TurtleJoe
@TurtleJoe@lemmy.world
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
Because if Biden can’t finish his term, a black woman will be president.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
I don’t know if you don’t realize it, but you just agreed with the pithy quote.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 4 months ago:
Every single consecrated Catholic altar contains a relic of a saint. Usually they’re pretty small, maybe a piece of a fingerbone or something. You’re right that a good one like this would bring in lots of pilgrims (tourist dollars,) but it’s a tradition that way predates capitalism.
I’m not in the business of defending the Catholic Church or capitalism, just wanted to clarify.
- Comment on Not to mom shame... 4 months ago:
Duh. Everybody knows the only thing that works is Velostat. You cannot use any other material.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 months ago:
I mean, just lock up the nitrous chargers. Put them in the office or the liquor room or whatever. They don’t need to be kept in the walk-in.
If this manager is buying readi-whip or any other pre-made whipped cream canisters, they deserve to be fired from both a culinary and business standpoint. (I don’t think those kinds of canisters need to be kept refrigerated anyway.)
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 6 months ago:
It seems clear to me that he hates the people that are ruining the tech industry, ripping off customers, and pumping out shitty projects for short term stuck pumps, and he takes every opportunity to shit on those people and point out their idiosyncrasies. That’s pretty much every tech CEO these days.
It’s also pretty clear to me that he believes in the promise of the industry, and thinks that workers deserve better than the people that they work for.
- Comment on tremendous 7 months ago:
Media isn’t reporting his obvious dementia. They call the nonsense he spouts “rambling speeches.”
Some other recent examples:
“We can’t have an election in the middle of a political season. We just had Super Tuesday. And we had a Tuesday after Tuesday already.”
Gang boong. This is me. I hear bing.”
I could tell you about aircraft carriers, where they use electric catapults. They couldn’t go to the steam, which works better for about 1/100th the price, you know? The electric catapult, you know that story? I could tell you about the elevators on a tremendous carrier, the Gerald Ford, and they decided not to use hydraulic like the John Deere tractor, they decided to use magnets, ‘we’re gonna use magnets!’ to lift up the elevators with seven planes.”
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline
- Comment on Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop 7 months ago:
They were using machine learning to try and figure out what people were buying. Machine learning has lots of errors
until you train it.Machine Learning, no matter how well trained or advanced, is just doing a make-em-up.
Besides that, in this case the experiment has been going on for years and humans were still doing like 70% of the work. It was a failure, that’s why Amazon shut it down
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 7 months ago:
Everything that is labeled “AI” is made up. It’s all just statistically probable guessing, made by a machine that doesn’t know what it is doing.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 7 months ago:
A term created in order to vacuum up VC funding for spurious use cases.
- Comment on Huh 8 months ago:
It’s often still people in developing countries answering the questions.
- Comment on Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App 8 months ago:
No, crypto is never the solution for anything. Its use cases are limited to drugs and scams, which are sometimes the same things.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Recuperation has been around for a lot longer than the Internet.
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- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 8 months ago:
Or they just all decide to do it, and you have no choice.
- Comment on Stuck 8 months ago:
Cyber truck buyers are Elon worshipping tech bros, which means that they think they are smarter and better than everybody else. This leads to acts of hubris like the above picture, which are obviously very stupid and easy to see coming, but these types of people think, “I am very smart and know exactly what I am doing at all times. This will be fine, because I am doing it.”
- Comment on Good luck out there 8 months ago:
In the US, you can get a pretty decent ebike $1,500-1,800. I wouldn’t even consider them a luxury in many parts of the country, because we so often have to share the roads with cars.
- Comment on Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes 8 months ago:
It’s certainly not helping.
We’re already dealing with the problem of half the (US) population only believing things when they align with their political views and now on can’t even Google something and be sure that the entire first page of results isn’t SEO AI hallucinated misinformation.
- Comment on US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program 8 months ago:
The government has funded SpaceX, not musk.
- Comment on Relationship advice? 9 months ago:
This guy essentially founded modern “rationalism.” He has millions of literal followers, not just the Twitter kind. His dumbass is the one that spawned the Effective Altruism cult that has become extremely popular with tech bros. Sam bankman-fried, Sam Altman, Elon musk all subscribe to this “philosophy.” It’s all batshit insane and incredibly stupid.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video won't offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan | The company is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to charge $3 more for ad-free viewing. 9 months ago:
Back in the day, before streaming was a thing, there were lots of people saying that they’d gladly pay for content if it was served to them in a convenient way.
It wasn’t just people saying that, it was backed up by studies.
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 9 months ago:
It is a word coined to describe a specific capitalistic process, yes.
- Comment on AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ 9 months ago:
It’s just as likely to make some shit up as it is to be any kind of helpful.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 9 months ago:
Yeah, there’s usually more than one of these going on at once. Makes it easier to pivot if they get called out for it being nonsense.
There’s always an element of racism running as an undercurrent, so you can pick your Boogeyman du jour, be it Muslims/Arabs (they don’t differentiate,) central/south American immigrants, black lives matter, CRT, DEI, etc.
Then you can add some kind baseless moral outrage on top. Trans people existing, gay people wanting to get married, satanic panic, etc.
It’s really like a fear cake, I guess.
- Comment on Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built 9 months ago:
Non-native lawns are a huge reason for the native bird decline across NA in the last 3 decades.
- Comment on Kids Don’t Think Congress Has Their Best Interests In Mind With Their Grandstanding ‘Protect The Children’ Hearing 9 months ago:
I think KOSA is a terrible bill. I’ve written both my senators about it. It only takes a couple minutes.
- Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature 9 months ago:
It’ll be nothing but AI spam.
- Comment on AI shouldn’t make ‘life-or-death’ decisions, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman 9 months ago:
People only thought it was the former before they actually learned anything about them. They were always this way.
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 10 months ago:
This was a case where you needed the sarcasm tag. Up to then, it was a totally “reasonable” comment from an AI bro.
BTW, plug “crypto” in to your comment for AI, and it’s a totally normal statement from 2020/21. It’s such a similar VC grift.
- Comment on A fair trade 11 months ago:
Golf courses actually see pretty frequent use; anybody who has played a public course on the weekend knows what it’s like to be constantly waiting to take your shot because the group in front of you is still putting, and the group behind is waiting to take their tee shot.
A much bigger waste of resources and land are the sterile suburban yards that barely get used at all.
I do wonder how much fertilizer runoff, herbicide use, etc the average golf course is responsible for