PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org
Why don’t you have a second account?
Lazy. Don’t care if my shit gets fucked. But if you do care if your shit gets fucked, then you shouldn’t rely on centralized social media.
—PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@vlemmy.net, Professional Life Regretter, about a week before his shit got fucked
- Comment on Why is deportation done instead of imprisonment or making people become documented? In other words, why does deportation exist? 18 hours ago:
please be sarcastic I beg you
- Comment on This community needs some uplifting posts now more than ever! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Career options 1 week ago:
It sounds to me like you’re flourishing??
I appreciate the sentiment, but it certainly feels like I’m not. More accurately, I really feel like I’m not flourishing in a sustainable way. Sure, the next three months are going to be a lot of fun doing research and finishing up my graduate degree, but what about six months from now when I’m a washed-up graduate with no job and no school again?
but with your skills you are at least able to earn enough scratch to probably achieve a lot of this, especially if you can connect with the right folks.
I applied for over 300 jobs last year with zero offers. I’m autistic and I really have a lot of trouble socializing with people, so I really haven’t been able to connect with the right folks for the most part.
I would be mentally drafting up a plan to trick you into being my friend.
I mean my DMs are open 😆
- Comment on Career options 1 week ago:
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Record/produce/write music, particularly extreme metal. Already achieved some of it on last year. extremely small scale before I went to school for electrical engineering. But I really want to “go pro” and work with other people, build my own studio from the ground up, and bring some technical rigor to music production. For this, I really need independence more than money, because I don’t think I could find a job in engineering if an employer knew I had such a background, but money —> independence.
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Design and build professional audio software and hardware with open source code and open hardware. To that end, I got a degree in electrical engineering and I am taking a digital signal processing class this semester, although I already taught myself all the mathematics and built an audio equalizer last semester based on that knowledge. I’ve already started learning the JUCE library, but I haven’t had the time lately to do stuff.
For the above two, more than straight-up money, I really need space to set up a studio, and free time to do it. I even have enough gear to get back into it once I get space. But to get space, I need money. I also need money to fabricate PCBs for the types of boards I want to build (lots of mixed-signal stuff that a breadboard could mess with).
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Smash capitalism and the State. But IMO I don’t make for an effective mouthpiece. I feel I will be more useful paying bail bonds, giving comrades a place to crash/lay low, and providing monetary support for Food Not Bombs, Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, Anarchist Black Cross, etc., once I get a job.
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Smash fossil fuels and contribute to renewable energy, preferably with an emphasis on distributed power generation. I can’t say too much without doxxing myself, but I’m doing some academic research into how renewables interact with the grid.
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Learn as much math, physics, philosophy, and history as possible so I can “try stuff” easily. I’m currently a lot farther ahead on the first two.
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- Comment on Career options 1 week ago:
I live an hour away from my school. Can’t afford gas or public transit. So no, I really couldn’t do any extracurriculars.
- Comment on Career options 1 week ago:
Go to college. Take 1 class.
I’m finishing my third degree this semester lol.
Find a community. Find a different one. Or another different one. Find people you like who like you.
Okay but first I need to get money to eat, sleep, exist, etc. without being harassed by the cops, because all resources are paywalled.
- Comment on Happy MLK Day! 1 week ago:
First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Comment on Career options 1 week ago:
Thank you for posting that. I really needed to see that today.
- Comment on Career options 1 week ago:
Me in the shower in my late 20’s watching all the remaining open doors to possibly achieve my dreams close right in front of my eyes 😭
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Who taught Measurehead how to use Lemmy? 😆
- Comment on If AI spits out stuff it's been trained on 1 week ago:
If AI spits out stuff it’s been trained on
For Stable Diffusion, it really doesn’t just spit out what it’s trained on. Very loosely, it starts with white noise, then adds noise and denoises the result based on your prompt, and it keeps doing this until it converges to a representation of your prompt.
IMO your premise is closer to true in practice, but still not strictly true, about large language models.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Honestly…I don’t.
Like I love my parents but we’re not really into any of the same stuff. (Well technically all of us went to engineering school, but they’re not really interested in engineering/math/physics for its own sake like I am.)
But also that’s fine with me because I know they’re there for me.
So I think that if you really share zero interests with your son, it’s fine if you acknowledge his interests and remind him that you’ll be there for him and that you love him.
- Comment on I'm just a kid and life is nightmare... I know its not fair 4 months ago:
Hi 30, I’m dad
- Comment on Choose your fighters, chatters. 5 months ago:
I’m intrigued but completely out of the loop. What’s the difference between these two sets of books?
- Comment on How often? 5 months ago:
1 ÷ periodically
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 5 months ago:
Is like saying oh you don’t like your local librarians? you’re free to make your own library!
I’m probably being pedantic here but you kinda can, e.g. Little Free Libraries, although the reason isn’t “my local librarians suck”, it’s closer to “more libraries please”.
Okay well being free to do something doesn’t magically make it a real option.
Agreed, but I fail to see how, with enough consent from the user base, how moving to another existing server is not an option.
