JayDee
@JayDee@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Anon doesn't want to join the flesh nexus 2 days ago:
It’s about technological advancement and its augmentation of the human condition (think social media, phones, and the internet). There are people who resist these changes, often mislabelled as ‘luddites’ (the Luddites of the 19th century specifically opposed automation for its threat to jobs, but were reprehensive of all technology as a part of that).
This meme is just taking those who berate Luddites to their ultimate conclusion, which is a hive mind where all personal autonomy is lost, and it could be argued they cease to exist as a distinct individual. The flesh part of it is merely a means of making it more grotesque.
- Comment on Anon doesn't want to join the flesh nexus 2 days ago:
I believe it’s just a view of humanity eventually evolving towards a hive mind that’s a single consciousness.
It’s not really new. The concept exists in sci fi. First case seems to be in ‘The Human Termites’ in David H. Keller’s 1929 ‘Wonder Stories’ (according to Wikipedia). The specific idea of the flesh nexus is mostly just an evolution of that.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 days ago:
The idea is that these social media sites always become monopolies. That occurs because no one can communicate with each other across platforms, which eventually leads to a majority of users migrating to a single platform over time. Once that happens, the social media group no longer has to try and the media site enshittifies slowly over time. On top of this, the insane amount of users also cripples the centralized system’s ability to self-moderate properly, leading to user-based enshittification as well.
With federated social media, that barrier doesn’t exist, and, in theory, the subsequent conglomeration of users doesn’t happen. Additionally, federated instances can be self-hosted and sport much smaller userbases which can make self-moderation much simpler.
The joke in the video is that rather than switching to federated social media like mastodon and lemmy, twitter users chose to go to yet another centralized social media site (which while having a federation protocol, is unlikely to have users utilizing that defederation). Essentially, Billy is abandoning twitter to go to another site which will potentially have the same downward trend as twitter did before.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 days ago:
Hey, I’m no Ubuntu user! … I’m a linux mint user. /j
- Comment on Firefly and the Lost Cause 1 week ago:
I agree that the Lost Cause myth is romantic, and I’d say that Whedon used it very effectively as a theme.
I can’t really agree with Feral Historian’s take that this myth was ‘kinda true’ for the south as that seems suggestive that southern fighters are somewhat absolved of guilt. “They were just trying to preserve their way of life!” When that life revolved around assisting plantations in maintaining control over their slave populations, often by hunting down slaves, or acting as overseers of their work, rings hollow to me.
It reads the same as anyone who’s kept their head down to get by in an unjust system. You are culpable. And then fighting to try and preserve that unjust system makes you even more culpable.
- Comment on How a small but vocal minority of social media users distort reality and sow division 3 weeks ago:
If we’re relying on the individual to keep themselves correctly informed, we might be thoroughly fucked lol.
Maybe we should start pinning classes on media literacy, critical thinking/analyses to help the situation. Not even sarcasm, it genuinely might be needed as a built-in feature included in every web browser at this point.
- Comment on Source: Father, H. , Son, H. Spirit, H. (2024). Visions from God 3 weeks ago:
You’ll be stopped by an over-controlling Wikipedia editor with seniority over you, who will revert any changes you make.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
Yes. But also: Blessica Blimpson.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
I agree for the most part. I would like to point out that fish farms are actually very damaging to the ecosystems that they sit in. The excrement ends up dropping down in single locations, burying the seafloor in it. IIRC, this often leads to the oxygen levels in the water dropping, which further kills off the surrounding aquatic life.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think many would accept their gardens being pilfered either, though they might be more accepting if that’s how they paid rent.
- Comment on ... i guess not 5 weeks ago:
Level measuring guy from water world moment.
- Comment on Halloween Botany 5 weeks ago:
Mould this not disqualify any mixed color? We only have receptors for three colors, and if we’re arguing that. If purple isn’t a color because it’s actually two mixed together, that should also mean colors like orange, yellow, cyan, magenta, atc are also not be colors by that definition right?
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Yep, that’s in 8.5% increase on freeways and 2.8% increase on other roads. Better keep the brake down.
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Probably you should be breaking on the hill? Regardless of if you’re foot’s on the gas or your just letting the slope do the work, you’re still speeding which is a hazard.
Yeah, I’m sure it also racks up some revenue too. Why not get a few more bucks while keeping the careless on their toes?
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 1 month ago:
- What games? That’s a VERY big part of this whole process.
- What are the laptop specs? The hardware is also a massive part of it.
- Comment on A hot time in the old lab tonight! [Too Much Coffee Man] 1 month ago:
It’s just an absurd premise.
Researchers are specialists in their fields and have carved out an academic niche. They study a single thing for years at a time before publishing a paper, and the process of studying anything is brutally methodical and likely quite often boring until you maybe discover something. It’s then boring again as you write your paper on your work, regardless of whether it discovered something or not.
All of a sudden, your co-researcher just turns to you and goes “Fuck it. Let’s research something else tonight. Something fun as a treat”.
- Comment on Checkmate 2 months ago:
Do the pieces look different or are they just called a different thing? Like what’s a ‘jumper’?
- Comment on Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible 2 months ago:
Title’s hard click bait. It leads up to talking about Arrow’s Impossibility theorem, which sets forth some explicit rules for defining a fair election, and communicates that all finite-vote systems are dictatorships, including ranked choice voting. Arrow’s theorem also uses ‘dictatorship’ in a pretty weird technical fashion, meaning that one individual can technically sway any election with their sole choices.
Directly after, though, Veritasium does acknowledge that Duncan Black pokes holes in the actual value of Arrow’s theorem, by showing that many ordinal voting systems will still favor majority preference, and that Arrow’s theorem does not apply to rated voting systems like approval voting and STAR voting.
It’s pretty bizarre that he decided to make such a click-baity title and front-load only skim over the better solution at the end, right near election month.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Voter intimidation sounds exactly right here. Like he’s telling his voters to stay away so anyone they attack is probably a non-follower of his
- Comment on Just do it ✅ 3 months ago:
Yeah, it’s called a Widlerizer.
- Comment on I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath 3 months ago:
Bobby Duke’s good too. Fairly talented, but also just a dad making sculptures while fuckin with cinematography.
- Comment on Anon rides a bike 3 months ago:
If yo bike regularly, you actually don’t spend more calories. You only see calorie burn uptick when first taking on new exercise, which falls off over time back to your usual normal calorie cost. Because of this, that calorie cost for a biker is calorie intake they’d already consume even if they didn’t bike. It’s essentially free, in contrast to the gas of the car which is always a cost.
Checkmate liberal. /s
- Comment on Anon asks for advice about love 3 months ago:
Option 5: become accustomed to the pain until you treat it like an old friend.
- Comment on Science is Magic 3 months ago:
If you understand magnets you know how magic works. Hell, even aerofoils seems like a glitch in reality.
- Comment on JD Vance: 3 months ago:
Didn’t know they put cuck chairs on trains /s
- Comment on The Wisdom of Great People 3 months ago:
I too find that music and sex improves the experience of potatoes.
- Comment on Just look at the homophobia in his eyes 4 months ago:
Cat so homophobic it’s not even comfortable with homochromia.
- Comment on I'd buy a son 4 months ago:
“Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer.” -Javik, Mass Effect 3
- Comment on Anon questions the magic box 4 months ago:
Material phase changes are like a cheat code for humanity. Reusable chemical handwarmers are also black magic. You just click a metal plate inside and all of a sudden it’s a hot solid.
NightHawkInLight made a video showing how you can mix two different salts together and it’ll create a packet that stays at 65 degrees for hours.
- Comment on Photosynthesized 4 months ago:
Dioooooo