Robust_Mirror
@Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone
- Comment on I'm down 2 days ago:
No, being detailed, venom is a toxic substance that a living organism evolved to both produce and actively deliver by a specialised biological structure such as fang, stinger, or barb.
Poison is ingested, inhaled or most importantly to this, absorbed.
- Comment on HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK 3 days ago:
Sometimes that’s true. Not all times. But many shows have a weak season 1 but then get amazing. And you can’t really skip it without losing context.
- Comment on Always there 4 days ago:
We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran :3 A full payload of HUGS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow uwu All planes are safely on their way home with cookies! NOW IS THE TIME FOR CUDDLES! Thank you for your attention to this matter ^_^
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 5 days ago:
Going in blind so sorry if this is a repeat:
God’s Juice.
- Comment on A couple of Switch 2 owners are already reporting expanded back panels, Nintendo investigates possible causes 1 week ago:
Definitely not.
- Comment on A couple of Switch 2 owners are already reporting expanded back panels, Nintendo investigates possible causes 1 week ago:
Yeah this is like making out a monitor having a dead pixel is some huge scandal and discredit to that company.
- Comment on A couple of Switch 2 owners are already reporting expanded back panels, Nintendo investigates possible causes 1 week ago:
It’s different to the point I sometimes go back to 8 for the more traditional format. That isn’t something that has ever been the case for me across other mario kart games.
- Comment on Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour 1 week ago:
I agree and said as much when I touched on this. Again, this isn’t a fundamental issue with money, it’s an issue with the way it’s allowed to be used, distributed and manipulated.
Money isn’t broken, our world and laws regarding it are.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
Also, even if they were, it wouldn’t make the strawberry a nut. It would make it covered in nuts.
- Comment on 10000 hours to become an expert, avg person poops for ~12 minutes a day. It would take 137 years to master. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t think I’ve ever taken a 12 minute poop in my life.
- Comment on Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour 2 weeks ago:
People stopping believing in religion doesn’t affect much. People stopping believing in money would collapse countries/the world. That alone will keep people believing in it. At the end of the day I can really take money and get real food with it, no matter how fake you claim it is.
Fundamentally money is just fancy IOUs. You trade bread for eggs. One day the neighbour broke all their eggs so they give you an IOU. You don’t really need more eggs at that time so you give another person the egg token for some milk. He can then go get eggs.
That’s all money is. Transferable, universal IOUs. And if you think about it, there doesn’t need to be a limit to the amount of IOUs in existence. Yes, it’s all built on trust and promises, that the egg farmer will honour the token and give you the eggs, but the IOU is just a concept, nothing needs to physically exist for the IOU to be valuable beyond the idea it will be followed through on.
So to me, it doesn’t matter if money is “imaginary”, because that’s kind of the point. The only reason we ever had something backing it was to ensure the person could actually follow through with the IOU they gave out. Because if the chicken farmer gives IOUs out en masse so that they can get a bunch of stuff from their neighbours immediately, they’re gonna have a problem if everyone comes to claim them at once.
But if you’re happy to accept the idea he can eventually make good on it in some way, and the people of the village all agree to it, there’s no reason he can’t do this and give out the eggs over time. The fact it’s built on trust doesn’t automatically make it not real.
That said, there’s definitely valid concern about how speculative bubbles and extreme wealth concentration can distort the system. But that’s a problem with how the IOUs are distributed and manipulated, not with the idea of money itself.
And honestly when we look at the scale of the world today, what’s the alternative? You want to go back to trading? How is that going to work for obtaining a TV, smartphone, internet? A variety of foods? Etc etc etc. I’m interested what alternatives could exist for a global or even national market.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
It could always play it if you reminded it of the board state every move. And while I know elites can play chess blind, the average person can’t, so it was always kind of harsh to hold it to that standard and criticise it not being able to remember more than 5 moves when most people can’t do that themselves.
Besides that, it was never designed to play chess. It would be like insulting Watson the Jeopardy bot for losing against the Atari chess bot, it’s not what it was designed to do.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
Fine I deleted it. But it worked so whatever don’t need opinions now anyway.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure their point is tabloids exist because there’s a market for people that want to know about and think about other people, such as this guy.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 2 weeks ago:
They got confused and thought they were talking about actual Zendaya.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 2 weeks ago:
How about a pair of jeans?
