shneancy
@shneancy@lemmy.world
just me
- Comment on Fictional 3 days ago:
they do indeed, and us humans invented ways to describe them with maths
- Comment on Fictional 4 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 week 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 week ago:
i agree SatansMaggotyCumFart, consent is very important
- Comment on Carrot 1 week 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 week 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
- Comment on Carrot 1 week ago:
honestly i don’t mind a bit of dirt with a touch of poop. if i myself pluck a carrot out of the ground - i’ll just wash it a bit and proceed to chomp
what i do mind is the number of hands and various containers the carrot goes through before it gets bought by me at a store. theoretically, nobody has to touch a carrot for it to appear in the store (harvested mechanically, transported in large quantities, thrown out of a box onto the store display), sure, but i’m not counting on that, nor am i counting on the fact they wash their hands properly
- Comment on Uncle Ben should be alive in further adaptions in Spider-Man 1 week ago:
well maybe for you that’s not enough justification. but others care about other people
- Comment on How will YOU choose 1 week ago:
on one hand if you take the character of jesus as an individual with opinions he was very based
but on the other hand in the context of the bible - he is the incarnation-ish-thingy of the one who created and perpetuates a binary system of good and evil, and as a narcissistic judge, jury, and executioner to him being “good” includes in major part worshipping him and only him. which is not very based
so i pick hell out of spite
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 1 week ago:
in a way i think yes. in the dark ages at least any insane cults and ideas couldn’t spread far. if your village or castle happened to have dark ages version of ben shapiro then his words aren’t going to go far (unless they infected the local ruler as well, and even then it’d still be contained within your area, or your country at worst). If you were on the receiving end of insanity you could always just kind of– pack up and move to another village, walk 30km away and you’re like a new man! Worst case scenario find your way to a port, fuck off to another country - passports or border control did not exist, passage was often granted for free to those able bodied that joined the crew for the voyage.
obviously i’m romanticising here a bit, modern medicine and technology makes day to day life easier. but it also makes other things much harder. our privacy is going extinct at an alarming rate, freedom of movement across borders belongs to distant memories of our great grandparents, (unless you’re french) your protests will be ignored and/or vilified, and if you dare care about other humans and speak up about it you can be labelled as a terrorist in some places
i do truly hope that those years of unrest aren’t here to stay…
- Comment on Beware!!! 2 weeks ago:
butbutbut… i’m gen z and i use most of these regularly. does that make me ancient as well?
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 3 weeks ago:
honestly if anything, covid showed us how bad actor assholes can easily be substituted with stupid people & negligence/spite
“covid? it doesnt exist! lets have a party with 200 people!! :D”
- Comment on Adult games hit once more, as Valve seemingly denies Early Access to games with mature content 3 weeks ago:
video games take a lot of time and effort to make, and i’m not that interested in making them
- Comment on Which one and why? 3 weeks ago:
i can live with physical pain if it saves me from mental anguish
- Comment on Which one and why? 3 weeks ago:
2, all the other ones can go to hell holy shit i’d cry if i had to eat with them (yes, i’m neurodivergent hello)
- Comment on Glad that you LOVE it. It's certainly a special skill 3 weeks ago:
is it then a double creampie or a sandwich pie?
- Comment on Glad that you LOVE it. It's certainly a special skill 3 weeks ago:
do you mean two in two, or two in one?
- Comment on Adult games hit once more, as Valve seemingly denies Early Access to games with mature content 3 weeks ago:
man, i simply want a 3D non-anime non-light novel non-tits the size of my screen porn game from a submissive perspective. the only one i managed to find is in beta (Carnal Instinct) and has been for at least a year
what makes this combo be such a unicorn of porn games istg, is being horny an anime-fan exclusive in gaming?
- Comment on Adult games hit once more, as Valve seemingly denies Early Access to games with mature content 3 weeks ago:
honestly good, from what i’ve noticed adult games are waaaaaay more likely to become early access abandonware, i guess once the horniness runs out so does the motivation. and i’d like to finally play a game that’s horny, good, and finished. i may be into edging and denial but only consentually, ok?
- Comment on "Valve must stop making excuses": Steam under fire for "significant price disparity for PC games," causing regional pricing that's "often 20% to 30% higher than the dollar equivalent" 3 weeks ago:
we still wouldn’t get paid more if we converted to Euros, we’d just be paid in smaller looking numbers
- Comment on "Valve must stop making excuses": Steam under fire for "significant price disparity for PC games," causing regional pricing that's "often 20% to 30% higher than the dollar equivalent" 3 weeks ago:
it’s the devs/publishers yes
some time ago Palworld devs lowered the regional price for Poland as they noticed it was relatively more expensive for Poles to buy the game, they got a lot of praise for that
- Comment on PVP 3 weeks ago:
at the ripe of age if prolly like 12 i have discovered that i hate pvp, now i simply do not that that thing under any circumstances (unless i think it’d be funny to lose, which i pretty much always do)
- Comment on oh cool 5 weeks ago:
there’s probably a version of the myth for each. you know how the Greeks kinda had an established canon for their mythology? Egyptians did not lmao, there are very few (if any at all tbf) constants in their religion and the 3000 years of an Empire has produces many different versions of the state standard, and that’s to not even mention the stuff nobody wrote down.
bonus fun fact! in some versions of the infamous cum salad myth Thoth creates a solar disk made out of Horus’s cum that gets summoned from Set’s body at the trial. next time you look at Thoth know that his hat is made of cum
there is also a goddess who is a brick, she has a human face and the rest is a brick :)
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 5 weeks ago:
if you look at it for 1s it looks scary. if you look at it for 2s it doesn’t make any fucking sense like, at all
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 1 month ago:
my best idea would be going old school with in person written & oral testing, since clearly nothing digital is of any help anymore. or perhaps require multiple digital WIP versions to be submitted? would also be getting the students into a good habit of making backups of their work. or maybe every essay should come with a director’s commentary (a more loose style reflective essay on the research and work done)
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 1 month ago:
o.o holy shit- i mean that’s a valid move, using AI for a handwritten piece sounds like a pain in the ass, but so does just writing 10 pages by hand, AI or not!
i’m glad i got through my higher education marginally before the AI boom hit (i graduated 3 years ago). i only had Turnitin yell “PLAGIARISM???” at me when i used a common phrase that another student used at some point somewhere (think - “The research suggests…”, or sometimes even the page numbers), good times good times
- Comment on AI model forecasts disease risk decades in advance: New AI model can estimate the long-term risk of over 1,000 diseases and forecast human health changes over a decade in advance 1 month ago:
sure maybe it was tested with data already known to the researchers, but that’s not a real world test, that’s still a fully controlled environment. and the researchers, being human, aren’t perfect, the data about what the AI was meant to predict could’ve slipped into the training data. using historic data to predict slightly less historic data is a good first step, and it’s of course exciting! but we’re not done here
nobody can read AI code after its been trained, so until all possibility of human error can be fully disspelled by continuous testing it in real time and having the AI actually predict events that come to be - it’s a could, not a can.