TropicalDingdong
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 1 day ago:
You can tune in right now: Nothing, forever.
- Comment on the lifestyle 4 days ago:
Yeah but once you’ve done it once in R you can just dump your data again, update the theme and boom, done again.
Also 30 minutes? maybe 3.
- Comment on Zelensky says 'suicidal' to offer Putin concessions on Ukraine 1 week ago:
Zelensky is going to need to shoot his shot. Might be too late.
- Comment on Mega-Dosing 2 weeks ago:
The universe originated as a vibrational wave from Fred Flintstone playing a dinosaur bone keyboard.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 weeks ago:
tits out for harambe
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
I have two of those cats. I still can’t catch them when its time to go to bed.
- Comment on Sea Creature Party 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. ok. See what kind of biological insight a B- gets you?
- Comment on Sea Creature Party 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure from my B- in zoo that sponges eat from what amounts to our waste hole.
So you are supposed to piss in the punchbowl and drink from the toilette.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 weeks ago:
You don’t owe anything to anyones prudishness.
- Comment on Learning Botany 2 weeks ago:
This is the book you are looking for:
Botany in a day: the patterns method to Plant Identification
- Comment on Learning Botany 2 weeks ago:
ehh go fuck yourself bye…
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium. 2 weeks ago:
“It’s crucial…”
- Comment on Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically? 2 weeks ago:
Think of inflation from monetary policy like lead in the environment. It takes time, but it all eventually ends up in the bones. Real property are those bones. 13 trillion dollars were ‘created’ during covid. Inflation (which i don’t think is necessarily the right word to use, because it implies it can go backwards), takes time to get “into” the price of products, but products that transact faster, inflate faster. Property “inflates” on a relatively long time horizon, but its often very substantial appearing jumps because the transaction cycle is so long (typically 10+ years between transactions).
So maybe you’ve not bought a home, but try not to think about things in the absolute value of their price-tag, but rather in the monthly cost of the money to make the payments on the debt. At 2.5% interest, lots of people can afford a 500k house. At 6% interest far fewer can. If the seller re-financed at less than inflation, its literally more “profitable” to just pay the mortgage than to sell.
I see some others blaming air-bnb’s. There is very little evidence for this. A few papers have found significant correlations, but the effect is so small relative to inflation that we should probably ignore it, and most of these papers are from a pre-inflationary period. Orders of magnitude more impactful is the fact that so many home owners were able to either purchase or re-finance at an extremely low rate in 2020/2021. Blaming Air-bnb’s and ignoring the broader macro-environment in which all property sit is just extraordinarily lazy, reactionary thinking. Air-bnb’s represent a microscopic number of actual rentals, and have been dropping in numbers for years.
- Comment on Want to buy jewlery as a gift for the girlfriend, I know nothing about jewlery, where to start? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve always found earing and necklace sets that they enjoy (they don’t have to be expensive) and are fun to wear are always a hit. Its also a good way to test the water with something relatively cheap (>$50- $100) to identify their style. If possible, I would strongly recommend buying in-person at something like a craft market or farmers market: anything in-person. How something looks online often just does not translate to in-person.
The key here is a set, something they can add in-combination to something they already have.
- Comment on Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation? 3 weeks ago:
Your argument is a false dichotomy.
You should look up what a false dichotomy is. A false dichotomy is typically when someone presents two choices as the only possible options, ignoring other possibilities. My argument doesn’t do that. I’m arguing you have no-idea where Stein voters (or Johnson voters for that matter) would go if not for Stein. Also, you may not have noticed it, but you quite literally engage in false dichotomy in your response.
You are still making the assumption that voters only have two choices. No matter how much you’ve convinced yourself that’s the case; its not reality. Voters don’t have to vote. Voters can vote Republican or however they want. No candidate is owed a vote, however much Democrats want that to be a thing.
The entire rhetorical approach you are engaging in is why Kamala has been slipping in the polls, and its precisely why Hillary lost in 2016. If you want your proffered candidate to win, you actually have to convince people that they are worth voting for. And unlike Kamala, Trump is out there doing that. Stein is out there doing that. Chase Oliver is actually doing that (you don’t know who that is do you?), and guess what? Oliver is beating Stein in most swing states.
The claim that Stein is spoiling when they are polling at literally less than measurable numbers is so obviously idiotic, no one worth respecting would give it anything more than a cursory swipe.
