JoshuaFalken
@JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
- Comment on There's always money in the banana stand 4 days ago:
I mean yes, it should be cut and dry given the current dynamic. Picking between two options when one is crawling with maggots is a pretty easy choice but that wasn’t really my point.
Unfortunately my point matters less than I wish it did. Loads of people don’t bother voting anyway, many that do vote are ill informed to some extent, and enough show up thinking they’ll get big and strong by eating maggots.
- Comment on Do most comedians invite heclers to their shows? And they go over the bit so it seems sporadic? And get them more views or clicks or whatever? Kind of like a magician does with a plant? 5 days ago:
It’s worth noting there’s a difference between a heckler video and a crowd work video. If the performer solicits audience participation, that’s not them being heckled.
That said, many comedians do several shows a week, some even doing multiple spots a night. These days, most of them record their sets - and the audience, to a degree. When they amass so much footage, it’s easy enough to have a video now and then involving a heckler.
Of course, sometimes, some things do get ‘scripted’ with the audience. This is a funny example of a bit Gianmarco Soresi did using the audience to get this clip parodying a Rocket Money ad.
- Comment on The Gang Solves Climate Change 5 days ago:
Oh I agree, the ‘Saudi Arabia of natural gas’ I was referring to is the United States.
- Comment on The Gang Solves Climate Change 5 days ago:
- Comment on The Gang Solves Climate Change 5 days ago:
Most of that isn’t too important. The real failure you neglected to mention is the loss of the negative reinforcement that comes with coal based energy generation. If we keep burning the stuff, the big man can’t give out as many lumps to the bad children, and so they grow up to be criminals running big companies.
- Comment on There's always money in the banana stand 5 days ago:
To be fair to the people, it’s not as if the big elections are a buffet of selection. Having to choose between light and dark meat doesn’t help me if I want a salad.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
Probably just the law of large userbases. The more people around, the more rude people there are likely to be. Rude people are always a minority, but they tend to be more vocal.
A large portion of fediverse users have abandoned Reddit for moral or ethical reasons. So while occasionally people will be rude here, it tends to skew more towards polite discussion.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 2 weeks ago:
Presumably such a site would be visually obvious as parody. Having it give jokey answers in as a caricature would be one thing. If you dressed it up as a professional legal advice service for opinions on criminal law from Alan Shore, that could be problematic.
At a certain point of information sharing, we should want a high bar for the ones providing the answers. When asking nuanced questions, we should want for the answer to come from knowledge, not memory. I made an example in this other comment.
I’m not sure I agree with your ‘right answer’ bit. Personally, I’d prefer dumb people to be protected in a similar way that I want the elderly protected from losing their savings from an email scam.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 2 weeks ago:
‘Should I use one teaspoon of salt in this recipe, or two?’
Two is ideal.‘Do dogs like chicken wings?’
Wild dogs regularly hunt small animals like hare or chicken for food.One of these answers results in a bad cake, the other results in a hurt dog. Potentially inaccurate answers aren’t much of a problem when the stakes are low, but even a simple question about what to feed a pet could end with a negative outcome.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 2 weeks ago:
I could see the argument for things that aren’t particularly important, but to continue with the legal example, it seems akin to asking a practicing lawyer a question and asking someone that watched Boston Legal when it aired and can quote James Spader.
Unfortunately, with the potential for a hallucinatory response, anything beyond quite simplistic queries shouldn’t be relied on with more weight than a crutch of toothpicks.
- Comment on What do your teeth taste like? 2 weeks ago:
America’s favourite chocolate, according to this post I just happened across.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 weeks ago:
What was it that initially sent you down that path?
- Comment on 35-year-old brings in around $60,000 a year and lives rent-free by pet sitting full time—everything they own fits in 2 suitcases 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 3 weeks ago:
First they came for the transgendered, and I didn’t speak up because they didn’t allot a public comment period.
- Comment on Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia 3 weeks ago:
Hey, be nice to the big company. This policy of shooting an email doesn’t undermine the profitability their addictive money machine. Won’t you think of the shareholders Mister Curtis?
