captainlezbian
@captainlezbian@lemmy.world
- Comment on Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from 7 hours ago:
Yeah my bet is Facebook and maybe some less reputable sites. Surely they didn’t scrape 8chan right?
- Comment on Set them free and let them bask in the fresh air of nature 8 hours ago:
Fuck it’s legal in decent chunks of America, though you might get in trouble for it at work
- Comment on Hard to answer the question when you don't even understand the question 14 hours ago:
Yeah hell my statics lecturer encouraged it
- Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this 14 hours ago:
I feel that. Markdown just does what I want better. Someday if I ever have to write a lot for work I’ll actually learn LaTeX, but I just didn’t have the energy to give it the effort it deserved in college
- Comment on [deleted] 15 hours ago:
Ostara, the beginning of spring is in late March.
Idk the roman republican calendar began years at kalendes Ianuarius, and they were absolutely pagan. It looks like the germanics and celts did it in mid winter too, though they started summer quite early. If it holds any truth it’s probably about the Celts beginning their calendar in late spring/early summer. Looks like Babylon did it like the celts.
Idk modern paganism is basically entirely reconstructed or constructed whole cloth in the modern era. Extant traditional polytheism is generally separately categorized. The wheel year most of us use comes from Wicca which was created in the 50s.
- Comment on [deleted] 15 hours ago:
Yall throw an orgy for imbolc? I just light some candles and meditate on the coming end of spring.
It’s beltane and midsommer that get orgies, though the latter is just part of the pride baccanal
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 16 hours ago:
I’m American ex catholic and yeah that was my childhood church. That said we also have a lot of people who convert to catholicism for the aesthetics and to crusade larp, and one of them insisted on arguing with the previous pope about basic doctrine as the old man was dying…
So yeah, you’re supposed to listen to the pope but nobody does.
- Comment on HAWK SHARK 16 hours ago:
My ex smelled like a taqueria when she sweated. Some people smell good when sweating
- Comment on HAWK SHARK 16 hours ago:
I’m not butch, but I am the sort of girl who prefers wearing masculine scents. Some men want to smell like flowers, I want to smell like a forest
- Comment on Y'all got one, right? 16 hours ago:
Yeah but it might include a gay couple that are cousins and on meth. They make those in Alabama
- Comment on Do people eat this? 18 hours ago:
Ah, then you gotta get german bread with french or Irish butter. Maybe throw in a side of pomegranate and/or cheese. Great way to start your day
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Yeah Japan has uncomfortable cultural quirks at times, and they’ve gotten away with a fair bit in the whole “pretending they weren’t evil in the 30s-40s” sphere, but like they’re not doing that much in the extremely bad category at the moment beyond the yakuza (and organized crime is outside government control by definition).
If you want to know who can get away with real bad shit it’s Saudi Arabia and it’s because the us financially benefits from their regime
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 1 day ago:
It was a meme when I transitioned to post top less pics until they got censored. This was back when free the nipple was a bigger force though
- Comment on This kid gets it 1 day ago:
Yeah. You need to study so that way you have the skills and knowledge they’re trying to teach you. With that knowledge you can
Literature class: write decently well, interpret themes, messages, and intent in media, engage in critical thinking and use it to present an argument for your position, understand that other people have their own perspectives and be able to entertain those perspectives
Math: think logically, understand relationships with numbers, understand the basics of how spacial dimensions interact, do all the minimum necessary math associated with citizenship as well as more that is likely to come up at some point in your life with at least the understanding required to pick it up again quickly after looking it up
Science: basic understanding of how the physical world works so that when topics of science come up you have some framework with which to approach it, an understanding of the scientific method and the philosophy of empiricism (these are often taught very poorly ime), an understanding of how physical objects in this world interact with each other and the basics of what makes machines do things and why
History: an understanding of what has happened before, trends and ideas from the past and their consequences, you’re supposed to learn from it not take it as an instruction guide, an understanding of how the world and society got to be like this, basic understanding of various philosophies of governance and ways the world has been viewed
Government: as a citizen of a democracy you’re going to be given a share in its ownership when you reach the age of majority, you really should understand how it works and have a basic sense of your duties and the reasons for them as well as how the law works
Foreign language: it’s just useful ok, and the second language is the hardest
- Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial 1 day ago:
But it should also be noted, teenagers are particularly targeted by and vulnerable to such messaging. In my 30s I can look around and see the evidence against such comparisons, but at 16 I was just some kid who worried she’d never be attractive or well liked. Had I been in spaces that encouraged such attitudes such as Instagram or 4chan I would have been really vulnerable to it.
