mfed1122

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you so much for taking the time to post thorough breakdowns of misleading information using your expertise. And extra beautiful because it goes against the dominant Lemmy circlejerk. I wish there was community full only of such behavior!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, it only applies to huge corporations OR to smaller landlords who are abusive. Just because being a landlord isn’t always shitty and evil doesn’t mean we can’t be upset about the scenarios where it is. How much of that $512B do you think is going to the good type of landlord you describe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI controls is coming to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So I can use AI to group my tabs but I can’t even group tabs in the first place on mobile? Epic prioritization

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I respect them more for sure. It gets tricky if I’m like, appointing someone for a one year period or something though, then I have to consider both the position and velocity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I agree. I think the only refinement I’d add to this statement is that such people aren’t even necessarily located in “good” territory. They have a velocity in the direction of goodness, but their position may still be in bad territory. And likewise there are people who are in good territory but have a velocity in the direction of bad territory. What a complicated world…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aww does someone have a sensitive li'l bummy wummy? 🧻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The horrible truth is even the majority of people who have the right opinion got there in the same stupid flawed ways as people who have the wrong opinion, and are deep down no better, but just accidentally appear to be so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neocities deindexed from Bing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I do think something like this would be nice. We don’t need one giga search engine with a huge index of everything. Specialized search engines with genre specific indices would be more individually maintainable, and diverse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neocities deindexed from Bing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While I think it’s shitty that they did this, part of me also kind of likes it. The most resilient form of web behavior includes bookmarking sites and discovering new sites by them linking to each other, rather than getting all your sites from a search engine. I get that search engines are useful for lots of things. But maybe this will help kick people’s search engine addiction if they realize there’s lots of good stuff out there that you can’t trust a search engine to surface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey Beter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vintage dank maymay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, even with everything going on these days it’s been a long time since I’ve seen this fella. I can’t believe I’m getting a nostalgia wave over god damn Pedobear of all things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get this filth out of my sight⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is he still around or did I finally just block him? I truly don’t remember

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get this filth out of my sight⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I downvoted it because it’s pseudo-scientific nonsense

  Signed, fit man who has hours of le sexy sex with 3d girls

  So what now? I suppose I’m an outlier? Or just lying perhaps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We all know that is Grok’s entire selling point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I suppose if I take you literally then, sure. But of course your implication in that comparison is that economists are not a variety of scientist that should be listened to/taken seriously/respected etc. Especially since you used “priest” as an epithet, which would imply that you either think economics is pointless to think scientifically about, or that it is possible to think scientifically about economics but economists are doing it incorrectly, i.e in a priest-like way. Or some third thing I haven’t considered. This is what I’m curious to hear more about your reasoning for. But I understand I’m just an internet stranger and it may be a lot to write out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes someone a scientist to you? And why don’t economists fit that? It’s such an interesting take, especially since (given we’re on Lemmy lol) I assume you’re coming from either a communist or socialist standpoint, both of which are economic theories with many economists backing them. So it’s not like all economists are playing on the team against you - although maybe you have a much more interesting take on all this than I’m imagining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all economists are capitalists or assholes. Many economists do propose such things. It’s the government that doesn’t implement them. Economists are real scientists, and shunning their work in such a blanket way is uncomfortably reminiscent of the kind of anti-science “I do my own research” thinking we see on the right. Economists disagree with each other on all sorts of things, because it’s an evolving field, but that doesn’t mean it deserves to be analogized to something like religion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Be phone engineer Finally manufacture one-atom thick phone The screen is nearly entirely invisible due to its thinness You can’t tap it anywhere or it immediately breaks into a million crumbs like filo dough The components had to be spread over a 200 square meter sheet to fit all their atoms side by side Present product to the board, instantly promoted to CEO Product releases Everyone buys the waferphone “It’s so thin” they say “Unparalleled convenience and an incredible feat of engineering” Third parties begin selling titanium insulation sheetcases to protect your waferphone Too big and heavy to take outside, everyone stores their waferphones underground at waferlockers All phones are now completely inaccessible remotely or physically Technological nirvana attained at last

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Chicken headline on Time’s part. Why not ““Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein” - new files say”? Either way, glad this is getting covered. What will happen now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to be able to group tabs on mobile 🥲

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I just can’t stop getting ragebaited by the Electron hate. All Electron haters are free to develop their own efficient, pleasant looking, cross-platform native app instead since it’s so easy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts Rock⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this introvert/extrovert dichotomy really exists this much or if it’s just psychological astrology. Personally, I find it completely irrelevant to myself, but maybe that’s just me.

