luciferofastora
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- Comment on Make me feel like a man 15 hours ago:
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I think this is one of those cases where I ignore the providence of the image for the entertainment value.
Certainly preferable to some other AI slop people produce.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 15 hours ago:
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- Comment on Make me feel like a man 15 hours ago:
I also spent two weeks as a live-in cat sitter for a friend on vacation. He’d yell at me, and when I approached him, 1/5 times he’d lead me to his bowl. The other 4, he’d walk to the couch then look at me expectantly. If I laid down, he’d hop on my chest, then flop over into my arm and start purr-snoring within a minute.
Hell Yeah
I miss him. But it’s a good pain.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 15 hours ago:
As protests go, I like this. More visible and tangible than sitting somewhere they’ll never go, but not really violent (at least not as violent as other things you could throw). I also liked the shoes that got lobbed at Bush for the symbolism.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 15 hours ago:
Cheap shot.
Not saying it doesn’t hit.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 15 hours ago:
An elegant meme fot a more civilised age
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 15 hours ago:
They’re all the wrong way
Some people just want to watch the world burn
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 5 days ago:
Good luck with the job hunt, and even more with staying healthy
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 1 week ago:
It’s highly unusual
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 1 week ago:
go outside the environment
Isn’t that where the wrecked oil tanker is?
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 1 week ago:
I can’t say I’m too keen on funding Ladybird, given the shit the lead developer is getting up to (to save you a click: defending white supremacy and transphobia).
- Comment on Crews Walk Out on Nashville Tunnel, Claiming Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA Concerns 1 week ago:
anyone who works for a billionaire wants to be a slave
You say that as if they have the luxury of choosing and rejecting clients at a whim
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 weeks ago:
That’s the typical discrepancy between “definition of technical term” and “popular expectations evoked by term”. The textbook example used to be “theory”, but I guess AI is set to replace that job too…
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 weeks ago:
Hope they fix it the same way spaying or neutering dogs is called fixing: Prevent it from propagating further.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 weeks ago:
That’s the reason I put up with a lot of FOSS issues: “I’m not paying you for this, so it’s still a better price/result ratio than paid services”
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 2 weeks ago:
Have tissues ready, and I’m not talking about wanking. Well, maybe that too, but mostly because they’re really good at hitting emotional beats. It’s one of two games this year that had me in tears.
The other is Goodnight Universe, which is very new and also very good, and it has a neat face tracking gimmick where some things require you to close your eyes or emote. It also works without and is still good (and you can obviously do the accompanied actions even without a cam to observe it).
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 3 weeks ago:
He’s not even in office yet and already knocking it out of the park and halfway across the city.
I just hope that trajectory continues.
- Comment on Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’ 4 weeks ago:
If we are serious about housing, why not remove the 55 million people here on immigration visas who occupy homes that could go to Americans who have worked, fought, and bled for this country?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but how exactly are these immigrants making their living, if not by working (and, in places with lax safety rules, probably also bleeding) for a country that’s not even their own?
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: pushing things into the sun is really difficult. Short version: imagine spinning a pendulum, then trying to slow it down, except the pendulum is 100kg (200lbs) and moving at 87 Mach.
Long version:
Anything launching from earth will have a significant orbital velocity around the sun by virtue of starting at the earth’s own velocity (~30km/s, about 67000 mph). That velocity makes it hard to actually reach the sun.
Consider that even the sun’s gravity isn’t enough to pull in the earth at that speed. Simply applying thrust towards the sun would have to amount to a significant portion of the sun’s gravity to make a noticeable difference.
So to reach the sun, you’d ideally have to get rid of that excess orbital velocity instead. That requires a lot of force, to put it mildly. That kind of force requires powerful boosters and a lot of fuel. Of course, getting those engines and that fuel up there also takes powerful engines and a lot of fuel. But the larger the rocket, the heavier it’ll be, so it’ll require even more fuel…
There’s a phenomenon dubbed the “Tyranny of the Rocket Equation”. It describes the problem that, at some point, the extra weight required to make a rocket more powerful is greater than the extra power it provides. That basically puts a limit on how strong a given engine can get. There’s a lot of work being done on getting them to be more efficient, so that limit is getting higher, but the bottom line is:
It would require an immense amount of resources to slow an object enough to toss it into the sun, and more resources to get them to that object in the first place.
Physics is a cruel mistress and a mean spoilsport.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 5 weeks ago:
Reading this while waiting for HFW to load is an eerie coincidence. I very much would prefer to enjoy the post-apocalyptic world from behind the safety of the fourth wall.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t get along with soy milk either, but oat milk is my jam
- Comment on Please no, just stop 5 weeks ago:
Well, to be a little charitable, sometimes it’s text with numbers in it. I just need to figure out how best to extract the numbers from unstructured text, which is mostly tedious to validate.
