AWistfulNihilist
@AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 day ago:
The only true segregation is wealth based, the last civil war had astoundingly clearly delineated lines and you still had brother killing brother. Modern war isn’t like that. It’s city by city with things totally calm 30 miles over. Moving like a cloud of death from community to community. Old grudges, family issues, bad neighbors, bad bosses, anything will get you killed.
Not a world i want to be in, no guarantee what this place looks like after, there isn’t a good guys win scenario, we’re in an oligarchy. Maybe it’s that shit Marx talked about, but i bet it’s Gilead.
- Comment on no training award 1 week ago:
They don’t turn this around on Ashley Babbit.
- Comment on Karl Pilkington was a mainstream “lolcow” 1 week ago:
Karl Pilkignton is an eccentric dude, but he’s not stupid. He was head of production at XFM when he met Ricky Gervais, the person he was on screen on Idiot was part of a character he developed while doing Ricky Gervais’ radio show.
Yeah he’s that person, the character is based on him cause Ricky and Steve Merchant found his behavior hilarious. But he was already successful when he started it, and all the shit about him not waiting to come back was for more seasons was BS. He had revenue share from the beginning, that show was stupid business for them and Sky One.
You can see his real acting right after Idiot ended on Derek. Then he came back to Sky One to do more “Karl” work on Moaning Life. Then he did a truly scripted version of his Karl character on Sick of It.
Trust me, he’s is and was in on it.
- Comment on MegaLag - The Honey Scam is Worse Than I Thought 2 weeks ago:
It’s legit offputting, but when you’re on YouTube it makes sense to play that game. Following a thumbnail meta will get your video more engagement, they even allow A/B testing of thumbnails to find the best performing one. YT is as much a thumbnail platform as it is a video one, and I’m only being slightly hyperbolic.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 3 weeks ago:
It’s still occasionally used, but man it’s an archaic reference!
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault 5 weeks ago:
When the food is bad in prison, you don’t blame your fellow inmates.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 1 month ago:
You’ve moved my opinion on this definitely, I have never been inside that world, but I engage with it all the time because of my work.
Rather than being something strange and wrong, it’s just a thing that works, and that’s why you guys adopt it. Like rubber duck programming.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 1 month ago:
Oh no, I’m the first person who told you this behavior is weird huh. I’m sorry.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 1 month ago:
Sure, I might even give those people some grace over the people who use it cause they want to be Jared Leto, or one of Jared Leto’s sex cult friends in the book.
It’s actually still a red flag, unfortunately. The only people why use Grok have terrible understanding other people, like the dude in this article. That’s part of the problem. Either you’re jumping off the same bridge as your weirdo colleagues, you identify with the nudist-cult Martian, or you have such trouble being understood, or understanding neurotypical people, you think you need a new word.
It’s like people who is Na’vi, you can make up anything and say it’s anything and people who have trouble with reality will identify themselves by using that nonsense in normal conversation. You’re never gonna make fetch happen, it’s just tedious.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 1 month ago:
There is no problem with having read the book, there’s no problem with liking it. I did both, the first time i read it I thought it was cool. I’m more taking about people who made the nude sex cult book part of their personality enough to use the word grok unironically.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 1 month ago:
People using the word “grok” has always been a red flag. The people who read stranger in a strange land and identified with it so much they started using the word are fucking weirdos. The book is about a child adopted by Martians who inherited their reality-bending mind powers, comes back to earth as an adult and creates a nudist sex cult. Basically Jared Leto. I’m not joking, that’s the book.
It was always elder developers who didn’t wear shoes and had trouble with personal space.
- Comment on Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users 1 month ago:
Wow, people just immediately proved your point in replies.
- Comment on It's nothing 1 month ago:
Anxiety, gerd or heartburn in general (it’s literally called heartburn, this is more common than you’d think), and like a million other things.
I would get it with anxiety all the time before I was medicated, my doctor told me after my 3rd EKG that the pain from a heart attack really happens when you work it HARD. That might not be much for some people, but the Doc asked me if this happens often after physical activity at all.
My answer was no, and I hike, walk, go up stairs, do all that stuff and have no issue or pain with my heart. YMMV, and as I age I still take heart stuff seriously, but that reduced my anxiety around it significantly.
- Comment on We need to normalize not captioning single image memes, so everyone can reuse it. 1 month ago:
Ahh a human has fixed some AI slop. How expected. Also thank you
- Comment on We need to normalize not captioning single image memes, so everyone can reuse it. 1 month ago:
Ewww AI slop that had to be fixed by a human in the comments. Thanks for literally fucking nothing.
