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- Comment on What happened to NFTs and what where they in retro spec? 1 day ago:
Dan Olson made one of his fun documentaries about this exact subject. If you have the time, watch it.
If you want my cheap boil-down of the idea:
NFTs are representations of ownership of a digital asset stored on a blockchain. However, as with any digital thing, the represented object can usually just be duplicated, making ownership essentially lacking in the aspect of ‘control’ one usually associates with other forms of ownership, and as with many fad purchases, the value of such things was massively distorted. There was and probably still is no legal structure for that ‘ownership,’ so it’s a bit like ‘owning’ your Lemmy account. As long as you have the password and no one else does, you can control it, if anyone gets the credentials, they can take control and there is little to no legal recourse. So, if you can’t stop other people using duplicates and you can have it taken as easily as any other account, it’s hard to really call it ownership. It’s just a mark in a ledger that says your account is associated with some entry, which is also what registering a title/deed does but with the legal force of the government reinforcing it.
- Comment on Why do celebs make statements on controversial stuff and surprised when it comes with consequences? 5 days ago:
Many are not surprised. Those that are might be so because most of the other inane BS they spout is met with cheers from the yes men that cling to fame, money, and power like lampreys.
- Comment on What is the name of this knot? And how does one tie it? 5 days ago:
Gesundheit
- Comment on how can I identify problems i'm having 1 week ago:
This might get a bit of hate from some people here but this is one of the few good uses of LLMs. Do not use them for advice on how to address problems but if you are just looking for the word to describe what you are dealing with, they can be great for the question of ‘what is the word for when a blank is blank and blank but also not blank?’ The word association mechanism within LLMs is perfect for finding the word most closely associated with a cluster of other words. Though, again, seek human, preferably expert, advice on the issue once you have figured out what it is.
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 2 weeks ago:
No, we just have to outnumber or overpower the fools who defend them. We don’t need 100% agreement, just enough to get a ban in place.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 2 weeks ago:
To understand the ideas present in this meme, you must understand a basic level of anthropology, (not a huge ask, but an ask) the concept of ‘the orient,’ (much bigger ask) critique of that concept, (less rare knowledge but often found only through right-wing criticism of the critique) ‘decolonization,’ (same again) and liberalism. (Same again.) If I fail to understand university level academic discourse on a field I don’t work in, this is utter gibberish. This does not teach anyone who is not already somewhat familiar with the discourse anything. It might as well be in a foreign language to most readers, and, again, oversimplifies the ideas which are being obliquely mentioned.
- Comment on If you live in New Jersey, please take this guy down in November 2 weeks ago:
What the…
Are we all sure the Epstein class hasn’t started the next leg of our slide into cyberpunk dystopian hell by prepping a McConnell clone and the reason they’ve been out of office so much is the time spent preparing for the brain swap?
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 2 weeks ago:
I sound like a broken record but, BAN ADVERTISING. Along with all the pretty well established secondary bad effects of advertising, the most basic direct effect of it is lying to people. If people weren’t deluged daily with lies about how they should think of this or that company, they wouldn’t be so readily deluded into thinking of a company like a person with a positive effect on their world.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 2 weeks ago:
The problem is the medium of memes doesn’t convey ideas well, if at all, and helps promote thought-terminating ideologies and ignorant partisanship. If you can fit the idea into a meme, it’s probably oversimplified to the point of uselessness, and if the meme relies on you already knowing the real idea, it’s not informing anyone of anything.
- Comment on Capitalism is a strong argument for Socialism. 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t part of the problem with capitalism that there are fewer/no breadlines but poverty remains? The capitalist ethos pushes toward libertarian economic ideas, which remove social welfare programs and expect you to just disappear/die if you ‘can’t make it’ in the capitalist regime.
- Comment on Fewer People 55-And-Over Choose To Work. But Why? 3 weeks ago:
The world run by MBAs…
If you are old in a professional field, you have years of experience they have to pay you for, so they hire the young guy to make the payroll smaller, even if it causes problems for some other department, because no one high enough to do anything about it is going to catch it.
If you are in the general labour space, making min wage, they know they can’t expect the same energy, and can expect you to know the ‘advancement’ they dangle over ambitious min wage workers’ heads doesn’t actually exist, so they will get more labour out of a kid for the same money.
- Comment on Meme check point. 3 weeks ago:
Gynamourous envy?
- Comment on The prices of these NFL games…nope. 3 weeks ago:
There will be people at that game living one missed paycheck away from a personal financial crash who put those tickets on a credit card and will be paying it off with minimum payments for months or years.
- Comment on Look What I've Found! 3 weeks ago:
Crunchy!
- Comment on My student loan is gaining interest while I'm in school but I'm not allowed to start paying it off yet 4 weeks ago:
Often enough, even with the degree, you can end up no better off for some time. If you don’t get a degree and make x/yr, or you get the degree, spend 6~8 years in school and looking for a position that pays 2x/yr but you spend half of the money on paying down your debt for 20 years… That’s a long time to get back into the black, assuming you even went for a degree leading to a position that will pay that much. It is almost criminal that a credit hour learning to work on machine learning systems often has the same cost as one spent learning about art history. Both are valuable to society, but they definitely won’t get you the same paycheck.
