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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨did the Artemis crew really spend 10 days pooping in their diapers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a place for genuine pursuit of knowledge. You’re asking in bad faith to pursuit an agenda. Which is against rule 1 and 5 of this community. Also, snarky replies are not welcomed. Either take the topic seriously or go to a meme community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Catch 22 vs. Rosenhan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Patients lying about symptoms have been a medical issue for centuries. It is the main topic of Baudsillard’s philosophical analysis on simulacra and simulation. Think about it, a soldier who doesnt want to be deployed starts simulating symptoms of a disease to be discharged. How would you catch him, can you? The answer seems straight forward, until you scrutinize it in detail. Neither military or medical knowledge actually have an answer. The kid who doesn’t want to go to school says he has a headache and a tummy ache. How do you validate another’s conscious and sensory experience? Hypochondriacs affirm to develop every disease they hear about. People under stress feel and have somatic symptoms akin to physical diseases, even when functionally nothing is wrong with them. Etcetera. Disease and diagnosis are not so simple and straight forward, not even when talking about bodily functions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manned spaceflight is back baybee.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s mostly irrelevant because Apollo didn’t have computers landing the ships. They were humans. Astronauts trained hard to achieve that. Computers only flew the initial takeoff and ascent. An IBM computer that stayed behind with the rocket. But Armstrong landed that bird on the moon by hand.

  Also, while the on board computer allowed them to consolidate sensor input, and calculate and execute burn maneuvers (relatively easy tasks), everything was double and triple checked by mission control back on earth. With way more powerful, faster and capable computers. Anything that required reflexes or finesse was done by a human hand on a joystick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games Pins ‘Fortnite’ Comeback on Disney Partnership (a Disney extraction shooter)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but they caught that one on the rise, changing from tower defense to battle royale. While extraction shooters are already old news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The End of an Era⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Artemis II landed yesterday after returning from orbiting the moon. In a test flight mission that marks the beginning for long term plans for a lunar station, a base of operations for going to mars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how things become science⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  See the difference between “some people” and ALL of LLMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how things become science⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to you, although I would bet it has done so to someone. The main issue is though, if you asked an LLM to write arguments for a flat earth, it would do so. Convincingly and insistent, without even questioning or critically analyzing why. Ask it to compare and balance arguments both ways. And it will do so as if both positions were equally real and valid.

  It has no notion of reality and no convictions of its own.

  It will also hallucinate fake papers and quote people that don’t exists to make its argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about AAA sales⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Poignantly, not AAA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Veto power is supposed to represent nuclear power. The logic is that it is way better for a country to veto a resolution than it bombing another country because they got pissy.

  I always remind people that the UN’s mission is not to solve all the world’s problems, but to stop countries from tearing each other apart and avoiding all out nuclear mutual annihilation. So far, it has succeeded.

  I also hate that it has no teeth against modern issues, like genocides of non nation state peoples. But genocide didn’t even exist as a concept when it was created. The concept was coined by a Jewish legalist who scaped the holocaust.

  BTW, same dude hated the guts of Zionist israel and warned that an ethnostate would lead to genocide eventually. He was 100% right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gee I wonder what would it take to solve world hunger. Maybe a comprehensive strategic plan that changes minds of decision makers and pressures them through diplomacy and negotiations. Perhaps we could pool resources at the same time to distribute food to the countries most affected by sitemic historical injustice. Someone should manage that complex of a problem. Maybe a neutral governing body that ensures it’s well managed and countries pay something up front towards this problem. We should call it the league of countries against hunger, or the coalition of groups of people. I don’t know, I’m bad at naming things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is us rail travel so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because in the US, freight and passengers share rail. Most of the civilized world segregated both to ensure massive transit priority. The USA did the opposite because freight brings in more profit. And all the railways are private owned, so profit overules public interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some racist, classist, homophobic ect people do "good" things sometimes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s the whole argument for euthanasia. Glad I helped you to understand it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some racist, classist, homophobic ect people do "good" things sometimes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Morality is not a bell curve. No one is absolutely good or bad, because what is good or bad is relative to the person doing the action and those observing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It works better if you put it in your mouth first.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only this, but research into nuclear waste processing, to make it safer to dispose and maybe even recyclable, is halted. There’s no research grants going there almost at all, because of the off chance it might turn into weapon’s grade fissionable material.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It works better if you put it in your mouth first.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was always so frustrating and annoying to me. “We won’t invest money on nuclear power because someone in 10,000 years might get radiation poisoning from the waste we will carefully very underground. So, let’s keep burning coal, pump the waste smoke into the air that will kill the atmosphere whitin three decades and give everyone radioactive poisoning, today!”