- Comment on Summoning the Beast of Big Pharma 1 month ago:
You make a really excellent argument! People have been in essence vaping weed via hookah and shisha for a long time. Mixing weed into your shisha doesn’t result in a full combustion. The steam chalice tweaked the design to remove the shisha, but it was still in essence the design borrowed from something that’s been used since antiquity. But it was still like the invention that basically every stoner in the world, let alone anyone who visited Jamaica, had in their head
The modern electronic vape movement, which arguably started in coffee shops in Amsterdam in the 90’s, started introducing electronic temperature control. Which imo is what I mean when say modern vaping.
- Comment on Summoning the Beast of Big Pharma 1 month ago:
That’s fair, steam chalice became popular back in the 70’s. I’m splitting hairs by defining modern as an electronic device whose design was copied in essence by all future makers. The steam chalice was in every stoners head back then and informed a lot of innovation.
- Comment on Summoning the Beast of Big Pharma 1 month ago:
That’s actually a vaporizer, this dude is one of the fathers of modern vaping, like Bob Snodgrass is the father of modern borosilicate glass bongs.
- Comment on Pedobear Approved 2 months ago:
Godamn, look at that transparency, now this is a fucking png! Alpha AF.
- Comment on I'm cooked, chat. 2 months ago:
Oh damn, Ludwig is getting old
- Comment on xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend 2 months ago:
Wait till you find out how they are training their humanoid robots. I’m not joking.
- Comment on The people who protest against the Palestinian Genocide would be the same people who protested against the Holocaust. 2 months ago:
They did, they’re was a lot of backlash against anti-nazis, especially pre-holocaust. Partially because nazi propoganda was so effective across the world. But also partially because anti-Semitism was practically mainstream across the world.
US famously rejected a boat of 900 jewish and other German refugees cause 1 dude lied (these people would be sent back and 40% of them would later die in the holocaust). We were terrified of foreign spies, which is an attitude that culminated in it internment of the Japanese. We were offered Jewsih refugees many times, including children, we rejected them.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
Yeah, no the market has plenty of diversification, there have been times in history where our investments as a country has much less diverse. When the AI bubble pops, and it will, it’s gonna be just like all the other bubble pops we’ve experienced. People who didn’t sell made back those funds after every crash. The people who needed the money right then, the elderly especially, we’re totally fucked. They couldn’t wait out the dips.
I’ll grant you it’s possible this is end of the American expirement because of mixing this with Trump, but i would have to ignore every other historical example. In which case the money won’t matter at all because there will be no guaranter of American fiat currency, which means you’ll see Argentina levels of inflation, we aren’t even close to that yet.
No it’ll pop, the rich who are heavily invested will make a ton of money when investors move their funds to another bubble, we’re also in a real estate bubble! And the whole machine will keep moving.
If you’re planning for a castration failure you should really be buying that gold tho, precious metals, bullets, guns, fresh water, seeds.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
Right, they lose value, but you still retain ownership. As a part of the regular flow of things the money you make from those stocks gets reinvested into more ownership, something that keeps happening even when the value of those stocks fall.
As long as your ownership stays, the market will rebound and you will make a premium because the number of stocks you owned actually went up during the period of value loss.
When people talk about how much money rich people made during covid, they are largely talking about stock value, not just carpet bagging.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
Great points, currency arbitrage is not something the average Joe can win at, the money they have access to is already stepped on.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 months ago:
If you are already invested, you can be reasonably separated from the stocks that are inflating, when the bubble bursts, as long as you are diversified the overall dip will serve you.
The directly impacted industries, those AI companies, data centers, blackrock real estate which is currently heavily investing in local power generation, hardware. That kind of stuff will impact the market, but your money is in relation to units owned. That value will come back and you as a long term investor will make a multiplier on any money you lost, because you ownership, your shares continued to go up at the reduced cost.
If you need the money you have invested for living expenses, you are fucked, but long term investors come out of these recessions stronger every time.
That’s managed investment, retail investors who are highly leveraged in the affected industries will be fucked.
Also look at gold, precious metals are a ridiculously solid investment, just don’t buy them at the market highs put of panic.
- Comment on Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech 3 months ago:
www.spymuseum.org/…/the-great-seal/
Governments have been finding crazy ways to listen to eachother for so long. Now every ear is directed at consumers to milk them like cows.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 months ago:
I mean… yeah? It’s not really much of a mischaracterization if it’s true. At one point you have to accept that the we’re the baddies.
- Comment on Age check 4 months ago:
DNC types get super cagey when you admit that Bill Clinton is a serial adulterer who was in an extreme power imbalance relationship with a woman in her 20’s.
I’m glad the party is willingly offering him up as a sacrifice to the republicans to get keep the Epstein probe going. Every time the GOP tries a burying tactic, they truss Bill up like a suckling pig, and I’m fine with that. Dude is and was a creep.