Catoblepas

@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You should always feel free to grow a garden, but you shouldn’t necessarily expect it to be cheaper than buying food. Especially the first year, if you don’t live in a place where you can just dig up some dirt and chunk seeds in it. Even if you do you should make sure the soil isn’t literally toxic first, especially since it’s common to have a buildup of things like lead or arsenic from now-outlawed fertilizers that can be absorbed by plants.

  My grandparents planted maybe half an acre? Of crops for 10 people, and it was supplemental, not a complete replacement. It also takes a lot of work and can go to shit if the weather is bad. You can account for some of this by planting a variety of crops, trying to head off drainage and shade issues before they start, and with supplemental watering. But don’t expect everything to be super productive every year, especially in the age of climate change. My sister had some plants not put out at all last year (peppers).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me with my first edition harry potter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mass printed paperbacks aren’t sacred texts. Everyone should feel free to write on them, highlight them, cut them apart, paint on them, and make art with them. Especially books made by a trash bigot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I was gonna ask why someone cut it, that’s the part that cracks me the fuck up. I’m pretty sure this was literally the first image I saw on the fediverse that made me absolutely lose it:

  same as OP image, but a second passenger is screaming in terror as they lean against a broken window

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it would be weirder to end on it: sexual predator, cheater, nonprofit bankrupting, racist white Christian nationalist, and public urinator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m entirely convinced the whole thing was invented to scam Meta. So congrats to all the people who got paid along the way!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨somehow i don't make any progress⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My second round of college has been so much easier when I trick myself into doing a little work every day instead of all of it at once right before it’s due. Downside is no day off, upside is better grades and less anxiety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you really asking why compressing and uncompressing art made by a human being is different from slop produced by the slop machine?

  One exists to reconstruct an image as closely to the original as possible while saving space, the other is meant to insert arbitrary changes to the initial image and produce something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely wouldn’t post anything online I wouldn’t feel comfortable having read out in front of a judge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put the shoes on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone diagnosed with PTSD that also has nightmares related to it, I think it’s way underplayed how much public schools give people long term emotional trauma. Not even just bullying, a lot of the expectations schools put on kids are just developmentally unreasonable. It’s not random that so many people have school related nightmares decades after they’ve graduated.

  I think nakedness in dreams is just a common theme for vulnerability, but there’s a reason it’s so tied to school for many people, and it’s not because they’re healthy environments that produce well adjusted young adults.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for making me aware of it, I dunno how active the humanities side of it is but I’m definitely going to be checking my sources on it when I’m doing class work 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mining for the rare earth elements used in solar panels is pretty ugly, too. But once they’re taken out they can be reused, it’s not like coal or oil where you use it over and it’s gone forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent breakdown of flaws, this one is the most damning to me:

  Cancer sites are not considered. Exposure to radionuclide pollution from Uranium fission products is known to be associated with specific tumors (thyroid cancer, lung cancer, leukemia) due to the chemical nature of the products of its decay chain (radioactive isotopes of Iodine, Radon, Cesium). Stratifying by tumor site would have provided evidence to support the assumption that tumors are caused by radiation exposure.

  Who cares if you find more bladder cancer if this radiation isn’t associated with bladder tumors? This makes the study absolutely stink of a conclusion looking for evidence, especially in combination with the failure to use the actual radiation data readily available from nuclear sites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🍌 GET YER NFTS HERE 🍎⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like the saturation was cranked up on the OP image, the pictures on Wikipedia of Texas persimmons show them as ‘blue’ in the way that blueberries are blue, very dark and almost black. But I only knew of them as orange, so as far as I’m concerned that’s pretty blue!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🍌 GET YER NFTS HERE 🍎⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had no idea persimmons came in blue, neat!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock) a meteor will fly across your screen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aw, so it does. Cute!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock) a meteor will fly across your screen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In elementary school in the 90s I remember an exercise where we had to imagine what killed the dinosaurs. I came up with an implausible scenario of overpredation, and because I grew up in the south a classmate of mine said the Biblical flood killed them all and was praised by the teacher 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨end times are here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mr Beast is the best modern candidate for the Antichrist for sure. I’ve never seen grown ass adults get more defensive over some random YouTube guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s 10-passenger electric aircraft, the Matrix, hints at how big flying taxis can be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you take a flying taxi? I dunno if I would. I’ve been on a bus that broke down and it was inconvenient but ultimately not a big deal, a flying taxi breaking down seems significantly more catastrophic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barack Obama is the youngest living former or active president⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly think seeing Trump win killed him. His wife dying probably played a larger role, but I don’t think seeing the country go down the toilet did nothing to him, and the election was the killing blow. The cancer was irrelevant, he already survived that like three times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re going to be your own lawyer or perform a bit of self surgery, there is no way the AI is helping that situation. Especially if the inherent nature of AI is to validate everything you say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve seen a study with solid methodology break 5%, and it’s usually in the 1-2% range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Teenage boys should get to say wildly misogynistic things with no social repercussions’ is absolutely not how you wind up with men who have normal relationships with women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Way too late for that, and I wouldn’t decide it’s their fault they died even if they did get sucked into bot psychosis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you never have a child or relative with mental illness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a crippling degree of moderation.

  I’m okay with cripplingly moderating the plagiarism machine so that it stops telling people to kill themselves or other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eel, ray, rat, bat… is this engagement bait for people who think they’re smart the way that AI slop with veterans with no limbs and ‘NOBODY WILL TELL HIM HAPPY BIRTHDAY 😢’ is engagement bait for the moderately senile?

  Or maybe just fake, who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I get the reply. It’s the initial tweet (what animal has only three letters in it) that I don’t get the point of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fly, ant, owl, cat, dog, cow… I don’t understand the point of the initial tweet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I interpreted it as saying he was ahead of his time for falling victim to AI psychosis before anyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  all digital art is not copyrightable as it was created with software that did most of the work

  This is a really weird idea of what making digital art actually involves. Drawing on a screen with a stylus isn’t somehow not art made by a person because it’s digital instead of on paper. Even if you use a mouse to make pixel art or modify 3D models, that’s still human artistic decision making involved. Non-AI digital artwork doesn’t involve just pressing a button and getting art.