UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 3 hours ago:
So you just feel confident that you know the layman’s definition of “molecule”. Cool.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 15 hours ago:
But a fucking molecule‽ Come on man…
Genuinely curious if you could pass Chem 101 exam from your Uber driver seat. Do you just know the word or could you actually speak on it.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 17 hours ago:
At some point, you need to revisit and refresh your understanding of the world. People can and do forget information they learned 30 or 40 years ago if they’re not making use of it on at least a semi-regular basis.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 18 hours ago:
DuoLingo replicates all the same patterns as an abusive relationship.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 21 hours ago:
This kid is never going to trust teachers again.
If one bad response is enough to turn you off from anyone else teaching you anything ever, then you’re carrying some enormous trauma that has nothing to do with a single math question.
If one bad response is enough to open your eyes to the fallibility of individuals and lead you to think more deeply about where you get your information and how you evaluate the correctness of a response, then you’re going to go far and develop a much deeper understanding of the world.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 21 hours ago:
The teacher is fucking stupid.
The teacher is likely under-trained, overworked, and under-qualified for the class. Common in districts where the focus of the administration is driving down the cost of education rather than delivering the highest quality.
That is, of course, assuming this is a real homework and not some agitprop churned out by a Facebook group or a social media account more interested in generating outrage than education.
- Comment on Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica 1 day ago:
The business cycle dictates that companies try to re-implement bad ideas every six months to two years.
If the idea was good, they’d have implemented it and made their money. Only bad ideas are still ripe for exploitation and new economic growth, because you haven’t had someone as smart as me to make them work right.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 day ago:
It’s a secret smart phone that was smuggled out of the country by the Top Spies in the “Going to N. Korea to ride the subway” YouTube gang. We sent in some of our stealthiest and most clandestined professional infiltrators. Real Navy Seals meets Mission Impossible type guys. And they came out of N. Korea with this cutting edge “phone that randomly takes pictures while its in your pocket” technology.
Using the country’s state of the art telecommunications system and their cutting edge image processing technology, the Glorious Leader analyzes over 40 Zetabytes of information daily. This dragnet of highly accurate, insanely rigorous, and insidiously nefarious ultra-spyware is then handed over to a crack team of North Korean special agents who utilize their pre-crime tracing technology to break up hundreds of resistance cells every year, long before they can become a threat to the iron fisted communist regime.
It’s the only explanation for why North Koreans haven’t fully revolted and overthrown their despotic leadership. Juche Super-science keeps the rabble in line.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
the USA has been overtaken by a fascist christian white supremacist party
For the third time (assuming you don’t count Congressional cycles) in twenty years. I’ve spent a solid 13 of the last 25 years living under a Christian Fascist presidency. Why am I supposed to assume that will devalue the dollar this time around?
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 1 day ago:
If she’d strangled a homeless person in the subway instead, she’d be a national hero.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 1 day ago:
I think the latter has a better future at the moment.
Crypto ‘godfather’ of Bel-Air: Probe widens into L.A. deputies’ alleged links to mogul
- Federal authorities accuse Adam Iza, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, of financial conspiracies and extortion.
- Prosecutors allege Iza used L.A. County sheriff’s deputies to carry out his criminal bidding.
- Iza has pleaded not guilty. A judge ordered him jailed despite claims that he needs medical care after a cosmetic leg-lengthening procedure.
If you want a deeper dive, check out the TrueAnon episode series Zort a three-parts-and-counting plunge into the seedy underbelly of Cryptocoin scams, extortion, leg-lengthening surgery, LASD rampant corruption, and age-gap discourse.
- Comment on Definitions 3 days ago:
This is not a parallelogram and is therefore not a square
- Comment on Definitions 3 days ago:
If she’s doing it right
- Comment on Definitions 3 days ago:
I was going to define this as an axe
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 3 days ago:
It can get like 90% of the way there
I’m still waiting for the first 10%
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- Comment on $1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up 4 days ago:
Isn’t this the model Capitalist?
