TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Feed a crab for a lifetime 4 hours ago:
I was here for poop holding.
I was here for beans.
I was here for stroganoff.
And I’m here for crabs.
- Comment on Do this asap 4 hours ago:
trying to get governments to regulate open source ai out of existence
I’m down as long as all the rest of ai goes with it.
- Comment on Metal bands 1 day ago:
- Comment on Would spiderman hurt a fly? 2 days ago:
I do that but not because of empathy or karma or anything. I just don’t want bug guts smeared across my wall.
- Comment on Would dinosaur meat taste more like frog or chicken? 2 days ago:
So “yes”, then.
- Comment on Have you ever been shown the "clarity"? 5 days ago:
There’s not all that much more to tell, really.
Normally, particularly when it’s really dark, I have a lot of little blotches of a lighter, gray shade that fade and shift constantly across my whole field of vision. Until it abated temporarily, I wouldn’t have thought it possible for it to abate. But when it did, I got to experience a more potent experience of “darkness” than I had before probably ever. But it wasn’t just darkness that was amplified. My vision definitely felt “clearer” of… the ordinary sorts of visual artifacts I see pretty much all of the time.
It was a very calming and pleasant experience for sure. Definitely the sort of thing I wish could be the case all the time.
This has only happened to me once. It came on while I was meditating (so that may not particularly qualify as “spontaneous”, but anyway) and lasted until I fell asleep maybe an hour later. By morning, my vision was “normal” again.
I’m not saying my experience was (or wasn’t) the same as the experience you’ve had. I don’t disbelieve your account, though. And it wouldn’t surprise me if the same sort of experience I had might sometimes be experienced spontaneously by some individuals.
- Comment on Have you ever been shown the "clarity"? 5 days ago:
I’ve had some wild experiences for sure. Total loss of visual snow. Synesthesia. Major time distortions. Stuff like that. (Meditation is a hell of a drug. For realz.) Particularly during a period of time about 9 years ago.
- Comment on FSF announces Librephone project 6 days ago:
Damn. They’re basing it all on LineageOS. I was hoping they’d make it a GNU/Linux phone.
- Comment on My body is a roadmap of pain 1 week ago:
Wait, what’s the one labeled “jackass”? I will pay you an upvote if you tell me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I can’t dare to hope.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 week ago:
AI is where former cryptocurrency companies pivoted when mining cryptocurrency stopped being profitable. There’s nothing left to pivot back to. Even those who have drunk the blockchain Koolaid don’t think there’s money in mining. Just gambling by investing with real money and hoping someone will give you more real money than you bought it with.
- Comment on So whats on the agenda for today? 1 week ago:
I already did the yard work and laundry I planned to do, which is nice. At this point I’m waiting for my dinner to come out of the oven. Once it’s ready, I’ll probably watch some TV.
- Comment on Frog........right..... 1 week ago:
To be fair, there are frogs in all of the following images:
Frogging in crochet is the act of pulling stitches out of a piece, turning it back into yarn
And that’s not anywhere near a comprehensive list. People really like to call things “frogs”.
- Comment on scheming hot banana cookies 1 week ago:
Recipe by ChatGPT.
- Comment on Why do people hate reality? 1 week ago:
Don’t confuse condescension with reality.
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 1 week ago:
Most Christians don’t really care what the Bible says, regardless of how much they like to pretend they do.
- Comment on A 21-23-year-old dating or sleeping with an older person doesn't automatically make the 21-23-year-old a "victim". 2 weeks ago:
Be honest. Is this some fetish of yours?
- Comment on I just lost the game and so did you 2 weeks ago:
I’m still mulling whether this really qualified as a shower thought, but I gave you an upvote.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 weeks ago:
Charles Eisenstin’s book “Sacred Economics” (which you can read here) has a nice, simple parable in chapter 6 about that.
