sunsofold

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is a strong argument for Socialism.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gynamourous envy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The prices of these NFL games…nope.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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” 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You, too, are 0 calories if we eat you in small enough bites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pedestrian rating sticker | David Pope⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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”…⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t part of the definition of ‘rube Goldberg machine’ the machine does something simple and easy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And revanced on android.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Pokemon Showdown Moderators SO against the discussion of "Eating Pokemon"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the last time this was asked: seek professional medical advise. It should not be painful. There are non-medical reasons it might be less than amazing, but it should not be painful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LLM training corpus includes your sexts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLM chatbots are, not as conspiracy but de facto, collecting and using as training data, interactions, including nude photos, from underage users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LLM training corpus includes your sexts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll just leave this here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be better, but better still would be to find a solution that doesn’t enable surveillance of the uninvolved. Most people trust neither their government nor corporations to not misuse or abuse the power of their data. Certain public key cryptography techniques could be used, but because companies can’t make money from it, it’ll never happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fair Trade off 🧓🏻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do Asian women age like that, or is it maybe that there was a huge increase in childhood nutrition, medical care, personal care, and personal wealth hitting Asia starting several decades ago and the very old are those who survived the times before and the younger Asians have benefitted in ways that manifest in their personal appearance? (And also old ladies all over the world tend to shrink a bit)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the US Military can offer free money for college education..and is part of the government then why does the average Joe have to pay back a small student loan?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not free, and it has some limitations. You have to spend years in the military, risking being killed and agreeing to murder people for that money. If you’re a woman, there’s a significant risk of rape as well. Then, if you went to school before joining, but didn’t get it in writing that the military would pay for all your student debt, they won’t. Then, finally, if you survive, come out the other side in good enough mental condition to not off yourself, and go to school, your tuition is limited by certain stipulations. Depending on where/what you want to study, it might not even be enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s real, but it frames it as though it’s the employees fault for not doing self-promotion rather than the manager’s fault for not keeping track of all the team members it’s his job to support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does "Woke" mean to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To save time, we (as in the world of English speakers) are not on the same page regarding woke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think one of the most interesting questions that underlies this would be whether there is a material with correct properties to handle the mechanical forces necessary to perform mechanical computation to allow something like CNC and whether that system could then be complex/simple enough to assemble itself. It might be possible, but I don’t know enough about mechanical computing to even have a hunch.