theneverfox
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- Comment on He makes a great point 23 hours ago:
I speak dog. It’s mostly expressions and context really, but it’s very easy to tell exactly what they’re thinking, and they can read human expressions so you just have to exaggerate them the way you do for kids
It’s more about trying to understand them than anything else. Most people don’t make the effort
- Comment on Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies 2 days ago:
It’s more like 7000 people really fucking everything up, the 1% just sounds better then the 0.00001%
- Comment on Guess why this happened? 2 days ago:
The secret is, you’ve got to drop to your bottom line immediately. I’m going cannibal after the first missed meal, gotta keep those calories up before they get wasted
But seriously, you have to listen to people who have lived through living in war zones or through the collapse of a country. People band together, because that’s what people do. Yes, it’ll be hard, people will die, but humans are shockingly resilient. A small trickle of calories can keep a person going for years… Things will be harder, but the darkest possible timeline isn’t as dark as you think
- Comment on [RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)? 2 days ago:
Because AI is the first form of automation that doesn’t run on humans. Theoretically.
Now, can AI replace humans? No, obviously not at this stage. It can help humans do more, but only an idiot would trust it to do something important without a human in the loop
Is it? Yes. They are firing people and letting AI attempt to make the difference. They’re cutting entire departments in some cases
- Comment on "Ahahaha! I am on-line once again! Tremble, world, before my electric heating coil of doom!" 2 days ago:
No, no, no… The problem is the wrong people listened, then took inspiration from it
- Comment on Guess why this happened? 2 days ago:
Listen… Yes they have really disturbing plans, and we’re in a collapsing empire period
They’re also very stupid. They have not done the ground work to do a cyberpunk takeover of society after the collapse. They’ve just met in backrooms and circle jerked about it… They’ve been doing that for a century
The future is going to be very chaotic, and that means the people will no longer trust the institutions. At the end of the day, everyone is subject to the will of the people, and the people are generally like sheep - you have to move slowly and speak in a calm voice if you want them to move in an organized fashion
They have done the opposite
- Comment on Great to see some actual progress over there 1 week ago:
According to that picture, the bell cracked in 1974 and the current bell is named Brian Blessed
- Comment on The Pennsylvania Ave. Ikea 1 week ago:
Lmao yes, project 2025 is like 90% AI. The tarrif numbers were AI. Hell, if you look at one of the first executive orders, the one that un-recognizes trans people, about 3 paragraphs in it begins to correctly identify the difference between sex and gender for like an entire page
- Comment on The Pennsylvania Ave. Ikea 1 week ago:
Oh, for sure, that’s definitely what Trump wants and tearing down that symbol of depravity will be a massive healing moment for the country
But Trump’s mind is soup. He’s not controlling anything, someone keeps talking to him about the ballroom so he’ll repeat it for the cameras
- Comment on The Pennsylvania Ave. Ikea 1 week ago:
His brain is soup. He’s out there talking about warning Hegseth about Bin Laden last year, he said 300 million Americans die every year to fentanyl, it can only good… He’s not running the show
I’m sure that he also wouldn’t want to admit he needs permission, but his mind is not functioning at a level where he can grasp details like that
And he keeps talking about the ballroom. Trump only remembers the last conversation he had, so someone is pointing him at the ballroom for some reason. We saw it when Kirk was shot… When asked for comment he said it was terrible and then launched into another speech about the ballroom
And whoever is pushing this has to know the plans aren’t even close to ready. So they must have another goal
- Comment on The Pennsylvania Ave. Ikea 1 week ago:
Surely for $350 million you could design a ball cleaning system under the floor… Just capture them from one side, put them through a quick rinse and dry under UV, and then you can have a ball waterfall on the far side
- Comment on The Pennsylvania Ave. Ikea 1 week ago:
They don’t even have coherent plans yet… There’s stairways leading nowhere and windows facing walls
The point was the demolition, I’m not sure why but someone has been talking to Trump non-stop about the ballroom to do it
Maybe it’s some weird sexist thing, maybe it’s just because they hate America… But the demolition was the point here, someone wanted to get rid of the east wing
- Comment on Here we go again... 1 week ago:
What? Avatar is like 20 years old, had a second series years later that explored the changed world a generation later, and has had only live action adaptations of the original story
This does not seem like a good example…
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 2 weeks ago:
My bet- it’s the conspiracy nuts.
When AI videos started to flood YouTube, science was one of the biggest areas. It’s stuff like “scientists discover potential signs of vacuum collapse”, then have 4 minutes of clips before going full AI and rambling about quantum physics for an hour
I think they just take a grab bag of technical terms and theories, have AI spit out a title, and feed it into a video pipeline.
