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- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 1 day ago:
Kids they’re days think they’re going to get a date without building a medieval hampster wheel powered trebuchet first, our education system has failed.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 1 day ago:
That’s alright, when the 100% chalk contraceptive pill and the polyethylene ‘super sensitive’ condom hit the market I think they’ll do ok.
- Comment on Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets? 1 day ago:
They turn into spaghetti at speed. Watch them on video to see the TRUTH!
Unreliable!
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 6 days ago:
Not the one you asked but - I thought it read more like an exam question than a crapgpt question.
It is this part that rubbed me the wrong way: “Please provide formulas and an example.”
That’s like the part where the examiner is giving a hints about how the marks will be awarded.
Either way here’s my equation: P(Answer | Question and constraint on answer ) < P(Answer | Question)
I assume that’s the OOPs intention though; to block out some of the noise from the responses. I only see one formula so far (excluding my stupid one) so I’m not sure if it worked strictly, but I’d be surprised it it hasn’t filtered out some answers.
- Comment on Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue 1 week ago:
Another option is to try melting a bit of wire mesh or even strands of wire wool into the plastic with a soldering iron, or maybe just melt in a few staples across the crack.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
It was a typo, he actually cursed gifs because he was sick of all the memes.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 week ago:
I think the point is that the tech doesn’t materially change most starwars characters interactions from present day. It’s not really scifi because the science / tech doesn’t shape how the characters interact dramatically.
If you give the characters some real scifi-tech like put them inside computers, or have backup throwaway clone bodies, or jack them in to a hive mind, or give them time travel or alternate universes then the whole dramatic context of the character interactions has to change and the story has to be shaped by the technology to some degree. It’d likely be a bit more alien as our innate sense of constraints and jeopardy doesn’t apply.
Only really the deathstar is anything different tech wise - it is only used once, and becomes more like a part of the maguffin.
The other fantastic dramatic features that starwars does use that are alien to us - precognition, mind control, reincarnation(sortof) - are magic rather than tech.
- Comment on [META] recent changes on the type of posts 1 week ago:
If it’s a niche it should probably have a dedicated community for it: e.g. c/cooking@lemmy.world
Personally I did like the button sewing post, maybe that is generally useful enough that everyone should know. But I’m already in a few repair/DIY community that never get enough posts, and I’ve just found a ‘Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste’ one where it’d fit too.
Maybe it could be tolerated but should have a tag like [NICHE] in a title and a recommendation that OP should cross-post it as a way to promote/ support the other communities.
- Comment on can you say “what it means?” as proper english? 1 week ago:
‘Do’ do be doo-doo. /jk (and not ‘proper’ grammar for anyone still trying to figure it out.)
- Comment on 1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025. 1 week ago:
Like the Sly Stallone comment in demolition man about the Schwarzenegger library.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 1 week ago:
mod(0,0)
- Comment on does it mean I am a horse? 1 week ago:
Favourite book?
Don Key-ote.
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Not even the Suzuki Swift?
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 2 weeks ago:
“Americans” is a stupidly large and diverse population to say anything meaningful about. It’s extremely unlikely that that any population of humans of such a size doesn’t include some individuals who are more extreme than you, both more and less, for almost all traits.
You’re less likely to observe introverts than extroverts because one of those types will tend to do things in a way that are less likely to get your attention. You’re might well be experiencing observation/selection bias, possibly also reinforced by confirmation bias.
But whatever you think to be the “typical”, even if you could estimate it using some unbiased sampling method, it is often not a helpful way describe the whole population, or at best a reductive “average” that has limited useful applications.
TLDR - human populations are diverse. I don’t think any nation has ever effectively brainwashed or eugenicised their population into a single homogeneous group.
- Comment on And sir cumference, the sphere 2 weeks ago:
Does that say “Sir Ballin’ wielded the Lance of Longpenis”?
Modern depictions aren’t pron enough.
