Pelicanen
@Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Defeat 2 days ago:
“And I had to do all this just to say that the environment is fucked.”
- Comment on Long Cow is coming 2 weeks ago:
Are you always this angry? Doesn’t it get exhausting?
- Comment on Anon thinks about CPUs 3 weeks ago:
I took a course in computing systems engineering which was basically going all the way from semiconductors up to operating systems and it was incredibly interesting.
One of the things that surprised me was how easy it was to abstract away the lower-level complexity as soon as you got one step up. It’s kind of like recursive Lego pieces, you only have to design one piece then you can use a bunch of those to design another piece, then use a bunch of those to design another, and so on. By the end you have several orders of magnitude of the fundamental pieces but you don’t really think about them anymore.
- Comment on Me to myself everyday. 4 weeks ago:
Does that include sleeping consistently at least 8 hours a night for at least a few weeks straight? In my experience, sleeping long after not getting enough sleep makes you feel even more tired the first few days.
- Comment on Me to myself everyday. 4 weeks ago:
How much sleep do you get? I’ve found that getting 8 hours of sleep and then getting up immediately when the alarm rings is the best way for me to get started in the day; waiting too long with getting up, getting dressed, or getting started just makes me more drowsy and adds mental inertia.
Naturally we’re all individuals, so what works for me may not be right for someone else.
- Comment on Marxist Financial Advice 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s meant to be a joke.
- Comment on It is apparently controversial 5 weeks ago:
Let me know when you want to have a conversation instead of arguing in bad faith. Aside from that I suggest you learn how to be less angry about things on the internet, it’ll make you happier.
- Comment on It is apparently controversial 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if you’re trolling or not but “black people are dangerous thugs” is very clearly a racist generalizing statement.
- Comment on It is apparently controversial 5 weeks ago:
That is, at least to me, is both a bit of a strawman and an invalid comparison.
First: The statement “black people are” implies it applies to all of them, or at least the average person, whereas the sentiment that I usually see isn’t that all men are dangerous but rather that some are and it’s difficult, if not impossible, to know which are beforehand.
Second: Men have not been marginalized, discriminated, and systematically oppressed for centuries. People of color have been, at the very least in the west and the countries they’ve colonized.
There’s an additional point to be made here that I feel is relevant: Ethnicity does not inherently infer a large difference in physical characteristics the same way biological sex does. I don’t imagine the strength of an average person varies as much depending on ethnicity as it does depending on biological sex. The average man is much physically stronger than the average woman, in a physical confrontation she’d be at a distinct disadvantage.
- Comment on It is apparently controversial 1 month ago:
I think you hit on something that is a pretty big part of the problem: Men taking it personally. As far as I know, no specific man is mentioned, but a lot seem to insert themselves into the situation.
I try to do my best in life to be a good person, to be a good man, but I completely get why a woman would be worried about being in the middle of nowhere with a strange man, even if that man was me, because they don’t know what that person is capable of.
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 1 month ago:
If you encounter a black bear, make yourself big and threatening. If attacked, fight back.
If you encounter a brown bear, stay facing it but avoid eye contact and back away slowly. If attacked, play dead.
If you encounter a polar bear, pray for a quick death.
- Comment on please tell your husband hello 1 month ago:
It clearly just needs to lose an electron first.
- Comment on Interview 2 months ago:
Silvio Berlusconi, former prime minister of Italy.
- Comment on Sales technique 5 months ago:
Honest question: Why? Muscles aren’t hard when they’re relaxed, a muscular person would still be soft and cuddly if they’re not flexing.
- Comment on Statistics in a nutshell 6 months ago:
The mathematician misses three feet to the left and the physicist misses three feet to the right. If you take the average of those two, like in statistics, it’s right in the middle and would hit the deer.
- Comment on My taste in women be like. 6 months ago:
If this isn’t a fetish, I can assure you that it’s not worth it. Get some friends, a hobby, a bodypillow, and some ethically sourced porn, it’ll save you both your money and your sanity.
- Comment on I know it's one of you guys 6 months ago:
You should wash under there with lukewarm water or, if you absolutely feel the need to, gentle soap that is specifically made for cleaning your privates. Doing it with regular soap can cause issues.
Source: Have foreskin, washed with soap, talked with doctor.
