Carrolade
@Carrolade@lemmy.world
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 days ago:
Assuming he abides by constitutional law, this will be his final term.
- Comment on AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time 2 days ago:
Was wondering how long it would take to roll something like this out. Bout time.
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 2 weeks ago:
I actually sort of like this idea. People would still figure it out, of course, but it’d shift people’s default attention from the person to the platform.
- Comment on Metal is plastic. 2 weeks ago:
No. In astronomy, everything heavier than hydrogen or helium is referred to as metals. So, a star’s metallicity would be including carbon, oxygen etc.
- Comment on Metal is plastic. 2 weeks ago:
Ices are metals.
- Comment on Why Do People Gather? A Study on Factors Affecting Emotion and Participation in Group Chats. 3 weeks ago:
Positive emotions (γ = 0.128, p < 0.05) boost participation, while negative emotions (γ = −0.144, p < 0.01), particularly when linked to user behaviors, reduce it.
Well, it’s nice to have hard data on trolling, I suppose.
- Comment on ‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says 3 weeks ago:
That too. Unfortunately that also failed.
- Comment on ‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says 3 weeks ago:
What rescue operation required a multi-million dollar pier to be set up? Usually armored ground vehicles and/or helicopters work just fine for those.
- Comment on ‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says 3 weeks ago:
What do you think it was for? Oil exploration?
- Comment on ‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says 3 weeks ago:
That was the point of the temporary dock. Still didn’t do much when the IDF controls all entry points except the one overhead, though, and refugees aren’t living right next to the dock.
Perhaps a UN task force could be assembled to militarily escort aid trucks through IDF checkpoints by force, if necessary, since diplomacy doesn’t seem to be working.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 weeks ago:
As the dev’s flagship instance, there is only so much that can be done. There is also only so much that should be done, since they should have the right to run their own instance however they see fit. They did put the work in to create the service, after all.
I think the most reasonable solution around this is to simply push mbin a little harder. Since .ml will always garner a certain degree of attention as the dev’s instance, simply pivoting more attention to a lemmy-related service may be the best option to make us more appealing to less politically-interested people overall.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
I mean, tbf that was admittedly last millennium.
- Comment on Super hero movies should have more scenes of them accidentally maiming people just because of the sheer amount of power they weild. 1 month ago:
The web serial Worm by Wildbow, written like 10-15 years ago maybe, is also a pretty good superhero deconstruction.
- Comment on Patient gamer philosophy 1 month ago:
Personally I am very willing to pay full price and even occasionally buy pointless extras I don’t care about if it helps reward their passion for a project I see as a valuable contribution. I’ll even pre-order or provide them some free advertising in some cases. Especially if its the sort of dev where it seems like their long-term survival might be in question.
I feel like you can usually tell when the dev needs money or doesn’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Convenient scapegoat. What is easier to admit, that we are causing our own problems by not addressing new challenges appropriately, or pointing a finger at an outside group and going “their fault!”.
- Comment on Its a lot easier these looking at a beautiful person these days and not feeling a bit of jealousy know there is a decent chance they would vote for fascism. 1 month ago:
For the record, the number of die hard MAGAs is smaller than that, it’s just a subset of the gop. Then consider that a lot of MAGAs are duped into just thinking “oh, he jokes a lot, but he’s a businessman so he’ll do a good job!”
So the number of actual outright fascists is going to be pretty small when we weed out the people that just fall for their promises and lies. We need to distinguish between a fascist and a fool.
- Comment on They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. 1 month ago:
That’s cute, but the point is that despite Hilary’s very broad appeal to the big dollar doners, she was beaten by Obama in 2008 due to his, at the time very novel, online small dollar fundraising campaign. She was again defeated in 2016, despite having far more money given to her campaign than Trump.
www.opensecrets.org/pres16 www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/02/…/index.html?iref…
So the idea that the big doners actually dictate election results does not match our recent historical realities at all.
- Comment on They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. 1 month ago:
Tell that to Hilary Clinton.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 1 month ago:
Don’t eat fissile cucumbers.
- Comment on Since cats don't pant like dogs how do they release trapped heat? 1 month ago:
I too have seen cats pant on hot days.
