Stoneykins
@Stoneykins@mander.xyz
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
Honestly you aren’t even the worst in this thread but you did kinda open the door to some shit
Not that I don’t think you’re dumb as bricks for your “what does skin color have to do with this” comment. You should know damn well what skin color has to do with this
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
Honestly that last paragraph just doesn’t mesh with everything else you said. What on earth are your beliefs?
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
Maybe there is some hypothetical moral ideal on how people should behave in internet disagreements but I’m just trying to get you to be more realistics lmao
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
It happens to be an instance federated with several idealogy-heavy instances, while itself being a general use instance with simple account creation procedures.
It makes it a popular choice for people who want to make multiple accounts for trolling, as well as people who have unpopular (as far as lemmy goes) ideologies. You can hopefully understand the kind of friction that could create and the reputation is the outcome.
You probably could have figured this out yourself if you just… Looked around. You shouldn’t expect people who are in disagreement with you to explain everything.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
I feel like the incomplete explenation should have been more than you expected in the first place
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
The idea that humans are inherently predisposed to subjugate those different from themselves is a fascist belief that fascists say to justify fascism. So… Not a fan of that line of thought, thanks
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
If this is your main argument then:
…it’s obvious that any human being tends to prefer people who they consider similar to themselves.
Doesn’t your paper you linked imply it isn’t so obvious? I still stand by that it’s not really relevant so I’ll just say that I fully disagree with your argument or the implication that you have somehow proven anything.
I’ll just repeat something I said in another comment:
It is intentionally, intellectually dishonest and obtuse to pretend that condemnation of systemic problems resulting from unfair biases for/from certain demographics is as bad as the systemic problems in question.
You just pretend you are unaware of massive swaths of history in order to act offended that anyone would make generic statements about a infamously problematic demographic. And you falsely equate any attempt to talk generically about the problematic behaviour to the same issue, as a transparent tactic to suppress discussion of the problematic behaviour entirely.
I’m sure you will have some bullshit response that will annoy me again but I’m gunna try to let it go because I find talking to you unpleasant.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
It is intentionally, intellectually dishonest and obtuse to pretend that condemnation of systemic problems resulting from unfair biases for/from certain demographics is just as bad as the systemic problems in question.
- Comment on degree in bamf 7 months ago:
Your barely-in-context paper is not support for your main argument :
However, this arguably applies less to white men than any other demographic, because such behavior is so consistently condemned and shamed when exhibited by white men.
Do you have any citations that actually support your claim? Because it sound like vibes “please don’t say mean things about my group” bullshit.
- Comment on aral sea 8 months ago:
Ew you got some politicalcompassmemes on your post.
Otherwise good tho
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Solution is simple, community should turn any suspiciously product focused thread into an advertisers nightmare of filth
Then the ads will just be the ones with the comment sections turned off
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Yes take this down
Do not post their content, reuse it to make memes, or talk about them any more than is necessary to make clear how they are not to be platformed. They thrive on negative attention and should simply be ignored.
- Comment on EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores 10 months ago:
Apple is interested in maintaining full control of what apps can be on their platform and how they are presented because it gives them power over negotiations with companies that build the apps. They are basically able to “name their price” and make sure they are always getting as big of a cut as they would like.
The EU is interested in not letting them do that because that kind of “negotiating” behavior is pretty well understood to be anti-consumer. Increased costs for app developers are usually passed directly onto the consumer through the prices. And it tends to get worse over time.
No company anywhere wants to use webapps anymore. Apps installed on devices are free advertising and access to user data. It is frustrating but the way it is, on all devices, already. So basically the answer is the same as why can’t most apps that already exist on all devices anyways just be web apps.
I don’t think sideloaded would be quite the right word, this is about access to other app stores (like the google play store or amazon app store, or more niche ones) that would then formally and automatically install and maintain apps exactly the same way the apple app store already does, presumably just with a different library of apps to choose from.
Apps from another app store would need no access to any API by apple unless they were specifically interacting with apple services, AFAIK. Which, would be under the full control of apple and apple chooses who uses it, how, and how much they use it, but that is already the case regardless.
I tried to answer your confusions as best as I can do with what I know already. As for why people take this so personally, I would say it is a complex topic combining businesses that are constantly trying to drive each other out of business with the social effects of making the tool people use to communicate a status symbol. And it has been brewing for long enough that people are getting extreme opinions and fostering long term grudges based on personal experience, to the point that some people have some real hatred towards anyone who has a different phone OS than them.
- Comment on EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores 10 months ago:
I won’t call you names but this literally doesn’t make any sense to me. In no way would the apple app store be affected, your walled garden is safe. To extend the metaphor, this is like giving you the option to take walks in other gardens, but your walled garden is still where you left it, gate locked.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 10 months ago:
“This is a systemic problem. Children should have their needs met without the need for work, and this child working is an obvious symptom of the problem at hand.”
