sj_zero

@sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net

• Comment on Push for a 4-day work week picks up steam — and critics | Fox:

  I've always had a 4-day work week, it's pretty common in some fields.

• Comment on Should We Make A Lemmy User Guide?:

  If you check out the lotide community on narwhal.city you'll see that I've done a number of write-ups for different things I've done that were non-trivial. I think it makes good sense to write down or create videos for things we do because even if it's intuitive, not everyone intuits the same things.

  I sorta like the idea of a freeforum branded set of Lemmy videos. Especially if it helps grow the fediverse and connect it further.

• Freeforum ended up recreated on exploding-heads
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• Comment on Most Important First Amendment Case You've Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes - Revolver News:

  Legally it isn't fraud, but in terms of what a human being would consider to be fraud it is.

  Really, it is for the best at this person gets the book handed to them. If gay ops end up being legal, the gay ops campaign will be so massive and concentrated it'll make the entire LGBT+ community look straight and real by comparison.

• Comment on TechScape: Why Twitter ending free access to its APIs should be a ‘wake-up call’:

  Even now these people think Twitter is the internet. How nutty is that?

• Comment on Is that GPT-4 I can see?:

  It can be, yes. These tools have lots of danger with them too.

• Comment on Most Important First Amendment Case You've Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes - Revolver News:

  Of course it's fraud. If you don't think it is, I've got a bridge to sell you (it's ok, I'm not an official)

• Comment on Have you ever been held at gun point or knife point? I have, Tell us about your experience.:

  Got robbed at knifepoint working for a convenience store in college.

  Although really stressful, it was a pretty chill experience. Just gave him what he asked for then he left. I hadn't done a drop in like 15 hours so he got away with a lot of money.

• Comment on Most Important First Amendment Case You've Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes - Revolver News:

  Maybe, but it's still straight-up fraud.

• Comment on Most Important First Amendment Case You've Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes - Revolver News:

  Considering just how false some of the things written were, yeah -- sort of!

  It's one thing to just be wrong, but to actively lie when they know the truth like they did again and again, that's on a whole other level. I think some of the msm still pushes the trump Russia nonsense!

• Comment on Most Important First Amendment Case You've Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes - Revolver News:

  Reading the facts, he's probably going to be found guilty, and he's going to deserve it.

  Memes are one thing, jokes are one thing, criticism is one thing, but lying about how to vote is another. It's a dirty trick and if a leftist was caught doing it I'd want them charged as well.

• Comment on Is that GPT-4 I can see?:

  If they do a good job integrating it, it could be a real game changer in a lot of things. Imagine if you're trying to write a difficult letter to someone, and Microsoft's GPT-4 can create the skeleton of the letter immediately including all the relevant supporting points. In fact, imagine if before you send an email with basic factual errors (and I'm not talking stuff in the political realm of what's called 'disinformation', I mean things more like "one inch is 70mm" basic factual problems) it could pop something up "Hey, before you hit send, are you sure you want to send this?"

• Comment on Google announces ChatGPT rival Bard, with wider availability in ‘coming weeks’:

  Google home seems quaint compared to ChatGPT. In some ways, ChatGPT feels to me like having a discussion with the computer from Star Trek: The Next Generation, having a conversation with Google Home is like having a discussion with a failing voice recognition program.

  If Google doesn't get its game up several levels and fast, it won't exist in 5 years.

• Comment on Madonna gets wrekt:

  Seems to me like she's trying to relive her glory days. For the past few years she's been going around acting like she's still a sex symbol in her twenties, posting nude from her bathtub, doing that photo shoot where she was acting overtly sexually...

  The truth is she doesn't have much longer to live. The reaper comes for us all, and there's no reason to believe she's going to live to be 120.

  I guess the problem is that her infantile worldview doesn't include the idea that someone will someday get old. Her only value and her only purpose at 60 years old remains exactly the same as it did at 20 years old. How unimaginably sad.

• Comment on Facebook, Instagram Threaten To Restrict Or Ban Project Veritas:

  Why is it that every time, the trust and safety board makes me trust only that I'm less safe?

• Comment on Rep. Massie, Antitrust Subcommittee Chair: No Monopoly Is Safe:

  I don't know exactly who this is, but he's saying every single word correctly.

• Comment on Are you a far right conspiracy theorist:

  But fr, what even is this?

• Comment on Disney penis art:

  For $500 someone better be getting a penis, and given that it's Disney land I'm sort of happy it's just Mickey.

