shneancy
@shneancy@lemmy.world
just me
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 2 days ago:
isn’t china struggling with deflation nowadays, though? they can afford things perfectly well, they just don’t do it
(correct me if i’m wrong i know fuck all about economics)
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 6 days ago:
a language might be a tool we use, but it absolutely shapes the way we see the world itself to a significant degree, even to the point where speakers of different languages might disagree on basic physical facts
eg: if you ask an english speaker how many fingers they have - they’ll answer 10. but if you answer a polish speaker - they’ll answer 20. polish makes little linguistic distinction between fingers, and how we call them, foot fingers
this is one example of many. i find it deeply fascinating and quite scary. it feels weird to realise that my understanding of the world is broadened and structured better thanks to the fact i use a language to describe it, but there might be things i’ll never notice, or will always confuse, simply because the tool i use is not perfect, and yet, that is the basis through which i perceive the world
- Comment on Sage advice from COWK and her infinite well of esoteric wisdom. 1 week ago:
the TV is big and slow, a computer, more nimble, can outrun the ads, the TV is too slow to even attempt dodging
- Comment on Accidental rapture 1 week ago:
Eve was made from a man’s rib, so in a way at first she was a clone of his flesh, XY chromosomes and all. The bible does not elaborate on how the abrahamic god made her into a woman, she was able to bear children so there was definitely a change made to the “original” masculine reproductive system, but we don’t know at what stage of her becoming a being that occured. Either way though - Adam’s rib was transed by god themself into a woman.
now i’m wondering how all the christian terfs would react if someone said that trans women are actually the original women
- Comment on Throw enough spaghetti at the wall and some is bound to stick 1 week ago:
we live in a world where people say stuff like that and mean it, the /s is just so for once we can be sure
- Comment on The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce 2 weeks ago:
similar tone
- Comment on People are completely used to autotune in music now, and the same will happen with ai usage 2 weeks ago:
big difference between someone using a tool to polish an already complete piece of music and someone using a tool to make a piece of music for them
- Comment on idk 2 weeks ago:
it takes 8 min for your kettle to reach boil? why
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
this therefore means every gay man is old
and butch women (or simple women who dislike dressed) never get old
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 weeks ago:
any and all UI changes will make people angry
steam has had so few of them compared to idk youtube that, imo it’s fine even if it’s kinda pointless
- Comment on Happens everytime 2 weeks ago:
but then when i spin in bed like a rotisserie chicken it all comes off :(
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
when non-US folks share things that are supposed to he funny and/or relatable, we usually convert our currencies to dollars as most people know how much that’s worth roughly
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 5 weeks ago:
the only pause it gives me is when i notice nonsensical details blending into each other, the only emotion it moves in me is then disgust and foolishness as i just spent time on slop that was not an expression of something, but an intentionless imitation of one. and it sure as hell doesn’t make me self reflect as it manages to be both shallow and hollow
it’s not AI “art” itself that sparked a conversation, no singular piece stands out as something people talk about (a piece that is more than just a more seamless version of the pervious attempts, something memorable even after it stops being the best at imitation). The talk is not about AI “art” itself it’s about the idea of it. Nobody points to a single thing AI made and claims that is proof it’s not art, because it’s not individual pieces that “make us think” – it’s the concept of an intentionless thing being fed human art and then making misshapen copies of it at the whims of people who can’t be bothered to engage with art at all.
sure it does make you thing, but only if you - knowingly or not - treat the entire emergence of AI slop as a kind of performance art itself, any individual piece of slop is not the topic here
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 5 weeks ago:
i’m reading enough into your comment. i literally explained why that wouldn’t change much
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 5 weeks ago:
never mind a canvas, if the guy cared in the slightest about the “art” AI made he’d at least print it on poster paper
this experiment shows how even the “artists” just do not care about those images, and why would they? why would any of us care?
this shows exactly the core of the issue - every piece of art made by a human, no matter how good or bad (whatever that means), is a reflection of the artist. Sometimes they pour their entire soul into a piece, sometimes just a small part of them, but it’s always a reflection of them. So the artist will care about what they’ve made because it’s their own self, in a way. And others will care about it too, because we crave to get to know others, understand them, see the world how they see it - and art allows us to glimpse just that.
AI slop elicits none of those emotions, there is no artist to care about, no reflection of the self, mo worldview to glimpse, no way of caring about it, nothing – even if it was you who wrote the prompt, you just can’t bring yourself to give a shit
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 5 weeks ago:
wow, it seems like it’s printed on printer quality paper. really amplifies how those who use AI for “art” don’t give a flying fuck about art
- Comment on Killer title 5 weeks ago:
i thought it was just a thicc ass orca, added an eye to show my vision thicc orca made out of a pie chart
- Comment on What a lucky woman 5 weeks ago:
i could tell you that without burning through a litre of water
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 1 month ago:
i’m way too lazy to have alt accounts, just seems like a lot of work and i don’t even know what i’d use them for
- Comment on 3-bean soup 1 month ago:
fair enough
- Comment on 3-bean soup 1 month ago:
because you expect it to taste like milk. try plant based milks without that thought in your head. it worked for me
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
they do indeed, and us humans invented ways to describe them with maths
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
natural laws of the universe can be described with our maths. but i’m pretty sure the universe didn’t go “ah yes, 1+2=3 i can work with that! let there be light”.
the numbers, the symbols, the equations - they’re all human made, an attempt to describe things in a way that can be understood by us. but is this how they are? of course not. no wave or particle would describe itself the way we describe them, in fact they wouldn’t describe themselves at all - they simply are
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
i’m a fan of 13 months 28 days each & would love to see more of base 20 around tbf, for some reason base 20 feels cozy to me
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
proton masses are rather small - inconvenient
the distance light travels at a certain time - then it’ll just be based on our artificial units of time
cesium oscillation i don’t know much about but from what i quickly read it’s also about keeping time, 1s to be precise, which is still an arbitrary unit
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
c is pretty round (universal symbol for the speed of light)
aside from that, nothing. as science and maths are mere attempts at describing the universe all our units are arbitrary, decided to be the way they are purely because you just need to pick something to be your reference point.
at no point has a true non-artificial unit emerged, there is no constant size of anything that could aid in that (one contestant for that title could be the planck lenght but that’ss just incredibly inconvenient to use. "honey could you pelase move the couch 6,25 × 1034 planck lengths to the left? [1m])
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
god no do not bring back Gros Michels, artificial banana flavour is bleh
i suppose soon we’ll have to compromise and start liking (or not) a new banana flavour though, if that banana disease gets to the current version
- Comment on Confusion over the laundry 1 month ago:
i agree SatansMaggotyCumFart, consent is very important
- Comment on Carrot 1 month ago:
bro, if we could edit the genes of foods to make them grow into huge sizes, i think we would hear from some scientific source that that’s now a possibility
- Comment on Carrot 1 month ago:
to fill out the something somethings for the unaware audience -
if you get something into your bum fully, it’s very hard to get out on your own without hurting yourself, and your ass can suck that thing in in a second - so unless you’re an avid fan of going to a doctor to get something out of your butt, the object you’re penetrating yourself with has to have a flared base - that is a base at the bottom of the object much wider than what your ass can suck in, which will stop the thing from sliding in
