vonbaronhans
@vonbaronhans@midwest.social
- Comment on If you shop by unit prices, double check the math! 1 week ago:
I don’t know what peanut butter is like in other countries. In Japan it was very different, a lot sweeter.
What’s yours like? Have you ever been able to compare it to something like JIF?
- Comment on Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research 1 week ago:
Here’s an important bit from the actual journal article abstract
This lower literacy-greater receptivity link is not explained by differences in perceptions of AI’s capability, ethicality, or feared impact on humanity. Instead, this link occurs because people with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe in the face of AI’s execution of tasks that seem to require uniquely human attributes.
It then goes on to say you should target ads for AI to people who don’t know anytime about AI, since they’ll see it as magical and buy in. Kinda gross, if you ask me.
- Comment on TikTok users particularly susceptible to Russian and Chinese misinformation, study finds 1 week ago:
Comparisons to users on other social media networks would be useful, yeah.
- Comment on TikTok users particularly susceptible to Russian and Chinese misinformation, study finds 1 week ago:
I don’t think I ever learned how to properly source information from primary works until college. I didn’t really get it until grad school.
Kinda the same for the scientific method. In high school it was just a thing you learn and memorize, but barely ever applied, if at all, in the actual curriculum. I wish it had been impressed upon me at a much earlier stage of my life why the scientific method is so useful and how it led to the sheer boom in our knowledge as a species. Like, they do tell us… but we didn’t really get it. I’ve heard others had better teachers… But it really would be better if the system didn’t have to rely on winning the teacher lottery.
- Comment on First Look at Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
For anyone else who was unfamiliar:
Linear economy is a system in which people buy a product, use it, and then throw it away. The term linear refers to the straight progression that a product can follow, with a beginning, a middle and an end. There is no thought along the line regarding recycling or reuse. (per www.eib.org/en/stories/linear-economy-recycling#%….)
- Comment on if you've had or have anger issues, how did you become a better human? 2 weeks ago:
Not necessarily applicable to everybody, but if you find yourself with a short fuse, I highly recommend getting checked out for sleep apnea.
Imagine going to sleep for 8-10 hours a night but always feeling a bit tired and very irritable. Because in reality, you barely sleep at all. That’s what sleep apnea does, and I can personally start that, if that’s your problem, addressing it is a world changer.
- Comment on We got several more inches of snow last night after getting over seven a few days ago. I went to my local newspaper's website to find out if there was anything I should know. This was their top story. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t have this issue myself, but usually when people complain about crows it’s because they are getting into trash cans, dumpsters, etc and just making a mess of things. Presumably they think it’s fun?
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 3 weeks ago:
Buffet cities? Every city I know has at least one buffet.
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
I said I think it’s possible. You said “horseshit”. Not sure what you mean other than it’s impossible for a man to do that.
I’m not saying it’s super likely or anything like that. But given this is pretty far off the path from my original comment, I’ll just drop it here.
Best of luck out there.
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
I mean… what about those actions is impossible for a guy to do?
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
Yeah, I agree with that 100%.
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
I don’t really disagree with your overall point, I just think that’s being way over generous to the anon here.
Like, do you think talking to your wife like she was a dude is really the only thing at play here?
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
Who knows, lol. But I’m more than happy to engage with people who disagree, so long as it remains relatively civil.
I’ve had plenty of gender-coded miscommunication with my wife over the years. But that’s far, far outweighed by more individual differences (like neurotypical v neurodivergent, mismatched communication habits, and mismatched expectations from how we were raised. Hell even just regional differences.
And when it comes to the other married guys I know, I’ve provided advice (upon request) that basically boiled down to (1) you don’t “win” a marriage, (2) treat her like a partner not an adversary (even if she’s treating you adversarially for now), and (3) be open and vulnerable when you can. It’s amazing how many of them have just… never once heard that advice from anyone else their whole life. Wild out here.