- Comment on On Jail websites they let you know the exact address where a Pedo lives. But tells you not to go out and harm them. Has anyone ever used it as a list to go hunt down pedo's? 4 weeks ago:
The vast majority of premeditated murders are not done by someone who just wants to kill, and so looks for someone to kill that will be more morally defensible. They are done by people who really want to kill a particular person or group who they hate, or view as a threat. Serial killers are also generally not doing the Dexter thing. They have their own targetting preferences that aren’t usually aligned with social morality.
So, no. Probably no one ever has done that.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 5 weeks ago:
You, too, are 0 calories if we eat you in small enough bites.
- Comment on Pedestrian rating sticker | David Pope 5 weeks ago:
The fun part is the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes would let the car companies sue the country if they attempted to pass a law requiring something that might decrease sales.
- Comment on How to deal with people who obtusely miss your point on Lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
I recommend only continuing the interactions where you and your interlocutor seem to have aligned intentions. If they are trying to understand, that’s what you posted for. Help them. If they have partially understood, you have partially succeeded. Use the interaction to help them understand and find better ways of expressing yourself. But if they have named you their opponent, you won’t be able to fix that through the internet. If it seems worth it, add an ‘edit: Blah blah blah’ note to your original post to help keep others from misunderstanding but don’t try to become a teacher for someone who has decided you are the enemy. Communication won’t work without good-faith effort on both sides.
- Comment on To “tent with aluminum foil”… 5 weeks ago:
Are you sure about that?
- Comment on If you could use a Rube Goldberg like contraption on any task you find extremely strenuous, what would it be? 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t part of the definition of ‘rube Goldberg machine’ the machine does something simple and easy?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The only thing I have that might fit that is Endless Sky, on a certain level. Run missions or trade to get money to improve your ship to run missions or trafe to get money to build a fleet to… You get the idea.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
There is a lot of expected common knowledge in the history of Israel. It has been in the news near constantly since its inception. Only half a dozen LoL no-lifers have any clue who those guys are. You’d even have to explain what a MOBA was to most people before you could ever get onto the niche understanding of a rivalry in one particular MOBA’s e-sports scene.
- Comment on Every time 1 month ago:
made by Neil Druckmann, who was also the writer for the game.
That’s an important key. He didn’t buy the rights to someone else’s work. He basically did a revision of his own work, with all the intimate knowledge of character, narrative, etc. that implies.
The Last of Us as a game was also basically a playable movie as it was. Someone actually made it into a kind of movie by capturing game recordings long before it ever was made as a live action series. That means he didn’t have to revise it very far. - Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 1 month ago:
Metal scouring pads are only a few aisles over. Aren’t they worried about people being able to so easily reach their expensive equipment?
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 month ago:
No one REALLY feels the threat posed by the polycrisis. It’s all complex, intellectual worries about things that FEEL like they’re still just a little ways out, not quite here. People are mostly focused on the here and now and the very near future. The riots happen when people literally can’t feed their kids in the here and now. As long as it’s just difficult, and not impossible, people will struggle on with their nose to the grindstone. Watch for rises in unemployment. CoViD showed what can happen when millions if people find themselves with mountains of free time to use on political action. When enough people are hungry and have no job to distract them, the fires will come.
- Comment on Every time 1 month ago:
ANY project that involves buying a license for an IP to make it is a lie. It is not the same thing as the original. It is, at best, as much like the original as a clone. It might look like it’s related but it’s purely a marketing gimmick to milk your nostalgia for every dollar they can slurp out.
Fuck nostalgia. The past was shit. You just forgot how shit it was.
- Comment on How do you people read books? 1 month ago:
Reading fiction and non-fiction (I assume this is what you mean by 'hard) are effectively different activities.
Reading fiction is about getting caught up in an imagined world. The stakes are lower and the expectations are lower. This makes it easier. If you miss the paragraph where a character is described as having a beard, you won’t feel the need to go back to reread when you find out they do four chapters later when they scratch said beard.
Reading non-fiction is about building new conceptual structures in your mind. It requires more attention. If you fail to understand Nietzsche’s ressentiment in ‘Geneology of Morals,’ you are unlikely to be able to understand the later concept of the ‘priestly’ morality. You will not be able to fully construct the conceptual structures the book attempts to generate.
Because of this, reading non-fiction is a process of doing whatever is necessary to get all the parts and relations into one’s mind in order to produce a mental tool and then, hopefully, learn to use it. If notes help, write them. Rubber ducking can help. Simple repetition can help. Slowing down can help. Talking to other readers (as in a study group (shoutout to @DGQC on YT)) can help. Concept mapping can help. Sleeping on it can help. Highlighting can help. Cross referencing can help.
It’s study. What helped you learn in school? Do that.
- Comment on The hypocrisy of YouTube. Better not curse on a video but this is a perfectly fine ad 1 month ago:
And revanced on android.
- Comment on Why are Pokemon Showdown Moderators SO against the discussion of "Eating Pokemon"? 1 month ago:
A big part of moderation is enforcing what makes you (the moderator) uncomfortable. The moderator(s) probably have not come to terms with their views on eating meat, so the question makes them uncomfortable, so they ban the discussion to preserve their own feelings.
In a less selfish view, it also probably helps preserve the community because many others are also uncomfortable with their unresolved views on eating animals and might be discouraged from participating if it is discussed. You are probably a microminority in wanting to discuss it and the number of free speech absolutists who will die on the hill of your right to talk about eating roast mareep is also a microminority. As the discussion does not really add anything to the community it costs them almost nothing to keep people comfortable.
