NotAnOtter
@NotAnOtter@lemmus.org
- Comment on Frog and Toad go to Mars 3 hours ago:
Well I won’t pretend it’s impossible. But I’ve been alcohol free for >2 years and had store bought edibles 2-3 times per week ever since. And over the years I haven’t noticed any pattern, sometimes a gummy will just be way stronger than the others in the pack, or have nearly no effect.
Maybe it’s some variable that I can’t correlate but I would think I would have noticed. Vapes feels fairly consistent is also a clue that it’s not just my system, but idk.
- Comment on Frog and Toad go to Mars 14 hours ago:
FYI I find the dose in store bought edibles are generally poorly mixed. It’s very common for one to have 2-3x the effect for me. I’ve tried many brands.
That’s why I take an edible at around 1/2 my desired effect, which for me is only 2mg, an hour before I want the effect and then take a vape to increase it to the preferred level. Reduces the amount of shit going in my lungs but makes the effect way more controllable.
- Comment on When you come to a lemmy group for a laugh but there's always one 1 day ago:
- Comment on cycle of trauma 1 day ago:
I’ve been on the platform for like a month and already told to go back to Reddit 3 times.
- Comment on Anon has a proposal for you 2 days ago:
You can kill a human with a well place punch or just a chokehold.
So yes, you can also do it with a thumbtack.
- Comment on Anon has a proposal for you 2 days ago:
Apparently T-Rex can live up to a couple weeks without food.
So I would spend most of that time pestering it, throwing rocks and stuff just to keep it awake and agitated. Ideally get it to chase me back into my indestructible hut.
After week 3, if it isn’t dead, it will be so lethargic and ill that I could hack away at it’s tail until enough bleeding finishes the job. It says I have food, it does not say he has food.
- Comment on MANDATORY! 2 days ago:
It’s not gay if only our dick and butthole touch
- Comment on Why would anyone downvote a question on No Stupid Questions? 3 days ago:
If they don’t contribute to good conversation.
“Stupid questions” i.e. questions that reveal you are missing some basic common knowledge, are actually generally downvoted on No Stupid Questions. Along with any that intentionally agitate people or are otherwise bad faith, bury the lead or otherwise strawman The Correct Side in an unpleasant way.
There needs to be something at least marginally interesting about the conversation the question generates. If it’s just annoying/tedious/aggravating, people will downvote.
- Comment on Could a normal person make an actionable run for president? Or just hold a local office with a criminal background? 3 days ago:
I’ve got some scary (great?) statistics to show you about the typical political leaning of Lemmy users.
I would be careful with words like ‘uneducated’ since you seem to not understand population samples & biases
- Comment on If a database is edited before daylight savings time ends (time rolls back), would that corrupt the database? 3 days ago:
Almost all databases store time in Unix time stamps, which is just a number counting up. Then the various consumers of that value, such as clocks, convert it based on their need (such as time savings, geographic region, etc). But someone in florida has the same unix timestamp at a given instant as someone in Africa.
- Comment on Could a normal person make an actionable run for president? Or just hold a local office with a criminal background? 3 days ago:
I have some scary statistics to show you about the typical geographic region of Lemmy users.
- Comment on How can an airplane hit -47°c (-52°f) temperatures while flying over Southern Florida? 3 days ago:
TLDR shit is cold up there
- Comment on Anon owns a gym 5 days ago:
No, they don’t. Because they’ve never left America once. They just like to sit in their shit and ask why it smells.
- Comment on Anon owns a gym 5 days ago:
People who say this make me laugh because it is extremely obvious that you don’t exercise, either indoors or outdoors. It’s like asking “why would anyone ever buy an oven when you literally could just eat the raw ingredients”, presumably you’ve just never consumed food before.
There are benefits to stationary cardio. 1) More convenient 2) Easier to tune out 3) Built in pacer 4) Safer 5) Doesn’t matter if it’s snowing/raining/humid/hot/dark. 6) Can be done from home, relevant if you have kids, on call duties, etc 7) Good way for adults to learn how to ride a bike in the first place 8) two people can run next to eachother at different paces while chatting 9) can be stopped at any point and you’re never 2 miles from your destination 10) Some people just don’t enjoy riding in the road, and riding on sidewalks is illegal in many areas 11) can be set for very long downhill or uphill segments that aren’t realistic in the real world 12) easier to follow a class/routine.
Like. People aren’t just idiots. They use them because there are good reasons to use them.
- Comment on and they wonder why reddit stock is tanking 5 days ago:
I got banned for one of those “How to kill orphan after parent is dead” jokes in a programming sub.
