Clent
@Clent@lemmy.world
- Comment on How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks? 1 week ago:
Tell me you don’t have children without telling me you don’t have children.
- Comment on Why There's No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire 1 week ago:
Slay dragons. Don’t worship them.
- Comment on Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks. 3 weeks ago:
City folk here. No I don’t.
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 3 weeks ago:
Clearly those aren’t real scientists. Real scientists have secret labs, where they do secret research.
- Comment on You lost, admit it. 4 weeks ago:
the metaphor refers to physicists’ tendency to develop toy models that reduce a problem to the simplest form imaginable, making calculations more feasible, even if the simplification hinders the model’s application to reality.
So like all of quantum mechanics then.
- Comment on make it make sense 5 weeks ago:
This is true if we ignore monotheism and go with one of the -isms where humanity is god.
- Comment on Is it worth it?? 5 weeks ago:
The actual model required for general purpose likely lies beyond the range of petabytes of memory.
These models are using gigabytes and the trend indicates its exponential. A couple more gigabytes isn’t going to cut it. Layers cannot expand the predictive capabilities without increasing the error. I’m sure a proof of that will be along within in the next few years.
- Comment on Whelp 1 month ago:
Silly prole. Why would I read about Marxism on how to play the stock market?
Go be a good cog now and create that surplus value for me to extract.
- Comment on The spells are spent 1 month ago:
There is a wolf. That’s the literal conclusion to the fable.
- Comment on The spells are spent 1 month ago:
Except when they aren’t baseless but the base gaslights themselves.
- Comment on Whelp 1 month ago:
This is the proletariat view of the world.
For anyone who isn’t just a common wage worker and is aware of how markets work, it is very definitely not the case.
A cog in the machine cannot perceive the machine’s changing output.
- Comment on The most powerful brain on Twitter 1 month ago:
I think that’s a different discussion.m. We can make excuses all day for how people end up with extreme views. It doesn’t change anything. The reason it occurs is part of human nature, a weakness that one has to choose to overcome on a daily basis or not. Choosing wrong too often and there might be no way back.
I find this most evident in people who suddenly shift right when they end up in some sex scandal, they move towards the group that is most forgiving of such events and lose themselves in the shift. Russel Brand and Musk are two examples.
Knowledge seeking for the sake of knowledge seeking is something totally different. It requires accepting one knows nothing and despite all the knowledge gather now knows less. It requires a humility that can be uncomfortable.
Few end up adding significant new knowledge. Those who do maintain a humbleness as the recognize the efforts who came before them.
Those who pretend become exploiters, it takes little effort to reveal their search was only ever for loopholes. Those people are another form of extremist.
- Comment on The most powerful brain on Twitter 1 month ago:
Stupid people don’t know how stupid they are. They reject the very notion. It’s how one stays stupid in a world with all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips.
Turns out access to knowledge was not a threat to the leaders in history. The very idea they were concerns may be oversold.
- Comment on Billie Eilish declares she's 'never' talking about her sexuality or dating life 'ever again' after backlash 2 months ago:
It’s strange because people with a prudish mindset make it weird.
It’s not about an expectation that people talk about, you are part of a group that sets an expectation that people NOT talk about it.
Sex. You wouldn’t exist without.
Gwyneth Paltrow is mentioned zero times in this article. You are the one make this weird.
- Comment on Billie Eilish declares she's 'never' talking about her sexuality or dating life 'ever again' after backlash 2 months ago:
“My experience has been that it’s seen in such a weird way,” Eilish continued. “People are so uncomfortable talking about it, and weirded out when women are comfortable in their sexuality and communicative in it.”
The 22-year-old singer faced backlash over candid comments that she made about sex earlier this year.
That is why people are uncomfortable. Most adults are trapped in a middle schooler mindset regarding the topic. Especially when women’s sexuality.
I don’t like this singer as a performer or a person but I’m not going to get upset because she wants to talk about masturbation.
The comments I’m seeing here are part of the problem. If you don’t like what someone says about a topic, fuck off and don’t listen. You don’t get to gate keep other’s speaking about their lived experiences. Seriously, fuck all the way off.
- Comment on Analyst: Private Polling Shows Kamala Harris Is in Huge Trouble 2 months ago:
Yep. No need for Trump voters to waste any time going to the polls.
- Comment on the flies 2 months ago:
Awesome. Now narrow down the mechanism with further research.
- Comment on #STOPIT 2 months ago:
Soil is the grave yard of the organic matter of our biological ancestors. When you walk on it you desecrate their memories. Pave the planet!
- Comment on What Undecided Voters Look Like To Everyone Else 2 months ago:
But he was on a tv show!
- Comment on Mark Cuban: "The Mainstream Media Truly Leans Right" 2 months ago:
The media is right wing. Even cnn has shifted right to capture viewers.
Turns out the left isnt interested in watching endless hours of repeated editorial content presented as journalism.
So the capitalists have leaned into the market that so willing to listen and that is the right. The mainstream of media has been Fox News for a ver a decade now, so to claim the mainstream isn’t right leaning is to claim that fox doesn’t exist.
It’s fine if the right wants to gaslight themselves as victims. It’s basically expected as this point. The narrative that keeps them tuned into endless new cycles that keep them fearing the larger world all but demands it.
No one expects the right to accept reality. Everyone understands they need comforting lies. Even they know it. They admit it. Then go right back to believing the lies and dismissing their momentary admittance of reality as lie as they bask in the glow of their gaslights.
- Comment on Nancy Pelosi's husband sold more than $500K in Visa stock ahead of DOJ action 2 months ago:
Keyword being did. If you pick the right window of my stock portfolio you could say the same thing.
When one wants to be upset and it’s easiest to be upset about things one doesn’t understand. When someone else starts pulling the levers of one’s misunderstandings, they become a tool.
- Comment on A declaration of war 2 months ago:
Or a mini loaf pan at half the price and twice the capacity.
- Comment on Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole 2 months ago:
Yeah that subreddit in particular went to shit when the news sites started using the posts to generate content.
- Comment on Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs 3 months ago:
I didn’t think it was a bad movie but I’ve never played the video game.
It certainly wasn’t anything amazing but I watch a lot of movies and I’ve seen far worse movies that were touted as cinematic masterpieces.
- Comment on Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals. | Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades. 3 months ago:
Holding someone accountable for their choices isn’t blaming them nor is it attacking them.
- Comment on Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals. | Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades. 3 months ago:
Lack of sympathy is not a form of contempt. Lack of sympathy is form of apathy. Contempt cannot exist where there is apathy.
Your ignorance and suspicions are yours alone and do not transferable to me.
It’s silly and weird for you to make up this story in your head about me and then attack that imagined person.
- Comment on Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals. | Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades. 3 months ago:
They aren’t victims. That’s my point.
I’m sure it fells good for you to feel that they are and that you’re out there defending them.
- Comment on Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals. | Fertilizer made from city sewage has been spread on millions of acres of farmland for decades. 3 months ago:
Hard to have any sympathy for anyone when the problem is one caused by their own voting choices when an alternative exist and they refuse it.
- Comment on What to Know About the Rare Mosquito-Borne Illness Eastern Equine Encephalitis:The disease has caused one death in New Hampshire and the virus has also been identified in humans in neighboring states 3 months ago:
Fuck it. Time to bring back DDT.
- Comment on Sorry 3 months ago:
Sorry for the late response.