MystikIncarnate
@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
Some IT guy, IDK.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 20 hours ago:
This is why I demand work from home.
I hate commuting.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 1 day ago:
You see, the steamer depicted may not be the exact subject matter they’re referring to. They might have just googled female streamers, or loaded up Twitch and looked for the first girl on camera and snapped a screen shot.
With all that being said, I understand the appeal of wanting to watch something that you think is pretty. Hell, that’s the entire reason I played cyberpunk as a female character despite being very cis, and male.
For 90% of game play my gender doesn’t matter. Until cutscenes where I get to watch my avatar interacting with others.
Outside of cutscenes, I’m looking first person, so what difference does it make?
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 1 day ago:
I think that at least 7 people didn’t understand what you were trying to say.
I did. Well said. I can’t see any problems with your argument.
Though, I think that maybe the green text was more about female streamers in general, not just the one that’s depicted.
Whichever. Be well.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
It’s bold of Anon to assume that the crows are not earning the money legitimately.
That’s racist.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 1 week ago:
The whole thing reminds me of many AITA threads that were clearly terrible people trying to justify their behavior against other terrible people.
I dunno. I will never have any further information than this so I won’t bother with it anymore.
Thank you for the discourse. I hope you have a good day.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 1 week ago:
Yup. We are. I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve made some pretty extensive assumptions here, and I don’t have nearly enough information to say either way.
I don’t think we’ll ever get any more info than we have here.
My main concern with the body count comments is… If that’s not the primary motivation for his decision, why bring it up at all? Seems unnecessary.
Bringing it up just makes me think it’s more important to Anon than he leads everyone to believe in the first part of his post.
There’s a whole thing about body count in simp/FA type groups, that having a nontrivial body count somehow invalidates a person. By bringing it up, at all, it makes me think that Anon is a part of that group, or at least catering to them for attention, which might be just as bad or worse.
My official standpoint is that both Anon and the girl are terrible people. Good on Anon for not being that person’s backup plan, but the reasons for rejecting the request are in question… And make me think Anon isn’t a good person either.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 1 week ago:
Setting aside the ick of valuing someone my how many (or how few) partners they’ve had…
Sounds to me like Anon is a “beta”, she was looking for an “alpha” (these would be my impression of her opinion)… When all the “Alphas” rejected her, or used her as a cumdumpster and left, and she started to lose the looks she thought would land her an “Alpha”, she finally considered Anon as a possible partner.
As horrible as that is, rejecting someone based on body count is pretty shitty. If the tables were turned and Anon had a massive body count, more people would think they’re a stud more than anything.
The double standard is horrid and unacceptable.
I don’t even remember my body count. I stopped keeping track after 12 or so? It’s just not important, and as long as you’re having safe, protected intimate times, who gives a shit?
- Comment on Related: https://lemmy.wtf/comment/16937362 1 week ago:
I like dark humor. A lot of the discourse surrounding Kirk has been downright hilarious.
I’m sure some Nazi motherfuckers take offense, but not me
- Comment on do you consider joking about dying and killing oneself a sign that the person saying it is troubled? 1 week ago:
It can be. It depends on context and tone.
If they say that shit with a tone of defeat, I’d address it head on. If it’s typical banter like this sucks kind of tone then whatever.
People say a lot of concerning shit if you take everything that they say literally. Fact is that a lot of us use sarcasm and hyperbole as coping mechanisms.
Today, I joked with a buddy at work that the day made me want to hang myself from my shoelaces. I have zero suicidal ideation right now, I’m just unhappy that I have to put up with the people I have to work with right now. He’s much the same, sick of the shit, so he gets me.
It really depends on the tone and context more than anything.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
I like you.
These are all good points. Thank you.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
Except an alien species wouldn’t know what cesium is… We would need to represent it to them as it’s molecular makeup, which is the only absolute representation of it, and would they know what a proton/neutron/electron are? Would they have a deeper understanding of the physics, and thereby have a different understanding of what we consider to be quantum particles?
We only generalize protons, elections and neutrons because we don’t really know what those things are made up of. Maybe they do, so when we show them our representation of it, would it be too rudimentary for them to comprehend what we mean?
There’s still a lot we don’t know. And these are the kinds of questions that tickle my brain.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
I don’t think that was the idea when the second was created.
The solar rotation cycle is naturally divided into 365 rotations of Earth (give or take), each daily rotation was divided into 24 segments called hours, each hour was further divided into 60 units called minutes, and each minute was then further divided into 60 units which we call seconds.
