_cnt0
@_cnt0@sh.itjust.works
Master of Applied Cuntery, Level 7 Misanthrope, and Social Injustice Warrior
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 4 days ago:
I always found this argument funny because how would you use pronouns for someone whose gender you do not know? They. It’s they. E.g. you are given the sentence: Jordan went to the store to buy apples. And you want to ask a followup question regarding how many, you reply: How many apples did they buy?
And that’s not how English was taught to me or 99℅ of the population (including English as a second or third language) 20+ years ago. Singular they was only used for situations where the gender (read as superficially visible sex) was factually unknown. You see a forgotten umbrella and never saw who forgot it: “Somebody forgot their umbrella.” As soon as you only got a glimpse on the person forgetting it you would make a guess about he/she.
They has been used for gender ambiguity in everyone’s lives since grammar school.
If you’re younger than ~30 and from Great Britain, maybe. GB were the first to formalize and teach it like that less than 2 decades ago (if I recall correctly).
People just have an inherent bias towards trans folks and it’s incredibly depressing and sad.
That’s bullshit projection.
I, a non-native speaker, complain about increased ambiguity of the language because of singular they as a personal pronoun and make a proposal about new pronouns for the purpose.
You: Ah, must be transphobe. Let’s ignore everything he said (which doesn’t relate to transphobia at all).
It’s so frustrating not to be able to have a discussion about stuff making a language harder than it needs to be without people invoking transphobia, like, instantly.
But hey, I called it: can’t have a discussion about it and I’ve given up on it.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 4 days ago:
Doesn’t feel like you want to have an honest argument when you ask how far we should go back on a proposal about going forward and don’t address the single motivator ambiguity.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 5 days ago:
I criticized singular they/them for increasing language ambiguity and suggested replacing it with something new like xe/xer multiple times. The reply is usually a shitstorm and downvote tornado. I’ve given up on that front.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t make it flawless (at all), but installing the microsoft fonts helps. Most distros have a package or helper tool for that.
- Comment on All I Want 1 month ago:
Various notations appear in older sources were used, such as Ne(22) in 1934,[1]: 226 Ne22 for neon-22 (1935)[2] or Pb210 for lead-210 (1933)[3]: 7
You kids and your newfangled notations *shakes fist at heaven*
I had some really old physics books when I went to school … and that has been a while.
- Comment on All I Want 1 month ago:
The 235 belongs right of the U, you savage!
- Comment on Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue 1 month ago:
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence
Take your pick from anything that isn’t recent and by computer scientists or mathematicians, to call stuff intelligent that clearly isn’t. According to some modern marketing takes I developed AI 20 years ago (optimizing search problems for agentic systems); it’s just that my peers and I weren’t stupid enough to call the results intelligent.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
I’d welcome actual AI. What is peddled everyday as “AI” is just marketing bullshit. There’s no intelligence in it. Language shapes perception and we should take those words back and use them according to their original and inherent meaning. LLMs are not AI. Stable diffusion is not AI. Neural networks trained for a singular task are not AI.
- Comment on Habit tracker 1 month ago:
I’m doing a combination of 3 to 6.
- Comment on AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality: If we can’t build an equitable, sustainable society on our own, it’s pointless to hope that a machine that can’t think straight will do it for us. 2 months ago:
fixed title
If we can’t build an equitable, sustainable society on our own, it’s pointless to hope that a machine that can’t think
straightwill do it for us. - Comment on Why American Films Are Objectively The Best, post # 1/17 3 months ago:
Watching that movie was a drug-infested nightmare. The drugs were my fault, the nightmares were on the movie. The fire extinguisher scene went on for what felt an eternity. Showing the head for punch after punch after punch after punch after punch after punch after punch after punch after punch after punch after punch after punch after punch after punch after punch after punch after punch until it was a pulpy mess not recognizable as a head with blood seeping out of it. Actually, I think the right-hand side of the meme is a pretty apt categorization for that movie, except, maybe, the unenjoyable part. Enjoyability just depends on your own perversions and morbidity. And the title of the movie is a lie. I reversed the fire extinguisher scene: it becomes a love story of a kind and dedicated fire extinguisher reconstructing a dead man’s head. I sometimes masturbate to that.
- Comment on Why American Films Are Objectively The Best, post # 1/17 3 months ago:
Tell me you haven’t seen the uncut version of Irreversible without telling me you haven’t seen the uncut version of Irreversible. That’s like, peak entertainment. Thank me for the trauma later.
- Comment on It's time to stop 3 months ago:
I’m going to pistol whip the next guy who says sheernanigans!
- Comment on $1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up 4 months ago:
To be fair, intelligence isn’t found in anything marketed as “AI”. This one being a scam using humans, actually featured intelligence.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 4 months ago:
Mmh, diffuse dither … give me some Bayer dither!
- Comment on ich_iel 4 months ago:
SPRICH
- Comment on America is fucked 5 months ago:
Deine Mutter schwitzt beim Kacken.
- Comment on America is fucked 5 months ago:
Richtig!
- Comment on America is fucked 5 months ago:
How many Germans does it take to change lightbulb?
- Comment on Proton 5 months ago:
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 6 months ago:
This is so fucking retarded on so many levels. It’s time to regulate the shit out of “AI”.
- Comment on The public isn't happy about me either 6 months ago:
I think this is a Shittshitpost.
- Comment on GOG’s New Plan To Weaponize Its Community’s Wishlist Of Games To Pressure IP Holders 7 months ago:
I happen to have the original CDs and might be of help in preservation efforts. Not quite sure where I misplaced them, but I just had NOLF 2 in my hands.
- Comment on Me when my parents told me they first met in the summer of 1999 & started dating the following year and I did the math (dad - 1959, mom - 1984) 8 months ago:
That’s a lot of words to say you’re from Alabama.
- Comment on The children yearn for the mines 8 months ago:
- Comment on If you find any German words, you can keep them 11 months ago:
SPRICH
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 11 months ago:
I don’t want to fuck Rowling.
