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- Comment on The problems Mothers have to deal with 1 week ago:
Why does Baby Jesus look like Donald Trump?
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 1 week ago:
Legitimate question:
Most of the comments here cite reasons for disliking AI that include one or more of the following: environmental degradation, resource consumption, increasing energy/hardware prices, disregarding copyright, disregarding privacy, undermining human artists, mass layoffs, creating a market bubble, throwing education into chaos, monopolization by corporations/billionaires, AI hallucinations/inaccuracy, a product that is overpromising/undelivering, a product that makes generating misinformation easier.
Which of these reasons for disliking AI do you think fall under your assertion of “anti-intellectual technophobia”? They all seem like legitimate, well thought out reasons for disliking something to me, especially when considered together.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 2 weeks ago:
This is also a huge problem when deciding how to write foreign names into Chinese: imagine the difference in public perspective when reading a news article about some country leader named “Prime Minister Sleepy Swamp Pit” vs “Prime Minister Strong Universe Zephyr” or whatever.
- Comment on Delicious corn! 2 weeks ago:
Boo, AI slop
- Comment on stinky ginky 4 weeks ago:
Stinky ginky? Nah, yellow fellow.
- Comment on I knew it! 4 weeks ago:
World’s oldest science fiction proven world’s oldest science fact. The Japanese were right all along!
- Comment on Manga challenge: drawing a female character without a visible thigh gap (difficulty level: impossible, apparently) 4 weeks ago:
Dagashi Kashi has some questionable thigh gaps, but this one from ch 60 is so bad I was compelled to drop everything and post it. I’m still pondering the physics and anatomy necessary to maintain a thigh gap in this sitting position.
- Manga challenge: drawing a female character without a visible thigh gap (difficulty level: impossible, apparently)lemmy.world ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to manga@ani.social | 7 comments
- Comment on Anime challenge: drawing a female character without a visible thigh gap (difficulty level: impossible, apparently) 4 weeks ago:
Dagashi Kashi has some questionable thigh gaps, but this one from ch 60 is so bad I was compelled to drop everything and post it.
- Anime challenge: drawing a female character without a visible thigh gap (difficulty level: impossible, apparently)lemmy.world ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to anime@ani.social | 2 comments
- Comment on Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis. 5 weeks ago:
Great, now “Hitler micropenis” is in my search history.
- Comment on I grew up in the South, can confirm. 1 month ago:
Not last night, they saw the Aurora down in fucking Florida!
Also >:( for AI image
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 months ago:
You only need to plant sorrel in your garden once. It’s the ultimate volunteer crop. Quite winter-hardy too, and perennial, plus it tastes like lemon. Halfway between an herb and a green.
- Comment on Dawg... 2 months ago:
First glance def had me thinking this was gonna be tampon related
- Comment on REDRUM 3 months ago:
Fascinating article, definitely worth the read
- Comment on cum 2 mummy 3 months ago:
Meanwhile I’m over here like
Genital jousting: no probs, carry on
Their coloring: wtf that can’t be natural, gotta be digitally enhanced, no way these oil slick looking mfers actually that rainbow irl
- Comment on Jump on in. 4 months ago:
inb4 this user reads up on indoor air pollutants
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 4 months ago:
Whenever I see this I think “wow, cool idea, wish we had something like this in the US.” And then I think “it’s just asking for a discrimination lawsuit so unlikely.” And then I think “well we should be making public transit free anyway.” And then I think “until we get our housing affordability and mental health crises resolved, free transit just becomes roving homeless shelters.” And then I get sad.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 5 months ago:
FYI the Women’s March org is hosting “Free America” protests for the July 4th weekend. See the Women’s March site here. Some other groups may be organizing protests too, but from what I’ve read the WM ones are probably the biggest.
If there’s not a scheduled protest nearby there’s always the option to make a sign and take to a street corner for a solo protest. If you’re feeling especially ambitious there’s always making a giant sign to prop up against the chain link at an interstate overpass (I’ve never done this but it looks fun).
