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- Comment on Surprise! 7 hours ago:
It’s still a kind of discrimination when you can’t imagine other people like you to be different than you. It’s totally fine for them to be 80-20 gay-straight but when you make blanket statements like “as a bi, I can tell you most bi guys are actually gay” that is hurtful discrimination.
- Comment on Surprise! 1 day ago:
It’s not as simple as that at all. Sexuality is a spectrum, it’s fluid, you’re not always born with it, and there are social factors at play. In some societies bi people live straight lives due to social pressure. On top of that, many bi guys often have more sex with guys because it’s easier and carries no risk of pregnancy. So yeah, your friend is just discriminating against bisexual people.
- Comment on Must use this 2 days ago:
Robocalls don’t care
- Comment on El Salvador parliament adopts reform to allow Bukele to run indefinitely 4 days ago:
Oof… That can’t be good. It’s great that he fixed the country’s safety issues, though not without breaking some eggs, but term limits exist for a reason. No one is immune to the corruption.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 6 days ago:
It was never going to succeed because it doesn’t bring Google money.
- Comment on Activist Who Helped Film “No Other Land” Shot and Killed by Israeli Settler 1 week ago:
Settlers is just the white washed euphemism for colonizers.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 1 week ago:
As any modern computer system, LLMs are much better and smarter than us at certain tasks while terrible at others. You could say that having good memory and communication skills is part of what defines an intelligent person. Not everyone has those abilities, but LLMs do.
My point is, there’s nothing useful coming out of the arguments over the semantics of the word “intelligence”.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 week ago:
I’m sure some countries will gladly setup VPNs for accessing this stuff even when all other countries block adult stuff.
- Comment on Become back status quo 1 week ago:
It’s 2025. Why are we still using cards for regular purchases? In Europe there are so many local alternative systems, which are about to start integrating with each other.
- Comment on Twitter in EU and UK 1 week ago:
What FUD? All I want twitter to be is a source of porn. And now it’s not even useful for that anymore.
- Comment on From games to reminders to drink water: The rise of 'streaks,' rewards that keep you hooked 1 week ago:
My duolingo strike addiction made me fucking miserable, but I just couldn’t stop. I knew that breaking it would plunge me into a horrible depressive state. I finally broke free after finishing the diamond league and make peace with “good enough”. I haven’t been able to use duolingo ever since, because there’s apparently no way of just using duolingo normally without gamification.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 1 week ago:
Jesus always said the ones that needed him the most were the crooked ones. He say Magdalena and though “I can fix her”
- Comment on Is it possible to sell semi-old computers/parts? 1 week ago:
Sure. I had to buy some replacement RAM sticks for a 2001 PC and was very glad to find a guy selling a bundle of them. Half were not working though.
- Comment on It's not just kind, it's kinder 1 week ago:
She was definitely not born with that ability…
- Comment on Puerto Rico Criminalizes Gender-Affirming Care for People Under 21 1 week ago:
Don’t give them ideas…
- Comment on If i stain or spill a drink on a shirt, can i just wash it in the bath with generic soap and let it soak rinse and dry to get the same thing as a whole load of laundry? 2 weeks ago:
That method would not wash anything more than a little sweat.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe that’s why beer tastes sweeter when I’ve been eating very spicy food?
- Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors 2 weeks ago:
How is this a plus for guests wtff
- Comment on Single Purpose Devices - reclaiming control over your technology 2 weeks ago:
Ah well, a Pi Zero I suppose is less overkill.
- Comment on Single Purpose Devices - reclaiming control over your technology 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if using a whole computer for in the spirit of a single purpose device. Seems a bit overkill.
- Comment on spinosarus through the ages 2 weeks ago:
That’s just Godzilla Park
- Comment on Israeli strike on Gaza's only Catholic church kills two 2 weeks ago:
They destroy all hospitals but now they feel deeply sorry for destroying a church. Go fuck yourselves…
- Comment on Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start? 2 weeks ago:
No, they have to return their martial arts skills after the movie ends.
- Comment on It's dangerous to go alone 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t even make sense as it’s Zelda who is speaking
- Comment on holee shiet 3 weeks ago:
This and “humans are animals”. It’s shocking the amount of times I’ve had to argue this.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
You’ll have to convince the EU to change the USB-C rule.
- Comment on It's just loss. 3 weeks ago:
Look I get you but
points at fangs
Canines though
- Comment on If you had a huge slingshot, how much rubber band would you need to send a spaceship into space? 3 weeks ago:
Zackdfilms posted a very relevant short a couple days ago: youtube.com/shorts/_VbmAWhjUuE
- Comment on me irl 3 weeks ago:
So you’re saying there’s a chance…
- Comment on Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 3 weeks ago:
Supposedly phones remain in standby even when turned off. So either remove the battery if possible or leave them home.