ameancow

@ameancow@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fascism bad.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would also add that there is somewhere between 21% - 25% of the American population is functionally illiterate. This means that people can read short messages, texts and headlines if they focus, but are basically incapable of comprehending and internalizing written material more abstract or complicated than a meme or tweet.

  The far-right MAGA conservatives who are ride-or-die with Trump no matter what happens also seem to line up pretty close to this percentage. I don’t think anyone has done a direct study of a connection or even correlation, but I would put money on the bet that the Venn diagram is a perfect circle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are rich, white, male and say "Jesus" enough, you can get away with anything.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My father went from barefoot hippy to sportcoat-wearing, Champaign-sipping millionaire by saying “Jesus” a lot to a lot of wealthy people. Most of that money went up his nose over a couple decades and he died broke and alone, but for a time I got to see how the wealthy live.

  (It’s a lot of hedonism and drugs, so, so much drugs.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Username checks out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called “bait” and it’s what 90% of the internet is now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of like how reddit is overrun now with AI that keep posting questions to those “Peter, explain the joke” type subs which have absolutely exploded in the last few years, I think more than a few are spreading out of containment.

  At least I hope so.

  I would literally prefer the creepy, unnerving idea that artificial entities are prowling our forums trying to learn about humanity than the idea that there are people out there who can’t figure out the most basic things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m happy I don’t take part in gaming “communities.”

  Have a few people you know in real life you can game with. Stop reading forums and youtube shorts and streamer takes on gaming. Seriously, just fucking stop.

  Play games you like, read reviews if you must, but buy fewer games, play games less, make more friends, socialize, get the fuck out of your gaming chair, you’ll never be a famous twitch streamer. Your life is flying by while you’re lost in Helldivers 2 drama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yah this isn’t arcane mad science, it’s just using organic chemistry to make simple processors. We’re as far from “growing a conscious brain in a jar” as we are from traveling to Alpha Centauri.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They just made a basic microcontroller out of organic chemistry, relax and learn even basic science before you get bent out of shape by the next sensationalist clickbait headline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yah but the visuals of “growing a human brain and trapping it in hell” gets a lot more clicks than “We made a very basic microcontroller out of organic chemistry.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which part

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like we see faces in everything :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to the late 2020’s. It’s only going to get weirder.

  To be clear, the LLM in this story did not actually “want” a robot body, it doesn’t “want” anything, it’s not a thinking entity like you or I (assuming you’re real.)

  The guy fed it a ton of crazy shit and he got a lot of crazy shit amplified back to him by the world’s best associating machine, crafting detailed and fleshed-out narratives based on every inadvertent prompt he sent into it. People are very bad at understanding how these things work in the best circumstances, so if you’re already unbalanced or have deep emotional/mental health problems, an LLM can be incredibly dangerous for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, to be more correct, if they see a venture of tactic of theirs isn’t paying off as their delusional AI’s told them it would, we can at least get them to scrap that direction and try something else. We’ll never actually “stop” them, but we can use the thing we have, that they want, to at least direct them away from the places that they are causing harm to things we want to preserve.

  I am under no expectation of this happening at all, we have hundreds of millions of families who will throw whatever new, shiny, mainstream tech-toys and “blockbuster” releases at their kids as a babysitter, those are the breadbasket of the tech and entertainment companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just the needle pushing more towards subscription models for all the things.

  In a few years you won’t own games or game systems, you will have a controller to the side of your monitor and all your PC functions will be outsourced to a microsoft server and your games will be streamed to you according to whatever subscription tier you’re on.

  If you all want to stop this, STOP BUYING NEW GAMES. Just put the stupid fucking companies out of business, we can “acquire” plenty of PC games for our PC’s and there are vast numbers of used games out there, alongside whatever is kicking around in our steam libraries that we didn’t have the attention span to even try. Let’s go on a spending diet and enjoy the lives we have for a little while until the oligarchs all starve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard some of this before but I’ll dive in deeper and make myself even more depressed for the sake of understanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am saving this, it’s very well said.

  For real, I thought I knew this, I thought I was aware of the problem, then when covid hit I had an actual mental breakdown realizing just how bad it actually is, how the number of people who have cognitive thoughts is actually a slim, slim margin of the population and how “stuck” we are as a species.

  What’s worse is we’ve taken ourselves out of selective processes for improvement. We will never, ever get smarter or fix this because it offers our species no advantages to do so.

  We will never have the stars. I mourned that fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yah it’s something like that, the WWE/kayfabe thing but spreading through reality broadly, where one chooses to believe something they know isn’t true, and thus it becomes true to them. Abandoning of accountability for one’s own beliefs and embracing whatever corresponds to whatever feels most validating or satisfying. I lost a family member to this in the form of conspiracism and delusion, instead of getting help for voices and visions, they found a community to support them and started making money from people seeking meaning and truth (the truth they want to hear that is) and as a result just tripled down on every crazy idea and was eventually arrested for taking a weapon to a school and was eventually released and went right back to their supportive community online.

