TropicalDingdong

@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You can tune in right now: Nothing, forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the lifestyle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but once you’ve done it once in R you can just dump your data again, update the theme and boom, done again.

  Also 30 minutes? maybe 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Trump pardon himself even though he did criminal stuff outside of office?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bruh it won’t matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somewhat relevant today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Zemeckis wants to make another Back to the Future movie (with a twist)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I could see this working if it were done in the style of “End of Evangelion”, and it ended with Marty straddling and strangling Doc, for all of eternity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Curves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  gif got me like:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “You can observe a lot by just watching.” -Yogi Berra

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk man, this carnival seems pretty confident, and the lady in the labcoat keeps talking about uncertainty…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mega-Dosing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The universe originated as a vibrational wave from Fred Flintstone playing a dinosaur bone keyboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have two of those cats. I still can’t catch them when its time to go to bed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Creature Party⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. ok. See what kind of biological insight a B- gets you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Creature Party⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure from my B- in zoo that sponges eat from what amounts to our waste hole.

  So you are supposed to piss in the punchbowl and drink from the toilette.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning Botany⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the book you are looking for:

  Botany in a day: the patterns method to Plant Identification

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning Botany⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ehh go fuck yourself bye…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Think of inflation from monetary policy like lead in the environment. It takes time, but it all eventually ends up in the bones. Real property are those bones. 13 trillion dollars were ‘created’ during covid. Inflation (which i don’t think is necessarily the right word to use, because it implies it can go backwards), takes time to get “into” the price of products, but products that transact faster, inflate faster. Property “inflates” on a relatively long time horizon, but its often very substantial appearing jumps because the transaction cycle is so long (typically 10+ years between transactions).

  So maybe you’ve not bought a home, but try not to think about things in the absolute value of their price-tag, but rather in the monthly cost of the money to make the payments on the debt. At 2.5% interest, lots of people can afford a 500k house. At 6% interest far fewer can. If the seller re-financed at less than inflation, its literally more “profitable” to just pay the mortgage than to sell.

  I see some others blaming air-bnb’s. There is very little evidence for this. A few papers have found significant correlations, but the effect is so small relative to inflation that we should probably ignore it, and most of these papers are from a pre-inflationary period. Orders of magnitude more impactful is the fact that so many home owners were able to either purchase or re-finance at an extremely low rate in 2020/2021. Blaming Air-bnb’s and ignoring the broader macro-environment in which all property sit is just extraordinarily lazy, reactionary thinking. Air-bnb’s represent a microscopic number of actual rentals, and have been dropping in numbers for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨styropyro | I built a 20,000 watt microwave oven!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want to buy jewlery as a gift for the girlfriend, I know nothing about jewlery, where to start?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always found earing and necklace sets that they enjoy (they don’t have to be expensive) and are fun to wear are always a hit. Its also a good way to test the water with something relatively cheap (>$50- $100) to identify their style. If possible, I would strongly recommend buying in-person at something like a craft market or farmers market: anything in-person. How something looks online often just does not translate to in-person.

  The key here is a set, something they can add in-combination to something they already have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!" Ex-IDF Spokesman DESTROYED by Medhi Hasan on Piers Morgan Uncensored⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that guy Medhi is arguing is fucking nuts. He basically threatened to “eliminate” US politicians if they don’t support Israel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your argument is a false dichotomy.

  You should look up what a false dichotomy is. A false dichotomy is typically when someone presents two choices as the only possible options, ignoring other possibilities. My argument doesn’t do that. I’m arguing you have no-idea where Stein voters (or Johnson voters for that matter) would go if not for Stein. Also, you may not have noticed it, but you quite literally engage in false dichotomy in your response.

  You are still making the assumption that voters only have two choices. No matter how much you’ve convinced yourself that’s the case; its not reality. Voters don’t have to vote. Voters can vote Republican or however they want. No candidate is owed a vote, however much Democrats want that to be a thing.

  The entire rhetorical approach you are engaging in is why Kamala has been slipping in the polls, and its precisely why Hillary lost in 2016. If you want your proffered candidate to win, you actually have to convince people that they are worth voting for. And unlike Kamala, Trump is out there doing that. Stein is out there doing that. Chase Oliver is actually doing that (you don’t know who that is do you?), and guess what? Oliver is beating Stein in most swing states.

  The claim that Stein is spoiling when they are polling at literally less than measurable numbers is so obviously idiotic, no one worth respecting would give it anything more than a cursory swipe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a meme going around blaming Jill Stein for “spoiling” the 2016 race. I was developing an relatively simple analysis to show how and why its ridiculous to propose that Jill Stein “spoiled” the 2016 election. Specifically, in no race did the green party candidate get more votes than the libertarian candidate. A great example is the headline meme that was up about a day ago here: lemmy.world/post/21038666?scrollToComments=true

  www.politico.com/2016-election/…/president/

  So in Michigan, ~50k voters went to Stein. In that race, 170k went to Gary Johnson.

  Pennsylvania, 48,912 to Stein, and for Gary Johnson, 142,653.

  Wisconsin, 30,980 to Stein, and for Gary Johnson, 106,442.

  So taking these three as an example, in none of these races, if you were to ‘remove’ the 3rd party candidates, would Hillary have won.

  Likewise, the meme assumes that “all” of Green Party voters go to Hillary, and some how the Gary Johnson voters just evaporate.

  It doesn’t really make sense at any level. Its part of a broader pattern of voter intimidation that seems to be mostly focused on defending a candidate that has been shown to be lacking, not at all different than what we saw in 2016.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not now honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool People Doing Cool Things⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is her youtube channel. If you haven’t read the paper on this algorithm, I think you can get a good intuitive understanding by watching the two videos she has on there from (what looks like) her thesis, and I think it becomes clear why she was selected.

  Specifically, these two videos:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGvPinTJUs

  and

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NhQ7WkbHms

  So, consider that these two videos are basically the “one-dimensional” solution, or one pin-hole camera example. In the approach that her and her team to image the black hole, they used many, many radio antennas’, all acting in concert in a not-too different version of what she did her for the work on her YT channel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incels⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, in English at least, is the letter W called "double U" and not "double V"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Hawaii, almost all W’s are usually a long V, depending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t have an issue reading small text on the Deck.

  I will say that I found the experience of playing Witcher on the deck to be an absolute pleasure.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think I tried like 4 controller layouts on the steam deck before settling on one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Be, um, …selective seductive

  ftfy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I found the game to be basically boring without the extended difficulties.