j4k3
@j4k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon goes to a steakhouse 3 days ago:
I was into cars, like seriously. Super charged camaro with an old roots blower level serious. I had a heart thing one night in a Target and asked myself after, what good is it all if I can’t hotrod me. Four years later I was racing bicycles and 160 pounds lighter.
After the 7th car to hit me broke my neck and back, I shifted into Arduino and compute stuff. I can do KiCAD, analog and digital hardware design and etch my own boards.
I can’t really go anywhere any more, so I mess around with rooftop astronomy from time to time. Like I make eye pieces and have a little azimuth telescope hacked with a ESP32.
I’m usually into the basal stuff. So like If I take a pottery class, I might play along for awhile but I am looking to learn and do other things. I am not interested in just the typical art. I’m looking at how to build the kiln, metal casting, and the supporting ceramics I can feasibly make versus buy. I would absolutely love to be Ben on Applied Science and have a lab like his. Controlling heat is a big part of that. The easiest entry point to said heat is pottery. The most expensive technique for getting into a new technology like kilns is to blindly start buying junk. You’ll save a ton of money and time just taking that pottery class and getting practically familiar with the tools and limitations in a space where you can ask experienced people questions.
Here is the thing: if you were in solitary or you had ALS, you likely would not give up. While you likely believe your interests and capabilities define you, they will not help you in a situation like this. When you are faced with a situation where you are forced to redefine yourself, survival largely pivots on your realization and redefinition for curiosity. Curiosity is the most fundamental force and survival mechanism. Your specialization is fine and admirable but in the worst of situations, it will not save you. In fact it may cause you even more difficulty to overcome. You are human, and likely a survivor. Therefore you are likely far more adaptable than you are aware. Personally, I am not so concerned with someone that shares all of my many interests. I am only concerned with someone that can match my curiosity. We are all only a product of our environment. Someone with a curiosity that rivals my own will always be interesting to me. Our environment will intertwine with time.
I learned the hard way with muses. It is easy for someone to yield to my interests and curiosities, losing themselves to a whirlwind. I change a lot with time, and someone like that never evolves with me. Those were the people that I thought shared my interests and existed in the same space. Those lasted a few years each, but nope, not for me. I want a rival of curiosity, because that is someone I can respect long term.
- Comment on Anon goes to a steakhouse 3 days ago:
Does a good job and tries to be nice.
AYCE McRubber: “shi into me?”I think people are so lost because the primary filter for relationships is having your own place. You know, like having your shit sorted to that minimum is kinda the threshold for most activities in general. It is certainly not some requirement, but it makes a major difference for anything serious, especially when you’re over 25.
Like if you really want to meet someone, just shift your interests around. Pottery, art, kinesiology; any of those will change your exposure to cis relations. Get a job at Michael’s. You won’t last 3 months single.
- Comment on Anon is sick fuck 1 week ago:
Has she learned nothing from pornhub? Like, fucking just get stuck already
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 1 week ago:
Essentially he was. This is him saying I have no moral threshold and am available as an influencer to say and do whatever I am paid for. AKA I am still relevant to your agenda… Call me. It is the same as all the big tech CEOs bending to 47 after bending to diversity initiatives. People with no ethics or morals fly the banner of whomever has control and do so in ways the average person is far too stupid to process. 47 is hard pressed for black and minority supporters. For a leader of dogmatic tribal fools, aka an influencer, the vacuum of minority supporters for 47 is an open bounty for a very large paycheck in exchange for ethics especially in the Southeastern USA where any sway over potential Democratic voters is critical for the fascist republican agenda. Nothing is simple or straight forward when a person is at this level of political engagement and wealth.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 1 week ago:
There are many kinds of whores. Snoop is the fascist kind
- Comment on Anon discovers hygiene 1 week ago:
I don’t fly very often, but when I do, I always get the seat next to this guy
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 week ago:
There is more to the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland than just a children’s story. There are several podcasts and blog posts on this that are easy to find. The book is public domain and on Gutenberg.org. There are also several audio book reads of the original text on YT. It is considered the holotype or foremost representative book in the literary nonsense genre, (the book ends with all of wonderland being a dream).
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 week ago:
I think you need to pick up a book. Maybe get out of the sun. It can be harmful you know, bro
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 week ago:
What is creepy about it? The entire story is really about Alice discovering rules and how she likes them so much. That is very much the world of an 8 year old. Not to mention all of the fanciful characters and tropes that were dreamed up.
