Carrolade
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- Comment on Hate more common in early reader comments 1 hour ago:
I think an additional factor is the early comment effect. Early comments get more visibility and engagement, so if you want to push your goals, you can post a comment if you get there early enough. If you don’t get there quick enough and there’s already hundreds or more, then there’s no point in adding your own, if your goal is actually to help your political project.
Same reason I hypothesize that political extremists are more likely than other people to sort their social media posts by “new” instead of anything else.
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 2 days ago:
Sure. The problem is we’re too decentralized to make enforcement practical. They can try to come for, say, lemmy.world if they want, that’s totally fine. That won’t get them to get very far with all of Lemmy though. Too many servers can be housed in places where western law cannot easily reach, and regulating just those servers located in western countries accomplishes very little.
Advantages of being structured differently.
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 3 days ago:
Y’know, it just occured to me, but this push towards child safety opens up another opportunity for Lemmy to grow at the expense of reddit. If reddit puts in age verification, the kids will still need somewhere to go to get answers to stuff like video game questions and random tech support problems. They won’t be able to use major platforms though, they’re going to be effectively banned from those. They can’t be banned from all of our servers though, that’s just impractical. So, they could potentially ask their questions and get answers here if they wanted, assuming we’re good enough at providing answers.
- Comment on What was your social media path? 1 week ago:
What counts and what doesn’t is pretty fuzzy. I’m just including everything that could reasonably fit, just to keep it simple.
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- Comment on The more you learn about human biology and childbirths, the more you'd realize how shitty and inferior this form of existence is... 1 month ago:
It’s a pros and cons thing. The pros in this case are our upright posture with narrower hips that let us cover long distances more efficiently than most of the rest of the animal kingdom. We can even do things like carry food to eat while walking, which something like an antelope would struggle with. Then a second pro is the whole big brain thing. These two factors did let us take over most of the planet over the course thousands of years, pretty quick work, really.
Then the cons are high mortality in birth, and taking something like 10 years after that risky birth to become even semi-functional at a practical level.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Riding your bike is exercise, so I’ll give that one a pass as a healthier hobby. Reading just depends on what you’re reading I suppose. Going to restaurants is generally looked at as a bad habit in my experience. Waste of money basically.
Regarding what makes video games special, I will say that they can develop bad personal habits a little easier than a lot of other hobbies. I think they have greater addiction potential than say, reading or bike riding. More on par with sex or gambling. They also create a temptation to oversimplify/misunderstand things about real life in the same way tv/movies do.
But yeah, overall I don’t think its a particularly bad hobby if you don’t go overboard with them.
- Comment on New Community: Anno Gaming Community - Lemmy.World 2 months ago:
Very nice. I think if we want to grow the Fediverse, these types of communities are among the most important of all. Lots of people use social media to ask questions/find answers/show off about specific games/hobbies.
Hope you stick with posting content during the slow, early days of starting a new community.
- Comment on World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops 2 months ago:
I was a little suspicious at first too, but no, appears legit.
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 3 months ago:
This is basically what various nonprofit orgs that people can join amount to.
Like, if you join the NRA your subscription cost is going to lobbying politicians on gun issues, among other stuff like keeping the org running and paying for nice things for the head of the org.
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 3 months ago:
Good lord, that’s it in a nutshell, isn’t it… Ugh.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 months ago:
I think it was Angela Collier that did a pretty basic test with a common store bought alkaline water, a lemon and some test strips. The water doesn’t start very alkaline at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t. Have to remember that a core component of trolling is making things up, so you should not take for granted that any mental illness is actually present. Imagine the troll as a 13 year old, smirking or giggling to themselves while they type. That’s the spirit these things are done in.
Anyway, bringing mental illness into it just insults people with actual mental illness, who generally behave much more maturely.
If you want to actually engage in any sort of positive way with a troll, you need to stoop to their level and draw out more engagement from them, without making it fun. We used to call this counter-trolling. Trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls … ad infinitum. This eats up some of their energy without giving them anything in return, as the time they spend engaging with you is time they can’t spend trolling other people, who might feed them more.
Or save yourself the time and just block and move on. That’s definitely the most mature thing to do.
The worst thing you can do is a short engagement that results in you acting like you’ve gotten upset and then disengaging. This is feeding them more things to giggle about. If you engage, you need to be willing to stay in it for as long as it takes to deprive them of that satisfaction. This can go for multiple days. I don’t really recommend it unless you also find the bantering process amusing.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 4 months ago:
if someone is doing that
Key words. I think we can look at
Someone showed me a TikTok video of a…
and assume with a fair degree of confidence that something a little fishy is going on here.
- Comment on Namibia deploys army to fight wildfire burning third of Etosha game reserve 4 months ago:
If you can dig a trench, you can dig a firebreak. The firebreak is probably actually easier, now that I think about it.
