mfed1122

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey Beter⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chasing the Elephant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bravest slop identifier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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

  Not the internet, but billionaire controlled platforms. The Internet is one of the best tools ever devised for fighting against centralized power!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It kind of sounds like you’re talking about it purely as a thought experiment or as something to inspire other philosophical thinking. But I think the issue most people have with the simulation theory is when people think that it’s actually the way that the world is or think that it’s worth investigating the way that the world is just because it theoretically could be the way the world is. But theoretically the world could have been created by the god of the Bible or any of the other million explanations proposed by the million other religions that have existed. Almost every religion proposes a hypothesis that could indeed explain reality, but just because it could explain reality doesn’t mean it’s reasonable to investigate it.

  I agree with you that all the questions you raised are interesting and worth thinking about, but none of that really relates to thinking that we actually live in a simulation. You’re just using the idea that we live in a simulation as inspiration to start thinking about these other ideas. But actually thinking that we live in a simulation is much less reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, even on the side of the right ideas, half the people still got there via the same wrong methods that the people on the wrong side use. They just coincidentally happened to land on the right side instead. It is quite disheartening, exactly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure. Google patched it by just limiting the amount of blurs an app could request: …googlesource.com/…/20465375a1d0cb71cdb891235a9f8…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Follow youre dreams⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it really being a pedant, or is it just being precise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  "Our end-to-end attacks simply measure the rendering time per frame of the graphical operations… to determine whether the pixel was white or non-white.”

  This is a prime example of something that is so simple, yet elegant, and brilliant. Fantastically cool and scary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lasagnaius⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Drunken Noodlius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it really sucks. I was in the middle of developing an Android game and now I don’t really want to. Luckily I’m working with Unreal so I can just build it for desktop distribution anyways. But still, ugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does this even matter if phone manufacturers block apps that aren’t approved by them? Forgive my ignorance, never done much mobile dev stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm running now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the most comforting way to take it is that when someone thinks “i could throw this drink and kill that guy” it’s more of their mind being vigilant about dangerous opportunities, and not necessarily an endorsement of those possibilities. Kind of like how if you’ve ever picked up a really sharp kitchen knife you might think “it would be so easy to kill myself with this”, that’s not necessarily a “suicidal thought” but just the mind raising an alarm about a possibility + it’s actually out of concern for not dying that my brain raises the thought. So arguably this thought crossing people’s mind is actually out of an abundance of concern for safety. The morbid joking about it is probably after the fact, non-intuitive, and for almost all humans totally not thought in earnest.