Candelestine
@Candelestine@lemmy.world
Hello.
- Comment on xkcd #2893: Sphere Tastiness 9 months ago:
Peppercorns?
Whole and spherical, not particularly tasty. Changing their shape via grinding, however, unlocks fought-wars-over-the-stuff levels of tastiness.
Please explain.
- Comment on 9 months ago:
You think memes being used for low-effort propaganda is new?
- Comment on Hi so i am trying some shit for fun like summoning any kind of entities. 9 months ago:
The reason you are being downvoted is because you’re reminding people that the internet has a lot of very young folks on it. People don’t really want to be reminded of that, they want to feel like all the hijinks that internet people get up to are with adults. But if your age cohort is here on a niche service like Lemmy, then there must be more of you elsewhere, on other services too. This is genuinely unhealthy, in many different ways, so it disturbs people.
So, they downvote you for reminding them of something they’d rather not think about. Afaik though, there is nothing wrong with this question being posted here.
Regarding the question itself, we do tend to call them urban myths for a reason. People have not yet outgrown silly, superstitious thinking from centuries ago. It’s not necessarily an age thing either, plenty of older superstitious folks too. lol
Oh, and welcome to Lemmy.
- Comment on What is a "tax write off"? 9 months ago:
Think like a gambler. What are the odds of winning a higher sum if you play the game, vs taking the guaranteed tax savings? It’ll vary case-to-case, and is ultimately a subjective decision. That said, they have a very large dataset of historical examples to draw from to inform their decisions on the likely outcomes. They don’t need to make wild guesses like a bunch of amateurs on the internet would.
Also, sometimes you want your money today, and not five years down the road. Corporate structure itself does not necessarily place a strong incentive on long-term success, since ownership of shares of corporations can be so fluid and rapidly changing. If you have no strong attachment to owning part of a company in five years, you have no real reason to care about it’s long term health, and you’ll naturally start to prefer $5 today over $10 tomorrow.
This is the main reason corporations end up as such a pain in the ass, and require oversight from multiple directions, from consumers in the market on up to regulatory agencies that are supposed to be independent of them. Their structures do not naturally incentivize much long-term thinking beyond what might be necessary.
- Comment on When somebody tells you something, sometimes it's something they personally experienced and sometimes it's something they heard from somebody else. How do you tell the difference? 9 months ago:
So, thinking they are automatically lying is even worse than thinking they must be telling the truth. The position you need to hold is between the two.
The reason to hold it consistently is to take advantage of habit building and using how your brain works to your own advantage. You can try to calculate an independent “likelihood” for every claim if you want, but you’ll frequently be wrong, just because you can’t take everything into account. And it’s a massive waste of energy.
As to why, it varies. Humans are very different from each other, so the reasons will be many and varied. But the important thing to remember is just how easy the lie is, and how there’s really no consequences if someone does.
- Comment on When somebody tells you something, sometimes it's something they personally experienced and sometimes it's something they heard from somebody else. How do you tell the difference? 9 months ago:
You should not believe firsthand accounts you find on the internet anyway. People are here for recreation, for starters, which does not set a high bar for accuracy.
For instance, if I said I tried a dragonfruit the other day and it tasted amazing, you would be somewhat foolish to assume that I actually did try a dragonfruit the other day.
If you follow the general rule of holding reasonable doubt about all firsthand accounts you read online, you will not fall into this trap. Note that the doubt does not need to be complete, just partial. This is sometimes described as taking things with “a grain of salt”, and honestly, is a good idea irl as well.
You absolutely do not want to be one of those people that just believes everyone. That is extremely unhealthy, and will result in you being misled and/or scammed.
A good example would be user reviews, which are highly corruptible. If you go onto amazon, you will find a number of low quality, garbage products that are full of glowing reviews that have likely been solicited by the seller, in one way or another.
- Comment on All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why 9 months ago:
See, that’s good. He could write like that.
- Comment on All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why 9 months ago:
This author writes like an insufferable teenage cryptobro that got a little older and got a degree, but never actually grew up. I guess he’s after a very specific audience though.
Still though, slogging through that prose is slightly more annoying than a feisty chihuahua. Which itself is irritating, because I kinda want to know his actual opinions without having to dig them out of something full of endless paragraphs of his pointless bullshit fluff.
Ugh. Kids, if you write like that, you’re literally what Shakespeare was making fun of like, a bunch of centuries ago, with that whole “brevity is the soul of wit” char. He was viciously mocking you, a dozen-plus generations ago. Just get your point out.
- Comment on Media study on Gen Alpha kids show 'purposeful participation' over 'mindless consumption' of media and increased privacy consciousness over previous gen 9 months ago:
It doesn’t take aggression to give someone the critical thinking tools that adulthood will require, and then strengthen them with support and faith in their ability to use them.
- Comment on Media study on Gen Alpha kids show 'purposeful participation' over 'mindless consumption' of media and increased privacy consciousness over previous gen 9 months ago:
If a kids parents say one thing, and the world says another, I do not think 95% would side with the parent. I think the number would actually be flipped.
That said, I do agree that parents have an important responsibility to try to teach good safety practices.
- Comment on Media study on Gen Alpha kids show 'purposeful participation' over 'mindless consumption' of media and increased privacy consciousness over previous gen 9 months ago:
Looking at generations has more to it than simple ageism. Much of human behavior is a product of their culture, their surroundings. These surroundings change over time, and in the modern world, very rapidly. It’s the music, the films, books, memes, sayings, attitudes etc.