In the modern era, we have refined how we measure a second by a very stable natural phenomenon, the emissions of cesium (which we also refer to as an “atomic” clock). But we got there first by dividing one of Earth’s rotations by 86400. It just so happens that 9 192 631 770 oscillations from cesium also equals 1/86400th of one rotation of Earth.
Additionally, neither a “second” nor even “one rotation of Earth” would have any meaning to someone who has never been to earth before.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
See, this is all fascinating for me. I love this stuff.
It’s also a good exercise in recognizing the assumptions we make every day. I’m trying to get to a point where I can articulate my thoughts and I don’t have to struggle through the curse of knowledge.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
That could work for velocities, but any measure of distance is based on our notion of time, like “light year” (the distance light can travel in one rotation of the Earth around the sun), which is relative.
Even an AU is the distance from Earth to our sun.
To be fair, we don’t really have another point of reference with which to measure stuff.
A good way to portray distance could be a blip the length of time it would take light to travel that far. Like an RF signal that lasts as long as it would take for light up travel from one edge of an object to the other edge of the object.
… It’s a difficult problem to try to solve even as a mental exercise.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
All units of measure are abstract.
I like metric because it’s structured around an abstract amount. Even something like Celsius is pretty abstract, because the freezing and boiling point of water changes depending on the atmospheric pressure. The measure of a second? Why is a second, 1 second long? Why is it 1/60th of 1/60th of 1/24th of a day? There’s other stuff based on seconds too, like Hertz, which is literally “cycles per second”
I like to think about how abstract these things are, because if we were to ever try to communicate with a truly alien race, we couldn’t really use numbers, because their base numbering system would be different than ours, their symbols for numbers would be different, their entire understanding of math and how to calculate stuff could be wildly different, possibly because they understand things we do not. We couldn’t even say to them to communicate on a specific frequency of EM, because that frequency is based on Hertz, which is based on seconds, which is based on ??? IDFK (neither would they). We base everything we know on the world around us, and that’s entirely unique to earth. We make so many assumptions about how things are because we’ve only ever experienced life on this planet.
The only thing that kind of makes sense is how many days of the year there are, because it’s based on solid science about our solar system. It’s still unique to earth, but at least it makes sense on a larger scale. Everything else? Who the hell knows. Why is a meter as long as it is? Who defined this? Why? What abstract Earth-based thing was this based on that other societies of individuals would have no point of reference to relate to?
It’s wild we’ve made it this far, to be honest.
Anyways, I kind of got sidetracked… I guess all I’m really trying to say is that metric makes more sense than whatever the USA is doing. Even if it’s just as abstract in its conception.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 week ago:
I know there’s some opinions on this, but I would consider this to be the case. Many people don’t have so much pride in their origins to consider using a term like expat, then there’s Americans, who’s entire identity is based on where they were born.
So it makes sense that someone from America living in another country would identify as an American expat, while everyone else is just, immigrated to where they are. Not enough focus on what country they came from to bother with an expat definition.
Makes me think that American expats are looking backwards, while other immigrants are looking forwards.
- Comment on Foolproof advice 1 week ago:
Username is definitely relevant. :)
I would consider your comment to be far more truthful and accurate than what is pictured in the OP.
Have a good day.
- Comment on A conundrum 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, it’s a pretty large home. I’m living with my SO, my brother and his wife and there’s a couple of offspring that needed space too. Our house has ~5 ish bedrooms. Considering the number of people who live here, it can feel small. If it was just me and my SO, this would be humungous.
But that also means that we have four fully grown adults helping with the mortgage. So my share of the mortgage is around $1100 ish, per month, and we split most of the household bills, so I usually throw in about $400 more to help with that. I personally pay about $1500/mo.
My SO does the same, and we’ve encouraged my brother and his wife to also do the same. If everyone pays $1500 towards the house every month, we have more than enough to cover all the bills (electric/gas/water), as well as shared things like the Internet. Also that’s enough to cover the house insurance.
- Comment on A conundrum 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad I don’t live in America then.
- Comment on A conundrum 2 weeks ago:
I went from an apartment that cost ~$1250/mo. To a mortgage that costs ~$4300/mo. Just got the “privilege” of owning a home (and paying for all repairs myself).