“Have you ever considered that I, an individual, worked at a mcdonalds at the age of 15? I used the money to buy a video game. Therefore your argument is invalid.”
This comment section is fuckin weird.
- Comment on Microsoft, OpenAI sued for copyright infringement by nonfiction book authors in class action claim 10 months ago:
I’m not here to argue the finer points, and in general I simply try to aim for the practical actions that lead to better circumstances. I agree with many of your points.
This lawsuit won’t fix anything but it will slow down the progress of OpenAI and their ability to loot culture and content for all it’s value. I see it as a foot in the door for less economically capable artists and such.
Lawsuits are not isolated incidents. The outcome of this will have far reaching impacts on the future of how people’s work is treated in regards to AI and training data.
- Comment on Researchers publish open-source repository using NLP to analyse the bias in BBC reporting on Palestine. 10 months ago:
Noooooooooo. No.
Everyone and every organization has a bias. Even a “neutral” bias is a bias. Finding out which way their bias leans is good info to figure out.
- Comment on Microsoft, OpenAI sued for copyright infringement by nonfiction book authors in class action claim 10 months ago:
For someone who claimed to not be a fan of OpenAI, you sure do know all the fan arguments against regulation for AI.
- Comment on What happens if flat Earthers go to space? 11 months ago:
I think it would depend on the individual. Some would admit it, once they see the whole globe through that glass it would be like trying to say apples don’t exist in response to someone handing you an apple. Their senses would override the belief. They might not wanna admit it…
Then there would be the people that are fanatics about it… They would probably get hysterical, or check out mentally, or get violent, or some other sort of emotional break. I would also guess these people would be unwilling to go into space in the first place.
- Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 1 year ago:
Apparently most people from this assumed I was anti-nuclear, when actually I am just very pro-renewables. I don’t really have a problem with nuclear, not unless it is used improperly or inefficiently. I just recently had seen many arguments on lemmy where a lot of people seemed to be against using renewables in favor of nuclear.
- Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 1 year ago:
I just needed a phrase to refer to the group of people that really, really liked nuclear power, and only wanted nuclear power to be the solution to fossil fuels, and were pretty rude to anyone who disagreed with them about this. “Nuclear Stan” seemed accurate to that, and I didn’t mean it as an insult, just a description of their position on the issue.
So why does it bother you? I’m not trying to be rude.
- Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 1 year ago:
Ah, the specifc numbers, 80%/20%, or 90%/10%, I’m not sure we exactly agree on, but hypothetical future specifics like that aren’t productive to argue about, I’m sure it will be solved by practicality at the time it becomes relevant.
But also important, and I should have said something about it before, battery and other power storage method technology is also getting cheaper and more effective, faster and faster. 2023 battery tech is better than 2022 battery tech and 2024 battery tech will be better yet, all by noticeable margins. It doesn’t really concern me, they get better faster than we can build them. And we are getting more efficient at recycling the rare materials too, we aren’t far from it being cheaper to recycle a battery than mine new rare materials.
- Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 1 year ago:
Hi! Your information is outdated and we very much have the technology necessary to meet energy demand with renewables.
- Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 1 year ago:
I agree with this. I like nuclear, I think it’s neat, but I think it will be a minor player in solving climate change and meeting energy demands (unless there is some miracle breakthrough in fusion). It is perfect for specific locations/contexts.
I’m just bothered by:
People who think nuclear everywhere is the only possible solution to getting off foasil fuels, and have unrealistic expectations about its ease of building and price
and
People who trash talk solar and wind while being wholly uninformed about how effective and cheap those things are, and how fast they are getting cheaper and more effective.
For some reason, these people are often the same people.
- Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 1 year ago:
“stan” is a common word for excessive fanatic. It isn’t always purely an insult. I also was specifically referring to people that were pretty rude in their behavior before. Feel free to assume I’m not talking about you, I’m not saying there is anything wrong with people who like nuclear.
Think of me as a solar stan if it makes things simpler
- Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 1 year ago:
Yes my political opponents are the people I disagree with. I don’t see your point here.
Fixing our energy demands so they stop fucking the planet doesn’t require us to hold hands and sing together, we just have to invest in the proper energy infrastructure. Arguing about what energy infrastructure is proper is a good way to make sure we are looking at all sides of this.
- Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 1 year ago:
I remember so many nuclear stans on lemmy a bit ago refusing to acknowledge that renewables are getting so good and cheap that they are more important to solving climate change than nuclear. I wonder how they feel seeing investors pull out in favor of renewables?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Probably just the instances you browse from tbh
- Comment on Michigan's 100% clean energy bill heads to governor's desk 1 year ago:
I really think we need to get there closer to 2030, maybe 2035, but seriously it is nice to see any plan that doesn’t think 2050 is fine
- Comment on Scientists are hoping to redefine the second – here's why 1 year ago:
Detect smaller gravity waves, possibly, hopefully.