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- Comment on Why do some people make such a big deal over ages of someone's account on here? 19 hours ago:
Everyday there’s like 5-10 brand new accounts who quickly spam ~20 articles each and stop the same day.
It looks like someone hoping Lemmy takes off so they can sell aged accounts later.
- Comment on If dark matter doesn't emit, absorb, or reflect light, what happens when light hits it? 1 day ago:
Yeah, it just doesn’t hit it.
Gravity does work with dark matter tho, so we can’t really say “unaffected” because the dark matter would still bend the light due to gravity. I’m not sure if we can detect that bend, but I remember something relatively recently about how dark matter can interact via gravity, and I’m assuming bending light would have been the easiest way to test that.
- Comment on One Horror of Slavery That Until Recently Could Not Be Told 2 days ago:
As the African American studies professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has written and I have experienced, people are often uncomfortable learning that Africans sold one another into this living hell. A common objection is that Africans had no way of knowing what conditions their captives would encounter. But they saw those captives being marched all but to death, sold like animals and penned into a slave castle hold. Black African slave traders had more than enough information to understand the fundamental immorality of the undertaking. If whites had seen even only what the Africans saw, we would not hesitate to judge them as unforgivably complicit in sin.
This guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about…
From the article this is one of those things he assumes no one knows and just personally found out.
The difference is slaves in Africa still gave birth to free citizens, that is what everyone assumed was happening. If they had known every one of their descendants were going to be slaves, there’s likely have been more resistance and at least higher prices if not out refusal of sale.
It was supposed to be a more moral option than killing everyone from a tribe you were warring with.
The author claiming to be an expert, but completely ignorant of the difference isn’t worth listening too
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 6 days ago:
With no mention of the roads they drive on every day.
They want toll roads too…
When you have a shit ton of money, you want everything taxed on use, not earnings.
Because you earn a lot and spend a very small percentage of that.
They view any individual that “gets” more than they personally pay in as a “taker”. Despite the entire reasons we have safety nets is statistically someone will need help.
But once no one anywhere benefits from it more than they paid in, it’s easy for the wealthy to convince us we don’t need it at all. Because it’s not benefiting anyone and has really becomes a waste.
It’s very basic manipulation.
You can’t argue “what about roads!” Because they’re argue for toll roads everywhere or a tax on actual miles driven. Don’t let them set the argument, point out how no one knows who will need it till they need it, so we all pay in and hope we’re fortunate enough to not need it. But if we do, we don’t have to die in a gutter.
Don’t tug on heart strings, explain it as risk management and they might start to see the value
- Comment on when are the upcoming political elections held in america? 1 week ago:
Federal office elections are on even years.
States/cities do whatever
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 1 week ago:
It’s not hard, just gotta give it a lil chin wiggle
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 1 week ago:
Teach a man to attract women, and he’s not going to keep watching you’re shitty videos…
So you give bad advice, knowing that it won’t work, hoping the stupidest still come back for more advice, then pivot to “you’re great bro, it’s everyone else’s fault they don’t see it”.
And then you have a Stan that will watch all your videos, because everyone else calls them an idiot except the other people following that shit.
Like…
You say “conspiracy” like it’s some convulated crazy plan…
It’s grifting 101…
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 1 week ago:
It was a two step plan:
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Give young boy the worst possible advice
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Blame women for not liking it.
That how we got all these incels.
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- Comment on Soulja Boy is selling video game consoles again, and he's already being accused of ripping off an existing handheld: "He does not have permission to rebrand our products and sell them as his own" 2 weeks ago:
He’s not even rebranding them…
He just charges more than orders one and passes on the shipping info.
Like, he could have at least bought some up front and threw a sticker on there
- Comment on EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead 2 weeks ago:
Lol…
I don’t think this is as reassuring as EA thinks it would be…
It’s like if Comcast got bought by United Healthcare, but assured us their customer service would stay at the same level.
