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- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! 20 hours ago:
Might be a Boost bug, but the link doesn’t include anything past the hyphen.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 1 day ago:
Perhaps the U.S. could be named after gold
The United States of Aumerica
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 2 days ago:
I’d love to see it being used by enemies so they’re challenging without cheating, though.
Check out Sony’s work with GT Sophy
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 week ago:
You can also tell me that someone out there won the lottery this week and have it be true. It’s not the same as seeing this person’s live reaction to learning about it. It wouldn’t be the same if you watched that person act out the scene exactly as it happened. AI generated is so much further removed from all that.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 week ago:
The info provided is that there exists another happy dog out there doing happy dog things and I briefly connected with it, which made me happy. This information would be incorrect if it was AI generated.
- Comment on How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC? 1 week ago:
So what you’re saying is that Andrew Yang should run again.
- Comment on Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down? 1 week ago:
Part of the reason Amazon works is because they sell high volumes of each product, allowing them to distribute products ahead of time across warehouses to match expected demand. You can’t do that if you only have exactly one of each item.
- Comment on Great Mug 1 week ago:
Plus, statistics make up the basis of pretty much all of our science. If you dig into the foundations of stats, you’ll find that it’s basically just formalizing our feelings. It just happens to be formalized in a way that appears to reflect reality accurately enough to be useful.
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 1 week ago:
Did Xi actually take offense to it? I thought it was just others being overly heavy-handed in their censorship, thus Streisanding the whole thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’ve always just done lots of water and waited it out. I see medication at the pharmacies labeled “cold medication”, but I never looked into what they do.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Meaning that it’s just marketed as cold medication without doing anything specifically for colds?
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 2 weeks ago:
For each tab, I find the project(s) associated with it, find my notes for that project, save the URL for that page in the appropriate place in my notes, then close the tab.
If it’s something that isn’t for a specific project (e.g. reading something because it looks interesting), then I just close it. It’s not important. There’s plenty of entertainment to be found without those.
- Comment on Anon's dad is a tailor 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 2 weeks ago:
It’s not an analogy. It’s a counterexample. One that is irrelevant because I appear to have misunderstood your argument, but you’re not clarifying, so I have nothing new to add here.
- Comment on Do drug dogs ever get addicted when working or during training? 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah? Then explain how my dog exploded after sniffing out a land mine.
Check. Mate.
- Comment on Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland? 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t they already have control of it through NATO?
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 2 weeks ago:
I’m saying that a definition based on something binary is not necessarily binary.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 2 weeks ago:
The only thing in this list that I relate to is the masking, so I’ll address that
Yes, we all conform and hide parts of ourselves in public, doesn’t mean you can’t “be yourself”.
As I understand it, when a neurotypical person is hiding parts of themselves, it’s something like “I don’t want anyone to know I’m into Taylor Swift”. So just don’t talk about it. It’s that simple. For me, I have to think about every word I say because no one interprets things literally. If someone asks me whether or not I like Taylor Swift and I want to answer in the affirmative, can I just say yes? Or do I need to take note of the day of the week and say no while gesturing wildly with my left hand when it’s a Monday or look 15º to the left from Wednesday to Friday? When we talk about masking, it’s that, applied to every single sentence coming out of your mouth. Comparatively, never talking about Taylor Swift is a trivial task.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 2 weeks ago:
Then I don’t understand your argument. I thought you were saying that since any definition needs to be grounded in the gamete type which is binary, then any definition would necessarily also be binary.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 2 weeks ago:
These are the same individuals that would be ignored by science unless it’s a study specifically on these people. And if they happen to be the subject of study, the resulting paper would be defining the vocabulary they use.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 2 weeks ago:
A bit that can be 0 or 1 is binary. A quantum bit is not binary, even though it’s a linear combination of 0 and 1.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much everyone uses these clickbait titles regardless of whether they give good advice or not. I briefly followed a “finance guru” who does similar stuff with his thumbnails/titles and he just repeats variations of the same advice in every video: 1. Time in the market beats timing the market, and 2. diversify your investments. So far, this has worked out very well for me for the past ten years, but who knows if it’s going to continue trending upwards.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 4 weeks ago:
Can you use that gift card anywhere? If yes, then first convert it to cash. Your parents may be covering all your expenses, but they still need to buy groceries. The next time they do, ask them to use your gift card and give you the equivalent amount in cash. Now you have more flexibility to do whatever you want with that cash. Buy something nice, save/invest, etc. You have plenty of advice from others on this already.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think this infographic makes sense then. If it’s cooked, then it should go the other way around. For the same cooking time, finely minced would give you milder flavours while larger pieces maintain more of the pungency.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 5 weeks ago:
all of your beliefs, passions, interests, social expectations, public perception, and many, many other things are impacted by gender
That’s all through societal expectations though, isn’t it? You can take any of these things and find that they’re associated with different genders in different places around the world and different time periods. I don’t think it would make sense to say that a trans person is only trans in a specific place and time.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 5 weeks ago:
I agree. But if I give you table sugar and you tell me it’s spicy, then that’s not a question of spice tolerance. You just don’t know what the word spicy means.
Although, come to think of it, if you think ketchup is spicy, you may want to check if you’re allergic to one of the ingredients. Regular ketchup is absolutely not spicy.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 5 weeks ago:
It’s paid, but (at least in my case) doesn’t pay that much. It’s barely enough to live off of if you’re really careful with your money. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without accumulating significant savings beforehand.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 5 weeks ago:
Anything else it’s comparable with a random person on the street.
I’d say we’re actually worse than the average person at everything else. Too much of our brain is allocated to our research.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 5 weeks ago:
PhD level of sufficiently regular but transient discipline and hyperfocus.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 5 weeks ago:
Implying that ketchup is spicy at all?
