Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I’m not actually judging what you’re into, I was mainly just engaging in tongue-in-cheek hypocrisy for an attempt at comedy’s sake. Boobs are awesome.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
People that like things you dont understand aren’t inherently monsters, wtf. She’s clearly got her own issues, but fuck sake some people just like boobs dude they’re not seeking out large boobs because they ‘want a victim’ or whatever, they just have really bad taste.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 3 days ago:
Man, either they strike a blow for online censorship or the UK laws do one decent thing and take out 4chan. Hilarious they’re trying to invoke trump tho like, when has that ever worked, he doesnt care about his bootlicking supporters…
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 4 days ago:
So I fed the page to ChatGPT to ask for advice. And I got what seems to me to be pretty good. And so I’m wondering if we might start to think about how a tool like AFCH might be improved so that instead of a generic template, a new editor gets actual advice. It would be better, obviously, if we had lovingly crafted human responses to every situation like this, but we all know that the volunteers who are dealing with a high volume of various situations can’t reasonably have time to do it. The templates are helpful - an AI-written note could be even more helpful.
This actually sounds like a plausibly decent use for an LLM. Initial revision to take some of the load off from the human review process isn’t a bad idea - he isn’t advocating for AI to write articles, just that it can be useful for copy-editing.
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 4 days ago:
Yeah, I got my current teaching position by essentially volunteer professoring while doing some grad work. Super exploitative on paper, though that wasn’t the intention of anyone involved (tiny college hated by the conservatives so they kinda had to wing it every time legislative fuckery happened). But it’s rough, I don’t make enough to pay my (incredibly cheap) mortgage so I’m in the awkward position of having been financially unemployed for a year while still working full time. Not to sound too whiny but man, the culture of “Guess I’ll starve because I just love my students so much” is absurdly toxic. And that’s coming from someone firmly part of that culture.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 4 days ago:
Just so long as it’s stopped on your terms, though, right?
I keep listing off the reasons for content like this, and you keep projecting your own perceptions onto how other people are reacting to it. Presenting it as “humiliating the beaten up enemy” is dishonest. “Publicizing that allegiance to fascist ideals isn’t tolerated” is an accurate summary of what’s happening here. Sure there’s an undeniable aspect of dunking on the smug little shithead, seeing him like this fills me with a primal pleasure (and I’m just sad those girls didn’t have a knife), but you’re presenting that the ideal world is one where where publicizing the defeat of actual fascists is a uniformly unjustifiable. It’s liberal evangelism, with a less cringy name - you just pushing your idea on what the “correct” way to behave is on everyone else and refusing to acknowledge that everyone else has just as much right to their opinion as you do. That’s why we have to punch fascists, actually! Because if we just accept their right to hold their (monstrous) opinions, those opinions will never die. It’s the classic paradox of tolerance,
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 4 days ago:
A preachy and moralizing one where we protect the feelings of fascists from being hurt, where preserving “dignity” is more important than fighting back against the people literally killing us, one where legal adults are to be given leniency on their crimes (which again, include enabling countless deaths) due to their youth and status?
Yeah, I think I’m gonna give that society a pass. But feel free to go found the promised nation of Apologia-Land, I’m not about to be so crass as to force my own morality on you. You seem unpleasant enough I wouldn’t take a baton round for you (go learn about how your really vague concept of “dignity” works in the real world) but man, I’m not above pointing out what a bootlickin’ line of thinking you’ve go going on here. War is hell, dude, even culture ones. War reporting is the only way to actually confront people with that reality.
Nobody in this here thread thinks that it’s good we got to this point, but this kind of thing is what’s required to start getting us the hell out of here. It’s deeply, deeply depressing your head is so far up your own morals that you can’t even consider your position.
I know negative reactions make us entrench, but come on. How much of a stretch would it be, say, to push the narrative that you’re just a fascist that’s worried their clapped picture is gonna show up on here, being celebrated? I don’t think that’s what’s happening, but it sure isn’t a hard line to sell given how beautifully your zealously unyielding defense of the fascists lines up with fascists defending themselves.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 5 days ago:
And… that’s… a problem?
- Comment on i just think they're neat 6 days ago:
Among other things
The gourd is used traditionally to administer enemas. Along the upper Congo River an enema apparatus is made by making a hole in one end of the gourd for filling it, and using a resin to attach a hollow cane to the gourd’s neck.[52]
which sounds… splintery…
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 1 week ago:
Wait, calling them mean names is depriving them of their dignity! How dare you!
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 1 week ago:
But you’ll sure leap to their defense…
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 1 week ago:
Mmm. cept this ain’t exactly losing “all moral standards”, just your moral standards, which the vast majority of people never held in the first place. Why are you obsessed with the idea that your way is the morally correct way? Where does that come from?
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 1 week ago:
… There’s so much to unpack there I’m not even sure where to start. Just, conflating fascist apologia as a facet of a desire for universal human rights is some impressive mental gymnastics. Are you sure the negative reaction your opinion has received isn’t driving you to entrench yourself so deep into your philosophical position that you’re losing sight of the values you held initially?
