Apepollo11

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  From an outsider’s perspective, I think a lot of people think you guys sailed past the point of no return back in the 80s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the only correct answer will be “there are lots of different reasons”.

  My wife took my last name, even though it’s not a good one and I suggested that we pick a new one.

  Here are a couple of her reasons:

  1. She wanted us to have the same surname.

  2. She was very close friends with my cousins growing up, so the name didn’t seem weird to her.

  3. Tradition - she’d always assumed she would change her name to her husband’s name, so that seemed the most normal thing to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We could technically do it now, but you’d need a ton of quality control.

  A basic workflow:

  Use an image generator to generate start (and optionally end) frames of each scene.

  Use a video generator like Runway to create the scene.

  Use something to generate the speech, either a realistic text-to-speech engine or a record the dialog yourself and use AI voice changing software.

  Use a lip synch AI to match the mouth flaps to the audio.

  Generate music using something like Udio

  Job done.

  All these technologies exist and in some capacity are available to use. The only issue at the moment is consistent quality. This is coming on in leaps and bounds, however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At our GP surgery, there are a couple of doctors who won’t consult on birth control matters for religious reasons.

  There’s just a sign at the reception saying that if you need to discuss birth control, please let the receptionist know and they’ll be sure to assign a different doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the optimism here, but unless there was a significant potential for profit, none of the people who have the resources to begin collecting ocean plastics could care less.

  The sad truth is that the majority of the world’s resources are owned and controlled by a handful of psychopaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in the US and a select few other countries…

  In other places, ‘Professor’ is a specific academic rank - there’ll only be a few professors in a university.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  chefs kiss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Materials.

  If you’d have seen the marble sculptures when they were new, you would have described them as anything but realistic. We now know that many, if not most, sculptures were painted in bright garish colours.

  Why paint a delicately crafted sculpture with a dodgy paint job? Party taste, perhaps, but more definitely because that was what was available.

  The paints that we have now are carefully designed, mixed and stored to deliver a wide range of colours of a consistent quality (and even modern companies like GW struggle with that!).

  The further back you go, the fewer pigments there are and the less sophisticated the binders are. It’s no coincidence that the rapid explosion in science and trade of the Renaissance led to the rapid development of paints. Even in those days, an artist didn’t buy paint, they made it - access to new raw ingredients was all that was needed.

  So, why the Renaissance? Because it’s the earliest point in time it could have been possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I read that book about 30 years ago! I didn’t remember the eye-scanning gargoyle, but for some reason I still remember the phrase “Ultima Ratio Regum” from the nuclear powered gun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the creation of the universe politically motivated or was it done for other reasons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the word needs to imply a creator necessarily.

  “Clouds are created when water vapour in the air condenses”.

  “Black holes are created when giant stars collapse”.

  I’ll concede that going on to question political motive implies a creator, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume you’re talking about the Unifying feature.

  I’ve got no direct experience, but there are a few people who say that despite Firefox not being listed as supported, it works fine.

  forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14961275

  As for the spying, I can see how that could be a concern, but I don’t think it’s too likely.

  For convenience, I’m guessing they’re using a web interface to the settings in the same way that your router does. They’ve made a Chrome plugin, so that’s probably the route they want you to take because they know it works.

  Logitech is a global brand, an they’d get into a lot of trouble in a lot of countries if they were gathering keypress data etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American tourists visiting the EU, what do you think of it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did you go?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do lesbians like boobs as much as straight guys?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Each time or cumulatively?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From an outsider’s perspective, although the Republicans are clearly the most corrupt of the two parties, the Democrats are far from being the good guys.

  There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that the Democrat politicians don’t actually care about truth and justice either, they’re just less bad than the Republicans are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anything to watch out for with 0.2mm or 0.1mm nozzle?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Overhangs were the biggest issue I found. So much so that I moved back to a 0.4 after a month of faff trying to find settings that would compensate.

  I use my printer mainly for minis, and figures that would print supportless on the 0.4 nozzle needed huge amounts of supports at 0.2 in order to print without missing chins etc.

  That said, the level of detail that I could achieve was better, particularly on the hair, but not enough to compensate for all of the extra faff and wasted plastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who/what are racists according to UK protests? Why are they protesting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something to add to this.

  The people protesting against racism are counter-protesters. They are showing up to protest against the far right who are in turn protesting against migrants.

