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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Man I’m 45 and I don’t blame the youth for any problems now. But maybe I’m just charging my blame lasers so that I can go even harder when I’m 65. Like, “when I was younger I never blamed the youths for problems but NOW, with YOU it’s justified!”.
- Comment on A hotdog should be the opposite of a cool cat, but it's not. 2 weeks ago:
Cats and dogs have more in common than you think.
For example, did you know that both cats and dogs have four legs? Yeah… There’s even more similarities, I hear…
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Not acting “for free” does not mean zero-sum game.
I am no expert but I don’t think nations need to (or do, in general) operate on a zero-sum game. Actions can benefit both sides.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 2 weeks ago:
I call it a (wo…)manmade organised dogmatic religion. Sure, it might be just with a member of one (which is kinda cool and all and probably makes the organizing part a little bit easier) but it’s still kind of the same thing…
But seriously, it really depends on the details on such belief. It might be anything from harmless cope to superstition to delusion to paranoia. Or a first brave step in escaping a cult–which I would genuinely applaud.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 2 weeks ago:
It loosely reminds everyone of everything because “other planes of existence” is an all-encompassing meaningless term.
Just about every religion or fiction fits this, because they can–and do-- say “oh but it’s in oThEr pLaNeS oF eXiStEnCe!”. Which is a silly excuse because just about only concrete property that “other plane of existence” implies is that things on beings on it can’t affect things or beings on this plane of existence, so any theory (as in “has to make useful, verifiable predictions”) involving interactions between planes of existence is kind of dead on arrival.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 weeks ago:
Someone has to teach those little gangstas how extortion is done.
Well at least you tried…
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 2 weeks ago:
I see, So that’s what the jack-o-lanterns are for?
So they are actually not lanterns but temporary toilets, but then someone got an idea to put candles in them so that it at least makes the “trick” part kind of uncomfortable. Right?
- Comment on I have no idea what this is about 2 weeks ago:
OT, but the comment under the video is pure gold:
“Sharks have a similar metaphor, ‘swam under the Fonzie’.”
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 2 weeks ago:
I usually dry inside and I make sure to turn stuff inside out before hanging it on the rack but I do it because I believe it dries better when things like pockets can be stretched out.
UV is a great point, I never realized that.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 2 weeks ago:
So it looks like I’ve been doing it all wrong all the time. Especially with hoodies, there’s always a t-shirt under them, so the “dirtier” side of the hoodie is more likely to be the outside.
With jeans it’s kind of the same, assuming not too much sweating (and proper underwear turnaround).
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 2 weeks ago:
Just about the only thing I remember was that my mom always said that one should zip them up and not leave the zipper open – specifically so that it does not clank around and perhaps scratch the washing machine drum or get its tiny teeth brush and the moving part tangled with other, softer garments.
Turning the hoodie inside out might mitigate that a little bit more, but not much…
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 28 comments
- Comment on "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class." 2 weeks ago:
…or any inanimate objects, really.
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 2 weeks ago:
LOL next time I wait for tram I’ll just imagine meaningless alien symbol arrive instead of it. :D
But really, I think the abstraction is kind of fascinating. The “closeness” of a route 34 to route 36 means nothing. Or the number of “34” in route 34 has nothing to do with gate 34 on an airport. So much is kind of obvious to most adult humans. (I think–and I suppose there might be interesting cases with neurodiversity.)
Now what if instead of numbers it was happy cartoon-like animal symbols like they use in day cares. Again, I can state the obvious: duck is a bird and hen is a bird, but the “duck route” and “hen route” don’t need to have anything to do with each other. And sure, duck route and duck airport terminal have nothing to do with each other as well. Again, sort of obvious, right?
Then if it’s alien symbols: sure, now I can’t do the connections like “32 vs 34” or “duck vs hen” anymore, can’t I? Well … no matter meaning in any other context, as long as I can recognize difference between two symbols I can also recognize similarity between other potential pair of symbols. Eg. if two alien symbols had a dominant vertical line then I could still have the same space for connections.
My point is that this need of separating the abstraction from concretion is inevitable, regardless of whether the symbol has a conflicting meaning used elsewhere. As long as we attach some understanding to the symbols, there are still some relations we might want to attach to them. That’s even if we did not use the same symbols elsewhere, which we do.
