yesman

@yesman@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kalmodo dragon⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, you are hungry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The facists are right!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create bad times.

  This garbage is derived from “The fourth turning” Strauss–Howe generational theory. Which can best be explained by H. L. Mencken

  For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s interesting to see the site treat it’s unpaid workers more and more like low level employees. I guess capitalists just can’t help themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fata Deum, a god game where you have convert citizen living across an island to your faith, released in early access on Steam.⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  ActRaiser

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some important facts to always remember⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Anybody who laughs at this uses Yahoo for email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard finding out that you’re not one of the good ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When real life generates the shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every single Zionist excuse falls apart as soon as you apply it to Zionists.

  An example: Zionists are a little worse than the KKK because at least the KKK are honest about their Islamophobia.

  This trick really does work on all their talking points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefighters and EMTs get a little extra glorification to make up for their salaries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Crazy times to live when you see the FBI go from Darth Vader to Dark Helmet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you consider joking about dying and killing oneself a sign that the person saying it is troubled?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Joking about suicide is a red flag. As in an indication that something might be wrong. It can indicate that suicide is something that’s on their mind often.

  I would avoid these jokes in a professional setting because loosing someone to suicide is common and you’re likely to crack a joke in front of someone who will not appreciate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The contracts that steal music from artists haven’t changed one iota. Unless you’ve got juice like Paul McCarty, Beyonce, or Taylor Swift, and even then it can be a fight that takes years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did I used to be homophobic? Am I?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In my opinion, bigotry is more like a cognitive bias than a wrong idea. That is it’s extremely difficult to get that stuff out of your head, and the effective strategy is to acknowledge that you’ve got bias and try to correct for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A long time ago, you could go to a special store and trade government paper for music disks and tape that you got to keep forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Round of applause please⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Scientifically, if you’re dead you can’t be happy or know it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age check⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s suspicious when someone has strong opinions about consent laws. But not as suspicious as someone who’d white-knight fucking Bill Clinton because, wait for it, their concern for young adults being treated with respect.

  That math doesn’t add up friend. Who do you think your fooling?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chirp in Fahrenheit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was trying to think of any situation where this would be useful and the only thing I come up with is a way to keep kids occupied during a camping trip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reginald Fried Kentucky Jr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not talking about personal responsibility as in “don’t smoke cigarettes”. I’m talking about “ultra-processed foods are the mono-cause for all human disease”.

  These people don’t believe in health-risks. They believe that everyone who ever gets sick could have chosen not to.

  we have a personal responsibility to be as healthy as it is possible not only for our own good but for the greater good of society

  Ironic how fast “personal responsibility” becomes “you owe your body to the State”. But even if we ignore the totalitarianism of your system, it’s still wrong.

  Smokers and the Obese incur fewer lifetime health costs than joggers. So by your reasoning, it’s suddenly patriotic and prosocial to smoke, be a couch potato, and eat potato chips. People who work out are selfish and hate America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reginald Fried Kentucky Jr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RFK is the best illustration of the difference between informed skepticism and ignorant denialism.

  The throughline of all his ideals is that health is a personal choice. Right wing people accept this because it means that we are not responsible for each other. Health-nut people accept this because it means that their quality of life is always going to be under their control.

  Both of these ideas is so utterly wrong that it’s no wonder that people who accept them say and believe such silly things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK, in school they spent a lot of time on MLK and Gandhi, focusing on non-violence. You’d never even know that these men ever talked about anything else.

  Nobody ever learns about Fred Hampton, the Haitian revolution, or Malcolm X by sticking to the curriculum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like she's making it official...!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does everyone make fun of the May partner in May-December relationships? He’s the bigger fool. Doing way more for her than she does for him.

  In a world where Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos count as business geniuses and inventors, this woman is a self-made millionaire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do narcissists have such fragile egos?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like it’s OK to demonize narcissism in ways that would be unacceptable ableism if you were talking about other neurodivergents or personality disorders.

  It’s just as blanket and vague as calling someone an asshole.

  It’s become such a pop-psych phenomena, I think it’s time for clinical people to abandon the term to pop culture. When a diagnosis becomes an insult, it’s time for a new term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I fucking love this because it leaves everybody with one of two conclusions. One, AI isn’t capable of doing the simplest of jobs. or Two, working a drive thru is actually quite complex and difficult and humans that master it are more valuable than trillion dollar software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, AI researchers are not only adopting philosophy jargon, but they’re starting to cover some familiar territory. That is the difference between signifier (language) and signified (reality).

  The problem is that spoken language is vague, colloquial, and subjective. Therefore spoken language can never produce something specific, universal, or objective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our usage policies and who are authorized to take action, including banning accounts,” the blog post notes. “If human reviewers determine that a case involves an imminent threat of serious physical harm to others, we may refer it to law enforcement.”

  See? Even the people who make AI don’t trust it with important decisions. And the “trained” humans don’t even see it if the AI doesn’t flag it first. This is just a microcosm of why AI is always the weakest link in any workflow.

  This is exactly the use-case for an LLM and even OpenAI can’t make it work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The title implies that teens without preexisting mental health issues exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asleep at the switch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just remember: these are the same people who assembled the rides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is "human husbandry" called⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some seem confused so: There was no organized effort to selectively breed enslaved people. While the slavers did get to decide who would have children with whom. And they no doubt chose individuals with “desirable” characteristics. This isn’t the kind of multi-generational project that could possibly hope to select for traits.

  The brutality of slavery may have had some selective pressure, but that was unintentional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit against Lyft alleges driver failed to intervene before ax murder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CT Insider, a local news outlet, reported that Minogue [the victim] had reached out to police weeks before her death to complain of hundreds of harassing text messages from Dewitt, but an officer failed to follow up with an arrest warrant.

  Rideshare drivers have a duty to protect the public, but the police do not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate this argument. “You people can’t exist in public because I might have to talk to my stupid kids”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think of analog time as kinda a pie chart telling me how much of the minute and hour that’s elapsed. So I don’t see 13:45, I see 75% past one o’clock.

  Does that make sense?