- Comment on Opinion | Bill Gates Has a Point 2 weeks ago:
He say shit like this…
Trying to convince the average American they are the problem and we need to sacrifice for the planet…
Meanwhile:
datacenters.com/…/microsoft-s-80b-investment-in-a…
They’re building a shit ton of AI data centers which are like the worst thing for the planet and most people don’t want.
If Gates gave a fuck about the environment, his company wouldn’t be doing that.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Most international markets run thru NYC, and thus America.
So while other countries can sanction, everyone that could make that call has money in rates in NYC and would risk personally being sanctioned.
It’s a huge fucking deal, and silver lining is other countries are most likely taking steps to become more independent.
Which is a good thing over all.
It’s kind of like the Fediverse really…
Current market is basically Facebook era. Everyone is using NYC, so if you get “banned” you lose access to a lot of stuff.
The Fediverse splits the load, and if banned from an instance you just lose the slice that didn’t like whatever you did.
I got a assume that other countries are doing it, since even now Texas is doing it:
The Texas exchange hopes to benefit from companies that are frustrated with regulations like Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rule, and increasing compliance costs that come with listing on the exchanges, the Journal reported.
investopedia.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-…
So the rest of the world is freaking out Conservatives control the American market, and conservatives are also freaking out they control the American market…
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 2 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine all those billions of transistors and wires being plotted manually one by one by people
They don’t really need to be cause it’s a repeating pattern.
Doesn’t matter what the pattern is, but think of it like a checkerboard.
If you were making one, you’d take the time to just draw it yourself. This would be designing a chip.
If you decided to cover a football field in checkerboard battery, you’d take you’re existing pattern, and just “stamp” that over and over again. Maybe even strap a dozen checkerboards together and then stamp that. This would be scaling your initial chip design for producture.
Once the entire design is done, you make some prototypes, test them, and fix fail points.
When you go in wide scale production, some have too many errors, so you blank out even more and sell it for cheaper. Although that’s out of scope it’s good to highlight that there are acceptable fail rates for design. If they went only for 100% success nothing would ever make it to production
- Comment on What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise? 2 weeks ago:
Start eating high fiber foods.
It’ll save you money and make you lose weight because it takes forever to digest. That makes the walking easier, and won’t hurt your joints as much.
Like, if you’re gassed after walking 20 minutes, you don’t need a weighted vest for a while.
When you can walk 20 minutes and have the same level of energy as you started, then start thinking about stuff like carrying a heavy book, or anything that’s roughly 5-10lbs.
Don’t overthink it. You’re just making it slightly harder everytime what you’re doing gets too easy.
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 3 weeks ago:
It’s been a thing for a very long time, like even back in the 90s I remember it.
The difference was it was mostly between people who were both working. At least blue collar, and usually people who had a blurry line on when they were done with work on any given day for various reasons like having a very small business or side hustle
Like, there was an understood “work” in front of the “day”. Basically “I hope you get through this without much extra bullshit”.
That’s still how I hear it, but probably not how most mean it.
I didn’t really notice it spreading, but pandemic and zoom may have made it more common as people worked where they lived and needed to delinerate free time from work time.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think you realize the genetic diversity even among a close family…
But I have no idea why you’re talking about clones.
Kind of like if I said billionaires shouldn’t exist and you lept to saying that means I want money to not exist anymore
- Comment on Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? 3 weeks ago:
Why are 70+ year old conservatives acting like conservative?
Maybe because they’re 70+ years old and conservative?
Like, surely people realized that “moderates” agreed with the right on some topics, well, these are them…
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 3 weeks ago:
Nah, you’d ideally want 150-200, but 100 (20something and younger) would be fine assuming a random sample from all over.
The danger is the reinforcement of negative recessive genes. So if you just grab 100 from one area, there may already be common dangerous recessives that would become an issue in a few generations.
But grab a random sample of the billions of humans worldwide, you’d have the same number of “dangerous” recessives, just different ones. That would take a long time to spread within the new population.
