BertramDitore

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are eugenics bad seen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re seem pretty confident that eugenics would improve peoples’ lives, but why is that?

  Eugenics has been used, many times, to justify the mass murder or mass sterilization of entire populations, based on unproven racism and hatred towards the Other, be it people with cognitive differences from the “norm,” or all Jews, or gay people, etc. Really whoever the “in” group doesn’t like.

  Eugenicists think anyone that is Other or not in the shape of their ideal human, doesn’t deserve to live. But people who don’t think, act, or look like you still live fulfilling lives, so who gives eugenicists the right to decide who gets to live and who doesn’t? What makes their “ideal pure human” pure and ideal? The answer is usually white and Christian, which exposes the whole thing as absurd.

  I’m sure the original post will get deleted, because these kinds of questions don’t usually last long after they’ve been answered, but there you go, I choose to believe you actually wanted a genuine answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what books about personal boundaries do you know that don't mention god?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You may be thinking of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents. It’s an excellent book, I highly recommend it. It’s super short and taught me SO much about myself and my family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long before the GOP tries to get the 23andMe data?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehhh you might be underestimating their desire and capacity to do widespread illogical evil.

  So much of the right’s “ideology” is based on insecurity and blind hatred, that genetic data could believably be weaponized for almost whatever they want. You’re definitely right that they think they get to decide who is a good American and who’s not, but why limit the consequences to deportation/disappearing when eugenics offers them much more permanent solutions?

  Looking at the right’s generational project of clawing back civil and human rights, which has largely been successful, I can definitely see some right wing geneticist with a chip on their shoulder doing massive amounts of damage. There are no shortage of very intelligent people who do incredibly stupid and damaging things with their intelligence. Just look at American tech companies…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s well said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Standing desks are like gym memberships. Plenty of people (and offices) pay for them but never use them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, I really try to raise mine up at least once a day, but it doesn’t always happen. Your alarm idea is a good one, think I’ll try that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While that’s gotta be a big part of it, I’m not sure that’s the true source of their hatred and bigotry, though it’s obviously not the same for every bigot. I think it boils down to an even simpler insecurity. Not necessarily an insecurity with their own gender, but more a feeling of jealous insecurity when they see people who genuinely know who they are and have put in the work to figure themselves out. Gender is just the easiest part of their identity to hate. I don’t think that insecurity is necessarily conscious, though the hatred certainly is, it’s more an enviousness of someone who is obviously secure with themselves and their body.

  I had a similar reaction to the thumbnail. My first thought, before reading anything, was “huh, Meta found a lesbian who hates the rest of the LGBTQ community.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I get that, and your frustration is totally valid, it’s just an insane uphill battle to continue producing original content without some evilcorp swooping in to steal all your shit and then resell it as their own. This is the only “solution” they’ve found to still making enough money to eat. But the extra friction is definitely a bit annoying, and they know that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their reporting is often based on FOIA requests, which are a public service, so they give free access to those articles without a paywall.

  They have been open and transparent that they require a free account to read their free articles because it prevents LLMs from illegally scraping and plagiarizing their original reporting. Logging in to a free account is a small price to pay to ensure these actual journalists continue to produce excellent work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A corporate recruiter in Toronto who spent 3 weeks convinced by ChatGPT that he was essentially Tony Stark from Iron Man, agreed to share his transcript after breaking free of the delusion.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s really frustrating that we’re watching the grift in real time, and influential outlets like the NYTimes are making all the predicable mistakes and further inflating the bubble to the point where I’m starting to think it won’t be allowed to pop. It feels like there’s nothing we can do about it, because enough people have slurped up the slop and are convinced they already can’t live without it.

  I argue with coworkers every day about the useless generated shit they put in front of me. I argue with friends who believe the grifters have their interests in mind. I’ve started arguing with executives at my company who are hinting that everyone has to start using LLMs. I argue with anyone any time they mischaracterize ChatGPT as AI and not an LLM. I argue with my colleagues who work in environmental sciences that they of all people should understand the practical harms these tools are causing.

