TopRamenBinLaden
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- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 1 day ago:
I think with the beginning stages of this kind of technology would work better with a removable option, for this reason. We are already getting able to make better human appendages, with super strength and dexterity, etc., but the touch is something that will probably be hard to implement for awhile.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 2 weeks ago:
Thankfully, he’s a golden lab and not chocolate lab, or it would’ve happened already.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 2 weeks ago:
Those kind of bomb sniffing dogs and cadaver sniffing dogs are acceptable, IMO.
The drug sniffing dogs aren’t, not necessarily because its cruel to the animals, but because they have been shown to not be 100 percent reliable, and are commonly used by the police to abuse peoples’ rights, as a tool to hide racial profiling, etc.
On the other hand, the police dogs that are trained and employed to bite people are an example of the extreme cruelty of humans, both towards animals and each other.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Gartska’s main band is a progressive metal band but the drummer is a jazz drummer through and through. Just look up some of his workshops and playthroughs if you just want to see good drumming. Most progressive metal is basically heavy jazz.
I understand its different strokes for different folks and all, and appreciate you giving them a chance and responding.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
Buddy Rich was good for his time and influential and all that, but the instrument has evolved so far since then.
Check out Matt Gartska and a band called Animals as Leaders for a great modern jazz drummer.
- Comment on "The father of PlayStation" says everyone at Sony thought the PS1 would fail when it was first pitched 1 month ago:
Not really. Just Sega CD. The PlayStation and the Saturn both came out in 1994 so they were directly competing with each other. The Dreamcast came didn’t come out until 1998, after the PlayStation was already successful.
- Comment on The Signal 1 month ago:
Even.our STDs have carcinized.
- Comment on Snapchat Reserves the Right to Use AI-Generated Images of Your Face in Ads 1 month ago:
Dunno why you are so downvoted. Your comment didn’t come off as shilling for Snapchat or anything, and it just clarifies things for people who only read the headline, like me in this case. I appreciate the clarification.
This is still an invasion of privacy, but not quite as egregious as using people’s faces in global advertisements.
- Comment on EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone 2 months ago:
They sell these at Walmart, too. It really only requires a chance sighting of it and a couple weeks allowance for a young teen or kid to end up with a smartphone.
- Comment on Grok do a good 2 months ago:
Grok is a verb, meaning to understand something intuitively or by empathy. It was first used in the novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
Grok has been adopted by the tech community for use when someone is very advanced at using a certain program or a command line utility, etc. When somebody gets to such an advanced level, they don’t just understand the program and it’s uses anymore, they grok it.
It’s actually kind of annoying and sad that Elon is stealing the word to use for his LLM.
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 2 months ago:
Oh, I see. I didn’t realize this just brings up random URLs to web1.0 looking pages. Thanks for pointing that out!
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 2 months ago:
I have found that local banks like credit unions, and such, seem to have nicer mobile apps from my experience.
I have worked as a software engineer for a place like this, and the development was a lot more honest. These kind of places normally just want a pleasant user experience for their customers, unlike bigger banks that want to deploy all sorts of dark patterns to collect user data and sell extra stuff to their customers.
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 2 months ago:
That white text on gray background. What a design choice.
Aesthetic > readability. The user can just select all on the page if they want to actually read it, right?
- Comment on Inconceivable Horror 3 months ago:
Like, sure, Nutsomic and Dessalinator are pieces of shit with abhorrent views who are transphobic and murderous and support genocide
I was aware and dissapointed by the transphobic Nutomic messages. I haven’t heard anything bad about Dessalines, though, besides the fact that they continue to work with Nutomic after said messages were exposed. Dessalines did at least make sure Trans mods were installed in c/transgender, so they seem to not share the same opinion.
What did Dessalines do? Or is Dessalinator someone different from Dessalines?
- Comment on Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes 3 months ago:
Your autocorrect took the day off.
- Comment on People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account 3 months ago:
POYOSSE
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
You are very right, and I feel your pain. I’m not judging you for feeling that way, at all.
I just don’t think that abstaining from voting is going to work in favor of fixing this issue. If anything we need to keep voting to keep the country as left as it can be for now, until we can shift the two parties we are forced to pick from farther to the left.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
I hop off the train at the part where the top-down dictatorship comes into play. Probably a bit before the level of authoritarianism where the Joseph Stalin type starts killing people for having a dissenting opinion, and what not.
Using the state to enforce good wages and end the terribleness of the stock market/landlord culture does not need to involve a top down dictatorship and a lack of democracy.
I know about the “dictatorship of the proletariat” and all that, and in my opinion, it should involve all of the workers, not one person or a small group of people. A top down dictatorship just makes it all that easier for the party to be infiltrated and controlled by bourgeois interests. If said dictatorship is a true democracy, with each worker having an equal say, it makes it pretty hard to control the proles.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Tankies have read Marx and Engels, yes, but there are many other forms of leftism besides ML. Also, it’s possible to do the reading and disagree with the methods of implementation.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
If Project 2025 is successful, we won’t ever have another democratic election. Our election is going to work like Russia’s does after that point, and we will have a dictator of she kind that pretends to hold elections.
So, unfortunately, this is not the way.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 months ago:
I see now. Intriguing take you have. It’s different than the way everybody else classifies things, but I guess I can see where you are coming from. In my opinion, ML theory is pretty left leaning when it comes to economics and the end goal of it, but the authoritarian plan for transitioning to it does not align with most other leftist virtues and ideas.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 months ago:
This just pretends democratic socialism doesn’t exist. Like there’s nothing between liberal and ML communist.
So, you are saying that if someone wants the same end goal as you, but has a differing opinion on how we accomplish that, you insult them. I’m sure you change a lot of minds and make a lot of friends with your method.
- Comment on Get sorted... 4 months ago:
I am aware that not all furries are animal abusers. An uncomfortable amount of them are, unfortunately. Some of the most prominent furry ‘celebrities’ have been outed as zoophiles, and they still have had a fanbase and are allowed to attend cons afterwards.
That being said, I am just making a dark joke. One of my good friends is a furry who calls out and protests zoophiles in the furrydom. Most furries are pretty wholesome. I just don’t think we should hide the fact that a part of that community were drawn to it because they are sexually attracted to animals.
- Comment on The stats don't lie 4 months ago:
It seems like the best bet is to just stay away, motherfucker.
- Comment on Get sorted... 4 months ago:
I would hang out with a random juggalo over a random furry. There is a higher chance that the furry enjoys abusing animals, while juggalos typically only abuse their own brain cells.
- Comment on greatest amazon review 4 months ago:
Found some.
- Comment on I don't know which one of you needed this information, but you're welcome. 5 months ago:
I agree that the girl who is singing is decent, but idk how you could say the song ‘slaps’. It sounds like a kids bop remake of a reggae song or something.
- Comment on I don't know which one of you needed this information, but you're welcome. 5 months ago:
This is the funniest thing I have read all year. Still chortling at the thought. Thank you.
- Comment on Slightly less than two drinks = positive effect on programming ability. Who's joining? 5 months ago:
To be fair, if they really, honestly, stick to one or two drinks, they should be under the legal limit in most places in the US. The problem is that it’s easy and tempting to overdo it, but as long as they have self discipline to not ever drink too much, it can be fine.
- Comment on Slightly less than two drinks = positive effect on programming ability. Who's joining? 5 months ago:
Microdosing LSD is a common thing nowadays in the tech world. It definitely increases your creativity and mental energy, so it makes sense. Your friend was probably ahead of the curve. I’m not sure if the idea was as popular back then
