Swedneck
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on How I have better social interactions? 4 days ago:
every now and then i look at this cap like the green goblin mask Image
- Comment on How can I spot and avoid AI videos? 6 days ago:
I’ve gotten a bit hooked on Trey The Explainer and Tor’s Cabinet Of Curiosities because they’re basically just a dude talking about their hyperfixation for 40 minutes. Podcast++
- Comment on Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations? 1 week ago:
steam iron manufacturers HATE them
- Comment on Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations? 1 week ago:
i mean, there’s a whole thing where movies insist on basically every single actor being conventionally attractive these days.
It’s something that stood out to me about Project Hail Mary, the government lady is violently german looking and that’s fucking rare to see in big movies these days - Comment on Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations? 1 week ago:
have you tried different kinds of sunscreen? The stuff i use is just an oil (well, it’s oily at least) that you spray on and rub in, it says nothing about needing to be rinsed off and i’ve never felt a need to do so, and it doesn’t really have a smell nor does it feel any weirder than being slightly sweaty.
- Comment on How can I spot and avoid AI videos? 1 week ago:
I think we’re at the point where trying to identify things as specifically AI-generated is becoming too difficult to be worth it, i’d say just start generally filtering out things that aren’t made in good faith.
I’ve been judiciously telling youtube to not recommend me channels that post sensationalized/inflammatory/etc content whenever they show up in my recommendations, and the algorithm has mostly given up on trying to brainwash me at this point.My rule of thumb is that anything that isn’t borderline fucking boring is probably trying to manipulate me, if a dry wikipedia-style description isn’t interesting then i see no reason to bother with it.
- Comment on Why does the microwave button have a "popcorn" button when every microwave popcorn brand says "DO NOT USE THE POPCORN BUTTON"? 1 week ago:
you’d think at this point the two industries would have hashed things out so the button says “kettle corn” or something, so it’s not confusing…
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 2 weeks ago:
do you think trans women count as female? do trans men count as female?
Who do you think deserves shelter from abuse?
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 2 weeks ago:
there’s no actual reason for having them, it’s just there because we’ve always done it that way and any sort of change is scary :(
It does help that legal gender makes it easy to oppress people, though. that’s very convenient. - Comment on Have I stumbled across a cult? 3 weeks ago:
The French.
- Comment on I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it? 3 weeks ago:
if wearing the same thing 3 days in a row makes you stink, you should probably talk to a doctor.
- Comment on I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it? 3 weeks ago:
why won’t it be accepted any more? Does your family care more about the state of your closet than you being happy?
Seriously, talk to them about it, tell them how you feel. - Comment on I’m watching something on tv and a dude strangled another dude with rattle snake. Is that possible? What’s the tensile strength of a snake? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Would taking a tbs of olive oil before each meal lower the GI of everything else you eat? 4 weeks ago:
yes because you’ll become nauseous and won’t want to eat
- Comment on Why does all AI graphic design have the exact same style? 5 weeks ago:
it’s pretty fucking funny how AI once again shows that computers are utterly dumb and simply do exactly what you specify. Nothing more, nothing less.
- Comment on Why does all AI graphic design have the exact same style? 5 weeks ago:
of-fucking-course it’s fascist-coded white marble statues of bearded men
- Comment on AccuWeather, National Weather Service add “Lake America” to maps 1 month ago:
mapquest doesn’t seem to have anything to do with OSM, sadly
- Comment on Solar panel costs have plummeted from $6 per watt in 2000 to just 12 cents today 1 month ago:
I was recently amazed to discover that you can now buy 10W portable solar chargers that are ACTUALLY portable, and cost like 9 euro
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Counter-question: Why do you ask this online rather than just testing and seeing if it makes a difference?
Also, does it even give bad results anyways? Because i have never once in my life encountered a dishwasher that didn’t get things squeaky clean almost without even needing detergent. I suspect many people worry about the cleanliness of their dishes for absolutely no reason. - Comment on World-first biological data center packs 16 mn living human neurons 1 month ago:
good to see work being done on the torment nexus
- Comment on If circumcision is so insanely common in the USA, why do people tease about it on the internet? 1 month ago:
i don’t shower every day and i’ve still never had dick cheese, i’m frankly not sure if it’s actually a medical condition that people just think is normal…
- Comment on [The Matrix (movie, 1999)] What does agent Brown's line mean? 1 month ago:
i fully support Agent Smith coming out of the closet
- Comment on Why weren't telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground? Which would have saved a bunch of money from upkeep and accidents? 1 month ago:
they have been here in sweden, only high-voltage lines remain aboveground (with much much more robust infrastructure) and the odd teensy weensy rural line that probably isn’t even active any more and remains simply because no one cares enough to dismantle it.
- Comment on Dating Apps Are Dying 1 month ago:
“Dating App is great! It helped me find my soulmate 15 times!”
- Comment on If dogs have such a great nose, why do they sniff other dogs asses? Wouldn't it smell like shit or not a good smell? 1 month ago:
i’m just glad they’re not rabbits, who literally need to eat their own shit to survive (it’s part of their digestive process)
- Comment on Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms 1 month ago:
you just get posts in precisely whateverthefuck order the server ends up pulling them from its database, which isn’t an algorithm because obviously that means the Lord himself is deciding the order of your feed.
- Comment on Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms 1 month ago:
huh? are you getting recommendations in your subscriptions feed???
- Comment on What are some things that deserve their own word? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why does the Grim Reaper hold a scythe? Was he or she farming or something when they became the grim reaper? 1 month ago:
even better: Mowing with a scythe lets you easily deposit the grain neatly in a row (windrow), which means you can just have one person hauling ass on the scythe and another behind them bundling up the straws.
It’s honestly pretty insane how close to ideal scythe harvesting is. - Comment on Why does the Grim Reaper hold a scythe? Was he or she farming or something when they became the grim reaper? 1 month ago:
mmm ecofascism mmmm