There are many academic critiques and studies of the work. It is also central to Open AI’s QKV layers model alignment training. The story is the primary catalyst for creative randomness in terms of internal model thinking in both LLMs and embedding models used in image diffusion. For instance, all of the mechanisms that Alice used to become bigger and smaller are present in diffusion AI models with the caveat that no real person place or thing is present in the prompt. One does not need to bring up the detailed context of the story if one prompts the element with good specificity. A far easier method to play with is to prompt the queen of hearts or Alice as a character in an image using just a foundational base model. It should be quite clear how these images are a bit different in many ways. Those differences are not random and they are persistent across all models. Literary nonsense is the actual randomness that shows up in background objects and clothing in images. Prompting against the abstraction of genre is far more effective than attempting to describe your own details in the prompt with specificity.
In literature in general, Carroll’s work is the holotype for a genre. Analysing the work speaks to the human experience on many levels. The work has long been appreciated by all ages. So I am a bit baffled about what you find creepy about age in any context such as this. Like what kind of assumptions do you possibly feel grounded in here?
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 week ago:
Is Alice 10 in Disney? In Lewis Carroll’s original work she is 8.
- Comment on What’s the plan? 1 week ago:
sorry I have appointment to wash my hair
- Comment on Ideal car 1 week ago:
Super rare cars in the poorer states, where nonconformity is treated like cancer?
- Comment on Ideal car 1 week ago:
Lotus Evora in Alabama? Wat?
- Comment on Placebo meme 1 week ago:
Image is to scale
- Comment on Placebo meme 1 week ago:
It’s not mean. It is nice.
- Comment on Anon is incredulous 1 week ago:
Aristotle? /s
Went down the rabbit hole on this one. I think I side with
Some scholars argue that although Sappho would not have understood modern conceptions of sexuality, lesbianism has always existed and she was fundamentally a lesbian.
We sure do like our tribalism though… crazy homo sapiens. I got love for all.
Anyone got a best of Sappho recommendation for the casual sophist?
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How many are coming
- Comment on China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday 1 week ago:
Testing for gaps to fill before taking Taiwan?
- Comment on Germans will see that this map still has DDR in it. 2 weeks ago:
Error code 196: no slots
- Comment on 0°mg 2 weeks ago:
Is it consensual?
- Comment on Y tho 2 weeks ago:
missing microwave transformer, HHO electrolysis, cellulose, and nitric acid bro… obviously
- Comment on sentence 2 weeks ago:
There are too many possible circumstances to encompass. Intent is the key aspect here. Like if you had some last minute change of heart or empathy, or came to your senses, your intent shows through. You still took actions that society condemns with the intent to kill.
Manslaughter is more like negligence, or really more like indifference to collateral damage.
For instance, texting while driving and hitting and killing someone on a sidewalk is manslaughter. You did not intend to kill or hit anyone, but your lack of ethics have no place in society at large. If that person was your ex, you’ll get first degree murder. If you have a 2 way dash cam that conclusively shows you never looked up or noticed the person, you might get manslaughter charges. If a security camera catches the rear view of the vehicle and there are never taillights and the weight distribution of the vehicle hints at a shift from acceleration, you’ll get first degree murder charges regardless of survival or death. Attempted murder is more like you threatened to run them over but you swerve at the last minute and did not hit them and it is captured on camera, or you cut the brake lines of their car.
- Comment on sentence 2 weeks ago:
Depends on intent
- Comment on This is my 1000th comment from the feddit.org server 🥳 2 weeks ago:
It depends on how the front end counts. They likely see a different number depending on deletions and how they stay in profiles.
- Comment on This is my 1000th comment from the feddit.org server 🥳 2 weeks ago:
Congratulations from my 5611th comment from this account. I’m glad you’re a part of this place!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
He objectifies candy and values it very little. He keeps it imprisoned in a picket. He is not confident enough in his ethics to speak directly and plainly. He uses ambiguity to avoid conflict because he knows of his inadequacy but chooses to mask it for his personal benefit. He has a poor diet to match his ethics with the self control of a child. He believes in a collective fantasy imaginary friend and fictional realm and is therefore a science skeptic with a lack of fundamental logic skills and is likely dominated by unstable emotions and anxiety. He outsources morality to a negative feedback system and is therefore likely masking depression. His poor logic skills likely means any money he has was inherited and will dwindle throughout his life in a long string of poor decision making. If he does not have money, he will never escape his caste in life.
- Comment on It's why the thrift store has so many of them 2 weeks ago:
They have become fairly standard due to consolidation of global manufacturing. I’ve taken apart a half dozen over the last decade and they all had the same slow mains motor and 3 wing drive mechanism. There are probably lots of exceptions, but the parts inside are pretty simple.
- Comment on Truly a 1984 moment 2 weeks ago:
Next administration: report to camps
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 2 weeks ago:
Hey don’t forget flood basalts from all the shifting mass as ice melts. Those are real benders in both climactic directions depending on the composition. We have no idea how those actually start and the timelines involved, just theories and speculation.
