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- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 2 days ago:
Your math is wrong. If you want the creator to still get $5 with apple stealing 30% you would need to pay ~43% extra.
$5/0.7 = $7.14
1/0.7 = 1.42857
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 3 days ago:
Lol assume the rage is blind. Straw man much?
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 3 days ago:
Ah I see so she not only gets to continue to benefit personally from the unearned wealth she’s hoarding, but also gets to commit further exploitation to steal yet more wealth from the working class and redistribute it unilaterally however she sees fit, just because she gives some of it to charity. Are you not aware that most if not all of the charities rich people donate to are really just a tax dodge, and the charity itself only serves to promote the political interests of the billionaires that fund them? I guess not because you can see the nuance in being an evil wealth hoarding dragon but not in “donating” to “charity”. Educate yourself first before you try to educate others chucklefuck. You’ll look like less of a naive dipshit.
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 4 days ago:
All billionaires are bastards. Full stop. It doesn’t fucking matter if they got there through marriage. It doesn’t fucking matter if they donate to charity and seem like nice people. Nothing they can do can excuse the evil done by them or on their behalf to become that wealthy in the first place. You can tell they’re cool with it because they never seem to stop being billionaires of their own free will.
- Comment on Humans on average get 2 hours of battery life for every hour they charge 5 days ago:
This isn’t a great metaphor. We don’t get energy from sleeping, and we probably only reduce our energy expenditure slightly during sleep compared to being awake. Sleep is our maintenance routine, especially for our brain. It’s used for cleaning waste products out of our brain, processing information from the day, creating and solidifying memories, consolidating learning we did, training for future fine motor tasks, and practicing for possible future events. It’s also important for healing and maintaining our immune system in many complex ways. Really we get two hours of fucking around/work time for each hour of self repair/maintenance we do. In the short term you can put off, reduce, or even skip maintenance, but we need to do it eventually or we die, or at least live much shorter lives.
Our charge to activity ratio can be mutch higher. You could easily chug a 3000 Calorie meal shake in 5-10 minutes, leaving the rest of your day for other stuff. That’s a ratio of around 144-288 activity/charge time.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 2 weeks ago:
Can they run 24 hours too? I can’t tell you how fucking annoying it is doing something fun with friends that goes late and have to leave at god damn 11pm or some shit so I can catch the last fucking train for the night or have to sleep over. Also cars specifically for people who need to move large objects or all their worldly possessions or something.
- Comment on Ah dammit 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mafs 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry for your loss
- Comment on big-tiddy goth birbs beware 4 weeks ago:
Giant cat, the size of a grizzly bear, but somehow with the proportions of a chubby house cat. It’s primary prey is mega rich humans. Continuous exposure to greed in such humans lends their flesh an exquisite and deeply savory scent and flavor that the cat can smell from hundreds of km away. Like all cats they take pleasure in toying with their prey, refining their technique and cunning by repeatedly capturing billionaires, then letting them just barely escape, only to hunt and catch them again, until the thrill of the hunt or hunger overcomes them, or their toy succumbs to the chase. Friend to the destitute, the homeless, the impoverished, and all the proletariat. The cat is gentle and loving to all who respect it and want not for the fruits of others labor.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 4 weeks ago:
Let’s be honest, the couch does most of the work.
- Comment on The Wall People 4 weeks ago:
You’re not crazy. Just autistic. Probably.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 4 weeks ago:
This is kind of a bad faith black and white argument. No one is arguing for a draconian regulation of car designs. There’s already a system of regulations and review in place for certifying new car designs are safe and compliant with regulations, and the danger this design introduces in the event of an emergency should have prevented it from being certified safe for use. Any idiot can see with 30 seconds of thought that a car door you need power to open is inherently unsafe and will get people killed in situations where a manual door wouldn’t. It’s like arguing car manufacturers should be allowed to install a gun in the middle of every airbag that shoots the passenger in the event of a crash just because there’s no regulation specifically banning them from doing it. That’s not how the law works and it’s not how safety regulations work.
- Comment on It's Not Only Yellow! 1 month ago:
Those are usually hard corn, so it would probably taste pretty starchy once ground into cornmeal. Now that I think about it that would probably be a yummy cornbread, like a less sweet cornbread. They may be able to be popped to make popcorn, but in my experience the colorful corns make pretty bad popcorn. The taste is good but there’s a lot more hull relative to the starch compared to yellow or white popcorn, which makes them more tough and less satisfying to chew, at least to me.