- Comment on Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation? 3 weeks ago:
There is a meme going around blaming Jill Stein for “spoiling” the 2016 race. I was developing an relatively simple analysis to show how and why its ridiculous to propose that Jill Stein “spoiled” the 2016 election. Specifically, in no race did the green party candidate get more votes than the libertarian candidate. A great example is the headline meme that was up about a day ago here: lemmy.world/post/21038666?scrollToComments=true
www.politico.com/2016-election/…/president/
So in Michigan, ~50k voters went to Stein. In that race, 170k went to Gary Johnson.
Pennsylvania, 48,912 to Stein, and for Gary Johnson, 142,653.
Wisconsin, 30,980 to Stein, and for Gary Johnson, 106,442.
So taking these three as an example, in none of these races, if you were to ‘remove’ the 3rd party candidates, would Hillary have won.
Likewise, the meme assumes that “all” of Green Party voters go to Hillary, and some how the Gary Johnson voters just evaporate.
It doesn’t really make sense at any level. Its part of a broader pattern of voter intimidation that seems to be mostly focused on defending a candidate that has been shown to be lacking, not at all different than what we saw in 2016.
- Comment on Not now honey 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Cool People Doing Cool Things 4 weeks ago:
This is her youtube channel. If you haven’t read the paper on this algorithm, I think you can get a good intuitive understanding by watching the two videos she has on there from (what looks like) her thesis, and I think it becomes clear why she was selected.
Specifically, these two videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGvPinTJUs
and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NhQ7WkbHms
So, consider that these two videos are basically the “one-dimensional” solution, or one pin-hole camera example. In the approach that her and her team to image the black hole, they used many, many radio antennas’, all acting in concert in a not-too different version of what she did her for the work on her YT channel.
- Comment on Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims 1 month ago:
They don’t know. and the documentary will be bigfoot level speculation.
- Comment on ps2 graphics 1 month ago:
Just more evidence that Hawaii is forever stuck in the 90s.
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 1 month ago:
I think my neighbor has a horse? I guess I could ask.
- Comment on That hurts a little 1 month ago:
I think something worth noting about older games too is that they didn’t try and deal with many of their limitations head on. In fact many actually took advantage of their limitations to give the feeling of doing more than they actually were. For example, pixel perfect verus crt. Many 8 bit and 16 bit games were designed specifically for televisions and monitors that would create the effect of having more complexity than they were actually capable of. Other things like clever layout designs in games to limit draw distance, or bringing that in as a functional aspect of the game.
The technical limitations seem largely resolved by current technology, where previously things were made to look and feel better than the hardware allowed through clever planning and engineering.
- Comment on New Report: Israel Systematically Attacked Aid Workers 1 month ago:
Its important to keep repeating it, but also, everyone watching saw this happening in real time.
- Comment on Biodegradable wind turbine blades, a promising improvement for lowering waste with wind energy | Just Have a Think 1 month ago:
You are validating bad faith criticisms by engaging with them. You give them substance by addressing them.
- Comment on Biodegradable wind turbine blades, a promising improvement for lowering waste with wind energy | Just Have a Think 1 month ago:
The problem is that it validates the claim to offer a “solution” (it isn’t) to the “problem” (it isn’t). It’s counter productive to validate the claim by offering this retort.
I’d be more than happy with seeing these things repurposed into something useful. If we’re in a position where windmill blades are littering the landscape because we have a preponderance of cheap/ free/ non polluting energy, that’s a good thing.
- Comment on Biodegradable wind turbine blades, a promising improvement for lowering waste with wind energy | Just Have a Think 1 month ago:
improvement is improvement
Yeah I don’t agree with that. It’s a complete distraction and irrelevant, it adds confusion to a ley audience by implying this was something that needed addressing.
We’ve got some real problems; a preponderance of windmill blades sounds like a made up rw talking point: responding to or producing articles like this offers a validation that the counterfactual doesn’t warrant.
It is actually problematic to spend time, effort, and other people’s attention and understanding making weird defensive claims to non issues.
- Comment on Biodegradable wind turbine blades, a promising improvement for lowering waste with wind energy | Just Have a Think 1 month ago:
ahh yes because wm blades are just piling up.
non solution to a non problem.
- Comment on Voting Third Party this year. Don't try to stop me. 1 month ago:
How do I vote for this.
- Comment on Home Depot 1 month ago:
Nope. Its genera.
