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- Comment on The three musketeers never use muskets 46 minutes ago:
It’s one of those things where we shortened a word and then it stopped making logical sense.
“The three musketeers” werent just musketeers who carried muskets.
They were “the king’s musketeers”. They were elite special forces as well as the personal bodyguard for the King. The best of the best. The “musketeer” part was the common bit, it just sounds fancy centuries later.
But the book might as well be called “The Kingsguard”
- Comment on Netanyahu asks court to postpone corruption trial summons: lawyer 4 hours ago:
I’m still pissed there wasn’t charges after it came out he was smuggling millions into Gaza to keep Hamas afloat
Dude has been creating his own problems for decades, because it’s just a distraction for him to stay in power.
If there was no Hamas, there’s be no Bibi.
- Comment on Bezos' Lavish Venice Wedding Spurs Demand for Global Billionaire Tax 2 days ago:
Literally no one needs that level of wealth
They’re choosing everyday to hoard it knowing full well how detrimental that is to the vast majority of other humans.
Every fucking second of every day, they are choosing their personal.pleasure over the rest of us.
They’re not gonna magically change their mind and start wanting to pay taxes.
We have to make them.
- Comment on Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers: no evidence of a sizeable negative impact of AI on workers’ well-being and mental health. 3 days ago:
This study explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and workers’ well-being and health using longitudinal survey data from Germany (2000–2020).
It’s crazy the AI bros will say that this means AI is safe…
But then ask them how much AI has improved since 2020 and without a shred of realization they’ll tell you only an idiot would compare 2020 AI to 2025 AI…
Like, it’s not the study’s fault. It’s the fault of anyone trying to apply it to modern AI.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 3 days ago:
Yeah, the whole point was to show feudual society was fucking stupid.
No one bout a square meter of land and started going to the Queen’s brunches.
It was to mock the people that unironically wanted to be called a Lord in modern day.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 3 days ago:
I’m sure there some scams…
But that doesn’t mean they were all scams.
And I sincerely doubt one lone Chinese woman was responsible for all the companies doing it.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 3 days ago:
It depends where you are…
In Europe (primarily the UK) they sell tiny plots like that because it comes with a lordship.
So you can buy a lordship and token tiny square of land.
But they do that for the title, doing it just for land…
I dunno.
The only way I could see people go for it is if trump sells national Parks and people use this method to maintain it in its natural state.
- Comment on For considerably less than the price of the Super Deluxe Edition of Boarderlands 4. I have almost all of Assassins Creed on one box. 4 days ago:
Why deal with Ubisoft BS on PCs and their Client. Where older games force you to sign in to play them. When I could just have them on one box.
Yeah, but the advantage of PC is games “last longer” graphically.
Old games like those on PC you can max out all the settings and even use mods to further enhance it.
On an old console, you’ll always be playing at the same graphics it was released with
- Comment on AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic 4 days ago:
Hadn’t thought of this before.
The AI summary stops people from going to the website, which means the website the AI used isn’t getting any page views.
On a long enough timeline, it would kill webpages, then the AI has no new info to steal.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 5 days ago:
I mean, there’s someone here who has (not even exaggerating) 15+ accounts that they just rotate thru.
It’s a hassle to block them all because I still see new ones, but I’ll take that over “proving myself” as a unique person with something like this.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 6 days ago:
Every once and a while a few unexplainable things add up over a season, just to end with Scully pulling the face off an alien in the finale to reveal a stoned teenager and a dog are pranking Mulder…
- Comment on Rumor: Sony Interested In Acquiring WB Discovery Streaming & Services, Including WB Games 1 week ago:
Another step closer to cyberpunk dystopia with a handful of corps…
But at least this way we might get a new game with the nemesis system
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
But uv blocking sunscreen literally impedes the body’s natural synthetization synthesization…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What?
Vitamin D is something we don’t get much of from a modern diet, and we need a substantial amount to make very important neurotransmitters, the lack of which causes depression…
Like, that’s a real scientific thing we’ve known for decades.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9468237/
A correlation with increase use of sunblock, I’m not really sure of. I’d assume it’s more that people spend substantially less time in the sun in general regardless of UV blocking.
