Zephorah
@Zephorah@discuss.online
- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 5 days ago:
They do throw things out the airlock an awful lot. Though, somehow, Borg ding have the strength to stop it but Beverly Crusher does.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 6 days ago:
Isn’t he allegedly drinking the blood of virgin boys or something to try to defeat death?
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 1 week ago:
Vance (and Peter Theil by proxy) become president.
- Comment on Someone should make a strip mall with 80s/90s stores that no longer exist 1 week ago:
The best set up I’ve seen is a mall with a gym, the local library, and specialty stores that would otherwise exist in a downtown mainstreet: bakery, brunch restaurant, etc.
It could be done: Micheal’s, Ross, hook in the main discount grocery store, Harbor Freight. Then knock down some walls for the smaller shops and keep going: dollar store, local consignment/antiques, etc.
One stop shopping.
- Comment on Someone should make a strip mall with 80s/90s stores that no longer exist 1 week ago:
What? In person shopping in Sears, Claire’s Boutque, Spencer’s, Payless, Radio Shack, and Forever 21 followed by a steaming pile of Sbarro’s washed down with an Orange Julius?
I’m so old.
- Comment on Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database 1 week ago:
I think the only new piece here is Trump wants to link in voter data.
- Comment on Sex appeal 1 week ago:
Both captains and Delenn were so awful. Even so.
- Comment on Sex appeal 2 weeks ago:
So many bad actors and yet B5 was a great watch. Minus that last season.
- Comment on Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount 2 weeks ago:
I feel like we’re watching billionaires race yachts. One person bought a yacht so then they all had to have a yacht and now they’re racing them against one another because gif done fucked up reason that competition really gets them off.
Only it’s AI/data centers instead of yachts.
- Comment on Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount 2 weeks ago:
Inertia is one of the primary negative forces that moves humanity.
- Comment on The Right Is Now ‘Transvestigating’ Erika Kirk And Sydney Sweeney 2 weeks ago:
How is this a real headline?
- Comment on Digg Shut Down 2 weeks ago:
I realize younger people probably don’t feel this so viscerally, but shorts (not all, but many) are very in tune with old TV advertising format. It’s like an endless stream of Super Bowl ads, at best. Repetitive music. Designed for the short attention span. Makes you seek a product, in this case, more of itself.
Now, look at the “upcycled” (/s) version of YouTubr content. Reused video clips with a shiny, hyper-reactive talking head in front of it. Not human expression but caricatures thereof. Millions of views. Millions of viewers. For years. Not of human faces but caricatures of human faces. This garbage won’t go away because it’s consistantly being watched.
Now, after all that priming, introduce AI into the two most popular social medias, short form and long form.
How does this fully primed crowd know the difference? How would they suddenly feel the need to leave? Not you or me, but the people who consume the ad clones and charicaturized crap daily? The same people who slide their phones out of their pockets to scroll shorts, on automatic, whenever they have 5 free minutes at work. How do they even spot the difference after years of consuming garbage?
TLDR Less human interaction + more fake, caricaturized human vid content = where we are now, with AI on social media.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 2 weeks ago:
Wearing a shirt doesn’t, but then why should the government care? The answer is they shouldn’t.
Punchinb nazis used to be cool. Now, when the forner victims of genocide pay that genocide forward, governments defend it, going so far as to prosecute their own for saying “I don’t like it”.
A normal government reply would be: cool, enjoy your angst. Instead, they spend money and energy on it which is not normal.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 2 weeks ago:
Again, why does any country who is not Israel care at all about this? Does Australia have a military base there?
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
The problem is they’re already making bank on ads and data. They don’t need our money.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
Hey, if you can find reliable vids on fixing just about anything, it’s in. Bonus if there’s solid journalism and documentaries.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
The ability to host that level of video and audio data, streaming, though.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
Nebula doesn’t have hobby vids. Good in some respects, terrible in others.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
We need an alternative with people on it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is the truth. They’re huddled around what little they have in fear waiting for someone else to take care of it.
- Comment on We Just Lost Earth’s “Parasol” – And Warming Is About to Accelerate. | Just Have A Think 3 weeks ago:
Something non YT at least.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 3 weeks ago:
Work and shared hobbies. I recently went to buy some hardwood from a work colleague. We don’t even work the same shift but they’re fond of asking what I’m building or showing me what they’re building because who else are they going to talk to about their hobby (I imagine).
We’re not friends, but there’s this hobby. I get there and it’s not a mere business transaction nor do we talk work. It almost had a kid feel to it. Like when you crossed the hedge to the yard of the kid next door and he welcomes you because it’s more fun if you can show off and share your toys. Only as adults. Kudos on reclaiming a small piece of that.
Adulthood is such a roadblock sometimes.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 3 weeks ago:
So, Sunday afternoon being the worst time to grocery shop will Leo be the most expensive time to shop.
Versus 9am on a Wednesday.
- Comment on Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed | ACLU 3 weeks ago:
We don’t really have a media any more. And people generally huddle around what little nugget of safety they have inside their own homes, trapped by the fear of losing it.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 3 weeks ago:
I’m still not clear on exactly what triggers this. Is it phone location, because a phone number is linked to all your data (unless you’ve been gaming it for the last 5-10yrs)? Do I walk by with my phone and the price goes up?
Is it like goodwill? Does the price change as you’re checking out? Do I grab a 2lb bag of medium roast coffee beans for $13, and because buying it consistently for decades, it’s now $18 at checkout? But is still $13 for the guy behind me who decided to try whole bean over pre-ground?
If rich people turn off their phones before hitting the parking lot and poor people leave theirs on, does the entire store get cheaper?
If you take a pic with your phone of the “advertised” price does that mitigate sudden increases while checking out, if you’re even watching?
Does having your unemployed, deadbeat uncle or kid do the shopping from their phone make it cheaper for the household?
What are the triggers?
- Comment on YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science 4 weeks ago:
To be fair though, there’s commercial/ad feel to shorts so it’s likely in that zone, though in need of better method to prove it.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 4 weeks ago:
Fair. Even so. To what degree that was the case, or not, is anyone’s guess. They’ve not pulled the trigger on a mental health defense, last check.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 4 weeks ago:
That’s the idea of jury nullification: guilty, but we don’t care.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 4 weeks ago:
I think the assessment of “just crazy enough” to step past that boundary is spot on, but to say that the man is batshit? Not at all.
This is a man who looked at a complex societal problem and chose a path, very deliberately. He didn’t just snap and walk into a building, guns blazing.
He also very deliberately limited his damage to one guy. A woman with coffee walked right up to what was happening, he looked right at her, she left, he let her.
This is not the action of a batshit person.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 4 weeks ago:
It’s straight Jury Nullification within an hour of deliberation unless there are people on the jury who have been bought, by monetary means or otherwise.