chuckleslord
@chuckleslord@lemmy.world
- Comment on Solid advice 16 hours ago:
I am so glad that I got fully functional paralysis during sleep. I drink a lot of water and it would be a problem. Not all my siblings are so lucky.
- Comment on xkcd #3221: Landscape Features 16 hours ago:
The driftless region of MN and WI being shaped by rivers isn’t… inaccurate, I suppose. More like “rivers due to nearby glaciers” which isn’t quite the same thing.
- Comment on How possibly? 19 hours ago:
Whatever term you come up with, conservative think tanks will immediately poison. Trying to twist yourself in knots to find the perfect way to express the idea is just failing to understand that the issue is that those who benefit from these systems at the highest levels have every incentive to keep things as they are. They can and will use their captive audience to fuck with any explanation you try to give that’s contrary to the system as it exists today. The only concessions they will give will only be to get enough people to pack it in since “we won”. And those will only be temporary.
- Comment on How possibly? 19 hours ago:
Yes, the term intersectionality was invented here in the states. Conservatives have already poisoned the term and made it into “the oppression Olympics”, rather than what it actually is, a framing device to explain that life is different for a black man and a black woman or for a black woman with a disability.
Cause that’s the real problem here. US has a high-powered counter-propaganda movement called The Chicago Institute & Friends (Conservative Think Tanks). Any term you come up with to explain how our world is fucked up will be subsumed by conservative think tanks into the worst idea imaginable.
Open borders? You mean letting in criminals by the boatload, rather than a measured response to the harms of immigration quotas.
15 minute cities? You mean communist lockdowns, preventing the free movement of people and ideas. Instead of what it actually is, designing urban spaces to accommodate the people that live there instead of devoting every square foot to car dominance.
White privilege? You mean demonizing people for the color of their skin, exactly what MLK didn’t want to happen. Instead of what it actually is, a framing device to show white people that there is more going on in this country than just what directly impacts them.
The fact of the matter is that “the left” (big tent, from liberal to anarchist) doesn’t have a messaging problem, it’s that the opposition has a lot of funding and influence to drown out whatever point the left is attempting to make.
Sartre’s quote on anti-semites here
- Comment on tonyhawktruther 1 day ago:
It’s still weird to me that this might be James Stephanie Sterling’s biggest cultural contribution. They spend all their time advocating for better games and better work conditions for those who make games, but nope, it’s Big Chungus that made the biggest impact.
- Comment on Can't wait for summer roadtrips <3 1 day ago:
“I’m sorry?! Do you want homeless vagabonds rummaging around MY neighborhood, snacking on the fruits of MY trees?! I THINK THE FUCK NOT! ONLY MALE TREES! ALLERGIES YES, VAGABONDS NO!!!”
-NIMBYs, with funding by big agro
- Comment on Shuffel them cards 6 days ago:
If you start with a fresh deck and perform 8 perfect dovetail shuffles, you’ll have shuffled the deck back into the exact same arrangement it started in.
- Comment on Checkmate, Metalheads!!! 2 weeks ago:
Oof, ouch, my bones!
- Comment on Cold War science was somethin' else. 2 weeks ago:
Why’s my handjob?
- Comment on psssst 2 weeks ago:
Yes. You think the average scientist wants to be wasting their time creating catch-all experiments in order to get published so they can secure more grants? Of course not, they want to follow their curiosity to answer big questions or fail to get the answers but answer other questions. This model wastes everyone’s time for extremely small gains. But it’s all about stakeholder’s investments.
- Comment on Are we about to see the WW3? 2 weeks ago:
Holy ai map, batman. What the shit is that?
- Comment on mfw I get hit on by women 2 weeks ago:
If it weren’t for pre-shitty OKCupid I’d probably not be married rn
Lol, same. It’s a damn shame they went the route of evil. I was just reminiscing recently with my spouse about the quizzes on there.
- Comment on This ain't no scooby snack 💀 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Game over 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 2 weeks ago:
Arceus turned the whole game into pokemon snap with balls. Or the safari zone. It wasn’t good, unless you like playing pokemon games to catch every pokemon as fast as possible
- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 2 weeks ago:
Legends Z-A was the title for the switch 2. I mean, Scarlet and Violet was clearly supposed to be the switch 2 title (its obvious they developed the game for that hardware) but they needed to rush it to get their one game a year quota.
- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 2 weeks ago:
I’ve played every main-line and reboot pokemon game since they came out. I didn’t finish Scarlet and Violet, it was so bad, also didn’t finish Legends Arceus cause it was so lazy, and I’ve never played Legends Z-A. They’ve stopped putting in any amount of effort, so why should I bother to play them?
- Comment on Worldwide Smartphone Market to Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due to the Memory Shortage Crisis, according to IDC 2 weeks ago:
I’m on year 5 of mine. Literally no issues
- Comment on Make a note 3 weeks ago:
To expand on this, when smoking thc, it will hit immediately, peak within minutes, and last generally about an hour or two. When consuming thc, it will start to kick in between 15-45mins later, peaking in intensity at 1.5-2.5 hours, staying there for about 2 hours, and will still be effective for up to 6 hours after consumption. If you take more within the ramp up period (between 1-3 hours) and end up taking too much, you could be very high for the next 3-4 hours.
- Comment on Finally a possible path toward peace in this long war 3 weeks ago:
But you still use toilet paper with a bidet. What?
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 3 weeks ago:
It’s not, though. People from LA will say the exact opposite.
That saying pops up anywhere where there’s a large range of weather. Which is most places, but not everywhere.
- Comment on Expecto patronum my ass! 3 weeks ago:
Good ol’ American magic
- Comment on art 3 weeks ago:
Jordan Peterson’s nightmare
- Comment on Kerbal Space Program spiritual successor Kitten Space Agency now has a Linux version 3 weeks ago:
Having watched Scott Manley talking about the two. One, Kitten isn’t fully out yet, it’s mostly a tech demo right now. Two, Kitten is built on a 64 bit engine, so it can actually accurately stimulate a solar system (a LOT of the “Kraken” physics in KSP was due to the 32 bit engine). As far as I know they’re trying to make Kitten to be KSP but better. Like a KSP 2
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
This
- Comment on Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system 3 weeks ago:
Winning 60% of the rounds, and you still haven’t more money than the player who started with more. Is that not proof of the concept?
Also, yes, this game tickles in a good way.
- Comment on Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system 3 weeks ago:
No, what?
The premise is “people wouldn’t choose to do certain work unless they were coerced into”. I retorted “I want that work you think I’d have to be coerced into doing”
Manual labor is undervalued, making it “one of the jobs that people have to be coerced into doing”. By stating my desire to do it above “high value, mental labor”, I undercut their assertion that there are jobs that require coercion to get performed. There are people who want to clean, cook, do manual labor, do administrative work, accounting, cleaning up shit, building, basically everything a society needs to exist. Coercion need not apply.
- Comment on Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system 3 weeks ago:
Not a fact, an assumption based on an assumption baked into this economic system.
If I could live on the salary, I would prefer a manual labor job.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 4 weeks ago:
Taxes in the US are overwhelmingly used for the military and to enrich rich fucks, not to help the poor. Don’t be disingenuous. Rich fucks sitting on assets aren’t “not hurting anyone”. Their assets have real world value, that’s why they’re valued like that. By letting someone sit on them to “allow them to appreciate” is letting someone doing nothing accumulate the wealth gains of society that we all work for. Because those assets appreciate faster than inflation, they create inflation pressure as more asseted people have income to burn that doesn’t reflect actual economic movement. Decreasing the value of money that other people need to use to buy things to live.
No one lives in a vacuum and letting people hoard assets has a negative impact on everyone else. So yes, wealth redistribution is a net positive not because “it punishes rich people” but because it allows our money to better reflect who actually produces the value in society. The workers who do the labor of running everything, rather than rich fucks who normally reap all the monetary benefit of that with almost no actual contribution to the effort it required.
If everyone became a laborer with proper compensation, society would thrive. If everyone became an asset hoarder, society would break apart as there would be no one to operate the machinery of society. Increased wealth inequality pushes us towards the second scenario(asset ownership is rewarded over value producing behaviors, pushing individuals towards more asset accumulation in order to not be left behind, increasing the price of those assets, devaluing other ways of earning money, creating more pressure to own assets), reducing wealth inequality pushes us towards the first.
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 4 weeks ago:
There is evidence that when you make an llm explain why it did something that it’s less likely to just make things up, but like all it does it make things up in a verifiable way, in that case. It’s a plagiarism machine, not a thinking machine.
