ameancow

@ameancow@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's literally science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never known someone who lived around farm animals who doesn’t have at least one story about either a giant boil or having to reach shoulder-deep into an animal to save it’s stupid life because it ate something dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Moo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively, if the portal is large enough and you’re into it, you could just Ace Ventura it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We can do your version on weekends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait until you learn about portholes to their stomachs and methane vents people install on cows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop demanding that we be polite to them

  This is entirely projection about what I said, I am not a liberal nor advocating for being “polite” I am simply warning you that these “All X’s are pedophiles” is dangerous rhetoric that is just black-and-white as their rhetoric so beware. There are very good reasons we need to be smarter than them. Re-read what I said exactly and take a breather. I know how frustrating it is, but this isn’t a tit-for-tat game or we end up in ruin and violence and without a “good guy” side to fall back on.

  Whatever happens, we still have to live next to millions and millions of people who you might label so casually so we need better solutions and not dividing lines. If Trump dies tomorrow, all of these people will be desperate for a new narrative, and we can USE that energy to push them in the right direction and get actual movement to attack capital… or we can get vindictive and stuck in the trenches arguing about fucking words with a group of people who won’t remember your argument tomorrow. Let’s be smart.

  History should be a very glaring example of how this can go bad if you think with your feelings instead of thinking about your feelings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most MAGA are just dumbfucks who would change their “values” 180-degrees if given the right emotional narrative to follow, they’re literally just children themselves, clad in machismo and vile rhetoric.

  The evil pedo-aligned people who need to be targeted (with legal repercussions) are the grifters and pipers all over youtube, twitter, cable news and radio.

  We really need to be careful about this "kill all pedos’ narrative while living in a climate where they are working feverishly to label basically anyone they don’t like but especially LGBTQ+ people as “pedophiles.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I already know nobody is going to click on OP’s link, so the short version is the magnet is permanently placed down in the cow’s second stomach and it stays there for life, and if the cow eats and nails or pieces of barbed wire, it sticks to the magnet instead of shredding up their intestines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its got to be deliberate.

  It is, they want to do what every gaming company wants to do, have a huge and popular streaming platform with games hosted on their servers so that people don’t own games or hardware, they just pay an ever-increasing monthly subscription fee. (plus many, many extra surcharges, in-game upgrades and cosmetics and virtual collectables, etc.)

  “You will own nothing and be happy” is going to be the motto of every electronic media company for the next several decades. Hope you didn’t like peer-to-peer gaming and having good ping in competitive gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re going to go all-in on paid streaming gaming services, like every major company for the next thousand years.

  You will own nothing and be happy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We got more games and better games when there was less money being made in the industry.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same with hollywood too.

  When you’re trying to just make a predictable amount of money over a set amount of time, you have very precise formulas for what kind of product you can publish to get that number. You can publish a clone of Call of Duty every year and make a very predictable amount of profit on the license, but if you take the chance on an “experimental” game with unproven mechanics or other things that haven’t been market-tested, it has a much higher chance of deviating from that predictable profit curve, or flopping entirely.

  When you have more than a hundred people working in a company, you absolutely have to secure regular profit levels to sustain the company, and this turns most creative works into slop-grinding and number-crunching.

  With movies it’s the same, you can push out a hot video-game license movie with all the same standard jokes and action scenes and big-name stars or the same kind of action movie formula with the same explosions and same bad guys and so on, and you will make a predictable amount of money for your costs.

  Even if the finished product is utterly mid and unoriginal, enough people can be pulled in with marketing and manufactured hype to guarantee a certain amount of return.

  These studios also tend to gobble up rights for smaller licenses and either throws those licenses in the shredder despite being successful, or sits on them for decades to avoid having to compete with them, but also do not want to invest in those titles, because again, they simply have already done the math and know that such titles won’t hit those target profits the same way a new fifa or battlefield game will make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever tf this is⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love he was inventive enough to design a tank a couple centuries before anyone actually built on, but couldn’t piece together a better idea for aiming in any direction than “cannons pointed in every conceivable direction.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fck it, we ball⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  any female born after 1983 can’t cook… all they know is leaf litter, curl they shells up, scuttling, lay eggs, eat rotten plant matter and lie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistcly how much can be cleaned out of a house, as a child of a hourder?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do not look at the mess and think about how much work it will take to clear it all out, that’s just going to overwhelm you and make you frustrated, so focus on your living space, wherever you sleep. Do some massive cleanout of your immediate area. Then the kitchen and bathroom(s) that you use specifically. Focus on yourself first.