- Comment on I know it's one of you guys 6 months ago:
Men have a similar, although not as sensitive, environment under their foreskin as women do, so it’s not just the urethra that is the issue. That being said, the consequences of that are usually limited to itchiness and a smell, and not a full-blown infection.
- Comment on Sleepover at a friend's 6 months ago:
Bottoms need a top, it is only natural.
- Comment on The citrus gives it toxic damage too 8 months ago:
- Comment on Do they also know C++ or Python? 10 months ago:
Yes, but the prerequisite is kind of that they will wreck the west (which is the main region keeping English as the lingua franca) but not the other regions when the west is likely going to be less impacted by a lot of issues than other parts of the world, for example just due to geography.
- Comment on Do they also know C++ or Python? 10 months ago:
The thing is, we can’t exactly go by history since we’ve never been as interconnected as we are now. Intercontinental travel could just be seen as just a huge step up in transportation compared to the past but the internet has fundamentally changed how we communicate. When it comes to technology and science, English is the de facto standard and it’s gonna take something pretty huge to disrupt that.
- Comment on Do they also know C++ or Python? 10 months ago:
Why would the lingua franca change again? No type of Chinese, Indian, nor any African language has even remotely the same spread as English does. I’d wager some proficiency in English exist in a sizeable part of the population in almost every country on earth, same can’t be said for most other languages (if any).
- Comment on I love d 10 months ago:
How do you know they don’t have a dick filter?
- Comment on Please fix Rule 1. 10 months ago:
If we were talking about defederating from instances that promote pedophilia, would you still consider it a shitty feature?
Federation, or defederation, is kind of the core of a federated platform. Having different instances with different rules would make moderation impossible if defederation did not exist, maybe not in most cases but at the very least when it comes to fringe groups having their own instances.
- Comment on Well...that was anticlimactic 10 months ago:
The information doesn’t have to be evidence of aliens existing to be “urgent and credible”, the statement says “The ICIG found Mr. Grusch’s assertion that information was inappropriately concealed from Congress to be urgent and credible in response to the filed disclosure.” which could mean it can just be about the organizational structure is the agencies, for example.
And I wasn’t going to mention it but this is the second time you bring up Snowden, who neither “[dumped] his load” nor “defected to Russia”. He released information that the US government was illegally spying on its own citizens as well as its allies in a much broader way than anyone outside imagined. He was then stuck at an airport in Russia because the US government revoked his passport during a flight that landed there. He has repeatedly asked for a fair, public trial instead of being put in a dark box at Guantanamo and received no agreement of that from the US government so he’s stayed in one of the only places where he won’t be extradited to a country that intends to make him disappear. Since then, he’s criticized authoritarianism and governmental overreach while living in one of the most brutal dictatorships on earth, which takes more balls than either of us have.
- Comment on Well...that was anticlimactic 10 months ago:
So that says nothing about the information itself but rather just goes on about credentials and employment, with a tidbit about not leaking classified information. It does not provide any justification as to why this person’s claims should be believed rather than just “he worked there”.
- Comment on How much did photography "stole" painter jobs ? 10 months ago:
The thing is, with a certain model you could get a perfect 1:1 copy but that’s not really the point. I have a degree that includes machine learning and I believe it’s imperative that we have legislation that protects content owners and puts restrictions on what data you’re allowed to use to train your models. Not because I don’t understand but because I do understand.
Haphazardly introducing this technology at a large scale in society will come with serious consequences, not to mention the consequences to privacy if we don’t curtail what data that companies are allowed to scrape from the internet just because they throw in buzzwords about “AI” in somewhere.
This is fundamentally not about being pro-technology or anti-technology, it’s about how we value private citizens versus corporations.
- Comment on Poor good boi 11 months ago:
While it could naturally be possible to have a dog live on a vegan diet, I would never recommend that anyone does it without significant communication with veterinarians and other professionals in dog health. It is very easy to cause dietary deficiencies in your dog and cause very harmful, possibly irreparable damage in the process. It’s also important to note that it’s much more complex than just looking at nutrient contents since the way that a dog’s body processes food differs significantly from how a human’s does.
Dogs come from a long evolutionary line that has adapted to a diet that includes animal products for millions of years, haphazardly removing animal products from their diet without preventing the possible consequences for doing so is animal cruelty.