Discrimination is definitely something we want to avoid. But completely ignoring these unique cultural influences that change year-to-year, and are a natural part of growing up, is simply foolish. Parents do not, and should not, simply bear 100% responsibility for what their kids do, when their kids are not, and should not be, complete and utter slaves.
- Comment on I love Mastodon and ActivityPub. But I think Nostr is going to win. Here's why. 9 months ago:
Sounds like a fantastic option for folks that don’t like any mandatorily enforced censorship.
They should all go there.
- Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly? 9 months ago:
I personally use “queer folks” as a general catch-all. It used to be a pejorative, but has largely been reclaimed with the whole “we’re here, we’re queer” type messages.
- Comment on Playing Video Games Lead To Social Disconnection. It is True? 9 months ago:
Depends on the game. Deep Rock Galactic is a good example of a more pro-social game, in the fps genre no less.
Assuming you have not reached the level of actual addiction anyway. Anything enjoyable, even things like sweets or gambling, can potentially become addictive. That’s a whole different consideration.
- Comment on It's true, LLMs are better than people – at creating convincing misinformation 9 months ago:
Not that complicated. Which humans is it better than? People that want to watch the world burn, while they’re still on it, are not always that great at more difficult thinking.
Not too different from how hard it is for states that want to find new methods of execution that are both humane and effective to actually figure that out. The people who are capable of actually doing that competently, doctors, won’t help them.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community' 9 months ago:
They’re not complaining about negative feedback, are they? They’re complaining about the internet hate machine, which we should be mature enough here to admit is a bunch of juvenile, masturbatory bullshit from people that want to feel good about themselves without doing anything to actually earn that, and so just shit mercilessly in every way on anything they don’t like, because bullying others is a quick and easy way to feel strong for a brief time.
That’s more than mere negative criticism.
- Comment on ELI5 How does chatgpt do its shit? 9 months ago:
Sounds like a job for Kyle Hill:
- Comment on What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation | US education | The Guardian 9 months ago:
Having lived my whole life in the Information Age, I am 100% in support of this.
Problem with the digital world is it’s all fake, it’s all bullshit. It’s only anything at all because we’re here. But like everything, it comes with a cost.
During the brain formation years, the brain should get opportunity to form both with and without it, so the maximum number of possible capabilities are preserved for future access.
- Comment on Outrage as Oklahoma Republican’s bill labels Hispanic people ‘terrorists’ 9 months ago:
I do appreciate how they’re just openly playing their hand now. Makes the battle against fascism very clear cut and plain to see. They’re relying on the news-bubbling and conspiratorial leanings of their base to carry them through, but they don’t have the numbers.
We do. Just have to get them to the polls.
- Comment on Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content 10 months ago:
I think getting money out of politics will be a necessary first step towards addressing this.
- Comment on Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content 10 months ago:
When working properly, everyone equally. I will admit we do not nearly reach that standard, though.
- Comment on Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content 10 months ago:
I mean, they do usually effect the people that break them and go to prison too.
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 10 months ago:
Because even if they actually had an income of zero, they had saved up enough money over the years to be able to survive off it for some time. Commonly referred to as a “war chest”. They don’t actually have an income of zero though, their income is actually quite significant since they still have major trading partners like Iran, India and China to sell their fossil fuels and other resources to. They don’t buy fossil fuels, incidentally, they sell them. Like Saudi Arabia.
Also, you can buy things with more than just money. People figure that Kim Jong Un probably isn’t trading his stuff to them for money, but instead is getting technological assistance from them. Just one of their modern fighter-bomber tech, for instance, would be immeasurably valuable to N Korea, where their own tech has lagged behind a good bit over the years.
Lastly, people in the west have been doing sanctions evasion. I recall some German financial/tech company has its CEO now wanted by Interpol for being a Russian agent. So, when your own people are playing fast and loose with the law, that’s going to make things like sanctions more difficult.
- Comment on Climate denialists find new ways to monetize disinformation on YouTube 10 months ago:
We’re never actually going to win this arms race. We need a structural solution. Perhaps we could look into, maybe, decentralizing social media so no single algorithm ends up controlling huge chunks of it?
Might be worth a shot anyway, I dunno.
- Comment on The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending 10 months ago:
… yes! That is exactly what this shit is, actually. Just, not limited to that medium/timeslot anymore.
Ugh…
- Comment on How will I find financial stability if I live in a third world country with a toxic sociopathic/narcissistic mother, I have no skills (at least I think so), no time and therefore no money? 10 months ago:
… yikes. That must be hell.
You speak fluent English, any markets for that kind of skill in that area? Could teach maybe?
Unfortunately, the time-honored tradition for people in your situation is to keep your head down, keep quiet and be careful. I imagine you probably already knew that though.
- Comment on Anyone else notice the fediverse is quite close knit? 10 months ago:
Comments and votes are content too.
- Comment on Anyone else notice the fediverse is quite close knit? 10 months ago:
Somebody has to fill this place with content…
- Comment on Is it okay to wash hands with body soap? 10 months ago:
This is a really fun neuroscience question, it’s kinda diving into the different functions of the prefrontal cortex (conscious decision-making) and the cerebellum. (has a major role in muscle memory)
The cerebellum is one of the most interesting body structures. It’s actually like one super long ribbon cable that’s been folded up to take up minimal space.
- Comment on Awesome Games Done Quick starts tomorrow! 10 months ago:
Hey, cool. I’ve never actually watched one live, thank you. I think I know what my around-the-house background video is gonna be for a few days.