- Comment on YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse 5 months ago:
Yeah, every once in awhile I check my starred pages just to see what random things got fat fingered onto it. It’s mildly amusing.
- Comment on Modi says Russia and India stand together even in difficult times 5 months ago:
India and Russia also go way back, Russia was their main military supplier for decades. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but if I recall it was due to the US supporting Pakistan back in the day.
Even First Post, which leans liberal, tends to report from a more Russian perspective on the Russo-Ukrainian War.
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 5 months ago:
When the Generative Agents system was evaluated for how “believably human” the agents acted, researchers found the AI versions scored higher than actual human actors.
That’s a neat finding. I feel like there’s a lot to unpack there around how our expectations are formed.
- Comment on the tyranny of voting 6 months ago:
Hiding the first however-many votes is a really great idea.
- Comment on Black Holes 6 months ago:
It’s in the same vein as gamma ray bursts. Could possibly cause problems, but space is so big, so heavily occupied by empty space, that the odds of ever encountering one vs just more empty space is almost infinity:1.
I mean, our planet is billions of years old and hasn’t encountered a single one yet, based on the fact it’s still comfortably in orbit around the sun.
Asteroids are far, far more concerning. Encountered a bunch of those already.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 6 months ago:
Did a FNV run for the first time in maybe 10ish years? I had never played modded, was feeling like some fpv shooter arpg hybrid with a dose of nonsense, so figured I’d give it a replay.
Holds up remarkably well. Played it with the Viva New Vegas modpack as a base to simplify things a little bit for myself, added on a few extras for cool features, and it did significantly improve the experience. I remember crashes used to be very frequent, but even with a bunch of mods, this was actually more stable than I remember. Multiple companions mod made the difficulty completely trivial, so felt more like a power romp than an immersive game, but still fun as it sped the playthrough up enormously, with this posse I’m running around with just gunning down absolutely everything in the wasteland.
On the whole, good stuff, modded replay is recommended.
- Comment on US | The Good, The Bad, And The Incredibly Stupid In Trump’s AI Action Plan 6 months ago:
Informative article. Also liked this earlier one that was linked within this article, going into the challenges of different ways to secure artists livlihoods:
- Comment on If I had a hammer … 7 months ago:
Thinking about hammering in a screw puts a very serious frown on my face…
Upvote for creativity though.
- Comment on Russia suggests Trump is emboldening Ukraine, delaying peace 7 months ago:
Pumped up by huge state spending on soldiers and weapons, as well as by redirecting vital energy exports to the likes of China and India, Russia’s economy has so far defied Western hopes sanctions would push it into a deep recession.
This line is annoying. You think people couldn’t predict that Putin would keep his war machine afloat with the huge backstock of cash they had saved up? Of course he would.
The goal is to drain it over time, like any other reserve of resources. Nobody serious about the topic expected the sanctions to suddenly destroy the Russian economy. The goal was to make things more expensive, to apply pressure that would weaken them over time. This is why you haven’t seen many Western analysts predicting a swift Russian collapse, because that was not very likely when they had billions and billions saved up that could and would be deployed. The question is: how long can they keep up this demanding of a pace, when they’re dealing with finite resources and limited inflows? That second part on limiting inflows is what the sanctions are part of.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 7 months ago:
Modern war planners mostly know better than to count on everything going well.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 7 months ago:
To add to this, N Korea also has a huge conventional army, and is a very mountainous country. Lots of soldiers+mountains=very bloody to invade.
This is also why Iran is fairly safe from ground invasion. It’s like a gigantic Switzerland, which if you’re familiar with WW2 history, even Hitler left Switzerland alone despite kinda wanting to occupy the place. The cost was just too high compared to the benefits, so, y’know, may as well skip it and invade the USSR instead.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 7 months ago:
This works, but the quicker method for me was to hold the book over my head, out of my line of sight while I focused my eyes on something a little farther away (5’ away is fine). Then you can simply move the book downward into your field of vision while refusing to let your eyes refocus. It should be blurry, because you’re still focusing past it, despite it being right in front of your face. Then just relax and let your brain do the work.
This method got by far the quickest and most reliable results for me, most pop suddenly into view in just a couple seconds.
I think this method works best because you’re using established muscle memory to focus your eyes on an object at a measurable, consistent distance, and then just not letting them change. Removes several variables from the equation.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Not exactly a showerthought, maybe better off in a TIL, mildly interesting or history sub. This community is not for real information, though, showerthought communities are for more light-hearted and silly stuff.
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 8 months ago:
We found them.
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 8 months ago:
I was just gonna say, a squash that I cut in half, hollow out and dry is pretty low-tech stuff. Could probably use a coconut if you were in a pinch… Lot of options.