Are there even any exceptions to that that aren’t entire communities agreeing to move together off instances?
I’m not aware of any off the top of my head, but it absolutely does not seem implausible that we could move this community if the need arises. Entire communities moved off of Reddit during the boycott; I don’t see why we can’t do that again within the platform if the need arises. For the most part people are okay with the moderation here, as am I, but the minute that changes people will flee somewhere else.
For literally the entire time I have been on lemmy I have heard laments about the centralization of comms on lemmy.world and seen attempts to mitigate it but every pie chart just shows lemmy.world with more of the pie because growing a comm on small servers isn’t simple!
Hard agree there. I’m not sure how to fix it.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 5 months ago:
We’re failures as shitposters when a shitpost generates that much drama
Hard disagree lol, I love when a shitpost actually gets people to debate about important things. So many people would just never think about that stuff otherwise.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 5 months ago:
That happened on reddit all the time, minus the instance part. Remember /r/freefolk?
The “instance part” is absolutely huge. If I wanted to, I could go start a /c/lemmyshitpost on SDF Lemmy [1] with a completely new set of rules [2], particularly a set of rules that possibly would violate Lemmy.world’s TOS or possibly even the law in Lemmy.world’s jurisdiction, but not SDF’s or their jurisdiction’s laws.
It’s not a big deal for the average user until the day you run afoul of the server admins.
[1] As of writing this, SDF does not have a /c/lemmyshitpost.
[2] I’m not interested in doing that lol, this is just a hypothetical. I’m annoyed at this most recent decision but nowhere near ready to leave over it.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 5 months ago:
No just one user lol
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 5 months ago:
I think moderating comments needs to be banished.
Nah because then someone could just post (for example) medical gore in a “safe space” and it’ll just get downvoted but not removed.
It wasn’t gore, but do you remember the ThuleanPerspective (I think?) trolls from a little while back, spamming that racist photoshopped Simpsons comic by commenting it on literally everything? That effort was neutralized in the short term by deleting those comments on the spot, and then the users who posted them.
It is absolutely a useful tool, but like most useful tools it can be abused.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 5 months ago:
I’m happy and having lots of sex /s
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 5 months ago:
In Internet culture, shitposting or trashposting is the act of using an online forum or social media page to post content that is of “aggressively, ironically, and trollishly poor quality”.
Imagine not being allowed to do any trolling in a shitposting community.
Tap for subtlety
There are obviously types of trolling that intentionally disrupt the entire community, but this was nowhere near that.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 5 months ago:
Okay but you can always make your own shitposting community on your own instance with your own rules if you feel so strongly against the rules. That option simply was not available on R*ddit. The point of Lemmy isn’t that no one abuses their mod and admin powers ever, but that the system is set up so that you can just go to another Lemmy server, which simply was not available on R*ddit if you pissed off the site admins.
Although I personally find Lemmy users nicer and moderation better on average, their character is not the point. It is merely the result of an imperfect but better system than R*ddit.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 5 months ago:
- Then the mods should be honest about why he’s being banned in the modlog.
- Him (charitably) being an overzealous meanie in defense of a brand of feminism does not make him a shitlord.
- Sometimes people need to be dunked on for both their own good and the good of the community, obviously myself included. A perfectly appropriate venue for some gentle dunking is a shitposting community.
It’s a shame that the thread got locked. It was getting heated, but IMO that’s a good sign that what you’re talking about actually needs to be debated.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 5 months ago:
reason: Admitting to being a troll: “I’m an agent of chaos.”
Absolutely the limpest reason to temp ban someone from a shitposting community. From the context it was obviously an offhanded joke, not an actual admission of someone disrupting the community.
- Comment on Samples 5 months ago:
It pains me to inform you all that KnowYourMeme seems to have the best coverage of this story.
Internet users and news outlets have speculated that the sperm cups are aimed at Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz and his wife’s infertility issues. The Walz’s had their children using in vitro fertilization (IVF).
The cups therefore could be a way to champion Vance’s natural ability to have children. However, many Americans (regardless of political affiliation) struggle with infertility and use IVF.
Despite being humorous, it’s currently unknown if the J.D. Vance cup photos are real. For one, the original X user that posted them, @UsaCamy, has a profile that’s raised suspicions among many, as pointed out by X user @elisethoma5.
So basically, if this turns out to be a real thing, then they’re dunking on people who want to have kids but have infertility issues. Which … that’s just kind of a ridiculously petty thing to do.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 5 months ago:
Yeah I actually brought that up in my top-level reply. But does the two years count the time spent as Acting President? I don’t know, but the 22nd Amendment doesn’t use the terminology “Acting President”.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 5 months ago:
Thanks 👍. I corrected my response.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 5 months ago:
I pasted the entire 22nd Amendment into my reply to this post. The “trigger” isn’t the numerical value of 8 years total, it’s the numerical value great than 2 years served.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 5 months ago:
… no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected…
So having previously served two years exactly is allowed.
