damnedfurry
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Is appearance really the first thing it occurs to you to comment on?
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 days ago:
Jorge Hirsch, the creator of the h-index asserts that a “successful scientist” will have an h-index of 20 after 20 years; an “outstanding scientist” will have an index of 40 after 20 years; and a “truly unique individual” will have an index of 60 after 20 years or 90 after 30 years. Jordan Peterson has an h-index of 57.
His academic work had been cited well over 10,000 times before he became a publicly-known figure in 2016.
He obviously isn’t a quack in the field of psychology, by any objective measure.
- Comment on CEO Brags That He Gets "Extremely Excited" Firing People and Replacing Them With AI 4 days ago:
This article is just a re-hash of this article, it seems. It should be what’s linked, imo.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
most of the admins were revealed to have .gov emails
I remember reading that this was something someone just made up and was spread a bunch, but wasn’t true at all.
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 1 week ago:
Sucks that it has to
It doesn’t have to.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t show someone Hilter’s paintings. If I had them in my possession they would cease to exist.
You’re completely missing the point (and supporting mine about you, in the process). If you didn’t know who the artist was when you saw it, and ended up liking one of them, would that transform you into a Nazi?
Of course it fucking wouldn’t. The painting isn’t expressing or endorsing any Nazi ideology.
And neither is this comic.
Stop being insufferably obtuse.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Nothing pro-Nazi about this comic.
Liking one of the paintings made by Hitler himself wouldn’t even be accurately described as “Nazi apologism”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like you’re the kind of person who’d show someone one of Hitler’s paintings without them knowing it was, and if they said they liked the painting, you’d call them a Nazi.
Try actually reading what I wrote.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s funny, and this particular comic isn’t pro-Nazi in any way (just referencing Hitler doesn’t make it so), so I have no trouble enjoying it.
It’s just a blend of ‘people reject AI in the role of artist’ + ‘Hitler was rejected as an artist’ + the silly correlation of ‘getting rejected as an artist makes you become like Hitler’, the latter being something no one really believes, but has become a meme once those two things were juxtaposed like that.
Not that deep, as I said in my previous comment.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
As someone who studies humor as a hobby, I assert:
It’s not that deep.
There is no “hero” in this comic. It’s just a joke that combines two simple/known things:
- Hitler was rejected from art school prior to becoming the infamous figure in all our history books (to put it lightly)
- AI has faced a lot of backlash from people who reject it being used as a source of art
So now the rejected robot artist is implied to be becoming like Hitler as well, by painting a Hitler-like mustache onto its face, after it was rejected from being an artist.
Though it’s worth stating that it’s already basically an existing joke that Hitler became who we know him all as, as a direct result of his rejection from art school in Vienna–obviously that’s correlation, not causation.
Not to mention that there’s nothing in the comic itself that implies the robot being angry at anyone other than those rejecting it–Stonetoss has in the past depicted a character as being Jewish conspicuously (drawing them wearing a Star of David necklace/jewelry, etc.), in service of that comic’s punchline, but no such ‘indicator’ is present on the human doing the rejecting here. That’s obviously a deliberate omission.
I think it’s a bit silly to interpret this comic as endorsing Hitler or the Holocaust or anything like that, and that your perception of him as a person, true or not, has warped your assessment of what ultimately is a straightforward and uncomplicated gag.
- Comment on Antz in my Pantz 2 weeks ago:
Kind of the opposite, looks like evolution is trying desperately to get rid of ants, lol. Possibly replacing them with crabs.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 2 weeks ago:
Quoting from my previous comment:
Special District Level: This is where the complexity truly explodes. There are thousands of “special taxing districts” (e.g., transit districts, school districts, stadium districts, hospital districts, fire districts, etc.) that can overlap city and county lines, each adding its own fractional sales tax rate. A single street could literally have different sales tax rates on opposite sides due to these overlapping districts.
Is there anyplace in Europe where sales tax is THAT level of convoluted, on top of city, county, and state levels?
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 2 weeks ago:
There isn’t zero reason, you’re just unwilling to accept the reasons.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 2 weeks ago:
Europe is not a country, and Germany is not a state.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 2 weeks ago:
All there is to comprehend is that the US contains states that have distinct sales tax laws.
- Comment on the unseen worlds 3 weeks ago:
Was wondering why this sounded familiar, saw the article was from 7 years ago (2018) and now I understand, lol.
- Comment on What are the chances 4 weeks ago:
The US’s incredible levels of prosperity back then was essentially a unique period of time created by extremely specific circumstances (i.e. the US was THE superpower, and the primary economic force on the planet for decades). There’s a reason the ‘baby boom’ happened then. It was literally a unique slice of world history.
It is unrealistic to expect to ever return to that level. Comparisons between now and then are all disingenuous for that reason.
Instead of framing the changes we want to make in terms of ‘but we had X back then’, they should simply be framed in terms of what improvements are beneficial, feasible, and sustainable, in the present.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 month ago:
Mailing someone more letters than they’re capable of replying to is not equivalent to, nor a component of, gaining access to the inside of their home.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 month ago:
No thanks, I value my time.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 1 month ago:
Youtube acting like it has anything to offer
This is weapons-grade copium, there is no other platform with even 1% of the content on YouTube.
- Comment on The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About 1 month ago:
It is obviously clickbait. It would take no more effort for that headline to say “model” where “one” is, but they wrote “one”, because the intention is to make you think it’s the exact same plane.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 1 month ago:
The 10% of the time when it’s both folded and unfolded must be sublime.
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 2 months ago:
Yeah, this is a flex of naivete re PayPal, more than anything, lol
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 2 months ago:
But you did say it. Everyone knows what the word is. You went out of your way for literally no reason, to accomplish nothing but making people wonder why you did such a pointless thing.
- Comment on Punctuation 2 months ago:
I thought he was just in character.
- Comment on sus 2 months ago:
Watch out for those sexually dransmitted illnesses
- Comment on Sex!? 6 months ago:
I mean, it’s hard to know you’re ace before you become aware that sex is a thing most people want and seek, lol.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 9 months ago:
That’s the majority of them, but ragebait articles aren’t written about them, so you have no idea who they are.
Don’t be so easily manipulated by media.