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- Comment on Bill! BILL! Bill! BILL! 2 months ago:
I’ve been telling people for a while that I can hear it too. Nice to know I’m not the only one.
- Comment on obesity 2 months ago:
Yeah, black Americans have a very distinct culture. Started as slaves, were segregated in a lot of ways, they still often have ghetto neighborhoods, they created unique genres of music with strong black identity and they still have their own entertainment catered towards them. That’s America for you.
- Comment on obesity 2 months ago:
From my experience, black people want to be called black. I’m a white kid, but was raised in a foster family with three black siblings and other black family, including some that lived in a ghetto in another city. It was the 90s and early 2000s, so we watched some BET, we watched the Boondocks, we listened to thug rap, we watched shows with black characters such as All That and Cousin Skeeter. Because it was all a part of my brothers’ culture. In anything we participated in I’ve never heard a single African-American who didn’t call themselves “black” and be fine being called that.
I’ve also sometimes made the argument in defense of “black”, that “African-American” is mildly politically-incorrect itself— not that I have a problem with the term, just the hyper-vigilant enforcing of it . Because it’s not synonymous with skin color itself, it’s a statement about where they came from. We don’t call white people “European Americans”, and what do we call non-black African-Americans from, say, Egypt or South America? So… yeah.
- Comment on obesity 2 months ago:
And things worse than slavery towards them. And that a lot of racists who would likely shoot black people still use it. And there’s a lot of those people.
- Comment on If I block a community, it needs to block its cross-posts. 6 months ago:
So if an instance is defederated from a second, I wouldn’t see any cross-posts from the second?
- Comment on If I block a community, it needs to block its cross-posts. 6 months ago:
I don’t read on my phone.
- Comment on Google Gemini is really bad. 6 months ago:
Haha, I didn’t even notice that last part.
- Comment on Google Gemini is really bad. 6 months ago:
I tried Claude once and it was absolute garbage. Then again, it advertised that it could analyze a .txt document and send me results. It only hallucinated that it could give me results.
- Comment on If I block a community, it needs to block its cross-posts. 6 months ago:
So what you’re saying is, I can block a toxic community, but I am still forced to see when they post the same post again somewhere else.
Ugh. Can I just block literally every post with a certain word in it?
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- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 6 months ago:
Japanese media is stupid too, Pokémon especially. South Park even commented on that when it was new. So it was stupid against stupid.
- Comment on There it is 6 months ago:
Not all the pointing people are old memes.
- Comment on Woaaaaa 6 months ago:
Yeah, because you’ll off the bottom into space
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
Just like cable! \o/
- Comment on I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night 6 months ago:
Why isn’t this illegal. Why isn’t anything that has to do with homes illegal.
- Comment on Anthropology 6 months ago:
Wait until they learn that the thumbs-up in some countries means what the middle finger does in the US…
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
It’s like people who say desktop Linux is currently good enough to be mainstream and it will any day now, please? And it’s everyone else’s fault that it hasn’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Read all the comments in this thread that say “OP” next to the user. I don’t call people “trolls” very quickly because most of the time that’s wrong, statistically. But he is either a troll or— more likely— an annoying militant vegan.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Some animals are carnivores, but they don’t want to draw attention to that. Also, humans aren’t carnivores. We’re omnivores.
- Comment on I wish to give this many fucks 7 months ago:
…In 1936?
- Comment on turtles 7 months ago:
That means he’ll die regardless of which he is!
- Comment on brave little bird 7 months ago:
Courage is knowing you’re likely to fail but taking a chance and doing your best anyway. Stupidity is thinking there’s little to no risk when there’s a lot.
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 7 months ago:
It’s weird to have that strong of a reaction. At the very least it sounds debilitating. It’s not debilitating, it just means I don’t watch horror or thrillers.
It’s not even uncanny valley because Duo is not even close to human like (unless you know green bird like humans in real life, but then I’m not sure they’re human). Okay, so that’s the point. The very definition of the uncanny valley is it maps a graph. You go from something that doesn’t look human at all, and then the closer you get to human, the more appealing it looks, until it looks completely human. Except when you start getting much closer and you’re not quite there, there’s a dip in the graph where it’s suddenly horrifying before it gets better. That’s the “valley”. That’s why clowns, marionettes, dolls, zombies, and yeah, sometimes very wrinkly old people are horrifying. Their faces are just twisted, distorted, and/or malformed enough to be horrifying. Studies show that even monkeys have this reaction to distorting faces. And the Duolingo owl’s face takes on human expressions, which can be distorted and do the uncanny valley thing.
Now, some people are less sensitive/don’t often see uncanny valley as much as average, while people like me are more sensitive to it. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, or that I have a weird problem, it’s just different people are more sensitive to faces. It’s why autistic people are known for not making eye contact, yeah? With that said, it is not a debilitating problem. I live with it, I know which things I deal with that are big problems (and there are several), and this isn’t one of them.
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 7 months ago:
Twisting faces-- especially to look morbidly-depressed or horrified-- is a common tactic in horror. In fact, it works because of the uncanny valley effect-- a psychological phenomenon that exists to protect us from disease and from breeding with deformed people. And you know who’s more sensitive to uncanny valley than average? Autistic people. Like me. There’s no therapy for this because it’s neither weird nor solvable.
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 7 months ago:
Emotional manipulation wouldn’t be a good way, especially not a face that scares the shit out of people (I can’t even look at it, as I’m sensitive to uncanny valley and distorted faces, especially the kinds of sad or scared faces 1940s cartoons used to freak you out), especially not so that it can get you back to spending money, and doubly-especially not so that it can get you back to spending microtransactions.
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 7 months ago:
Fair.
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 7 months ago:
It’s a (accidentally? nightmare-fuel) sad face designed to get you back in so you spend money. It might not be the worst thing ever, but it’s still pretty gross. Also the app is used by children.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have a baby 7 months ago:
You’re asking an AI to be logical and not out-of-touch
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 7 months ago:
This scared my housemate too. It’s manipulation to get you to continue, so you buy their subscriptions and/or microtransactions. I love Duolingo, but fuck this manipulation shit.