BassTurd

@BassTurd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, Ivermectin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate AI so much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  To elaborate on the power consumption a little… Current data centers are running at around 100+mw compared to the average household using around 1kw. A single center uses the power equivalent of town 20k-100k in population size. Meta is planning to build a data center that will run at around 2gw, which is a magnitude larger in power running over 1,000,000 GPUs compared to their current 100k+. So one DC is a larger city worth of power. In the grand scheme of the entire power infrastructure in the US, it may not register as something significant, but in the local areas they operate in, it’s often more than the rest of the city combined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate AI so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Energy prices are already rising for people near data centers. Near me, the state is reopening a nuclear plant closed because the maintenance to repair years of use exceeded its value. With DCs moving in, it is now a necessity. As you mentioned, it’s getting worse, but it’s already having an effect.

  There’s also the insane water consumption required to cool their stuff. It’s destroying ecosystems everywhere.

  From a selfish-ish point, it’s also already increased costs of chips used in RAM and GPUs and has taken stick off the market for consumers.

  As far as your open source views, that’s great, but open source projects still get licensed under open source licensing and is at the behest of the creator. Ignoring that is effectively stealing from creators and that’s not okay. It’s one thing to learn from something, and then to cite those sources, and it’s another to take it, regurgitate it and not give credit. AI has been used to impersonate people in music and other media like content creators hurting their income and image with no recourse.

  AI is ass at coding. It’s not a good teacher and struggles with any level of complexity. It is ok for troubleshooting, but it has been shown in almost every case that it’s not capable of replacing even junior devs effectively. AWS just had a coming to Jesus moment recently because AI generated code broke critical services and took down services that millions rely on. It’s not security conscious, and there are breaches of personal data left and right.

  I’m not saying all uses of AI are the devil. It has it’s place for minor tooling, but the ethical implications mentioned above are just what I care to spend time elaborating on, but there are many more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate AI so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to check your facts about the power consumption part

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jensen is a dumb, out of touch motherfucker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Group of racist teenagers attack lone black man in Manchester⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless that dude stole mugged one of those bitches or started attacking first, you’re just here defending a hate crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do young adults (or rich kids in general) from wealthy families engage in illegal street racing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich, poors with a car, and everything in between has people that illegally street race. Why? Because they find it exhilarating and don’t have empathy for those around them, assuming there are others on the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we eat dessert?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re all dying. Might as well enjoy the ride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been sailing for a good 20 years now. I run PIA VPN, which I know has concerns with their ownership, but that’s what I’ve always had and purchased before their sale, and have never had any issues. I have received 3 letters from ISPs in my life and all were when my VPN wasn’t running. No I have a kill switch in my workflow that will cut access with no VPN.

  If you look into something like MEGA, all that data is http traffic. I’ve used that without a VPN a lot and have had no issues there, but that’s now my backup for when alternatives aren’t available.

  VPN is almost for sure good enough, but there are other actions you can take if you want to take it further. Do a search for fmhy and follow some advice I there for detailed info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a software method to "rotate" music around my head?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Android and pixel buds to the same. I’m not sure if the buds are required to use it or just android.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times a year do you wash your jeans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When they appear dirty or smell. A hoodie that I wore on a lazy day may get a couple wears before wash. My comfy sweat pants I treat like my jeans. Everything else gets one wear then washed.

  I don’t see the need to wash something that doesn’t look or smell dirty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my best friend’s future in-laws identify as Italian-american but have barely left their home state. Not malicious and they aren’t bigoted about that, but they act like they’re direct deceandeants when they’re a generation or two removed, which is annoying at worst. I won’t be critical of someone identifying with their heritage as long as it doesn’t disparage anyone else. They do make solid raviolis which is nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gulf of America/Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Legally it’s the Gulf of Mexico. This is one of those hills I will die on where I will never call it the Gulf of America. Fortunately for me it never comes up, but if I were a student and was taught the wrong thing, I would correct the teacher and never fall in line. There’s right and wrong, and Gulf of America is factually wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In hindsight why was/is america upset they elected a leader who constantly lies while making fun of politicians literally and figurativly for years that they lie there ass off? Y B Shocked?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would guess that the majority of the 50% of non voters didn’t vote willingly, but some of that 50%, other than the previously mentioned exceptions, maybe couldn’t due to disenfranchisement from purging voter roles, or since it’s not a government holiday, maybe couldn’t leave work to vote. I believe legally it has to be allowed, but we all know that doesn’t mean that it always is, and some people work a distance from their voting station. For example, I travel an hour for work on Wednesdays, stay remote, then drive back home Thursday evening. If that happened to be on a voting day where early voting isn’t possible, that could disqualify me, or at least make it really difficult to vote.

