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- Comment on Is it possible to not know who a famous person is? 2 weeks ago:
Bro, Grande is a word in like 4 different languages, but it’s a last name only in one, Italian.
- Comment on Is it possible to not know who a famous person is? 2 weeks ago:
This comment is outrageously funny to me. Because Ariana grande is not Hispanic in the slightest. Like, she’s so white she would stand out in the middle of a group of even vaguely Hispanic women like a sore thumb. But it just adds to the comedy.
- Comment on The Third Shift, a Game Boy styled horror game that combines first, second, and third person perspectives where you play the newest employee in a Museum on night shift, released on Steam 2 weeks ago:
There’s a second person perspective FPS where the game is a split screen of all the POVs of every enemy in the level. You still control your character and the shooting is doom style. So, just shooting in the correct direction of the enemy is enough. But essentially, you only see yourself when the enemy NPCs can see you. The views disappear and the split screen shifts as you kill enemies.
- Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙 2 weeks ago:
The RAE is not a prescriptive institution at all. They fight people on social media over that. They’re not shaming anyone for spelling a word different, just describing what the language users are doing.
- Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙 2 weeks ago:
You sound like the kind of person who beat up black people because they don’t speak good enough according to you.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 2 weeks ago:
Because the video it not available. It’s a report on the upload of the video to the Steam store database. Probably prep work for the launch announcement day.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 2 weeks ago:
Shame I won’t be able to buy it for months after launch. But definitely will get it as soon as able.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 2 weeks ago:
Prison phone!
- Comment on For people who distrust police / the legal system: If you ran a small bussiness and need to hire people, and someone has a conviction but they claim innocence, do you hire them? 2 weeks ago:
The second one is funny because it made everyone in the office realize that living conditions in a posh prison was way better than their life in Dunder-Mifflin.
- Comment on For people who distrust police / the legal system: If you ran a small bussiness and need to hire people, and someone has a conviction but they claim innocence, do you hire them? 2 weeks ago:
There’s this character in True Detective first season who is a sexual crime exconvict. Of course he is the first suspect of the murder case.
He is a cognitively challenged folk, who got harassed, and sexually abused in prison. They cut his cock off and forced him to eat it. Gets dismissed as a suspect on the same episode.
He went to prison because he masturbated in public, at night in a rural remote area, once. And was unlucky enough to be seen. Not all convicts are made the same.
I also think about the office episode where they get an exconvict to quit because he found the paper sales environment to be too hostile with his personal history. He was convicted of financial fraud with the cushiest and most pampered convicted life.
- Comment on ELI5: How does Frame Generation even work? 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t that the thing NVIDIA was found to be lying about?
- Comment on Astronauts are funny 3 weeks ago:
Virality cannot be planned for and, for the most part, none of these moments went viral. Most people in the world didn’t knew about the mission. These kinds of moments aren’t “allowed” to happen, they just happen because humans are humans. NASA, and scientists in general, are not at all a bunch of stiff book worms like the stereotypes dictate. People are people and will make jokes and try to keep work environments light. There’s enough stress on trying to fulfill the mission and come back alive already.
They were also super busy though, this mission was a test flight and, well, they spentost of their wake time doing science and testing the spacecraft. Not much time for PR stunts and goofing off, really.
- Comment on did the Artemis crew really spend 10 days pooping in their diapers? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 weeks ago:
See the difference between “some people” and ALL of LLMs.
- Comment on how things become science 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Poignantly, not AAA.
- Comment on The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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. 5 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. 5 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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] 1 month 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.