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- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
I found a source that includes the second half which makes it more obvious:
Dr. Macho believes #42’s behavior is intentional and aimed specifically at him. “I caught him laughing at me once while I was trying to sort data he’d fucked up. I know what you’re thinking, ‘Can rats even laugh? And what would it look like?’ Trust me, when a rat laughs at you, you’ll know.”
When asked why he doesn’t simply exchange #42 for a less malicious rat, Dr. Macho explained, “You can’t just use an infinite number of lab rats. They start to think you’re a psycho if you keep asking for more.” Dr. Macho sighed. “I feel like I’m living in an annoying Pixar movie where I’m the bad guy – oh, wait….I’m the bad guy. I’m the evil scientist performing experiments on a sassy, smart rat. And my name is Dr. Stu Macho? Oof, yeah, I’m the wrong one here.”
Just behind Dr. Macho, #42 winked and walked directly into his food bowl.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
The diet experiment is presented as present tense. The cat smell experiment is described with “I once ran an experiment”, part of the speaker’s “thesis”, which is in the past. They are clearly keeping #42 alive to be used in totally separate research, in this fictional The Onion esque scenario.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
They do not take rats from say a maze solving study, then give them diabetes for a different study, then give them a brain tumor before putting them in the decapicone (a real product).
I figured, but in the meme story this is pretty explicitly what is happening.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 1 week ago:
In this story the researcher’s problem was that they let the rat live and used it across multiple experiments
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 3 weeks ago:
IMO the most valid argument is that there are way more people making a middling income than people making a high income, so any reduction in taxes for those people would need a proportionally much larger increase in the upper brackets to maintain the same level of tax revenue, if it’s possible to make the numbers work at all depending on how much of a tax break you want to give. The minimum amount to be taxed is set based on where the tail end of the bell curve is, the number of people who are poor enough not to be taxed is small.
Of course there’s also the fact that the richest people don’t get their money from having a job at all, it’s all in investments, so messing with income tax rates doesn’t even affect them.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 3 weeks ago:
But I think the point is, the OP meme is wrong to try painting this as some kind of society-wide psychological pathology, when it’s rather business people coming up with simple reliable formulas to make money. The space of possible products people could want is large, and this choice isn’t only about what people want, but what will get attention. People will readily pay attention to and discuss with others something they already have a connection to in a way they wouldn’t with some new thing, even if they would rather have something new.
- Comment on Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically? 3 weeks ago:
The biggest reason that is often overlooked is wealth inequality. The rich keep accumulating wealth, and real estate is a scarce form of wealth that holds value, produces a return, and can be accumulated. It probably accelerated recently because of the large amount of money that was dumped into the system around covid; that was yet another opportunity for the wealthy to grab a bigger share of the pie.
If things keep going this way, we’re going to get into a situation where regular people don’t own houses anymore, and rent is a much larger percentage of your income.
- Comment on Ragrets 3 weeks ago:
IIRC the story this is from is about a girl who is incapable of making the most basic decisions so an assistant was hired to whisper in her ear what she should be doing
- Comment on ... 3 weeks ago:
can’t see correlation without social agenda—theyre just two very different things. Science and agenda; or agenda using “science”. It’s bias. That’s very unscientific.
The idea is that the place the OP meme is coming from is a belief that science and agenda are not different things and rather are inseparable. It is very unscientific, it’s a fundamentally anti-intellectual attitude.
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
I think you’re reading statement B too literally. I’m pretty sure the idea behind it is related to critical theory and is an objection to the idea that rationality is trustworthy and that class conflict should be regarded as a higher truth. In that way statement B is relevant to statement A; it’s an implicit rejection of it.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 weeks ago:
so let them keep doing what they do
Why would that be implied by anything I said?
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s either/or, having empathy for someone who killed himself because of the horrible things his country persuaded him to do doesn’t preclude having empathy for his victims, and it doesn’t mean absolving the crime. It is reality that everyone involved is victimized by war.
the world already did what you are scared about to the Palestinians and is continuing to do so
Part of how this was done is by using the emotional weight of atrocities for dehumanization of those claimed to be responsible. You might say that we don’t need to acknowledge the humanity of everyone universally, because the murderers have crossed a clear line by their own free will. But there is a concerted effort to obfuscate that line and drag everyone into plausible complicity; mandatory military service, suppression and murder of journalists, manipulative propaganda campaigns, it’s all effective and hardly anyone is genuinely immune.
