Apepollo11

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could the next US Administration feasibly order USCIS to destroy Naturalization records in order to make it easier to mass deport citizens?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Theresa May essentially did this while she was Home Secretary. It was the trigger of the whole “Windrush Scandal”, after it was revealed that the official paperwork of dozens hundreds of naturalised citizens was shredded without any record being made.

  It caused people, most of whom were well into old-age to be deported, have their passports confiscated, and be denied access to healthcare services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Powdered drink mix without water? Assuming you drink a lot of water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Futurama, from the episode “Fry and the Slurm Factory”, which itself is a huge riff on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

  Futurama riffs and nods to old Sci-Fi all the time, and this was just a nice throwaway for those of us old enough to know the source material.

  Here’s the exchange in full:

  What if the secret ingredient is people? No, there’s already a soda like that - Soylent Cola. Oh how is it? It varies from person to person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Powdered drink mix without water? Assuming you drink a lot of water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It was too good a line not to use here!

  The whole Slurm factory episode has to be one of the finest pieces of comedy writing in history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Powdered drink mix without water? Assuming you drink a lot of water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Soylent and Huel are both disgusting.

  I don’t know. I’d say Soylent Green varies from person to person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it’s not the sole factor, but universities in many other parts of the world are partially subsided by the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing I’ve heard general consensus on is how attractive he is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are kings almost always redheads?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The most well-known British King, Henry VIII, was a large bulky man with a bushy red beard, dressed exactly as you imagine a King would be.

  I imagine he’s something of a blueprint for the appearances of fictional kings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get over my reddit ""addiction""?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I switched from “Boost for Reddit” to “Boost for Lemmy”, found as many equivalent subs as I could, and just went from there.

  Because I’m using essentially the same interface, it’s a very similar experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you die, what do you want to be done with you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The way things are going, I fully expect to be turned into Soylent Green

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From an outsider’s perspective, I think a lot of people think you guys sailed past the point of no return back in the 80s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the only correct answer will be “there are lots of different reasons”.

  My wife took my last name, even though it’s not a good one and I suggested that we pick a new one.

  Here are a couple of her reasons:

  1. She wanted us to have the same surname.

  2. She was very close friends with my cousins growing up, so the name didn’t seem weird to her.

  3. Tradition - she’d always assumed she would change her name to her husband’s name, so that seemed the most normal thing to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We could technically do it now, but you’d need a ton of quality control.

  A basic workflow:

  Use an image generator to generate start (and optionally end) frames of each scene.

  Use a video generator like Runway to create the scene.

  Use something to generate the speech, either a realistic text-to-speech engine or a record the dialog yourself and use AI voice changing software.

  Use a lip synch AI to match the mouth flaps to the audio.

  Generate music using something like Udio

  Job done.

  All these technologies exist and in some capacity are available to use. The only issue at the moment is consistent quality. This is coming on in leaps and bounds, however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At our GP surgery, there are a couple of doctors who won’t consult on birth control matters for religious reasons.

  There’s just a sign at the reception saying that if you need to discuss birth control, please let the receptionist know and they’ll be sure to assign a different doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the optimism here, but unless there was a significant potential for profit, none of the people who have the resources to begin collecting ocean plastics could care less.

  The sad truth is that the majority of the world’s resources are owned and controlled by a handful of psychopaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in the US and a select few other countries…

  In other places, ‘Professor’ is a specific academic rank - there’ll only be a few professors in a university.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  chefs kiss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Materials.

  If you’d have seen the marble sculptures when they were new, you would have described them as anything but realistic. We now know that many, if not most, sculptures were painted in bright garish colours.

  Why paint a delicately crafted sculpture with a dodgy paint job? Party taste, perhaps, but more definitely because that was what was available.

  The paints that we have now are carefully designed, mixed and stored to deliver a wide range of colours of a consistent quality (and even modern companies like GW struggle with that!).

  The further back you go, the fewer pigments there are and the less sophisticated the binders are. It’s no coincidence that the rapid explosion in science and trade of the Renaissance led to the rapid development of paints. Even in those days, an artist didn’t buy paint, they made it - access to new raw ingredients was all that was needed.

  So, why the Renaissance? Because it’s the earliest point in time it could have been possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the creation of the universe politically motivated or was it done for other reasons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the word needs to imply a creator necessarily.

  “Clouds are created when water vapour in the air condenses”.

  “Black holes are created when giant stars collapse”.

  I’ll concede that going on to question political motive implies a creator, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume you’re talking about the Unifying feature.

  I’ve got no direct experience, but there are a few people who say that despite Firefox not being listed as supported, it works fine.

  forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14961275

  As for the spying, I can see how that could be a concern, but I don’t think it’s too likely.

  For convenience, I’m guessing they’re using a web interface to the settings in the same way that your router does. They’ve made a Chrome plugin, so that’s probably the route they want you to take because they know it works.

  Logitech is a global brand, an they’d get into a lot of trouble in a lot of countries if they were gathering keypress data etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I had your confidence that capitalism can be tweaked into a fair system.

  I honestly think the logical end point to capitalism is self-destructive extreme wealth disparity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American tourists visiting the EU, what do you think of it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did you go?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do lesbians like boobs as much as straight guys?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Each time or cumulatively?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From an outsider’s perspective, although the Republicans are clearly the most corrupt of the two parties, the Democrats are far from being the good guys.

  There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that the Democrat politicians don’t actually care about truth and justice either, they’re just less bad than the Republicans are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in court counsel can object to what one says or shows and the judge will say sustained and the jury disregard. How in the hell does a jury just auto take it out of their memory?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When juries deliberate, they discuss their reasons for thinking this or that. Basically, by telling the jury to disregard something, the judge is saying that this shouldn’t be included in the decision-making process.

  Of course people can’t just take things out of their heads, and of course the legal representatives take advantage of that fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who/what are racists according to UK protests? Why are they protesting?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something to add to this.

  The people protesting against racism are counter-protesters. They are showing up to protest against the far right who are in turn protesting against migrants.

  In the past couple of days they have been out-numbering the far right protesters by at least an order of magnitude, and a lot of the expected riots have been averted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could substract* a leader from this world which one would you choose ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does “World’s Richest Man” count as a leader? Because I’m struggling to think of any negatives to him being suddenly substracted from the world.

  Also, TIL that substracted is a valid, albeit obsolete, variant of subtract.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2nd Work Interview Meeting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

  Alternatively, it might be that it’s just an additional identical role, but company policy means they need to go through a new round of interviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people still sculpt? Any sculptors here on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re interested in smaller scale sculpting, it’d be remiss of me not to direct you to The Crafsman Steady Craftin’

  youtube.com/@thecrafsman?si=IrZ7Ze0j5WnfyXXk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is everyone here leftist?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy was released as an open-source fediverse alternative to Reddit.

  Just over a year after launch, r/ChapoTrapHouse, moved across after being banned from Reddit. This is likely what you’re referring to. It had well over 100,000 active users on Reddit, so represented a sudden sizable influx of users.

  I’d wager the biggest influx of people by far, though, occurred when Spez upset a majority of mods and many users by banning third party apps.

  People looked for an alternative, and Lemmy was it.

  But why are so many people who lean left politically? Because the Venn Diagram for “people who like the idea of a decentralised platform that supports everybody and is free from the machinations of millionaires”, and “people who would like society that supports everybody and is free from the machinations of millionaires” is nearly a circle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brewing tea with space vacuum?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not the boiling that’s the important factor - it’s the temperature.

  You could make a cup of tea with it, but it wouldn’t be much different than just plopping a teabag in room-temperature water for the same amount of time.