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- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 20 hours ago:
Because it’s Christmas which is the only time people think of it
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 21 hours ago:
And they’re socialized for that too…
Take a social animal, raise it in isolation, and it will be almost impossible for it to integrate in a group after released as an adult…
You’ve never seen any of the videos of wildlife rehab hiding the fact that they’re human from an animal?
- Comment on Millennials are giving up on the thought of ever buying a house and experts estimate fewer will become homeowners 22 hours ago:
Its gonna keep happening too.
For years I’ve been getting spam cold calls/texts from investment groups trying desperately to buy my house.
Everyone with a mortgage gets them, long before anyone starts thinking of selling.
What we need is common loyalty. Everyone to refuse to sell existing homes to any bank/corp regardless of how much they’re offering.
A single person always loses against banks and corps, that’s why they spend so much keeping us divided
But the truth is the only reason there’s a homestead exemption is less than a century ago when banks would try to repo a house, the whole community would be waiting for them with rifles.
The people changed the math on the risk/reward for seizing housing, we’d have never got that homestead exemption codified into law without the legitimate threat of violence.
- Comment on Some billionaires might own yachts so they can get rid of bodies at sea and make people disappear. 1 day ago:
You don’t need to be a billionaire or even own a boat…
People stage accidents on rented boats and even cruise ships fairly often.
Regardless of if it works and they get away with it, a lot of people have seen Dexter.
Billionaires can just outspend the government on lawyers to get away with anything. So there’s probably a higher percentage who assume they can get away with it.
Because DA’s are obsessed with win rate, they give cushy plea deals to people who can pay for good lawyers. Regular people and the government are the opposite, and innocent people are forced to take plea deals because time served and probation is always better than a 1% chance of 25 years in prison.
For a billionaire they just have to keep stalling till the money runs out. Even where Kirk got shot, the local officials were immediately freaking out over how they were going to pay for it all. So it doesn’t even take being a millionaire in some places. There’s a reason the children of lawyers are usually insufferable…
- Comment on xkcd #3185: Sauropods 1 day ago:
We know from recent excavations in Utah that there was a centipede type and a hydra type.
It’s why we always found so many “partial” skeletons together…
/s
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It’s like 1 of 2 days where the whole country shuts down. Even if a person doesn’t celebrate, they shouldn’t have to work
Man, I really didn’t think I had to explicitly point out lots of people have to take Christmas off, but have to burn personal days for their own holidays…
But here we are, me overestimating people again.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
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You realize a shit ton of Americans don’t care about Christmas…
Right?
And for the ones that do care about other religious holidays, the whole country doesn’t shut down to accommodate them.
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 1 day ago:
It’s not innate…
Innately humans are just animals. It takes effort to get people on the same page that cooperating is usually best
But we stopped teaching kids that in school 20 years ago.
That’s the sad truth about it. It’s not that the right corrupted a generation, just that between them an the neoliberals, no one wanted to help them. They both wanted brain dead tribalism because that’s what their mutual donors want
It honestly shouldn’t be that hard for everyone to follow the string back to "no child left behind’ but I remember pointing out this would happen 30 years ago, and I thought it was obvious back then too.
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 3 days ago:
Racing games too, especially single player races.
If conditions are the same every run, it will eventually find the mathematically fastest way. I saw a video about a guy doing it, and after thousands of runs the bot noticed a glitch if the car wasn’t on four wheels allowing it to move insanely fast. Like grinding a rail in Tony Hawk, the bot would immediately do it, and run the entire course on the glitch.
That’s not human intelligence tho, that’s the same as when a slime mold can design a transportation network as effectively as we can.
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 3 days ago:
I can’t believe I’m not really not really flying a spaceship!
Leonard > Amy
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 3 days ago:
Work is hard, modern games are easy.
Shoot this dot, go to that dot, bring “x” to this dot…
Anything requiring trial and error like a puzzle, the bot just brute forces trying every possible outcome until something works.
It works because games have a finite set of options and at least one progresses. The real world isn’t that clean, and you don’t get infinite chances to get 1 correct solution.
- Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing 5 days ago:
Something people would actually use is a message board.
One of the simple cut and paste forums and pay the $10/month to get it hosted.
Just have people text you to approve registration, something you can verify people are really in the neighborhood
- Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing 5 days ago:
People aren’t going to want to download a bunch of stuff they don’t know about to hang out with the HOA for game nights…
The main problem with HOAs is lonely bored people who want something to do.
Most people would rather pretend the HOA doesn’t exist until it’s needed for an actual issue.
- Comment on Donald Trump scores 'F' grade on economy: Poll 6 days ago:
Did you say F or S?
-Pierce Hawthorne, who’s basically trump
- Comment on If Browser and Wario are Mario's mortal ennemies, why did he invited them for a kart race? 6 days ago:
I always thought because the target demo was kids…
You’re biggest villain/rival is still a kid in your class that goes to the same gym class as you.
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 1 week ago:
when the bottom line replaces humanities interest
And there’s room for some capitalism before that point…
Like, UBI with stores where you pay for goods is still capitalism to some degree, if capital is involved at all, that’s capitalism.
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 1 week ago:
Capitalism is like any other vice.
In moderation it’s fine, often even beneficial.
But if it’s the sole focus you’re fucked. We’re not responsible cocaine users who want to stay up dancing every other weekend, we’re full blown crackheads on capitalism.
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 1 week ago:
The AI corps building the datacenters pretty much all have blank checks and want to be the biggest.
So the other corps that make chips, will always focus on what’s most profitable, which is what the AI centers use.