Once upon a time, in a small village in the Outback, people used barter for all their transactions. On every market day, people walked around with chickens, eggs, hams, and breads, and engaged in prolonged negotiations among themselves to exchange what they needed. At key periods of the year, like harvests or whenever someone’s barn needed big repairs after a storm, people recalled the tradition of helping each other out that they had brought from the old country. They knew that if they had a problem someday, others would aid them in return. One market day, a stranger with shiny black shoes and an elegant white hat came by and observed the whole process with a sardonic smile. When he saw one farmer running around to corral the six chickens he wanted to exchange for a big ham, he could not refrain from laughing. “Poor people,” he said, “so primitive.” The farmer’s wife overheard him and challenged the stranger, “Do you think you can do a better job handling chickens?” “Chickens, no,” responded the stranger, “But there is a much better way to eliminate all that hassle.” “Oh yes, how so?” asked the woman. “See that tree there?” the stranger replied. “Well, I will go wait there for one of you to bring me one large cowhide. Then have every family visit me. I’ll explain the better way.” And so it happened. He took the cowhide, and cut perfect leather rounds in it, and put an elaborate and graceful little stamp on each round. Then he gave to each family 10 rounds, and explained that each represented the value of one chicken. “Now you can trade and bargain with the rounds instead of the unwieldy chickens,” he explained. It made sense. Everybody was impressed with the man with the shiny shoes and inspiring hat. “Oh, by the way,” he added after every family had received their 10 rounds, “in a year’s time, I will come back and sit under that same tree. I want you to each bring me back 11 rounds. That 11th round is a token of appreciation for the technological improvement I just made possible in your lives.” “But where will the 11th round come from?” asked the farmer with the six chickens. “You’ll see,” said the man with a reassuring smile. Assuming that the population and its annual production remain exactly the same during that next year, what do you think had to happen? Remember, that 11th round was never created. Therefore, bottom line, one of each 11 families will have to lose all its rounds, even if everybody managed their affairs well, in order to provide the 11th round to 10 others. So when a storm threatened the crop of one of the families, people became less generous with their time to help bring it in before disaster struck. While it was much more convenient to exchange the rounds instead of the chickens on market days, the new game also had the unintended side effect of actively discouraging the spontaneous cooperation that was traditional in the village. Instead, the new money game was generating a systemic undertow of competition among all the participants.
The development of currency results in loans. The practice of loaning starts the practice of charging interest. Interest requires constant growth.
Individual companies have to grow to keep up with the necessary constant growth of the economy as a whole. Any company that doesn’t keep up dies.
- Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 2 weeks ago:
You’re a ginger, Harry.
- Comment on Anal loving girl here 3 weeks ago:
Mark NSFW posts NSFW, please.
- Comment on I asked ChatGPT to summarize Voyager and this is what it made 3 weeks ago:
No way ChatGPT did this without at least a shit-ton of selection or a really huge prompt or something.
- Comment on Should my character be 21-23? 3 weeks ago:
This is the wrong community for this post.
- Comment on We just need to label every port 3 weeks ago:
Definitely a coal roller.
- Comment on Who cares what it looks like? It works. 3 weeks ago:
Who cares what it looks like? It works.
This but unironically.
- Comment on Is my stepper motor failing? 3 weeks ago:
You sure you didn’t get an agitated cicada stuck in there?
Seriously, though. It could be the stepper or even just a cooling fan.
- Comment on how can I train myself not to burst out laughing when I do something really silly? 3 weeks ago:
Make laughter the ridiculous thing you do. Maybe start off with laughing at his intrusive questions as if he’s making a combination joke/rhetorical question. As he keeps pushing, laugh more and more. At first it can be like you’re laughing at a mildly-funny pun. The next time, consider it a funny joke. Maybe the next time, it’s the funniest joke you’ve ever heard. Keep escalating until you’re laughing maniacally every time he pries. Don’t quit when he finally walks away. Follow him and laugh more and more annoyingly. Until he quits prying.
- Comment on Donald Trump and Peter Thiel are using AI to supercharge the surveillance state 3 weeks ago:
Oh boy. Minority Report, but with hallucinations.
- Comment on This is because of a filthy print sheet, right? (more pictures inside) 3 weeks ago:
Measuring the mesh cold is a waste ot time.
You say that, but it’s a hell of a lot better than nothing. I remember the days of not having no Z-probe on my other printer and not being able to use more than (generously) a 3"x3" square of my 8"x8" bed without really bad bed adhesion issues and no amount of manual leveling would help. Even on the aforementioned Ender 3 V2 Neo, I almost never have bed adhesion issues. My estimation of my experience is that leveling a cold bed is about 97.5% as helpful as leveling the bed hot.
- Comment on How could I order a package without my parents finding it? 3 weeks ago:
Came here to mention the business pickup option. That’s a thing in the U.S., at least. No idea about Ireland, but I think when you order something, you can tell Amazon you want to pick it up at a CVS or a Staples or whatever. And then when it’s ready, you just go there in person and pick it up.