  As they say, always put on your own oxygen mask before helping anyone with theirs.

  That’s it, just focus on having a clean room and hygienic bathroom and food-prep areas. You will face constant setbacks and every time you clear a countertop, there will be a new sack of clutter and bullshit placed there the next day. Learn to manage your frustrations and keep to the plan while you work on getting your own life together enough that you can move out and get therapy. You will need therapy.

  If having a couple small clean areas inspires your family to do more, great. Just don’t expect it. Hoarding is a mental health problem that needs serious treatment and some level of self-awareness by the hoarder that they have a problem, so don’t expect to fix it, just try to carve yourself a path out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Article Five of the United States Constitution⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  many are too worried about their potential moderate republican voters corporate donors, the same donors who donate to republicans.

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The longer I'm alive, the more I feel that people make things complicated to feel important.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Of all the things that sort of happened that way this sort of happened that way the most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans' behavior about LLMs is the same as animals with a mirror: they believe there is "another" in there. It's just their reflexion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not nearly enough people understand this about our current models of AI. Even people who think they understand AI don’t understand this, usually because they have been talking to themselves a lot without realizing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans' behavior about LLMs is the same as animals with a mirror: they believe there is "another" in there. It's just their reflexion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Animals aren’t cursed with the human ability to think our way into harmful and unproductive behavior due to conscious re-interpretation of information around us. Except for occasional zoo-animals that fall in love with inanimate objects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans' behavior about LLMs is the same as animals with a mirror: they believe there is "another" in there. It's just their reflexion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to describe it as a “force multiplier” along the lines of a powered suit.

  You are putting in small inputs, and it’s echoing out in a vast, vast virtual space and being compared and connected with countless billions of possible associations. What you get back is a kind of amplification of what you put in. If you make even remotely leading suggestions in your question or prompt, that tiny suggestion is also going to get massively boosted in the background, this is part of why some LLM’s can go off the rails with some users. If you don’t take care with what exactly you’re putting in, you will get wildly unexpected results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨time for learn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s making fun of the long-standing trend of using abstract generated imagery that fetishizes a technological view of the world while trying to talk about human issues, as well as the somewhat over-the-top literalism of AI art broadly.

  There is also an “anti-meme” trend online that uses literal translations of imagery to make absurdist jokes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At least one of the 7 letters has still some relevante to my life.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nostalgia is not about the actual thing itself, but the person you were when you enjoyed that thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony plans to minimize effect of rising PlayStation 5 memory costs by boosting software and network service revenue, according to CFO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Translation: they’re going to make everything else more expensive, like they already do to offset hardware prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deez nutz save lives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is no longer about what you want, we’ll just inject pineapple juice and rum in your other arm and bring you to party down with some vampire hotties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deez nutz save lives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The short answer is most of life on Earth shares some basic levels of chemistry. That doesn’t mean it’s a perfect fit though, just that human bodies are resilient enough to make due with terrible substitutes at times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deez nutz save lives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And bras for womenfolk stranded on the island.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deez nutz save lives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  An unusual reaction to the prospect of having your life saved, but far easier to arrange than other solutions I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole “why don’t you do it first” reply is no more intelligent than saying “I ain’t reading all that” or “the curtains were just blue” or other dumb thought-stopping exercises vomited out by a generation with no attention spans. I reject it, I block those who dump that like they’re somehow doing some good by trying to find hypocrisy in an idea that makes them uncomfortable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We are all going to have to start figuring out how to socialize face-to-face again.

  Sorry guys, the internet broadly is dying for anything but corporate interests and people with rotten agendas trying to manipulate people. It brings you nothing but stress in your personal lives, why stick to it? Who is using it that you need to spend all day in discord to keep them company? Live for a better tomorrow with actual experiences, dust yourself off and start going out and experiencing the world while you still can.