schipelblorp

@schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people assume they’re seeing everything always.

  One thing I learned in driver’s ed: it’s not the cars you see that get you into accidents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do waves in Lemmy work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll have to play around with New Comments.

  What motivates you to do that?

  I imagine it largely tracks with hot, with additional necrocommenting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do waves in Lemmy work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, it’s interesting. I notice I do this myself.

  So there’s probably an initial rush on “New” that lasts a few hours, and then you move into the slow and steady trickle of the less frequent posters who scroll a curated feed.

  That explains a lot. Thanks!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Aren't there More Fem-Focused Werewolf Stories?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is my app bugged? Try putting a space between “Spoilers” and “>!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a space Alien landed in the states. And hooked up with one of his or her fellow travelers and had a kid in the US would that kid be a US citizen? Or do we have something in place for it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just watching THe Incredible Mr. Limpet last night. Don Knotts turns into a fish and tries to help the US Navy find Nazi submarines. They spend the first bit of their exhcnages trying to kill or trap him, which absolutely tracks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Really rich people give their servants tiny galley kitchens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are products "for curly hair" supposed to straighten hair, make them more curly, or just formulated not to effect the curl at all?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was mostly making a joke about bisexuality… but my hair is kind of thick and wavy except for some flat spots. My go-to-solution these days to add a little interest is a home-made sea-salt water spray.

  Sorry for your hair troubles. It’s true for any minority issue–most people don’t know how to treat you, a smaller number THINK they know how but don’t, and only a very few people actually do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are products "for curly hair" supposed to straighten hair, make them more curly, or just formulated not to effect the curl at all?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sodium Lauryl Sulfate sure does seem to have a lot of uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are products "for curly hair" supposed to straighten hair, make them more curly, or just formulated not to effect the curl at all?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m wavy and the curly/straights don’t take me seriously.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can’t we swap our minds today?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also see: Alan Moore’s early runs of Swamp Thing when he realizes that who he thought he was is just a memory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In the USA, we cover everything we can with black asphalt, and those expansive parking lots means you can’t walk anywhere.

  The interesting question for the US is “can we be doing anÿhing to make things worse than we already are?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are some Linux community so toxic?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need a sok puppet–just ask if a really boneheaded solution would work or give a comically bad diagnosis of the problem.

  People’s need to be right is greater than their need to help anyone. The hope is that they’re helpful along the way to being right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You forget cops are assholes.

  They also know if you’re vehicle is insured, but they still hassle you about having your physical insurance card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to society that we became afraid of a piece of paper? Like a write up at school or job, or a ticket, or a bill we know we can pay (but won't let us live 1 luxury) lincenses and others?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we care less than we used to now that all of society’s carrots are on permanently on sticks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, the guy looks like a roided up house cat from the videos I’ve seen, but maybe I’ve been looking at the hybridized ones in the wild on youtube.

  The Americas don’t have cats that quite that small, I don’t think, though Bobcats get close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What specific wild cat are you talking about in Europe? Do you mean feral domesticated cats (which are essentially this one small African cat)? Or larger critters like bobcats?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the problem with domestic cats is not the color of their passport, but the fact they are not subject to pressures limiting predators in the wild.

  They have:

  a) have permanent shelter b) have constant access to food

  So while others animals are starving and being eaten, the cat just goes out there every day and kills everything it can find, and if it can’t find anything, it goes back and has a full meal, and it does this every day for most of its very long life no matter how much food is available or how cold it gets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that sitcoms on TV today are horribly unfunny? Compared to older ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One problem everyone is facing–from music to TV to movies to books to videogames–is people have accessto the full history of awesome media. Who is going to watch a new TV show these days when they could be watching The Wire, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, ALF, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, etc. for the first time?

  I’d say it’s here that sitcoms have a real chance to shine, because, as you’ve said, most sitcoms (the aforementioned ALF being a notable example) have not aged well and even an ephemeral modern sitcom can compete in that space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you avoid AI music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  • AI music can only exist because artists exist, SE we need to keep paying artists enough to keep working

  You’re wrong about that. Plenty of people do music as a hobby. There will always be more content to scrape. Expecting the system to crash because nobody plays music anymore is unrealistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you avoid AI music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Be warned that all styles of music are getting AI inserted into them.

  Your method works as long as you never use an algorithm to mix your playlist, but as soon as you do, you’re likely to get an AI track inserted into your ears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone or anything ever passed the Turring Test? If so how and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t find that a particulary satisfying definition, and doubt an up-to-date Alan Turing would either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone or anything ever passed the Turring Test? If so how and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Can machines think?" and at this point, the clear answer is yes they can.

  To paraphrase Jordan Peterson, “define think.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why has it became usual business for shows people like getting canceled after one season? They don't even have time to flesh out a decent story? Why not let them have at least 3?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You think Law & Order (all of them) are networks “taking a chance”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think about the dead internet theory?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just take over a sub and ban your enemies, but keep a token few for your mob to bury in downvotes so they look crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is being blackmailed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus Trump has a natural hardon for authoritarian leaders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy, like linux, has a very small learning curve that keeps out most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This mirrors my experience as a dumb person desperately trying to seem to cool to nerds. I’d alwys try Linux and something wouldn’t work, I’d spend hours trying to fix it, then I’d just stop booting into it.

  Been mono-booting Linux Mint with almost no problems for a year, the same time that Windows is the worst its ever been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is: once you’ve perfected an OS, you still have to satisfy the C-Suites egos with canges. Result: everything gets worse.