It’s not like similar DNA is bad, it’s just compounding of recessive genes when there’s no natural selection. Which is why all the big examples of inbreeding is medieval royalty. They didn’t need to be physically/mentally capable of surviving, because they had inherited wealth.
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 3 weeks ago:
Humans would have said to test it first…
AI will just call you a genius for having a brilliant thought no one else could have ever thought of: fire workers and buy AI
Like, it’s fucking insane that high up people are falling for chatbots bullshit, then asking it if they should use AI more. It’s always going to say to use AI and fire humans, because the people making the chat bots want people to spend more on AI.
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 4 weeks ago:
Time is run by a rabid pro-trumper…
The main reason the wealthy keep buying up social media, is to prevent the 99.9% of Americans from realizing we have more in common with each other than the wealthiest 0.1%.
So of course they’re gonna push articles telling people to skip the middle men and go back to listening to traditional media the billionaires have a tighter grip on.
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 4 weeks ago:
Everyone’s different, and you can get used to a lot.
So some people might not be able to tell 90fps from 120fps, but I definitely notice. But if I played something at 90 for long enough, I’d get used to it and stop noticing how much worse it was from 120 fps.
I will say they don’t get near enough credit for not only adaptive triggers, but them working on damn near any game that appears on PlayStation even while on PC.
I bought a ps5 just for those triggers, and gave it away (but kept a controller) once it worked on PC.
That’s the direction Playstation needs to go. If they made a new controller with Hall Effect sticks and 4 back buttons they’d absolutely clean up. They came so close with the edge, but didn’t give a back button for half the face buttons. And went “replaceable” sticks that will eventually break instead of Hall Effect.
- Comment on When baking, if your oven can't reach the temperature stated in the recipe, do you then just adjust for time? 4 weeks ago:
Speaking of cooking stuff that has fans…
I learned a while ago that when using an air fryer, you can’t put a liner in before you preheat.
It beeped and I went into the kitchen and due to the fan and the liner, it was shooting flames like 2 feet.
So I would be very hesitant to start hooking fans up to random heating sources.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 weeks ago:
The streamers think they’re the stars and partners with the streaming company…
But the company is always going to treat them as products with incredibly short shelf lives under even the best conditions.
Twitch doesn’t view them as real people, and knows even if they do quit or are harmed even killed, millions of barely adults would kill to take their place.
- Comment on What's the deal with breakfast in bed? 4 weeks ago:
Because it’s there for you as soon as you wake up.
The other person (assumedly) got up early, obtained food, and prepared it just for you, without you signalling that you wanted it. Something that in modern times isn’t that big of a deal because it’s just in the kitchen.
But it shows they thought of you and your needs on their own. They thought of you when you were unconscious and took steps to ensure your comfort and survival. It’s such a base thing that it still really matters.
Like I said, it’s not really a logical thing that it should matter so much, because food is a lot more accessible. It’s an evolutionary holdover from long before humans or even primates existed. And due to natural variation some people just won’t see any point in it, where to other people it’s still a huge sign of love.
Like, if you asked why facial symmetry is attractive, most people couldnt explain it. But they still enjoy looking at a symmetrical face even if they don’t know why. And humans are really bad at just guessing and then rationalizing. So they’ll come up with some bullshit and honestly believe it.
So logically table or bed doesn’t matter. But brains aren’t logical. That boost of it being there the instant you get woken up is what matters most. It’s a sign that even when you’re not physically present the other person will care about you.
- Comment on What's the deal with breakfast in bed? 4 weeks ago:
It’s about someone putting all the effort in so it’s ready for you.
I wouldn’t give a shit either and don’t see the appeal, but it’s human variation. Like, you probably don’t really see the appeal of going out to eat with friends, and would rather do some other activity with them that you do enjoy.
But for the majority of people, food is currency, and eating in front of people shows that you’re not going to just take all the food for yourself and you’re willing to provide for someone who (in the moment) has none.
