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- Comment on Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says 3 hours ago:
Please expand.
- Comment on Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says 14 hours ago:
The guy volunteered for it, knowing the risk, and calls it a luxury that he uses all the time and has helped him “reconnect with the world.”
Don’t let your justified hatred of musk blind you to reality.
- Comment on Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says 14 hours ago:
You truly are a genius to realize that developing new technologies often encounter problems and it doesn’t always go smoothly.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 day ago:
It’s shocking how bad their ui is. I don’t get it.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 3 days ago:
I agree. Although, I also agree with the anecdote by the op that anytime vegans are mentioned, everyone here seems to have to bring up how annoying and preachy some are.
It’s not like everytime a woman is mentioned, people feel compelled to point out how some of them are Karen’s.
It’s like when conservatives bring up how flamboyant some gays are when talking about homosexuals. It just reeks of “i’m okay with them, as long as I am not forced to think of them.”
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 3 days ago:
And before I’m accused of generalizing vegans, note I said SOME.
But this whole thread is about the general dislike of vegans and veganism. So you didn’t “correct” them, because you narrowed it down to only talking about people who are too preachy.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 3 days ago:
When I first started on reddit many years ago, while it was clear some people didn’t read the article, usually the top comment in the thread usually showed that they read the article, unless it was some kind joke. Over time it definitely got worse.
I was hoping when jumping to Lemmy that I would be able to recapture some of that magic.
Lemmy has a lot of good things going for it, but what I got in that regard is the top comment, with 100% upvotes, clearly not having read the article and spewing some unsubstantiated conspiratorial claims. It’s like being in r/conspiracy sometimes.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 4 days ago:
Funny, just yesterday probably I was arguing with someone in another thread that was saying the people here don’t actually think Boeing had these whistleblowers killed, it was just making “implications and jokes.”
And here, very clearly, with a massive number of upvotes we have someone claiming that Boeing had them killed and that resulted in brave souls coming out afterward. lol
However, this also exposes another huge complaint I have with your typical lemmy-er (lemming? lemmite? what do you call a user of lemmy?): Almost no one reads the fucking article.
This isn’t about new whistleblowers coming out, but their lawyer claiming he is afraid that current whistle blowers will be “scared away.”
But, of course, what I’ve learned on reddit and even more so on lemmy is that the facts don’t matter, only the narrative.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 6 days ago:
It doesn’t sound that way. Can you explain how the specific change does that? Sounds like to me it’s an option for women, and it’s done in a way that limits how they can reach out first.
- Comment on We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time 1 week ago:
Throughout the 1800s, the us saw increasingly more severe and more frequent economic boom and bust cycles. This helps the wealthy as they are the ones who can buy up all the assets during the busts, and the common man gets fucked. This all culminated with the great depression. Its something like 20 recessions of 15% or more retractions between and 1930.
When the fed was given teeth to actually control the fractional reserve system., we’ve seen constant inflation, but the number and severity of economic recessions has gone way down.
We’ve seen 1 retraction over 15% since 1940. And that was because of COVID lockdowns.
This small, controlled inflation is great for the regular joe because it creates stability. And it was all going well until deregulation during the 80s.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 1 week ago:
I think this is looking at it backwards. I think we shouldn’t view failure as a bad thing. Failure is learning. It’s part of growing. You fail at something, you’ve learned something (well, hopefully). Often you learn more by failing than by succeeding.
Like coaching my kid’s soccer team today: I want them to fail sometimes. I have a player doing well with his right foot and scores a couple of goals, I switch him to the other side and tell him to use his left foot “But I’m not good at it!” good. “I’m not good at goalie.” Excellent, here’s the goalie jersey and go get in there. That’s the point, I’m trying to make them better soccer players. If we just played into their strengths all the time, it would limit how much of a better player they can become.
At work, as a programmer, I try something out. It doesn’t work out because there was some unforeseen condition that causes my initial pattern to fail? No big deal, just redo the pattern from scratch (if, of course, there is the time for that) or rethink the pattern. And I’ve seen how often that solves some other problem, or makes another thing more efficient, or makes future development more easy.
So who cares if your coffee shop failed, or you’re a “failed writer” (I’ve never heard that before), if we don’t treat failure as a bad thing, then people will be more likely to accept that and learn from it.
- Comment on Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes 1 week ago:
There’s no competing interests when it comes to protecting child from child sexual exploitation. When it comes to protecting them from guns, there is the competing interest of the second amendment.
