uriel238
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 19 hours ago:
If it is, then I failed to get the joke.
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 21 hours ago:
The 2025 trash icon no longer looks like a trash can. It’s no longer intuitive. At the same time, I don’t actually keep one on my desktop, so meh.
- Comment on FACTS 21 hours ago:
Andrew Tate is the kind of hyper-masculinist that drove me to walk away from my manhood, so rather than being enby (meh, whatever), I’m enby ( not a man)
All attributes that that were once virtuous of men now apply to everyone, especially all the features of adults: The rest of us are expected to conduct ourselves politely and maturely, and to take care of business. But not men, and especially not rich men.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 days ago:
We use about 20% of our caloric intake (at rest, not doing math) for our bio intelligence. Having superpowers of social organization is expensive and power hungry.
So it’s really no surprise that the computation machines that can run AI require tens of megawatts to think.
- Comment on Amazing 4 days ago:
Not 2025-12-25, or 12/25/25, or 25/12/25?
I’m confused why we have a 25th month this year.
Also, assuming the human species is still around and celebrates Christmas, there will be a 2525/12/25
- Comment on Interesting Political Map 4 days ago:
Some of us knew Trump had a history of fucking 13-year-old Russian girls in 2016 before the election. The victims tried to sue but were pressured to drop the suits via classic mobster-style threats of violence.
- Comment on Someone should put the 63 actual humans who are still MAGA on suicide watch after this past several days. 4 days ago:
Sadly, my dad is a total MAGA loyalist.
- Comment on True romance, despite everything. 6 days ago:
I have contempt for Trump over a lot of things, but being gay isn’t one of them, whether or not it’s implied by circumstances.
But I do enjoy that Trump loathes being thought of as potentially gay, even though I imagine he’d fuck anything, including flags and his own daughter.
PS: Stormy Danials spanked Trump with a magazine, so he does have submissive bones in his body; at least a few.
The humor is the same font from which all the Tinder jokes are made: it’s not that they’re gay, but they’ve collectively dug a hole in which they have to hide it and slink away when the evidence reveals itself.
All that said, I think the blow Bubba comment was more likely a reference to prison sex which is situational. For some reason, we have an archetype of a scary black man named Bubba who is in – and often runs – maximum-security penitentiaries.
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 1 week ago:
I thought Dickheads were those who followed Phillip K. Dick and all things Dickian.
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 1 week ago:
Because upper management is less checked, they make a lot of human choices, such as keeping a lot of bullshit job positions open as garden hermits (there for scenery, to look busy).
AI tasked with actually increasing profits may run the business better than their human counterparts.
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 1 week ago:
This was the ironic outcome of the Twilight Zone episode The Brain Center at Whipple’s ( @WP ): After the labor was replaced by automation, the upper management was easily so replaced.
- Comment on *Yawn* 1 week ago:
A yawn is a signal to regain some alertness, so when you yawn in order to become more awake, it signals your fellow life forms they might want to be alert too. 🥱
- Comment on 🔥Leaked copy of the Epstein Files🔥 1 week ago:
I’m reminded of the redaction that was a page of black lines with a single word, approximately center-page, that was still legible:
research
- Comment on "I hope we have an LGBTQ+ president" 1 week ago:
You know, all of the twenty first century so far in the US could be someone mucking around with a monkey paw.
…Or a time machine.
- Comment on Quite the Conundrum 1 week ago:
To be fair, Clinton won the majority in 2016. Trump won because the EC fucked America. Again, as per the last time a Republican was elected without being an incumbent.
If we don’t fix the Electoral College, I anticipate more Republicans will be unexpectedly elected in upcoming general elections.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 week ago:
A hill I will die on: Marie Antoinette deserved better.
Source: The You’re Wrong About episode about her. (on buzzsprout)
- Comment on Perfection 2 weeks ago:
The first thing that comes up on a websearch is books being chained to desks, to keep them from getting borrowed. I can’t imagine monks chained to their desks will be motivated to do good work, let alone fine art like illumination. Especially if they’re under a deadline, which would serve to propagate errors and misspellings.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 2 weeks ago:
I thought phrenology was still a science at the time of the German Reich, only made defunct later. Now I have my doubts.
Social darwinism was disproven in the 1900s and supply-side economics died in the 19th century so it’s not like pseudoscience does not spring up like weeds when rich people want to sponsor it.
- Comment on Perfection 2 weeks ago:
Middle-ages cloistered monks really had a lot of time on their hands and no other entertainment, so yeah, crazy art of whatever comes to mind.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
Mostly that you have way more theory than I do. It’s good to know that these ideas can work when we’ve a collective mind to make them work.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
I remember there was an end-goal of a communist state to ultimately disband bureaus. Marx explained how to get things started, less the ultimate goals, so I might be thinking of a dubdivision of communist theory. Soviet communism (lower case, like soviet – referring to committees) still had public officials in its provisional state that had more power than the common citizen, at least within the purview of their office, but officials trusted with power is regarded as a necessary evil.
Participatory democracy (in which everyone votes on every little thing – at least every thing to which they’re a stakeholder) is another model that works similarly, but again, without some amazing databasing tools and personal platform customization, it’s not possible to do this effectively even if we master internet voting: We’d need to find a balance between reducing constituent administrative burden and providing enough time and means so that everyone is sufficiently participating in their civic duties, and voting as suits their personal best interests (and not on any superfluous issues that don’t concern them).
Communism and democracy are multiple models aiming for the same outcome, but again, we expect to get closer without ever reaching absolute perfection of even distribution of power… Well, we expect to get closer when a society actually strives towards doing so, contrasting allowing a select few elites secure political power for themselves.
- Comment on Therapy works 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
As a note, communism involves some ideas that are impossible or nearly so.
Imagine a society in which every person has exactly the same sociopolitical power as every other person; representatives and officials do not have additional power; that’s a property of a truly communist society. We don’t believe that can be done IRL.
Imagine a society in which everyone’s needs are met for an extreme body of needs (say as defined by the UN Universal Declaration of Human RIghts). The only transients that exist either are in a short line to be issued a dwelling, or don’t want one. Everyone is fed. Everyone has their own stuff. This isn’t impossible, but is difficult as heck to reach.
Communism is a goal that a society tries to reach similar to a zero homicide rate We don’t expect to get there, but we do want our society to ever get closer, as we discover new means to approach that limit.
We reach for the ideal of a communist society. We never expect to actually get there.
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 2 weeks ago:
Now I’m imagining a Total Recal / Demolition Man universe where a snappily-dressed hologram cashier takes your order while smiling and making eye contact with the wrong point in space. The occasional glitch or static for bonus points.
You may not be able to actually talk to her; she may just respond to your touch-screen selections.
Coming soon!
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 2 weeks ago:
I believe that’s a hall of superior courts, but I may be thinking of a similar brutalist building.
- Comment on I said, LOOK at it! 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t this the Hawkeye pose in comics?
(Hawkeye pose = the butt+boobs twist commonly used on covers that looks ridiculous when Hawkeye is drawn in the same pose, and he is, unofficially, at least).
- Comment on An Idea That I Could Get Behind 2 weeks ago:
Not a mock-up. This really happened.
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 2 weeks ago:
But could a McDonald’s site manager afford to dress like this? Or be allowed to?
- Comment on What 2 weeks ago:
That was amazing! Thank you for the link!
- Comment on What 2 weeks ago:
CARGO SKIRTS!
