Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life? 3 days ago:
Other people are not important to me because I care about them (at least coworkers). They are “important” because I care how they can make my life difficult
It’s not much of an assumption. They basically said as much themselves. Autistic people can be dicks too…
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
Smarter than you look 🤪
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 1 week ago:
I think that depends on your time horizon.
In the next 5 years? No, not realistic. In the next 50? Nearly certain I expect. 15-20 years? Maybe? - Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 week ago:
Not when they’re profiting off the copyrighted work.
Regardless of being owned by a person or corp. A specific copyright will reach a point where it’s not bringing in enough money to justify the expense of renewal. Corps aren’t in the habit of holding onto things that aren’t profitable. People tend to do so longer than corps. - Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 week ago:
Registering doesn’t need to cost much. It could be largely automated.
And the government will get plenty of money later on from the big ticket copyrights.
And the government isn’t supposed to be profitable in itself any way. So that doesn’t matter much. - Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 week ago:
How’s it do that?
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 week ago:
Anything to shorten it sounds like a good to me.
My idea has been that copyright isn’t automatic. It needs to be registered, and renewed every 2 to 5 years. And each renewal costs twice what the last one did. Start off super cheep maybe even free. Then $5 for the first renewal, doubling each time. Eventually it becomes too expensive to bother; Even for billion dollar franchises.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 1 week ago:
Some people ‘believe’ aliens to be true. believe in a truth.
They believe in an idea. They believe that idea is true.
In my experience, when people talk about some subjective Truth, they say things like “my truth” or “feels true”. They aren’t making a claim beyond their subjective perceptions. And while their perceptions are true, (meaning those perceptions happened to them), those perceptions aren’t necessarily an account of real external events. That’s how stage magic works. It looks like one thing, but what it looks like isn’t reality.
And saying you shouldn’t be able to believe in something because it’s real, sounds very strange. Maybe you mean, you shouldn’t need to believe in something because it’s real?
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 1 week ago:
Nobody defines reality. We discover reality. Reality defines us.
Reality doesn’t care about any idea, hypothesis, or theory.
Reality is ignorant of courts, votes, or opinion.
Reality is what is, and we just make up stories that may or may not agree with reality. Makes no difference to reality. - Comment on New Threat Research Reveals AI crawlers make up almost 80% of AI bot traffic, Meta Leads AI Crawling As ChatGPT Dominates Real-Time Web Traffic 1 week ago:
Maybe I don’t actually know what crawlers means in this context. I always thought crawlers were bots. Are there crawlers that aren’t bots? If so what are they?
- Comment on New Threat Research Reveals AI crawlers make up almost 80% of AI bot traffic, Meta Leads AI Crawling As ChatGPT Dominates Real-Time Web Traffic 1 week ago:
So 20% of AI crawlers are people?
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
You might look into getting a slow watch.
It doesn’t really matter exactly what minute it is mostly. - Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 1 week ago:
The common definition of Truth is along the lines of “That which matches reality”.
It doesn’t matter what’s popular, or common knowledge. Sure humanity learns more about reality as time goes on. What people believe to be true changes. But that doesn’t mean what we believe is true. Something doesn’t become true because enough people believe it. Peoples beliefs simply get closer to the truth as more is learned about reality.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 1 week ago:
That’s not a widely used definition of Truth.
At the very least, it’s one I’ve never heard before. - Comment on If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion? 2 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting delusions can’t make one happy?
- Comment on Why is "mythology" in the public domain in the first place? 2 weeks ago:
Age. Copyright only lasts for a certain amount of time. In the US it’s around 70 years after creators death, if I remember correctly. Everything goes public domain after that. And most mythological stories are a few centuries old at least, some thousands. So copyright doesn’t apply and they are by default, considered public domain.
- Comment on DoorDash wants you to lobby Congress instead of just employing you 3 weeks ago:
I understand that. But typically there is some kind of round about way to sort of make it kind of true from a certain point of view. Companies to that specifically for legal cover.
This is just a plain unmasked lie, which they could be sued over.
- Comment on DoorDash wants you to lobby Congress instead of just employing you 3 weeks ago:
As far as I know, this is simply a lie.
The government does nothing to to prevent a company for offering paid time off and health insurance to independent contractors. Any and all of that could just be written into the contract.
- Comment on [Inverse Thinking] How do I make sure my place gets messy again after I thoroughly cleaned and organized it? 3 weeks ago:
Don’t pay attention to, or care about, where things go when you’re done with them.
- Comment on Read AT&T CEO's frank response to employee feedback about a 5-day RTO mandate — and much more 4 weeks ago:
That was all nonsense, in the most literal way.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 4 weeks ago:
It’s certainly abnormal.
But abnormal doesn’t mean bad. At all.I actually think it’s a thoughtful honest appropriate gift. That kind of thing should be more common.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Showunners Talk 32nd Century Setting And How The Ship Is Part Of The School 5 weeks ago:
It seems like doctors. 4 years of classes, 4 years of hands on residency in hospitals.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 | SDCC Surprise 5 weeks ago:
Most of that, yes. And it’s great
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 | SDCC Surprise 5 weeks ago:
It really is some of the best Star Trek that’s been done.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 5 weeks ago:
I did think about them. Monaco too, is in a similar spot. And even our own Washington D.C. has a special status
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 5 weeks ago:
States aren’t cities.
- Comment on What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective? 1 month ago:
Exactly
- Comment on What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
All farts are dry. If it’s wet, it’s known a shart.
As in a shit you thought was a fart.