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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: BAD⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an apt description of how I felt when watching The Acolyte. The fight scenes were cool, but I couldn’t help but feel like basically everyone was acting like an impulsive teen all the time and if they had just been a reasonable adult for basically 2 minutes the whole plot wouldn’t have happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally my worry really isn’t reincarnation, there’s no reason to believe that that’s true. But if these are fundamentally the same neurons that make up our brains, then how much do you need to put together before they acquire some form of “sentience”? Does a clump of 800,000 human neurons experience pain, sadness, a sense of self? Where is the line between an emotionless biocomputer and torturing a living organism for its entire lifespan?

  Despite the fact that I really hate “AI”, that question was of course already sort of relevant for the latest AI models, even though we can generally conclude that they’re not there yet at all. But real neurons are different, we know what they’re capable of. How many do you need before a clump of neurons has rights?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all SO simple!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah moving doesn’t seem to lose weight (unless you’re very overweight). It’s very good for you, but muscle isn’t lighter than fat. At some point I went from not running to running half marathons and I went from like 86 to 82 kg average, but that only really happened after I also changed my diet. Currently I stopped running temporarily because of some health reasons and I haven’t really gained much weight either, I just feel weaker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably very tasty, but looking at the image I couldn’t help myself thinking “at least something healthy in there”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Administrative task management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn. Even now that I know I’m struggling to find anything that could’ve shown me. Some things are a bit wonky, like the pants, the calendar, the background. But none of it would be enough to truly convince me if I hadn’t seen the watermark. Most of it is easily waved away with the fact that the image is blurry. And details like the books, the screen, parts of the calendar and basically everything else in the image scream “real image” to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨justgermanthigs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cook wash. Or more accurately boil wash, but the word for cook and boil is the same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wokeness ended, check mate leftists ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ve kinda missed the point of this post lol. It’s mocking people who think like this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nooooo! Don’t make all those bees angry and lock them up. Bees need to be happy. Let them roam freely.

  Use wasps instead, those fuckers can rot in hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning Japanese⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can open your link, but as someone who’s Dutch, the way this all works in English is so absurd. Here we call Germany “Duitsland” and they speak “Duits”. This is quite similar to what they say themselves, “Deutschland” and “Deutsch”. We call our country “Nederland” and our language “Nederlands”. This is again similar in German.

  Then why is English “Germany”, “German” and “Holland”/“The Netherlands” and “Dutch”. It’s so silly. There are of course historic reasons, but can’t we all just collectively change it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conditional soap⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, but men’s 6 in 1 soap sucks ass. The moment I tried shampoo and conditioner for women, my (at the time short) hair got way better and I never looked back. Now that I have long hair I’m not even going to consider washing with the hair destroyer 2000 again. The image is wrong, the “conditional soap” is way better because it’s not just soap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i can't handle coffee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I can’t drink coffee anymore. Fucks up my entire day with intense stress ans a worn out feeling after a single cup. Though it seems to vary greatly. Every now and then I “forget” this and suffer again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this. I never really cared for them, and tbh a lot of those reaction videos are very over the top or fake. But I kinda latched onto the more grounded ones this year. It allows me to rewatch some of my favorite content “with others”. Obviously it’s not as good as doing so with friends, but getting friends to watch all this content is kinda hard. If they care, they’ve probably already seen it or it’s just very hard to plan something like this. And if they don’t care then watching together won’t be fun anyway.

  Last year has been quite stressful and sometimes I just need some “mental fastfood”. Reaction content is that. There’s no stress, I know exactly what will happen when. There’s just the joy of seeing someone else watch or play something awesome for the first time. It kinda makes it feel like I’m seeing it for the first time with them. And some of these people actually see or know things that I wasn’t aware of when watching. Or they come up with interesting theories about what’s gonna happen next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contain them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’d be quite uncomfortable with calling anyone “it”. I’ll gladly use they/them, I’d be down to learn some neopronouns, but calling someone “it” is something I’d rather avoid. Even if someone likes “it” pronouns, I’d still feel incredibly weird doing so in public. Calling people an “it” is often done here to mock androgynous people. It feels dehumanizing. If I were to do so in public, it would mean they people around me (who don’t know the other person’s preference) would probably assume I’m doing so to mock them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah okay but Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man’s Sky were new games, not an ancient game that should easily run on a Switch 2 but somehow doesn’t. And even then it required an insane turnaround before people loved them again. Cyberpunk has undergone a crazy transformation since launch and it’s all for free (as should be expected when you release a dumpster fire).

