kautau
@kautau@lemmy.world
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 18 hours ago:
Nah, had to go find it
You’re referring to www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLccCsTGNP4
I’m referring to www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0OZziLsTSg
The original was posted on YT a long time ago but I can’t find it
I hate youtube shorts so here’s a catbox link:
- Comment on Why does Dairy Queen sell food? 18 hours ago:
Coming to a vape near you
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 1 day ago:
I remember a video of someone just getting in the car’s backseat, scooting over, and then getting out the other door. If the doors are unlocked I feel like that’s the best option. Really fuck with their sense of personal space considering they think all the space around them is their personal space regardless of the rules.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 1 day ago:
Yeah had to swap out a steam deck joystick and scooped one up from iFixit and it was wonderfully easy to swap. That being said, being able to switch them out on my dualsense edge without a screwdriver and just having a switch on the back of the controller is really neat. Definitely my favorite controller I’ve owned, I just wish more PC games supported the haptics.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 day ago:
Only can Petahertz rise from the ashes of darkness and re-engineer the Universe before the incoming Heat Death
- Comment on devinetly organic... 2 days ago:
No that’s a pipe organ, you’re thinking about a nationalized propaganda media output
- Comment on Senator Alex Padilla forcefully removed and handcuffed after questioning Kristi Noem at press conference in LA 4 days ago:
Maybe, but there might just be a tall hotel window somewhere that he happens to fall out of. Wouldn’t be surprised at this point
- Comment on Deez peets 6 days ago:
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- Comment on 9News US Correspondent Lauren Tomasi hit by rubber bullet during Los Angeles protests 1 week ago:
Right wingers would support each one of the things listed, so if anything they’re getting excited about this
- Comment on originality 1 week ago:
That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing
- Comment on originality 1 week ago:
Maybe at some point we’ll have version control for all DNA mapping so each minor change is a commit hash and each major release is a tag
- Comment on The audacity 1 week ago:
lol more likely than not it will be an incredibly expensive thing so unless you’re super wealthy you’ll need to spend most of your incarnated life working to pay for it
- Comment on Don't know shit in class 1 week ago:
Ah yeah absolutely true. Not all teachers are educators, but those that are (in addition to the plethora of educators that are not teachers) understand and triumph the value of adapting education to the individual rather than trying to force the individual to adapt to the education.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 1 week ago:
Generally the truly smartest people (the ones who actually figure out spaceflight, electric vehicles, satellite internet) aren’t the wealthiest. Sure many of them end up pretty wealthy due to stock options, high salaries, companies competing for them and the like. But often at the end of the day they just retire into their wealth and spend their days traveling or living in their huge houses or whatever.
But the CEOs, the politicians, the investors, the self-labelled “Founders,” those approaching or in the 1%; For those it’s not about making something, doing their jobs, changing the world, etc. It’s about winning. They need to feel better than others. And for most of them that feeling never goes away. They rarely retire, and often even when they do they still pull strings from the background (see Bill Gates). Some psychopathic part of their brain makes it so their most important and purest drive is to constantly get to that next target, that next exponential stock valuation, that next acquisition, that next news broadcast they can jerk off to about how they beat someone else in a campaign or about how line go up or whatever.
So when these people are in the middle of their career, their relatively unnoticeable by most. They’re “founding” companies by employing those smarter than them with money they have. They’re selling said companies, moving on. They’re making shady deals, laundering money, because they are smart enough to beat the system and the system is against them because they’re so smart.
But for those that amass enough wealth like Elon, the drive never goes away. But what do you do after you’re the richest person in the world? Well, try to become the most powerful person in the world. But you can’t just run for office, the ketamine has told you that it’s faster to latch onto the recent rapid rise in fascism so you join up with Trump. Who gives a shit what kind of person he is, especially because eventually you’ll beat him. He’s a stepping stone for now, a boost pad to get you speaking with those who can get you real power, and more money because it’s never enough.
But thinking that everything in the world works like a startup, and if you just hire more college grads, crack the whip, take stimulants to stay up to ship the product in a completely inconceivable world (government and social policy) to what you’re used to (technology and product development), it all falls apart. And then when you’ve always had success with the investors siding with you because “line go up,” you suddenly don’t have success because “line don’t go up” in the white house and Trump is getting pressure to find something to cover up giving 2 trillion dollars to the rich and there’s no quick fix.
