zikzak025
@zikzak025@lemmy.world
- Comment on The 5 stages 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you remove “Very Hot” entirely, being the median, and then take 50% away from either side left and right. Hot is downgraded to Mild and then we get half a Nut.
Mild, Mild, Half Nut, Vegetable.
- Comment on I demand a return to the Old Ways 2 weeks ago:
Aww what a cutie
- Comment on Woke 2 weeks ago:
I’d argue there’s nothing normal about being a well-adjusted person in a terminally ill society.
- Comment on petition to change name of "Lemmy Shitpost" to "Lemmy Hornypost" 2 weeks ago:
Have you had too many hornyposts not tagged NSFW cause furious masturbation incidents on public transit?
- Comment on 😐?? 2 weeks ago:
On the other hand, the nurse has potential for a returning customer base. The husband does not. She can keep getting paid the longer her customers live, so it’s more a question of short term profits over long term sustainability.
Oh who am I kidding? This is capitalism we’re talking about, they’ll always choose short term profits.
- Comment on 😐?? 2 weeks ago:
Curious to know your opinion on whether or not purple is a color.
- Comment on 😐?? 2 weeks ago:
So many people think that it’s some big gotcha that “black and white aren’t colors” but that’s not how language works. Color often refers to black or white. Try sticking to this gotcha at the paint store and see how much it’s appreciated.
This. Color is subjective perception anyways. They are labels we give to things to describe what our eyes see in normal lit conditions. There are no absolutes about it unless you are measuring pigment makeup or light wavelength, which are not colors in and of themselves, but factors that cause color. Color is in the mind.
Someone with trianopia seeing a green leaf as blue doesn’t make the leaf not green to others, nor does the fact that it is green by consensus make it green to them. And this is all outside of the linguistic aspect of it, e.g. how long it even took a lot of languages to start differentiating blue and green as separate colors, which itself affects perception.
- Comment on 😐?? 2 weeks ago:
Got me there.
- Comment on 😐?? 2 weeks ago:
But it didn’t say anything about not responding to things that are not questions. If it was phrased as “Answer only the questions”, that might be something.
- Comment on 😐?? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a discussion, did I not discuss?
- Comment on You're cured! 2 weeks ago:
It sounds more like you didn’t see what the US would consider a “chiropractor”, but rather an orthopedics/sports medicine specialist. Maybe he was just advertising as a chiropractor to attract clients or maybe your buddy was confused about his credentialing?
Chiropractors don’t need to be licensed or registered with anything in the US. It’s all pseudoscience mumbo-jumbo.
- Comment on 😐?? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, additive vs subtractive color. Our eyes see light but light is reflected by pigment.
Pigment determines which colors are subtracted from light, so combining all pigments gives you black (little to no light reflected). But combining different colors of light gives you white, if nothing is being absorbed.
- Comment on 😐?? 2 weeks ago:
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Color TV implies “full color”, black and white are only two colors of many.
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Towels collect skin cells and get wet when used, which can enable the growth of mold if not dried quickly enough.
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Depends on how many of the nurse’s clients become the husband’s clients.
I used the calculator to write “5318008” so it looks like it says “BOOBIES” upside-down.
Do I pass?
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- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 2 weeks ago:
I’m not inclined to believe the accuracy of the survey, especially since it’s just voluntary data from randomly chosen people.
Sales data shows that the Steam Deck alone has numbers just shy of total 50 series GPUs. Not all of those GPUs are going to be used for gaming, but I’d hazard just about all of those Steam Decks are. So logically the Steam Deck’s integrated GPU should be the most popular option on paper.
Gaming and consumer “AI PCs” account for $16 billion of Nvidia’s revenue from last year, compared to $190 billion made on AI data centers.
Consumer GPUs are an afterthought for them at this point, not even 10% of their business.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 2 weeks ago:
Nvidia is killing it because they are the backbone of AI outside of gaming, too, which is where most of the interest is.
