yesman
@yesman@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK: Albert Einstein wrote about Socialism, and specifically calls out issues with the version proposed by technocrats. 2 hours ago:
I like Einstein and Socialism! But Einstein’s opinion on politics, while interesting, carries no special weight. On matters of mathematics and physics Einstein carries the authority of his knowledge. On matters of politics he’s just another dude.
- Submitted 1 day ago to technology@lemmy.world | 61 comments
- Comment on Do drug dogs ever get addicted when working or during training? 2 days ago:
I never did coke to get high, I just liked the smell
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 3 days ago:
M$ has done more to convince people that AI is bullshit than anyone else and I just want to thank them for their hard work.
- Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later... 3 days ago:
Some of the first real home/office PCs had only one floppy drive and 640kb of RAM. Fancier machines had a second floppy. If you were a millionaire, you could get a HDD with upwards of 30Mb storage.
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 3 days ago:
If you’re using the dish to prepare raw meat use a disinfectant, otherwise If it looks clean, it’s clean.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 4 days ago:
If you think Idiocracy is the future (or the present) you believe in eugenics. It’s a cute move, but it’s writers have a worse understanding of evolution than the makers of Pokemon.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 4 days ago:
The other day, my mother approached me about Office alternatives. Before she retired, she daily drove Office, but feels like it’s changed so much that learning a new program isn’t any more friction than keeping up with AI bullshit.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 5 days ago:
The pig who shot Michal Brown said he had to shoot because Brown could have taken his piece away. If you accept that, then you agree that, at least in this situation, the public and the police would be safer without guns.
It used to be: I had to shoot him judge, he had a gun
Then it was: I had to shoot him judge, I thought he had a gun
Now it’s: I had to shoot him judge, I had a gun.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
YSK the idea that the “self” or “consciousness” is centered in the brain is called Duality and it’s a philosophical position, not a scientific one. It’s the same idea that “mind” and “body” are separate things and it’s most common iteration is the idea of the “soul”.
You probably can’t upload yourself to a computer or be preserved in a frozen brain.
- Comment on Are hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have? 5 days ago:
In my experience, the people most invested in hierarchy have fears of loosing status not an assumption of gaining more. Poor white racists understand they’re poor, that’s why their afraid of any social program that may help black Americans, even when poor white people would benefit too.
they’re not “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”, they’re jealous dragons guarding a shitty treasure.
And it’s not just the poor. Middle class people often view a slide into working class as a life-or-death threat. amidst all the talk of “economic anxiety” around the 2016 election, average Trump supporters earned 20-30K more than Hillary voters.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 5 days ago:
From natural reasoning,
You mean from fallacy
either gender is a fixed biological reality, or it’s completely irrelevant, non existent and a man-made concept.
False dichotomy, it could be a third thing. Also the idea that “socially constructed” things are somehow unworthy of consideration, or irrelevant is not true. Consider some things that we know are “man-made”: sovereignty, laws, borders, language, authority, religion, democracy, human-rights, and class. Think those things are “irrelevant”?
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 5 days ago:
Trans people’s existence isn’t a political position or a logical puzzle.
All you have know is:
people who deserve respect = people who deserve respect.
The project of inventing your own gender theory based on Bio 101 is pretty myopic. As though people don’t count as people until you’ve fixed the taxonomy in your mind. You don’t have to read Judith Butler, but have the self awareness that dismissing the literature before engaging with it is not the product of critical thought.
- Comment on T2 butter mold 5 days ago:
Looks neat, but the wrist is going to set off the fire alarm before his thumb even melts.
- Comment on I expect to hear nothing from the right when the US goes all out celebrating Trumps inevitable departure from the realm of the living. 5 days ago:
This isn’t wrong because Maduro is a good man, or even the legitimate leader of Venezuela.
He’s actually sucks shit and stole the election.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I would be surprised if South Korea and Japan are not looking hard at a nuke program.
- Comment on easy 6 days ago:
I could hear this before I clicked thru. There are two kinds of people. The ones who hear the name Eratosthenes in Sagan’s voice, and those who can’t pronounce it.
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 1 week ago:
This is only remarkable for people unfamiliar with cold war nuclear strategy and tactics. It’s all insane, and Israel isn’t the fist, or most credible, to have a doomsday plan.
There is no centrist position between total nuclear weapons ban and murder the world.
- Comment on Nothing to see here. 1 week ago:
Here in America, we celebrate rapists. And that has never had any negative consequences.
- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 1 week ago:
The belligerents in a cold war are limited to being passive aggressive.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 1 week ago:
If you ranked games by revenue, none of these games would be on the list. Candy Crush and Clash of Clans would fire their CEO if their revenue was pathetic as Activision.
- Comment on Confused over here 1 week ago:
You ever notice that the manosphere dudes who think relationships are an Econ101 function of how rich a dude is divided by how hot a girl is are the same people who get shocked and offended when women act shallow and materialistic?
- Comment on Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan 1 week ago:
Debian cut ties in January, so if you quit after that, you’re officially slower to change than Debian.
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
The AI data centers are paying their electric bills
This bears repeating. Datacenters do have to pay the light bill. Even when the VC money dries up. It’s a beautiful thing.
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 1 week ago:
If you’re an American, having deep seated mistrust and skepticism of the medical establishment, pharma, and government is 1000% justifiable. Every one of these institutions has exploited, abused, abandoned, and murdered people, all in the name of public health.
As a person who grew up in poverty, the idea of trusting Doctors and medical authorities is just as ridiculous as trusting the police.
Assuming that social problems are the sum of individuals making dumb choices is an easy shortcut that not only eliminates the discomfort of thinking about the issue, but has the added benefit to implying that you’re superior.
- Comment on Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?” 2 weeks ago:
So like you want President Gavin Newsom to order the Justice department to charge Tucker Carlson with mortgage fraud?
Corruption and abuse of power actually get worse if it’s “both sides”. Don’t you think?
- Comment on The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic 2 weeks ago:
The problem with articles like this is that they only focus on games that are bad as a game, and ignores games that are good to excellent, but that are still bad because they screw their players over, engage in abusive business and labor practices, or are simply owned by dogshit people.
As you can tell, I’m waiting for the Jimqusition end of year lists.
- Comment on The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless 2 weeks ago:
SOMA is a great game. But I’m not going to watch for 2 and a half hours unless it ends with uploading Zoltan Istvan’s consciousness into a broken robot.
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 2 weeks ago:
The dangers associated with Meth production have been exaggerated by ignorant media and lying cops.
A person with a serious meth addiction is dangerous and likely to cause accidental harm even if they aren’t playing around with volatile chemicals. But these chemicals all have legitimate uses and are safe to use by sober adults. Stuff like Coleman fuel, ether, and acetone. You can create runaway exothermic reactions while venting flammable gas with some weaponized incompetence, but it’s still a “low” explosive, and unlikely to harm anyone not in the same room, much less the neighbor.
90% of meth lab “explosions” are small events that only harm people in the immediate vicinity and most of the structural damage will come from the resulting fire. Compare that to a simple natural gas leak that can turn a 3 story McMansion into confetti in under a second.
Would you be nervous if your neighbor installed a gas fireplace?
- Comment on a thought about authors 3 weeks ago:
If there was any connection between an author’s work and their actual life, I’m grateful that Cormac MccArthy has been stopped.