BillyClark

@BillyClark@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard she likes shiny things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying out the meme that The Last Leg are trying to launch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what Jack Dee looked like in his 20s, but I think he was probably a grumpy old man when he was in his 20s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, looking at that little scarring in the context of the vaccine, I’m reminded that I heard that there’s this famous idea that milk maidens are historically seen as the very definition of pretty, and that the idea stems from the fact that they tended to get cowpox, which protected them from smallpox.

  So, basically, before smallpox vaccines, the typical woman was so badly scarred somewhere visible like her face by smallpox that a woman who simply didn’t have those scars would be considered extremely pretty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know those influencers who are like makep addicts? They often use shading or tape to change the shape of their faces. I wonder whether they could fool facial recognition technology as well.

  The difference being that a person made up like that won’t stand out as much as a person wearing Juggalo makeup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if it has a base designation, but there is a way to represent natural numbers without 0. You just use 1, and numbers are distinguished by the number of 1s. So you’d count 1 11 111 1111 11111 and so on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Tits⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What you want to do is go to a search engine, and do an image search for mind blowing great tits. You’ll probably have to turn the content filter off because the image may be gory. Then, just go to the page associated with the most relevant image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4th dimensional jokes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can observe that this dark matter joke is funny:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe, maybe not⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like when my phone is guessing who is calling me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it interesting that the AI parts of the video have very little video in them. They have the original game moving along, and then they show the AI version and mostly keep it as a still. I suspect that they did this so that you can’t do a side-by-side comparison and see that the AI version doesn’t actually play as well as the original version.

  Also, I’ve got to wonder about how it must feel to be an artist who worked on one of these games, and watch the thing you carefully hand-tuned to match the artistic vision of the game design be replaced by the mindless addition of wrinkles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh! Now do it in base π.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨send thoughts and peer review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Religious people aren’t bothered or surprised at all when their prayers don’t come true. On the other hand, if their cell phone or car or air conditioner suddenly stops working without warning, they’re absolutely shocked and dismayed.

  My point is that even the most religious people actually believe in science far more than they believe in their religion. They’re just too stupid to realize it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew a guy like that. We went to a restaurant together and he ordered a salad, and started eating it with a spoon.

  Normally, when a person does something unusual, I don’t say anything, but I was surprised. It had never even occurred to me that a salad with broad leaves could be eaten with a spoon.

  So slightly taken aback, I said to him, “Why aren’t you eating a salad with a fork?” And he replied, “I am accustomed to eating with a spoon.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I heard recently that one of the mushrooms that is popular as a vegan meat substitute lives off of some sort of living creature like insects or something.

  But realistically, it’s all the circle of life. Animal life is part of the circle. Probably all plants have consumed nutrients that came from an animal in some way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ray is basic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “If a tree is so basic, then why aren’t there trees growing in the middle of the ocean?” seems like the sort of argument that would impress Ray.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i live in this constant state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard somewhere that people who think they’re good at multitasking actually work slower than people who think they are bad at multitasking.

  The reason is that when you switch between tasks, there is a mental penalty each time for that context switch. People who believe they are good at multitasking switch between tasks more often and so they pay the penalty more often.

  Because although most people can multitask, vanishingly few can do it effectively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IX⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but that means that they’re using evidence that it’s not AI and saying that means it is AI. It’s insanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith IX⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does AI use odd words and sentence structure? I think it does the opposite unless instructed otherwise. It uses the most precise common words that work and the most common sentence structure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hoot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Before humans invented barns, barn owls were actually called “bar nowls”. They were a type of nowl that lived in bars. It wasn’t until barns were invented that they changed species and changed into owls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The three archetypes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to say one good thing about Musk below. It’s probably the only good thing I will ever say about him going forward.

  The American car industry is a cesspool led by some of the biggest villains who exist. The existing car manufacturers were not heavily investing in EV. They liked the status quo. Also, the barrier to entry for any new car company is extremely high, as well. For example, a lot of states have laws passed requiring car manufacturers to sell from traditional dealerships, which is specifically to stop new small car companies from succeeding.

  Because of this massive corruption in America, I fully expected that any EV developments would start internationally. You’d have to be a complete moron who was also flush with money to try to fight them. And then Elon Musk came onto the scene. He was a complete moron who was flush with money.

  I don’t know that Musk pushed the EV industry forward, but he certainly pushed the American EV industry forward. If Musk had been smarter, he’d have tried something more reliable with his money, and he wouldn’t have started an impossible fight. I know Tesla has almost bankrupt at least once since he took over. His luck stat must be off the charts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The three archetypes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, he invested in the existing Tesla company, and then forced them to list him as a founder.

  If Elon Musk is the founder of Tesla, then Stalin was the founder of Berlin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing Letter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the picture, we can tell that even if they knew their letters, they still didn’t know how to spell “birthday” in any case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Voyager game was pretty bad.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like the Voyager game is worse than the Voyager show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My impression is that carnivores need teeth that pierce and rip, so they can’t do much ruminating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under the most ideal circumstances, how 'clean' is drinkable tap water by the time it reaches our taps?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, whatever few microorganisms there are won’t generally do very well because there’s not much for them to consume.

  But there are some, which is why you should always use distilled water instead of tap water when it’s important to avoid microorganisms such as with nasal irrigation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fat labrador topilogy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a dog’s nose has two separate nostrils that connect somewhere along the way on the inside. That’s not a sphere. It’s a torus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re still scamming the shit out of businesses with their corporate software. Oh and they have Azure which I’m guessing makes money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nomenclature⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would surprise me, also. But it takes all kinds. Maybe the average ornithologist tends to think that birds are “cute”, while the average herpetologist tends to think that reptiles are “cool”? I’m sure that whatever the group as a whole tends to think, there will be many counterexamples.

  I was just thinking about chess, and how one of the most famous chess players, Hikaru Nakamura often refers to chess pieces as “juicers”, for whatever reason… maybe the shape? Lots of people have nicknames for different pieces, like “ops” for “bishops”, etcetera. But then there are some who take themselves entirely seriously, and never joke around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As ICE Buys Up Warehouses, Even Some Trump Voters Say No⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your biggest complaint is that children might see the evil things that you support… I mean, to me, that even suggests that you fully comprehend the bad things you’re doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As ICE Buys Up Warehouses, Even Some Trump Voters Say No⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ms. Bradley, the co-owner of Woodlands Elite Cheer, said she worried that a detainee could escape, or that protests could break out. The children who train at her gym are as young as 3 and could see “people in shackles” next door, she said.

  So this article is about NIMBY people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done a little bit of language studying and one thing I heard about repeatedly is that people tend to mistakenly believe in their own exceptionalism.

  Like, their own native language has idioms, and they just assumed that other languages didn’t have idioms.

  But we are all humans and languages are all going to exist in support of human communication. Therefore, you should assume that all languages have all major features of expression, including idioms and sarcasm.

  Similarly, cultures are made from humans and to facilitate human interaction, so you should expect that things like sarcasm will exist in every culture.