- Comment on Reality vs. male delusion 2 weeks ago:
Well, its on lemmy and you’re several comments deep.
You’re almost bound to hit a vein of unsolicited socialism/communism by that point - it’s basic geology.
- Comment on Reality vs. male delusion 2 weeks ago:
It seems to me that quite a lot of people want flies and that’s why quite a lot of resources are put into that type of shit.
I was trying to explain to this dude in the pub - who didn’t understand my explanation that I don’t have a hairstyle - that I thought vanity was a waste of resources, and he looked at me like: “but everyone wants to look good, right?” He was confused. I was confused.
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 3 weeks ago:
I tought you had to play blackjack/ pontoon/ 21 to count cards?
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 3 weeks ago:
cheap and easy.
It’s many thousands of years of solar power , concentated in to a storable, portable and fairly accessible and transmutable form.
Countries don’t “generate” coal and oil, they suck it out of the ground. It was generated by thousands to millions of years of life and accumulated geological processes.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure by windows 12 or 13 coprolite will be so good they will get rid of both control panel and command prompt/powershell. The best ui is no ui.
In any case, the users won’t want to mess with settings once the OS already knows which advert they want to see next.
- Comment on FANTER 4 weeks ago:
fantastic story.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The concept of “the average person” is a good example of the type of crass generalisation that propagndists often use.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 4 weeks ago:
You have to be careful to get a phone and model supported by one of the projects. Check all compatibility and install instructions before buying a phone. And if you need a manufacturer supplied unlock code, make sure the manufacturer still gives them out some will discontinue that.
For graphene os you need one of the gogle devices - i’ve never tried it but i think its the one most people like.
lineageos supports more devices usually older.
I recently got lineageos working on sony experia xa2 - very happy with it. But to get there i had to go try like 6 computers before one of them sucessfully sent the bootloader unlock code over the ADB. For some reason usb is temperamental when doing stuff like that
It is a lot easier on really old stuff like samsung galaxy s3 or s4 if you can tolerate something that old. Maybe you’ll lso end upon an old version of lineage.
Once you get the bootloader unlocked it is generally straightforward. but modern phones make that fist part awkward.
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 4 weeks ago:
I backup my precious dick pics at several offsite locations by sending them to as many people as possible as often as possible.
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- Comment on If you're a broke vampire, just say that 4 weeks ago:
They just ned to sell their crypto.
- Comment on How can we make lemmy have more relevance? 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 5 weeks ago:
If you want to boost USA manufacturing industries I’d look at the sector that killed it first.
Bring in international capital controls, forex restrictions, limit consumer / mortgage credit maybe bring in some directed credit requirements. Badically the bank egulation that was chucked out in the 1970s. When us msnufacturing industry mysteriously started to decline. 70s recessions were not only caused by oil price shocks, and the sectoral shift was reinforced by bank liberalisation.
I’d think you’d want to force the USA finance industry to invest (at least some decent amount) in the future of USA produtive capacity, instead of letting them invest in China’s future and have an arms race to fuel a perpetual domestic property bubble.
Tarrifs might still be part of it - but if your domestic companies can’t borrow, they can’t grow or maintain/develop asset base.If they don’t have working capital facilities, they liquidate fast.
Tax breaks might work/help (as might tarrifs), but if taxes are all on profits, you still need to borrow against the future to make the investment in the present (i.e. make a loss and pay no tax anyway) to build the productive capacity. They’d be better for short payback or labour intensive industries than for capital intensive industry - without other stuff.
I guess if you mean income tax breaks for workers in certin types of jobs/companies, that is interesting. Either way you need quite a lot of monitoring to avoid corruption of just wierd distortions with unintended consequences. That’s what banks lending to businesses should do and be good at, monitoring their loans and their debtors.
- Comment on How can we make lemmy have more relevance? 5 weeks ago:
And Slackware, of course.
- Comment on Peak evolution (after crabs) 5 weeks ago:
God: “let there be light”
Jellyfish: [activates bioluminescence]