taiyang

@taiyang@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a post the other day pronouncing female like tamale and it made me take a while to read this post and made it a little more fun, too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad got a gimmicky aurora beaming lamp thing and it’s kinda cool but if it was mine I 100% would set it up in my kitchen for this exact reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never buying milk from Walmart again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I found that odd for a Lemmy post but also, one year milk is in much worse condition than this image. Unless they froze it for clout? Why go through the trouble?

  But that just makes me wonder even more why that is blocked out, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denuvo has been removed from Dead Island 2⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the fucks been trying to pirate Dead Island 2, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A little known fact that may describe YOU⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, brushing at least once a day while depressed is still an accomplishment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything has a bit of overlap⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, you could give me a multi-million dollar grant and I will wouldn’t want to work with cockroaches, lol. (But then again, that’s what grad students are for…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything has a bit of overlap⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the older social psych frameworks called Social Facilitation says that when we feel watched by others, how comfortable we are with the task determines if we improve or get worse. I’m of course simplifying for Lemmy but you can look to that framework easily.

  They tested it with shoe tying vs putting on lab gear, measuring time to finish in the presence of others. Shoe tying got faster while lab gear, being unfamiliar, was slower.

  I often give a more modern but dated example as when I play Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, I tend to do choke, because it’s not really my genre, but of the same era I tend to show off if I’m playing Metal Gear Solid 2, except the skateboard level of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only we knew...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, yes and no. I live where gang tags and random acts of vandalism are rather a frequent occurrence so when I say graffiti removal, I’m thinking that. Things like that only work to harm our neighborhood, defacing our storefronts and public transit and making people feel less safe in their community.

  But yes, some forms of graffiti are expression and art. Nazis would take pleasure in removing that we aren’t for that, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Velma can't math.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  … Why not just copy the meme they’re referencing? It’s like they’re intentionally trying to screw this up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do they want me to fuckin' honk or not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honk - Honk for President 2004.

  My other honk is a honk.

  My child was honk of the month at honk honk high honk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only we knew...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the death penalty?

  Suspected Nazis should be given community service to work in soup kitchens, clean graffiti and pickup trash and such in majority black and brown neighborhoods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨passage of time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, 2025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moon talk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be because the moon is falling in 3 days.

  Which… I guess is due to capitalism (Happy Mask Salesman peddling Majora’s Mask) or maybe the male loneliness epidemic (Skull Kid has no friends).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would I buy this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Marketing weirdly effective, for one. They pump a large portion of their budgets into hype and they make just enough back to keep going. It’s like the same people who watch an ad for a fast food place and go even though it’s never as advertised.

  And most isn’t direct marketing. They very much pay influencers to buy this slop and worse. You pay a half million to a guy to make something look popular and it becomes popular. It’s very annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be a good thing in the timeline where governments actually gave a shit and we had universal basic income for everyone. No human should have to slave away for 8+ hours a day just to survive when most work can be automated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Box labeled “burnt to a crisp” and put everything in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These are your only alternatives. ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you on this, I think. It’s not the best spoon but I bet it’s got an eerie glow to it, and perhaps shines blue when in the presence of milk or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like the search summary problem, only worse. Before, people lost traffic already cause Google would try to answer the question with a snippet from your site; however, LLMs (or at least ChatGPT) are trained on Wikipedia, because it’s available data. With Reddit being first, Wikipedia being the second largest source of facts they used (at least, according to statista).

  Side note, you’re not even supposed to source facts from Reddit or Wikipedia, they’re better for finding other sources. It’s like a game of telephone, at the tertiary source you’re getting even less accurate information. It’s just oh so stupid the direction end users are herded towards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I do it at least 35 times just in case⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it’s also because they’ve got healthier bodies or less stress or something. In any case, a wank a day keeps the doctor away?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm… maybe. The state of the world has been pretty awful for the past year so I imagine that plays a part. Aside from trolls, lots of us are on edge as the whole world seems to tilt right with propaganda and AI.

  That said, I like us.

  I browse bluesky too and find I actually prefer Lemmy because it’s a bit more self-policing… Like regarding AI slop, bluesky is fucking rampant with it, like Trump dressed as a clown or Newsom with abs, it’s fucking awful. Lemmy has a couple communities for AI but on average, you try that shit and you’ll get publicly shamed. That could be considered mean, but I appreciate it (especially if it’s AI I can’t even tell).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays DOOM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They certainly want to blow a load in some cows, boy howdy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh cool, now let’s do Loss 2 with a bad ending to this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California signs first US law regulating AI chatbots, defying White House stance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d certainly welcome more people to my state, but it’s not perfect. CA does have some of the best policies and is often a trendsetter, but plenty of bad ones get by, too, like propositions passed with sneaky language. We got flack for the prison slavery one that was a proposition, for instance.

  Still miles above some other states though. I genuinely am concerned for places like Oklahoma, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, etc., especially since I’m an education professional…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bye Bye Existence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t mean to make any claim, lol, 5 seconds would be nothing and I’m trying to be funny in the vain it no O2 being not a big deal at 5 seconds.

  We had an ozone crisis before, although it is serious if it’s something closer to an hour. People got sunburned in 15 minutes quite easily, though, and skin cancer is linked to it.

  The atmosphere does block a lot of cosmic ray junk, but that’s a collective effort. I forget the details, but think very high frequency gamma rays. But that’s not ozone alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bye Bye Existence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on you, it’s secret answer 3, all O3 (ozone) disappeared for five seconds and everyone got wicked sunburns as a result.

  Well, maybe not a full sunburn. But you’d get mighty uncomfortable in the sun for those five seconds!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, TIL. Neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big savings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As did I. As did I. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like duck.ai but yes, anonymous or not, never submit private data to a third party. I often warm my wife about that, I don’t think she should even share secrets over SMS, let alone a third party app.

  Though, interestingly, her company does have a private server hosting a closed off version of ChatGPT explicitly for this reason, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I however found it mildly interesting that Zohran Mamdani was making this part of the issues he’s messaging about for NYC, to at least drive down the price for locals. Free childcare, public owned groceries, sure, but FIFA tickets? Yet this graphic kinda puts that in perspective, so I get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simpler times?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of the double standard with teacher sexual abuse. Male teacher abuses student, pedophile. Female teacher abuses student, “wish I was him” (unless she was deemed ugly, and even then).

  Things don’t change much, although it doesn’t help when people forget men can be victimized, too.