kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on Maybe hes into it 21 hours ago:
Maybe this supposed to read like an incantation, like Power Word: Pain
Wizard Nut: Grindr
- Comment on Contributing to the local economy 22 hours ago:
In 20 years, it’ll be a temperate climate.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 1 day ago:
Time to switch to Marvel Flatpak
- Comment on Should parents be allowed to euthanize their children if they have a diagnosis that just isn't worth dealing with? 3 days ago:
Idk man, kids can adapt to pretty much any condition. It’s mostly other people’s reactions that make it hard. I don’t think you make that better by saying they’re justified in their prejudices.
- Comment on 2016-2020 vibes at the start of this quarter century 3 days ago:
For whom
- Comment on Good morning I choose redneck air conditioner. 3 days ago:
My sister had a Plymouth Duster with little flaps under the dash that you could open to vent in some air from the outside.
The faster you go, the cooler you are. And also cooler.
- Comment on Par for the course 1 week ago:
This is why a positive kind of masculinity also needs to reject patriarchy and capitalism.
“Producing more than you take” doesn’t have to mean money. (Though I did mean money in my original comment, cuz Zuck is a greedy monster.)
Just listening to people more than you demand to be listened to. Doing chores that you know your friends and family hate. Sharing your knowledge. Cooking. Fixing things. There are so many ways you can contribute to your group that don’t take money, and don’t even take much time.
Being financially responsible and helping people when you can is important, don’t get me wrong.
But seeing your worth in purely financial terms is really limiting and unhealthy for the individual, and also tends to create perverse hierarchies inside of families.
- Comment on Par for the course 1 week ago:
Masculinity isn’t just for men. Just like femininity isn’t just for women. A healthy person has a mix of these qualities, along with many others that we don’t tend to align with a specific gender.
When I say “a real man”, I don’t mean it as an objective assessment to stick a person neatly into one of two piles. That’s not how gender works, and it’s not how being a person in general works.
What I mean is that if you’re indulging in behavior like belittling other people for fun or “cool points”, or using your power or physical strength to get what you want, and calling that “being a man”, then your idea of manhood is a mirage. If you want to aspire to something based on your male gender identity, aspire to humility, vigilance, and service to others. Those are great qualities that anyone can have, but they’re especially important for men if we’re gonna have a respectful and productive society.
- Comment on Par for the course 1 week ago:
He’s right about one thing: There is a serious lack of actual masculinity among our leaders.
Most public figures who try to present some form of “masculinity” are just desperate and petty, willing to sacrifice nothing to earn their status, and eager to degrade others to look better by comparison.
A real man produces more than he needs, but takes only that much and ensures the rest goes to those who are less able to sustain themselves. They protect the defenseless, elevate those who are ignored, and invest in a future they won’t personally live to enjoy.
Show me a real man among you. It’s not femininity keeping you from finding one. It’s your own greed and hubris.
- Comment on Dylan is my new soulmate. 1 week ago:
“Dropped a pork chop” is slang, pretty sure
- Comment on Childhood in the 80s 1 week ago:
lightening
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 1 week ago:
They just use the inspect tool to edit your balance client side
I think you’re thinking of scenarios where you’re on a call with the scammer and they’ve remoted into your machine.
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 2 weeks ago:
If I’m not gonna quickly form an opinion on something I just saw for the first time and immediately proclaim it to millions of strangers in a way it can never be deleted, then what’s the point?
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 2 weeks ago:
Anyone but Brice, tbh.
- Idk what’s supposed to be bad about getting engaged
- Everyone farts
- I like Radiohead
- Natural deodorant works fine for a lot of people
- Most people I’ve known who do crossfit have been very aware that talking about it is a meme
- Dudes who are super old and still working tend to be fun
- HR folks have a lot ot useful info for getting the most out of your employment
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Might is right, might is clown 2 weeks ago:
“I’m struggling to get by. We need to revolt.”
“Agreed. Who will start?”
“Not me. I’m struggling to get by.”
- Comment on Generative A.I. a Parasitic Cancer 2 weeks ago:
Oh shit. New Freya dropped?! On AI?!?!?!
Anything she uploads is well worth an hour or two of my time.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 2 weeks ago:
If you get the washer, don’t slack on safety. That shit’ll mess you up in a millisecond.
- Comment on I could be friendly... *for money*! 2 weeks ago:
Remember when this was the meaning of “emotional labor”? Rather than “relationships require effort”?
- Comment on Don't give up! 3 weeks ago:
The ATM is the most manipulative machine on the casino floor.
$10 fee to withdraw $20? That’s 50%! Better bump it up to $40 so you get a better deal. And while you’re at it, $60 sounds even safer.
