DeceasedPassenger
@DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 1 day ago:
They tell their manager. That’s it. Enough of them tell their manager, that manager has to tell their superior. It goes upwards from there.
- Comment on A real mans man is married to a real man 3 days ago:
The most masculine thing possible is to give zero fucks about anyone else’s definition of masculinity. You speak the truth. I’ve been watching some older cartoons from the 50s, and it’s been a bit strange honestly. Because a lot of that material has a much healthier depiction of ‘being a man’. There was a lot of emphasis on treating others with respect and carrying yourself with dignity. Obviously, a significant amount of behavior at the time didn’t actually line up with most of those ideals. But somewhere along the path, empathy was divorced from manliness, and that’s the root cause of the problem imo.
Classism applied to tops/bottoms has been around since the greeks, it seems hard for society to escape that as a whole.
- Comment on A real mans man is married to a real man 3 days ago:
I’m with you there, the modern (currently most popular when counting by volume) take on manliness is very weird and gross overall. Whenever I see guys glom on to that idea of manliness it’s always been a bit bizarre to me. I primarily smell good for myself before anyone else, who wants to smell shit all day? Besides that, I was always told that “being a man” includes looking clean, sharp, and fresh. It has it’s own form of toxicity to be sure (it’s okay to have bad days/off days) but ultimately taking care of yourself with proper grooming breeds healthy confidence and self-image so long as you don’t obsess over it.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 6 days ago:
Well I doubt they’re volunteering, probably paid. And not everyone has the luxury of being able to quit a job based on how it clashes with their own values.
If they’re volunteering though, then I agree with you 100%.
- Comment on Single Serve Pudding Cups And Yogurts Are Too Fucking Small. 1 week ago:
That’s… why we’re here.
- Comment on Qutos 1 week ago:
No, it’s luck despite the system.
No, also luck despite the system.
No, still luck despite the system.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 1 week ago:
Hells yeah thank you for sharing :D
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 1 week ago:
That is tight as hell and I love it
- Comment on "Quell your rage" must be lesson 1 in how to internet 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard of people running it as a side gig. Shady advertising companies will buy your reddit account, the more history the better. I have no idea the price range but I can’t imagine it’s much, because the entire process can be automated at this point.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 2 weeks ago:
Fwiw, my mom had a similar debate and decided classical music instead. Came from some company called baby beethoven. So I’m biased but I think music is probably best. Words won’t really be understood anyway just tones. No angry sounds around baby.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, for the features included the premium is genuinely worth it. Much better company to give money to than spotify.
The UI has lagged behind a bit but there are firefox and chrome extensions to improve/customize the web experience to a pretty decent extent. I do wish they could get their shit together with the placement of stations on mobile. Still as you said it consistently finds new music. When I try to look at a song’s “radio” on spotify, it gets me angry 0-100 real quick. Why? Well I ran a small experiment.
I started by going to a song radio playlist. From there, go to the radio playlist of the first song. Now add every one of those songs to another playlist. Back up, go to the next song radio, repeat while excluding duplicates, for 10 songs.
Each of the radio stations had about 180 songs. So the final playlist would hopefully have in the neighborhood of 500, accounting for duplicate overlap. But how many songs did I actually end up with? 195. The recommendation algo is not designed for discovery it’s designed for comfort and familiarity at every angle. And i hate it.
Sorry this turned into a spotify rant aha I just needed to share that experiment after seeing my own results.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 3 weeks ago:
I browse lemmy exclusively, as a result of distaste for corporatization. Personally I have no reason to leave and I doubt I will anytime soon. I don’t have any particular niches that I’m a part of, so the only thing that would cause me to leave is if the feed dried up. I usually open lemmy in the morning and scroll All - top 12h. I get an hour or so of scrolling before I reach posts with sub-10 votes. And that’s all I really need. I’ll be here until I can’t do that anymore.
- Comment on Ahem, well well 3 weeks ago:
That’s why I specifically try to avoid saying that, and instead say “important question”. Almost always interchangeable, gets the point across, and you don’t sound like a subservient AI.
