karashta
@karashta@piefed.social
- Comment on reaction 1 day ago:
So much this. It’s not even like this is a sloppy Joe. This is presented as a burger. It doesn’t even look appetizing to me.
- Comment on The word "antihero" has really lost its meaning 3 weeks ago:
An antihero was not and is not a “bad guy who does good things”. It’s a person who lacks the usual hero characteristics taking up the role of a hero.
Shrek is the perfect example of an antihero.
An ugly big green ogre who is rough and uncouth, sent on a quest that isn’t his own, yet still fulfills the role of hero.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 4 weeks ago:
The central character of the show is the least interesting person on it somehow despite having what could have been a good back story.
Everyone else seems to be some sort of real person to me. She is just so boring and flat and everything revolves around her for no real reason. Her purpose seems to be to be the fence post that stands there and eventually cries.
The best thing about the show was it gave us Anson Mount as Pike and he is outstanding. He was so good as Pike we got SNW as a spinoff.
- Comment on Million-year-old skull ‘rewrites human evolution’: Yunxian 2, found in China in 1990, indicates Homo sapiens may have emerged 400,000 years earlier 4 weeks ago:
“The scientists relied in part on another similar skull to shape their model, and then compared it to more than 100 other specimens.”
Why use this specific similar skull? How similar was it really? We seem to be talking about fine structures in specific areas of the skull. How do they know they picked the right one to base their reconstruction off of?
- Comment on I wish there was a system to verify that a webpage was written by an actual human before showing me it 1 month ago:
If you ever see such a thing, please let me know. My areas of expertise lie in other places.
- Comment on I wish there was a system to verify that a webpage was written by an actual human before showing me it 1 month ago:
It's honestly getting to the point where I almost wish someone with know how would train an AI to block AI slop from my internet
- Comment on Put down your phone and engage in boredom – how philosophy can help with digital overload 1 month ago:
"Where there is no boredom there can be no reflection". Going to disagree with this. I burn my hand on a hot stove, I reflect upon that and I'm sure not bored.
I find that a lot of the reflection in my life comes from similar things. Engagement with a good book, coming across a problem I've never seen before, interacting with new people in new social situations. Things I engage with that also throw me back to myself... All things that make me reflect that aren't boredom.
I'm not disagreeing there is value in boredom. I feel like a lot of my creativity comes from having been bored while young (as well as it being actively encouraged by teachers). Just disagreeing that boredom is the only reason anyone reflects deeply.
- Comment on Trump says to move homeless people 'far' from Washington 2 months ago:
He's got places he will give them to stay. Fat from the capitol, he says.
He means the death camps.
- Comment on US uses war rhetoric, Superman to recruit for migrant crackdown 2 months ago:
Notice how student debt forgiveness is part of the package?
I hate it here.
- Comment on Gulagtus 2 months ago:
Thank you kind internet stranger. I needed that laugh
- Comment on Is DOGE actually about collecting information to train AI for Musk products than saving money? 5 months ago:
There's a few reasons to get that data.
To weaponize it against us himself, or sell it to our enemies.
To create a "master list" that the authoritarians can use to disburse and destroy those they disagree with or find impure.
This isn't just about some shitty AI. It's about destroying and controlling us.
He's currying favor with world leaders because he saw how easy it has been for such vast wealth to undermine and topple American democracy and he wants to do this everywhere.