nickwitha_k
@nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 1 day ago:
This is the administration that pushed a “budget” (money siphon) that they called the “Big Beautiful Bill”. That anyone thought that was a good name makes me embarrassed to be a human being.
- Comment on Playing therapist isn’t fun. 1 day ago:
Thank you for candidly answering people’s questions. It’s been interesting to read through. It also has made very clear to me that, while I wasn’t intending on it, escorting would not be a career that my brain could handle and demonstrating that you’re profession deserves a hell of a lot more respect.
- Comment on Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this 1 day ago:
Having worked at a McDick’s franchise in the past, my experience was that profit was the excuse. The owner wanted to feel like an aristocrat, showing up in their Bugatti and making proclamations without caring about how they meshed with reality (ex. fewer employees per shift will cause more waste because of the need to pre-cook more to keep up with rush demand).
- Comment on Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this 2 days ago:
The owners didn’t actually care. It was just a way to exert power over people.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 days ago:
where are all these Utopian “red cities” that people are apparently in favor of?
They do not and can not exist. Conservatism is an antisocial and anti-intellectual, authoritarian ideology. This pretty much rules it out of success in most conventional metrics.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 2 days ago:
This is exactly why I ended up in tech, despite actually getting a degree relevant to biochem/industrial microbiology. I graduated during the height of the Recession and decided not to go into academia, despite my love of data and research, because they stopped hiring tenure-track at most institutions, replacing them with adjuncts with minimal pay and benefits (even for academia) and poor bastards on the post-grad treadmill.
I fucking hate it and know that I’m not the only person who has been forced out of a research career by these objectively harmful-to-humanity economic policies.
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 days ago:
Hah. I know likely comedic misunderstanding but, in case it was not clear, the 27-year-old pedo was the gross one.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 2 days ago:
Yeah. It sure was “fun” competing with people with decades of experience and advanced degrees right after graduation. I hope that our generation and those after us are able to course correct and undo the bullshit that Boomers have inflicted upon humanity.
Note: Not generation war (no war but class war) but unfortunate reality. Boomers overwhelmingly supported neo-liberal politicians that to pulled up the ladder behind them and robbed future generations in exchange for short-term gains.
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 days ago:
Yeah. That was my experience as well. An adult dating a highschooler was a skeezy loser who peaked in middle school.
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 days ago:
I got you.
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 days ago:
Gross.
- Comment on PrintGuard Is a New Open Source 3D Printing Failure Detector That Runs on the Edge 1 week ago:
My suspicion would be that belt printers were not in the scope when writing it. Probably a good idea to open an issue in GitHub so that they can fix it.
- Comment on Best feeling 1 week ago:
- Cats
- Comment on Him and Elon were cybering, calling it now... 1 week ago:
Both were less impressive than the beard of Edward Teach.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 2 weeks ago:
Who’s dying on what hill now?
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 2 weeks ago:
That would be wonderful. The current way that the world has been “working” for a good while now makes me think it unlikely, unfortunately. The vast majority of technological innovation in the last half-century has been used to extract wealth and replace options available to the non-ultra-wealthy with inferior substitutes that are cheaper to make, often for the same effective cost.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I would say that I think it’s weird because I think shaved pubes are weird (and experienced horrific razor burn when I tried it back in college).
Sounds like you are a fucking rockstar dad though. That’s a very vulnerable thing to think about asking your parent for a teenage boy. Lots of self-consciousness and trying to figure oneself out. That he felt comfortable asking you says a lot. That you stepped up to ensure that he knew how to do so safely says a lot too.
- Comment on Project Diva 2 weeks ago:
I had to look it up a few months back. But then I remembered that there was this whole big thing that I thought was uninteresting and forgot about.
- Comment on Project Diva 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for your diligence.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 2 weeks ago:
So… Judging by recent trends in AI, this will be used to devalue the labor of surgeons and be provided as the only option available to people who are not rich. People will die from what would get a human charged with neglegent homicide but, it will be covered up and, when it comes to light just how dangerous it is, nothing will happen because all of the regulatory agencies have been dismantled.
- Comment on is lemmy.sdf.org running poorly for anyone else? 2 weeks ago:
If you really want to send a message, you’ll want to switch the horse head with a keyboard from a VT100 terminal with its cable cut in the middle of the curls.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 2 weeks ago:
Cat in the Hat. Kid’s got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 2 weeks ago:
Cat in the Hat. Kid’s got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.
- Comment on Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize 2 weeks ago:
Forced relocation?.. That’s also literally in the definition of genocide under international law.
- Comment on Former and current Microsofties react to the latest layoffs 2 weeks ago:
Autistic things are sometimes truly depressing.
Absolutely. And figuring out how to interact with people, especially if they are people that you may find attractive for now intimate companionship (not trying to assume) is something that isn’t generally explicitly taught. It probably should be though as doing so would significantly reduce interpersonal strife.
If wanting or receptive to some advice from someone with AuADHD, I can share something that helps my brain in some in-person social situations. Sometimes, I reframe it as a “scene” where I am playing the character of Me. Not an exaggeration or non-authentic version of myself, more like “method acting”. This tricks my brain into being more present and not worrying about possible futures or cringey things of the past.
People of this kind I’ve heard of seem very energetic. They may not always do the smartest thing, but they do it all the way in. Maybe that’s what’s wise.
For their benefit and the role that they in company structures, it is one approach that pays out for some. And it is one that’s heavily promoted. However, it does effectively amount to gambling, albeit with minimal personal risk to the CEO, considering the level of connections and wealth required for the position, not to mention the Golden Parachutes that they have in their contracts, should they be replaced.
Though then why be a corporate executive. Doesn’t seem anything desirable.
Generally, it’s about accumulation of personal wealth and power, rather than actually believing in a given service or product. While to you and I, that may not seem desirable, to a certain percentage of the population, it is a principal drive. Unfortunately for us, and humanity at-large, there’s also a statistically-significant increase in the incidence of anti-social personality disorder in those who pursue such positions, compared to the population average.
- Comment on Former and current Microsofties react to the latest layoffs 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they really believe into that “replace everyone with AI” thing.
A lot of ultra-wealthy people are incredible stupid, so, yes, this is likely.
- Comment on Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permission 3 weeks ago:
Jail them!
In prison gen pop. Make execs afraid to break the law for profit and/or fund reform for the prison system.
- Comment on Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes 3 weeks ago:
Just hope it isn’t The Neptune Protocol.
- Comment on cooking question 3 weeks ago:
Exactly what I said. But you missed the bit about Virginia-Perique blends.
- Comment on cooking question 3 weeks ago:
Not a good idea. Such a broth can be used as a pesticide but it’s also dangerous to humans and animals. Nicotine also absorbs through the skin so, anyone trying this (which I can’t recommend but for it’s dangers and general lack of need for pesticides in home gardens) should be extremely careful and use all PPE (durable waterproof gloves, goggles, long sleeves, trousers, and waterproof footwear, as well as respirator if there’s any chance of aerosolizing) when applying. Seriously. While it has been used historically by home gardeners, the toxicity is no joke.
And, always remember: Proper PPE is sexy.