It was a meme in the Navy, if anyone looked sad or mentioned depression while out to see, the first fucking thing everyone said was “drink more milk” because they put a shit ton of vitamin D in the milk for that reason.
The second was usually “smoke more cigarettes” tho, because most of the time to smoke you had to go stand on a deck in the sun.
But especially for /shower thoughts, there’s not a lot to judge OP on here. It’s pretty accurate and something that someone very well could have just realized one day
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It won’t last forever though…
A lot of the non-upgradability is the pursuit of smallest form factor. But then everyone throws a case on it anyways. Miniaturization has diminishing returns and we hit that long ago with laptops.
Eventually we’ll hit it with phones, and then it’s just a matter of time till a solid “base” with swapable components come out. There’s been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.
That’s why manufacturers are trying to push us to watches or glasses. They need to shrink the form factor to keep up the (insanely profitable) strategy of selling a brand new unit every 2 years.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Apple aggressively throttled CPUs when new models came out.
They claimed it was due to age of batteries and to prevent overheating. But then Samsungs started exploding and I think people just let it go.
Not sure if they still do it or not.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
If you’re actually being sincere, you might want to ask people how to articulate your view, you’d have to let them know what your view is though. Or ask for peoples opinion on the question.
- Comment on Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic. 1 week ago:
It’s really fucking scary that The Oregon Trail generation got the best education American public schools have provided, ever…
It was shitty then, but God awful before and after that brief window.
- Comment on Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic. 1 week ago:
Lots of animals can think abstractly.
What separates humans from animals is communication and tool use. Obviously other animals can, but none come close to humans in either category.
Books is a huge example of both. Humans don’t have to figure out complicated concepts each on our own. The Internet is that on steroids, someone on the other side of the planet can read this post the second I hit “reply”.
That exchange of information through tools is why we’re ordering Taco Bell thru Uber from the couch instead of still chasing animals till they pass out.
Whether or not that’s a good thing for us and the planet tho…
- Comment on Not only do we humans have a common ancestor with primates still living in trees, we have a common ancestor with the trees. 1 week ago:
TIL! Never heard that definition, thanks for that.
Yeah, it’s pretty accurate and comes from the guy most equipped to talk about what consciousness is.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hameroff
He’s spent the last 30 years working on consciousness with literally the world’s smartest physicist if not human:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose
Like, you know how everyone knows Stephen Hawking? Penrose was the guy doing the hard science to finish up Eisntein’s work, Hawking was the “face” who explained it to people. When it was just Penrose and Hawking working on something, Hawking was the dumb guy at the table. Which is just wild.
But for the longest time people said Hameroff and Penrose couldn’t have been right because quantum entanglement couldn’t happen somewhere as “warm and wet” as the brain. About 11 months ago we found out microtubules can not only work as tubes that can sustain entanglement, it can sustain quantum superposition.
So, another decade or two and we should have a better answer for what consciousness is and what anesthesia actually does. But for now, that’s the best we can do
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 2 weeks ago:
This would be insane and quite a claim.
As opposed to surviving with only a slight limp and blood from wounds that stopped bleeding almost immediately with no medical attention…
Because that would be completely normal and not noteworthy
Anyways, do you need a new watch? I could sell you Big Ben for 20 quid, comes with a deed and everything!
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 2 weeks ago:
Not just survived…
The article has a video that supposedly him after the accident. He has a slight limp and blood/dirt on him but not bleeding.
His proof is a plane ticket, but like…
It’s waaaaaay more likely dude missed his flight and is pulling a stunt compared to be virtually uninjured and walking into a busy area before rescue crews were out.
It’s like a 1 in billions chance if he was really on the plane
- Comment on Not only do we humans have a common ancestor with primates still living in trees, we have a common ancestor with the trees. 2 weeks ago:
I mean, people already are…
We don’t have a better definition for consciousness then “it’s what anesthesia stops” and we don’t have a better idea about what anesthesia does than “stops consciousness”. So it’s a chicken/egg thing.
The thing is, anesthesia works on everything, humans, animals, plants, even single celled organisms.