- Comment on You may not like it, but in England, this is what peak corn looks like. 1 month ago:
Pfft doesn’t even use C4 photosynthesis. Get this weak ass corn wannabe outta here.
- Comment on Santa is working on those lists 1 month ago:
Be the goth girl you want to see in your house. That’s my plan.
- Comment on Ope 1 month ago:
Can I get some context here? Who is this? Why do they look that way? What are those dark patches on their skin?
- Comment on Alas! 1 month ago:
Man I know horns would be so inconvenient in many ways, but they just look so sick. I really want some.
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 1 month ago:
I wonder if it’s really the swearing. It would be interesting to compare to nonverbal grunting or groaning around the same intensity. Something similarly emotive and forceful but without the underlying language meaning.
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 1 month ago:
More like enjoying something is a sin. Sexual pleasure? Straight to hell. Food pleasure? Straight to hell. Get enough sleep so you don’t feel like shit? Believe it or not, straight to hell. Enjoy your work? Turbo hell.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 months ago:
I meant in the context of machine learning not gaming
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 months ago:
There’s already been some work on direct neural network creation to bypass the whole virtualization issue. Some people are working on basically an analog FPGA style silicon based neural network component you can just put in a SOM and integrate into existing PCB electronics. Rather than being traditional logic gates they directly implement the neural network functions in analog, making them much faster and more efficient. I forget what the technology is called but things like that seem like the future to me.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 months ago:
That’s kind of a false dichotomy. They may be separate today, but there’s no reason to believe we won’t augment human minds with artificial neural networks in the future. Not in the magical cure all fix all way techbros like to sell it, but for like really boring and mundane things initially. Think replacing a small damaged part of some brain region, like the visual or auditory cortexes, to repair functional deficiencies. Once they get the basic technology worked out to be reliable, repeatable, and not require too much maintenance (cough subscriptions and software licenses), there’s no reason to believe we won’t progress rapidly to other augmentations and improvements. A simple graphical interface for like a heads up display or a simple audio interface for direct communications both come to mind, but I’m sure our imaginations will be comically optimistic about some things and comically pessimistic about others. All that to say that any true AI potential will be human potential in time. We won’t stop at making super intelligent AGI. We will want to BE super intelligent AGI. Since we already know highly efficient and capable intelligence is possible (see yourself) it’s only a matter of time until we make it ourselves, provided we don’t kill ourselves somehow along the way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You murder a mind, not a body, so no mind no murder. Under that abortion isn’t murder at all. Taking a brain dead person off life support is also not murder. You certainly wouldn’t say cutting down a tree is murder.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There’s the thing though. Our bodies don’t really know what’s good for them with perfect accuracy. They evolved to survive in an environment of extreme and unpredictable scarcity, so your body telling you to eat the sour gummy worms is the correct choice in that context. Historically the job of the brain was to figure out how to get a steady supply without dieing. Now we have to manage our bodies like idiot babies because if we just listened to every impulse we’d end up with a host of health problems ultimately leading to reduced fertility and access to sexual partners. I mean that has always been true really, it’s just never been more true than now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. We aren’t really our bodies, we’re a biological product made by our bodies to finc
- Comment on Labcoat! 2 months ago:
Meeeow
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 months ago:
Hey you leave gooners alone. They aren’t hurting anyone. They’re just jerking off.
- Comment on You're out of your element, dude. 2 months ago:
Physics is my business lady, and business is good.
- Comment on Soon... 3 months ago:
The direct answer to your question is that it’s a deep rooted cultural problem that has been with us since the beginning. The problem is the culture of extreme individualism and anti-intellectualism. People want to be completely free and unrestricted in their behavior, whether that harms others or not. Ultimately the desire for the freedom to harm others with impunity is what leads to where we are now. The rich want to be able to exploit their workers harder, men want to be able to beat and rape their wives and control their entire life, pedophiles (see endless stream of republican pedophilia controversies) want everyone to make more babies for them to rape, landlords want to take all your money for the privilege of having a place to sleep, every company that sells goods or services wants to fleece you, and all of these assholes want to have zero consequences for their actions. They gaslight the normies into distrusting the scientists, the educated, the compassionate, because they would actually help people. It’s not even about greed really, it’s about the ultimate extreme of personal freedom. Money just makes you more free.
So why haven’t we done anything? People have, there’s just a lot of people who want this to happen. A lot of people would cheer as they send me to the gas chamber. The majority of my extended family probably would.
I hate this place
- Comment on Fucking idiots 3 months ago:
Idk us land fish seem to like fizzy drinks just fine.
