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• Are the explain the joke subreddits just AI training grounds?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Jury Nullification, if you're an American and you don't, look it up.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d be surprised at how stupid people can be. Obviously we’re all dancing around one case and I assure the members of that jury will be pestered about it for a long time after

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Jury Nullification, if you're an American and you don't, look it up.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I will also warn that you are likely committing perjury when they ask at the jury if they have an inability or refusal to follow the instructions or the law of the judge. Now this is difficult to prove, but it’s not something risk free

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen young men without good role models in their life? I have, they break things and hurt people. There are exceptions to every rule obviously, but especially in the growing toxic male culture that we have right now young men are in precarious positions. I’m a huge fucking nerd, I built my own computer in high school and was captain of the quiz bowl team. It’s still important to find positive and healthy outlets for the energy young men have. This poster specifically pointed out that they do have toxic male influences in their life already. Keeping active is never bad advice and while I may have been over emphasizing some things, it’s important to address behavior now before he starts driving, working, going out on his own, etcetera etcetera

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First things first, I’d suggest looking into Big Brothers, Big Sisters if you’re in America. I’ve been a part of their program and it’s a great organization dedicated to helping kids exactly like this

  OK, onto real advice: it sounds like you’re a woman and one of the things you need to address early with young men is respect. He will become significantly stronger than you very soon. He will have a ton of hormones pumping through his body. He is going to become dangerous to himself and others. He will be curious about how strong he is. You have to make sure he explores that safety. This is something all men go through and it’s important to have a good foundation or he can start spiraling down bad paths. You need to police his internet usage, his friends, and his role models or he could very easily start sliding into anti-women and abusive views

  If he’s not enrolled in any sort of physical activity I would encourage you to find one. He’s going to have basically unlimited energy and channeling that into sports is usually better than the alternatives. That’s also tricky because you need to pay attention to the leadership of those activities to ensure that they are good influences

  Now the fun stuff: he is going to be hungry for the next 5 years. If you haven’t grown up with boys it’s hard to understand but he can eat 6000 calories in a day and barely notice. My family used to order 2 pizzas when I was a teen, I would eat an entire one and they would eat the other. I’m not exaggerating when I say my average food in a day was a full continental breakfast, 2 deli sandwiches, chips, a dessert and a soda for lunch, an after school snack (usually leftovers), a large dinner, and dessert. I’m not a fat guy, nor was I in school. You will likely think at some point “he can’t possibly be eating that much food” and I assure you that he can

  Ultimately what is important is that you have to build a good moral foundation for him. You will lose the ability to control him and when that happens all of the work you’ve done raising him will reflect in the way he acts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people end-up agreeing on the name of rivers/mountains and seas ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This video talks about a US agency that’s responsible for doing exactly that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plot devices IRL⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s harder to set up than you’d think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Generated X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you’re saying but so far in my experience here the vast majority of AI content is at least identified as such. AI content is here to stay and in my opinion attempts to remove/ban it will just make it more insidious. If you go back to Reddit AI posts/comments are everywhere and absolutely none of it is labeled. On lemmy people get to choose to interact with it which I think is probably way better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Republicans Have the Slimmest House Majority Since 1931, What It Means – MishTalk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s one thing we’ve seen it’s the Republican party’s ability to run a government on a slim majority effectively. Oh wait, you’re saying that doesn’t happen? We’re just going to watch a bunch of in fighting for months? Awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad you’re happy but I got similar results in half the time. I went from 40k, to 70, then 80, then 120, and finally 135 now in about 6 years. Of those each time I got a new job, except for 70 to 80 which was when I went from contracting to full time at the same job. Hell, I asked my manager at that job how I could get a raise and he said my best bet was to quit, go work somewhere else and come back in a few years. My number one piece of career advice I give everyone is “quit your job” especially if you work corporate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every significant “raise” I have had in my life has been getting a new job. Do it. Quit. You’ll be better off with a new job and be happy you left

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Clip] Bike vs Motorbike | Golden Boy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always liked this fan edit that adds eurobeat to this scene a little more: youtu.be/MImMqZjcTDI?si=tMx9slgrRDv1sRO2

