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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda like it. Brutalist console

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun God⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grab em by the vespussi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure vs Temp⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m super critical of gender. Let’s get rid of all those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, and it makes total sense. The brigading, insofar as it happens, really shouldn’t. But also, as someone who espouses left wing views, I always want to give critical support to left spaces - even if they’re imperfect. And .ml and even hexbear have a lot of valuable discourse - I comment on hexbear threads regularly with less radical points of view than their users often have, and I get good responses and engagement usually because I’m good faith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone on .ml I really don’t think it’s that bad. Definitely left, and generally pro-China, but not too extreme imo. Hexbear is pretty bad. I’m a socialist and I disagree with a lot of the stuff there. But .ml is very much not a true “tankie” instance, in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is martial arts really that useful?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has been very useful to me. My cardio has improved dramatically, I am much stronger than I used to be, and I’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment out of going from absolute trash to slightly less trash over 2 years.

  But I don’t expect it to really help me in a fight. If I did get into a fight, I certainly would do better than if I hadn’t trained; but one thing I’ve learned from fighting people for like 8hrs a week is that it is REALLY easy to fuck up and get hurt in ways you wouldn’t expect. The outcome of a fight is unpredictable - especially when the other person could have a weapon. The best martial art for self defense would be running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazing. You don’t think that a system for individualized pricing would take demographics into account? Brilliant, you should take your thesis on how demographics don’t affect consumers’ willingness to pay to every ad agency on earth. They’ll be riveted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d probably be the opposite. I bet they’d charge more to specific demographics - and common convenience store beverage brands would probably cost more for poorer people.

  Plus, without controls, they’d probably charge different ethnic groups more for specific goods - they’d probably obuscate it somehow, like to charge white people more for something they’d probably say they were doing it because you’re a model train enthusiast or something. Or like “our consultants have told us that Tejano music fans are willing to pay a premium for coca cola” and so they jack up the price of coca cola for Mexicans without saying it’s because they’re mexican.

  But yeah, I bet poorer people who have less free time would be willing to pay more for essentials because they often have less choice in where they get groceries.

  Also, if poor people were charged less there’d be a whole industry of personal grocery shoppers who’d get discounted prices for rich people and charge them a service fee in exchange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch toilets⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Males need 37g of fiber daily for optimum health. That’s the equivalent of 568g of raspberries or 657g of green peas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm terrified of the Netherlands now⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have ridiculous accents, though. They got nerfed in an old patch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bag⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imo those worked because they lied about picture quality being better, etc. So the price was just justified by fraud - I also don’t know that demand for those was all that high and am even more skeptical that it’d be driven by price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bag⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That typically only works for luxury goods, but yes. A good that inverts the effect of price on demand is called a Veblen Good.

  But that strategy probably wouldn’t work for something like rice or shampoo or socks or drywall putty unless people start usong those as status symbols.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get scattered⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do youbexplain me looking this psycho if there is no SATAN

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalists hate competition, especially when it comes to wages⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One other thing to keep in mind is that it is perfectly legal in most jurisdictions requiring pay transparency in job postings to only give a part of the pay range. Say the range is 60,000 - 100,000, they could just say 60,000 - 80,000 or whatever they’re willing to hire people at.

  I don’t think this is necessatily wrong practice, but it’s definitely potentially misleading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Do not approach the wildlife.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At various parks, including in Wyoming, I have seen tourists:

  1. approach a bison (within 15 ft or so) while holding a toddler. Multiple other people approaching bison. Bison can weigh over a ton and can be aggressive.

  2. take a selfie with and then attempt to touch a male elk on its head. It actually charged them but didn’t commit and hurt them - just to scare them.

  3. dozens of people taking severe risks when hiking in remote areas. In the desert, 10 miles out when it’s 90f+ wearing sandals with no water and no cover. Rushing by other hikers on a <2ft wide ledge with a 300ft sheer drop while wearing sandals and carrying their young child in a bulky carrier on their back, etc.

  4. getting within 25ft or so of a male moose to get a picture, moose was visibly agitated. Moose weigh about a half ton and can be quite aggressive.

  5. large groups of people following black bear female with cubs, on foot, for pictures - like 50ft back but still too close for their safety and for the bear’s safety, especially when they’re following it.

  Frighteningly many people have zero respect for nature, treat national parks like theme parks, and put themselves, animals, and their children at risk for no good reason in situations that are 100% avoidable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mushroom ID requires a lot more than just immediately available visuals. You’ve gotta see what the cap looks like, the stem, how the stem connects to the cap, the specific characteristics of the gills, the substrate it’s growing in, and the spore print (i.e. leave it on a piece of white paper, covered, for a number of hours undisturbed so it drops its spores). And even then it can be tough if the mushroom is abnormal or is decaying at all.

  With enough info, I’m sure you could train an ML model to ID mushrooms. But you’d need to give it a lot of info to make a successful ID.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The later books are really something⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God Emperor has a lot of super cringey stuff in it. This is imo the worst. In addition to being cringey, it is maybe some of the worst writing I have ever seen.

  Basically, Duncan Idaho is climbing this like 3km tall wall for reasons that I won’t get into while Nayla (who is one of Leto II’s weird mutant fanatical female bodyguards/soldiers who he orders to have sex with his enemies/allies for political reasons) gets progressively hornier, saying things like “[if Duncan climbs that wall] I think I’ll have an orgasm”. This goes on for a whole chapter. Like 30+ pages of this iirc. Then Duncan finishes climbing the wall and Hugo and Nebula award winning author Frank Herbert ends this weird horny fanfic of a chapter with “And then Nayla had her orgasm”. The whole thing is ridiculously gratuitous, serves almost no purpose, and drags on in a book that already seriously needed to be edited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thank you nurse meowsalot⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah realistically it isn’t a big concern. Like you should try not to inject air into people’s veins, but the minimum amount that is about 20 cc, but it’s likely to take much more than that to be fatal, usually in excess of 150 cc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Did you know your username is one of a tree’s nuts?