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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  in my country, corporal punishment in school was abolished by law in 2004. i did elementary in the 80s, but the strap was not used that i can recall. kids were threatened with it, but i don’t think anyone got smacked. however, many people of my parents’ generation have told me that the strap was extremely common. my father in law used to get strapped for speaking german at school, among other things (saskatchewan, 50s / 60s).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  … censor all of their political opponents

  … ’ child pornography?

  To be clear: X is the political opponent of anyone who values democracy. As such, it can be fairly said that this IS an attempt to censor my opponents’ … child pornography. I do not object to ‘censoring’ CSAM. Tim Sweeney thinks child porn is free speech (pcgamer - contact me for rights to this far superior headline). When X was just vile hate speech, propaganda, and misinformation, the free speech argument prevailed. This is not the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the “ban calculators” back in the day US math scores have hit a low point in history, and calculators are partially to blame. Calculators are good to use if you already have an excellent understanding of the operations. If you start learning math with a calculator in your hand, though, you may be prevented from developing a good understanding of numbers. There are ‘shortcut’ methods for basic operations that are obvious if you are good with numbers. When I used to teach math, I had students who couldn’t tell me what 9 * 25 is without a calculator. They never developed the intuition that 1025 is dead easy to find in your head, and that 925 = (10-1)*25 = 250-25.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So it will work on a pig. what about them ICE cunts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attitudes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the pink sign is right. I am also here for the benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  $150 a year, you mean

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Better yet: nationalize the AI companies. Make AI like water supply or fire service - a public utility. My government is VERY far from perfect, but even a country with any semblance of democracy has a better chance of making AI safe and useful to all than a greedy corporation. That way the training data and model parameters can be opened to public scrutiny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This bedroom game is weird⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  10/10, would knot-engage again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was getting ready to rant until you mentioned Terraria. Then I read the last line of your post.

  Shoot, if I’m playing against the computer I use the game the way I want. It’s not cheating if your opponent is non-sentient.

  I especially feel that way in games where ridiculous stuff happens at random (e.g. Rimworld). If I’m 2h into building a new colony and somehow get wiped out by 1 rabid squirrel, I curse, laugh my ass off for a minute, then load an autosave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs are cool up to a point. It is pretty neat to see something imitate human speech so convincingly. But that’s it: neat. Like a phone shaped like a hamburger.

  For me to be impressed beyond that, your thing needs to either do something that I can’t do better or do something i don’t want to do. I can write a pretty good grade 8 essay. I can summarize a paragraph. I can write a dirty limerick. I can complete my own sentence without punctuation suggestions.

  When I want to create something, I want to do it myself. Putting my ideas in order and finding the words to say something meaningful is the fun part. Even when I write a work email or a cover letter, I’m not really interested in help. Either I have something to say (don’t want help), or I rattle it off in one go (don’t need help).

  Microsoft, I don’t owe you my attention or my money. Make something useful that doesn’t suck. Impress me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people make such a big deal over ages of someone's account on here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s a heuristic. evaluating every one-day-old account on its own merits is a lot of mental load, so people take shortcuts. if you’re an active poster, people can look back through your comment history to get context on your perspective. it’s hard to do that with someone using a brand-new account. in a month, nobody will be saying that to you any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Um, actually, Neville Chamberlain didn't "cave" to Hitler, he actually got a lot out of the deal.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t write satire this subtle on Lemmy. People in the comments think you are actually defending Chamberlain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They got a lot of stuff wrong, TBH. President Camacho, for all his superficial similarity to Trump, is sincerely invested in helping his country. Reality is way, way worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a weird suggestion: work out high. Nothing intense - a walk or some floor exercises would be good. Go very easy for a couple of weeks at least.

  When i was super depressed it was so hard to get started that working out high was just easier. Eventually, the exercise became more important and i even started to play some sports. Pretty quickly i was exercising more than getting high. These days, i refrain from smoking weed so that i can do better in the leagues i eventually joined.

  Bonus: through the leagues i met some nice people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what country would you never go to again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like you, my boycott started in the first Trump term. There are places in the US that i have dreamt of visiting since i was a child - but i have decided to never realize those dreams because every dollar i would spend in the US would help prop up a racist authoritarian regime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red balloon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmmmm Pennythighs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Richest American to FAFO?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the highest profile cases have yet to occur. Here’s hoping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just saved me a bunch of typing.

  Ditto, and thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think he knows? He's gotta know.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True. I retract my statement. He should be watching through the slats of a closet door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think he knows? He's gotta know.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Give the cow a strap-on and reverse their positions and i might believe it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortunately, thou hast not even come close

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you’re saying and it is probably true from a macro standpoint, but don’t be too hasty to minimize the role of malevolence. If a rich person were so inclined, they could read the same articles and books as me and conclude that systemic problems are already pervasive and still growing. They could then withdraw their support for politicians like Trump (or even most democrats, to be fair) who do anything and everything to amplify those problems for the simple reason that rich people stand to gain from them. I am so furious with people like Thiel because i think they DO know what they’re doing, but they care more about the gains than the people they hurt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why the billionaires have decided to hoard all the wealth among a smaller and smaller proportion of the population. They’re trying to save the planet! When 10 people have everything and the rest are all dead - boom, planet saved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X calls for delay in Australia’s child social media ban citing ‘serious concerns’ about policy’s lawfulness⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how I fixed it too! We can still watch videos on a desktop if there is something specific we want to see, but I never let the algorithm do its work. Youtube recommends this video? Nah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I wanted AI I could go to some shit website and use it. Just like I don’t want a “useful free” toilet in my car, I don’t want brain-damaging spyware in my notepad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump posted this in Truth.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This imbecile knows the US lost the war in Vietnam, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GenX here. I wanted to reassure you that it didn’t come naturally to me and i grew up when this was still taught in school. The real answer is practice. Read a clock several times a day for a few weeks. Take a moment to think about the mintue hand. Is it about 2/5 of the way to the next digit? 3/5? After a while, you won’t have to think. You will just recognize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still, not sure I completely get it. Same. One legitimate criticism of how rich people interact with the economy is that rich people have a tendency to hoard their money instead of pumping it back into the economy. Spending all your dough may look tacky and ostentatious, but it creates more jobs than piling it up in a vault.

  So this guy’s thinking is contorted in fascinating ways. I am starting to wonder, though, does being a bad thinker make you more likely to be racist? Or does racism harm your thinking? Both?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is crazy, but i read the news on paper. I have a couple of subscriptions to magazines with good reporting, but you could also hit up your library to read for free. For one thing, print journalism is a lot more in-depth and balanced than the outrage-mill crap i find online.

  On Lemmy i read headlines only in case something happens that i stay current, but i rarely read a whole article. This contains my news consumption to a small portion of my day.

  Plus, Trump says 64 stupid lthings a week. I read all 64 in 1 hour each week and get it over with, instead of poisoning myself with it several times a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Canada, too. For the last two years, Canada has entrusted sensitive statistical information to Microsoft. We should be treating MS with the same skepticism we currently reserve for Huawei.