I can only afford this because of the people I’m sharing that cost with. We’re all on the deed, and we all have a stake, and claim to, the house. Four of us.
My payment didn’t really change.
The only way we could get to the point of a down payment is that one of the four of us has been saving for something like this since they were in highschool. Because of their effort, we had enough for a down payment.
And I’m lucky to be in this position.
What a fucking crock of shit.
Despite all of this, I’m hoping the market takes a dive so the rest of you can do the same at a much more affordable rate. I’ve already spent the money and I’ll be spending years paying it off. I didn’t buy a house up objectively save money, I bought a house for stability. I never want to move ever again. There are good reasons for that which I won’t get into. I promise that I will have ZERO issues if you all get a better deal than I did. I hope you do, and I hope the housing market, specifically the rental/flipping/“income property” markets crash, hard.
In the same way, I’ve paid off my school debt, I’m in favor of school debt forgiveness. I also enjoy pretty good health, I’m in favor of universal healthcare. I’ve never caused, not been the victim of a fire, I’m in favor of fire departments.
I could go on.
Good luck everyone.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 weeks ago:
Fast food workers generally get minimum wage at least, so tipping shouldn’t be required or expected there. It’s mostly servers at restaurants as far as I know.
When I know that the workers are paid less than minimum, I’m pretty much always tipping unless you’re grossly negligent or you are actively mean. You can have a bad disposition, that’s fine. Everyone has bad days, I’ll still tip as long as you’re not directing your unhappiness at me. I just got here, I’m not the thing you’re mad at, so please don’t treat me like I am.
If tipping goes away tomorrow, I’ll be happy. Not just for my pocket book and the pain and frustration I feel staring at menus trying to up all the prices by 15-20% so I know what I’ll actually be paying, but for the workers actually making a decent wage.
We also need to address minimum wage issues, but that’s another matter entirely and affects a much larger group of people.
- Comment on Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner 2 weeks ago:
Bow down before the one you serve, you’re going to get what you deserve.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 weeks ago:
We’re really generating value for those shareholders aren’t we?
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
Maybe. In my experience business isn’t that patient.
A TPM is otherwise a good thing. It can extend cryptographic capabilities and the overall security stance of the system.
But I digress. I will reserve judgement for now. Time will tell either way, and I don’t think anyone will feel like gloating if they start to lock it down like you believe they will.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
This is already happening, but it’s on an organisational level by policy. These policies can be applied to systems that follow trusted computing rules, which is most Windows 10 systems and pretty much all windows 11 systems. Google has laid the groundwork for this since the pixel 3 was released in 2018.
Since then, we have seen Google put the Titan security module in all phones and I’m certain Chromebooks are requiring TPM modules that serve the same function.
Apple has been doing the same since God knows when. Their systems have had unique chips that ensure that when MacOS is installed, it is only installed in Apple computers. There are ways around this, just as there are ways around the TPM requirement for Windows 11.
The trusted computing model, when fully imposed, can basically stop any applications from running that have not been given the blessing of the security team.
As far as I’m aware, the only people taking advantage of the technology are government institutions.
The fact that this can be wielded to enforce control over private individuals by our corporate masters is becoming a very real possibility, but the fact that it hasn’t happened yet, by any vendor, is, in my opinion, good evidence to say that it’s unlikely, but not impossible. Maybe that’s wishful thinking on my part.
In any case, the only truly free operating system left is GNU/Linux, with few other exceptions.
- Comment on Truck go 💥🚚 2 weeks ago:
Could be the person’s first day.
- Comment on He took it literally 3 weeks ago:
Deep. Like a puddle.
- Comment on He took it literally 3 weeks ago:
They’ve been telling people not to talk to them since Miranda.
The line is: “you have the right to remain silent, anything you say, can and will be used against you”
Idk how people have missed that. Just stfu. Jeez.
- Comment on He took it literally 3 weeks ago:
Everyone is the hero of their own story. This implies that every person thinks they’re doing the right thing.
So if they’ve been accused of a crime, there must be some misunderstanding. If I explain what happened they’ll let me out because I didn’t do anything wrong.
It’s not the only reason people talk, but it’s a big one.
Remember, the line is: " you have the right to remain silent, anything you say, can and will be used against you".
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
They can get fucked with a rusty cactus.
But at least with Adobe, their support actually knows things, and there’s an admin console where I can see what’s happening with my team subscriptions.
They’re expensive as all fuck, but that’s not my problem. That’s a problem for the company.