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@givesomefucks@lemmy.world
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 1 day ago:
It’s been a thing for a very long time, like even back in the 90s I remember it.
The difference was it was mostly between people who were both working. At least blue collar, and usually people who had a blurry line on when they were done with work on any given day for various reasons like having a very small business or side hustle
Like, there was an understood “work” in front of the “day”. Basically “I hope you get through this without much extra bullshit”.
That’s still how I hear it, but probably not how most mean it.
I didn’t really notice it spreading, but pandemic and zoom may have made it more common as people worked where they lived and needed to delinerate free time from work time.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 2 days ago:
Yeah, same page.
I just meant the slur was removed on lemmy.world the instant you posted the comment, so I didn’t know what that word was.
It was clear you weren’t calling anyone that, which is why your comment is still there.
Just a heads up it’s better to leave it vague and just say “slurs” instead of putting an actual slur
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 2 days ago:
I don’t think you realize the genetic diversity even among a close family…
But I have no idea why you’re talking about clones.
Kind of like if I said billionaires shouldn’t exist and you lept to saying that means I want money to not exist anymore
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 2 days ago:
You’re not…
Automod from this instant instantly removes it and generate a report.
The other person who used it, used it in one of the very rare handful of scenarios it might be acceptable to use a slur.
You seem to be under the impression that it’s acceptable under any circumstances, and almost gleeful about it…
- Comment on Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? 2 days ago:
Why are 70+ year old conservatives acting like conservative?
Maybe because they’re 70+ years old and conservative?
Like, surely people realized that “moderates” agreed with the right on some topics, well, these are them…
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 2 days ago:
Not sure what you tried to say, but it was bad enough for automod to replace a single word with “removed” in your comment and it reported the comment as using a slur.
Does being called a removed and communist online
Context wise it was fine, and I get what you’re saying, and that you weren’t calling anyone that.
But just a heads up you got a little too authentic with what life’s like on twitter, and might want to avoid doing that.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 3 days ago:
It’s actually a good article that gets into all that…
www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/…/ar-AA1wMMaJ
The fact that someone dumb enough to still be on Twitter only reads headlines shouldn’t surprise anyone.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 3 days ago:
Nah, you’d ideally want 150-200, but 100 (20something and younger) would be fine assuming a random sample from all over.
The danger is the reinforcement of negative recessive genes. So if you just grab 100 from one area, there may already be common dangerous recessives that would become an issue in a few generations.
But grab a random sample of the billions of humans worldwide, you’d have the same number of “dangerous” recessives, just different ones. That would take a long time to spread within the new population.
It’s not like similar DNA is bad, it’s just compounding of recessive genes when there’s no natural selection. Which is why all the big examples of inbreeding is medieval royalty. They didn’t need to be physically/mentally capable of surviving, because they had inherited wealth.
- Comment on Another day of AWS outages 3 days ago:
It literally happened right after they fired a bunch of humans to lean more on AI…
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 4 days ago:
Humans would have said to test it first…
AI will just call you a genius for having a brilliant thought no one else could have ever thought of: fire workers and buy AI
Like, it’s fucking insane that high up people are falling for chatbots bullshit, then asking it if they should use AI more. It’s always going to say to use AI and fire humans, because the people making the chat bots want people to spend more on AI.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 5 days ago:
Never trust any social media sites “private” chat.
Especially not one of the big ones run by weirdo fascists. You know Elmo is going to snoop on anyone relatively famous, or that just say something he doesn’t like.
In all honesty, there’s zero reason to even have accounts on them
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 5 days ago:
Time is run by a rabid pro-trumper…
The main reason the wealthy keep buying up social media, is to prevent the 99.9% of Americans from realizing we have more in common with each other than the wealthiest 0.1%.
So of course they’re gonna push articles telling people to skip the middle men and go back to listening to traditional media the billionaires have a tighter grip on.
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 5 days ago:
Everyone’s different, and you can get used to a lot.
So some people might not be able to tell 90fps from 120fps, but I definitely notice. But if I played something at 90 for long enough, I’d get used to it and stop noticing how much worse it was from 120 fps.
