Apepollo11
@Apepollo11@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's your MarioKart character and why? 4 hours ago:
Still our number one favourite.
Both me and my wife had a Gamecube. For my stag weekend, I hired a country house in Scotland and took both, networked them together, hooked each up to a projector and we played Double Dash with 8 players at a time. It was loads of fun!
- Comment on What's your MarioKart character and why? 9 hours ago:
Started off with Toad in the original.
With Double Dash I moved on to Paratroopa / Koopa Troopa.
And with 8 I moved onto Shy Guy.
For the in-between games, I kept the same as the previous entry. I switched to Shy Guy because I like the noises he makes.
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 13 hours ago:
Teeth.
American period films almost always have the main characters with super-white gnashers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The Saga of Erik the Red states: “In the summer, Erik left to settle in the country he had found, which he called Greenland, as he said people would be attracted there if it had a favourable name.”
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Another touch typer here. I cut my teeth on online MUDs in the 90s - literally a type-fast-or-your-character-dies situation.
- Comment on Make it so 3 weeks ago:
I noticed a lot of the players doing that neck grabbing thing in the World Cup.
I get a visceral reaction every time I see it. It’d be a massive red flag if someone tried to do it to me.
Is it a new Andrew Tate/alpha male kind of thing? It’s weird and I don’t like it.
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 5 weeks ago:
Two starches can be magnificent - it’s hard to beat a good chip butty.
- Comment on How do waves in Lemmy work? 1 month ago:
I think it mostly depends on the community. There are people from all over the world on here, and different groups have different demographics.
Unless you’re using a server that’s super-picky in its federation, I can’t see that the server makes much of a difference.
- Comment on If it were suddenly revealed that a significant number of questions posted in this comm were ai bots would that bother you? 1 month ago:
Honestly, with the state of many questions posted here, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a fair number of bots posting here.
One user in particular, has a posting history that is highly sus.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 1 month ago:
You include car safety features in your list of reasons that you think the EU is going to collapse?
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 1 month ago:
I hate to inform you, but you might be onto a losing battle. It’s been a mandatory safety feature on all new cars in the EU for a few years now.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Black Books (s1e4). It’s a daft Father Ted / IT Crowd style comedy.
The main character’s posh friends are angry at him for being extremely drunk at a dinner party and traumatising their son, who has been walking around with a shocked open-mouthed expression ever since walking in on him going to the toilet in their kitchen. He tries to downplay it by saying that’s how children normally look.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
“What? What? He looks surprised. All children look surprised. Everything’s new to them.”
- Comment on How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections? 1 month ago:
FWIW, the UK currently has a bill in place that will lower the voting age to 16 before the next General Election (so, before Aug 2029).
I think it’ll be a good thing. Young people are a good deal more aware of what’s happening in the country than old people are. I mean, the current arrangement has stripped away the housing and career prospects of young people and brought us to the verge of fascism again.
Lower the limit to 16, and set some kind of upper limit too.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 1 month ago:
For information based things, absolutely.
Something that people don’t seem to understand is that there’s a difference between AI and GenAI.
And that within GenAI, there’s low cost stuff like text and graphics, and high cost like video and audio.
And that with tools developed with GenAI often do not use GenAI when it is run.
AI (not GenAI) is super useful and you use it in a bunch of applications already without even realising it. The camera that interprets speed signs and displays them on your dashboard = AI. Spam filters = AI. Google translate = AI.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 1 month ago:
I don’t know what you think my greater point was, maybe you’ve accidentally conflated me with another poster.
My point actually is that these are not unprecedented rates. These are entirely precedented rates. This is gross capitalism destroying the world as gross capitalism always does. What you’ve lost sight of, though, is the respective scale of things.
As I said, the US alone needlessly wastes vastly more energy and water than the entire world’s usage of AI consumes. For energy, it’s several times more, for water it’s orders of magnitude more.
You make out that solving these massive problems is impossible, so instead you’re railing against AI. Which of course is your prerogative, but just remember that there are much bigger wins out there.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 1 month ago:
There is a point there, though.
American cars are much less efficient than European ones.
The amount of water required for AI data centres worldwide is more than an order of magnitude lower than the water required for just corn in the US alone. Only a small fraction of which actually gets used for food.
The average energy usage per person in the US is nearly three times higher than someone in the UK.
The environmental cost of data centres is absolutely a concern, but we shouldn’t forget the US alone wastes more energy and resources than are used by data centres worldwide.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This was my immediate thought too.
OP - it’s not that uncommon, and is totally treatable.
It’s just some muscles involuntary tensing up as a result of something going inside (or sometimes even the idea). Unfortunately, because it’s an involuntary reflex, you can’t “just relax” it away. It’s just something your body needs to unlearn.
Talk to your doctor, follow their advice.
For what it’s worth, both of the people I knew who had it when they were younger, once it was sorted, it stayed sorted.
- Comment on Do you think that sitcoms on TV today are horribly unfunny? Compared to older ones? 1 month ago:
Survivor bias is definitely a major factor here - I can vaguely remember at least a dozen sitcoms from my childhood and early adulthood that didn’t survive (or got soft-rebooted into something better).
