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- Comment on 1 benny 2 benny 3 benny 4 5 days ago:
Bonus tip tradeoff: you just lost any benefit you might have been gaining from the placebo effect. Sorry.
Only if I believe you, eh heh heh~~
- Comment on Lemmy Shitshow 1 week ago:
It is a place to share your shower thoughts. You’d do better, I think, for trying to get a sense of what a community’s vibe is before participating.
And you’re not being silenced. Myself and plenty of other people refer to AI as devil technology built by demons, vampires, pedophiles, and republicans—but I repeat myself—on the daily. If I can evangelize about how AI is a cancer that needs to be cut out, then you can, too; you can do it in appropriate places.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
This is kind of the attitude I’m talking about.
Is this story even notable? Like, how much attention is this even getting?
I am not interested in propaganda that sews distrust in our institutions and collective efforts when I’ve already said that being skeptical is fine.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
I just want people to trust. Being skeptical and wanting to learn is perfectly fine, but also, people do go to school for these things for years, you know? Have a little a faith they aren’t lying to you.
By “you” I just mean people, of course.
- Comment on Using conservative logic 2 weeks ago:
ohhh that’s good
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 2 weeks ago:
Everything we do is thousands on thousands on thousands of years old.
However, some 50 years ago there was more cultural respect held for doctors and lawyers and astronauts and the like. We have forgotten somewhat how to value expertise. It is a problem, regardless of anything else.
- Comment on Fuckem do you 2 weeks ago:
Nope, “they are awful, they’re awful” is correct.
- Comment on Men against bush 2 weeks ago:
You know, I decided to look some stuff up after reading this, and there is a fantastic chance it’s only because I have relatively thin, straight hair.
I shampoo, I exfoliate. I imagine it would be insane to hear that the razor I use for my face, junk, and limbs is getting a bit scratchy, I probably needed to swap the blade out like a week ago. Getting one ingrown hair, let alone a minefield is just unthinkable to me.
If I had to deal with half of what you do, I either just wouldn’t shave or I’d be looking for more permanent methods.
The message of the OP is one I agree with anyway, so it’s not like it’s a big deal. I hope after 20 years you’ve settled on a look you like. :p
- Comment on A Stanford Study Exposes Massive Racial Bias in AI Hiring Tools Used by 90 Percent of Businesses 2 weeks ago:
No wayyy…
- Comment on Men against bush 2 weeks ago:
That sucks :p
I wish I knew what I was doing differently. Maybe I just have an X-men outer carapace for skin.
- Comment on Men against bush 2 weeks ago:
I have never had an ingrown hair in my life.
I’m sure people get them, but I can’t imagine it’s that common.
- Comment on 📡📡📡 2 weeks ago:
porn in america is hyper-aggressive and focused on penetration. there’s no eroticism to it. it’s crass and disgusting.
Truuue.
what a boneheaded take out of the OP.
Well, the guy they’re talking to is almost certainly a Sargon of Akkad-lite who is upset that feminism is ruining his disney movies. I would tell him to go watch porn too, but that’s because I like zingers.
- Comment on Little glory holes 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I think he was looking for this Sex House.
- Comment on Why can't this happen to me? 3 weeks ago:
I remember doing this for halloween and nobody got what I was.
- Comment on Õ.Ō 3 weeks ago:
This happened to me once.
I was playing some old game on my dad’s ps1 when out of nowhere there was a loud flash of light outside, and then some rubber suit wearing guy on the TV just said “Look what I can do! Put your controller on the floor” and then just made it vibrate a bunch. I was about to pick the controller back up, but then, while I was watching, he made it like vibrate walk out of the room over to my mom’s purse to dig out her credit card information, and then used it to purchase Digimon Rumble Arena off of some website I’ve never seen before. I was so mad because my mom was totally gonna blame me for this.
- Comment on Shit solutions for shitty problems 3 weeks ago:
I’m playing it right now and I’m having such a great time with it.
There was a secret cubbyhole inside a cavern that it took me like 6 tries to get up to without falling and I felt sooo cool for doing it. Used up like half of my items, but oh well. :p
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I reread that sentence like 6 times 'cause I thought I was fucking it up
- Comment on There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business 4 weeks ago:
I kept thinking during the entire microsoft show how weird it was just how little charisma and tonal consistency there was. It was like watching robot people talk at me about whatever oddities were currently in their cupboard.
Anyway, this article was a really fun read after all that.
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 4 weeks ago:
Uh, Zelda’s always done the tapestry thing though, haven’t they? 'Cause they like being presented as old myths.
I do think it’s possible, though. I don’t want what I’m saying to be read as pessimism: Skyward Sword cared about its storyline kind of a lot, and while BotW and TotK don’t put it in your face all the time, I mean, they added voice actors. For the very first time, Zelda has voices.
And it’s not like OoT isn’t enamored with Hyrule’s dark past. If they’re going to expand on anything, it’ll almost certainly be that.
It’s worth waiting to see some actual gameplay, I think. I can’t really say what my expectations are because we haven’t even seen anything.
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I’m fully aware.
This right here:
It’s always been hard to expect Nintendo to actually do anything about any of it because they never ever do,
is what I mean by “Zelda doesn’t care about it’s plot.” Nintendo has almost always been more interested in gameplay first, and maybe experiential storytelling second. ‘Experiential’ being the kind that you, the player, tell along with Link, in the sense that ‘you’ literally are him.