So you do more ketamine, lash out. You always knew trump was a pedo, a garbage human, but it didn’t matter because he was a stepping stone, so now, probably earlier than you’d like, you pull out your cards of putting him down in the hopes that you can get that power that you need because the money doesn’t matter now, feeling that you beat him is what’s most important.
- Comment on Don't know shit in class 1 week ago:
A ton of greentext is just “this is funny because it’s a story of someone thinking they gamed the system by in fact just thinking for themselves while still being a part of the system.” But this is even just a more general comedic trope www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-i4X2cleA
- Comment on Don't know shit in class 1 week ago:
what educators have known
What good educators have known about (which in my experience is certainly the majority). I definitely had some select teachers in high school and college that were convinced that if you couldn’t learn the same way as everybody else it was somehow a ding on them (even though it was far more a ding on the rigidity of an aging rote recall / (as you said) factory line education structure), and therefore you were stupid/didn’t care/not worth the effort.
- Comment on what is north? 1 week ago:
And is part of the southern ocean, to make it real clear
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 2 weeks ago:
Lol it’s almost even more extreme and has a common trope I love. “Hey I got this spam text…”
“Burn all your devices. Remove yourself from the grid. Scrub your identity. Purchase a single burner phone. Root it and install Graphene. Yes it’s hard. Google it. Wait, don’t google it. Search for it elsewhere. Amass money somehow without using technology. Cut off your family ties. You need to move to another country. You will need a work visa to move to most countries. But to get that you will need an accepted job in advance. And to have that you will probably need to access technology. Instead, buy a fake passport, because very few countries will just let you ‘move somewhere’ with a ‘menial job.’ Once you get there, develop passive income streams and quit your job. After you have been a landlord for two years you will finally know what it’s like to claim that being a landlord is a real job because you need to talk to tenants and file paperwork natively for an hour or two a week.”
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 2 weeks ago:
Having heard very mixed things about Duolingo’s actual usefulness, does your wife speak or write well in any of the languages she’s used the app to learn?
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 2 weeks ago:
At one point it was gamification to tie the reward center of your brain into continuing to train using the app. Now it seems that it’s half that or half en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern to get you to pay to keep that reward system going.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 weeks ago:
Even if it is purely a math question though, it never specifies “Their pizzas are the same size.” The student literally answered how this is possible in a reasonable way that satisfies the mathematical requirements, when the teacher is expecting an impossible answer of “it’s not” after saying in this scenario that Marty did in fact eat more.
- Comment on I'd love to know 2 weeks ago:
I am happy that in the interest of their health meat workers have replaced their smoke breaks with fart breaks. While not exactly the compromise the union wanted, it does give the worker a small mental break and the deli company does have to source less sulfur
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah even the first message sounds shitty outside of anything that isn’t a D/S kink lol. So many better ways to word that where it’s not “did you follow through with my demand?”
“Hey man checking on that body wash I asked you about”
“Oh sorry I forgot”
“No worries, since I don’t like your rose stuff, I’ll just pour a few coors lights over myself right before I dry off. Try to grab it next time you’re out if you can, thanks”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Why is it your job to get your roommate body wash? If he’s so picky about the soap he uses, tell him to get all dolled up and go buy it himself.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the report:
- Comment on AI Training Slop 2 weeks ago:
True, though for now paparazzi photos generally are “here’s the celebrity in real life doing [x]” whereas AI is “celebrity never did this thing and we applied their image / voice to it like they did.” Really difficult for celebs to shut down tabloid or fan ai-generated garbage, but I think the bigger issue for them right now is film or music studios just using their likeness to keep the profits churning
- Comment on Realistically 2 weeks ago:
Not again
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 3 weeks ago:
That’s true, I didn’t mean getting in a prestigious university was rare from a state school, but rather those are certainly the “exceptional students” considering the stringent acceptance requirements. I only explained why rich parents would spend the money on private schools to give their child an edge. There are certainly cases where admissions are allowed because of family lineage or sizeable donations.
As far as I know you can only apply to Oxford or Cambridge, and furthermore you can’t apply to more than five universities in the UK except for rare occasions.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 3 weeks ago:
Only if your kids have excellent grades or are star athletes or otherwise exceptional. Most of this ends up as networking, where the rich parents meet other rich parents and eventually someone with connections is involved when it’s time for the kids to go to university, and because rich people like it when other rich people succeed because they want “the right kind of people” at the universities they send their kids to (sometimes) they’ll help grease the right palms.
