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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What he “means” to the extent this isn’t just a shock value post meant to allow him to get a lot of responses before moving the goalposts & also to get a lot of nazis to like him more, is that:

  1. The epithet he used is a racist one used to describe how people who come from a poor background act once they get some money - often on flashy displays of wealth, but not often on investments/ensuring their wealth grows and lasts into the future.

  2. he is saying American billionaires fit that epithet because of how they spend their money. He calls them N*s because of how they spend money, not because they are black - he is not under the illusion that most billionaires are black.

  3. he’s saying they spend their money in foolish ways. He would prefer they spend their money abolishing the neoliberal state and replacing it with a neo-feudal monarchical system that makes all these billionaires literal feudal lords with fiefdoms. For him, this is the end-goal of wealth and the ideal societal state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This dude sucks so much. And everything I’ve ever read about him makes him seem like the most annoying kind in philosophy class who thinks he’s smart but is actually a dumbass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final wishes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh no why shreks dick in the toothpaste

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Harbinger of the Dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Brutalist fast food restaurants? Don’t threaten me with a good time. Fuckin love me some brutalism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends, but ultimately a lot of social interactions can only happen between two people at once. Say you and your wife get into a fight. Instead of fighting it out & making up. She now has the option to stop fighting you and go hang out with your co-husband - and you aren’t invited. She also has the option to emotionally strong arm you to get her way by not only stonewalling you/withholding affection, but also by threatening to push you out of your marriage for another guy who literally lives with you both.

  You’d need to have a lot of trust in your wife - she’d need to have a tremendous amount of emotional stability and be non-manipulative. She’d suddenly have a lot more power in the relationship in a very inequitable way.

  My wife and I are very into monogamy. But she has a serious temper and can be very manipulative when she’s angry (she’s gotten better about this, but it’s a known issue). It’d be very easy for her to do something hurtful. I’m not talking about sex, just the emotional threat of turning to someone else for relief from me - and the implied threat of pushing me out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry that happened. I get relatively minor tinnitus, but these exercises have helped. Dude’s a chiropractor, but this particular stuff is not chiropractic and is legit. The thing that helps me is the palms on ears and drumming with fingers on the back of your head (like 50% through the video or so)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have gone off a few times over the years and didn’t experience many side effects/withdrawals, but that is definitely not always the case - I’ve heard that it reeeaaally does not work for some people. Ymmv

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have depression anxiety and find that Prozac (an ssri) doesnt work well, you might consider something that directly works on dopamine - like Buproprion (brand name = wellbutrin, a NDRI, norepinephrine dopamine reuptake inhibitor).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com set up a AI image generator bot on the Threadiverse for anyone here to freely use⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  @aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me Lemmy user Comrade Miao prompting an ai to create an image of the db0 admin as a power hungry reddit mod

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This could be a good use of AI. Since this regime is doing it, it probably won’t be. But, ML has been used for a while to help identify new drug compounds, find interactions, etc. It could be very useful in the FDA’s work.

  The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective uses some software from MIT ASKCOS that uses neural networks to help identify reactions and retrosynthesis chains to produce chemical compounds.

  You can check it out here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess, if they answer “No” or “Yeah your simple rebuttal has made me realize the problem of free will is nbd actually”.

  But if they say “Yes. It does matter.” Then suddenly it isn’t defeated and you’d need to provide a compelling argument for it not mattering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what language would be best for me to learn?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on your goals. I’d say learn the one you have the most use for personally. If you don’t have a use and are just learning for fun, then pick the most interesting one. If you’re learning intending to acquire the language as quickly as possible, then either Italian or French would be good choices.

  I am learning Chinese (mandarin, aka 汉语, aka 普通话) and I personally find it very logical, interesting, and fun as a native english speaker who used to be conversationally fluent in Spanish. There are definite difficulties with the language (soooooo many homonyms, characters (汉子) take some getting used to, tones, etc) but if you learn it, there is a lot of reading material and media that will become accessible to you. Also, I think that it provides more cognitive benefits necause of how different it is to romance languages (for native speakers of romance languages).

  汉语是很酷。我推荐你！

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got any grapes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quick health tip⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro-tip: if you replace the water in your instant ramen with coffee, it’ll have coffee in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK you can literally mail anything (except these things) as long as you pay the right postage and address it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do office workers actually do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I largely analyze data and create software to automate business tasks. This allows people in my company to make informed decisions about the business, how money is or should be spent, who & where to hire people, etc. And then I present that data in a way they can understand.

