ToastedRavioli
@ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
- Comment on Three Maori MPs suspended over 'intimidating' haka 1 day ago:
Im not Maori so I couldnt say. But I would assume, like singing a song, that it could be either sarcastic or directly disrespectful. I would assume in this case it was not sarcasm, but directly disrespectful, considering she ripped up the bill while performing the haka.
If I had to take a guess based on what I know about other Pacific Island cultures, a sarcastic haka is probably not a common thing. But could exist I guess
- Comment on Three Maori MPs suspended over 'intimidating' haka 1 day ago:
Perhaps a better way of seeing it is that it is generally something done with regards to respect. In this specific case to show disrespect. But it is not intended as a display of hostility in any case, and is equally as “aggressive” when conveying a positive emotion as it is when conveying a negative one
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 2 days ago:
Either way, that is a pretty massive digression from the article, which is about medications. Apparently more people are dying on average from recently approved drugs than are dying from all illegal drug use combined
- Comment on Canada, US warn of air quality hazards as Canadian fire smoke reaches Europe 4 days ago:
The central US is also about to get blasted with dust from the Sahara as it shoots up through the Gulf of Mexico. Its going to be quite the double whammy east of the Rockies between the smoke and the dust
- Comment on China 'firmly rejects' US claim that it violated tariff deal 6 days ago:
China draws hard line with firm rejection of stiff allegations
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 6 days ago:
Considering the long term goal for them is to have them in planes at 30k ft, im sure they are entirely designed with the idea of humidifying the air to an ideal point prior to it getting to the catalyst for the reaction
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 6 days ago:
Im no chemical engineer from MIT, but I would assume that trace amounts of sodium hydroxide that are readily reacting into sodium bicarbonate well before they make it near the surface of the earth is probably not an issue of concern
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- Comment on Uploading The Human Mind Could Become a Reality, Expert Says 6 days ago:
Humanity on the brink of being able to write a half decent fucking article, scientists say
- Comment on UK to ban sale of disposable vapes in response to soaring waste and safety risks 1 week ago:
Disposables would never have been the problem they are today if it wasnt for the blind regulatory stabs they were taking to “protect the children”. All those regulations banning vape shops and liquid mixing, or sales by mail.
Back in the day, disposable vape shit was a terrible waste of money that was not enticing to anyone. Reasonable devices that didnt waste massive amounts of batteries or plastic were the norm. You would just change coils. The US government basically banned that from existing and let the disposables run wild. So now instead of buying and tossing a small bit of metal and cotton every once and a while, you buy and toss the entire fucking device. Its one of the most clear cut modern examples of poorly thought out regulation making a problem infinitely worse in every way than it ever originally was.
Only people with motivation to quit cigs and people who nerd out about gear were ever gonna keep using the old style vapes. Everyone else might hit it and quit it eventually. Now the disposables have hooked an entire generation of kids because they arent such a pain in the ass to use or procure
- Comment on Colorado’s governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms 1 week ago:
Is there a reason you dont want to live in Wyoming? Wyoming is more reasonable to try and live in than Colorado, as is Montana (although only slightly less so in MT)
- Comment on Colorado’s governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms 1 week ago:
I get what you mean. Tbf at least they do have their own mountains in New Mexico, but I imagine living in them might as well be as expensive as Colorado. But you could probably live closer to the mountains in NM for a reasonable price, and be closer than OK is to the Rockies in CO.
Southern Colorado appeals to me but its just insanely priced out. Even houses in Lamar, nowehere near the mountains, go for well beyond what you would pay to live in Kansas 50 miles away
- Comment on Colorado’s governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms 1 week ago:
Honestly if you love Colorado its worth considering moving to Kansas or New Mexico, in my opinion. Better to live a normal life within a spitting distance of the mountains than it is to try and make it living in the hellish economic environment of the mountains themselves. All the good aspects of living in the mountains are basically unavailable to you unless you are a millionaire.
So many people working three jobs to stay afloat out here, there is no time to have any quality of life
- Comment on Colorado’s governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms 1 week ago:
Any burrito that sucks is not a true Coloradan style burrito. Burritos are like the premiere food item of Colorado as far as general quality goes
Odds are the guy is not a Coloradan. There arent many actual Coloradans. Colorado has never had more natives than immigrants at any point in its entire history as a state
- Comment on Colorado’s governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms 1 week ago:
Colorado has effectively become a joke of a state where there are only two groups of people: peons who live here at the behest of major companies, and people who can afford a $1M minimum for starter homes in the middle of nowhere. Even in bedroom communities and small towns without real stores or services nearby, little bungalows go for $1M and vacant quarter acre lots go for $200k.
Sad as it may be, Colorado’s governor has no point in being a man of the people. There arent really normal people left here to be a champion of anyways. Except maybe some of the plains towns where they will hate the governor for not making this place identical to Texas anyways
- Comment on https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-with-books-that-dont-exist/ 2 weeks ago:
“I dont know how I missed it!” says man who never looked in the first place
- Comment on Lawsuit from University of Central Florida professor targeted for tweets survives summary judgment motions 2 weeks ago:
After some students complained to the school about Negy’s tweets, UCF responded by soliciting further complaints about him. That led to the opening of an investigation into Negy’s classroom speech as well. Seven months later, what began as an investigation of tweets led to 300 interviews; which led to a (get ready for this) 244-page report. As I wrote at the time, the report made absolute hash of academic freedom with what struck me as nonsensical lines drawn between speech it believed to be protected and unprotected:
According to the UCF investigation, it is protected speech to say that girl scouts preserve their virginity (p. 25), but not that women are attracted to men with money (p. 26). It is protected speech to say that Jesus was schizophrenic (p. 36), but unprotected to say that Jesus did not come into the world to die for everyone’s sins (p. 36). It’s protected to say that Islam is cruel and not a religion of peace (p. 107) but not that it is a toxic mythology (p. 35).
