meco03211
@meco03211@lemmy.world
- Comment on For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid 2 days ago:
The problem is if the other person doesn’t go higher. You can completely refute the central claim of their argument. But if they simply respond by essentially shoving their fingers in their ears yelling “I can’t hear you!” the argument will go no further.
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 3 days ago:
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- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 6 days ago:
Makes sense.
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 6 days ago:
Makes sense.
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 6 days ago:
Makes sense.
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 6 days ago:
HOW DARE YOU?!
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 6 days ago:
Makes sense.
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 6 days ago:
Makes sense.
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 6 days ago:
Makes sense.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 week ago:
Janeway and Paris getting their lizard fuck on and having kids.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
As far as institutional trust, you’ll have to decide for yourself IMO. Do you agree with the messaging from the institution? Do you generally trust the people within it? If so, progress, otherwise don’t.
Something I do for this is to look at what the “opposition” says in response to anything salacious or inflammatory. Does the other side address it directly and provide evidence? Do they ignore it? What’s their track record on the subject? Consider the end of Obama’s last term when all the right could talk about was him golfing. Then trump gets in office and golf’s even more. Anyone who botched about Obama and was silent for trump lose a ton of credibility. The exact same thing for the debt. The right was screaming about how much debt Obama added. Then trump goes and adds more in his one term than Obama did in two. Those same critics? Fucking silent.
- Comment on I get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then? 1 week ago:
States are likely to have laws against “distracted driving” or “reckless driving”. Those likely encompass much of the driving while texting or fiddling with controls. Unless a cop directly saw the action this are usually charges levied after an accident happens and do nothing to prevent it. Once enough crashes are attributed to a narrower set of actions, public opinion can be swayed to support action against that narrower set. Now with a specific “no texting while driving” law, cops can pull you over simply for holding a phone. They don’t need to see you do something that would constitute “distracted” or “reckless” driving to ticket you.
- Comment on What is in for the antivax in a government? 2 weeks ago:
But they get validation. It’s not just that they think their ideas and information is correct. They are correct and doctors and entire industries are wrong or corrupt. That makes them smarter than those eggheads that went to school for sometimes a decade and have spent further decades with their face in a microscope. After decades of education and dedicated research somehow Cletus from BFE, Dumbfuckistan and Google was able to best them intellectually.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 weeks ago:
What say you to this example of a Scotsman that is infected with marketing?
- Comment on erotic scenes actors and actresses, how do you not get aroused while acting in those scenes? 3 weeks ago:
This might sound weird but I have a Coldplay fetish. That can’t go wrong right?
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 3 weeks ago:
Are you differentiating between AI Interpolation and just simply AI? It feels like people saying it’s AI you push back on.
- Comment on Larry Ellison overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest person 3 weeks ago:
He’s gotta be more Courics than Bono.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 3 weeks ago:
What you just described was a horribly inefficient use of resources. You gained insight through idle banter. While everyone is in office that’s what middle managers would tend to handle. All this time they thought they were herding cats, turns out the cats just wanted to be home. Now people don’t know who to go to because the “yes” person isn’t in a cubicle you can just waltz over to. Middle management needs a massive paradigm shift if they want to stay relevant in a WFH situation. And that seems increasingly likely to be the direction businesses will go once they cut staff with these asinine RTO policies.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 4 weeks ago:
A constant refrain I’ve found myself using with a Facebook “friend” is “you lack the ability to even understand why you are wrong”. Like I’m convinced he actually thinks anecdotal stories carry as much weight as troves of data proving him wrong.
- Comment on how good are you at lying during job interviews? 5 weeks ago:
Was being interviewed by a few people at a company. I asked about hours, and they essentially said, “Being a salaried position, it would be the standard 40 hours, but we like to usually work 45-50 a week.” I think they might have heard my brain mentally slamming the door on them so fucking hard cause there were some of those awkward looks.
- Comment on Melania Trump launches AI contest for schoolchidren in grades K-12 5 weeks ago:
I think if trump dies before declaring an heir to the throne close enough to election time the power vacuum could reach critical mass. Just his death will certainly create a vacuum. The election will spur the sycophants into a frenzy to take his place. But separately it might not be catastrophic. Together in imagining all the ugliness that trump brought to politics but without his Teflon sheen to avoid and ignore all consequences.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 month ago:
Which begs the question, what happens to the estranged particle that escapes the black hole from hawking radiation.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t the hawking radiation need to be a higher rate than the black hole is absorbing matter?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sounds similar to being told, “At least you’re pretty,” after saying something stupid.
- Comment on Drug Enforcement Administration agent used Illinois cop’s Flock license plate reader password for immigration enforcement searches 1 month ago:
^for me, not for thee^ is missing from the name.
- Comment on Does putting clothes in the closet protect them from dust, or is the dust in there too? 1 month ago:
Is the recommendation really quarterly? I’ve usually done twice a year but might have to step out up.
- Comment on Does putting clothes in the closet protect them from dust, or is the dust in there too? 1 month ago:
And it can fairly easily carry on the air. So if air flow can get there, so can dust.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
A lot of people in here saying don’t do it because you might change your mind. They never seem to apply that logic the other direction. There’s lots of parents out there that had kids and only then realized they didn’t want the whole deal. And worse for them, society has driven a nauseating culture of parental worship and idolatry. It makes it impossible to come to grips with that realization. Parents are supposed to unconditionally love and champion their child and constantly profess how thankful they are and how gratifying the whole endeavor is. And that’s just with a “normal” child. If you have a kid with a disability or some kind of handicap that makes parenting exponentially harder you still need to profess your thankfulness! You aren’t allowed to not want to be a parent then. That ship has sailed. Anything less than abject subjugation to the identity of being a parent is condemned.
- Comment on OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models 2 months ago:
This is probably an area that could massively benefit from AI, but won’t because the oligarchs won’t let it. AI would be great for auditing things like taxes and other filings. But that enigma is where a lot of oligarchs flourish. With a properly implemented AI audit, someone like trump never rises because his fraud would have been detected much sooner and could have been at least slowed if not fully halted. Oligarchs will understand this and make sure it doesn’t negatively impact them.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 2 months ago:
Fucking hell. I didn’t even know that.