Knowing this ahead of time, you might hit a branch ATM on the way, but now you’ve just moved the dilemma: How much is enough to make sure you don’t pay a single fee?
Hard to correctly anticipate if you’re going as a group and don’t know how long you’ll spend on the floor or what games they like to play etc.
So once again you’re incentivized to overestimate and load up on cash. And if you do end up going to the ATM despite this, you better believe you’re gonna “make it worth it” even more than before.
- Comment on I'm literally a thinking lump of fat 4 weeks ago:
If by consciousness, you just mean thinking, then sure.
But if you mean awareness — “phenomena”, if you prefer — then I don’t see why an experiential state would (or could) be secondary to a physical state.
It is, after all, possible for me to write words and perform other physical actions based on my experiential state. In many ways, my mental world is more “real” than the physical world.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think rejecting physicalism necessarily requires embracing the idea of a soul. I’m an atheist, and a neutral monist, for example. But if I had to choose between only physicalism and idealism, idealism makes more sense. Before anything else, I’m conscious.
- Comment on Which game has your favourite dodges? 4 weeks ago:
Smash Bros
Omega Boost
Prince of Persia trilogy
Most of those also have blocking, so I think the relationship between dodge and block is essential in those cases.
A good dodge doesn’t feel better or worse than a block, just useful for different scenarios.
- Comment on Reading into something that is said 4 weeks ago:
It’s a common misconception that governments need to collect tax money so that they can finance public works.
In reality, any government that issues its own currency can technically spend as much as it wants to, whether it has the tax base to balance it out or not.
The only reasons to tax are to limit inflation, balance the wealth distribution, and maintain an incentive for people to actually care about your currency.
- Comment on My post was removed because it was not political? 5 weeks ago:
!lotrmemes@midwest.social
- Comment on Interesting. It's a constant reminder 5 weeks ago:
On the one hand, it’s depressing because people seem to care more about fitting in than being rational.
But on the other hand, it’s reassuring that we’re so eager to solve things collaboratively that we’re willing to set aside our own personal opinions.
Our relentless obsession with social connection will either be the thing that kills us or the thing that saves us. And I honestly have NO idea which.
- Comment on Interesting. It's a constant reminder 5 weeks ago:
I recall there was a story from Predictably Irrational where the experimenters were trying to figure out how to get participants to avoid double-dipping tortilla chips.
Along with a control condition, they tried setting up a sign that said “NO DOUBLE DIPPING”, and I think they also tried paying people or getting them to promise not to double dip, stuff like that.
The thing they found most successful was to set up two bowls of dip: One labeled “For double-dipping”, and one “Not for double-dipping”.
They supposed that once they had to do a physical action where they sorted themselves according to “what kind of person they are”, they wanted all of their visible actions to be consistent with that.
- Comment on Can governments compell mobile app developers to push out targeted updates as a privilege escalation or pivot point on a "suspect's" device? 1 month ago:
Probably, but they don’t really have to. Exploiting the OS itself is way better.
- Comment on I get it, but you're both part of a bigger problem. 1 month ago:
I can understand that take, but to me the more relevant comparison is the fossil fuel boom.
Like the advent of more powerful creative tools (camera, printing press, etc.), fossil fuels allowed us to do what we were already doing but faster.
Unlike a camera, though… Coal, oil, and gen AI all have to pull raw material from somewhere in order to operate, and produce undesired byproducts as a result of their operation.
In the early days of fossil fuel, it must been impossible to even conceive the thought that there might be limits to how much we could safely extract raw materials or dump hazardous residual crud.
From one person’s perspective, the world seems so impossibly large. But it turns out, there are limits, and we were already well on our way to exceeding them by the time we realized our predicament.
I think we’re sprinting towards discovering similar constraints for our information systems.
It won’t be exactly the same, and much like climate change I don’t think there will be a specific minute of a specific day where everything turns to shit.
But I think there are instructive similarities:
- The most harmful kinds of gen AI, as with fossil fuels, will have the highest ROI.
- There will be safe, responsible ways to use it, but it will be difficult to regulate from the top down and full of perverse incentives to cheat from the bottom up.
- It will probably continue to accelerate even as the problems become more noticeable and disruptive.
- It will be next to impossible to undo the damage at a significant scale.
- Comment on I get it, but you're both part of a bigger problem. 1 month ago:
If you dislike vapid slop that’s designed to maximize adherence to opaque and fickle metrics, you might wanna reconsider whether gen AI is fine and unrelated to the problem.
We’re seeing the genesis of the information equivalent of Kessler Syndrome here. Toxic promotion algorithms are quaint, comparatively.
- Comment on I get it, but you're both part of a bigger problem. 1 month ago:
What’s the “bigger problem”?