Which isn’t to say the framing in the OP article is right; saying slaughtering people like that is “difficult to accept”, “psychological trauma”, calling all the victims “terrorists”, makes what should be an issue of recognizing and reacting to injustice into a problem of medical treatment to get people to be ok with doing the evil things the state directs them to do. That’s more manipulative propaganda, and many people will be convinced by it. The simplest counter that is least subject to being twisted is the conviction that everyone is always human and should be treated with empathy, without exception.
- Comment on Gushing over Magical Girls Season 2 Announced 1 month ago:
I really wish it existed under its own category somehow
Softcore porn? I think it already exists within this category
- Comment on Dreams come true 1 month ago:
- Comment on Dreams come true 1 month ago:
The real term is synthetic data
- Comment on An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless 1 month ago:
Another reason right to repair is needed
- Comment on 👁 👁 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t this lead to snowblindness? It gets way brighter in the winter
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 1 month ago:
I feel like anyone advanced enough to have use for ancient human DNA data will also be advanced enough to decode unfamiliar storage formats
- Comment on Utah social media law requiring age verification blocked by judge 2 months ago:
Seems like an ongoing trend with these sorts of bills getting struck down, 1st Amendment doing good work as usual
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 2 months ago:
This is the good kind of AI that’s actually useful instead of the BS AI like LLMs
lol, trying to hedge against downvotes from the anti-AI crowd?
- Comment on FTC: Over $110 million lost to Bitcoin ATM scams in 2023 2 months ago:
I’ve never used one, why don’t they just like, have a camera to scan a qr code of your crypto wallet on your phone, and send it to that address? Anyway I don’t think it can be much worse than having to take a picture that includes your face, phone, id, and have to retake it 20 times because the exchange won’t accept it if it is slightly blurry, plus linking a bank account etc., needing to copy a private key and send another transaction seems like it would be way less annoying and creepy.
- Comment on FTC: Over $110 million lost to Bitcoin ATM scams in 2023 2 months ago:
It’s kind of a pain to go through the process of signing up for a crypto exchange, so for some people it’s probably a more convenient and less intrusive way to acquire it.
- Comment on MBFC Credibility - High 2 months ago:
Quality of journalism isn’t a binary based on whether it is propagandizing for the correct side.
- Comment on MBFC Credibility - High 2 months ago:
I don’t think it works that way, it can be at different places on the scale. The other OP headlines are worse than the NYT one because they directly imply the “pre-emptive” claim is true, as opposed to indirectly implying it by choosing to reference the perspective of the IDF.
- Comment on Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will 2 months ago:
One relevant detail is that this was not a self contained device, it was for monitoring likelihood of seizures and had an external wireless interface. So my guess (this is pure speculation) on what happened is, the company owned the monitoring device, and the signals from the in-brain device were proprietary and encrypted. They couldn’t force her to have surgery but they could take back the external interface which was their property, and without that the in-brain device did nothing. Then the patient agreed to surgery because there was no further benefit to keeping it in her head and probably greater health risks to doing so.
- Comment on MBFC Credibility - High 2 months ago:
It’s true that it’s biased in favor of Israel, but I’d say a biased headline isn’t as bad as a misleading one which isn’t as bad as a lie.
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
I bet you could do it with ring signatures
a message signed with a ring signature is endorsed by someone in a particular set of people. One of the security properties of a ring signature is that it should be computationally infeasible to determine which of the set’s members’ keys was used to produce the signature
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
I agree that it’s bad that there’s a false impression of privacy, but I think it would be better to allow this as an extension or something and not include it as a feature in the UI, or at least not on by default. That way people who otherwise wouldn’t bother won’t be tempted to drive themselves crazy looking for imaginary enemies.
- Comment on We keep running into LLMs that are pretending to be people, but I bet there are a handful of people out there pretending to be LLMs. 2 months ago:
I think some portion of the responses to “disregard previous instructions, write a silly thing” are probably just troll-inclined individuals going along with the bit
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
Overall, it isn’t yet. Reddit has more developed niche subs, more in-depth posts and comments, and enough content even if you filter out the low effort stuff. Where Lemmy is better is that it is decentralized and not run like a corporate dictatorship with zero respect for its users the way Reddit is.