- Comment on Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac 1 week ago:
And maybe even closer to the top of the 2010s.
- Comment on Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac 2 weeks ago:
We are talking about Drake here. I’m not a big fan, but he’s one of the biggest musical artists of our time. . .and you are arguing his using AI for a single diss track is some kind of admission of having no talent? WTF? How does this nonsense have any upvotes?
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 2 weeks ago:
Probably should read the article. Nah. Fuck that. Much better to just express outraged, regardless if it makes sense.
- Comment on Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry 2 weeks ago:
How old are you? Did you spend any time in the pre Uber days trying to get a cab? Wrong part of NYC? Good luck. Out in the suburbs and you don’t know a local cab company’s number? Lol never going to happen.
The electronic payment system is not what made it such a big improvement. It’s the ability to instantly call a cab almost anywhere, at any time, with no knowledge of anything local. It’s the connection between the drivers and the passengers that was the big leap.
- Comment on Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry 2 weeks ago:
The only thing those businesses were ever missing was a good online presence and/or a smartphone app.
Which is, of course, no small thing and the thing that makes uber/lyft thousands of times better than the car service model.
- Comment on Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit, why not just read the article? This is exactly what the interview is about.
Why do people read the comments, but not the articles? I don’t get it.
- Comment on Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry 2 weeks ago:
Kind of a dumb point. I suspect you didn’t really have much experience using taxis pre-uber. This is all about trying to replace the uber/lyft model with a similar thing, but where most of the profits go to the drivers and not uber/lyft.
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 2 weeks ago:
You’re one of the few. Pretty much everyone else complaining about how modern games are bad and the time you speak of was some magical time for gaming, are at the same time only be playing games from the last decade or so.
Having been a game since the early 80s, I would argue gaming is better now than it has ever been. It has its own set of problems, but nothing better than throwing a game I’m interested in into my wishlist, waiting for it to go on deep sale (which happens long after most of those annoying first bugs have been ironed out), checking the reviews at that point, and then downloading if it still looks good.
Generally speaking, games are so much better looking and have the ability to be far more intricate and interesting. Like I played hundreds of hours of civ I. But if I’m going to play civ now, it will be 5 or 6.
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 3 weeks ago:
You don’t miss those days.
You don’t have to! Pretty much all of those games are available, and you can play them for free if you’re willing to pirate.
But let’s be honest, modern games are better which is why you won’t do this instead.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Why so vague? I would be interested in this, but there is zero actionable information in your post.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 3 weeks ago:
I can’t remember why, but when it came out I signed up.
It’s been kind of interesting watching it slowly understand it’s userbase and shift that way.
While I don’t think you are wrong, per se, I think you are missing the most important thing that ties it all together:
They are Christian nationalists.
The emails I get from them started out as just the “we are pro free speech!” and slowly morphed over time in just slowly morphed into being just pure Christian nationalism. But now that we’ve said that, I can’t remember the last time I received one. Wonder what happened?
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 3 weeks ago:
I think you mean
“That should be easy. It’s what I’ve been trained on!”
- Comment on Want to lose weight? Poverty can help! 4 weeks ago:
It’s surprising that people talk about social problems…in a post about social problems?
- Comment on Want to lose weight? Poverty can help! 4 weeks ago:
I feel like way too much emphasis is put on cost. It’s really easy to find cheap stuff to eat that is healthy. It’s almost all of the second point: it just takes time and effort.
If you want to eat quick with little effort, it’s cheaper to eat unhealthy. Which is ultimately the problem. But if you put in the time to cook for yourself, it isn’t. It’s almost more expensive to eat unhealthy if you spend time to prepare and cook.
And I think too many people use this as an excuse to eat unhealthy. “Well, it’s too expensive, so I might as well not even try. Let me go get McDonald’s.”
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 4 weeks ago:
Agreed. Just not sure how it applies here.
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 4 weeks ago:
The general advice is that unless there is some issue causing you pain that would corrected by footwear, being barefoot around your house is fine.
- Comment on The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline 4 weeks ago:
I would believe that if the universe was not constantly expanding, that would be mathematically true. I’m not mathematician, but I think with a constantly expanding universe, that’s not a mathematical certainty.
- Comment on The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline 4 weeks ago:
Is it in orbit? And more importantly, is it in orbit around us?