You’re not going to really get a logical answer, it’s just leftover instincts from billions of years of evolution. Like how your dog isn’t freaking out in excitement over a treat, they’re happy because you are choosing to give them “your” food. Even if it’s the smallest piece they inhale without tasting. It was yours and you gave it to them. It re-enforces the bond.
The intent is what matters. You value who you share your food with, so who you share food with feels valued by you.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 4 weeks ago:
But adding some specific set of demands will accomplish even less: it will alienate supporters who don’t agree with all the demands
That’s “means testing”. A classic move from neoliberals to turn a movement against itself and delay action. And why I personally don’t like trying to unite nationwide protests only a central authority or allowing a small unelected group to control a movement. The wealthy are going to try and corrupt it, and their money makes that easy for them.
it will be due to contingent circumstances that neither side was able to predict.
It’s very easy to predict…
The only reason any protest every has worked, or ever will work is the threat of violence…
We can spend all day dressing it up. But it’s telling our government we won’t stand for what it’s doing. The different flavors of protests, riots, and even coups are all the same threat of violence by citizens against their own government, it’s just how explicit that threat is and how polite the tone we say it in is.
I’m not saying that’s wrong. I’m not saying it’s something to celebrate either.
But people need to fucking understand it is what is, because it might be like that soon.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 4 weeks ago:
No problem.
If I had filled in all the gaps so the lowest common denominator got it, it would have been 10x as long, and it’s already too long for you to read.
There’s just no way I can communicate something like this to you in a way that you’d be able to understand. But my comments are often long, and I’ll never see any of your responses again to give you clarification on anything else now.
So you might want to just block me so you don’t keep getting confused in other threads.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but if the bus driver has been calling all the passengers terrorists for a decade, has been saying he’s gonna kill us all, and keeps falling asleep while driving…
Wearing a funny costume and walking around the bus holding witty signs the driver will literally never see, might not be the best way to even get the bus to stop.
Like, you get that right?
It’s not Tinkerbell logic, we can’t all just clap our hands together and say “I don’t believe in kings” and they all fall down.
And I swear to 6lb 8oz baby Jesus if someone tries to tell me it’s “raising awareness and that’s most important”, I’m going to lose it, because obviously at some point awareness isn’t going to somehow stop the bus.
And I seriously doubt anyone is more aware today then they were a month ago.
Like, you all know MAGA is too scared to go into a city themselves, and the only news they listen to will never report what actually happened today.
For fucks sake, tell me there’s something I’m missing. Because otherwise it’s incredibly stressful that people think this will in anyway help. Because then you all aren’t actually going to help.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 4 weeks ago:
“Local” police…
In virtually every metropolitan PD, a lot of the cops don’t just live in subdivisions, they live way outside of town.
It’s easy to abuse a crowd when it’s not neighbors and people that know you.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 4 weeks ago:
Is it a fantasy on my part that there’s some mythical law firm or society that looks for these violations?
Yep.
That’s what the justice system is supposed to do.
The types of organizations you’re talking about in America, instead work on saving innocent people from our justice system. Or at least ensuring punishments are fair.
As far as I know (I don’t know everything) there’s virtually zero organizations with the goal of getting guilty people charged by the state/fed.
Not saying your idea about documenting is a waste. Just that it’s the equivalent of people using plastic straws while billionaires and AI data centers do irreparable damage.
If cities/states actually wanted to press charges, they’d identify with cell snoopers, or just send 20 cops with a warrant to a field office, or look at pay records. Get their identies, then drivers licence photos, start comparing to social media profiles, identify similar picture of kit.
There’s a hundred better/easier ways to identify them. And this is the type of thing AI can actually be used to speed things up. Any average sized city has the resources to identify every ICE agent in their city. They’re just too chicken shit to escalate to that, out of fear ICE will retaliate personally.
So they pretend that tiny piece of fabric over half a face is just unbeatable.