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 1 week ago:
Careful now, if your head gets any bigger you’ll risk getting all top heavy and falling off your high horse, and that would be uNdIgNiFiEd.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 week ago:
It’s shockingly tricky to answer precisely, but the commonly held value is that a human brain runs on about 20w, regardless of the computational load placed on it.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 1 week ago:
Oh fuck off with this, this POS is responsible for untold (because he helped destroy the evidence) damage to this country - the cuts he smugly helped make have resulted in actual deaths. If anyone deserved this it’s this POS.
- Comment on To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen Planning Roblox Documentary, It's Claimed 1 week ago:
In defense of the generally indefensible masses of reddit, Hansen is hardly a figure above criticism. Fetishizing vigilante justice, embracing of the far-right, his emphasis on spectacle without regard for the community, that time where they more or less killed a guy… Child molesters are horrible (tho why we keep electing them, I’ll never know), but we don’t need to hail and laud someone as our champion just because they agree.
Hansen’s documentary has an opportunity to shed light on online grooming as a pervasive problem endemic to all online spaces but instead appears to further his usual moral panic about how there’s people lurking behind every bush, waiting to nab your children. His productions have never been better than any other schlock reality television, but with a veneer of legitimacy from his LARPing with law enforcement. Targeting a popular piece of pop culture, instead of an expose on say grooming rings on discord or the constant abuses of children from religious institutions or the ever-increasing access children have to unmoderated interaction seems to be as morally vapid as he ever has been.
- Comment on Companies be like 1 week ago:
Yeah, it pretty much is.
- Comment on Fun fact 1 week ago:
The placebo effect is a pervasive delusion, but situationally it is extremely convenient. Glad the bands helped your wife.
- Comment on worst uber driver ever 1 week ago:
… what?
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 2 weeks ago:
As I understand it, it came from the military essentially dumping vietnam vets in the woods and letting the local communities figure out what to do with them. It’s been co-opted to some degree, especially by the larger chains, but most of the local businesses near me keep up the practice because the military traps the uneducated into contracts that pay far less than poverty wages. It’s is a way of maintaining some measure of goodwill between local communities and military bases, and it’s looking more and more likely that we’re going to need every scrap of good feeling we can get as this slow descent into fascism continues…
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 2 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 2 weeks ago:
Shocking.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 2 weeks ago:
Neat, you gonna address the faulty premise of your position or just keep transparently deflecting with… whatever this is.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 2 weeks ago:
Overruled.
Sexism isn’t gender-restricted, reducing either gender to a sex object is sexist behavior. - Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 2 weeks ago:
Christ…
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 2 weeks ago:
Sure, and I’m not disagreeing that being able to engage with professional sports at all is a big factor. I think there’s more at play here than just that.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 2 weeks ago:
Sure, and I imagine that’s a big part of it too. From what I understand all professional sports are having difficulties gaining traction with the Gen Z demographic, but baseball is especially hard-hit (their recent rule changes to try and increase the pace of games may have done something to help with this, I haven’t seen any data about it).
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 2 weeks ago:
It’s possible there are multiple influences at play here. I’m certainly not disagreeing with you, I’m also of the opinion that baseball is deeply uninteresting to watch. I can understand how someone could be into it (much as with any other hobby), I just personally find it only marginally less dull than a seminar on comparative accounting practices (read: a great deal less dull than cricket).
I think a big part of it is the diversity of entertainment. If your interests don’t align with what baseball offers, it’s no longer a problem to find something else to occupy your time with. You’re not trapped into a paradigm with five or six sports to choose from, each with a limited season, and many of these new ones you can also engage with (gaming, drone racing, CTFs, competitive nerf battles, etc.) which gives you an appreciation for the game that is missing from most professional sports. Basketball and Football both are still quite popular with the younger generations, and both are physically very integrated into american culture. Streetball is about the most accessible sport out there, and every school in the country has a football field (and you can play touch or flag football games in any park)
I suspect it’s the same reason non-american Football (soccer) has maintained such popularity: there is almost no barrier to engagement, even at a non-professional level (you just need a ball and a couple piles of sweatshirts) and more formal infrastructure for it is incredibly common to find. Whereas baseball, tennis, jai alai, golf etc. are all unsafe to play in a public setting where there’s a risk of an unaware bystander getting beaned by a small hard ball going 200mph, and require safety equipment that raises the barrier to entry by quite a bit (nets, mainly). They still have traction, but if you’re a kid in a shitty suburb or poor town, you’re far more likely to be able to play soccer/football/basketball than you are baseball, and will be able to relate more intimately with those games when watching them played.
(And that’s not to mention esports)
When we’ve got so many choices and so little time to ourselves, why spend it on something we have to compromise our way into enjoying?
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 weeks ago:
The first amendment is not absolute - things like threats are not protected speech. Although I agree that in this case there might be a case that her constitutional rights were violated, I suspect it would be dismissed as having been a justifiable action from the administration/police who “couldn’t dismiss a credible threat” or something equally bullshit…