I will say they don’t get near enough credit for not only adaptive triggers, but them working on damn near any game that appears on PlayStation even while on PC.
I bought a ps5 just for those triggers, and gave it away (but kept a controller) once it worked on PC.
That’s the direction Playstation needs to go. If they made a new controller with Hall Effect sticks and 4 back buttons they’d absolutely clean up. They came so close with the edge, but didn’t give a back button for half the face buttons. And went “replaceable” sticks that will eventually break instead of Hall Effect.
- Comment on When baking, if your oven can't reach the temperature stated in the recipe, do you then just adjust for time? 6 days ago:
Speaking of cooking stuff that has fans…
I learned a while ago that when using an air fryer, you can’t put a liner in before you preheat.
It beeped and I went into the kitchen and due to the fan and the liner, it was shooting flames like 2 feet.
So I would be very hesitant to start hooking fans up to random heating sources.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 6 days ago:
The streamers think they’re the stars and partners with the streaming company…
But the company is always going to treat them as products with incredibly short shelf lives under even the best conditions.
Twitch doesn’t view them as real people, and knows even if they do quit or are harmed even killed, millions of barely adults would kill to take their place.
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 6 days ago:
I mean, people getting rid of the stereotypical shame of antidepressants is a very good thing…
Not just for them, all of society benefits when they take their medication. And “influencers” being open about it helps their listeners take it if they need it to.
Like, even if you think “influencers” and their listeners are “crazy”, them taking prescribed antidepressants is a good thing.
Complaining about this gives the same vibes as republicans complaining about kids being treated for autism. If there’s no treatment, it doesn’t mean they don’t need it, it’s just hiding the problem.
I just don’t see how any of this is dystopian, but the article was paywalled. So maybe it got to that part later.
- Comment on What's the deal with breakfast in bed? 1 week ago:
Because it’s there for you as soon as you wake up.
The other person (assumedly) got up early, obtained food, and prepared it just for you, without you signalling that you wanted it. Something that in modern times isn’t that big of a deal because it’s just in the kitchen.
But it shows they thought of you and your needs on their own. They thought of you when you were unconscious and took steps to ensure your comfort and survival. It’s such a base thing that it still really matters.
Like I said, it’s not really a logical thing that it should matter so much, because food is a lot more accessible. It’s an evolutionary holdover from long before humans or even primates existed. And due to natural variation some people just won’t see any point in it, where to other people it’s still a huge sign of love.
Like, if you asked why facial symmetry is attractive, most people couldnt explain it. But they still enjoy looking at a symmetrical face even if they don’t know why. And humans are really bad at just guessing and then rationalizing. So they’ll come up with some bullshit and honestly believe it.
So logically table or bed doesn’t matter. But brains aren’t logical. That boost of it being there the instant you get woken up is what matters most. It’s a sign that even when you’re not physically present the other person will care about you.
- Comment on What's the deal with breakfast in bed? 1 week ago:
It’s about someone putting all the effort in so it’s ready for you.
I wouldn’t give a shit either and don’t see the appeal, but it’s human variation. Like, you probably don’t really see the appeal of going out to eat with friends, and would rather do some other activity with them that you do enjoy.
But for the majority of people, food is currency, and eating in front of people shows that you’re not going to just take all the food for yourself and you’re willing to provide for someone who (in the moment) has none.
You’re not going to really get a logical answer, it’s just leftover instincts from billions of years of evolution. Like how your dog isn’t freaking out in excitement over a treat, they’re happy because you are choosing to give them “your” food. Even if it’s the smallest piece they inhale without tasting. It was yours and you gave it to them. It re-enforces the bond.
The intent is what matters. You value who you share your food with, so who you share food with feels valued by you.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 1 week ago:
But adding some specific set of demands will accomplish even less: it will alienate supporters who don’t agree with all the demands
That’s “means testing”. A classic move from neoliberals to turn a movement against itself and delay action. And why I personally don’t like trying to unite nationwide protests only a central authority or allowing a small unelected group to control a movement. The wealthy are going to try and corrupt it, and their money makes that easy for them.
it will be due to contingent circumstances that neither side was able to predict.