Literally everything is consciousness. Tomatoes even feel pain thru our most common definitions.
So yeah, people that claim to be vegan because of animal suffering are still causing suffering and pain to life, then ending that life.
You’d need to be some super specific type of vegan where you only eat fruits because those specifically evolved to be eaten in a symbiotic relationship with animals.
But like, I’m pretty sure that would just give you organic diabetes or something.
So everyone draws their personal line wherever, but none of us really have an “ethical diet”
- Comment on Meta Filed a Lawsuit Against The Entity Behind a Nudify App. 2 weeks ago:
Like, why did you manufacture this intractable problem by mandating clothing and shaming nudity in the first place?
You think humans invented clothing because of shame?
That’s completely backwards, we invented clothing for protection, and not seeing everything all the time led to shame when someone could see us.
Like, I’m pretty sure hermit crabs feel something similar to shame when they don’t have a shell, they need something to drive them to not only protect them, but to ensure they can reproduce and raise their young. That’s why humans instinctually get weird about exposed genitals and boobs, those are the most important parts of a human from an evolutionary perspective.
I get what you’re trying to say, it’s just you’re going about it completely backwards
- Comment on Meta Filed a Lawsuit Against The Entity Behind a Nudify App. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not for the right reason…
Beta was better than VHS, but Beta didn’t have porn, so everyone got VCRs.
Meta is so big they could get sued for letting users openly make porn like this, but they don’t want everyone using the ones who can make porn. Because that’s the biggest threat to their advantage in the market.
If Meta thought they could get away with it, they’d dive dick first into porn.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 2 weeks ago:
but why don’t manufacturers of basic cars just put a fancy-looking exterior onto them?
“Kit cars” are a thing…
Not sure what’s popular these days, but for a while people were putting Shelby Cobra bodies on Miatas.
It’s way more than a Miata, but way less than an authentic Shelby.
So people who just care about the looks have been doing this for decades now.
But when it happens as a production, people don’t buy it because other people recognize it for what it is, look at the PT Cruiser.
So if a couple people do it, it passes as expensive. If a lot do it, it comes off as tacky and becomes a joke.
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 2 weeks ago:
if you feed it the rules of chess and the dimensions of the board it should be able to “play in its head”.
You’d save a lot of time typing, if you spent a little more reading…
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but it’s chess…
The LLM doesn’t have to imagine a board, if you feed it the rules of chess and the dimensions of the board it should be able to “play in its head”.
For a human to have that kind of working memory would be a genius level intellect and years of practice at the game.
But human working memory is shit compared to virtually every other animal. This and processing speed is supposed to be AI’s main draw.
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 2 weeks ago:
Although the chatbot had been given a “baseline board” to learn the game and identify pieces, it kept mixing up rooks and bishops, misread moves, and “repeatedly lost track” of where its pieces were. To make matters worse, as Caruso explained, ChatGPT also blamed Atari’s icons for being “too abstract to recognize” — but when he switched the game over to standard notation, it didn’t perform any better.
For an hour-and-a-half, ChatGPT “made enough blunders to get laughed out of a 3rd grade chess club” while insisting over and over again that it would win “if we just started over,” Caruso noted. (And yes, it’s kind of creepy that the chatbot apparently referred to itself and the human it was interfacing with as “we.”)
It’s fucking insane it couldn’t keep track of a board…
And it’s concerning how confident it is that it will work, because the idiots asking it stuff will believe it. It’ll keep failing and keep saying next time will work, because it’s built to maximize engagement.
- Comment on 1 in 3 men report using intimate partner violence. Here’s how we can better protect women – and help men 2 weeks ago:
Click baity headline:
One in three men (32%) aged 18 to 57 years report using emotional abuse towards a partner. One in ten (9%) say they have used physical violence.
9% is way to high and definitely a problem that needs addressed. But the article mentions multiple times stuff like:
Overall, among the 120,000 men surveyed, one in three (35%) said they’d used a form of violence towards an intimate partner in their adult life.
Like, obviously not defending emotional abuse, but it really shouldn’t fall under “violence”.
It’s 100% a form of abuse and a serious issue, just not “violence”.