:
They’re not allowed to collect data as long as the “yes” button hasn’t been clicked. Now, in practice, implementation correctness may vary
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 4 months ago:
They might disinherit you for being disrespectful? That’s insane. Did they threaten you to do that? If the relation is that bad I can understand why you would care. My parents would just think I’m being weird.
I hadn’t thought about a DNA test, but I definitely don’t see how it could help me with my life. If it comes positive, nothing changes. If it comes negative, I don’t see the administration doing anything about it. They won’t even know you passed a test, even if they had procedures for these cases. You or your parents would need to bring up the issue in a legal procedure for the administration to consider it.
What I mean is that if you have issues with your parents or tutors, knowing what they are exactly does not fix the issues by itself (surely there is a better angle to think about it?). I understand that you would think about it, but if you don’t like thinking about it, I think you usually don’t need to invest yourself into it. Like, you can keep the obsessive thought without worrying about it. And that will make it stop over time. I don’t know how much sense this makes, it made sense to me back then :shrug:
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 4 months ago:
I did, and shrugged it off
for me this is the same kind of questions as “maybe the universe was created 5 seconds ago”. It’s impossible to resolve, and doesn’t change anything
- Comment on for future fireflies 5 months ago:
It helps I guess ? Making some of the conditions more likely makes the sum* of all conditions more likely
*math vocabulary may be approximative
- Comment on Xubuntu website hijacked to serve malware 5 months ago:
And the hashes are displayed on the website that got compromised
- Comment on Battlefield 6 releases today and it will not be playable on any Linux / SteamOS system 5 months ago:
Is the franchise still popular nowadays?
- Comment on 5 months ago:
The body is not designed to keep effort going at all costs. You will be informed when you have a cramp, because you should slow down and wait it out before continuing. The whole point of pain is to react to broken stuff, usually by stopping using it.
It will however keep life going at all costs, sometimes digesting replaceable muscles into energy for non-replaceable elements. But it’s more about starvation resistance than about chasing. It could also be the case if we were a specie of static filter feeders
A lot of the human body has been affected by long walks and runs, and we do have (well, not me in particular) over-average stamina developped presumably for hunting. It’s just the specific exemple of muscle digestion that I’m going after here
this knowledge comes from, uh… idk :3
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 5 months ago:
Hey so, is this a normal thing in meta analyses ?
We identified 46 studies for inclusion in our analysis. Of these, 27 studies reported positive associations (significant links to NDDs), 9 showed null associations (no significant link), and 4 indicated negative associations (protective effects).
27+9+4 is 40 I think ? What happened to the 6 other papers ? I’m always confused by the whole “we ignored half of the studies and we won’t tell you why”, if they can also ignore some of the 46 studies they selected, what does the 46 number mean ?
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 5 months ago:
A blank 10cm by 10cm square piece of aluminium. About 2 cm thick
I think I wanted to know how it felt. Like, the vibe of aluminium