Boddhisatva
@Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump’s pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics ran Twitter account with sexually degrading, bigoted attacks 2 days ago:
Here you go - archive.is/0gtMe#selection-2575.187-2579.114
- Comment on Chirp in Fahrenheit 3 days ago:
Left side is wrong too. -10 Fahrenheit is colder than -20 Fahrenheit apparently.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 3 days ago:
You’re not wrong. Everything orbits the center of mass of the system, meaning the mass of the star and the body in orbit. And that is handy for astronomers, many exoplanets have been found using the Doppler spectroscopy method. Doppler spectroscopy measures the Doppler shift in the star’s light as it is pulled towards and away from us by planets in orbit. The newest spectrographs are sensitive enough to detect a star’s wobble caused by an Earth sized body in orbit. The barycenter is still within the star, but not at the center of the star’s mass.
- Comment on Is this Lemmy thread full of bots/ Fake comments? 5 days ago:
That’s just… wow.
- Comment on Is this Lemmy thread full of bots/ Fake comments? 6 days ago:
I’m guessing someone’s bot glitched. A quick scroll down the thread and I saw this removed comment with 2,380 replies under it.
When I expanded the replies, I a single reply that itself had been replied to thousands of times and virtually all those replies were from the same user, NoMoreTrds.
That does seem like it has to be a bot glitch doesn’t it? I have to admit that I did chuckle briefly at the realization that user a9cx34udP4ZZ0 must have had a major WTF moment when they opened Lemmy at some point and saw that they had over 2,000 messages in their inbox.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It is legal in some places including Oregon, if you live in the United States under the Death with Dignity Act passed in October, 1997. I don’t know much about it other than the name, but if you are in the states you can check their web page for details and requirements.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 1 week ago:
And this isn’t just the lead and the love interest: supporting characters look this way too, and even villains (frequently clad in monstrous makeup) are still played by conventionally attractive performers. Even background extras are good-looking, or at least inoffensively bland. No one is ugly. No one is really fat. Everyone is beautiful.
Heh, this reminds me of this scene in Last Action Hero (Just watch until 1:34 or so for the scene I’m referring to.
Honestly though, I think this might be starting to change. Looking at shows like Resident Alien and Wheel of Time, for example, there are plenty of casting choices that go against that trend. Now, I’m not saying anyone in these shows is ugly or anything like that, but there are a lot of folks being cast who are not “classic Hollywood pretty” and it’s very nice to see. I like seeing people playing the everyday Joe art who actually looks like an everyday Joe. It really breaks immersion for me when the “ugly girl” part is played by someone who is beautiful dressed in a frumpy outfit.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 1 week ago:
We’re so conditioned to think realistic violence in games is fine, but realistic sex in games is “wrong” or “sad”.
Not just in games. In all media. You bring to mind a great quote from George R. R. Martin.
“I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.”
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks Wins Two Hugo Awards, Celebrating Series Finale and 'Warp Your Own Way' Graphic Novel 3 weeks ago:
I agree about Prodigy. It was a really good show.
- Comment on Just watched this video yesterday called "we're not ready for superintelligence" Is there any truth to it? 3 weeks ago:
I lean towards 20-30 years if ever for AGI, but that assumes the world doesn’t fall apart from climate collapse before then. Severity and frequency of once in a lifetime weather calamities has increased dramatically. Over one week this year, the USA had 4 separate once in a thousand year flooding events. And there’s no reason to think that this will decrease.
I think the struggle to survive and recover from disasters and maintain food and energy production will impede major development in this area.
- Comment on The guy President Trump nominated to lead the US Bureau of Labor Statistics 3 weeks ago:
He’ll fit right in with the administration, honestly. He probably already has a friend over in the Justice Department. Former FBI agent, Jared Wise, who was pardoned mid-trial for his crimes on Jan-6 is now a senior advisor over there. I bet there’s a bunch of Jan-6ers working all over this administration.
“You guys are disgusting,” Wise told the officers, as captured in the bodycam footage. “I’m former law enforcement. You’re disgusting. You are the Nazi. You are the Gestapo.”
Wise had served at the FBI from 2004 to 2017, where he worked on international counterterrorism and eventually became a supervisory special agent. By Jan. 6, 2021, according to later testimony, he was working as a consultant in Bend, Ore., and he traveled to Washington, D.C., to support Trump.
As he stood in front of the police line, he continued to berate the officers.
“Shame on you,” he yelled. “Shame on you. Shame on you.”