  In the past couple of days they have been out-numbering the far right protesters by at least an order of magnitude, and a lot of the expected riots have been averted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He really wants to kill that platform lol⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve seen empires burn to the ground so many times before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question] Can You Uncut A STL?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the very simplest, you can just overlap things in the slicer without Blender.

  If you want to learn about Blender’s Sculpt mode, you can just Google “Blender Sculpt mode tutorial”. For convenience, try to use the most recent results, as the interface can be slightly different in older versions.

  Sculpt mode effectively allows you to alter the models as if they were made of clay or plasticine.

  A lot of the tutorials will be showing how to make things from scratch, but what’s important is that you see how the tools work.

  Once you have everything overlapping the way you want, you can join the using a Boolean operation. You’ll want to use a “union” operation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question] Can You Uncut A STL?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To avoid the gaps you can line them up with an overlap.

  You can adjust the vertices of the model slightly to help facilitate this. The most natural-feeling way to do it in Blender is by using the Sculpt mode.

  You can use a Boolean addition operation to then make the two models a single piece of geometry. Or not bother (if you are printing on FDM or at 100% infill in resin, it won’t really hurt either way).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could substract* a leader from this world which one would you choose ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does “World’s Richest Man” count as a leader? Because I’m struggling to think of any negatives to him being suddenly substracted from the world.

  Also, TIL that substracted is a valid, albeit obsolete, variant of subtract.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m British, and AC/DC are Australian so… I guess you’re right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2nd Work Interview Meeting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

  Alternatively, it might be that it’s just an additional identical role, but company policy means they need to go through a new round of interviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK there is a massive Google Doc of U.S. gynecologists that will tie your tubes without asking about your kids, marital status or age.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NHS = National Health Service

  It’s what we have in the UK, and essentially means that all your health care is free.

  Vasectomy = free. Having a baby in hospital = free. CAT scan = free. Insulin = free.

  Admittedly, it’s paid for in taxes, but at a small fraction of the cost of the American way of doing things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people still sculpt? Any sculptors here on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re interested in smaller scale sculpting, it’d be remiss of me not to direct you to The Crafsman Steady Craftin’

  youtube.com/@thecrafsman?si=IrZ7Ze0j5WnfyXXk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK there is a massive Google Doc of U.S. gynecologists that will tie your tubes without asking about your kids, marital status or age.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Had mine done through the NHS. Basically two questions, “do you have children already” and “how long since your last child was born?”.

  If you haven’t had kids yet, you just need to explain why you want a vasectomy, usually with a specialist. If your last child was born less than two months ago, they want you to wait (apparently a lot of men’s first reaction to the realities of having a baby is to try to ensure it won’t happen again).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is everyone here leftist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy was released as an open-source fediverse alternative to Reddit.

  Just over a year after launch, r/ChapoTrapHouse, moved across after being banned from Reddit. This is likely what you’re referring to. It had well over 100,000 active users on Reddit, so represented a sudden sizable influx of users.

  I’d wager the biggest influx of people by far, though, occurred when Spez upset a majority of mods and many users by banning third party apps.

  People looked for an alternative, and Lemmy was it.

  But why are so many people who lean left politically? Because the Venn Diagram for “people who like the idea of a decentralised platform that supports everybody and is free from the machinations of millionaires”, and “people who would like society that supports everybody and is free from the machinations of millionaires” is nearly a circle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brewing tea with space vacuum?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not the boiling that’s the important factor - it’s the temperature.

  You could make a cup of tea with it, but it wouldn’t be much different than just plopping a teabag in room-temperature water for the same amount of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to talk about the PM of the UK.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely - if anything, there’s a reluctance to use formal titles in the UK in general.

  I used to teach at university - students and staff alike just use first names when addressing each other. When signing emails, we just use our first name, no letters, job title, anything.

  It’s even something specifically touched on in our orientation guide for foreign students.

  As for newspapers and Prime Ministers specifically, one of the biggest newspapers, The Guardian, has a cartoonist who has always drawn David Cameron with a condom covering his head. There’s absolutely no deference shown to Prime Ministers here.

• How to talk about the PM of the UK.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Primary sources? No, but there are independent secondary sources by people with no skin in the game.

  Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus (circa 93–94 CE).

  Annals by Tacitus (circa 116 CE)

  The earliest Christian writings are also more about the teachings of a disruptive Jewish preacher who was then crucified, than they are about magic.