  It’s an uphill battle, and I feel like we’ve already lost. It’s exhausting seeing the direction we’re going, knowing it’s the wrong way to go, and yet being stuck on the stupid train going there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually shop for groceries way better when I’m hungry. If I’ve recently eaten, I have trouble imagining myself enjoying anything I’m going to buy, even if I eat it often. I’ve actually compared my hauls after shopping hungry vs shopping full: shopping on a full stomach my bags are noticeably emptier with less variety, and more unhealthy stuff. When shopping hungry I buy way more fruits, vegetables, some slightly adventurous ingredients, and in general much more interesting items that I’m more likely to enjoy in a few days.

  But to each their own, I think I’m the outlier here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #64 - Enshrouded (Revisited)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, that sounds awesome. Based on all that, the devs seem solid, I think I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the response!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #64 - Enshrouded (Revisited)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks pretty amazing, but it also looks huge, and for a game this big I would need assurances that I won’t lose my progress if it leaves early access. Have the devs said anything about their completion timeline? I’ve never played anything in early access, because I frankly don’t trust devs to respect my time. Thoughts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That does help explain the strangeness of the whole thing, thanks for sharing. Sounds like things were pretty tough for you, so I’m sorry for that.

  It sounds like he is a bit oversexualized (not sure if that’s the right term), but it doesn’t seem like it’s anything too out of the ordinary for someone figuring themselves out. Many of us probably pushed things a bit too far when we were little, I certainly didn’t understand how uncomfortable it made people for me to run around the house naked when I was young. But we all test boundaries like that when we’re growing up, and usually the adults around us help us find the right boundaries, not stretch them.

  So yeah, with that new context, giving a fleshlight to her 18 year old son is very odd, and does raise some red flags. Sounds like you made the right call cutting things off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be super curious to hear the context if you’re willing/able to share, but it all depends on the relationship between the mother and son. It strikes me as a bit weird and abnormal, and certainly embarrassing, but if you normally talk about sex in an open and healthy way with her, then this might not be as weird as it seems. Parents know their kids play with themselves, and it’s usually healthier to be open about it than to stigmatize it, but actively buying this kind of thing for her son is a bit much in my opinion…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK plans to recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel meets conditions, Starmer says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite how unlikely it is for this to actually happen, it’s at least good to get people used to hearing it out loud. I don’t have any faith that they’ll follow through, but it does strike me as odd that this is being used as a threat against Israel. Like, “Israel, if you don’t stop indiscriminately massacring children then we’ll be forced to symbolically recognize the independence of the people you’re ethnically cleansing.”

  The fact that Israel has no desire to see an independent Palestinian state doesn’t mean a toothless and symbolic threat like this will stop their monstrous actions…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it would be valuable to take a step back and look at how you’re thinking about women in general. This isn’t an attack FYI, I’m trying to be constructive because I totally understand your anxiety.

  Firstly, lose the word “female.” Forget it. It won’t help you anywhere except biology class, and it’s a big red flag. In your brief question, your framing makes it sound like women are some mystical object that you can “get” with exactly the right words or the right amount of money. But they’re just people, and many of them are probably having similar issues talking to men. If you start to actively think about women as fully formed, independent, thinking, feeling human beings who have many of the same problems as you, and many that are quite different, then you’ll have a much easier time approaching them.

  All of that is to say, empathy is critical. If you approach an interaction from a place of empathy—where you’re trying to understand the other person by listening to them and expressing interest—then it’ll slowly start to become natural. I realize that’s all easier said than done, but just thinking about women as complete people who aren’t there for you, but for themselves as individuals, would be a massive first step. Good luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s totally fair (though I haven’t played any recent Zelda games, so I can’t speak to that). I actually think quite a few recent open world games didn’t need to be open world at all and would have been better if they were more of a single player guided narrative.