  This is not an easy thing, and not something you can keep doing constantly. Bethesda seems to be on a roll with releasing broken, overpriced, boring shit for a while now. And constantly milking Skyrim. There are plenty other games that I personally have played that aren’t there yet in this timeline either. Cities Skylines 2 just got a new developer and is still not that great, I don’t they’ll turn it around. Stalker 2 is on the right path (and I personally really liked it on launch and even more now), yet a lot of fans still seem pissed and the game is still properly janky. Pulling a Cyberpunk is the exception, not the rule

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people I know who do that use them as kinda bookmarks. Tbh, I do also sort of do this on my phone. I keep some tabs open with stuff I still wanted to check out. And every now and then I go through them and close the ones I don’t need. But on PC I just close the whole session with all tabs when I’m done

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The person who wrote this must be absolutely insane. How I’d it a bad thing for the world that people are holding on to their devices? Less e-waste and people don’t spend impulsively. It’s also very logical: smartphones reached a plateau and people aren’t exactly swimming in money with the rising price of everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, until I found that when you start ignoring the lights as a habit, at some point your body and brain just stop doing stuff. I got myself in a burn-out by ignoring tiredness, stress, and all kinds of random issues. Please listen before you get yourself there, it’s not very easy to get out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Perfect Picture of Helth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it? I doubt there are many fibers in there. Unless you count the tomato sauce it doesn’t really contain a lot of vegetables either. I’d be really surprised if tomato sauce on the average pizza is healthy, it’s probably so over processed that all the fibers and vitamins etc are gone and it’s just a big carb nuke. And a pizza contains too much fat as well. A good pizza might be decent compared to most fast food, but I can’t imagine the average fastfood or supermarket pizza being a healthy meal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh really? I did have fun with the Outer Worlds. Nothing too amazing, but it was fun enough to keep me invested. Parvati was also a large reason for that, I loved her character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bä bä, vita lamm har du någon ull? ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure tbh. I think I’m quite a bit above Dutch average, though definitely not amazing at it either. From these I’d know kitten, puppy, calf, foal, lamb, piglet, chick, cub and fawn. Though kitten, puppy, calf, and lamb are similar or equal to the Dutch word. No idea what “kit” is. But I wouldn’t use some of these words myself because they’re not really part of my normal speaking/writing vocabulary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bä bä, vita lamm har du någon ull? ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhmmm maybe it’s because I’m not native English or just dumb, but this wording confused me greatly. I figured that young goat was the only interpretation that made sense since the image didn’t show a human kid, but for non-native speakers like me it’s a bit of a weird sentence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you don’t care about the truth you don’t have put so much energy into maintaining quality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're so predictable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Got me there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s probably not too hard to detect based on IP. They only do it for some content though. The only content I watch that has this block is official Formula 1 content on YouTube. It’s probably something that creators can enable when they want to region lock content or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think these massive companies will add even a single line of code for something and insignificant as this? Also that one string replace maymess with Icelandic text which actually uses it.

  I think these 2 factors actually make it sort of useful. As long as not too many others do this exact thing, it makes the comments with the thorn in English enough of an anomaly to probably do more harm than good to the training of the LLM. And therefore the comments are not being used in any useful way for “AI” training.

  There are some accessibility and readability concerns tho, and it’s also a bit of a weird thing to do. But it might just kinda work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought an analog camera (Canon EOS 300) for like 15 euros at a thrift store a year ago and luckily it worked. It has kinda kick-started my interest in photography. Analog photography is quite expensive tho, so a better recommendation would be to buy a cheap used DSLR. Personally I bought a Canon EOS 40D at MBP for like 80 euros, but anything like it would probably be fine.

  A camera from 2008 doesn’t sound like something that would still be relevant today, but honestly it’s a great device. It’s kinda like an old manual car in camera form. If you know what you’re doing you can absolutely take amazing photos with it. It has all the buttons and options you might need, just not the fancy new stuff like face tracking autofocus, sensor stabilisation, EVF, etc.

  My dad (who is a more professional photographer) let me use his professional grade lenses on this thing and the results are absolutely stunning. But even something like Canons 50mm lens is very decent. Will it beat anything modern? Probably not. But you sure can learn and take stunning pictures with it. Since then I got a more modern camera as well, but honestly the 40D still keeps surprising me. It takes a bit more effort to get something good, but it is also super rewarding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the same. I’ve been considering using my “dumb” alarm clock as my primary alarm and moving my phone to the other side of my room or something and use it as a backup alarm. I usually spend that time scrolling around while lying in bed, might as well have slept longer. Sometimes I just keep on daydreaming which will not be solved by this fix tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Worst Bug In Games Is Now Gone Forever by Two Minute Papers [Video, 11:41 min]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two minute papers has really gone down the drain. Or my perspective changed. I used to love the channel, but it got increasingly clickbaity and shallow. Rather than explaining the contents of the papers the videos became hype talks that made it all sounds way more impressive and revolutionairy than it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have no guarantees that you’re human, you could be a mosquito spreading anti-spider sentiment!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have 2 spider homies in my bedroom. The past summer they caught a lot of bugs and now they’re just chilling. As long as they don’t enter the no-no zone they can stay. Jumping spiders are always welcome too