It’s very easy to predict…
The only reason any protest every has worked, or ever will work is the threat of violence…
We can spend all day dressing it up. But it’s telling our government we won’t stand for what it’s doing. The different flavors of protests, riots, and even coups are all the same threat of violence by citizens against their own government, it’s just how explicit that threat is and how polite the tone we say it in is.
I’m not saying that’s wrong. I’m not saying it’s something to celebrate either.
But people need to fucking understand it is what is, because it might be like that soon.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 1 week ago:
No problem.
If I had filled in all the gaps so the lowest common denominator got it, it would have been 10x as long, and it’s already too long for you to read.
There’s just no way I can communicate something like this to you in a way that you’d be able to understand. But my comments are often long, and I’ll never see any of your responses again to give you clarification on anything else now.
So you might want to just block me so you don’t keep getting confused in other threads.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 1 week ago:
Yeah, but if the bus driver has been calling all the passengers terrorists for a decade, has been saying he’s gonna kill us all, and keeps falling asleep while driving…
Wearing a funny costume and walking around the bus holding witty signs the driver will literally never see, might not be the best way to even get the bus to stop.
Like, you get that right?
It’s not Tinkerbell logic, we can’t all just clap our hands together and say “I don’t believe in kings” and they all fall down.
And I swear to 6lb 8oz baby Jesus if someone tries to tell me it’s “raising awareness and that’s most important”, I’m going to lose it, because obviously at some point awareness isn’t going to somehow stop the bus.
And I seriously doubt anyone is more aware today then they were a month ago.
Like, you all know MAGA is too scared to go into a city themselves, and the only news they listen to will never report what actually happened today.
For fucks sake, tell me there’s something I’m missing. Because otherwise it’s incredibly stressful that people think this will in anyway help. Because then you all aren’t actually going to help.
- Comment on Why are AI companies suddenly opening up coffee shops? 1 week ago:
I don’t think it’s for training really.
It’s way more likely they want to get people together and talking about AI in the hopes they hear literally any plausible method of monetizing it. And stealing that idea.
With the added bonus when you check out, if you subscribe to it’s AI you get 50% off the drinks, if you don’t you get a month of the AI service with you’re drinks.
The way AI effects your brain is kind of like drugs. It’s feels fun and novel at first, and a lot of people get tired and let it go. Certain people are wired different and get hooked.
Maybe it’s because I just re-watched Snowfall, but it feel like when Franklin cooked up his first key and just gave it away. They’re trying to hook people who would never intially buy it, because some of them won’t be able to stop.
- Comment on Men are losing their Y chromosomes - and it's accelerating the ageing process 1 week ago:
Weird…
I assumed it was a sloppy reference to the shrinking Y, but they’re talking about cells in elderly (over 70) men just straight up missing the entire Y.
I feel like the article was on the right track but missed the obviously conclusion:
When DNA is duplicated before cell division, if mistakes arise, they can usually be eliminated in something like a copy-checking process, where one chromosome is compared to its partner.
But because the Y is different to the X, it cannot be checked in this way, and so genetic mistakes have crept in during evolution.
This is why the Y is full of genes with mutations that make them defunct and why it is among the smallest of our chromosomes, with many mutated genes having been jettisonned in the past.
Scientists describe the Y as “genetic garbage”. Some have even predicted that over millions of years, it might dwindle to nothing, leading to the end of men.
The Y keeps changing, and the resulting sperm keeps changing as well.
But after 70 years of random changes at every cell division, a lot of shit is going to break.
There might be a built in clock that just stops including the Y to be safe. Or maybe some mechanism that can tell when it’s so mutate the cell line is better off without the Y.
It’s likely the same mechanic that makes men over 35 more likely to have daughters than sons. If thebY is dropping off in cell lines, then sperm is going to have a higher % without Ys.
