yesman
@yesman@lemmy.world
- Comment on I have searched far and wide 18 hours ago:
Your search has still only turned up a forgery.
- Comment on Brand awareness 1 day ago:
This is a real thing. They’ve got a website, a facebook, and a youtube.
- Comment on A simple experiment to demonstrate that Astrology does not work is to keep a detailed journal of events, and periodically check past horoscopes for accuracy.* 1 day ago:
What’s the deal with people hating on astrology? DAE get the vibe that there’s more to this than “astrology doesn’t work”?
The thing is that even in the James Randy world of people taking advantage of the credulous, astrology is still a pretty small fish. The skeptic doth protest too much.
- Comment on Orthodoxal jews occasionally make something right 1 day ago:
I love all the little ways observant Jews try to lawyer their way out of the inconvenience of their own religious observance.
For example, some elevators in NYC run continuously on Shabbat, stopping at every floor so nobody has to push any buttons.
I just love the contradiction of an all powerful, omniscient God that can be so easily tricked, delightful.
- Comment on Oh lord, Oh no 2 days ago:
I swear baby, this is my first early access. This has never happened to me before.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 days ago:
Crush patriarchy. That’s the system that’s failed these men after all. It wasn’t progressive values that promised them women to dispose of. It wasn’t feminism that promised them easy success and automatic status.
It’s the promise of patriarchy that has “been stolen from us”. And it’s the restoration of patriarchy these men are clamoring for. Men want their privilege back and the Left can accommodate them for the low low price of jettisoning feminist values from the movement.
This is really the most Democrat bullshit ever. Left politics is getting more support than ever, but we’re going to get obsessed with pleasing the groups that hate and oppose us instead of championing the issues of those who support us.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 1 week ago:
I was tired of being a Darwinist. Now I follow the writings of Dickens; I’m a Dickhead.
- Comment on The New Digg’s Plan to Use AI for Community Moderation 1 week ago:
Capitalists are so fucking innovative that they’re trying to replace unpaid human labor with robots that are worse and cost money.
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s 1 week ago:
Your argument is more out of date than Vista. Windows is not the default because people like their software, or would choose it over anything else. It’s because they’ve positioned themselves as the default monopoly since the goddamn 1980s.
To see what happens when Microsoft has to compete on quality of software, just ask yourself why Copilot and Recall aren’t being rolled out on Windows phones.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 week ago:
If you think about it, almost all computer-technology is radio. Wifi, bluetooth, GPS, radar, and cellular are literally radio. Meanwhile everything else runs on transistor tech developed and refined… for radios.
Our modern economy couldn’t exist if people like Hertz and Maxwell didn’t get to toy with their useless hobbies. But we can’t rely on the curiosity of the leisure class anymore. Basic research is expensive, necessary, and a public good. I’m afraid that the Trump regime has already spoiled the secret sauce that makes America the technology leader of the world.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
You conflate being Asian (a resident of a continent) with Slavic (a cultural group). So what is race? A coordinate, or a cuisine?
Race is so unreal that you can’t even keep the lore straight in your own head.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 1 week ago:
Spaces like 8cun and kiwifarms are very welcoming to regular type dudes with centrist politics and mainstream opinions. They’re not nasty, unreasonable, and deranged like us. They’ll never challenge a man who identifies as normal.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 1 week ago:
It’s really hard to hurt another person when you feel their pain.
Consider the sadist. How can you enjoy someone’s suffering if you can’t recognize it?
The most wicked people are advanced empaths.
- Comment on Coming Back From Fascism 1 week ago:
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 1 week ago:
We don’t know. Forces in and near black holes break physics. There is tons of speculation, but speculation is all there is.
- Comment on Sheeple 1 week ago:
- Comment on Due to American politics I'm afraid of using high speed rail in Germany 1 week ago:
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 1 week ago:
A large contributor to Irish suffering were the British corn laws, a tariff that kept the price of barley, wheat, and oats artificially high. So when potato crops failed, the poor Irish couldn’t afford substitutes. Ironically, American maze was exempt from the corn laws, so much of that was imported to Ireland.
Tariffs: never any externalities or unintended consequences; you will certainly not regret imposing tariffs.
- Comment on YSK Trump is doing a rally at Ft Bragg and you can register online 1 week ago:
People in the Confederacy would have been embarrassed that Braxton Bragg got a base named after him. By the end of the war, Bragg held the title of General in name only and had no authority over anyone. His only talent was being friends with Jefferson Davis.
- Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate 2 weeks ago:
It’s a tool that has gone from interesting (GPT3) to terrifying (Veo 3)
It’s ironic that you describe your impression of LLMs in emotional terms.
- Comment on Should I apologize to this person? 2 weeks ago:
If someone cuts contact with you, it’s up to them to reestablish. You don’t need this person’s acknowledgement to deal with your regret.
- Comment on HIGH ON LIFE 2 Official Trailer 2 weeks ago:
it’s interesting that the guns were silent throughout the trailer.
- Comment on Is feigned happiness remotely similar to actual happiness? 2 weeks ago:
No. To feign happiness one must be aware they they are not happy.
- Comment on Winging it 2 weeks ago:
Also, the visages were of real men. Often the patrons of the painter or someone else to be honored.
- Comment on Well OK then 2 weeks ago:
I like how the curse is in cursive so that the kids can’t read it. Kinda like a captcha to prove your genx or older.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 2 weeks ago:
When I read that, in my head it’s spoken to the music of “revolution number 9” by the Beatles.
- Comment on when you thought it couldn't get any better 2 weeks ago:
Top five reasons to use Windows:
- I need it for work
- I need it for my games
- I need it for my hardware
- It’s what I’ve always used
- I can turn all that crap off and run Windows like an operating system that I own and control at least until the next security update installs Copilot into my mouse cursor.
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 2 weeks ago:
JP is an atheist, but he recognizes the value in other people believing in Christianity. This is because the myths and symbols reinforce his worldview to people who (he views) aren’t smart enough to get there with reasoning.
Also, like all Western Chauvinists, he can’t let go of the idea of “Christendom”.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 2 weeks ago:
I just got my favorite game (Sekiro) to run on Linux! It wasn’t hard or anything, just the first time I’ve gotten a Windows game to run.
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