Brainsploosh
@Brainsploosh@lemmy.world
- Comment on Jesus Christ 4 days ago:
In English yes, but not in closer languages like Aramaic, Hebrew (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshua)) or Greek (ἰησοῦς (ioesous)).
Source (a little long but interesting read)
- Comment on Jesus Christ 4 days ago:
Should it more accurately be Yesus?
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 2 weeks ago:
Go ahead, cry a little, as a treat
- Comment on Boiling the ocean 2 weeks ago:
Bipartisan is such a weird concept for us living in the rest of the world. We have so many more parties than the two in the US.
- Comment on FAQ: Yes We Suppirt Kinect 5 weeks ago:
Aww, I thought we were talking about Rimworld
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 5 weeks ago:
Thank you, will check it out!
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 5 weeks ago:
I came across the topic of AI security, and been resding up on it, but as I have a weak background in Machine learning, I’m not really able to follow the frontier discourse.
I’d very much appreciate any recommendations as to where to find more foundational level materials for getting into it. Any tips?
- Comment on Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! 1 month ago:
I have a background as a technical specialist and consultant, but not in software. Is the best way to transition through a re-education? Or are there other steps to try out the industry before committing years of school?
Also, how is the career prospects within the current mass IT layoffs?
- Comment on Since cats don't pant like dogs how do they release trapped heat? 1 month ago:
Cats do pant, but also run hotter and enjoy higher temperatures than humans (24-26 °C depending on race).
Also, cats have lots of ways to release heat, cats can arrange their fur to release more heat (or burr it to trap more), they lay on cool ground, they can lick themselves for evaporative cooling, and of course seek shade when it gets hot.
We had a hot summer with temperatures of over 30 °C indoors and I got worried my European shorthair would overheat, got them a gel pad that wicks away heat when laid upon, but they thought it was ridiculous and just laid on the concrete floor in the shade whenever too hot and was super comfy and lazy.
- Comment on Is the Federation "Communist" or Socialist? 3 months ago:
Precisely, so the Federation may be anarchist, even though the member races aren’t.
With what we know about how the Federation interacts with other races and planets, real world logic would indicate that the humans could be (and live) the model that the Federation is built upon.
All this is conjecture ofc, and is probably as much an exercise in understanding post-scarcity anarchism as possible Star Trek lore :p
- Comment on Is the Federation "Communist" or Socialist? 3 months ago:
Which is inherently anarchist :P
As it seems a common confusion in this thread, I repeat, anarchism doesn’t have to be without government or rules, several forms of anarchism are focused on not limiting individuals freedoms and/or not allowing power over eachother. Both of which I believe describe how the Federation works.
- Comment on Is the Federation "Communist" or Socialist? 3 months ago:
That’s one form of it, but there are plenty other schools of thought that overlap quite significantly with the Federation, check out the primer on Wikipedia.
- Comment on Is the Federation "Communist" or Socialist? 3 months ago:
Anarchist doesn’t need to mean without government, simply that no one is above another, which is echoed in how the Federation is structured towards the other races.
- Comment on Is the Federation "Communist" or Socialist? 3 months ago:
I’d say they’re post-scarcity anarchist. There’s no central/communal resource dispersal as needed for socialism, nor the central/communal resource allocation/planning needed for communism.
There’s seemingly no authority outside starfleet exerting any power, nor does anyone ever claim a motivation beyond exploration or study (to do something meaningful). The lack of money and unlimited access to replicated resources pending available dilithium also points to a society without exploitative discrepancies.
The humans also never are reported to have any resource hogging, the only tensions/stratification seem to be militarily (and against external parties also diplomatically), meritocratic, and even then the bottleneck seems mostly to be to not fall behind other races.
I don’t see neither capitalism, socialism, communism, despotism, theocracy, nor fascism, but many aspects of anarchism. If you’ve read anything about The Culture, they openly speak about being anarchist, and it’s very similar to Star Trek.
- Comment on For L.G.B.T.Q. People, Moving to Friendlier States Comes With a Cost 4 months ago:
Friendlier states tend to have higher cost of living
#savedyouaclick
- Comment on Why did they move the comments to the right 7 months ago:
I use Newpipe, it’s not as good as Vanced, but better than reVanced. And good enough that I recoil in horror at the stock app.
- Comment on Why didn't anyone warn me!? 10 months ago:
Oh, so that’s why! Here I thought you were just shufflin
- Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock? 1 year ago:
Does the sun rotate with the disc, and faster?
Wouldn’t sunwise and turnwise be in opposite directions otherwise?
- Comment on How are slavery reparations fair? 1 year ago:
Of course, all the economic rationeles are valid.
They are also not very compelling. If slaver Europe fucked over Africa for a century, should we compensate them only for stolen labor? How about stolen resources? Caused suffering? Lost progress? Lost lives?
How about all the exploitation that has happened since, due to slaver Europe having the upper hand? African labor and resources are still valued lower than in richer countries as local working conditions are still poor and exploitative.
Also, could paying reparations as a lump sum ever measure up to the slow development of infrastructure, knowledge, culture and national pride/trust/stability that comes with building your own wealth?
We have plenty of experience with aid getting stolen by warlords, and grants commonly get lost to corruption, cronies and other misappropriation, even without the warlords.
For the fiscal compensation to make sense, we’re talking orders of magnitude larger sums, and they would have to be given together with labor, knowledge, supportive relations, etc. over decades. And also with much fewer strings than our current economic system allows.
I find that there is no satisfying way to fiscally compensate for a century of exploitation, suffering and oppression, and have found that the sums and arguments are more compelling as an absolution. It’s about the slavers wanting to clear their conscience more than making it right.
It’s not the most noble reason for it, but it seems do do more for that than for the exploited people. Either change what we’re talking about, or face that your reasons are about you, not them.
- Comment on Record number of teachers quit for mental health reasons in 2021 1 year ago:
One simple way is to schedule enough teacher so they have time for documentation, planning, follow-ups and grading during school hours.
That might mean every teacher gets only 2 teaching hours/day to have time to do the rest, could also mean they get support with documentation, follow-ups and similar, through other functions.
Much in the same way as any other job tbh.
- Comment on How much did photography "stole" painter jobs ? 1 year ago:
The difference is that we recognise humans and their history, imperfections and many many influences to be part of what makes both the human and expression unique.
A lot of the discussion doesn’t grant the machine learning models the same inherent worth as humans get, and thus is viewed as a tool trained to replicate others’ work (rather than a creative agent).
This means that where a student painter is expected to have a desire to express something, and are putting in hard work in practice and paying tutors. Replacing them with a machine without desires or stories to express, by stealing artwork without neither credit or compensation, to then replace the same people who’ve been exploited in creating the tool, seems unfair.