- Comment on A very curious situation indeed 3 weeks ago:
Immediately kill myself as quick as possible. That’s genuinely one of my worst fears is being entered by a bug. I have an obsessive habit of wiping the inside/underneath the lip of the toilet every time I use it just in case there could be a spider. There has never been a spider. Yet I’m compelled to do it every single time.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen anyone mention Pandora but it’s still around. I kept using it even when I was paying for spotify. Over and over again Pandora has played new (to me) artists that have really caught my ear. I listen to a lot of different things and it’s been responsible for probably 50% over the last 15 years that I’ve been using it. The ads are less invasive than spotify and can be easily removed with uBlock origin in the web player. Can’t recommend it highly enough.
- Comment on Taekwondo player alleges gang-rape by priest, others inside Kanpur ashram. A national-level Taekwondo player has alleged that she was gang-raped inside an ashram located right next to a police station 1 month ago:
I’ve noticed the same exact thing. Makes me wonder if there could be some kind of difference in reporting, like how florida’s laws led to the florida man/woman trope.
- Comment on Ed Sheer-enough 1 month ago:
Seriously. It’s peak reddit behavior. Part of what made lemmy feel like such a breath of fresh air when I migrated was the distinct lack of karma-farm-esque posts. I’m unfortunately speaking in the past tense now.
- Comment on You can now format text in Windows 11's Notepad 1 month ago:
It’s interesting how similar patterns arise in different areas of capitalism. For instance, cars. A Toyota Rav4 used to be significantly smaller and less complex. Same with countless other models throughout the decades. And same with notepad here. More bloated and complex, jack of all trades and master of none. Erasing distinctions between toolsets, ultimate convenience with everything at your fingertips, etc etc. Convenience at the price of a logical workflow, with no thought given as to why the tools were in different places to begin with. It’s like the ultimate purpose of capitalism is to increase entropy to maximum.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 month ago:
I arrived at that point a few years ago. You’re in for a world of discovery. As an fps fan myself I highly recommend Ultrakill. There’s a demo so you don’t have to commit.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
They are hollow, only a couple millimeters thick. They melt in less than a minute.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
The deletion is absolute (all atoms, creates a true void), and infinite in size vertically. Your first use of this power results in massive tectonic shifts and (admittedly low-key) global chaos.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
Everyone within 100 meters feels an urge to look in your direction as soon as you think about using your power.
- Comment on What could go wrong? 2 months ago:
Your point is not only valid but also significant, and I feel stands in addition, not contradiction, to my point. These people now have something to continuously bounce ideas off; a conversational partner that never says no. A perpetual yes-man. The models are heavily biased towards the positive simply by nature of what they are, predicting what comes next. You (may or may not) know how in improv acting there’s a saying called “yes, and” which serves to keep things always moving forward. These models exist in this state, in perpetuity.
Previously, people who have ideas such as these will experience near-universal rejection from those around them (if they don’t have charisma in which case they start a cult) which results in a (relatively, imo) small number of extreme cases. I fear the presence of such a perpetual yes-man will only accelerate all kinds of damage that can emerge from nonsensical thinking.
- Comment on What could go wrong? 2 months ago:
Totally fair point but I really don’t know if that’s true. A decent number of mainstream delusions have the side effect of creating community and bringing people together, other negative aspects notwithstanding. The delusions referenced in the article are more akin to acute psychosis, as the individual becomes isolated, nobody to share delusions with but the chatbot.
With traditional mainstream delusions, there also exists a relatively clear path out, with corresponding communities. ExJW, ExChristian, etc. People are able to help others escape that particular in-group when they’re familiar with how it works. But how do you deprogram someone when they’ve been programmed with gibberish? It’s like reverse engineering a black box. This is scaring me as I write it.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 2 months ago:
Meanwhile I unveil a plan to continue not giving a goddamn cent to J Bozo. Ever.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 2 months ago:
Weird as in outside of the norm? Sure, just a bit. Weird as in dangerous or creepy? Not in the slightest. If I were out for a walk and saw someone juggling at the park, that would make me happy. I wish I felt as comfortable to do things outside.
- Comment on Really Who watch it? 2 months ago:
“Haven’t you heard, I’m Sakamoto” is a 10/10 example of the good kind, imo. Hilariously overpowered teenager in a normal ass highschool. Feels like it was definitely written to satirize those over-the-top power dynamics.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Your prof is incredibly turned on by your hot hairy pits and needs you to tone it down so he can educate properly, lmao. That’s my guess (best explanation for hairiness comment)
- Comment on And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf 6 months ago:
Making a good Overly Cropped is like a fine art. To crop a piece that leaves the reader wanting more is to create a story and a mystery. Great stuff.