krashmo
@krashmo@lemmy.world
- Comment on I should wash my hair. 1 week ago:
Why don’t you save everyone some time and say it yourself?
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 2 weeks ago:
I agree. Having sex with women is the gayest thing a straight man could do.
- Comment on JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Trump tariffs will boost inflation, slow an already weakening U.S. economy 2 weeks ago:
There’s nothing simple about divining the intent of the severely mentally ill so what exactly is your point?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My man, almost every worker you have ever interacted with is doing that job out of desperation. That doesn’t stop you in every other case so why choose this issue to start being concerned about their motivations?
- Comment on They said the packaging would be discreet! 3 weeks ago:
What is that thing in the sky? It looks like a huge…
JOHNSON!
Yes sir?
- Comment on How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become. 4 weeks ago:
It must be nice to have the capacity to care about everything, everywhere, all the time. That sounds like the height of privilege.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah well, that’s pretty much where the whole world is at right now. It’s easier to lie than explain the truth
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 4 weeks ago:
That’s fair. I suppose a better wording would have been “let people articulate their weird positions in their own words”. I think that’s a good thing in conceptual form. However, as you noted, it doesn’t really work if you aren’t equipped to push back and make them address the counter arguments. That’s where Joe is lacking. He’s good at getting people talking and asking layman’s questions but that’s as deep as he can go. He needs to book the guys who can give the rebuttals either on the same show or immediately after.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 4 weeks ago:
I’m conflicted about Joe Rogan, or at least the concept he had at the start. Clearly he’s fallen down the right-wing rabbit hole but the original intent he had of letting people defend their weird positions is a good one imo. One could argue that the reason the right-wing funnel exists is because there isn’t really space to talk about some of those things on the left.
For example, it’s not crazy to ask questions about vaccines and how they work. However, when people do that those who are educated on the topic will largely assume ill intent by default and treat the people asking questions as if they’re stupid or malicious. There’s some good reasons for that but such an approach is pretty alienating for those who are genuinely seeking information. That leads at least a portion of those people to listen to more right leaning information because they feel like that is the only group taking them seriously.
We need to do better at meeting people where they are instead of assuming they are trying to spread misinformation. Yes it’s true that all the information you need to develop an informed opinion about the vast majority of topics is available on the internet, but finding and understanding that information does take skills and time that not everyone has. In order to understand why a statement or belief is incorrect or misinformed you have to create a space in which it can be discussed without fear and shame driving people away.
Based on the limited amount of his older podcasts that I’ve been exposed to, I do think that Joe genuinely tried to do that, he’s just not particularly well equipped to handle that kind of environment. Over time he fell victim to the same kind of radicalization that he was intending to subvert by letting people share their actual thoughts instead of assuming he already knew what they were going to say.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know that I would say “as intended” but it is better than live TV, especially in the educational department. Neil Degrasse Tyson’s yt channel is better than anything on the discovery channel these days. Countless podcasts are better than anything on the history channel. I don’t think they even try to do history anymore. They just air pawn stars reruns 24/7.
- Comment on How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become. 4 weeks ago:
Which I’m not so yeah, it was pretty easy.
- Comment on How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I heard some stuff about it at the time but not much. About 5 years later I started reading an article about it but only got like 2 paragraphs in before I remembered why I never paid attention to it the first time around and quit reading.
- Comment on How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become. 4 weeks ago:
Gamergate was at least easy to ignore. I still don’t really know what it was about. Always seemed like pointless internet drama to me. That may or may not be true but it hasn’t been a problem to stay ignorant about the topic. You can’t ignore what’s happening now unless you don’t use the internet at all and even that isn’t going to be completely effective.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 1 month ago:
Am I just jaded about the whole internet or does this read like an AI summary? It feels too specific to be written by a human.
- Comment on Best way to turn off people and get lower tips 2 months ago:
If the lowest percentage on the screen is 20% then you get nothing even if I was planning on giving 20%
- Comment on Best way to turn off people and get lower tips 2 months ago:
Nudity aside, 100% tip on a total of less than $10 is way more reasonable than 100% on a $100 total
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
If a small, one time pop-up designed to solve your problem makes you give up on solving your problem then you were never going to solve that problem.