Violence erupted again, as rioters pushed against officers, knocking one to the ground, according to prosecutors.
“Kill 'em! Kill 'em!” Wise yelled, as he watched the skirmish. “Get 'em! Get 'em!”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Every single post I can see for OP is now “deleted by creator”
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 3 weeks ago:
More like illegal to wear anywhere in the USA considering that we’re quickly becoming a surveillance state.
- Comment on JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip 4 weeks ago:
Next he’ll make his
dogcouch a fucking senator. - Comment on Soup of Theseus 5 weeks ago:
Just like when you’re shaving the pubes of a bear you’ll have to draw the line somewhere.
I feel seen.
- Comment on How active is too active while being on lemmy? 1 month ago:
There are some power posters here with agendas who are annoying AF
Yeah, I’ve seen a few users that post a dozen or more times an hour, 16 hours per day, and it’s all pushing the same agenda.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
Delaying a game like this relatively last-minute and giving it an extra year of development is waaaay more expensive than the bonuses would have been.
Is it still more expensive if they just shelve it and pretend to give it extra development? I haven’t seen any details on why it wasn’t ready for release or what they are changing or adding? A quarter billion dollars in savings seems like pretty good motivation for a company to park a project for 6 to 12 months.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not as long as people keep voting for republicans and moderate democrats.
- Comment on Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton is believed to have... - ESPN 2 months ago:
Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton is believed to have suffered a strained right calf and will undergo an MRI to determine the severity of the strain, sources tell ESPN.
Saved you a click
- Comment on “Production” to describe multiplication? 2 months ago:
It still is, and I think it’s universal for the English speaking parts of the world.
The result of addition is the sum.
The result of subtraction is the difference.
The result of multiplication is the product.
The result of division is the quotient.
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 3 months ago:
Those ending in a ‘-t’ are archaic forms left over from Middle English.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You can learn to consciously control a lot of things that various ‘lie detectors’ monitor. I took a stress management/biofeedback class in college where we learned to raise and lower galvanic skin response, heart rate, and blood pressure. It was a fun class, and in learning to control them, you can also reduce the chance of getting a false positive by keeping any of those variables from drifting to far from the expected range.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
“There’s no unique physiological sign of deception. And there’s no evidence whatsoever that the things the polygraph measures — heart rate, blood pressure, sweating, and breathing — are linked to whether you’re telling the truth or not,” says Leonard Saxe, a psychologist at Brandeis University who’s conducted research into polygraphs. In an exhaustive report, the National Research Council concluded, “Almost a century of research in scientific psychology and physiology provides little basis for the expectation that a polygraph test could have extremely high accuracy.”
The real question is, why do people think that they work? Why do government agencies use them to grant clearances when there is no evidence that they can reliably detect falsehoods and ample evidence that they are known to give false positives when people are actually telling the truth?
Go take some classes on stress management and biofeedback and learn to control all those things they are testing for. Then you won’t need to worry about what the questioners mean when they ask you something.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 3 months ago:
To confirm your identity…
Yeah, bullshit. This is to help train their facial recognition AI.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I tend to heat fer-uh-ner
- Comment on Can you put a ship inside a Klein bottle? 3 months ago:
Either that or everything is in every Klein bottle.
That would still be a no because no ship can be put in a Klein bottle if every ship is already in the Klein bottle.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Against Epic Games Due To A.I. Darth Vader 3 months ago:
A little more than that, actually.
The company says Llama Productions chose to replace human performers’ work with AI technology but did so “without providing any notice of their intent to do this and without bargaining with us over appropriate terms.” As such, SAG-AFTRA has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the company with the NLRB.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Fair point but I’m not sure that naming every permutation is possible. We might be better off trying to make do with charts or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I think trying to define it is fairly pointless. We love what we love and we lust what we lust. Rather than defining it, I wish we could all just accept that and stop hating people for having different preferences.
- Comment on The original Technoviking video 4 months ago:
Here is an article about it.
After three years of wrangling, a decision was reached in court: Fritsch was forced to agree to only use the video if he manipulates the images in such a way that he can’t be identified. Despite this, there’s a sense that the horse has very much bolted. Fritsch might have been gagged, but there are hundreds of other artists who have made derivative works that will remain online. “It’s too late. That’s the whole absurdity of the trial.”
In addition to censoring the video, Fritsch must pay the plaintiff €8,000 – the vast majority of the money he made from the video. That’s on top of the €7,000 in legal bills. He says that the trial will bankrupt him.