• Comment on "Pope" Francis: Death Penalty For Gays "Is Not Right":

  The only sorts of people calling for death to gays would probably be pretty happy to kill the pope if they had a chance too...

• Comment on Breaking:

  Kiddo seems strangely ok with it

• Comment on Poll: Trump Takes Lead over Biden on Eve of State of the Union Address:

  Turns out samson isn't the only one who would take mean tweets and cheap gas any day.

• Comment on NYT Declares Bannon's War Room The Top Spreader Of 'Misinformation,' Urges Deplatforming The Show Based Off CCP-Linked Researcher's Report.:

  These guys are morons...

• Comment on European classical music through the eras:

  I was suggested Aaron Copeland for excellent modern classical, and I wasn't disappointed.

• European classical music through the eras
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• Comment on Bloke finds £47k stuffed into wall of home in Nesquik cans but can't keep it all:

  I have hundreds of millions of German marks and over 100 trillions Zimbabwe dollars hanging on my wall as a reminder paper is meaningless

• Comment on sry, not getting GAB:

  On the mastodon-like part of the world:

  The usual suspects of poast, freespeechextremist, shitposter.club, and chudbuds are more on the shitposterey side of things.

  There's some places that are much more sort of traditional conservative like freeatlantis.com, noagendasocial.com, they more often have folks with bible quotes in their bios, really wholesome folks.

  Fediblock is a who's who of fun and interesting instances. https://joinfediverse.wiki/FediBlock

  In terms of lemmy/lotide, I've always gotta push narwhal.city, therealcaseyrollins does a good job of keeping interesting content on a few of those instances, he deserves more subscribers on those communities.

  mander.xyz has lots of great science communities

  slrpnk.net has lots of off the grid discussion

  nrsk.no has a few english language forums that are fun

  fedibb.ml seems chill, and their front-end is really cool -- it's a phpbb clone using a lemmy back-end.

  Remember that when you're reaching out into other instances you're being an ambassador for your instance so you should try to respect their customs even if you don't agree with them. That being said, if they're gonna ban you for wrongthink, their loss.

  My suggestion to everyone is to participate as much as possible in the broader fediverse. When you see new instances, reach out, connect with their communities, and try to help the broader fediverse grow and become more connected. I understand that there's a lot of lemmy instances that are trigger happy with the ban and instance block buttons, but not all of them are and the more we can include tolerant communities and help them grow, the more the appeal of joining up somewhere has.

  Moreover, I think everyone recently got to see with the sudden end of wolfballs that the more we rely entirely on one instance, the more damage is done when that one instance disappears for any reason. Nobody is making money on these ventures, they're all volunteer efforts, and as such any and all of them can end at any time. By keeping our base a diversified group of instances, losing one instance doesn't mean we lose the whole platform. Thanks to the efforts of folks like the admin here at exploding-heads, we still have places to discuss topics verboten on the authoritarian instances.

• Comment on 10 ways Denmark's left-wing government reduced asylum applications by 82% and dramatically cut immigration:

  Realistically, there is both a left-wing argument and a right wing argument for high immigration. But there's also a both a left-wing argument and a right-wing argument against high immigration.

  Something that a lot of people don't want to hear is the fact that you can have a competent left-wing government that cares about its people, or a competent right-wing government that care about its people, or an incompetent left-wing government that doesn't care about its people, or an incompetent right-wing government that doesn't care about its people.

  In my view, competence is actually more important than the actual political ideology at work. If you are both competent and care about your people, then you are going to use that as the beacon to sell your ship by, and the pitfalls of both political ideologies will be largely avoided in my view.

• Comment on sry, not getting GAB:

  I know that for me the fediverse is an absolute game changer. It's a wonderful combination of the forums of the old internet, and the connectivity of the new internet.

• Comment on ChatGPT Boss Sam Altman Hopes AI Can 'Break Capitalism':

  Ironically, I expect it will eliminate the upper class that's constantly pushing to end capitalism because we won't need people to write bullshit articles about how air is racist, and a lot of middle management that doesn't actually do anything but pass messages along between lower management and upper management and follow procedures mindlessly.

• Comment on Homeschool Students Soar Above Pre-Pandemic Levels as Public School Enrollment Drops | Epoch Times:

  Some teacher saw me on fediverse badmouthing teachers and was like "blocked!", As if anyone cares. Thing is, if new parents are badmouthing teachers, that does eventually mean public school teachers won't be needed anymore.