  I think the AI/atomized internet is going to either destroy us all, or it will force some people to actually reconcile their weaknesses as a cognitive being and how limited and vulnerable our minds really are in order to create safeguards against the most devious mental traps imaginable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am slowly discarding my differentiations between stupid and evil, there’s a different, mysterious third thing that combines both but exists on its own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The hardest message you will ever try to get someone to digest, particularly cis men, is that appearances are secondary in dating and relationships.

  I have been using examples of how our minds reinterpret visual appearances and how subjective our whole world is for decades, and still most guys who are overexposed to dating forums and men’s communities will absolutely rage at the idea that it’s not their physique or jawline that will make someone attracted to them, but how they make someone else feel.

  And right now, people I talk to in younger generations are pretty honest when they tell me that they have no idea how to make someone feel good around them, that the very idea terrifies them, and it varies from abject rejection of the notion to responses that it feels like “manipulation” to make someone comfortable around you… so is it any wonder people are basically giving up all over the world, and new relationships and sexual encounters are basically flatlining everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead framing flirtation as a (metaphorical) playful whisper of interest. It should be like a scent you wear: light, discretionarily used, inviting, and yourself.

  This is so true, and exactly like cologne or perfumes, a lot of people, guys especially, do NOT get it and really overdo it and then wonder why it’s so hard to meet people and date.

  What you’re describing is a kind of subtle and nuanced interplay that people explore with each other when they feel good and have minds that are somewhat on the same wavelength.

  I think we have a huge problem in the modern world with a lot of guys, particularly neurodivergent, who have a much harder time not approaching social lives and relationships from a mechanistic, procedural perspective and speaking as someone neurodivergent myself, I totally get it, but it takes work to overcome this kind of thinking and “let go” enough to enjoy the process and treat it more like a lazy, flowing river, than a switchboard with dials and levers to pull.

  This is why the Andrew Tates and Redpillers and so, so many of their adjacent “movements” caught on like wildfire in a growing population of guys with less social interaction as they spent more time online instead of learning outside with trial and error. The promise of a manual, an instruction book that lays out steps.

  And it’s been devastating to our communities, our cultures and our social bonds as a species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100% this, you shouldn’t even have expectations, the term “flirting” shouldn’t be in your mental language, you should approach socializing in a different way instead of labeling interactions.

  “That person is nice, fun and attractive, I want to say something that will make them feel good, because they deserve it” is a far better approach than “What magic words can I say that will make them horny for me.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every comment you made in this post has basically been agism wrapped in a cultural mask. I get you’re mad at your parents but you’re also going to be old someday whether you like it or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best advice I’ve gotten and given about flirting, is to not think about flirting, don’t think about the relationship game, don’t think about outcomes or consequences, instead focus on being just a little more bold than you’re normally comfortable with.

  Don’t even try it if you’re not already getting more comfortable chatting and hanging out with people. Flirting is just friendliness with confidence. You have to walk before you can run. It also helps to have at least one person you trust enough to tell you where you’re being weird or how you’re coming off to new people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yah because young people are absolutely killing it in the field of being social, forming communities and starting families and friend groups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I get the sentiment about comradery and connection through the focused goals, intense time investment and hardships that military training gives you… I think I’m going to recommend people find ways to connect that don’t lead to potentially murdering Iranians or getting murdered by drones in the wreckage of Tehran or wherever we decide to “freedom” next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do need to make an effort, though, instead of excuses.

  This really needs to be said more often, I don’t know what’s going on out there but I see this “I can’t make friends” sentiment all over the internet, but out in physical space people aren’t just going to “click” with you, you have to put in effort, use judgement if you’re putting in the right effort for the right company, and you have to decide what you’re setting aside to invest in this goal.

  “I don’t have time to do ____” surely applies to a lot of people and situations, but in my time coaching I always had to tell people that you don’t get good at something without making the time to actually work towards it, and making that time is always going to be a you problem. You have to decide if that 2 hours you spend “unwinding” after work is really doing you more good than hanging out somewhere and socializing or even just trying new things.

  I get being tired, we’re all fucking tired. But it doesn’t fix itself, all you can really do is force your body and brain to adapt to new kinds of stimulus and activity, which it will readily, you just can’t have both… you can’t spend all your spare time gaming or scrolling and expect you’re going to also be able to instantly shift gears if someone calls you up to go have dinner or play airsoft or go hiking or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so tired of this mainstream propaganda.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Big Stillness doesn’t want you to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's literally science⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The last time I hired a few people to help me move, I gave each one an extra $30 just to get themselves a goddamn back brace, that shit makes me worried when I see young people yanking heavy shit around like it’s not doing anything to their bodies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's literally science⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stretching too, it doesn’t have to be complicated like yoga, just find a doorjamb and put your arm against it or push against a wall or something, try to touch your toes, raise your arms, breath deep and hold your positions, don’t wiggle or lunge, just stop where you feel a pull and hold it, try to cover all your major support areas.