Their GPUs seem to be available and affordable to everyone but gamers these days. Fewer people are buying them to play games, and that audience has enough money to price out regular consumers with demand.
- Comment on The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it 2 weeks ago:
This article might have had a point if governments were financed at all like companies. But thank goodness they aren’t.
Something needs to be done about the out-of-control spending in the US, but I certainly won’t be trusting any Republican-led initiatives to have those answers.
- Comment on Finishing a video game can trigger “post-game depression,” study finds 2 weeks ago:
Only ever had this with Mass Effect. I think just the fact that it was a series I had played for years and the ending (albeit controversial) was final and left no “postgame” to play around with.
I only beat it after the Citadel DLC had been released, though, which IMO was a much stronger send off to the series than the game itself was at launch, which just made the real ending hit more when I got around to it.
- Comment on Switzerland Says It’s Halting Weapons Exports Licenses to US, Citing Neutrality 2 weeks ago:
They may be disappointed. Unlike the Nazis, most of MAGA’s “gold” is just metallic spray paint.
- Comment on Zone rule 2 weeks ago:
This is where I used to get my news:
- Comment on Ope 2 weeks ago:
Maybe if you’re white and want to move to one of those countries that has very lenient blood citizenship.
There are millions of other people trying to move to Europe right now who have both money and degrees, and if you’re not in that venn diagram then you’re likely SOL.
- Comment on Our Commitment to Windows Quality 2 weeks ago:
Good luck to them, I guess.
The fact that the summary of intended changes listed below the statement seems to be directly copied out of Copilot says all it needs to say, IMO.
- Comment on Fookin Ghosties 2 weeks ago:
The profile pic you’re looking at is what was run through the AI upscaler, not necessarily what the user actually has.
I found a less blurry version of the screenshot and their profile pic doesn’t look AI generated, or remotely like what the AI upscaler produced.
- Comment on I have spent hours pondering why this is 3 weeks ago:
So you can abbreviate it to abbr.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. There needs to be a stick to accompany the carrot. But if the carrot is refused, then the stick does its job.
- Comment on Is this accurate, Canadians? 3 weeks ago:
If the US fell apart, I feel like the northeastern states would inevitably just coalesce into “Newer England” since they’re so ideologically and economically linked.
- Comment on Tim Apple calls for a rebellion! 3 weeks ago:
Not even really a “Steve Jobs” quote, it was by a bunch of people in Apple’s marketing department for the “think different” ad campaign.
- Comment on i guess lunar eclipse got an update too.. 3 weeks ago:
FWIW though, that would only make sense if the moon was on the horizon. If the moon is directly overhead or close enough, it’d still get mostly shaded.
If it was at like a 45° angle, though, the shadow would look pretty oblong if the earth was truly flat.
- Comment on Plan ahead 4 weeks ago:
For any curious, basically “I” is to “Me” as “Thou” is to “Thee”.
English used to differentiate singular and plural 2nd person pronouns. “Thou” was the singular 2nd person, and “Ye” was the plural 2nd person (it seems backwards but I swear that’s how it originally was, e.g. the biblical phrase “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”)
“Thee” and “You” were the object versions for these pronouns:
“[I/Thou/We/Ye] give [me/thee/us/you].”
Like French (tu/vous), it became considered polite in English to address singular people using the plural 2nd person, to the extent that the singular version fell out of use entirely. And then on top of that, English stopped differentiating between subject/object forms of the pronoun, with “You” subsuming all 2nd person pronouns.
So the meme is using it wrong, because both would be “thou” as subjects, and that’s before you get into the fact that English at the time also used different verb endings depending on person and plurality.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 4 weeks ago:
But you don’t start 20 lawsuits for the same thing at the same time against everybody. You start with one case against one company, and if it rules in your favor, that sets stronger precedent to go after the others.
As for why Valve, I’m guessing it’s easier to demonstrate more specific examples of harm when you have a larger pool of consumers to draw from, and easier to get an American entity in an American courtroom.
