Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective? 5 days ago:
Exactly
- Comment on What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective? 5 days ago:
Green tinted glasses would be the technical answer.
- Comment on Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start? 5 days ago:
Fight choreography only works against someone who also knows the choreography. Then it’ll play out according to the choreography.
The real world doesn’t work that way.
Keanu does have extensive general firearms training though. So if he had a gun you’d likely be in trouble.
- Comment on What makes a fart dry vs wet? 5 days ago:
All farts are dry. If it’s wet, it’s known a shart.
As in a shit you thought was a fart. - Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
The software is free. The server to host on is not. All Fediverse instances cost money to run. Every user costs money. Requiring one time “donations” is kind of misleading. More than that, its in sustainable. I signed up at Communick, because they’re upfront about the annual subscription. That’s the only way the Fediverse can work without adds or sponsorships.
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 1 week ago:
You’ve never seen someone put their phone in their pocket or purse, without turning off the screen first?
I’ve seen lots of people do that. A couple times I pointed out why it’s not a good idea. But people who do it, just don’t seem to care. My mother has done this exact thing to me several times. She calls me back later, when she sees that I called her, wondering what I wanted. - Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 1 week ago:
But dialing with a silenced phone?
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 2 weeks ago:
You can always find outliers. That doesn’t mean playing the loto isn’t useless.
- Comment on Any Engrish-like community in here? 3 weeks ago:
Or would it be a community of first generation immigrants venting their frustrations with English itself?
- Comment on The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun 3 weeks ago:
But you are if the personal incentives in your situation are bad enough.
For an extreme example. You might not want to support the black market for human organs. You know how terrible it is as a system. But you’ll die if you don’t buy a black market organ. Is it reasonable to expect everyone to give their life for that ideal? No.
- Comment on The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun 4 weeks ago:
It is possible (common really) for individuals to make completely rational, sensible, even correct decisions, which ultimately contribute to a larger systemically catastrophic problem. It comes from improperly aligned incentives within the system. For examples, you can reference the prisoners dilemma.
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 4 weeks ago:
That’s my kind of humor
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 4 weeks ago:
Is everyone democrats in this observation?
I’m neither, for the recordAnd I neither said, nor acted like, she was telling the truth. Mearly pointing out that Rump is ignoring his own “intelligence”.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 4 weeks ago:
Trumps own head of intelligence says they’re years away.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 4 weeks ago:
Newer devices have been designed and made in the decades since.
Are cars more sophisticated today then they were in the 1940s? - Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 4 weeks ago:
After world war two, Europe was busy putting itself back together. It left an opening that the US stepped into. And who wouldn’t like to be the big dog in the yard.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 4 weeks ago:
Ask them questions. Have them explain how, why. When you find contradictions or confusion, ask how they resolve them.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 5 weeks ago:
The it sounds like you should be arguing for different semantics, that match the experience of living breathing human beings.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 5 weeks ago:
If they don’t, they’re still transitioning their gender. Exactly how much they decide to change themselves doesn’t matter. That’s the point of the term.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 5 weeks ago:
Gender isn’t biological. You’re conflating with sex
- Comment on If we ask 100 random ppl to describe their ideal society, which real/fictional countries would the answers resemble the most? 5 weeks ago:
Depressingly, that would be a relative improvement.
- Comment on Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) 5 weeks ago:
Well damn then.
That’s extra depressing. - Comment on Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure the cost of living numbers are for a household, not an individual.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Unless you’re actively being targeted for some specific reason (NSA kind of reason) in practical terms it’s unheard of.
- Comment on If we ask 100 random ppl to describe their ideal society, which real/fictional countries would the answers resemble the most? 5 weeks ago:
United Federation of Planets
- Comment on If youre bi do you have to prove it? 5 weeks ago:
How would you?
Date men and women? Anyone can do that.
Go further? You could be still be pretending.You can’t really externally “prove” an internal subjective feeling.
- Comment on Anxiety is the most common mental health problem – here’s how tech could help manage it 5 weeks ago:
This kind of sounds like it should be a !nottheonion@lemmy.world headline.
- Comment on Google’s nightmare: How a search spinoff could remake the web 1 month ago:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai seemed genuinely alarmed at the prospect of being forced to license Google’s search index and algorithm
This is almost exactly what Kagi suggested.
The hardest part of internet search is building the search Index. It’s massive. Practically a whole copy of the internet. Selling other provider access to Google’s search index means new businesses and new business models can be created. My only concern is the “and algorithm” part. That almost sounds like the current state of things. Where companies can run queries to google and receive standard results filtered by Google’s algorithm. Direct access to the index is needed without Google’s algorithm, so others can use their own algorithm. But maybe they meant and/or, so companies can choose to be a real “Google white label” or something more. - Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 1 month ago:
I’m still not sure I understand exactly. Are you asking about individual autonomy, or the collective autonomy of humanity?
I would say there’s no real difference on an individual level. I guess conceptually, humanity as a collective entity, might loose autonomy. But I’m not sure that matters.
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 1 month ago:
Answer to what? The question I asked you? I don’t have answer. Safety without giving up liberty just seems fine to me.