Actually, I would relate Zelda’s environmental storytelling to the kind of beach seashell collecting that Miyamoto has always wanted Zelda to feel like, where it’s more about the feeling of discovery than it is the specific implications of it all. Not to say those implications are never taken seriously.
That said, I am salivating a bit at the thought of what they might be doing for the Forest Temple. That place has so much atmosphere, and atmosphere is something Zelda has always really, really well.
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 4 weeks ago:
OoT doesn’t care about its plot nearly as much. I suppose it could, though. It depends.
Really, I need new dungeons at a minimum. That’s what I care about. If I’ll be solving the same puzzles for the 35th time, I don’t want to.
Also, re: FF7, I squeal with glee every time I see Cid—I’m so happy with what they’ve done.
- Comment on Punkrock 4 weeks ago:
Unironically.
“As something of a punk myself,” there is waaay too much cynicism in the modern world.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 4 weeks ago:
No problem :D
I learned about the expanding earth bit like a week ago and I was very excited about it, haha.
- Comment on Almomd milk tastes like spit, btw. Cashew milk is better. 4 weeks ago:
How do I perform that one?
- Comment on Block 4 weeks ago:
I’m drunk and this really fucking me up, man.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 4 weeks ago:
Your head ages faster than your feet do! :D
By such a small amount that it would never, ever matter, but it’s still cool to know!
This small difference does actually become relevant when trying to explain gravity, though.
As I’m sure you’ve heard, objects in free-fall do not feel an acceleration. Instead, objects in an inertial frame travel along straight world lines through curved spacetime “down” toward the gravitational source. Light is “pulled” into large objects because that’s what a straight line looks like to a light beam.
I have a question, though: why is that I can’t feel gravity during a free-fall, but I can feel my own weight when standing on the Earth? Isn’t that kinda weird?
(I’m wrapping the rest in a spoiler tag out of mercy to mobile users.)
Tap for more paragraphs.
Wouldn’t everything I just said suggest that if I can feel the direction of gravity, it must be because I’m accelerating somehow? If I were blind and in free-fall, I wouldn’t be able to tell what direction “down” even is, and yet, the muscles in my legs tell me very explicitly that they are “lifting” me. The answer, or a very useful answer, anyway, is that something is accelerating: the ground. The stationary ground accelerates up through curved spacetime to push me. That’s how I can tell. But how does the ground accelerate without moving? Shouldn’t the Earth expand if it’s accelerating? We’re definitely approaching the limit of the things I can explain at the moment, but the key is time dilation. The fact that your head ages faster than your feet is the reason why the Earth doesn’t expand. It accelerates without moving because time is also curved. You can think of it this way: If you were to graph the position of objects through time, the Earth’s surface might curve toward the y-axis, the time axis, because it is accelerating. But, the y-axis also curves “away” from the Earth’s surface in the same way, such that they maintain their distance. And so, the Earth doesn’t appear to move. Isn’t that cool?
- Comment on My beautiful code 4 weeks ago:
I do my very best to write code like I’m writing English prose, because understandle code is maintainable code, so when people say things like “AI is bad for art, like books, but it’s great for things that don’t matter, like software” it really grinds my nuts.
It just baffles me how many programmers think of programming not as their artisan profession but as an irritating chore they have to get through.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 4 weeks ago:
It is factual, testable, observable, that supporting trans identities has a positive effect on people’s mental health.
This is true (trans rights \m/), however, you are taking your scientific conclusions over the is/ought gap. Why is it valuable that any person’s mental health improve? Can you not think of any examples where you might want something else?
you are, in fact, opening the door to say that subjective perspectives that are transphobic are just as true as anything else.
Subjectivity does not require equivalency. In fact, the scientific objectivity you’re leaning on is supported by the very cultural domination of opinion I would suggest is more important.
That sentence is wack, so let me reexplain: The strict adherence to objectivity as a first principle, as an axiom, is a subjective choice. A very useful one.
Without that, when views diverge, people default to stuff like “might makes right.”
People do this regardless. Republicans, for instance, have kind of abandoned the idea that truth even matters. Very stupid of them, yes, but also, they are currently winning.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 4 weeks ago:
Are you being sarcastic? The scientific method is still useful, you just have to know what its limits are.
But let’s not apply absolute relativism to science
I have no earthly idea what you’re talking about. Please, inform my subjective experience.
Look at the picture above us. One group describes the shape’s projection as a circle, and they are correct. The other group describes the shape’s projection as a square, and they are correct. The only thing I’m doing is describing a worldview that is accomodating of these two perspectives.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 5 weeks ago:
I see you have cleverly noticed there is a 3D object in the meme image that is casting both projections.
This argument is one that is very, very difficult to have because it veers too closely to people’s first principles.
On one side, we have people who know they are forced by reason to believe in all truths that appear before them.
And on the other, we have people who have decided they will choose to believe in all truths that appear before them.
Like, it’s just a semantic difference. Nobody on the subjectivity side, nobody rational anyway, disagrees with the concept of gravity, we are just simply aware of our power as fallible human beings to destructively choose not to.
That said, there is something very dangerous about being in the second group of people, but thinking you’re among the first. And frequently, it becomes a problem when science brushes up against cultural fields it has more trouble explaining.
It is not always possible to see the 3D object. The ability to recognize that two groups can both be ‘correct’, like in a Newtonian way, even when they disagree with each other is a very useful skill.