Then they bait and switch you
Now throw in a title about Elon musk discovering aliens, and anyone who clicks on it is probably low functioning enough not to realize
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve learned it’s a mistake to try to describe the fediverse to people. It’s right up there with getting them to care about privacy
I’d just describe it as Reddit, but less bots. Or reddit but less toxic. Just focus on what might draw them in and send them a link to lemmy.world or whatever home server you think they’d like
- Comment on How will YOU choose 2 weeks ago:
but on the other hand in the context of the bible - he is the incarnation-ish-thingy of the one who created and perpetuates a binary system of good and evil, and as a narcissistic judge, jury, and executioner to him being “good” includes in major part worshipping him and only him. which is not very based
The Bible hits very different without commentary. Jesus is even more relevant, and more based, when you read it assuming he wasn’t magic
Like when he hid wine in water barrels to keep the party going. Or when he convinced everyone to pool their lunches together to feed everyone. Or when his friend pretended to die and he facepalmed and was like “no he didn’t… Go get the idiot out”
- Comment on got this ad and uh 2 weeks ago:
No it’s not. They’re playing the victims and grifting ever onwards
- Comment on See ya. 3 weeks ago:
I hated it because it was totally unbelievable, just a paternalistic rationalization for authority
I was confronted with the knowledge that the adults around me all thought the only thing keeping me from murdering someone was layers of rules and supervision. Like we’re all just rabid animals barely held back by a watchful eye
Even then, I knew myself better than that. I knew people better than that
But that’s how our society treats people. Like monsters that must be managed
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 3 weeks ago:
Because they don’t work as phones, at least not for practical use
No one has cracked it yet, some projects seem to be getting close, but the radio in a phone is a very complicated and poorly documented black box
- Comment on Believe it or not 3 weeks ago:
Oh God… You disgust me, and I really like pineapple pizza
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 3 weeks ago:
I’d say this is par for the course. Technology has made it much more public and more rapid fire
Also the complexity of modern society resists change. We have layers of procedure, checks and balances, even logistical realities that slow or disperse the kind of blunt demands being made at the top
So there’s a lot of stupid but effective things they could do back then, where today the same things are stupid and pointless
- Comment on The crab housing market 3 weeks ago:
It’s like, the opposite of scalping. You can look at anything through the terms of markets and opportunity costs, but most of it is myths about how the world works
There’s no exchange here, there’s no loss, only gain. A shell that’s too big isn’t an investment, it’s a danger. The crab that waved the others down doesn’t benefit more than any other crab, it’s just a mutually beneficial redistribution of shells
- Comment on Priorities 3 weeks ago:
tail lashes in agitation, destroying rows of waiting room furniture
“Please doctor, you have to try!”
Security officer runs into the room, pauses, slowly lowers taser
- Comment on Priorities 3 weeks ago:
Honestly? Cancer is already getting cured, but no one will be able to afford it
But dinosaur people? Have fun refusing them or their families healthcare
Maybe turning people into dinosaurs is the morally superior option
- Comment on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says 3 weeks ago:
And if you agree to their new terms of service (there’s only an accept button when you open the site), you agree it’s not discord’s fault!
Such innovation.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 4 weeks ago:
It depends on how you define yourself
I am me. Not my memories, not my body, not my knowledge, not even my mind
At the very center of my being, there’s a driving spark. My most fundamental self. It’s the desire for understanding in a very specific flavor, and the form of it is reaching out to touch something with your fingertips. It’s like a fractal that has endless meaning the closer you look at it, it contains many understandings of the truth of the nature of things and how things fit together. And within those truths is everything that I am
That’s me. I am not the animal I inhabit, I act through the animal. I freely share my understandings with the animal, and so the animal can see clearly and know truth to find new understandings in all things.
One day the animal will die, and everything but the understandings will be burnt away, because the animal is afraid of being left behind.
I’ll have understandings of people, but memories are a physical thing. I’ll have understandings of how the world works, but knowledge is in my mind. I’ll have understandings of beauty and emotion and the full spectrum of the human experience, but my nature is not human
So it all depends, who are you? Are you a person who acts a certain way? Are you your relationship with others? Are you your memories, skills, and experiences? Are you your physical body?
Have you awakened your spark? Have you looked deep inside yourself to learn from it and add to it? Is it you, or is it something that whispers to you? Are you the combination of the spark and the animal?
Or do you walk another path? Are you your blood? Your legacy? Will you die when your name is last spoken? Will you live on for the rest of time through the ripples you made on the world?
It’s a question you have to decide for yourself. I think maybe the most important question
But that doesn’t have the truth of understandings, so I guess it’s just my opinion
- Comment on why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt? 4 weeks ago:
That’s what the class is for. To make you care
I’m not saying it’ll work, but that’s why every country does this
- Comment on why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt? 4 weeks ago:
You have to have a shared cultural identity to be Egyptian
It’s not useful, hell it’ll be mostly half-truths and plenty of outright lies, but it’s a way to build cultural identity in a top down stort of way
- Comment on They deported my Chihuahua 4 weeks ago:
No… Do you think Mexicans are ashamed of Chihuahuas? Or sombreros? Putting the two together? They love that, it’s their culture and they love to share it. That’s not even a generalization, it’s part of their culture
Or do you think they’d be offended by a joke about ICE doing nonsensical deportations?
- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t that like his entire arc? He slowly realizes his leash is only as strong as he believes it to be