If I remember right though, they’re originally descended from desert animals, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they have a higher tolerance for temperature extremes than dogs do.
- Comment on Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down. 2 months ago:
Yeah I caught that when I reread your comment. I made an edit, just a little too slow.
- Comment on Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down. 2 months ago:
Oh, I see. Still not seeing a big incentive for big tech, those meat bags are providing free labor. No strong need to replace them.
- Comment on Emacs.ch (Mastodon Instance for the Emacs community) will shut down. 2 months ago:
Why would big tech ever want to get rid of nasty meat bags when nasty meat bags drive much of their engagement and thus increase their advertising revenues? We can’t escape the realities of how the human brain operates, how much it likes to be stimulated regardless of the qualities of the stimulus.
I think a much more logical goal would be to take just enough action to avoid most (but not all) legal consequences while otherwise encouraging as many nasty meat bags to encounter other nasty meat bags with opposing viewpoints as possible. That would maximize brain stimulation, increasing engagement and thus revenue. This improves the stock price and makes your boss happier with you.
- Comment on 'Russian spy' whale found dead in Norway 2 months ago:
I must admit, I thought they were full of shit when they claimed they were training dolphins to do underwater patrols, but if this is real then maybe they do have some sort of animal training program.
- Comment on Israel Withdrew Gaza Evacuation Order After Leaked Memo Shows US Urged Restraint 2 months ago:
Hamas doesn’t have nukes. If Russia didn’t, we probably would sail into the Baltic and posture.
And yeah, you do have a point with Ukraine. We don’t have any signed treaties with them like we do Israel though. Just the Budapest Memorandum, with its very soft wording.
- Comment on Israel Withdrew Gaza Evacuation Order After Leaked Memo Shows US Urged Restraint 2 months ago:
Well, “we have to look strong” basically sums it all up, yeah. To quote a famous American saying, “Walk softly and carry a big stick”. We’ve been doing it for centuries, google Commodore Matthew Perry for an old example. Another good example would be Reagan reactivating our old Iowa class battleships just because they looked so dangerous, even though they were basically obsolete in the era of aircraft.
Making a threat can be very useful, it’s not hard to understand. Same reason a dog growls or a cat hisses.
- Comment on Israel Withdrew Gaza Evacuation Order After Leaked Memo Shows US Urged Restraint 2 months ago:
Power projection, maintaining our reputation and a threat. We send aircraft carriers all over the place, there will always be one or two near any ally threatened with attack. It’s why we buy them.
It’s really just Hezbollah at this point. Hamas barely has a couple brigades left, if that. Houthis are too far away to do much asides shoot at ships in the Red Sea. Not sure where the other fronts are. You think Egypt is going to invade or something? Jordan? Syria? Iran going to march through two countries to get there?
- Comment on Israel Withdrew Gaza Evacuation Order After Leaked Memo Shows US Urged Restraint 2 months ago:
True. The military blockade allowing only a modest amount of aid in with no real assistance in distribution is also a major problem.
- Comment on Israel Withdrew Gaza Evacuation Order After Leaked Memo Shows US Urged Restraint 2 months ago:
If Egypt was a rival, why not help hamas or leave the Gaza border open? If Jordan was a rival, why help track Iranian missiles? If Syria was a rival, why have American military bases?
Meanwhile, estimates put Hezbollah fighting strength at 60k. IDF has 300k enlisted.
Israel almost certainly has nukes.
The problem isn’t IDF propaganda, it’s your propaganda that cannot acknowledge any difficult truth, because of your pretty clear goal in aiding the Jihadist quest to reclaim all of Palestine.
- Comment on Israel Withdrew Gaza Evacuation Order After Leaked Memo Shows US Urged Restraint 2 months ago:
Egypt? Not an adversary. Jordan? Not an adversary. Syria? Not an adversary. On top of that, the last 3 times Israel fought them all, sometimes even simultaneously, they crushed them. All there is left is Hezbollah, with around 20% the total size of the IDF.
Oh, and now they have nukes.
And none of this is necessary to starve a captive population to death anyway.