AWistfulNihilist
@AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
- Comment on covid.gov redirects to lab leak conspiracy insanity 2 days ago:
It’s a very weird team sport thing. You tend to see a lot of incredibly lucid and detailed conversation in academia about it, but lab leak and natural origin split into a political argument for the majority of people who have it.
But interestingly, a lot of governments accept the lab leak theory, maybe because the project of finding and testing wild viruses for potential pandemic response was an internationally funded project that all governments either quietly or loudly (in the case of the US) stopped funding immediately once a pandemic happened. Kinda understandably, fat lot of good that did.
No one wants the smoke if it was a lab leak, if it was a purely natural thing at this wet market, well that can happen at any wet market anywhere in the world, there is no culpability there.
What we do know is that we’ll likely never know the true origin of the virus, because the place it happened didn’t cooperate with finding the source of it. And if they have more evidence than the same samples and maps everyone else has, they aren’t telling.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
3M discovered a verifiable force field and there has been no civilian research since, huh…
My conspiracy brain is telling me this is already in full scale use in government applications at a super secret level. Development is probably being done by L3 or NG type contractor in a lab in the desert.
That’s incredible.
- Comment on Tesla is exiting consumer space because Self-Driving has hit the same fundamental limits as LLMs 2 weeks ago:
If they’re depending on musk for this tho, they’re fucked. His stupid ass robots are vaporware.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 3 weeks ago:
A person who posted after you is using 14B and got the correct answer.
- Comment on Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums 3 weeks ago:
He didn’t stumble on a bug, he landed in their backend home surveillance architecture. This wasn’t a mistake, this was a whistle being blown and the article missed it.
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 4 weeks ago:
That’s funny, you are like opposite me.
There are a lot of exceptions, Morrells are actually one of the few mushrooms that can kill you or make you very ill if you don’t cook them long enough, so I wouldn’t even call them exceptions. They still require knowledge and prep. That includes chicken of the woods which can be dangerous depending on which tree it’s growing on.
Oyster mushrooms on the west coast of the US are a fair bet, someone in this same thread made a good list, but it’s regional. A high percentage of the poisonings in California (Australia too as I understand it) used to be SE Asians who mistook them for paddy-straw mushrooms. A lot of these articles are saying that it’s more wide spread this time because of “naive” people harvesting. I hope it’s not like food insecure people trying to fill caloric gaps…
There are plenty of amateurs who rise to the ranks of expert, but the consequences of error can be very high. I recommend anyone who wants to harvest to learn to spore print as part of identification. Harvesting any wild edibles requires a lot of research, mushrooms topping that list by a fair margin.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 4 weeks ago:
I was just memeing on idubbz, Chrischan is in the game, fucking oedipal rapist Chrischan.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 4 weeks ago:
Ugh I know, imagine playing a game and hearing idubbz, the n-word/f-slur guy. Fucking gross.
- Comment on Did you all know these things can be pickled??? 1 month ago:
I would love to do the super spicy small ones. I fell in love with pickled radish in Korea. It’s a side dish for every meal. For maekju (chicken and beer), it is THE side dish. They do the big ol daikons tho.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 1 month ago:
It’s total bullshit. They don’t need to do anything to the factory. They haven’t made X and Y in Fremont for 2 years. There isn’t anything to retool or any space to reuse.
The factory already frequently takes manufacturing breaks for days at a time. If he had a robot to build, they have capacity, but let’s not fool ourselves. There is nothing to manufacture or deliver.
This is just him hoping he can fool people into thinking they still even need his factories at full capacity. Pretty sure they don’t.
- Comment on Soda pop 1 month ago:
I think that’s what their saying, since coke/cocaine and coke/coca cola are both named coke because of the same chemical.
I dunno which came first tho, far as I can tell cocaine in both drug and drink form started getting called coke around 1900-1910. The coca-cola company didn’t like the nickname, they advertised you saying the name in full, they didn’t actually copyright “coke” for coca-cola it till the 1940’s.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 month 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 2 months ago:
They don’t turn this around on Ashley Babbit.
- Comment on Karl Pilkington was a mainstream “lolcow” 2 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
- Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault 3 months ago:
When the food is bad in prison, you don’t blame your fellow inmates.
- Comment on Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Wow, people just immediately proved your point in replies.
- Comment on It's nothing 3 months 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. 3 months 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. 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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.