For it to be “worth it” to produce any consumer level tech, they have to raise the price to justify not just making the AI chips
So it’s not a conspiracy that’s raising prices, it’s capitalism working as intended, and to fix it would have to fix the focus on profits and replace it with fulfilling needs of the people. Which is pretty much the opposite of capitalism…
- Comment on ChatGPT Is The Most Blocked Bot And .Christmas Is The Most Dangerous Domain 1 week ago:
Non-human bots now account for 56.5% of internet traffic
Traffic, not content…
But still, we’re getting there
- Comment on Malaysia’s 5G speeds have nearly halved as network comes under strain, Ookla reports 1 week ago:
Besides telecoms not following their own generational requirements that they made up for themselves…
A big issue is that each new one always seem so much better, because no one else is on it.
Once adaption happens and people move to it, it free up the prior one and cuts down on the advantage.
- Comment on Lemmy instance subscription issues 1 week ago:
If I said there was two types of fruit, would you there’s more than two species of fruit?
- Comment on Lemmy instance subscription issues 1 week ago:
There’s two types of fediverse basically.
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Reddit knockoff
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Twitter knockoff
Sometimes a #2 can post to a #1, they stand out because they always tag people and us hashtags in comments, when they manage to create a post, they never seem aware and get very very belligerent when people try to explain what they did that created a post.
If you want to engage with them on their level, you need an account on a twitter knockoff.
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- Comment on what happens when you cut something? 1 week ago:
atoms/molecules
Two completely different things, on a molecular level that could just be stored potential energy. Like when a mousetrap is set or not, it doesn’t change it’s weight.
That’s how splitting atoms make atomic bombs there’s potential energy holding shit together, and we poke one to make it release which cause a giant chain reaction which adds up. Even then the “lost” mass is just blown up. I don’t think used my lease fuel gets substantially lighter for example.
- Comment on what happens when you cut something? 1 week ago:
Or to rephrase it: does a knife/scissors/etc just split something or does it remove something?
So, solids aren’t really solid. Like, at an atomic level no two molecules are actually touching. Think of it like a magnet floating above another.
What you cut it with matters too, something insanely sharp like a medical grade obsidian blade wieled with skill is so sharp, it’s just going to separate the molecules. And remove very little material.
Try to cut a piece of paper in half with a baseball bat, and lot of material won’t be attached to either of the two biggest pieces. Because it’s a big blunt object.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 1 week ago:
Why do you keep making and deleting so many accounts?
If you kept the same one, a lot of people would block you and stop down outing every post you make from a new account
- Comment on Quilter's AI just designed an 843‑part Linux computer that booted on the first try. Hardware will never be the same. 1 week ago:
Yeah…
But you know how people are already comparing vibe coding to 40k where “priests” pray to computers and hope if they do the exact same thing they’ll get the same result they want?
If we start walking down this road of even the chat or not understanding why what it did was better…
Serious unintended consequences are going to be inevitable.
Like, I swear nobody knows the paperclip story anymore.
Instrumental convergence posits that an intelligent agent with seemingly harmless but unbounded goals can act in surprisingly harmful ways. For example, a sufficiently intelligent program with the sole, unconstrained goal of solving a complex mathematics problem like the Riemann hypothesis could attempt to turn the Earth (and in principle other celestial bodies) into additional computing infrastructure to succeed in its calculations.[2]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
I mean, we can make a very very solid argument that much of our current problems are caused by high level stock trading being done by algorithms who’s only instruction is “make numbers go up”.
This shit aint even hypothetical anymore, it’s just instead of “make as many paperclips” we told it “make more money than you did yesterday”.
Which is why we’re burning down the planet to make billionaires even more money
- Comment on to any EU federalist, why do you believe you can make a federation out of 27 different countries with different languages and cultures? 2 weeks ago:
When America was founded they intentionally choose not to designate an official language, because it was a federation of lots of people from different cultures who spoke different languages…
We had a pretty decent run all things considered.
In fact, you could make a pretty good argument that the initial diversity was one of the main strengths, and we saw the biggest issues in areas with segregation and artificial means to keep different groups divided, with racial based slavery obvious being a huge early exception.
Every American knows what CNN, WSJ and USA Today are. How many Poles know what the BBC is?
That’s a wild statement tho…
BBC is global company.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_News_Polska
There was a 20 year gap 2005-2025, but less than a year after they came back, I can assure you most Poles today are very aware what the BBC is…
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
You read my initial comment…
And thought it wasn’t pointing out how you didn’t know what you were talking about?
That’s literally why I had to simplify and be blunt, and guess what?
It worked.
I had to really really dumb my comment down for you to understand it, and once you understood it, you got mad and accused me of having awntal illness…
Why would anyone ever try to help you when this is how you act?
Which likely explains why you have such fundamental misunderstandings.
If someone explains something to you, you either don’t understand any of it, or get insulted someone didn’t agree with you
Best of luck bro.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
And dogs will start marrying cats!
/S
What the actual fuck are you even talking about?
Seriously, nothing you’re saying makes any sense.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
but now I am starting to see it myself, blatant bots posting really crappy AI images
There’s one account that mods a shit ton.of AI image communities…
If you block that one account, it will.pretty much fix all of it. They’re super weird and going off memory they mod an insane number of communities for AI images, so I wouldn’t worry about pre-emptively blocking everyone, because it’s just the one account posting most of it.
But as you see posts block the community.
It ain’t that difficult.
But there’s entire instances that the admins have lost it to AI brainrot already. That’s where the communities are usually hosted and no amount of facts, logic, or even opinions and feelings will get those admins to “do something” about it.
The fediverse isn’t centralized, you’ll never “get rid of” any subject or topic. Because even if the big instances do, anyone can make a new one.
“Fighting” the people who’s brains have been rotted by AI will never be productive and most likely drives them further into AI
Not sure why it still needs repeated so much, but:
Don’t feed the trolls
Block them and move on.