This shit is so ridiculous. As someone who is ardently progressive, this is literally the reason why progressives fail to succeed in a nutshell. So much wasted time on people like this guy, who should be allowed to make his point, be derided by those who disagree, and everyone can move on.
But instead, no. We need 300 interviews and a 244 page report where a bunch of morons who make 6 figures a year in public/tuition money try to draw the line of what is an acceptable vs unacceptable opinion to have about random topics. And somehow, after 244 pages of writing that nonsense, no one stopped to think “hey, maybe were in the wrong here and this makes absolutely zero fucking sense whatsoever”
Winning political power to effect change isnt going to come from tossing out the 1st amendment and trying to criticize every opinion anyone ever has about anything. People should have the right to be wrong and change their minds. No one is born cognizant of how to not socially offend the sensibilities of everyone from the jump.
If progressives want to build the future they want for this country, they need to change hearts and minds. Meet disagreement on opinions with as much sensitivity as you demand out of everybody else not to offend you. Then maybe we can actually get somewhere. Ive never had a problem getting people to stop acting misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, etc just by not responding positively to that bullshit, and telling them facts about reality. Its not hard to change peoples views if you dont start by telling them they are a terrible person who should either adopt your view or parish
- Comment on It is like LLMs are massively overhyped and can't even do half the things its advertised... 2 weeks ago:
The fifth element future was pretty bleak was it not? Or am I not remembering the movie correctly? It seemed like a pretty authoritarian universe to me
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 2 weeks ago:
I always accept a cookie in real life, so why would I turn it down online?
- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 3 weeks ago:
Its incredible how things can just slip through, especially when they start at the very top
- Comment on 'Alpha predator' sharks and humans clash on an Israeli beach 3 weeks ago:
I live in a tourist town with a ton of bears, moose, elk, etc, and its the same story. People are stupid as hell and have no respect for nature.
They think they can chase after a bear with cubs, or let their dog go be friends with a moose. No matter how much you try to tell people to respect the animals or they might literally get killed, they still do the same dumb stuff
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 3 weeks ago:
No joke, I once spent an entire day feeling like I was straight up gonna die. I thought I had appendicitis or something but the pain was nowhere near my appendix. Either way it kept me laying prone waiting for death for like 8-12 hours before I finally went to the hospital.
So I go the hospital, they run all these tests, Im pretty sure they gave me some kind of drugs without fully telling me because I remember feeling a lot better and having to try hard not to giggle when they wheeled me around to get scanned.
So they do all this stuff, and then finally the doctor comes in and tells me Im just full of shit. Like, literally, I was massively constipated and that was the entire issue.
I got back home and was in a ton of pain again, so I drank an entire bottle of Miralax and then pooped my soul and most of my organs out the next morning
- Comment on Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot 3 weeks ago:
As someone who was a TA a bit, I think that is 99% because if schools tried to hold students accountable to the standards of even ten years ago they would have to fail 2/3rds of their students.
Highschool becoming a joke means none of the kids have strong enough core skills to be tackling real college work by the time they get there, but schools cant afford to enforce actual quality standards for work. The graded model has completely fallen apart at this point given how steep the curve is. The quality of work that gets an A today would have been a B or high C from 10-15 years ago
- Comment on Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers 3 weeks ago:
The word hallucination has zero implication of intent whatsoever. Last time I checked hallucination is an entirely involuntary experience, regardless of the context the word is used in.
They are called hallucination in computer science not “to romanticize” it. It is called that because the output is totally random from the perspective of the input. If there is no logical path from input to the output, it is similar to a human hallucinating. Human sees no actual weird visual stimuli that results in them hallucinating a dragon, therefore the input info from their eyes has no bearing on what they imagine is actually there.
This is different from “fabrication” in that the AI intentionally creating fake info based on your input request would not be a hallucination, because there would be a relationship between input and output.
While you say you prefer “fabrication”, the word fabrication actually implies some intent that is absent from what we are referring to as AI hallucinations
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Its not really more futuristic, considering its a tried and true design.
I think you mean its just better designed
- Comment on No evidence of genocide in Gaza, UK lawyers say in arms export case 3 weeks ago:
No signs of trouble in the henhouse, reports fox
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 3 weeks ago:
I have $800M worth of lint in my belly button, apparently
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
Even if Lemmy grows to a point of being on the radar, theres still no hope for any real IP to lock down for anybody. The whole design is fairly antithetical to being taken over and turned into a cash cow of some kind, despite feeling very much like something centralized in terms of how we interact with it.
I agree with OP, and I think this can even become an even better repository for information than something like Reddit, because it’s more democratized and deters astroturfing or many types of malfeasance by design. Especially as it stands now, early on. Thats why I started a community for billiards. The reddit community for billiards, as well as old forum sites, are great wealths of information that is hard to otherwise find. It would be great to build something like that here over time
- Comment on No machine (or person) can replace the exercise of thinking for yourself. 3 weeks ago:
The borg are just low key nihilists frl frl
- Comment on Urban temps turning cities into 'ovens,' UN Chief Heat Officer warns 3 weeks ago:
You know why futuristic cities in the movies are always bright white or reflective somehow?
Thats because of the part of history were about to live through