  Humanity was handed the key to stop global warming dead in its tracks and skip straight to renewables with a healthy planet. But we can’t seem to resist the temptation of blowing people up for a slightly higher profit next quarter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're sexually frustrated & can never find a mate & decide to live a life of "nofap," what are the effects that buildup of sexual frustration has?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beliefs shape the way we feel. There’s no biological reason to feel lonely after masturbation. That’s all pseudoscience bollocks. Female orgasms cause a peak of neural activation, if anything, you should feel more active and hungry to go face the world. But the point is that this changes or differences that are usually quoted by charlatans from neurological studies, while significant, are so tiny as to not be an actual factor at an individual level.

  Humans are also bad at correctly discerning causation and correlation, specially within their own emotional experience. Thus why therapy works, it’s a third party that can more objectively call out your contradictions and point out causes.

  Now I would gather you believe that masturbation is something awful lonely people do and that’s why you feel lonely when you masturbate. This doesn’t mean there’s anything inherently wrong with you. However, most people ignore that most of our worldviews, and beliefs we take for granted are actually cemented in childhood experiences, not always traumatic. But they do build the foundations op our personalities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  S24 FE. I hate all the recent changes Samsung has been doing but this phone should last me until 2030 at least, probably more. I’m also the only person on Lemmy who likes OneUI, and I’m OK with that now that all alternative launchers are enshittifying.

  By the time I need to replace it, the market will probably be in an entirely different place and maybe even some Linux versions could be more viable.

  I use Immich, bitwarden, mega, and Tuta. Which covers the backup of everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad example. Star wars premiered as just “Star Wars”. The episode IV monicker was added in later remasterings of the film. It was indeed episode four of a six part saga Lucas wrote. But it was filmed first, as it was deemed the easier and cheapest one to film. The original script was a mess, and it was Lucas’s wife who salvaged the movie by cutting about a third of unnecessary fluff and bad dialogue that Lucas had filmed and editing the whole deal as a traditional hero’s journey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was wondering why the €40k printer at work was choking with "simple" Canva PDFs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not the machine. I’d bet money that it is Canva’s fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the English dub of American Dad’s «Aw Rats, a Pool Party!» episode, Avery says he doesn’t speak Spanish. What does he say in the Spanish version?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, this is what they did. Same when Steve works cooking meth for an Hispanic gang under the belief he is in Hogwarts learning magic potions. The magic spell “lavate lasmanos” was used as is in the Spanish dub. It means “wash your hands” for those who didn’t get the joke in English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So why are Indian curries so popular in the UK? (interest in culinary perspectives).⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chinese food is a hard one to compare to. Since western Chinese food is not entirely Chinese and more a Cantonese fusion that was invented in new York then exported worldwide. Its main feature being adapting local ingredients to the same base template. So it is always different depending on the region. In China it is considered a form of western fast food and not at all traditional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it ironic? The only Microsoft product that makes money consistently is based on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a PC gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Google appropriating the concept to rename it after one if their C suits is the most Google shit ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a PC gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “We are now modeling the subsurface scattering of each individual hair. Each hair has a unique texture”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a PC gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone complains about traffic, yet still buy cars all the time.

  An individual’s inability to alter the structural conditions that shape their decision making is not an indictment of said individual position on the matter. Hence why “vote with your wallet” is such a bad thought terminating phrase.

  Sure, people can vote with their wallets, but if there are no good options then the point is moot. It turns into a no buy, disenfranchising those without the privilege of previously accumulating a collection of games. It pushes them into the “you are not a real gamer anyway” territory.

  Thus, why it is always ethical to pirate video games. It is the only sensible choice for a have not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The French were part of the inspiration for the Geneva conventions. Due to the massive and horrific destruction the battle of Solferino caused amongst civilians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the devs thought it was ok to put it into their game

  That’s the point. They didn’t thought it was OK and didn’t.

  They could have just used stock textures as placeholders like developers have been doing for decades.

  That is exactly what they did, any texture left in the first version of the game was a mistake that was promptly fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t sneak anything and they never will. Looked into it deeply. They used AI assets as placeholders during development. But everything in the shipped game is human-made. No further use of AI is expected, since the game awards controversy the company’s management published a statement of banning AI use entirely in their company.

  The whole controversy around indie game awards was also blown beyond proportions. A company used a new technology at a time when the tech was new and the debate around it’s use was still inmature. Then dismissed it for it was not good enough. They failed at quality assurance and a couple of textures weren’t deleted. They replaced them as soon at they found out. By all intents and purposes, this controversy does not qualify sandfall as an AI using company, and to affirm so is ignorant of the context of all that went down in reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not hard rules, though. There’s a myriad of publishing styles. Each define different rules and guidelines to when and where numbers are spelled out. Hyphen was dropped from several guides, for example. The and has also been optional for certain publishing houses for a while. Academic and literary will differ in how they enforce this guides and exactly what they are. Language is relative, changing and fluid, and this was all different mere 30 years ago. It moves with the expectations of the audience.

  Also, it is six seven. Respect the memes guidelines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t blame psychology, in this analogy the whole ordeal was rape. Plenty of economist still try to pass as psychology science a bunch of bullshit that was debunked half a century ago or is straight up pseudoscience from charlatans.