blockheadjt

@blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've probably met someone who has killed a person⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I like it. Feels like seeing a kind of truth that goes mostly obscured.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've probably met someone who has killed a person⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I once gave a friend of a friend a condescending chewing-out after they did something hurtful.

  Some time later our mutual friend informed me that they had died, but declined to tell me the cause of death.

  Much later I discovered it was self-caused.

  … Were my words too much? We spend our lives trying to be more effective communicators. What if we’re too effective when it matters most?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If AI is modeled after intellectuals, there will inevitably be a swath of non-intellectuals who conclude the post title… because the idea of intellectuals predating AI is unthinkable to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shut up science!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Circadian rhythm is pseudoscience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever bullshit tasks you’re dreading, see if it’s possible to do them before work, or on your lunch break, or on the weekend, or on your scheduled vacation days

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Results may vary.

  I find I’m generally happier without alcohol lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are established methods of eliminating poverty. They are decried by the right-wing as bad.

  Just look at why there are so few homeless and incarcerated people in the most developed European nations… they must be doing something right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Many people would use such a method to troll and be disruptive, possibly causing collisions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see them eliminating Linux from the internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Show your pride⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If a bee sees a color we cannot, it would be pretty silly to insist it’s not a color on the basis of us being unable to see it, wouldn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Show your pride⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if there are some metals that appear grey to us but actually have a color, we just don’t see it because it’s outside our visible spectrum

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Future is a separate show, set after the movie, not another season of the first show. It’s tonally very different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Repeating a punchline does not make it funnier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I get ick vibes from people who complain about bullshit. What now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OP is probably their alt, even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rhetoric?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the people who wrote the old testament wanted to scare people into subservience

  And those who wrote the new testament thought positive reinforcement was better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite menu music in a game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Smash Bros Wii U

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tells UN that climate change is 'greatest con job' globally⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is unironically good evidence that climate change is critically important (for the few slow ones that didn’t know already).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump ties autism risk to Tylenol as scientists urge caution⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And then we discover a large donation from Advil

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coincidence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all got any more of them pixels

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I cut my hair when it bothers me. I don’t keep track of the interval.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it really count if most of that “code” is broken and unused?

  Churning out 9x as much code as humans isn’t really impressive if it just sits in a folder waiting to be checked for bugs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah he ate my crunchwrap supreme right when it happened, was mad at first but we cool now, so couldn’t have been him

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t necessarily regret getting a degree, but I would have perhaps focused on a more in-demand degree if I knew how the economy was going to change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Might not be the best use of that time and tuition money though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Side effect⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Acquiring food is not a problem for someone with access to any time or place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Copy Epic’s model of selling “Sbucks” or similar, which you then spend on those games. Problem solved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two plausible explanations:

  1. People think immigrant refers to a person who chose to move. Since Superman didn’t arrive on Earth by choice, he’s not an immigrant. This is, of course, incorrect.

  2. People think the term immigrant only refers to people who look “different” compared to what is common in the region. This is, of course, racist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a decent chance that one of the many uncontacted tribes has started to worship airplanes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The opening scene of Star Trek Into Darkness explores this very idea