netvor

@netvor@lemmy.world

• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In order of preference:

  1. buy flac directly from the label
  2. buy flac on Bandcamp (or equivalent, although i’m barely aware of any real alternatives)
  3. buy CD and rip it to flac
  4. despair
  5. try to fight it
  6. 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Future generations will look at people who think AI/Robots are humans as the gullible useful idiots they are.