- Comment on Israeli forces ‘sexually assaulted, beat and insulted women’ during Gaza hospital raid 3 months ago:
The way this description goes from worst to least bad seems odd to me. If I was writing this I would probably have left “insulted” off the list entirely since it seems so much less important than “beat” and “sexually assaulted”. Is that just strangely expressed or is it an intentional effort to leave you thinking about the least damning thing they did instead of focusing on the raping?
- Comment on circuits 4 months ago:
EE’s are the best E’s. Yeah, I said it.
- Comment on Data centers powering artificial intelligence could use more electricity than entire cities 4 months ago:
It’s pretty great tech if you employ a lot of people whose only job is to handle customer complaints and you don’t really care if those complaints are handled well or not.
- Comment on Data centers powering artificial intelligence could use more electricity than entire cities 4 months ago:
We’re considering letting Oracle, Meta, and Microsoft (that I know of) reactivate or otherwise make use of nuclear power plants to power their AI ambitions. How long before that turns into owning and operating nuclear reactors in house? Now I’m not of the opinion that nuclear power is inherently unsafe but if I had to pick my worst case scenario of implementation it may well be letting big tech run a facility like that.
On the other hand, I see first hand on a daily basis the kind of power consumption we’re talking about putting to use for AI and that’s a huge fucking problem if you care about the environment at all. I don’t know what the right answer is. All I can say is I hope we invent scalable fusion reactors, or some other way to harness vast amounts of energy, very quickly. Otherwise this is not going to end well.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 4 months ago:
You’re looking for logic in the wrong place friend.
- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 5 months ago:
There’s a legitimate discussion to be had about harm reduction here. You’re approaching this topic from an all-or-nothing mindset but there’s quite a bit of research indicating that’s not really how it works in practice. Specifically as it relates to child pornography the argument goes that not allowing artificial material to be created leads to an increase in production of actual child pornography which obviously means more real children are being harmed than would be if other forms were not controlled in the same fashion. The same sort of logic could be applied to revenge porn, stolen selfies, or whatever else we’re calling the kind of thing this article is referring to. It may not be an identical scenario but I still think it would be fair to say that an AI generated image is not as damaging as a real one.
That is not to say that nothing should be done in these situations. I haven’t decided what I think the right move is given the options in front of us but I think there’s quite a bit more nuance here than your comment would indicate.
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 5 months ago:
I wouldn’t necessarily blame your niche interests or anything else like that. There’s lots of people this applies to who just forgot how to socialize. I would put myself in that category. I like sports and many other popular things, and I used to be reasonably easy to talk to but ever since covid I’m considerably more awkward in social situations.
Someone I haven’t seen in two years will ask what I’ve been up to and my mind just goes blank. It’s not that I’ve been sitting at home doing nothing the whole time but for some reason none of the things I could talk about come to me in the moment. It’s a strange thing to feel yourself being socially inept in a way that you didn’t used to be. I’ve gotten better but it’s still weird a lot of the time.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 5 months ago:
Christian tradition, sure, but the Bible doesn’t have much to say about nipples so any specific rule regarding them seems to be more of an inference than a command.
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 5 months ago:
Why are both of these so veiny? And why does the word veiny and both of these pictures make me think of dicks? Am I the inevitable perverted product of an overly sexualized society or are these drawings intentionally evoking phallic symbolism? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
No one is having a comprehensive theological discussion with you jackass. We were talking about a very specific thing. Stop being obnoxious.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
I know it’s tough to pay attention for four whole sentences but if you read them again slowly I think you’ll see that I did not use the words Jesus, sin, or metaphor in any form which should make it pretty clear that, no, I’m not saying that at all.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
The Bible is a couple thousand chapters long. The creation story is the first two chapters. It’s pretty obviously only attempting to establish that God created the universe in some ambiguous way and move on with the story. That doesn’t stop people from inferring all sorts of things from what is essentially a poem.
- Comment on I know what I got. No low balls 6 months ago:
If you’re part of the beans on toast clan then you can still shush it. This is 10x the flavor of that survival ration. You would be lucky to have this masterpiece grace your mouth with its juices.