  Also if this inspires to watch Golden Boy, just be prepared that in each of the 6 episodes there’s something to do with a toilet and/or women’s piss. And yes, it’s a weird sex thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the worst animal to replace humans as the dominant species?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Donkeys, they’re a bunch of asses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just read an article somebody stole 40k from an atm. How is that possible that an atm carries that much? And is it even possible to get inside an ATM if so?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what 100k in cash looks like:

  A pile of mixed bills on a table

  It’s not that tricky to fit all that in an ATM. ATMs are built to be difficult to remove and get open but with the right tools anything that can be closed can also be opened. The trick is to do that without damaging the bills inside, which I imagine the news wouldn’t report on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you ever traveled 1K miles by bus, would you recommend it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that this is a bad idea. Bus travel sucks. It has basically all of the downsides of air travel with basically none of the upsides, minus cost obviously. Without knowing what countries you’re going to be going through it’s harder to say. Bus stations in my experience can be difficult to navigate in my language, in a language I don’t know I’d be even more concerned. Usually you can eat food, but like airplanes try to be considerate about what you have. Avoid fish, common allergens, smelly food, etc.

  Finally consider that over those 36 hours you’re going to have to either bring food, or buy it, you’re losing time wherever you’re transit, and are at the mercy of the bus time tables instead of waiting on a single flight

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[What If?] Could you survive a nanosecond on the Sun?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually feel like I have an intuitive answer to “what ifs?” This one really surprised me to find that the answer is basically “nothing”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if Quantum computer could be used to solve hard math problems like Integrals.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, first of all, through linear algebra all things are solvable approximal. So jot that down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's Communism": Kamala's First Economic Plan Proposes Price Controls To "Combat Inflation"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A gif of a scene from The Princess Bride where Mandy Patinkin says “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team Heads To Nintendo Switch Online This Week | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but to regular switch owners the idea of going to some “sketchy” website, downloading an emulator, loading in a rom and starting is very intimidating. Not to mention it’s questionably legal even according to people in the scene and so the average person probably doesn’t want to fuck with that. We’re lemmy users, we are not who Nintendo caters to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Conversely the worst is when that happens and a bad boss blind screws your run

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it possible to be married and still feel lonely?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, have you ever had an annoying roommate? Isn’t it so much more frustrating and isolating than living alone? You don’t even have your own space to get away so you just become more irritable all the time. Now imagine if you wanted to not live with that person that you need to get lawyers, your family, another family and the government involved

  A lot of people get married because “they’re supposed to”, “they’ve been dating for a while”, or because it’s arranged. Is it shocking that those people don’t have the foundation for a good long term relationship? Is it shocking that every day is a little bit worse for them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to offer strong heuristics for Balatro because you could theoretically build up to a point where you’ve got a crazy high multiplier but if your chips are low it doesn’t matter.

  For example let’s say you’ve got a face card 4 of a kind build going with: Pareidolia, Zany, Smiley, Trio, and Family jokers. These give you (respectively) all cards are face cards, +12 mult for 3 of a kind, +20 mult for each hand (all cards are face cards), x3 mult, x4 mult for a total of 384 multiplier! On base 4 of a kind this is

  60x([7+12+20]x3x4)=28,080

  However if you were to drop smiley face (+5 mult per face) for scary face (+30 chips per face card) which by almost every heuristic is a bad decision your score becomes:

  (60+120)x([7+12]x3x4)=41,040

  Which is a way bigger score!

  So while people can offer general advice like stack high chips on plasma, always go for total score multipliers, etc. sometimes you just have to evaluate your specific build and figure out the best play

  Finally outside of decks like abandoned and checkered which are specifically made to get certain hands, there isn’t a “best” hand to go for. The highest possible scores I’ve seen all come from high card builds but most normal players won’t get those. I’ve won two of a kind runs, flush 5 runs, straight runs, flush runs. You just have to evaluate your deck and tarot cards to see your options

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally some good advice is that Balatro is a math game first and foremost so you want to focus on things that raise your score the quickest. So adding chips is ok, adding multiplier is better, and multiplying your total is the best.

