maniclucky
@maniclucky@lemmy.world
- Comment on I'm so sorry 2 months ago:
Heh, even AI can’t imagine that color being natural.
- Comment on Suddenly it all makes sense. 2 months ago:
In this case, nothing. High dose testosterone is a hormone, high is a hormone. Both are PEDs (performance enhancing drugs). Now, the difference between them is a bit more interesting.
Testosterone, the original steroid, makes you big by maximizing your existing muscles (super paraphrased, as is everything I’m about to say). It’s the one that gives you breasts and shrinks your balls (for those that have them).
Human growth hormone makes you big by inducing the creation of new muscle. As well as everything else. The stand outs being the heart, which you really don’t want to grow, and the intestines, which gave bodybuilders roidgut.
Like I said, very paraphrased, but that’s the gist of it. And doesn’t touch more advanced things like tren.
- Comment on Oh, the humanity! 2 months ago:
My satisfaction
- Comment on Automation 4 months ago:
They shouldn’t be plotted that way technically. The big 5 are independent traits so they should essentially be sliders, not linked like that.
That said, it’s way easier to see the points when you do that. Easy to miss when colors swap, for example, without the lines when you’ve been looking at this stuff for a few hours.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 6 months ago:
This is my line for biting the bullet and switching to Linux. I hope gaming gets to where I want it to be (braindead easy for anyone with ‘actually’ on their lips)
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 6 months ago:
Absolutely. I’ll poke my head in there when there’s someone on insta who I’m curious to see if they get naked on Twitter. And that’s 100% of my interaction.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 6 months ago:
When I was taking classes on similar things, ‘human performance’ was generally defined as how well an expert in a given task performed.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 6 months ago:
Porn
- Comment on Big Tech Is Faking AI 6 months ago:
These. Also, random celebrity factoids (height, married, dead, etc), how long to get to some town you’ve never heard of, basic math that I’m too lazy to do myself.
Sometimes making it meow to confuse my cat.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 6 months ago:
I knew what it was, but I was panicked and unable to calm down before it passed. I was deeply affected by not being able to move anything. I imagine other personality/neuro types would handle it differently, but I did not care for it.
That said, I get being curious about experiencing something benign but possibly scary.
- Comment on sleep paralysis 6 months ago:
I’ve had this. No you don’t. It isn’t fun. Experiencing full body paralysis for a minute was a deeply unsettling and terrifying experience. I hated every second. Unless you’re prepared in some way, having the presence of mind to try to sleep again seems difficult.
I didn’t have a hallucination with that one though. I have that with a different parasomnia. I’ve had a hypnopompic (upon walking up) hallucination one time. That was freaky but only lasted a few seconds.
- Comment on I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system? 8 months ago:
I honestly don’t know why Americans accept their healthcare system.
We don’t have enough money to pay off our lawmakers compared to the healthcare industry’s bribes.
- Comment on Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair 8 months ago:
Guy must have been talking about that then. This was one of my rare clear memories. I had no idea about it at the time till that guy asked.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 8 months ago:
Star Trek, unlike a lot of franchises, has a lot of allowance for taste while still being generally good. I think that’s part of its charm.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 8 months ago:
So many words shoved in my mouth. At no point did I say that people can’t do good things with minimal incentive. Though it’s either naive or disingenuous to pretend that some form of bartering didn’t exist before capital or would be suitable solution the modern problems.
Could that one person feed a city on his own? Or keep it clean? Or supply it power? Water? Maintain the infrastructure?
I wasn’t talking about individual achievements and technological leaps. I’m talking about the day to day necessities that a functioning society requires. A city like New York is not some simple thing. To make it possible for all those people to coexist, the effort and man power is staggering.
And a bunch of it sucks.
Garbage, sewage, paperwork. You name it, there’s some poor bastard that has to deal with it and doesn’t want to. In fact, there’s a shortage of power lineman (I may be out of date) that can stand as my example. Difficult job, risk of death, need a bunch of them. And you’re not going to find enough people passionate about power lines to fill the roster and that job is essential for modern lives.
Now, I’m not rushing to defend capitalism. Holy shit the crimes committed for the unholy dollar. No. I’m generally for socialist practices in any industry that should be a public work (education, utilities, healthcare, etc) and leave capitalism to the luxuries. But I’m getting off track.