No, because it paid its workers.
- Comment on $1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up 4 days ago:
AI company
Uses no AI
Honestly, the smartest thing they could do
Bilks investors for $1.5B and then just walks off with the money
Incredible. Who did they bilk?
Microsoft
Lolz.
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 5 days ago:
For spamming ads and scams to people? Absolutely.
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 5 days ago:
I’m more than confident that Twitter already had a backdoor for encrypted DMs.
However, I would bet cash money that the current administration has lost the institutional knowledge of how to use it. So they’re having to reinvent the wheel, most likely by injecting a bunch of new bugs and sloppily implemented hacks.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 5 days ago:
Now omit the context and see how much bare anatomy sells.
checks the ad revenues on literally any low-rent basic bitch porn site
Significantly more.
I’m arguing against how your brain works
Okay buddy. Take a walk and touch grass.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 5 days ago:
Strip clubs prove people pay to perform arousal cues.
But this won’t work, because there’s nothing inherently sexy about arousal cues. Therefore, nobody goes to them and the businesses all fail immediately.
Context sells, not anatomy.
Omit the anatomy and see how much context you sell.
You don’t get horny from photons
You quite literally do. If your eyes are closed, the visual medium has no effect.
I’m not dumb enough to confuse popularity with proof
You’re arguing against how eyeballs work, at this point
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 5 days ago:
My “opening point” was that feet and breasts aren’t inherently arousing from a third-person perspective
Which is why strip clubs, presumably, never do any business?
So now we’re back to sensation, not observation.
How do your eyes work?
Flat Earth nonsense also rarely comes into dispute in certain circles.
Why are you being a Titty Flat-Earther?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
We need buses and trains.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
But when the product/service is functionally mandated by the infrastructure (you need an internet connection to do everything from paying bills to applying for jobs / you need a car to survive in a society full of car-exclusive paved roads) and the commercial seller has a functional cartel/monopoly on production, the manufacturer has less and less reason to treat you as a potentially-loseable client and more as a potentially-saleable commodity.
Turning these high value durable goods into extensions of the lucrative police state surveillance network is appealing to a monopolized industry that’s heavily integrated with the domestic regime.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 6 days ago:
The point isn’t to name something “inherently sexy”
This was your opening point.
Humans have sex because of biology, sure, but what triggers arousal varies wildly
The sensation of another human body is consistently and universally sexually arousing to any predisposed toward arousal.
Your argument isn’t a revelation
It’s rarely come into dispute.
- Comment on My wife says it's thanks to wearing sunscreen and avoiding cigarettes 6 days ago:
Today’s environmental problems are certainly bad, but it’s nothing compared to 30 or 40 years ago.
What we lack in degree, we make up for in volume. “Carbon emissions aren’t nearly so bad as sulfur emissions” is technically true, right up until you’re living in a village that’s crushed by a glacier.
The global scale of industry is so much larger than it was 30 or 40 years ago. Even if you want to talk about microplastics, we’re creating such an enormous waste disposal crisis that it’s having cumulative effects at scale.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 6 days ago:
Feet, breasts, lingerie, whatever… they’re all loaded with associative meaning, shaped by exposure, taboo, and novelty.
One of these things is not like the other.
If breasts were inherently sexy, then every culture in history would have treated them as such
Naked bodies are inherently sexy and every culture in history has treated them as such. The details vary by the presenter, with different individuals and venues paying special attention to this or that attribute. But you’re arguing against the “inherentness” of human attraction to other humans.
That’s not a discussion of artistic (or, I guess, pornographic) merit. It’s merely an expression of an asexual subjective view.
And that’s why you’re stumbling. You don’t seem to want to acknowledge other human bodies as sexy. You’re blinded by your own personal biases and projecting it onto others.
Nothing’s inherently sexy
Humans are inherently sexy. That’s why they have sex with each other.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 6 days ago:
The key word here is ‘inherently’.
Name something that is inherently sexy.
