jerkface
@jerkface@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 9 hours ago:
It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage. Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. Low intake of saturated fat and high intakes of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, soy products, nuts, and seeds (all rich in fiber and phytochemicals) are characteristics of vegetarian and vegan diets that produce lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and better serum glucose control. These factors contribute to reduction of chronic disease. Vegans need reliable sources of vitamin B-12, such as fortified foods or supplements.
- Comment on Dairy farmers say worker shortage is threatening UK food security 9 hours ago:
Animal ag doesn’t produce food, it consumes it.
- Comment on Does putting clothes in the closet protect them from dust, or is the dust in there too? 3 days ago:
Memento mori.
- Comment on Does putting clothes in the closet protect them from dust, or is the dust in there too? 3 days ago:
Wait, what is dust doing to my precious clothing? Should I be alarmed? I’m going to be until you tell me otherwise.
- Comment on Black Holes 1 week ago:
It is, and you won’t believe what happens!
- Comment on Black Holes 1 week ago:
okay what does infinite density mean in avant-garde mechanics?
- Comment on Black Holes 1 week ago:
Keep in mind that all the cliches about black holes are about non-rotating black holes, which don’t exist in reality. In reality, a spinning black hole has a ring singularity, not a point, and behaves much weirder and even less intuitively than the hypothetical non-rotating counterpart as it smears out spacetime into taffy.
- Comment on Black Holes 1 week ago:
All of the rest of the physics seems to check out, though
You know, except for the actual singularity
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 week ago:
It’s not cool to use “vegan” like this.
- Comment on Black Holes 1 week ago:
There are no naked singularities
- Comment on ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity 1 week ago:
Actually, identity is a real thing that people depend on to exist as social creatures in a social universe. It can be disrupted by personality disorders. Be grateful you don’t even know what the fuck I am talking about.
- Comment on ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity 1 week ago:
- Comment on ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity 1 week ago:
Argument by bucket of crabs
- Comment on ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity 1 week ago:
Try living for fifty years without the natural ability to maintain an identity that others enjoy and then tell me its overrated.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 1 week ago:
I miss feelies.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 1 week ago:
It’s an observation, not a conclusion ya nitwit.
Also you: “If everyone was as stupid as me, we never would have formed civilization.”
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 1 week ago:
Check yourself, man.
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 1 week ago:
Nice try, Samuel Hahnemann!!!
- Comment on Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar? 1 week ago:
In the 80s I went to a public event featuring the California Joy Stick; “Joy” referring to the brand of dish soap. There’s probably a more common name for it. It’s a device made of a large fabric loop on a stick with a nut for holding the loop open. You dip it in a solution of water, dish soap, and glycerine, and then open the loop to the breeze or walk with it. You can create bubbles tens of metres long, and wide and tall enough for a person to stand inside. I’m surprised it isn’t still a thing people do, you could easily make one.
There was a bubble making competition. Most of the competitors seemed to be quite casual, but most of them found it fairly easy to be competitive.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
They are not supposed to be able to and well designed e2ee services can’t be. That’s the whole point of e2ee.
You’re using their client. You get a fresh copy every time it changes.
- Comment on What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend? 2 weeks ago:
There’s also conflation with the number of “chunks” we can hold in mind at a time, which is often estimated at about seven things. But that doesn’t mean we don’t comprehend what eight is.
Numbers are DEEP. You can’t just know things about a number, you have to discover them empirically, experimentally. Every number has essentially infinite properties and you can’t know everything about a number, but you get a familiarity with them. Still, even the simplest numbers have the capacity to surprise in the right context.
- Comment on What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend? 2 weeks ago:
Visualization and symbolics are not the only way we comprehend numbers. My mind has the ability to recognize astonishingly broad temporal intervals with remarkable accuracy. I can express the interval using numbers. Does that mean I am able to fully comprehend a number like in “90 minutes?”
I am able to remember sets of things, and distinguish all of the members of that set, up to very large numbers. It would not be unusual for a teacher to be able to call to mind every one of a couple hundred students currently attending their school. If I can manage a set of a particular size in my mind (whether or not I can visualize all the members of that set simultaneously) do I not have some comprehension of that number?
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
It’s really disturbing how everyone sees this practice through the lens of trust. Can you really think of no other reasons? Absurd.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 2 weeks ago:
Don’t spend one more dollar on educational material. If a person had to pay for every textbook and online subscription, education would be impractical.
- Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ? 3 weeks ago:
There is a limit beyond which it will simply dissolve into your blood stream.
- Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ? 3 weeks ago:
It depends on how pressurized it is. And clearly farts are pressurized.
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 3 weeks ago:
“Certain people can be harmed by current LLMS.”
OP: “Those people are stupid. Problem solved.”
I hope you can recognize that you are expressing a defense mechanism, not rational thought.
- Comment on Racism. Nationalism. Patriotism. All must die. 4 weeks ago:
hey look another expert on religion who would never be caught dead in a grad course on the subject
- Comment on holee shiet 4 weeks ago:
Also, “The experiences of non-human animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own. It harms us when we take pleasure in cruelty and violence.”
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 4 weeks ago:
chapGPT is drunk uncle confidently stating a thing they heard third hand from Janet in accounting and then taking him at his word
Also you: “why do people bother to mention when information comes from ChatGPT”