  One game that did this perfectly IMO was Guardians of the Galaxy. It wasn’t open world, but you could explore each “chapter” or “level” or whatever as much as you wanted and could replay them individually. That made the whole story feel really tight, coherent, and well thought out. I find myself really wanting that format in some of these big beautiful (and yeah, often boring) open world games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty disappointing to me. I know it’s kind of an unpopular opinion these days, but I really enjoyed Outlaws. It was just different enough from other Star Wars properties to be novel, but recognizable enough to be convincingly in the Star Wars universe. Sure some characters were a bit flat, missions were repetitive, and it didn’t invent a new revolutionary mechanic or anything, but does every game have to be groundbreaking? I got solid enjoyment out of it, and was looking forward to how they’d continue the story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 2,600-Year-Sealed Etruscan Tomb Found Intact with Ceramics, Weapons, and Silver Objects⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? Baylor is in Texas.

  The fourth paragraph:

  SGARP is an interdisciplinary team led by Baylor University, in collaboration with the Virgil Academy in Rome, under the auspices of the Italian Ministry of Culture and in close partnership with the municipality of Barbarano Romano.

  While Brits certainly still have an outsized role in international archaeology, I’m not seeing any Brits mentioned in this article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. ‘transparently antisemitic’ after report on tech firms and Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you intend to profit from the murder of innocent people by helping governments develop weapon systems, then you don’t get to feign innocence and act like a biased dictionary when the world notices the evil you’ve contributed to. As a fellow Jew, I wish he would understand that we don’t have a monopoly on being the victims of genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefront II is currently at 3,99€, offers ends on the 10th of July⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s a good point. The space battles are really solid, I forgot how fun they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefront II is currently at 3,99€, offers ends on the 10th of July⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve mentioned it before, but the single player campaign is worth this price. I frankly couldn’t stand the multiplayer, but the single player story is simple and fun, and has a surprising amount of content. Gorgeous graphics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E Ink is turning the laptop touchpad into an e-reader for AI apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t care less about what this has to do with “AI,” but e-ink is horrendously underutilized. It should be so much more ubiquitous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No Mans Sky is totally a time guzzler. It’s incredible how easy it is for hours and hours to go by like it’s nothing. It’s a really fun game though, and I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into it.

  I did one playthrough shortly after it came out doing things the way you’re supposed to, and then I decided to just have fun with it and started using a save editor to give myself all the resources that take ages to farm or craft. That was a game changer. It’s so much more fun when I can just explore and build without having to worry about not having enough fuel for my jetpack, or not being able to finish a building because I don’t have enough resources for that one last piece of glass, or having to salvage a fuckton of ships just to open up inventory slots.

  So if the game ever starts to feel like work for you, I suggest using a save editor and going to town. The devs don’t seem to have much of a problem with it, and it really opens up the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The other day I thought to myself, “huh I’ve got a few extra bucks, I think I’ll buy a switch 2.” Then I saw that zelda costs $80. So nope, no switch for me.

  I’m someone who has never played a switch, never held one, and I was about to impulse buy it. So I’d be a brand new customer (my last Nintendo product was the NES), and now I won’t be. Their loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that military members cannot simply defy orders they object to⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Soldiers take an oath to the constitution, not the president, so all members of the military have the right, and in some cases have the duty, to refuse illegal orders. Source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨star wars clone wars trying to find a season a episode number⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, exactly. It seemed important to them to stress that Ahsoka’s training was different from a normal padawan’s, thanks to Anakin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨star wars clone wars trying to find a season a episode number⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s “Practice Makes Perfect.” Episode 5 of Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi. It’s a miniseries that came out a couple years after Clone Wars ended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I know, I’ve been here for years despite the age of my account. I just migrated from lemm.ee

  I tend not to like to name these types of extensions because more exposure puts them at risk, and they’re super easy to find anyway.