Other times it’s text where there are supposed to be numbers, like the dates on invoices, which leads to really funny mixups when we look at the revenue per supplier and someone asks “Hey, we didn’t bring this supplier on until 2019, why are there revenues for 2012?” And the answer is “Because your invoice date is a manually entered text field and if you’re a quick typer, 2021 and 2012 are really close together.”
And then some times it’s questions like “How many customer service tickets do we get about X”. If X is a specific product name, odds are a simple full text search for the term gets most of them. If X is a general thing like “Office supplies” it becomes a nightmare really quickly.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 5 weeks ago:
Give it a shot. Asking, I mean. Don’t actually drink any concoction an AI brews up. The rate we’re going, it’ll come up with some combination of ingredients that’ll react, turn into a strong acid and physically change you into a chemical burns patient.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 5 weeks ago:
A Data Analyst’s reading of your comment:
I am misusing Google Sheets to plan my character builds in Final Fantasy Tactics
Oh?
I have entered all the information in the sheet by hand
Uh-huh
and it is mostly text
Eww
This information cannot be put into a graph of any kind.
Phew
People asking me to turn text into graphs are the bane of my life. Well, one of many banes, really.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, reality has outshitted your posting
- Comment on Pow-- 5 weeks ago:
I think the nuance is that Nazis ought to be acknowledged as being people, but not afforded any of the respects and graces the Nazis themselves deny others.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 5 weeks ago:
Uncritical application of DEI methods without due consideration for the objectives isn’t reasonable.
But signing a contract that says “if you do anything we can construe as DEI we can demand payback of all the support you falsely relied on” is like stepping on a landmine and hoping the fuse stops working before you have to step off.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 5 weeks ago:
So it’s not hard to see how this new definition came about but it is, still, sort of just plucking the word and modifying it to a very different context
I think the difficulty here is the assertion that this “unc” stems from black slang rather than a parallel evolution. After “bro” and “cuz” made it into wider adoption, the pattern of taking the first syllable or so off a term for a relative is familiar.
Unrelatedly, the image of the weird uncle spouting bullshit is a cultural meme in at least those parts of the (presumably mostly white) Internet I’ve been exposed to. The subjectively most common forms I see are holiday season complaints about uncles being racist or conspiracy nuts.
That is a very different image of uncles. Combining it with the aforementioned pattern of taking the first syllable to refer to people of a vaguely similar persuasion will lead to a derogatory meaning of “unc” that may well have developed entirely independently of the more respectful sense you mention.
Hence, I’m inclined to believe it’s more of an unfortunate coincidence than a corruption of an originally benevolent term. Either way, it’s unfortunate to have an otherwise positive term associated with something negative, whether by accident or by ignorant misuse.
more community-destructing than community-building
In some sense, that destruction of community may precede the term. If my reasoning above is correct, the term refers to a type of person one would rather not share a community with.
Also, thanks for asking, rather than downvoting; it’s (obviously) not everything but there’s a non-negligible segment of Lemmy that just seems to have an emotional tantrum every time race comes up.
There’s an odd discussion space around the topic, where even the way you treat it becomes a discussion of its own that I don’t wanna get into right now.
However, one part of it may be that people afford the meaning of words different weights. You comment on how slang becomes trivialised, turning into buzzwords rather than proper language. I’d counter that this seems to be a feature of mainstream communication in general: Words (with some exceptions) are treated more lightly, and as we trust the other to catch the intent of our statement, we also throw them with less care.
That doesn’t mean a word I throw lightly also becomes weightless to others, and I suspect that’s where part of the conflict stems from: When you say “this was taken from black culture”, that feels like an accusation of appropriation and racism. If I adopt a word without any intent of disrespect and then get (or feel) accused of saying something racist, I get defensive because that wasn’t my intent. But the way I said it might still have hurt others, and the fact that I said it carelessly is no help.
I think I first saw that disconnect in the discussion around the N-word: To many white people (including myself), it doesn’t have much weight anymore. We don’t hold the contempt that it used to be an expression of. However, to many black people voicing their thoughts online, it seems to still have the sting of centuries of oppression and disparagement. They don’t – can’t? – separate the intent from the vessel that carried it.
The switch of perspectives isn’t intuitive. But it’s worth learning.
I’m curious to learn and to hear the experiences of others. Whatever thoughts I may have are coloured by my own biases, my upbringing, the social environment I live in. I’d rather ask, converse and risk offending out of ignorance than to assume I know the answer and probably end up offending out of negligence.
Avoiding conflict also avoids the lessons we can learn from it. If we take care to avoid lasting harm, we can “play” conflict and learn to avoid actual conflict in the future.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 month ago:
How so?