Young people are often overly worried about such things because adolescence is a difficult and transitory stage where these worries are developmentally appropriate. They’re supposed to have adults who can help them deal with this, and peers that they can learn by interacting with, but it’s normal to not believe your parents on such issues and interactions with peers has been moved online with social media and there’s little interaction with adults. This has led room for teenagers to be preyed on by algorithms that encourage their worst instincts and online communities that teach anything from antisocial behavior to masochistic epistemology.
- Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial 1 day ago:
Yeah there was a period where it noticed I watched a few trans youtubers and so it started promoting anti trans content, it was around the election (I forget if before or after), but either way it disgusted me that they’d do that
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 day ago:
Yes, but their bread is good and rough. No idea how their butter is
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 day ago:
Peanut butter is perfect and I’ll die on that hill. My country’s cheap combination of pulses and bread is much better than yours! That said you need unsweetened peanut butter and unsweetened bread, both of which can be difficult to find in the us
- Comment on Correlation equals causation 2 days ago:
Except datura. Try datura now, you can look up the effects once you’ve taken it.
- Comment on Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock 2 days ago:
That’s what the police training has been teaching them to do. Learning about it was extremely scary, because seriously why the fuck would you teach cops of all fucking people to shoot at the first twinge of fear and that everyone is out to get them!
- Comment on Currency 2 days ago:
I think the fact that they’re pretty, nonreactive, rare, and were available very early is huge here. Gold is just there sometimes, little flakes and beads washed to rhe surface. It’s one of the only metals you find non metallurgical cultures using. From there it became valuable for jewelry and ritual objects because of its rarity and appearance, and once you have something durable, reworkable, and more desired than possessed it becomes a really easy thing to trade, especially when cross culturally valued.
- Comment on thank you fb 2 days ago:
Also sometimes associated with the beast of the sea in revalations, which is the antichrist
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Yeah, going slow, feeling the slip into the distance you expected to. I’m not a good driver, but I lose a lot less driving ability on ice than most people because I’m acutely aware of how my car will act on it. That said I live in the PNW these days so no more lake effect snow, not much freezing temps, and my ice driving skills only apply on flat land, fuck driving on snowy mountains.
- Comment on Currency 2 days ago:
I’m personally offended that I wasn’t thanked for my attention to this matter
- Comment on Currency 2 days ago:
Also because gold and silver are what people will mentally default to. Even if you develop a quick, easy, and free test to determine the purity of cobalt or neodymium and demonstrate how they’re more functionally valuable, people will still default to trading au and ag to buy the amount of those metals they need. Copper would be next.
So why gold? Because everyone knows that enough people will trade for it, in the same way you know your landlord, grocer, and bar will all take your country’s currency, and that’s why you accept it in exchange for your labor
- Comment on Currency 2 days ago:
Yeah but was the process cheaper than buying it? Converting a million dollars of lanthenides and energy into a few thousand dollars of gold isn’t a great trade off
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Thanks, I hate that I love it
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 3 days ago:
Shit yeah that’s about how long for me. Gods, I remember talking about how cool and futuristic Facebook was back in like 08, but in my defense I was a middle schooler. I rapidly saw it morph into a hub of unpleasantness and bailed.
- Comment on Inside Xiaomi’s near-fully automated factory that assembles a smartphone in 6 seconds 3 days ago:
The rule of thumb is to plan for machines having 80% uptime. Mind you, new lines, and especially new technologies are often a clusterfuck until they mature and you really understand the quirks of trying to do what you’re trying to do with them. But yeah 20% retooling would make sense if they have a lot of models and a really complicated retooling process, but if that’s the case, well listen, I believe it, but I’d be asking questions about how to cut the tool change time down.
- Comment on Inside Xiaomi’s near-fully automated factory that assembles a smartphone in 6 seconds 3 days ago:
Hell you can even parallelize the slow parts so the fast parts aren’t waiting as much