Which… the whole joke is that without context it looks awful. But also. Did the bot think I was sincerely asking…? I killed the parents but I needed Reddit’s help on the next steps.
- Comment on why i love my country 6 days ago:
“Overeducated” is quite the pejorative.
Especially in the context of critiquing grammar.
- Comment on What do people claim they know of but really don't? 1 week ago:
Pretty much anything about science.
We all know models and simplifications but even the people at the utter cutting edge of any sub-niche of any sub-field you pick will agree there are parts they don’t really understand.
You can master & fully understand sufficiently simplified models but to actually understand the underlying process is to take a step beyond what humanity is capable of.
- Comment on Is "On your left" the best thing to say when passing someone on a trail? 1 week ago:
I generally find it unhelpful. People’s reaction time sucks and and so many people hear ‘left’ and jump in that direction before their brain can process. It’s not an intelligence thing that some people try to make it seem, it’s just that the average person has this interaction like once per year thus don’t have muscle memory baked in.
I yell out ‘behind you’ from several feet back or ring a bell if I’m on a bike. Or more often just slow down as I normally don’t really care.
- Comment on How do people "hack" websites like to shut them down or whatever? Is it as simple as learning C++ and Java? How do people take credit for what they did without being arrested? 1 week ago:
Websites are basically just a program on a different computer somewhere. Think of it like passing notes back and forth.
User sends a note using their computer requesting the website content, that note gets passed to someone elses computer. That computer looks at the note and sends back a different note with some different information on it i.e. the website content. Then they keep sending notes back and forth as the user takes actions. The main two categories of “taking over a website” is to either catch the notes while they are being passed and change what it says (MITM attack) or to convince the other computer to send different notes to begin with.
But of course, the owners of the website have layers and layers and layers of protection to make it really hard to ‘convince’ their computer to do something unless you have all their special keys/passwords. That’s why you need to find some defect that lets you in anyways, or somehow get their keys/passwords.
- Comment on Why do all scam extensions hijack the default search engine to Yahoo? 1 week ago:
Has yahoo become so desperate and/or scammy that they rely on malicious extensions to drive traffic to their shitty search engine
Yes basically. Ask.com went the same way.
Create an incentive program and then let the less ethical side of the internet build adware.
- Comment on How can I spot and avoid AI videos? 1 week ago:
There are many news commentators I generally enjoy but EVERY SINGLE VIDEO has a headline about some person getting destroyed or how “it’s over” for them.
I just want like, 20-30 minutes coverage of whatever happens to be the most interesting & important stuff without a whole bunch of bullshit fluff. I’ve stopped watching news on YT in general because of this and just stick to the content that knows it’s slop i.e. video game challenge runs lmao.
- Comment on How can I spot and avoid AI videos? 1 week ago:
View count is a tipoff. For whatever reason I get a lot of ultra-low view count videos in my feed, like single or double digit view counts. It’s almost always AI slop
- Comment on Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations? 1 week ago:
Millennials were teenagers during peak cigarette campaigns but before vapes were readily available.
- Comment on Is there a scanner where i can put a handful of photos in and it will scan one by one without messing up the pictures? 1 week ago:
Also benefits your community. Kids that do little side gigs like that are significantly less likely to pursue nefarious ways of getting cash.
- Comment on What is the charge? Taking a leaf? A succulent aloe vera leaf? 1 week ago:
There are many that don’t know it’s theft, and others will argue with you that it isn’t even theft to begin with once informed. So yeah this sign probably does stop some theft.
- Comment on I'm tired 2 weeks ago:
I get excited during wildfire season.
Maybe my house will burn down and I’ll get to go on a road trip for a few months while it gets sorted out…
- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Goteem 2 weeks ago:
Sir, this is a meme.
- Comment on The meat! 2 weeks ago:
Not only is there a skeleton possesing your body.
It is also deeply, extremely, fully, w e t
- Comment on Does anyone actually believe this "rogue AI" nonsense? 2 weeks ago:
It depends on what you mean.
- Do I believe the events attributed to a rogue AI actually happened? Yes
- Do I believe the ‘rogue AI’ actually gained sentience in some way to combat it’s reward function? No
- Do I believe it’s possible for an LLM to effectively “break free” and truly “escape”, cloning itself everywhere? Yes
- Do I believe LLM companies orchestrate these “rogue AI” incidents for profit? No not really, but maybe
- Do I believe that, once the event has occurred, the LLM companies maximize spin and fear mongering for profit? Yes absolutely.