  This might mean creating forecasts. Automating data analysis with reports. Building data sources (gathering and manipulating data from different places and compiling it). Building interactive software or excel sheets for non-technical users.

  I use excel, google sheets, google app script (basically javascript), tableau, python, and SQL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dont know where to put this, no⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Recorded music from radio to cassette

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1 reporting in 👨‍🦳

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are lying to us⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Science is proof that 99/100 people who think that if there was a knowledge-based magic system irl, then they’d learn it and be a mage is in denial.

  We legit have magic that you just have to learn & then can do all sorts of cool stuff, be it chemistry or computer science, and people pretty routinely do not give a shit about learning it themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Worst”. Idk, Satisfactory is pretty great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll stop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that guy? That’s just a normal picture of US vice president JD Vance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even think the majority of American conservatives are on board with most of what’s happening. Some are, but they’re especially stupid and usually ideologically oriented to Trump rather than to the traditional brand of US conservatism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda like it. Brutalist console

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun God⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too autistic for this. Why would it be unsettling? Mercury is much smaller than the sun. If it was suddenly bigger in proportion to the sun, then I’d be unsettled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another point here, Amazon has really thin profit margins on their core business (not counting AWS, etc. Just the online shopping). If it weren’t absolutely gargantuan, it would fail. It’s only profitable because of the logistical efficiency it has achieved, exploitation (workers and cheap goods from China, etc.), and absolutely massive economies of scale. Similar to Walmart.

  Recommended reading: People’s Republic of Walmart. All for nationalizing - would be better for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grab em by the vespussi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can either use AI to just vomit dubious information at you or you can use it as a tool to do stuff. The more specific the task, the better LLMs work. When I use LLMs for highly specific coding tasks that I couldn’t do otherwise (I’m not a [good] coder), it does not make me worse at critical thinking.

  I actually understand programming much better because of LLMs. I have to debug their code, do research so I know how to prompt it best to get what I want, do research into programming and software design principles, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s exhausting. And trying to convince someone like that of anything is basically impossible. I have had painstaking, well-reasoned and well-sourced political discussions with many people like that. Funny thing is, I can almost always get the to agree to progressive or socialist policy goals. But, there are all these ideological land mines and, if you trip one, then they fall back into their defensive web of miscellaneous falsehoods and conspiracies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Validation for their feelings and a return to a mythologized past. Try having a reasoned political discussion with someone like this:

  Well back in my day things were just better. America was the best and we didn’t have to apologize for that. And the blacks and mexicans and what not didn’t complain so damn much because folks were wired different back then and there wasn’t nothin to complain about. Chuck Berry. You know Chuck Berry? Greatest rock and roller of all time and he was colored. Didn’t nobody have anything to say about it, he was just damned good at guitar. Now the kids - black kids - listen to all sorts of damnable noise and them from the cities in gangs shooting each other up and corrupting good old white kids in the small towns and suburbs getting them into drugs. And they whine and complain about racism and get the white college kids to whine and complain too, but we had a black president and look how that turned out. Granted he was a muslim and not even a citizen, but try tellin them that. I mean hell look at what Hillary did to all them folks at Benghazi - just let them muslims kill all of em , probably wouldn’t have been politically correct to fight back. And those democrat cities just keep letting illegals stay because they know they’ll vote democrat - they don’t care how many of them are raping and murdering women and kids long as they get their votes. Not even just the mexicans anymore, you got those communists gangs from venezuela taking over whole apartment complexes and the defunded police cann’t do anything about it. You know something was wrong with that Biden election - not just illegals voting but I saw on Fox that they were sending out dozens of mail-in ballots to blacks and college kids and what have you. Maybe Elon’s going to fix it now since he knows all about those voting machines. Liberals voting for dead people too, but that’s been on the news since Bush - I don’t know why nobody does anything about that. And you know what? We knew which bathroom tonuse too - we figured out a genius method. I’ll tell you: drop your drawers and look down. Then you’ll know. And you’ll know if you should be on a mens or womens track team, too. It’s probably because all the kids have autism from the vaccines these days - now I guess they’re mutants because of that COVID mRNA vaccine too - but not me. No sir. I’ll stick with the DNA god gave me. That’s probably why all the boys think they’re girls now. Or cats and try to piss in litterboxes at school. People knew who and what they were once. They knew their place, worked hard, and didn’t complain. Now if we can just get Trump in for a few more terms then he’ll set everything straight and get rid of all those regulations so.I can afford eggs again.

  These folks are genuinely operating on an entirely separate set of facts and assumptions to us. They have decades of counterfactual propagandized conspiracy theories, which are too numerous and ingrained to easily disabuse them of.