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- Comment on Is there a word for when a bad person who got exposed for things deliberately finds "questionable" things about the person who exposed him? 2 days ago:
That would be a slightly different scenario. Here we have the accuser and the accused. Then the accused discredits the accuser by bringing in unrelated facts. As another commenter said, it’s an ad hominem attack. Whataboutism would be, in this context, answering “but Trump/Clinton/Julius Cesar did it too” implying (so it’s not that bad, they are worse than me)
- Comment on Okay Polkira, I finally put them in their vases so here you go 2 days ago:
Cute little fancy boy! 🥂
- Comment on in sickness and in health 2 days ago:
If we are talking about post-industrial revolution times, the air of cities was incredibly polluted, so getting out to the sea with its strong winds would definitely provide solace. I wouldn’t know about houses, hopefully someone can come to enlighten us
- Comment on I'm literally just a sugar mommy to my cat 2 days ago:
She is so pretty and she knows it! <3
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Just to give a different perspective (while still agreeing with the other commenter): marriage can mean something different to each couple. Could the two of you consider an open marriage? A convenience marriage? A marriage where, practically, you sleep in different rooms? It could (maybe!) allow you to get the parents of your back, and could (maybe!) allow you to both be present for your kid. But rules need to be clear for both of you. How would it look like if one of you wanted to date outside the marriage?
Keep into account the society you live in as well.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 3 days ago:
Do you have problems with the tips getting dry and looking unkept?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I hate separate WC, but i must admit of its practical solution to the poop spray problem
- Comment on Anime with a high death count that's actually good? 1 week ago:
Made in Abyss is one of a kind, honestly had to take a break half way through the manga. Great, but… difficult (very connected to the high body count)
- Comment on Anime with a high death count that's actually good? 1 week ago:
Support for Attack on Titan! (I don’t know the others)
- Comment on Naked Hiking Day!!! 2 weeks ago:
People don’t notice them? I usually don’t see them and my brain immediately starts telling me ~something is weird~ on my arms.
Always takes me way too long to figure it out because the first thoughts are always incredibly rational “what if i got bitten by a giant snake i didn’t notice?” And “where is the crawling bug?” Only then “oh, yeah, the thin spider web…”
- Comment on Your Inner Fish 2 weeks ago:
I struggle to get behind a video that spend the first 10 minutes saying “you would never believe how game changing….” Sorry, I am out (and I had bookmarked it)
- Comment on Are you fucking kidding me?? 2 weeks ago:
Two sensation of torment seems too much commitment. I stopped after one volume of the manga… does it really get better? Or just more of the same “I am super smart and remember all of physics exactly perfectly as a high schooler”?
- Comment on Pan-African protestors gather in Ghana to demand cancellation of Africa's debt 2 weeks ago:
I know too little to know if it’s sarcasm or a historical reference, can you help me?
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #8 - Summer 2025 (Anime Corner) 2 weeks ago:
Can somebody give me an elevator pitch for The Summer Hikaru died? It seems interesting but I’m still on the fence.
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing, interesting video!
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
That’s even different because what you are describing is brainrot as a social activity, strengthening the bonds with your friends through shared experience
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
Quantity is an important factor. A half hour a day of brainrot isn’t a big problem, constant brainrot during all your free time is going to impact your concentration abilities, your mental image of the world, your ability to build meaningful logical connections and so many other mental development elements.
- Comment on Given gelatin's source, it makes more sense as a savory dish than a dessert 2 weeks ago:
In Italy, I would arguably state that most users of gelatin are in savory dishes, mostly similar to the aspic main picture. Only exception I know is panna cotta that needs gelatin to set. Sweet Jell-O for me is a US symbol.
- Comment on redwoods 3 weeks ago:
Nature is amazing, thanks for the photo
- Comment on Doxxed 3 weeks ago:
What changed a lot is occupancy. It used to be that homes were multi-generational and families were larger. I don’t know in this context, but in Europe until recently, it was common for grandparents-parents-kids to live all together, with sibling of the parents often included and potentially their families too. An apartment occupancy rate around 5-7 was common, while single family homes where unheard of until last century. This strengthened social ties, smoothly provided care for who needed it, and made the family more economically resilient.
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 3 weeks ago:
That’s a pretty big one! (Isn’t it?)
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 3 weeks ago:
I teach, nothing is evident to anyone 😭
- Comment on Make it make sense 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes, you achieve good traffic flow by making a city so absurdly difficult to drive in that people give up, park in the outskirts, and take public transport.
Example: Amsterdam. In the city, there is almost no traffic, achieved through insanely twisty road signals, stupid expensive parking spots and no gas stations. And still, almost no traffic doesn’t mean no traffic… I can’t understand people still clinging to a car in such conditions.
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 3 weeks ago:
If you want, any work that does not encompass the whole world is applying a filter and therefore a bias of some sort. We don’t expect a photo to X-ray the roots of a tree, because we understand the physical constraints of photography. Sure, something could be just out of frame, something else could have been photoshopped out, you can create a different story by selecting different photos and so on. But we understand the “what” a photo represents. I doubt we have the dang understanding of “what” an LLM represents, what are the constraints of the possible answers, and we definitely don’t understand why a specific answer is chosen over the infinite other possibilities.
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 3 weeks ago:
Depends. For an expert, that is self evident (even if it might not be clear which biases have been incorporated). But that is not how it has been marketed. Chatgpt and similar are perceived as answering “the truth” at all times, and that skews the user’s understanding of the answers. Researching how deeply the answers are affected by the coders’ bias is the focus of their research and a worthwhile undertaking to avoid overlooking something important
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 3 weeks ago:
AI is getting a much more widespread use than people with a technical background. So its application, namely in education but in all other non-CS disciplines will be through people with limited understanding of the biases. It is importing them to make them explicit, to underline that an LLM will produce the same biases it deduced from testing data and its loss function. But lots functions and test data are not public knowledge, studies need to be performed to understand how the coders’ own biases influenced the LLM scheme itself.
A photo has less bias because we know what it is representing: a photo only shows what can be seen. But the same understanding is not clear AI. Why showing a photo-realistic tree versus a biological diagram? Choices have been made, of which a broader audience needs to be aware of.
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 3 weeks ago:
Did you read the rest of the article? The tree drawing was just the triggering element to an evaluation of the AI capabilities, in particular underlining how “tree” (bit also “human”, “success”, “importance”) are being strongly restricted in their meaning by the AI itself, without the user noticing it. Thus, a user receives an answer that has already undergone a filtering of sorts. Not being aware of this risks limiting our understanding of AI and increasing its damage.
Theoretical research in AI is both necessary and hard at the moment, with funding being giving more to new results over the understanding of the properties of old ones.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 3 weeks ago:
Quite some businesses in my area do that. I was quite surprised the first time I saw it, but it makes sense. They usually have distance bands and some extra cost if you are further than a 15-20 minute drive.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
At some point, I got quite some worried/pitiful look because i didn’t own a car but only a (non-motorized) bike. People are weird!
In the other hand, I got along with people wanting to make our own “bike gang”, aka commuting to work together.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
I’m so are you went through that. I remember how surprised my then-boyfriend was when he had a bad day and I helped him out, listened to him, and did not hold it against him. He was utterly shocked, while at the same time he had been helping me deal with much heavier shit that was impacting my daily life…
This ideal that men are 100% tough sucks so much.