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Understanding of course that it’s not just about the presence of amenities, but also the quality. Sure there might be a grocery store, but the fresh produce is questionable, it has limited brand choices, and doesn’t cater to specific dietary needs/preferences, like organic, vegan, gluten-free, etc. Sure there might be a hospital, but it’s chronically understaffed and/or lacking in certain departments. Sure there might be a dentist, but they’re so overbooked they’re not taking new patients. Sure there’s an airport, but tickets are twice as expensive and it’ll take two transfers to visit family every holiday. Etc etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
This is a very strange time to want to move from one of the most politically progressive to one of the most politically conservative states in the country. I’m assuming your husband is an American-born straight white cis man?
Regardless of politics, has he ever been to Wyoming? It’s a huge state, and much of it is a dry, barren wind tunnel. The NW corner is quite pretty, but also quite expensive. Depending on your budget, he may be surprised to realize the places within financial limits are not anywhere near as nice to live as the photographs indicate, and that’s completely ignoring the issues re: remoteness that others have already described. Seriously you could not pay me to move to most places in Wyoming due to the wind alone; I cannot emphasize enough how windy the I-80 corridor (near the “population centers” of Laramie and Cheyenne) can get.
Basically what I’m getting at is “why Wyoming” of all places?
- Comment on Priorities 6 months ago:
Good news: In America, there are currently lots of opportunities to go to prison (not an American? It’s even easier!)
Bad news: it’s not the kind of prison with gym and art.
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 6 months ago:
FYI, reusable produce bags exist!
- Comment on Now you know why they used to wear these types of dresses 6 months ago:
This meme so old, 50" TVs ain’t shit anymore
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 7 months ago:
a $1 million home [… is …] an average priced home in many markets
I’m going with this is the actual problem.
Also, your math assumes a flat tax rate, and any decent tax system is progressive. I don’t know how Florida’s works, but again, actual problems.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 7 months ago:
Switching accounts over is a big issue for sure, but even bigger is when entire communities are lost. Those are much harder to switch over, both due to scale and moderation concerns.
- Comment on xkcd #3089: Modern 7 months ago:
I always feel like a total dweeb using “contemporary,” but my desire for accuracy wins out every time.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 7 months ago:
I don’t disagree with the sentiments behind these statements, but you’re basically asking a fish to leave their large school to join a smaller school because it will benefit the species as a whole if the species is divided into multiple schools rather than one giant school. While it might be true that the species is safer that way, it’s much more dangerous for the individual fish to be in a smaller school than to stay in the large school.
In other words, it’s safer for the fediverse for users to diversify, but is safer for the individual to join a “too large to fail” instance. If a user’s instance goes belly up and they lose their account and everything associated with it, it’s functionally similar to the entirety of Lemmy going down as far as that individual user is concerned, because unless you’re a serial lurker (in which case it doesn’t even matter what instance you’re on if you’re not contributing) who wants to invest years in a social media site just to lose your account? Most folks are going to leave rather than start all over. And most folks are going to make the decision that is in their best interests over those of some website. I know every time I see another instance get shut down or defederated, I’m relieved I decided to sign up via .world, even if it’s sluggish at times.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 7 months ago:
“Joining the fediverse isn’t hard bro, your instance doesn’t matter, just pick one.”
“Stop using Lemmy.world, we need to redistribute to smaller instances.”
The number of times I’ve heard these fucking lines when people discuss why Lemmy/the Fediverse isn’t growing like corp-owned alternatives…
- Comment on LPT: Follow #bloomscrolling on Mastodon for a good time. 7 months ago:
Top-of-my-head identification attempt, approximately left to right, top to bottom:
rhododendron, iris, milkweed(??), mushroom (???), trillium (?), can’t tell too obscured, narcissus(?), no idea, columbine, too obscured, no idea, random forest shot
