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- Comment on Possession 1 hour ago:
I haven’t read the books (yet), so I don’t know how closely it resembles the condition in reality, but crucially, it’s a real thing, it’s not a magical fantasy possesion
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 1 week ago:
Only older people from what I’ve seen. At least, whenever I hear a ping out in public, it’s always someone older
So, to answer your question, no, not really
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 1 week ago:
I don’t know what they were teaching you at the course, but home/personal IoT was never the most interesting thing in the field. IoT sees a lot more interest and use in industrial application, for example stuff like logistics, farming, automation, measuring, stuff like traffic signals and smart grids, and so on
- Comment on High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. 2 weeks ago:
What they are, are statistical models. You can verify the output, you know
- Comment on High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. 2 weeks ago:
AI has been used for tons of useful stuff for ages, you just never heard about it unless you were in the space until LLMs came around
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 3 weeks ago:
The point is, is that it doesn’t matter. Companies are not true allies, they just do whatever earn them the most money and PR
If it means to become literal Nazis, then they become literal Nazis. And sell the supplies to the gas chambers
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 3 weeks ago:
Lmao yeah, I thought “haha funny joke” but people were genuinely asking
For future reference, never run any script or code or command unless you know what it is and does
- Comment on Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like 4 weeks ago:
Unless you kill yourself, because you know, that happens a lot in untreated mental illness
Or even more “minor” stuff like not taking care of your own health, pushing away everyone you know and love, or even maybe want them to hate you so that they won’t get hurt when you do finally do something
You are downplaying mental illness, whether you admit to it or not. Our brain is the core of our being, why do you not take it as seriously as the rest of our body?
- Comment on Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like 4 weeks ago:
No, its you that are downplaying the effects of mental health
Why is it that mental health issues are treated less severely than physical health issues? You can be deeply affected, and even die, due to them either way
They both can ruin lives
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 4 weeks ago:
Literally the next post under this one, sorting by 112h top posts, has 147 comments
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 4 weeks ago:
However, they also result in the country slowly trending towards irrelevancy
In today’s economies, everything is about high skill labour. It really is just cutting off your nose to spite your face.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know about you, but I am very reluctant to insult others, even in private conversations, even if they might deserve it
I always try to approach things constructively, because in the end, those patterns and thoughts bleed out into the world and your behaviour
And do keep in mind, even from the person’s who was part of the asshole gang side of the story, it sounds pretty darn bad, and people have a tendency to downplay their side’s wrongdoings and elevate the other side’s. Chances are, it was probably quite bad
If there’s people in my life that go around talking badly about other like that, even in private… yeah, I’d want to stay the hell away from them too. It’s just a massive warming sign, and you’re going to be the target sooner or later. And you don’t want a coordinated group acting in bad faith against you
- Comment on Mother 4 weeks ago:
Okay, but I don’t think this was intentional suffocation of the kids. This seems much more as an attempt to get everyone to survive
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Maybe part of it is the whole “greatest country on earth” stuff as well. In other words, a lack of humility
In the European countries I’ve lived in, pride like that wasn’t really encouraged. And if you’re too boastful or what not to the point of arrogance, you tend to get the stink eye
And this applies to patriotism as well. Here in Norway for example, despite us having a stronger claim for stuff like “greatest country”, very few people, if any, really feel like being “proud” of one’s own country is something that one should be doing, or it being honorable at all. The best I see is that people enjoy living here and, if they see another Norwegian out there or Norway mentioned, they just get happy to see a fellow Norwegian, just because we are relatively small
Honestly, most Norwegians I’ve met complain about Norway’s problems more often than not lmao, despite, all things considered, you can hardly find better countries to live in, except some other European ones depending on your own preferences
There really is just, no culture of like, arrogance. Something that I feel like is very different to the US with its super heavy emphasis on individual capitalistic success
Maybe that’s a large part of it as well. A consequence of American culture being so extremely individualistic
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 4 weeks ago:
We’ve gotten very uncomfortably close to a nuclear exchange multiple times in history
The only reason it didn’t happen is pure luck
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 4 weeks ago:
Until one of them fires the nukes, that is. But sure, it might not happen
It’s like paying your rent by playing Russian roulette
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 4 weeks ago:
But also don’t forget that the amount of gamers is larger today than in 2013. Gaming is much more mainstream, and so even 97% of the install base is still disappointing considering steam grew by, what, 3x or something in terms of average monthly users?
