KevonLooney
@KevonLooney@lemm.ee
- Comment on Tacos. 4 hours ago:
The main issue is that religion is something that makes you feel better when you have emotional pain, like a loved one dying. Like any painkiller, it has a purpose and if you abuse it you can deaden your response to actual issues that need your attention.
Originally Christianity was mostly about helping the poor, sick, dying, etc. That genuinely makes you feel better about yourself. Judaism has a lot of references to remaining strong in the face of adversity. Religions are just mental tools. What you do with that tool is up to you. If you hurt other people, it’s your fault.
- Comment on Hello GPT-4o 5 days ago:
There’s a basic problem with replacing human experts with AI. Where will they get their info from with no one to scrape? Other AI generated content?
They can’t learn anything and are just “standing on the shoulders of giants”. These companies will fire their software developers, just to hire them back as AI trainers.
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 week ago:
how to make women feel safer in for example gyms
The real problem is that gyms don’t pay enough to hire enough good employees. Most people who work at a gym are there because they have free access to the gym. Gym owners are cheap, mainly because gym-goers are cheap.
Have you ever been to a bank and felt unsafe? That’s much rarer because banks have spent a lot of time and money on making you feel safe. Any customers are under constant surveillance and usually on their best behavior.
- Comment on Amazon Customer Service has become awful 1 week ago:
I’ve used Target for groceries and they’re routinely cheaper for most things.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 2 weeks ago:
😂
Tone police? That’s rich, coming from the comment police. Besides, you said it twice:
Nothing has changed, it was obvious what was happening long ago, but we’ve done nothing but watch it get worse.
Do you think no one can provide context for your comments? Everyone has to agree with you 100%?
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 2 weeks ago:
So you’re intentionally exaggerating when you say “nothing has changed”. Yeah nothing has changed, except an entire Executive Branch department that didn’t exist before. It was more influential than many other books written at the time.
Of course the author wanted the book to be even more influential, that’s why authors write. No writer says “this book kinda sucks, I hope people read half of it and put it down”.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 2 weeks ago:
“The Jungle” famously spurred large reforms. The FDA exists and has a lot of power because people were disgusted by what they read.
That’s why you’re reading a hundred-year-old book: it was influential.
- Comment on Spotify just hid song lyrics behind its subscription 2 weeks ago:
Acoustic covers only, I guess.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 weeks ago:
Vacation time is not sick time. If you want any type of vacation at all, you need to plan ahead of time. Offering only 2 weeks is a joke. If you get sick one day, you lose one week of vacation.
Monitoring and rationing sick time is like limiting bathroom breaks or coffee time. if your job does it, you have a crappy employer.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 weeks ago:
Workers in the US may not even have sick time. They do make more money though, probably because lots of European tech workers come to the US for better pay.
- Comment on [Video] Kids will always find a way 3 weeks ago:
Uh, you need to tell your kid to not throw it on the ground if you don’t want it to happen. They’re not idiots. If you’re laughing and filming it when they throw it then of course they’re going to do it every time.
Kids learn much faster than adults. If anything, they get bored quickly because they’ve already figured something out. Tell them what you want.
- Comment on Showing appreciation for hard work. 4 weeks ago:
some of them
Without looking into it, I can guarantee you that no one involved in British Intelligence in WW2 were in the US Army Military Police in Iraq 60 years later. Not everything is connected.
- Comment on California can share your baby's DNA sample without permission, but new bill could force state to publicly reveal who they're giving it to 4 weeks ago:
I’m saying that you had “no idea” about something that’s been around for a long time. Maybe you should look into the details (pro and con) before becoming enraged. People in CA have known about this and they’re not that upset, just asking for more transparency.
You are falling victim to today’s ragebait media, which is a larger issue. You may be correct but I’m telling you to not jump to conclusions without doing some research into it.
- Comment on California can share your baby's DNA sample without permission, but new bill could force state to publicly reveal who they're giving it to 4 weeks ago:
California automatically stores your baby’s genetic material, then sends you home from the hospital with a pamphlet that points you to a website where you can request that they destroy the sample.
It’s not controversial because they let you get rid of it. Stop being outraged without even looking into the issue.
- Comment on California can share your baby's DNA sample without permission, but new bill could force state to publicly reveal who they're giving it to 4 weeks ago:
This has been around since the '80s, 4 decades. It’s not controversial. It saves babies lives, as they are diagnosed with genetic diseases.
- Comment on Showing appreciation for hard work. 4 weeks ago:
The Germans were utterly fucked when it came to gathering intelligence because threatening captives doesn’t work. Allies put captured generals in a luxury prison and bugged them.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 4 weeks ago:
Rest assured, this person has never voted in a local election. If they vote at all, it’s President or Governor only. Maybe a Senator.
If they ever even flipped their ballot over they would see all the local government tax or regulation questions. Your example is very good. There’s usually some bond or tiny tax for a particular issue (schools, libraries, parks, etc.).
- Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden 4 weeks ago:
True. He’s probably telling the truth about a lot of things, but notice what he doesn’t say. He’s a smart guy and is not saying certain things to stay on Putin’s good side.
He’s been in Russia 10 years now. He would probably be out of jail if he had surrendered. Chelsea Manning is already out:
She was sentenced to 35 years at the maximum-security U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth. On January 17, 2017, Obama commuted Manning’s sentence to nearly seven years of confinement dating from her arrest in May 2010.
- Comment on New Yawkers Be Like "But It's True Doh! You haven't LIVED Until you HAD DAT PIZZA..." 4 weeks ago:
Tony’s is better.
- Comment on A Roman Review of the British 4 weeks ago:
It was a military demonstration. Imagine if the British Empire had shot a musket ball from England to France and shot a hole right through Napoleon’s hat, then somehow caused the musket ball to return to England.
Any country that can land on the moon can direct a ballistic missile anywhere it wants.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 5 weeks ago:
You can easily write out the month: April 1, 2024. And don’t say “people might not speak English” or Chinese or whatever. You know what language to put it in because the rest of the package has writing on it too.
- Comment on rabbit hole 5 weeks ago:
They did sail to Africa. It’s well documented in primary and secondary sources. They made a map with Africa on it:
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
Yeah but that doesn’t work when you need it most on “The Price is Right”.
- Comment on rabbit hole 5 weeks ago:
They did sail to Africa. They picked up giraffes and shit and brought them back to China. They intervened in local conflicts like “both of you lose! China wins! Give tribute.”
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
This entire thread is about communism? The parent post is a critique of it? The word is mentioned in every post on the thread?
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
I mean, you can still go to former communist countries and see what older people look like. Like in Hungary older people don’t smile much. They learned that if you smile too much it might be suspicious and you could be investigated by the police. Why are you smiling? Do you have access to black market luxuries?
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
Most people don’t need physical therapy after working in an office for a few years.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
But they were estimating things. Somehow illiterate people ran marketplaces for thousands of years.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
Well you should memorize those anyway. It’s useful all your life for easy calculation. If you want 7 items and they cost $3.50 each, it’s between $21 and $28.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
This has a secondary effect of making average people incapable of estimation in their heads. Hopefully in the future people won’t be incapable of writing and art.