The next stage of the thought experiment: what if it’s not symbols but just the real things. Can I recognize a tram from another one? (Literally one physical vehicle from another?) Well it would be really hard but actually also counter-productive in the modern world, because the whole point of the abstraction in those arbitrary numbers is that they represent the route – which is also completely abstract concept. Ie. it does not have to be the same vehicle, and the same vehicle could be re-assigned to another route.
I don’t know where on this axis would the radio frequencies mentioned in OP be placed, though. Frequencies exist in range(s) so a certain frequency currently on your radio receiver being higher or lower than the target one does tell you how to twist the knob. (Yeah, I’m 45 years old so I have used analog radio, although it was like 30 years ago…) There must be at least one other axis to it.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 weeks ago:
honestly with drawings like that I half expected at least one panel be involving bloodletting
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 weeks ago:
wow, so Trump is doing “Liberatem resigno” (“I give up my freedom”) but with rubber shackles.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 weeks ago:
Still, maybe if Zucc did it people would actually find him cool.
(“Cool” as in, like an average politician, which is still way cooler than he is now.)
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 weeks ago:
LOL that’s why I will never be a politician. I would be so frustrated by not being allowed to touch my face! The irony of it would just overwhelm me.
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 2 weeks ago:
We sort of do, sometimes, at some point, “stop” reading.
For example, I live in a city. My stop is served by about 5 different routes, but since I’m so close to center, the remaining part of the route is basically the same for 3 out of 5 of these. Most trips go to center though, the one that does not only goes once an hour, while the rest total up to maybe 25 per hour. (One of those takes significantly longer but would still get me there.)
Initially I would read the signage, but eventually I don’t think I really need to, since in 99.9% of cases I can just see a big thing arriving and hop on it. That’s because I already have the context of where I am, what is the time and what kinds of trips are likely. Also, the 3 optimal routes are served by tram and 2 trolley buses, while the one “bad” route is served by a regular-sized bus and the one “sub-optimal” route is served by a long bus. So just by looking at the shape of thing is arriving (or listening to the sound it’s making) I can already make a really good guess if it’s ok for me.
So my (kinda weak) point is in really common situations we kind of stop needing to look at (or even stop looking at) the numbers, although we would still remember them for other reasons.
- Comment on I think the reason we evolved 5 fingers is so we can carry hot serving dishes farther by alternating which one is in contact with the hot thing. 1 month ago:
“job” … I mean, I barely did anything but I’m happy to take the paycheck for my grandgrandgrand…(cell, or a weird pool of mixing liquids or whatever…)
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 1 month ago:
If you live in a society, you’ll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary symbol sequences.
I’m talking, of course, about place names, people’s names and … what’cha call’em … words.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 month ago:
Too bad we can’t really do that with movies & series. Cinema aside, I basically start at step 4.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 month ago:
In order of preference:
- buy flac directly from the label
- buy flac on Bandcamp (or equivalent, although i’m barely aware of any real alternatives)
- buy CD and rip it to flac
- despair
- try to fight it
- give up and get it via torrent.
Streaming services are evil and i wish for them to fail.…but more seriously – I get why streaming services exist. Although I will almost certainly will never use one in my life, in principle it’s fine, I get the point. When I’m online I’m actually OK to stream from an indie radio (eg. soma.fm) or from a RSS based podcast player (eg. Antenna).The problem i have is that, AFAIK, the business models are almost always abusive and hostile to both user and the artist. Some kind of federated system could work better, but I’m not sure it’s doable. As it is, I’m afraid this middle man model just won’t ever work properly without heavy regulation – which is kind of a problem in the globalized world.
- Comment on Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building? 4 months ago:
All cheese is made by bacteria who live there, so it’s pretty much a building to them!
So I hereby define every cheese by relationship to a building.
(I’m fun at parties.)
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 5 months ago:
That’s only if the exponent is greater than 1.
- Comment on Future generations will look at people who fear AI/Robots the same as how we today view people who fear other races/ethnicities 7 months ago:
Future generations will look at people who think AI/Robots are humans as the gullible useful idiots they are.