- Comment on Do black people actually want to be called Black with capital B? 1 month ago:
We do capitalise community names though - like deaf vs Deaf.
This is the same, it’s not being used as a description of how someone looks, but to what community they belong.
- Comment on How come there is so many commercials to make a guy hard but not something for women that will enjoy sex more? No pun intended in this but why are women getting royally fucked? 1 month ago:
Mitchell and Webb did a terrific sketch on this concept.
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 2 months ago:
There are two different things coming into play here.
First of all, hair length evolved before long hair did.
Modern humans originally evolved tightly curled hair. Basically like we still see in many African populations. It’s thought that this was an adaptation to protect against the heat of the sun. Basically like an insulated sun hat. The longer this curly hair grew, the more protection our natural hat provided.
As homo-sapiens populations moved further North, this protection was no longer needed - in fact there was the opposite problem, it was cold and rainy.
Greasy straight hair offers an advantage over curly hair in this kind of environment. It acts like a waterproof blanket, preventing the skin beneath getting wet, and drying quickly. Heat is lost through wet skin significantly faster than dry skin, and in situations where energy sources might be hard to come by in winter months, this can be a disadvantage.
We already had hair length sorted, so it was simply a matter of reacquiring the straight hair shape.
Europeans got a leg-up in this regard - Neanderthals appear to have had straight hair, and interbreeding definitely occurred. At this point it’s worth remembering that by the time anatomically modern humans evolved in Africa, earlier hominids were already living all over Africa, Europe and Asia. Neanderthals were very similar to modern humans and shared an extremely close common ancestor.
And this is how, and why, some homo sapiens populations have long straight hair.
- Comment on Why is the old testament handed down from GOD (which is my favorite book) but the New Testament was written by a man (King James) ? 2 months ago:
I won’t touch on the points covered by the other replies because they’ve explained it perfectly. I think you’re confused about the divorce thing, though.
King Henry VIII was the one who founded the church of England to allow him to get a divorce. But his version was essentially identical to the Roman Catholic church but with the king instead of the pope.
His great great grandson, King James VI / I actually cared about religion and reforming the church. He supported the idea that everyone should be able to actually understand the scripture, instead of just the elites and clergy. He was also very anti-Catholic and, as a direct result, was the king targeted in the Gunpowder Plot.
- Comment on Is there music I haven't heard because I only speak English? 2 months ago:
I did not know I needed this in my life until you posted it. Thanks so much - I’m going through all the old posts now!
- Comment on Why is it cheaper to find and view 2 Girls 1 Cup than it is to read the news on NY Times? 2 months ago:
I wonder what became of them. I like to think they finally bought a second cup so they didn’t have to share anymore.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 2 months ago:
Putting all patriotism aside, I don’t think there’s any reality in which the US uses its potential to make the world a better place.
The big difference nowadays is that it’s become patently clear that the US government isn’t even trying to make the US a better place.
- Comment on Are Independents just embarrassed Republicans like Libertarians Apolitical and Moderates? 2 months ago:
The truth is that, by any normal definition, Republicans are far right and Democrats are centre right.
If you actually wanted to run a progressive platform, then running as an Independent might be your only choice.
In the UK at least, most Independent candidates run single-issue platforms. Hartlepool famously elected a guy dressed as a monkey as mayor, he ran on a platform of “free bananas for school children”. He did so well as mayor, they elected him two more times.
Another costumed independent, Count Binface (an intergalactic space warrior who wears a dustbin on his head) beat the far-right Britain First party in the London Mayoral election (although sadly didn’t win the actual mayorship).
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 2 months ago:
To be fair, I think we’ve been in the midst of a political crisis for some time.
Although I agree - I think Andy Burnham winning Makerfield would be the flashpoint for the leadership contest that has been looming for the past few months.
Maybe this is the only way things will settle down.
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 2 months ago:
Next year? Hard to say. If Starmer gets ousted, which looks more and more likely, then that’ll probably mean a cabinet reshuffle. Honestly can’t say I’ve been too impressed by Rachel Reeves’ efforts, but then again I imagine it’s hard to totally insulate the economy from a mad bloke who’s seemingly trying his level best to destabilise the entire world.
If Burnham or Miliband do get elected, then I imagine we’ll do ok.
- Comment on As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new? 2 months ago:
Ha, it’s, er, complicated. It kind of follows on from Headmasters, but is set in a world where people don’t know about transformers. Optimus Prime seems to have never existed - there’s a robot that looks exactly like Optimus Prime, but isn’t, and nobody even bats an eyelid.
The Deceptions/Destrons are led by two powerful human sorcerers following commands from a weird glowing alien blob with tentacles called Devil Z.
The Cybertronians spend most of their time disguised as humans or monsters, and it’s the humans that become the heads for giant robots.
Masterforce really feels like it’s its own thing. I just think of it as an alternative universe, like TFA. Trying to make it fit in causes too many headaches!