Another source I found is that the amount of total gamers grew by roughly 50% from 2013 to 2025. But yeah, I just did a quick skin numbers are not precise
But still, 97% is disappointing considering the general demographic was supposed to grow. And then, in reality, it’s just 67% too
- Comment on I've done it again... 5 weeks ago:
Do people not use kitchen weights? It’s a very common thing where I live (in Europe)
- Comment on Reddit tracking upvotes for mod actions 1 month ago:
Reddit let trumps subreddit stay up for years, not to mention all the other vile and bigoted places
I do not put much faith in that reddit actually cares about homophobia
And calls for violence has always been selective. Has reddit ever banned anyone for supporting a state to kill people? For example, supporting death penalty, supporting cops shooting people, supporting Ukraine/Russia to kill Russians/Ukrainians, or supporting Israel killing Palestinians?
The whole subject of “calls for violence” has always been biased, because we see state actors being violent as justifiable, but non-state actors as not, so it’s not right to say they don’t support calls for violence, they only don’t support selective ones that they are not entirely clear about. They don’t support the people
- Comment on China aims to recruit top US scientists as Trump tries to kill the CHIPS Act 1 month ago:
Densely populated isn’t a problem for everyone (I like sense), and the pollution isn’t as bad as it used to be, right?
The authoritarian part is a big issue of course, but my layperson perceptions of the material conditions of China is that it’s not nearly as bad as it used to be, and is getting better
And another upside, good public transit
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 1 month ago:
I don’t even understand what people buy so often. I can easily go a month without buying a new physical item that’s not like, food
- Comment on Ex-Amazon VP explains why rich a-holes with helicopters and personal assistants don't get why you hate your commute 1 month ago:
“the nobles that were killed under the French revolution weren’t bad people! They just kept sending people to death in pointless wars and kept mistreating them because they were disconnected! Have som sympathy for the rich assholes!”
- Comment on 🪨 Rock on 🪨 1 month ago:
No, but people were much less alienated from their labour, so it likely didn’t feel nearly as soul-crushing as it does today
- Comment on Electric Propulsion Magnets Ready for Space Tests 1 month ago:
They are also useful for maintaining orbits (like the ISS), and could potentially be useful in long duration missions such as manned interplanetary transfers. If it takes months to get to Mars anyway, low thrust won’t matter if it means you get more total delta-v, and able to reduce the travel duration anyway
- Comment on GoneWild was once about people feeling wild and posting pictures of it. Now it's just OnlyFans sale 2 months ago:
Exhibitionism. It’s hot and fun when people get to see you be sexual
If you don’t understand it, then that probably just means you’re not into exhibitionism, but many people (including myself) are
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 months ago:
I can see a clear difference between 144hz and 240hz, so even that part isn’t right
And I haven’t used an 8K monitor, but I’m confident I could see a difference as well
- Comment on Google is on the Wrong Side of History. 2 months ago:
They very much are, there’s just little to no political will to implement them
- Comment on Google is on the Wrong Side of History. 2 months ago:
In the end, the stock market is a natural logical progression from the starts of capitalism, and the situation we are in today is again closer to capitalism logical conclusion
From capitalism’s basic principles, profit above literally everything was always bound to happen. Just how evolution happens through natural selection. It’s a similar process. Because ultimately capitalism is an economic system built on competition, not cooperation.
- Comment on Wife 2 months ago:
So will women
- Comment on Not Americans right now 2 months ago:
If you buy a bag of flaxseed it will last you for months and months
The amount of flaxseed you need to substitute one egg is tiny