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point, but I could see a man doing what the wife in the greentext did. It wouldn’t fit the stereotypes we have of dudes, but yeah I think it’s possible.
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
Time to embrace my gay side, for sure.
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
To be fair, I don’t mean like, raging, beating your wife misogyny. Just the standard kind that results in overgeneralizing and venting in this particular way.
The behavior described seems like either (1) the wife has big attachment and insecurity issues (maybe a personality or mood disorder) or (2) the anon has major, major communication issues (essentially driving the wife to desperate measures she might not have gone to otherwise). In either case, these are extremes. And extremes really shouldn’t be generalized to the whole gender population, y’know? I can’t think of anything BUT some amount of misogyny that would lead to that type of generalization.
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
How could I possibly calm down? Who am I married to then? Fuck!
(That was me joining the joke for anybody who might not get that otherwise.)
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
Do you think that’s what’s happening (both in my example but also the OP greentext)? That they’re admitting they have trouble communicating?
I could see a literal interpretation of “I don’t understand women” as a standalone sentence being reasonably interpreted that way, sure. But given the context, I think that’s really unlikely.
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
I’m honestly not sure what point you’re trying to convey, but that’s alright.
But best of luck out there.
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
That is unfortunately the tendency for men, yeah.
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
Men and women have tendencies and subculture, sure. But they’re not mutually unintelligible if you make even a little effort to try and understand the other side as fundamentally human people. For example, by listening to them and taking their positions seriously (even if the specific situation does not call for believing every factual claim).
I think we mostly agree here, just with slightly different framing.
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
This presupposes that men and women are fundamentally and irreconcilably different. I just don’t think that’s true, based on both my experiences and the psychological data I’ve reviewed throughout my life.
- Comment on Anon has marital problems 1 month ago:
“I don’t understand women.”
Whenever someone has an issue with an SO, then extrapolates that to all women… that’s a red flag to me that this guy has a lot more misogynistic views just outside the frame of view.
It is unfortunately common. Pretty much all of the guys I know IRL complain about their SOs with “Pft. Women, right?” And I’m sitting here like… No? Maybe that’s just your SO? Or just your SO when they’re with you?
- Comment on Glorious 1 month ago:
Meanwhile Guilty Gear has BEDMAN.
Who is, in fact, a man who is now a bed.
- Comment on who's the ceo? 1 month ago:
I mean, inflation actually is at 2% or just I over that, isn’t it?
Ideally they’d match that with 2% pay raises for staff, but yeah that seems unlikely.
- Comment on Pro-tip for this capitalistic hellscape 1 month ago:
I’d eat bugs well before I tried to eat another human, billionaire or not.
But if you gave me a flyswatter to kill a random bug or a gun to kill a random CEO, and I HAD to choose one or the other… the bug would probably make it out alive.
- Comment on If Open Source is so great... 2 months ago:
Krita isn’t that much worse than Photoshop/CSP for digital illustration. That said, going back to CSP after a year was such a relief I didn’t know I needed. So many little stumbling blocks removed.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 2 months ago:
Iirc, when the ADP put out their guidance on Pepe, it was during the 2016 election when Pepe was being actively coopted by alt-rightera and neo Nazis. One of those "take something innocuous and poison it by using it as a pseudo secret signal to other bigots.
I vaguely recall them saying that Pepe was a hate symbol only insofar as it was being used for that purpose. I wonder if that changed, or if this investigation is ignoring that nuance to hamfist a “hate speech” argument.
- Comment on Read-onlys are cancer. Post stuff you want to see. 2 months ago:
Hey I comment from time to time, that’s contributing! Kind of!
- Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons? 3 months ago:
I dunno “comics” in the US are still mostly superhero stuff. Once you get into the non-superhero stuff it generally gets referred to as “graphic novels”. Maybe that term is used only to separate it from the superhero image, or it may have to do with syndication and release schedules? I’m not entirely sure.