starelfsc2
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- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 7 hours ago:
Theres something called “morally lucky” where they didn’t really think things through that much but just ended up in the “more correct” group anyway. Some more common examples than what you gave would be things like “omg Ben Shapiro is so short what a gnome,” or “trump has a tiny dick lol!!” while saying body shaming is not okay and isn’t ever acceptable.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 7 hours ago:
I think it just attracts the terminally onlines, I think most people on the fediverse are pretty cool and willing to argue stuff reasonably, but the insane people are so loud that’s what you’ll see very often.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 5 days ago:
Well in that case would you also be against affirmative action? I would also say that’s racist, but I also want the perspectives of other ethnicities, who likely grew up differently, when decisions are made. I think discrimination is sometimes just a necessary evil.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 5 days ago:
In this case the effect is so serious that you don’t really have a good option. It would be like if specifically Asian people were joining Uber trying to sexually assault men, I would probably do something to allow men to avoid Asians. It’s absolutely racist but at least I’m massively reducing the sexual assaults. The reason this doesn’t apply to race as much is almost every time something was blamed on race it was just a lie or completely misrepresented.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 5 days ago:
I think it’s just not having people in your life telling you how bad it is. I have a friend who changed her name on Facebook to avoid stalkers, something I wouldn’t have even thought of at all. It still feels bad when I feel like she (subconsciously) feels scared being around me though, I don’t want to make people afraid by just existing.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 1 week ago:
It’s like any addiction really, easy to slip into even if everything is fine, and when 1 thing goes wrong you turn to it. It literally makes you feel better in the short term and your brain tells you to do it.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 1 week ago:
Companies also try to make foods as addictive as possible and as flashy as possible. It’s like avoiding the constant casino ads as a gambling addict, but like if you had to keep stepping into a casino every week forever and only doing low bets.
- Comment on Good content 2 weeks ago:
Me reading a reply thinking “wow this guy really nailed it” before realizing it was my reply
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 3 weeks ago:
California I believe has the statistically worst drivers. New York id say has the most insane but skillful enough to somehow not die drivers.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 weeks ago:
It was some random place in ny, I believe it’s nutritional yeast with some breading, it has a really nice texture if you use it right.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 weeks ago:
I’m really not sure, I think it was like nutritional yeast with a little bit of breading
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 weeks ago:
Video of me after I found an actually good vegan wing place
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 5 weeks ago:
Lol this is great
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 1 month ago:
This is literally called nostupidquestions and people are saying it’s a stupid question…??? some people just didn’t experience the same things. xkcd.com/1053/
A big reason is different texture, with the semisphere shape the middle can be fluffy while the outside is crunchy, for baguettes it’s basically a sandwich that the whole thing fits in your mouth in one orientation, so it’s a different way to eat it.
- Comment on Tankie 2 months ago:
So I did some more research, and evidently if you’re going to use AI at all, you’re probably increasing your energy usage by using it offline if you use it often (unless you are using renewables), since the data centers generally have cards specifically designed for AI. I think it might just be a case of everyone needs to use it significantly less, it’s like if 4k gaming was something the average joe was doing. If everyone was doing that 10 hours a day, we would have a big problem.
It’s kinda like saying it’s not immoral to go for a pleasure drive, but if you’re driving around 10 hours a day that’s probably not good and you should minimize it as much as you can.
- Comment on Tankie 2 months ago:
90% of people do not use offline models, especially for everyone doing ai code and video. The offline models are undeniably worse and slower. These ai companies didn’t just magic billions out of thin air, most people are using the massive data farms. Also people are generally not playing 14 hours a day maxed out gaming, where for ai they might use it all day during work.
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 2 months ago:
People will agree amazon is evil and needs to have less power but say it’s too convenient and cheap. They’ll say apple is too powerful while buying every new iPhone. I watch people who say I’m privileged spend more money than I do on everything from food to entertainment. Most people really don’t care about enacting their principles, if it means giving up anything or spending 2 minutes of effort. Is what it is I guess.
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 2 months ago:
idk with the old shorts this was more true, but now if it’s like a quick tips thing or just a preview of a longer video, so long as you’re not scrolling shorts and only engage with the more informative ones scarcely, they seem to have a place. Youtube pushes them to be infinitely scrolled clickbait garbage though so that’s probably the experience for 95% of people.
- Comment on The build-up of circling what you wanted in the little paper catalogs. Hnnng. 2 months ago:
That they managed to create an actual real feeling of excitement around books and followed through with exciting fun books is actually really impressive.
- Comment on Drama 3 months ago:
The article is really confusing, it says they posted you win we resign but also that the head mod kicked everyone. Maybe the first part was the mods bring facetious?
- Comment on Drama 3 months ago:
c/196 had a mod who did something like defederate from an instance without asking the users (I’ll see if I can find it) and everyone said adios
- Comment on Drama 3 months ago:
A lot resigned because people were mad over the ban. The analogy would be more like a politician resigns after everyone complains about their policy.
- Comment on Drama 3 months ago:
Crazy how a mod tried this on lemmy and everyone just went to a new instance.
- Comment on Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes 3 months ago:
I actually had to realize this because I kept making “good enough” solutions that I told myself I would change later and then never did, until I got so frustrated that it made me stop working on it. Good enough is a big problem if it’s good enough that you never really need to change it.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 4 months ago:
ah yeah I figured it wasn’t quite right, I just remember seeing the codec on the details and figured it was tied to it, thanks.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 4 months ago:
On codecs and bitrate? It’s basically codec = file type (.avi, .mp4) and bitrate is how much data is sent per second for the video. Videos only track what changed between frames, so a video of a still image can be 4k with a really low bitrate, but if things are moving it’ll get really blurry with a low bitrate even in 4k.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 4 months ago:
This is something I’ve been thinking about recently, I’ll see something that is way too complex for me, and think “well this person is just smarter I could never do that.” After 3 months of doing simpler stuff, it now seems challenging but doable. Just doing something for long enough, even pretty complex things become second nature.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 months ago:
I hate to break this to you but many people who watch female streamers are not there for the games, and many streamers encourage this parasocial behavior (I don’t think emiru really does, but I don’t really watch twitch anymore). Even for male streamers I’ll see people treating donators like they’re friends and being really encouraging (only when they donate a message though). If you are one of the people who just pops in and out and watches streamers who don’t do this, then you and that streamer are not who he is talking about.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 4 months ago:
Idk some of the worst comments I have ever seen are from .world users, maybe not super toxic but definitely redditor type responses. Maybe that’s just because .world is the most popular instance that I see it when I check a bad comment though ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Simpler times? 5 months ago:
Yeah worst part is it makes you unsure later if people are just pretending or not. In college I wouldn’t trust people weren’t just pretending to like being around me as a joke :/ takes a while of actually being appreciated to get over it…
