jsomae
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- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 3 days ago:
yeah, I agree. But like, pointing fingers at “politicians” broadly speaking is still just pointing fingers.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 3 days ago:
The oligarchs want that, and the oligarchs have many politicians in their pocket I presume. However, it’s not like non-corrupt non-bought politicians have any reason to be afraid of a unified nation – they’re in politics to effect change in the first place.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 4 days ago:
that’s very pragmatic, but you can also flip this around – almonds are a luxury compared to other more practical foods, whereas LLMs can help a coder net an income if used properly.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 4 days ago:
if he’s a leftist, then of course he had “evil leftist” influences. The internet exists.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 4 days ago:
Number 1 Number 2 men up down women down down 3/4 of these are down, so it seems to me like the etiquette should be to leave it down.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 4 days ago:
Fair enough, but I think we shouldn’t be basing our inferences about the shooter from his family’s political leanings. My feeling is that somebody who does something so drastic is likely enough to be an outlier from their family that we can’t really know one way or the other.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 4 days ago:
But remember, one almond uses at least as much water as two requests to ChatGPT (sources: almonds, queries, data centers), so if you’re eating almonds at all then you’re being inconsistent.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 4 days ago:
Is this actually true? There’s too much disinformation about the shooter, his motivations, his identity, his family, his partner going around that I have no clue what to really believe about him.
- Comment on Know your place 5 days ago:
why does the existence of larger things have any bearing on our significance?
- Comment on Know your place 5 days ago:
bigger than I thought, tbh.
- Comment on What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely. 1 week ago:
Cute but this wouldn’t work for this obvious reason – conservatives would be like, “sure buddy. If you say so.”
OTOH, we made the rainbow work so… I guess?
- Comment on What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely. 1 week ago:
God’s rainbow has 7 colors (ROY G BIV), the LGBT rainbow has 6.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 weeks ago:
The OP does not claim that all barycenters are outside of the sun. OP correctly claims that Jupiter & Sun orbit a certain point, and that point is known as the “barycenter,” and that point is outside the sun. I’ll admit they could have gone further to convey the additional curiosity that for other planets the sun-planet barycenter is within the sun, but then it might not be facebook-tier anymore.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 weeks ago:
I can’t reasonably glean that, because the OP clearly says this:
It is so massive that both Jupiter & Sun orbit around a common point that lies outside the Sun known as the “barycenter”.
I agree that OP is facebook-tier but your reply is reddit-tier :P
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 weeks ago:
No, it is not true in general that the barycenter lies outside both objects.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 3 weeks ago:
then they’ll bring along their security escort.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 3 weeks ago:
they drove emulator developer Near/Byuu to suicide. That’s someone who created BSNES / Higan (the first fully-accurate snes emulator), and helped with the fan translations for many games including mother 3.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 3 weeks ago:
If we ban private jets, billionaires will just buy every seat on the commercial jet. This will be even more inefficient fuel wise, and worse for the environment overall.
Don’t ban private jets. Ban billionaires.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 3 weeks ago:
If the world goes to shit but Kiwi Farms is destroyed, I will have a moticum of warmth in my blood.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 4 weeks ago:
The user content on fandom is generally pretty good, at least for the wikis I frequent. It’s everything else about the site which is awful – the pop-ups, the completely irrelevant auto-playing videos, how it’s constantly trying to shove other fandom wikis into your attention.
I’m sure the site is improved with userscripts and such, and I am already using adblock, but it’s pretty unforgivable IMO.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 4 weeks ago:
Important context: he’s not suggesting AIs writing content for Wikipedia. He’s suggesting using AI to provide feedback for new editors. Take that how you will.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 4 weeks ago:
Granted, it’s not proof, but I find it very hard to believe that all cases of identical twins with apparently differing gender identities is explained by one of the twins simply electing not to transition while the other does. This is particularly hard to believe given that the twins grow up in similar environments, so if one is in a transition-hostile environment the other likely is as well. I think we should believe people when they insist they are not transgender, especially if they are part of a study where their identical twin is comfortable being open about it. If this were a rare occurrence, I would be more inclined to agree with you, but it is not rare at all.
“transgender”
One instance where I have seen “transgender” used this way is from the same article where I learned about the link between transgender, skin elasticity, and hyperflexibility:
it’s at least possible that EDS and transgender are linked
It’s no typo; other articles by this same author use the same grammar. I have also for sure seen this used on other sites, including by trans authors, but in 5 minutes of searching I can’t find those instances. “Being transgender” does seem grammatically fitting to me, but it doesn’t always make sense to use “being transgender” as a substitute for “transgenderism”*/“transgender.” Anyway we more or less agree here.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 4 weeks ago:
gender dysphoria is not what I’m talking about, since not all transgender people have dysphoria.
To be clear – “transgender” the noun is not referring to a person (“that person is a transgender”* – proscribed) but rather as a substitute for “transgenderism”* (proscribed). Personally, using “transgender” seems linguistically strange to me and it just reminds me of Trump saying “transgender for everybody” but if it’s what people prefer then who am I to judge.
Anyway – yes, I agree that it seems very probable that there are strong genetic components to transgender, but it’s also clearly not purely genetic.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 4 weeks ago:
Funny.
If we assume that the distribution is measuring some trait (e.g. “testosterone content,” “femininity,” measured however you will), and it’s bimodal (distribution is dominated by two binary sexes), then there will be people on either side of both peaks.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 4 weeks ago:
my bad, updated to “transgender,” I read online that’s the preferred noun form (though it looks more adjectival to me)
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 4 weeks ago:
I don’t entirely agree, because gender identity is known to be at least partially biological, e.g. there are correlations between transgenderism, skin elasticity, and hyper-flexibility.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 4 weeks ago:
it’s a normalized distribution. The y-axis is unitless.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 4 weeks ago:
yes.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but the top level comment is countering it using an incorrect application of the theory of evolution.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 4 weeks ago:
I’m not claiming that this change in how eyes work would be an improvement. I’m claiming that the following does not hold generally: “Doesn’t have adaptation X ⇒ adaptation X would not improve fitness.”