  But as mentioned, I think the majority is due to apathy or ignorance, willful or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Story in Italian but instructions and images in English⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Learn the skills to do it yourself instead of using AI, which stole all of its training data from people that did learn the skills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do other female mammals smell like fish down there or is that exclusive to women?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s responses like these that people reference when arguing against gender rights. It’s a pedantic point that just makes people think you’re acting like a douche.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do other female mammals smell like fish down there or is that exclusive to women?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can smell someone’s vagina, including your own, while standing, you should get that checked out. Perfume is not used to mask any smells, it’s to add smell as an accessory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally don’t believe emojis should exist in professional documents. I’m not a hiring manager, but if I saw an application with emojis, I would think it wasn’t taken seriously, and would probably not even give it a full read.

  When there is text with emojis, it makes it hard to read for me. My brain stops to interpret what’s going on and it breaks my flow and concentration on the text.

  This is my opinion entirely, and it looks like some others would accept emojis, but just know there are people like me out there, and others that are worse. I don’t think that emojis will elevate your chances of success, but are more likely to hurt them if anything. It depends on your risk tolerance and necessity to get a new job

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they different shapes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I took a trip to Tahiti a couple years back, which is a French territory. Baguettes everywhere. Fellows sold sandwiches with baguettes as the bun. French toast was day old baguettes and phenomenal. Sometimes you just ate baguettes and saw people riding their mopeds with a bag of baguettes. It’s versatile and great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody with a brain said he is smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did I feel so hungry today for no reason?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You fasted for half a day, and then ate shit food of no substance. Eat something that has nutrients in it, eat more calories, and if need be, shorten the gap between meals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My mother told me a story about how once my uncle was in school and the teacher told him to go out and cut a switch, which is just a thin stick good for whipping with. He cried, went out and got one, came back, and it turned out it was for someone else. This would have been the 60s or 70s maybe. My mom also mentioned that the typing (typewriter) teacher would smack fingers with a ruler when mistakes were made. This was a public school.

  So yea, definitely a real thing that happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The WNBA Makes More Money Than Ever. What About the Players?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a good read albeit a terrible site for mobile.

  I really hope these women get everything they’re asking for. There is nothing egregious in their demands, just completely reasonable asks.

  When Caitlin Clark joined the league, the WNBA struck gold. All they need to do is not fuck it up and they will enjoy expansion and success. The counter offers have no substance other than greed, and the comments made by the commissioner are disgusting. This is the best and maybe only opportunity that these players will have at forcing significant change in the league, and based on the cited number that about 80% of the players set their contracts to end now so they can fight together, they have a real chance at success.

  Best of lucky, ladies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a long time since I smoked but if I opened the door to my fireplace and tossed in a kilo of pot and just let the smoke fill up the house will everyone in my house get high?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As everyone has said, bad idea. But I honestly don’t think it will work, at least not well. I grew up with wood burners and enjoyed many open fireplaces, but the majority of your smoke is just going to go up the flu and out the chimney. There are poor choices you could make to mitigate that loss, but they’re just that, poor choices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, you’re a pleasant person. Just a big bowl of rainbows and sunshine.

  You didn’t have to write this comment but you did and you look stupid. All you had to do was nothing. Even a monkey can do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but the money has to come from somewhere. Athletes generate the money they are paid, and they generate a lot so they get paid accordingly.

  I don’t think that we are equating profit generated as value. It’s just a fact that athletes make lots of money because they generate it.

  I think that what should happen is that the organizations/teams that are making billions should be taxed higher or something equivalent and those funds should go to under paid professionals like teachers. But, I don’t think that athletes should make less because there’s enough extra profits that both can exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Athletes that have spent thousands of hours training their whole lives to be the some of best in the world at their craft, generate billions of dollars doing their job. Why shouldn’t they get paid well from that pool of billions?

  Teachers, nurses, etc should get paid more, but their professions don’t generate the same kind of revenue as the entertainment industry, so that money has to come from some other source, like the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to America is a black African coming to America. I’m sure there’s multiple Jackie Chan movies that fit the bill. Once upon a time in Mexico was mostly Hispanic people in Mexico.

  I guess I’m not sure what you exact question is. Does it have to be a fantasy where a minority dies and ends up in a fake, white dominate location, like opposite of Wakanda?

  I’m not well versed in foreign films, but I bet there are a bunch of Bollywood films as well that cover these bases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isint lemmy more popular?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit has been around for 20 years and Lemmy not near as long. Reddit didn’t really hit it big until Digg screwed the pooch driving away users around 2010. I don’t see Lemmy hitting Reddit number probably ever, but reddit is one of the highest trafficked sites on the web. Lemmy is steadily growing, but I think to many non users, federation and instances is a confusing prospect, so they never try. As it grows, I would imagine it will get easier or at least clearer for the layman and the velocity of growth will increase due to that and a larger user base as a whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ew. I’d build an ice box or live out of coolers.