- Comment on MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process 4 weeks ago:
Only a matter of time before these advanced printers begin printing themselves, then we’ll have to develop a 4D printer to fight them off!
- Comment on Modern parenting means apps for sports, school and more. Where is the data going? 4 weeks ago:
I imagine an image of the Teletubbies vacuum with a label on its nozzle reading ‘apps’, a label on its hose reading ‘advertisers’, and a third label on the tank that reads ‘data brokers’.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 4 weeks ago:
Good idea. I just looked at a drive I bought six months ago and it’s up 40% or so. Wish I’d have got two now.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 4 weeks ago:
In the statement “keep your religion outta my government”, the line between ‘keep your religious beliefs from influencing governmental decision making’ and ‘people belonging to a religion should be restricted from participating in the running of government’ is quite fine, which is why I asked.
I appreciate your answering.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 4 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting only agnostics should govern?
Talarico said in the interview he wants the separation of church and state to return as the current blend diminishes both.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 5 weeks ago:
You’re preaching to the choir here.
The chart is for people that have never tried to sing.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 5 weeks ago:
From the United States perspective, less blood in reserve drives up prices for the population, so it seems to jive with healthcare as a whole there. I know Canada was buying plasma from them as well in the before times, but I’m not sure about that any more.
Several new plasma donation clinics have opened up to collect from people with more common blood types. It’s interesting to hear the UK ships blood in from the west at all. I would have figured there would be closer options available. Unless Brexit also made that more difficult too.
I understand the necessity of shipping blood around, but it sure would be nice if everywhere had enough donors to keep the blood in country. Though I suppose even in such a utopia, gold blood would still be sent around the world when necessary.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 5 weeks ago:
You’ve reminded me some years ago I donated at a pop up clinic, and it was across the street from a carnival that came to town. They went and got a bunch of ride and games tickets and gave them to blood donors. Big sign over at the carnival, and the clinic was packed.
That’s a random way to get people in, but it worked, and it was fun. Now if only they could take the donation while people wait in line for a ride haha.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 5 weeks ago:
Most appointments are to have something done to a person’s own benefit. Chiropractic, dental, accountant, that sort of thing. Making an appointment to donate blood to a person you’ll never meet is a type of selflessness that surprises me when I hear of people missing those appointments.
Someone at the clinic I go to once mentioned they had two or three missed appointments every day. I don’t know, I suppose I take it more seriously than most, but it strikes me as an odd thing to miss. Especially when the service here calls two days before an appointment to confirm.
- Comment on Horses must think we’re mocking them when we use them to carry us around, then put them in trailers that carry them faster than they can run. 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if it was a mechanical horse being controlled by a rabbit under the hat. Hmm.
- Comment on Horses must think we’re mocking them when we use them to carry us around, then put them in trailers that carry them faster than they can run. 5 weeks ago:
Thinking back now, it was collecting carrots and apples from a bunch of donkeys, so you may well be correct.
- Comment on Horses must think we’re mocking them when we use them to carry us around, then put them in trailers that carry them faster than they can run. 5 weeks ago:
I beg to differ. Last year I happened across a horse wearing a top hat. Looked pretty smart to me.
- Comment on A heart-warming story 5 weeks ago:
To further this, the negative and positive value also matters. Someone with a negative type can only take negative blood, whereas a positive type can accept both.
I wish it were easier to get people to donate. Just this morning I heard a radio advertisement for the blood service that included the line ‘please schedule and attend an appointment’, which seems wild that so many people book a time then don’t show up.
- Comment on The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA 5 weeks ago:
Not that I’m against reminding people this happened, but I wish these articles didn’t word headlines implying this vote just occurred yesterday.
- Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 1 month ago:
I didn’t really consider the reason the company gave for the dismissal. Though it occurs to me now that any incident where someone loses their job due to donating food nearing expiry could be plausibly written up as thievery by the company doing the firing.
Which is a nuance that might be worth chatting to a lawyer about.