  For example let’s say you are playing straights and you have a 10-6 with level 3 straights. So you’d have:

  10+9+8+7+6=40 (40+90)x10=1300

  So let’s compare how jokers impact that score:

  Devious joker: +100 chips if you have a straight

  (40+90+100)x10=2300

  Crazy joker: +12 mult if you have a straight

  (40+90)x(10+12)=2860

  The order: x3 mult if you have a straight

  (40+90)x(10x3)=3900

  You can see those are very big differences! It’s also helpful to pay attention to the order of your cards. Generally Balatro cards are scored left to right. The most important thing is to take any card that multiplies any part of your score on the right so you can add as much to the score as possible, then you multiply that number

  So in short: multiplier jokers are best, additive multiplier jokers are good, additive chip jokers are ok, and pay attention to the order of your jokers/played cards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For plasma specifically I’d focus on high additive chip jokers. While that’s normally bad advice, consider how crazy good a card with +50 mult on it would be. Now consider that a +100 chip joker is effectively a +50 chip/+50 mult (I know that’s not technically true but I’m illustrating a point). Also eventually you do hit a point of diminishing returns because plasma prevents you from having a super high multiplier or chips, so like every build, total score multipliers are the best

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rat race, society, the world has gotten so ridiculous that my "Last Man on Earth" fantasies have been replaced by "Only Man on Another Planet" fantasies.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking Tandy. We’ll never know if he truly got his Shawshank Redemption

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 may "disappoint" players hoping for a technological "jump", says former Rockstar North tech director⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you played a GTA game on PC? They’re all so poorly optimized to the point some are unusable. Not to mention bizarre choices. GTA IV used games for windows live which became its own shit show when it went EoL. GTA V/Online took forever to get to PC and didn’t even have all the features when it did release. Also minor gripe but I think it shows how little they thought about PC: the default controls for flying a helicopter (required in several missions) use a numpad. Numpads aren’t even popular on keyboards anymore, let alone the fact that nobody will ever intuitively guess those controls. RStar doesn’t care about PC at all, and even further, Linux/steam deck support is a pipe dream

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good game soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer Sci-fi background noise so Surviving Mars is my favorite. Mass Effect is ok but I find it gets a little too cinematic and bombastic at times. FTL and Into The Breach, or really anything by Ben Prunty is good too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike IT Outage Explained by a Windows Developer⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was so good I immediately went to his page and started watching his most viewed videos. This guy rocks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well when I purchased my car he hadn’t done that, so it didn’t factor into my decision. To your second point. That’s literally what they just did, I mentioned that in my comment. A bunch of auto manufacturers are switching their primary port, that’s another way of fucking your charging network. However, to my benefit, they’ll probably be picking up some of Tesla’s slack on NACS charging stations. Finally, worst case scenario it’s not like Tesla disappears off the face of the earth. If Elon fucks it all to hell they’ll break the company into pieces, sell the various pieces to other auto manufacturers and life will move on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who bought one recently (past yearish) there’s several things:

  1. The charger network: Superchargers are so much more plentiful than the alternatives, and there’s still not a great central charging app. I have 3 different ones installed on my phone and honestly most of them suck besides Tesla’s. Non-tesla chargers are basically just at apartments, businesses, and malls. Very few of which actually help me

  2. Autopilot: when used within reason it’s a great feature. I use it in clear weather conditions for highway driving which probably covers 75% of my total time driving. In the optimal environment it feels much safer than a human and the (admittedly biased) data seems to back that up. Also having it commute for you in stop and go traffic is a huge game changer

  3. Tesla is an all electric car company. I don’t necessarily trust other big auto companies to continue supporting electric, and to keep supporting specific electric models. We’ve already seen major auto manufacturers drop a charging standard (which is probably better for Americans) but what’s to stop them from doing it again? What stops them from stopping support for a specific model and running out of parts for it? I don’t expect an all electric car company with 5 models to do that

  4. Yes, Elon is a massive piece of shit. You know who else is? Every auto exec. The only difference is that they’re quiet and effective. Those old money fucks have done so much more harm to our planet because they know how to influence politics effectively. Something something, ethical consumption, something, something, capitalism

  Overall I got a mid-price electric car with a decent set of features. I’m relatively happy with my purchase while understanding the clear limitations of it