Quexotic
@Quexotic@infosec.pub
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 3 days ago:
Pederast in the grass?
- Comment on In light of recent events, I'm really starting to wonder about Reddit, /u/MaxwellHill, and Aaron... 1 week ago:
Tell ya what. Go listen to the extremely American podcast start to finish, and then tell me how uncoordinated extremest groups, the christo-fascists, and the Republicans are.
The podcast makes the argument much better than I ever could.
- Comment on Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants 1 week ago:
Interesting. Thanks, and I definitely take your point, though I don’t know much about Russia or Russians aside from a “history of Russia and China” class in college.
Also TIL prosody 😁.
We’re talking about different things.
You’re talking about social dynamics, and what I’m talking about is more general than that.
There’s a certain range of emotions and certain root emotions that are common to everyone but there’s also a great deal of variation between people that speak different languages.
The language you grow up with shapes how you think at a very low level. How you process information, how you see the world.
For example, I read about a study, presumably about Mandarin, that explained an interesting difference between how Chinese people and English speaking people themselves in the future.
In Mandarin, the language sort of forces you to see your future self as self-same to your current self and this causes Chinese people to be much much better about saving money for the future. On the other hand the English language causes one to think of the future self as a different person and it makes it more difficult to identify that future self as truly you.
I tried to find the article for you but couldn’t. The concept is called self-continuity.
Another place I’ve seen this present is in software design, oddly. I used a tool at a previous job that was largely developed by people that didn’t have English as a first language. It had a very clear logic to it and made sense, but everything was put together in ways that were initially counterintuitive.
Anyway, I was more or less “squirreling”.
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 2 weeks ago:
A while ago I signed into x using a Gmail account. Mostly I was being hasty and careless. Never really used the account even. Forgot about it.
Recently I went and deleted the account, but when I log in, the first thing I see is a ridiculous antisemitic conspiracy theory.
That’s the default algorithm.
I think I understand it just fine.
- Comment on Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants 2 weeks ago:
I actually didn’t get very far at all into it. It made me too anxious and depressed. What you’re saying is totally valid though. People that speak different languages literally have different sets of emotions and different emotional expressions for emotions of the same name.
Eg., I’ve never experienced saudade (Portuguese, I think), It doesn’t really exist in English speaking countries.
- Comment on Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants 2 weeks ago:
Nice reference.
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Vacations don't fix your life because your brain treats time off like a free trial of being the person you want to be 2 weeks ago:
I wish I had the spoons for that.
Maybe some day…
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 weeks ago:
Looking at you, Mark Cuban
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I handle it by aggressively treating my depression and suicidal ideation so that I can be there for my kids next year.
- Comment on When the half-asleep brain thinks the power-tool running next door is singing "holy holy holy" or maybe "horny horny horny" 👼😈 3 weeks ago:
I have actually done this.
I used to have sleep problems.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 weeks ago:
Total recall gives me instant flashbacks to the mutant scene, the cool part and the creepy part.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Let’s make the planet even hotter… Fucking morons.
- Comment on I wonder if K-pop Demon Hunters is so popular because it's a ready allegory for the fight against fascism and authoritarianism... 3 weeks ago:
Definitely not intended, as I said, but there’s so much overlapping that I’m seeing it.
Anyhow, just a shower thought. The kids won’t stop playing this music, so it’s brainwormed into my unconscious thoughts.
It’s fair though, it definitely slaps.
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- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 3 weeks ago:
10-19… I guess he’d really fit in with his followers.
- Comment on i hate myself and i want to die lol 3 weeks ago:
Good luck!
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 3 weeks ago:
Pdf link for the lazy 💛
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. Nation states don’t need to do anything because the world’s economy is actively avoiding the US due to its instability and untrustworthiness.
I can only imagine what the next generation is going to have to deal with. Kind of makes me sad.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 3 weeks ago:
Once we were manipulated into believing that our desires were needs it was quite easy for them to get us to buy whatever they wanted us to.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 3 weeks ago:
Another one bites the dust. killedbygoogle.com
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like you got banned for showing people how to get away from ads. That’s not allowed by our corporate overlords.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 3 weeks ago:
Just stop using reddit. Quit it.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 4 weeks ago:
Core memory triggered.
- Comment on Lgbtq are the victims though 🤪 4 weeks ago:
Joines 1 week ago, 2 posts, this and a transphobic one. No comments. Block em.
- Comment on Where can I buy used computers, and are they on a discount now because of Windows 10 end of life? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve done really well with eBay. Got a travel laptop that could suffer catastrophic loss without breaking me. Basically a burner for riskier situations.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 4 weeks ago:
3 days of hunger stand between order and revolution.
Your right on the money there!
- Comment on reaction 5 weeks ago:
Don’t forget ranch