  I will be extremely extroverted around people I like and extremely introverted around people I don’t like. I can feel recharged by interactions with people I like and discharged by interactions with people I don’t like. Isn’t that obvious?

  With strangers it’s all based on my perception of them, derived from their appearance, their context, and any other clues I have.

  In groups it’s based on the composition of the group. The percentage of people I like or dislike, and also the context. When I’m alone, I’m perfectly content alone. I love being alone and I love hanging out with my friends.

  To be honest, I suspect my situation is how pretty much everyone is. I feel like my friends who describe themselves as extroverts and my friends who describe themselves as introverts are really just doing the same thing as each other and as me. I suspect that people who are very pronounced one way or the other, are doing so out of a self-fulfilling prophecy effect resulting from having decided at some point in the past to conceive of themselves as introverted or extroverted. The same way an astrology fan may unwittingly begin to behave according to their sign stereotype.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fuck Jar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is like a special moveset of self-buffs for a brawny no-magic character in a JRPG

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chasing the Elephant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bravest slop identifier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is absolutely not a problem of being bad with numbers. That’s like if I had trouble reading a Chinese sentence about gardening and said I’m just bad with plants. My issue is that I’m not familiar with the notation used to explain the concept - not a problem with the concept itself that the notation merely arbitrarily symbolizes.

  Being good or bad at math is not really an inherent thing, aside from some geniuses and some people with disabilities. If you want to be good at math, you can be!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how those onlyfans promo account posts read. “Would you (obese gamer virgin) fuck me (fit nude model) however you want if I begged you for it enough???”

  And then the comments like “yes baby I’d love to 😋😍😉”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is the kind of thing where you really need statistics. This sticks out because it’s a prominent example of something new, an autonomous vehicle, doing something notable - killing an animal for the first time (or at least one of the very first well-publicized times on record).

  For people’s reaction to this to be that this is because it’s an autonomous vehicle is the same sort of cognitive bias that causes things like, " The first person to get a math problem wrong in class was a girl so it seems like girls are bad at math". When of course it could be that the probability of boys and girls getting problems wrong is equal, and that the girl was simply the first one to get a unlucky roll on the dice of the universe. It could even be that boys are more likely to get problems wrong, and the girl was especially unlucky. It could in fact be that girls are more likely to get problems wrong, too, but this single instance doesn’t give us enough evidence for that. It could be that boys actually have gotten more problems wrong, but we only hear about the girl getting the problem wrong due to sociological biases, or vice versa. Etc.

  I get that we shouldn’t trust corporations, and it’s not fun to defend a corporation, but it is important to defend rational thinking. And the rational way to approach this is to employ statistical methods to judge whether a vehicle being autonomous truly makes it a bigger risk to animals in the road or not. Any other line of reasoning is not right for this kind of problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Online Date Rape Drug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have time to fully respond to this right now, but I just wanted to say that I do understand and sympathize with the things you’re bringing up here. I was hoping to engage with you politely, and my feelings are hurt by your insults, but I understand your anger. When I said I look forward to your counterargument, I meant that earnestly and respectfully. I’m sorry for upsetting you with my reply - I was hoping to lend an angle of positivity to you that you may not have considered, not discount your own view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Online Date Rape Drug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It allows individuals to distribute content to a network of hundreds of millions of people, with a very low barrier to entry, and in ways that are not centrally controlled. If my government is banning certain types of speech or information, websites in other countries may still be accessible with it. People in my own country may even make sites with that information, as it’s fairly easy to bypass those laws. The Internet holds all sorts of content that pisses off billionaires. Piracy, privacy tools, the Internet Archive, government document leaks. Think how I can read about the Epstein files so easily by searching or asking about it here on Lemmy - and then think about how much harder it is for me to find that information from a news company, if it’s even possible at all. Why do you think governments and billionaires around the world are so eager to monitor and centralize and rewrite the fundamental workings of the internet? They are coming after the internet because it is a threat to them.

  I look forward to your counterargument.