shneancy
@shneancy@lemmy.world
just me
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 2 days ago:
🥂
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 2 days ago:
how do they get the energy to lay new eggs? or grow into full sized moths?
- Comment on To deter predators... 4 days ago:
many consider it a weed. always make sure to plant your mint in a pot (even if you want it in your garden just bury the pot with a little bit of the edge sticking out), do not plant it directly in dirt, though if you do, you’ll never again not have mint in your garden? and your neighbours’ gardens too! :D
- Comment on Culture Wars 5 days ago:
some bacteria good, some other bacteria bad
- Comment on He protecc 6 days ago:
he attac people with dust allergies, with his poop (i am not kidding)
- Comment on He protecc 6 days ago:
oh so the creature who’s shit i’m allergic to is fucking immortal yeah? cool, great
- Comment on I thought it was an easy question ... 1 week ago:
the cries of alien archaeologists from the far future echo in the distance
- Comment on Feral Science 1 week ago:
oh- oop :)
- Comment on Feral Science 1 week ago:
was that expedition inspired by lovecraft or was lovecraft inspired by that expedition?
- Comment on Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal. 2 weeks ago:
this is not about wanting this is about companies taking advantage of vulnerable people who should be grieving. This can cause lasting psychological harm
you might as well be saying, if someone came to a drug maker, and wanted some heroine, and provided ingredients for heroine, and agreed to whatever costs were involved, isn’t that entirely their business?
- Comment on Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal. 2 weeks ago:
and yet, the “genius inventors” keep creating Torment Nexuses
- Comment on Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal. 2 weeks ago:
wow, so many reasons
- to create a mimic of a person you must first destroy their privacy
- after an AI has devoured all they’ve ever written or spoken on video it will then mimic such person very well, but most likely still be a legal property of a company that made it
- in a situation like that you’d then have to pay a subscription to interact with the mimic (because god forbid you ever get actually sold something nowadays)
now imagine having to pay to talk with a ghost of your loved one, a chatbot that sometimes allows you to forget that the actual person is gone, and makes all the moments where that illusion is broken all the more painful. A chatbot that denies you grief, and traps you in hell where you can talk with the person you lost, but never touch them, never feel them, never see them grow (or you could pay extra for the chatbot to attend new skill classes you could talk about :)).
It would make grieving impossible and take constant advantage of those who “just want to say goodbye”. Grief is already hard as is, a wide spread mimicry of our dead ones would make it a psychological torture
for more information watch
a prediction of our futurea fun sci-fi show called Black Mirror, specifically the episode titled Be Right Back (entire series is fully episodic you don’t need to watch from the start) - Comment on Cognitive Biases 3 weeks ago:
not all bias is made equal or always something negative. Sometimes it’s good to be biased towards the opinion of a scientist over the opinion of your aunt.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 weeks ago:
“apple” used to be a generic term for fruit. So it’s actually “fruit of the earth”, the French are poetic like that
- Comment on Hmmmm 4 weeks ago:
that’s because i started writing it and then deleted it lol
hell yeah to that!
- Comment on Hmmmm 4 weeks ago:
yeah i know, second part of the rant went into how capitalism is shit but i feel like a broken record saying that constantly, it’s true of course, but i want to talk about some other things sometimes too
- Comment on Hmmmm 4 weeks ago:
lmao that’s the other extreme. I’m just complaining about unnecessary complexity when there is no need for it. It’s tiring to have to keep translating academic back into English, especially when you want to explain the concept to someone who’s having trouble understanding it/is not as familiar with it as you are
- Comment on Hmmmm 4 weeks ago:
goodness, don’t even get me started on law. I had a hard time reading my tenancy agreement, and I know I’m not a stupid person. I’m not saying this to brag, but how is someone, let’s say less intellectually inclined, supposed to deal with that? Sign whatever paper they get told allows them to have shelter and hope they didn’t just sell their firstborn to the landlord?
- Comment on Hmmmm 4 weeks ago:
thank you for your service o7
- Comment on Hmmmm 4 weeks ago:
quick rant
i’m so tired of over the top “intellectual” vocabulary in academia. a lot of concepts could be explained with simple words and would get the point across just as well, or better, and additionally make the conversation more accessible to those outside of a specific field. Why do you need to use big smart words to explain simple things? Is it because it tickles your ego when people need 10 minutes to comprehend one sentence? argh
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 4 weeks ago:
as much as i’d love to agree with that-
mosquitos are pollinators and an important food source for quite a few animals. Our eco system would not be fine if we got rid of them
- Comment on Rabbit Population 4 weeks ago:
funny how you can come to the same conclusions if you’re - a) doing science b) doing Buddhism c) doing drugs
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
i don’t use chrome itself. i have a lot of saved things, roughly a million tabs open at every moment, and passwords saved which i do not remember
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
as a chromium browser user - i’ve been meaning to switch to firefox, and i know it’ll take me maybe a day, but it feels like so much workkkk. In a similar fashion i’ve been meaning to switch to Linux for ages too. I guess it just hasn’t gotten bad enough for me to take action
as long as my adblockers & script blockers work, i’m not forced to upgrade to win11, and win10 still has security updates i don’t think it’s pushing on my discomfort buttons strong enough. I know the day will come, but like with a lot of things in my life - why do something today when i can do it tomorrow?
- Comment on I'd also wear this VLC media player costume 1 month ago:
there’s usually one baby sized on a statue in Glasgow
- Comment on Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games Imposes 7-Day Work Week Ahead of Citizencon 1 month ago:
wow my dyslexia had a field day with that title. I was very curious what “Senior Citizens Develop Could Emporium” meant
- Comment on Why do Counterstrike and the other top 10 games on Steam NEVER change? 1 month ago:
because they run on everything and are free
- Comment on PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug 1 month ago:
yes sure it could’ve been a bug, but can we really believe them that it was?
companies are on a quest to pollute our lives with ads, it’s not a stretch to think it’s bullshit when another attempt to do that is being denied with “whoopsie the new guy wrote the code wrong nothing to worry about here!”
- Comment on PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug 1 month ago:
ahhh, companies copying homework from bigots’ dogwhistling tactics? what a brave new world we live in
says something bigoted
receives backlash
“haha guys can’t you take a joke? everyone’s so sensitive nowadays”
- Comment on This might also apply to conferences. 1 month ago:
ooo fascinating! thank you for the information :)