Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 10 hours ago:
But they’re a dbzero user, not an ML
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 10 hours ago:
I’m pretty sure I used the word “unknowingly” there, meaning that they’re not to blame for the first choice, merely for continuing to do so now.
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 15 hours ago:
What did we do?
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 15 hours ago:
Well, luckily, you can make an account elsewhere and not have people assume you’re an asshole because you associate (unknowingly) with assholes
- Comment on Look out its the D*tch 23 hours ago:
Genetic diversity obviously plays a role, and epigenetics matter a lot too. The abundance of food and quality of nutrition that we’ve had since WW2 in the Netherlands, combined with genetics that predispose, combine together.
But there is also a BIG difference between the racial stats the US keeps and the direct descendance stats the Netherlands keeps. If your family came from Ethiopia to the US in 1640 and has raised 12 generations of Americans, you’re “Black or African American”.
If your four grandparents are 30cm tall blue Smurfs, but both your parents were born in the Netherlands, you’re a native Dutch person in every Dutch statistic.
- Comment on Look out its the D*tch 1 day ago:
That’s hard to tell, because not everyone tracks data the same way.
The UK has a population that’s 72% British/Irish. The Netherlands has a population that’s 74% Dutch.
- Comment on Hypothesis: Modern retro-inspired indies are much more enjoyable than the retro games themselves 4 days ago:
we came to the conclusion that while Die Hard had done so much in fresh and interesting ways at the time, it had been so thoroughly copied from by so many other films that it offered little to an uninitiated modern audience, looking back.
This becomes SO obvious when you look at “the great classics”. Citizen Kane is, by all modern standards, a pretty boring and uninspiring movie about a really lame topic.
But at the time, it was absolutely groundbreaking. It basically pioneered half a dozen techniques such as “letting foreground and background be in focus at the same time” and “nonlinear storytelling” (which of course was hugely telegraphed, because it was new) and “using a montage” with “Sound to make transitions”. He also used such amazing techniques such as “long takes” up to several minutes. He moved the camera around, not just taking a stage-view, but low and high angle shots, and then he added lighting to make things stand out.
Stuff like that is now SO basic that they might not even teach it in filmschool, simply because people are inundated with it from modern media. Orson Welles basically invented all of that though, and it was revolutionary. Now it’s just boring a movie about an asshole’s sled.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 4 days ago:
Can you show a link that supports that? Because I distinctly recall these companies opposing this measure.
- Comment on Men tell women to stop complaining, also men every time june rolls around 5 days ago:
Quite a lot of issues the rest of us have would be fixed if more straight white able bodied cis men got the therapy they need.
- Comment on He built America’s helicopter. But he dreamed only of Russia. 5 days ago:
Most educated .ML user posts article about Sikorsky fleeing for his life to not get murdered by Lenin…
- Comment on The Forgotten Plague Island – USSR's Deadliest Secret 1 week ago:
The UK, meanwhile, made it very very clear which island they used for their anthrax testing in WW2.
- Comment on Sign me up 1 week ago:
Does anyone know where this picture is from? For uhh…a friend…
- Comment on Sign me up 1 week ago:
Latex is vegan though
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 1 week ago:
What’s wrong with gsm?
- Comment on HyTale just got cancelled, HyPixel studios winding down over the next few months 1 week ago:
This is basically exactly what Vintage Story does. And it’s working extremely well for them
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 1 week ago:
Even Cyberpunk 2077 ran perfectly on launch,
Liar.
- Comment on Putin says recession in Russia 'must not be allowed to happen' 1 week ago:
That’s a bit extreme don’t you think?
He doesn’t also have to resign.
- Comment on Dear Leader 2 weeks ago:
Leftwing crypto fans are the epitome of the Horseshoe theory
- Comment on The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel 2 weeks ago:
Those videos and pics aren’t even remotely good though…
- Comment on US Fed keeps interest rates unchanged in face of Trump criticism 2 weeks ago:
In the news next week: US federal bank defunded, everyone fired.
- Comment on ‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers 2 weeks ago:
My last Jaxt adrenaline injector was 56 euros. An EpiPen would have been 2 whole euros extra.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but those are still “big glass jars full of electricity”
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 weeks ago:
Yes, except you need to buy each bit in a big glass jar
- Comment on Usually helps me out, honestly 2 weeks ago:
A boner being a screw up. As in “being boned” or “a bonehead”. Or of course an erect penis, which would land the Joker in jail.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it would be some 25 years until the radio was invented. And Hertz’ machine required a 30kV spark on a 2.5m meter long antenna with 2 solid 30cm zinc spheres, and his transmission range was something like “barely down the hall”.
Not the most practical method.
- Comment on They used to keep that thing ice cold straight through the 90s. 2 weeks ago:
Mine has a heat lamp, like they use at your local fastfood place, except with a couple of metal nightmare devices under it.
- Comment on Jurassic World Evolution 3 | Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I pirated the DLC, it’s not really worth it
- Comment on Risk of nuclear war grows amid new arms race 2 weeks ago:
You can always wait On The Beach
- Comment on UK | Fewer than half of young men believe abortion should be legal, poll finds 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but that’s reality. Reality doesn’t factor into manosphere posturing.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 2 weeks ago:
But they’re covered in nuts