Nomad
@Nomad@infosec.pub
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Funny thing: when they started taking airline safety seriously, they looked for a number that was so unthinkably high that it would representa the worth of a human life. They settled on a million dollars because that’s so unmeasurably high. They forgot to account that number for inflation and never bothered to fix that. Now airplanes start falling from the sky again…
Same argument. If you stop treating every death as a tragedy people will stopvaluing life. I agree with your observation, just not the nature of people. If we start caring again that might bring back what we value.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Assume that they are probably stupid. And that shouldn’t be a reason to follow stupid peoples idea of how the world should be working even if it pertains to them.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
You imply I am racist, xenophobic and a police/state violence sympathizer for calling the death of any human a tragedy? How does that make any sense?
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Well, cleaning the gene pool is a commonly used explanation for eugenics and ethnic clensing. Surely the lemmings upvoting this are all about that?
Also functionality there is no difference in outcome if you take someone like that and exile or imprison them. So there is an argument to be made that the real problem is people putting those floaters in power in a democracy.
Celebrating the death of somebody you loathed is more in the general direction of mob justice.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Celebrate that they are out of ways to do evil. Don’t celebrate death, it’s a tragedy every time.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 4 days ago:
Au contraire. AI is pretty good at helping understand and explaining, you just have to do the work yourself and verify everything it tells you. Which is exactly what university is mostly about. After enduring the hardship of working through every detail you really understand a topic. The problem in university is often access to somebody to ask questions and the most successful researchers are usually not the greatest at teaching which results in a lot of research and figuring it out yourself. I had to get my engineering degree the hard way which taught me alot, but it was about 15% harder than necessary.
I’m currently learning how to calculate the weight a set of beams can take safely. I’m obviously working with proper sources, but being able to clarify things makes the learning so much less frustrating. And its basic stuff like is mm^3 = (mm)^3 = (10^(-3))^3 * m^3 or is it a single 10^(-3) * m^3. Turns out the qualifier contains the dimension of the unit by convention, so the first solution is correct. Now try looking that up without asking someone or reading in primary sources for hours. AI can not only explain how and why it is but also give you a reference where to check that in a primary source which cuts down the time to properly learn by alot.
At university I never understood people that got the exam from last year to learn how to solve the problems by heart as to avoid learning to understand and instead studying to pass exams. Those people not only haven’t understood why they are there in the first place but are also trusted to build bridges and buildings later on. Which is kind of unnerving.
- Comment on What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have? 6 days ago:
Drinking is about experience. Usually people overdo it a few times when young and from that point on know how drunk on their way to too much they are.
Personally I have gotten drunk to the point of vomiting and needing to sleep it off. Never more than that, so I can’t report on blackout drunk.
But I’m personally of the impression that drunk people that get aggressive or do irresponsible shit usually want to do this anyways and alcohol is just a way to excuse for them acting that out. The reduced inhibition and the social stigma is a good combination to dare and have cover because you are a drunk.
As to why people want to act that out, I’m assuming they have unresolved issues that come out that way. And those issues are probably hard to control. So these people should probably not drink and get therapy instead.
Least, there is a factor of mild drinking that helps talk about things. So there is a factor of alcohol that can help with certain issues like social anxiety or daring to talk to somebody about a long held problem. So its a mixed bag.
Alcohol is not healthy, no amount is. But it helps to cope with reality, so with care and the right measure it can be a plus in life.
- Comment on The Old Car Summertime Struggle 1 week ago:
Yes, don’t idle in the sun without running the blower full tilt on warm with the windows down or risk your motor overheating.
- Comment on Anon likes a woman 1 week ago:
Its called avoidant bonding type.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
Have you been tested for autism and ocd?
- Comment on British police tries to arrest suspect 2 weeks ago:
Its somewhat of a pun on the Favela motorcycle chase video that circulated here a few days ago.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 3 weeks ago:
I’m from that period as well, I just already own that in old. ;)
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah its a little old timey maybe.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 3 weeks ago:
Uplink
- Comment on Real estate photography 3 weeks ago:
Probably a phone lens, the air duct looks a lot like fisheye lens. Selfi cam maybe, they mirrored the picture another time so its correct again and explains the horrible quality of the picture.
Or maybe AI improvements automatically fixed the mirror effect.
- Comment on Anon finds a conspiracy 4 weeks ago:
I agree with your take, probably most people that have children do. But i hope you don’t wish this on anyone.
- Comment on Hello There 😠 4 weeks ago:
There is no gravity in space and even if, just need to keep the storage full. Water is recycled anyways.
- Comment on Hello There 😠 4 weeks ago:
I get that alot. Apparently I look cold and disinterested in people. But actually love chatting with people around me. Seems my RBF makes me not very sympathico.
- Comment on My wife doesnt like when with I tell story's that took place before my wife died. She says, "its very disrespectful." 5 weeks ago:
I though this is a joke about re-marrying quickly, but nope.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Agreed. The worst once are those who think sex is a thing only men want and swear they have no need at all and don’t know what they want or like.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 5 weeks ago:
Factt opinion and belief. The word truth is a statement over belief of something.
- Comment on How do I get myself to actually do thing? 5 weeks ago:
Read atomic habits or similar books. Find the smallest possible step you need to start. Reduce friction the starting regularly to an absolute minimum. Make the thing part of your personality, don’t say “I want do draw”, say “I want to be someone who is good at drawing”. Etc…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You can still run a modern Linux from a floppy disk. Run it from a USB drive or a HDD, they are cheap.
- Comment on Question for The Boys fans: how can Vought International possibly, in-universe, “save” superhero reputations? 1 month ago:
Yeah the final episode had elon killed in space. The dark maga hat was not that long ago. So yeah, im going with copout.
- Comment on Question for The Boys fans: how can Vought International possibly, in-universe, “save” superhero reputations? 1 month ago:
Thanks, didn’t know that. Might be a copout though, they don’t want ice knocking down their doors and shutting them down.
- Comment on Question for The Boys fans: how can Vought International possibly, in-universe, “save” superhero reputations? 1 month ago:
Has nobody here noticed the similarity to current us politics? The homelabder Messiah vs Trump Jesus? The extreme lying media? The themes that vought uses to lie to the people? The government controlling most of the violence… Its a persiflage on current political events.
The fact you are asking how they would get out of that shows directly how fucked America really is. There is no way out of that. Its done. Better hope butcher and friends win.
- Comment on If something could rotate infinitely after being initially pushed, would the initial push disqualify it from being classed as perpetual motion? 1 month ago:
AFAIK galaxies don’t collide, they merge. There is usually no collision due to the massive empty spaces inbetween stars.
- Comment on If something could rotate infinitely after being initially pushed, would the initial push disqualify it from being classed as perpetual motion? 1 month ago:
Does a given mass ever get outside the influence of both galaxy’s gravity influences?
- Comment on What ever happened to Ipecac? Why is it rarely used today, there was some side effects but not to warrant most hospitals to abruptly stop the use of it. 1 month ago:
Basically no benefit and alot of added risk
- Comment on Crazy how it does that 1 month ago:
Faky McFakeface
Its almost sad that people hate on ai for its power usage except when its used to mock AI and mislead the public.