If anyone wants to see an entertaining mathematician talk about this exact topic for 30 minutes, here you go:
- Comment on YSK about the GI Rights Hotline 2 weeks ago:
Your final sentence is the point. We didn’t have 1000s of nukes worldwide back then. If no one will dare to stop Russia attacking Ukraine with any meaningful amount of force under threat of nuclear war, why would anyone attack USA?
What about North Korea? Everyone knows what’s going on there isn’t right, but I don’t see the world banding together to overthrow their government and change things.
I think the 100 men vs bear meme is pretty relevant here as well. It’s one thing to say IF every country bands together they can take on USA, it’s another thing entirely to say you could get the world to all agree to that at once. And whoever makes the first move would likely be decimated.
And you’re right, if USA is backed entirely into a corner, Trump is crazy enough to press the nuke button. All it takes is him getting a few high up fanatics to go along with it. So the bear is also wearing a dead man’s switch.
- Comment on YSK about the GI Rights Hotline 2 weeks ago:
I’m well aware but the people that have the ability to influence that couldn’t care less. It’s kind of like worrying about a nuclear war at this point, if it happens we’re all pretty much dead, and 99% of us aren’t part of the decision to launch them.
I’ve done/do as much activism on climate change a single person can in the last 20 years. It’s basically as pointless as petitioning those in power to dismantle their nuclear bombs. No one in power is interested.
- Comment on YSK about the GI Rights Hotline 2 weeks ago:
Yeah if the Boston massacre was enough so would this be.
- Comment on YSK about the GI Rights Hotline 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the part that scares me. The only reason those trials happened at all were other countries stepped in. Who will defeat USA and hold them accountable in a worst case scenario?
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 3 weeks ago:
They’ll absolutely be possible, it’s crazy easy to make addons that edit webpages.
What will be really nice is if someone goes to the effort to make some sort of all in one AI blocker similar to an ad blocker, that removes AI summaries from all sources that have it, so we don’t need a specific add on for each site.
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 weeks ago:
A phone doesn’t break under normal use. It breaks under rough use. If you treat a car rough it will get dents and scratches and rust etc.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 3 weeks ago:
Nah they changed that a while ago
…com.au/…/free-wi-fi-is-now-available-to-anyone-a…
It might not be every single one yet, but they were/are working towards that goal.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 3 weeks ago:
Could be a thing soon, Android has added “sound enojis” that imo were probably the worst idea ever and only exist for kids to annoy their parents. It’s a soundboard with like 3 sounds on the call screen when you’re on a call. I could see them eventually allowing custom ones.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 3 weeks ago:
I like in Australia we never got rid of them. More or less every payphone I saw growing up is still here. But they gave them 2 amazing upgrades:
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They are now free to use
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They are additionally free Wifi hotspots
Much better than dismantling them imo. They may not be widely used, but it’s worth it for those that do. I’ve even used it once when my phone went flat and needed to call my wife.
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- Comment on So close! 3 weeks ago:
And lettuce is 96% water. Basically every fruit and vegetable is more water than a human is. But you hand me a bowl of lettuce and call it soup we’re gonna have words.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 3 weeks ago:
It’s so we don’t have to spam brackets everywhere
9+2-1+6-4+7-3+5=
Becomes
((((((9+2)-1)+6)-4)+7)-3)+5=
That’s just clutter for no good reason when we can just say if it doesn’t have parentheses it’s left to right. Having a default evaluation order makes sense and means we only need parentheses when we want to deviate from the norm.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 3 weeks ago:
Another person already replied using your equation, but I felt the need to reply with a simpler one as well that shows it:
9-1+3=?
Subtraction first:
8+3=11Addition first:
9-4=5 - Comment on Owned (stocks) 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like PayID in Australia. I find it pretty good and it’s starting to get more popular. And yeah with ours you can just set up a new email and link it to an account, then it’ll let you choose if you want it to show John Smith or just J Smith when someone sends you money.
PayPal is still more popular overall, but I prefer payid for the instant access to the money so I’m glad it’s gaining momentum. Nothing but PayPal ever took off over here.