It might not be even something that happens to all men, just human variation and circumstance.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 1 week ago:
“Local” police…
In virtually every metropolitan PD, a lot of the cops don’t just live in subdivisions, they live way outside of town.
It’s easy to abuse a crowd when it’s not neighbors and people that know you.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 1 week ago:
Is it a fantasy on my part that there’s some mythical law firm or society that looks for these violations?
Yep.
That’s what the justice system is supposed to do.
The types of organizations you’re talking about in America, instead work on saving innocent people from our justice system. Or at least ensuring punishments are fair.
As far as I know (I don’t know everything) there’s virtually zero organizations with the goal of getting guilty people charged by the state/fed.
Not saying your idea about documenting is a waste. Just that it’s the equivalent of people using plastic straws while billionaires and AI data centers do irreparable damage.
If cities/states actually wanted to press charges, they’d identify with cell snoopers, or just send 20 cops with a warrant to a field office, or look at pay records. Get their identies, then drivers licence photos, start comparing to social media profiles, identify similar picture of kit.
There’s a hundred better/easier ways to identify them. And this is the type of thing AI can actually be used to speed things up. Any average sized city has the resources to identify every ICE agent in their city. They’re just too chicken shit to escalate to that, out of fear ICE will retaliate personally.
So they pretend that tiny piece of fabric over half a face is just unbeatable.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 1 week ago:
Because city prosecutors won’t bring charges unless it’s a guaranteed win.
So even tho it happens on camera, and they could start at the top of the chain and work down applying pressure to find out identities to press charges…
They’re too scared of bringing charges in a case they might lose to even attempt to hold anyone accountable.
Our justice system has been fucked for decades, but Biden refused to fix it (because he literally “wrote” the bills that got us here) and trump wants a broken system to abuse it.
We can’t just keep letting Republicans break shit, then electing “moderates” who refuse to acknowledge there’s even an issue that needs fixed. We need people willing to fight, even if they don’t win 99.999% of battles. We need people who aren’t afraid to lose. Because they understand what happens if we abstain.
- Comment on Trump team says it won't cave if stocks tank in U.S.-China trade war 1 week ago:
Crypto is correlated to the stock market
The only correlation between crypto and “value” is what someone will pay for it.
I’m talking about a crash, not a dip.
An actual crash will 100% make more people turn to crypto, which will drive the price up. Enriching people who already own it.
Likely creating a bubble when the original holders sell, which the profits would then be used to buy into the crashed stock market, or gobble up real estate when everyone goes thru foreclosures when pensions/retirement funds get wiped from that actual stock market crash.
- Comment on Trump team says it won't cave if stocks tank in U.S.-China trade war 1 week ago:
A little of that, and a little of wanting to drive people to crypto which boosts the price.
As much as trump hates taxes, he’s definitely invested heavily in crypto
But the point remains:
He’s not just blindly breaking stuff for the sake of breaking shit.
It’s almost always a flawed logic, but there is a logic there. And it’s always easier to fight what we understand it.
- Comment on Trump team says it won't cave if stocks tank in U.S.-China trade war 1 week ago:
No. Doing what you’re doing is incredibly dangerous, and a big reason we have to deal with fucking Nazi’s again.
You can’t just simplify shit that much and declare it’s “simple”.
After WW2 everyone said every German was evil and flawed and that’s how nazis rose to power.
That is wrong but it gives everyone else the warm and fuzzies that it could never happen anywhere else.
Fucking obviously that’s wrong.
I know people like flippant social media comments, but you’re actively hurting us and helping the fascists by writing them off as Lonney Toons level evil who just want to break shit.
We need people to understand motivations not only to stop the current issue, but to prevent it from happening again
Like, c’mon man. It’s not exactly complicated, please start putting thought into what you say, and stop saying shit that helps fascists and hurts everyone else.e
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
Back in the day wed hook up old desktops straight to living room PCs. There was no apps so we’d just go to websites.
I’d be surprised if there isn’t some kind of raspberry pi mini PC with a good guinerap around Linux.
Some people will use a PlayStation/Xbox as well.