jerkface
@jerkface@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 4 days ago:
You’re not going to satisfy unmet emotional needs with logical arguments.
- Comment on UK | Fewer than half of young men believe abortion should be legal, poll finds 1 week ago:
No, I got THAT part. But wtf does that (or even being quick generally) have to do with Roger Rabbit?
- Comment on UK | Fewer than half of young men believe abortion should be legal, poll finds 1 week ago:
You don’t think young men are genetically predisposed to seeking violent solutions and promoting violent rhetoric, more so than young women are? Because I think they very obviously are. I don’t think that’s remotely disputable. And I think that’s being intentionally exploited.
There are LOTS of people “there to help”. But you don’t find them on 4chan.
- Comment on UK | Fewer than half of young men believe abortion should be legal, poll finds 1 week ago:
Like this isn’t by design?? Young men are swinging so hard because they are most eagerly vulnerable to manipulation. It isn’t happening by accident, a quirk of circumstances or unintentional neglect.
- Comment on US | ‘No Kings’ demonstrator dies after being shot at Utah protest, police say 1 week ago:
That (no doubt unintentionally) casts it as a simple “trolley problem” dichotomy. But it’s not a dichotomy. “Commit fewer homicides than the bad guy might have” is not a win condition, it’s barely more than a push.
- Comment on UK | Fewer than half of young men believe abortion should be legal, poll finds 1 week ago:
faster than roger rabbit
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- Comment on UK | Fewer than half of young men believe abortion should be legal, poll finds 1 week ago:
Don’t ignore the gender bias
- Comment on US | ‘No Kings’ demonstrator dies after being shot at Utah protest, police say 1 week ago:
You know, a good guy with a gun. The only thing that can save you from a bad guy with a gun.
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 1 week ago:
I think the distinction between data acquisition and data application is important. Consider the parallel of photography; you are legally and ethically entitled to take a photo of anything that you can see from public (ie, you can “scrape” it). But that doesn’t mean that you can do anything you want with those photos. Distinguishing them makes the scraping part a lot less muddy.
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 1 week ago:
Yes. Piracy in the sense of stealing from ships in international waters is different from piracy in the sense of copyright infringement. Thanks for that.
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 1 week ago:
Are you saying that the mere action of scraping is fair use, or that absolutely anything you do with the data you scrape is also fair use?
- Comment on 10000 hours to become an expert, avg person poops for ~12 minutes a day. It would take 137 years to master. 1 week ago:
21 times a week!
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t have a head like that. It places things in a conceptual space, not a numerical space. To it, a number is just an adjective, like a colour. It is learning to play chess by looking for language-like patterns in the game’s transcript. It is never attempting to model the contents of the board in it’s “mind”.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 2 weeks ago:
A proper Faraday cage, a truly excellent one, just the most Faraday of all the cages, is easily defeated by physical attacks such as getting your phone cloned when you get mass arrested and summarily released on OR.
- Comment on What editor or IDE do you use and why? 2 weeks ago:
emacshas been with me since the 16-bit era, across paradigms, across generations, across careers. When I useemacsI think in terms of what the elisp is doing. It’s such a deep and developed relationship, I would be throwing away so much personal power to use anything else. - Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 4 weeks ago:
When the original authors of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote their words in the original Greek, they were not imagining blindness to be a metaphor for clinical depression. Or even for feeling sad, if that is what you mean. Blindness is often used as a metaphor in the Bible, for example for ignorance, pride, deception, and unbelief. You can attempt to take it as a metaphor for the modern concept of depression (which of course they did not even possess) but to do so, you are clearly reading into the text.
I’m trying to understand if you are advocating doing that intentionally, but it’s not even clear if you’re aware and accept you’re doing that at all.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 4 weeks ago:
I’m going to claim brain fart. I’m horrified to find I had thought that it was about, like, modern Israel. Dumb.
OTOH, it sounds like you are suggesting taking interpretations like that; reading things into the text and adopting the symbols for our own purposes. Blindness wasn’t a metaphor for depression. You have to insert that as a modern reader. The text doesn’t fully support it and you have to creatively interpret at times. I don’t think that’s very satisfying.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 4 weeks ago:
Genuinely, that’s not how literary criticism works.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, yes.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 4 weeks ago:
The point is that they are fucking miracles. It doesn’t matter whether they are “impressive” or “lame” when they prove that the natural laws of the Universe do not apply.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 4 weeks ago:
What’s it about when he curses that fig tree cuz I heard some stuff about the symbolism.
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 4 weeks ago:
You cannot obtain consent by deceit. That’s rape.
- Comment on How can open source projects get acquired by third parties? 5 weeks ago:
You’re talking about a service, not an open source text like source code. A service can’t be “open source” unless it lives on a computing block chain like Etherium or something, because actual human beings have to do things on private assets.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
OTOH if you have to ask, then a couple possibilities need to be considered. Maybe they are already so well appointed, a twenty dollar trinket is just a waste of our planet’s dwindling resources. Maybe you know them so poorly, it really isn’t appropriate to be buying them a gift in the first place.
What we all want for our birthday is to feel like we are special to the people in our lives. That they know us, care about us, and wish us well. That’s not the sort of thing you can ask for; if you have to ask, it devalues it tremendously.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There is no stigma that I am aware of.
- Comment on how do i become a Scientologist? 1 month ago:
It’s easy. You just pay money.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Nothing is normal anymore.
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 1 month ago:
Maybe you’re guilty and your freedom is worth more to you than any amount of money.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 1 month ago:
annoying how?
- Comment on Liquid Trees 1 month ago:
