gustofwind
@gustofwind@lemmy.world
- Comment on Never attribute to capitalism that which is adequately explained by stupidity. 2 hours ago:
Yall do know someone just made up that you should assume stupidity over malice, like it’s just made up bullshit
It’s not magically true and sounds exactly like what the malicious want people to believe
- Comment on Teenage Jehovah's Witness can receive blood transfusion, judge rules 22 hours ago:
So they’re ok with getting operated on but cannot receive blood transfusions?
Reminds me of the woman who wanted an organ transplant but not the Covid vaccine (she was ok with every other required vaccine for the transplant because propaganda)
- Comment on What social class would that be 23 hours ago:
I think you’re confusing the 1% with the 0.1 and 0.01 and 0.001% wealth tiers
Top 1% starts around a million USD but can vary slightly with cost of living. Even the 0.1% might only a few million dollars.
Only the top 0.01 to 0.001% have unlimited wealth
OP is at minimum in the 1% but likely in the 0.1%
- Comment on What social class would that be 1 day ago:
Yes, obscenely wealthy lol get over it
- Comment on What social class would that be 1 day ago:
That’s incredibly right, like top 1% of humanity or something
Now go away
- Comment on YSK about Duverger's Law 2 days ago:
Oh no 🥲 besides being wholly divorced from reality you also think there’s a brighter future on the other side of accelerationist collapse
Politics has simply become an unserious affair
- Comment on YSK about Duverger's Law 2 days ago:
I understand being discouraged that Blue doesn’t deliver
But I don’t understand how that matters when Red is openly promising death and destruction
Red only wins elections when Blue voters stay home so we could always at least stop Red
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 3 days ago:
The ultimate conclusion to cheating in video games is literally thst having the robot play them for you
Something is just wrong with their brains which allows them to derive pleasure from antisocial activity 🤷♀️
- Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing 5 days ago:
I’d much rather organize dnd with you over WhatsApp than deal with whatever it is you want to do
Youre making it even more difficult to have friends
- Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing 5 days ago:
…take the hint and go make your own friends to do activities with lol
- Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing 5 days ago:
Oh man the only thing worse than having to join a community WhatsApp would be a community discord or slack
- Comment on OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company 6 days ago:
Is ai already taking their jobs?
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 6 days ago:
Do they hand out adderall or something? How do you even produce quality work like that…
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 1 week ago:
yeah nothing should be paywalled and westlaw/lexis/bloomberg/all of them should be a public service in fact
This is actually something I think ai will basically solve. Well, not the law as a public service part but the general access to reliable legal information part. I’ve seen the westlaw and lexis lawyer bots and they’re pretty good, a non lawyer could easily rely on it because lawyers already do.
I can’t imagine it takes more than 5 years before we see tailored compliance bots in various fields. AI mediated society is already here
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 1 week ago:
lawyers use Google before anything else. If you’re wondering if what you’re doing is illegal you probably can just look it up and find a decent enough answer
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 1 week ago:
Not sure why people are saying the laws aren’t accessible in America
Here’s the entire federal code of laws
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text
Here’s the federal rules and regulations
Here’s a repository of every state’s laws
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 1 week ago:
You should never stop learning and school is a very good way to learn. If you don’t learn new stuff all the time your brain will literally stagnate and rot. It will atrophy.
Very few people are cut out for true self directed learning so, unless you’re one of the gifted few, structured and group learning is the best way to do it.
If you’re highly motivated anything is better than nothing. Find free courses, look stuff up, engage the academic world as best you can 🤷♀️
- Comment on life hack 1 week ago:
Hell is right here on earth 🙂
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 1 week ago:
I’m probably the only person who thought baldurs gate 3 was a boring slog
Please bring back divinity
- Comment on The Stock Market is Just Financial Fantasy Sports 1 week ago:
It’s getting pretty close to astrology these days
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 1 week ago:
Commercial pectin products often come from processed apple skins, and some other fruits but mostly from the skins anyway, so you’re spot on
No idea if peppers will replicate the stock texture of celery but I imagine it can’t matter too much. You probably have to be extremely sensitive and test a lot of samples to tell the difference for that kind of subtle texture
I personally like celery so I don’t share your problem but I rely more on boiled potatoes anyway in my soups/stews for the starch as a mild thickener. I also love potatoes (:
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 1 week ago:
Not sure if anyone answered the actual question but a reason celery is included is, in addition to being part of the traditional mirepoix, because the pectin content breaks down and results in a just so slightly thicker stock
- Comment on Don't let his sacrifice be for nothing 1 week ago:
Being polytheistic but saying it’s monotheism is the funniest joke Christians ever came up with
All these years later and we’re still laughing and explaining the joke
- Comment on Capitalism turns countries into businesses to support the lavish lifestyle of capital holders and the government into HR to silence the workers 1 week ago:
lol almost everyone who says “communism is worse” has no common knowledge at all
Most cannot even define what capitalism or communism even is, nevermind talking about socialism instead
McCarthyism has done irreversible damage to “common knowledge” itself
- Comment on Capitalism turns countries into businesses to support the lavish lifestyle of capital holders and the government into HR to silence the workers 1 week ago:
McCarthyism essentially never ended in America or this would be common knowledge everyone repeats in casual conversation
This is “crazy talk” and “nonsense” because critical thinking has been made illegal in America for decades
- Comment on Everything is awful because the people who went to business school figured out how to fuck us over as hard as possible. 1 week ago:
MBA stands for maximally bad agents
If you know anyone who’s gone to business school you should disrespect them continuously
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 1 week ago:
Who do you think the FBI would contract to do the work anyway 😬
Maybe not Google but it would sure be some private company. Our government doesn’t do stuff itself almost ever. It hires the private sector
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 2 weeks ago:
USB c cables right now are often counterfeit or inferior to the listed specs
You need to test them yourself to know their power delivery and features
With a separate port that is a significantly reduced issue
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately this has an even more serious problem:
How do you know which cable supports which modes of delivery?
Turns out you have a usb c cable that doesn’t actually support power delivery or anything
Now what do you do?
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 2 weeks ago:
Tbh the sarcasm went over my head because you just never know these days