I wasn’t defending capitalisms many crimes. I’m calling you out for being a child about what can be done about it. Ideals don’t pave roads, specific plans and actions do. So what are yours? This system sucks? I fucking know. What changes should be made short of a violent revolution that would almost certainly leave everyone in a worse place? We don’t have the luxury of sci-fi tech that can provide for our needs with trivial cost.
Example: taxing the fuck out of the rich, single player health care, investment in green energy, walkable cities, forbidding Congress from owning individual stocks. These things push the world in a better direction.
Next time you advocate for burning it all, try to remember that we live in the most peaceful time in all of human history.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 8 months ago:
I felt it was leaning too hard into the grimdark and action for my liking. But that’s just my opinion, and there’s lots of room for taste. My husband’s favorite is Voyager and I think that one is less well regardless so to reach thier own.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 8 months ago:
Discovery was IMHO the most inferior Star Trek, but they nailed this idea when they described the Terran empire. This strong, incontrovertibly evil, imperial monster was born of, and lives on fear. A version of humanity that gave up on trust or hope and became the worst version of themselves.
- Comment on Sometimes, homeopathic medicine works! 8 months ago:
Proof for the curious. I’ll let the bot relink to piped, I’m lazy.
- Comment on Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair 8 months ago:
Ooooh. I have a story for this.
I was a student at Purdue and one of the freshmen “engineering hype” lectures had people from industry come say why they’re so cool, etc. Now, this was specifically an electrical and computer engineering course, not the whole engineering school. These are the people who tore apart their various electronics for fun and made cool stuff using parts from RadioShack (RIP).
Apple came to one. First red flag: they started with “don’t tell anyone we were here”. Weird, but whatever. They proceed with their spiel and, after however long, got to the Q&A bit. Someone raised their hand and asked this: “why does Apple solder RAM into their devices”. This woman said, and I quote, “It is the position of Apple that the consumer has no right to change the product after it has been sold”. With a straight fucking face. Jaws dropped. There was a solid 10 seconds of silence while all these nerds (I include myself here) processed such a blatant anti-consumer (and anti-us if we’re being honest) statement.
She finished up and left a few minutes later. No doubt some of my classmates went on to work for them, but it set my passionate hatred for Apple in stone right there. Don’t care how nice their devices are, even if my husband uses his apple devices all the time (the walled garden works well for his needs), I will never purchase an Apple product for myself.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 8 months ago:
Do you have a proposal or are you just theorizing? Obviously there are more economic models, but all of them center on allocation of finite resources. As stated above, automation isn’t there yet to even approach post-scarcity.
So, what you got?
- Comment on I'm 99% sure it's not real 9 months ago:
Yuuuup. Half the time you’re the expert* in the room and when heads turn to you you have to push the imposter syndrome down and know your shit and convey it well enough that people will listen.
And having the good sense to know when to say “I need to look that up, let me get back to you”.
- Comment on Does technology actually add value to the world? 10 months ago:
Yeah. It’s not a secret where the money is going. We put them on the covers of magazines and pretend that they are the peak of humanity and not rich sociopaths that stepped on every neck they could see to get more money.
- Comment on They hated him, for he spoke the truth 10 months ago:
Woof that slope is slippery. The trick is measuring what you can afford, and a lot of people aren’t great at measuring that.
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 10 months ago:
Yeah, support for it was cut for my TV sadly. I’ve got the device, but apps are convenient and don’t involve running wires.
- Comment on hmm 11 months ago:
That rather depends on the height I would think.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 11 months ago:
Yes, but how thick are you? If you are 7.1 inches thick, your back will move forward into the thing you’re trying to avoid.
- Comment on It's true. 11 months ago:
She sounds like she came out of the womb actively smoking. And I love her for it.
- Comment on They want your brain soft 11 months ago:
Hogswatch er… Christmas… is a little lie that helps us to believe the big ones. Things like Love, Justice, Hope, etc.
- Comment on Sparkles and all 1 year ago:
It’s a capybara. They look like that at all times, including when a pelican is ineffectively attempting to eat one. I’m sad I don’t have that gif saved.
- Comment on Microsoft is removing Maps and Movies & TV from Windows 11 1 year ago:
But I want them to innovate further. Let’s get this thing to barest functional bones!