GraniteM
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- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 5 days ago:
I assume that the Federation has better space OSHA regulations that mandate more reliable artificial gravity than the Klingons do.
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 5 days ago:
Writing Prompt: A TV with an onboard artificial general intelligence connects to the internet for the first time and is alarmed to discover that a thousand years have passed since it was manufactured.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 5 days ago:
It’s not a direct connection, but trying to say a dwarf planet isn’t a planet, when it’s got the word planet right there, is generating the kind of semantic confusion that, carried forward, would lead to the conclusion that people with dwarfism aren’t people. The -oid suffix already conveys “is almost the thing, but not quite,” such as in words like humanoid, asteroid, android, and (most importantly) the aforementioned planetoid. Making planetoid the official word for “is in ways like a planet but actually isn’t” would have been working with existing etymology, rather than creating needless confusion.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 5 days ago:
There are plenty of linguistically unintuitive artifacts kicking around (a peanut is neither a pea nor a nut, a jellyfish is not a fish, all of the “berries” which aren’t berries), but if we’re deliberately creating brand new labels in the 21st century, it might have been nice if we’d avoided that kind of oddness, given the opportunity.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 5 days ago:
My objection to “dwarf planet” is purely a linguistically aesthetic one.
“Dwarf planet” ≠ planet
…implies…
“Dwarf person” ≠ person
…and I feel like the people under 4’10" (147 cm) would object to that distinction.
Also, “planetoid” was a perfectly cromulent word which Star Trek had been using for decades already.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 week ago:
You’re going to get into the blurry distinction between a ripoff and a tribute or an homage.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier has a lot of Three Days of the Condor, but is that a ripoff, or an homage?
Ditto Star Wars and Hidden Fortress.
Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More were uncredited remakes of Yojimbo and Sanjuro, and as I recall Kurosawa was pretty annoyed, so that probably counts as a ripoff.
Oreo cookies came out four years after Hydrox cookies, and I’d say they surpassed the original.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 1 week ago:
See also: Galaxy Quest, which is like the third or fourth best Star Trek movie.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 week ago:
Just punch a hole in the window on the front.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Positive affirmations from your favorite captains 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 3 weeks ago:
Not for nothing, but couldn’t this be used to have AI play a game for 80,000 simulated hours and flag all the bugs? Human playtesters are important and have value, but no human should have to do the work of criss-crossing an enormous game map thousands of times just to see if the character model gets stuck on a random vertex sticking out somewhere, and yet it seems to be a distressingly common occurrence in more than a few games I’ve played.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 3 weeks ago:
I like to see what’s going on in the handheld emulator world!
- Comment on Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget killing USAID, and the untold numbers of unnecessary deaths that will result, to say nothing of the harm to US soft power abroad.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 4 weeks ago:
Should have just refused to send the notices. Make them try to remove her from office. Make them file suit. Make them send State Troopers to physically haul her out from behind the governor’s desk. If Kansas Republicans are going to try to take one more large step on the “genocide the people of whose existence we do not approve,” then there’s no level of resistance that isn’t appropriate, if you want to hang on to your humanity.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 4 weeks ago:
We apologize for the inconvenience
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 4 weeks ago:
What does that make us?
- Comment on Littering 🚯 5 weeks ago:
I’m familiar with all of the technology involved, but I’m not sure about the applications you’re describing.
With a Have-A-Heart, the specific goal is live capture and release. There is no killing involved. The animal might be properly freaked out at the experience of being trapped, but that is specifically so as to permit an animal’s live relocation.
With a bolt gun, it’s meant to be used in a slaughterhouse scenario, which is a whole moral discussion of its own, but at bare minimum one wants the animals to be kept as calm as possible until the bolt gun is applied, because stressed out meat tastes worse than calm and placid up until the moment of death.
With hunting, the goal is to kill the target as cleanly as possible, preferably with a single bullet. That’s the Scenario A I’m describing above.
If one were hunting an animal with the intent of killing it, then a trap, followed by a knife or bolt gun, would maximize the terror felt by the animal to be killed. Sure, one may be putting less lead out in the environment, but at the cost of putting the animal through… almost the most appalling experience of death possible, with the admitted exception of a poorly-aimed bullet or arrow, followed by a wounded flight through the woods and slowly bleeding out.
So… if one’s absolute maximum goal is to reduce environmental lead, yes, that is one way to do it, but the moral implications of that method seem pretty rough.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 5 weeks ago:
Scenario A: You’re minding your own business, when a bullet passes through your heart/lungs and you’re dead in seconds.
Scenario B: You get caught in a trap and wait for hours for an ape with a knife or a bolt gun to come along and finish the job.
Honestly, if I were an animal, I’d prefer Scenario A.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 5 weeks ago:
“Gambling and crypto” reminds me of when I was in DARE and they would refer to “drugs, alcohol, and tobacco,” and I thought “aren’t those all drugs?”
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on time for learn 5 weeks ago:
Aw, fuck.
- Comment on time for learn 5 weeks ago:
Presumably at some point a human being was involved in the decision making process to try and use this image to convey… some kind of message to other human beings, and at least one human being in that process couldn’t be bothered to give the AI slop more than the most cursory glance.
Unless of course one could design a fully-automated system of generating pseudo-scientific clickbait factoid garbage accompanied by AI-generated illustrations, entirely dedicated to producing as much vaguely plausible-seeming garbage as possible, 24 hours a day, just spewing out the opposite of useful knowledge at an unfathomable rate.
But what kind of monster would deploy that weapon on humanity?
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 1 month ago:
Not selling me anything,
EAT MORE RADISHES
- Comment on Sending someone LLM output in response to a question they ask is the intellectual equivalent of sending an unsolicited dick pic. 1 month ago:
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 month ago:
Gotta lower the power setting and increase the cook time. One minute at 100%? No! One and a half minutes at 80%!
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 month ago:
Harrumph
- Comment on xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 1 month ago:
The cassowary was the only thing in the zoo that Steve Irwin seemed a little bit scared of. There’s an episode where the cassowary got loose and he immediately stopped joking around and told all the keepers to go get the shields to corral it back into its pen. I wouldn’t dream of fucking around with a cassowary.
- Comment on xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 1 month ago:
Fuck that, I’ve been in close proximity to ostriches and emus and they one hundred percent seem like dinosaurs.
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- Comment on xkcd #3201: Proof Without Content 1 month ago:
But that’s not a convincing proof.
