FishFace
@FishFace@piefed.social
- Comment on U.K. Lawmakers Call for Ban on Camming, 'E-pimping' 24 minutes ago:
That sounds like it would be non-open
- Comment on WHY DIDNT YOU REVIVE ME FUCKHEAD!!! 3 hours ago:
That’s not what it means any more
- Comment on Poly-housing 3 hours ago:
“and some string”
- Comment on Poly-housing 4 hours ago:
“wait actually I need more colours”
- Comment on Why do they ask questions they already know the answer to? 14 hours ago:
An estimate
- Comment on Poly-housing 16 hours ago:
“Ugh, how much time do you have? Wait actually I need a piece of paper”
- Comment on "Can I open those for you, ma'am?" 17 hours ago:
Generally this is done for cost reasons by the customer. Wine in restaurants is expensive, corkage doesn’t make up the difference, so people looking to save some money will bring their own, pay the fee and still come out on top. Fancy restaurants with sommeliers don’t advertise this (idk if that means they don’t do it though)
- Comment on No thanks, Honey isn't vegan 17 hours ago:
You keep saying “entitled to someone’s attention” but talking to someone doesn’t require any special entitlement or even attention. They can ignore you.
This is the first you’ve said about reading the room, too, so it sounds like you don’t actually have an objection to deploying an “opener” - you’re just assuming it’s being done without exchanging a smile or something first.
And don’t get pissy because you pushed back against someone pushing back against something, didn’t actually agree with the something, didn’t make that clear, and then were assumed to agree with it. If you leap to someone’s defence but don’t agree with half their comment you can just say that and it helps everyone.
I don’t think there’s anything else to gain in this conversation.
- Comment on U.K. Lawmakers Call for Ban on Camming, 'E-pimping' 1 day ago:
I don’t tend to listen to his vomit, so I have difficulty answering that question, hence my suggestion.
- Comment on No thanks, Honey isn't vegan 1 day ago:
Leave people the fuck alone.
I do because I’m shy. But I think it’s insane to go around wanting to police talking to strangers when in public. That’s part of what it means to be in public. Someone might talk to you. The horror.
You’re not entitled to anyone’s attention and you don’t have a shot unless they offer you one.
Shooting your shot is how you offer someone their shot. Interactions - which, even with strangers, are a normal part of the human experience - don’t happen unless someone goes first. If the other person ignores you, says they’re not interested, or indicates a lack of interest with a non-committal response, that’s when politeness dictates you shut up.
I never said anything about anyone deserving to die in a fire.
No, but you joined the discussion on the same side as someone who did, and never distanced yourself from that statement until now.
- Comment on U.K. Lawmakers Call for Ban on Camming, 'E-pimping' 1 day ago:
It might be helpful to give an example, because most of those lot survive by dog whistling i.e. not being openly racist.
- Comment on U.K. Lawmakers Call for Ban on Camming, 'E-pimping' 1 day ago:
Labour has always had an authoritarian/nanny-state streak; it’s not really about temporary political advantage. And the general public is also fairly illiberal, unfortunately - the porn bans and age checks are fairly popular.
- Comment on U.K. Lawmakers Call for Ban on Camming, 'E-pimping' 1 day ago:
Generally open racism in the UK would be illegal under hate speech laws.
- Comment on I dont think he drove carefully enough 1 day ago:
Can’t park there, mate!
- Comment on No thanks, Honey isn't vegan 1 day ago:
I think blanket ruling that “trying openers” is “annoying people” is invalid. Yeah, it might be annoying most of the time, but so are a lot of interactions. If you follow that road you’d end up with anyone who talks to someone ever deserving to die in a fire which I think is unreasonable.
If the worst thing that happens because you shoot your shot is you annoy someone for 15 seconds, then whatever. Take no for an answer is all I ask.
- Comment on Okay, I'll go.😰 1 day ago:
But why is making a (racial) caricature of someone harmful? Can you imagine any situation or alternative timeline in which such a caricature would be neutral?
- Comment on Okay, I'll go.😰 1 day ago:
What exactly is it that you find horrendous? Pretend I’m a very sheltered teenager.
- Comment on "For the day." 1 day ago:
The devil’s lettuce
- Comment on dashboard 1 day ago:
Woop woop! Terrain!
- Comment on Shoutouts to MASSGRAVE. 1 day ago:
When I bought my first laptop you couldn’t buy one with Linux preinstalled but I did decline the windows license and apply for and get a refund from Dell
- Comment on baking 1 day ago:
Is that a threat or a curse?
- Comment on time of day 1 day ago:
They try to train the model to not answer “wrong”. But as we know, LLMs are not completely reliable and they can ignore their training. So to be sure, you need something that looks at the actual output and decides whether it’s ok, either with a dumb text search like old school filters, or perhaps with a second (likely smaller) language model.
The output needs to have been written for those post filters to act on it, so if it shows the output in real time, you see it!
- Comment on Oh lord 1 day ago:
As if the OP wrote any of this
- Comment on Okay, I'll go.😰 1 day ago:
Where’s the hate/limitation I spoke of? Or I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
I also specifically didn’t say that the reaction makes something racist; rather I said it can make it indefensible. I feel like we’re not communicating well here.
- Comment on Okay, I'll go.😰 2 days ago:
I didn’t give an explanation so I don’t really understand
- Comment on Okay, I'll go.😰 2 days ago:
As far as I understand, Zwarte Piet started out as a depiction of a black person. But it wasn’t used, like minstrel shows were, to push hateful and limiting stereotypes of black people.
I don’t think every American doing blackface must have been racist, but I think that given the cultural context in America, doing so will justifiably cause such massive offence that it can’t really be defended.
- Comment on No thanks, Honey isn't vegan 2 days ago:
MAGA face. Not even once.
- Comment on No thanks, Honey isn't vegan 2 days ago:
A captive audience for 15 seconds at which point they have a built-in reason to leave though
- Comment on Tbr? Never met them 2 days ago:
Yeah for sure. But I think also it’s only relevant for people who spend so much of their time researching stuff that those delays become a bottleneck to something. Most people can go and do something else while waiting for a library book to be transferred - or while waiting for an opportunity to buy a book with information they want. Maybe Umberto Eco was so frequently held up by this that it made sense for him. Or maybe hoarding literature was indeed a status symbol for him and he just had a convincing story for why it was actually practical.
- Comment on Okay, I'll go.😰 2 days ago:
I don’t mean to say that all other blackface is innocent, that example being a perfect counterexample.