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Futility is resistant
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 6 days ago:
Let’s say it’s a double-edged sword. It brings freedom, but encourages insulation and intolerance.
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 6 days ago:
This is a disadvantage of the Fediverse: the owner of the instance dictates the rules, and the moderators are as prone to power trips as they are on Reddit.
Be glad you were banned from blahaj, it’s in the top instances of intolerance to group think defiance. If you manage to get unbanned, you’ll be always at risk of another impulsive ban.
Real life is hard enough to add gratuitous drama to it.
- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 1 week ago:
I think you’d just make Uber Helicopter start sooner.
- Comment on Are platforms like reddit just "internet noise" and bots or just genuinely the darkest parts of humanity? 1 week ago:
Reddit has become a profit-driven cesspool, even more that it was before their IPO and the LLM craze.
It is still home to great communities, so don’t drink from the firehouse, google Reddit+interest and only visit those communities. Subscribe if they match what you need. Ignore the main feed, it’s a perennial garbage dump.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 2 weeks ago:
Okay, it’s superstition, of which religion is a variant. There’s a very thin line between having faith in the supernatural and worship.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 2 weeks ago:
Yup. Believing in higher beings from other dimension is just religion with different words. Only when the belief is based on fact and not faith can it not be religion.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 2 weeks ago:
Okay Beavis, Butthead, nap time!
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 weeks ago:
What’s a few billion to a TRILLION company? That’s peanuts. Everything is fine fellow citizen.
- Comment on Fictional 3 weeks ago:
One light year is 9.4607379e+15 meters, so there’s a power of 10 that could give us a unit of length close to 94 cm. That would not be as arbitrary.
But fuck me if we discover the speed of light has not been constant along the history of the universe, the c would be an awful base for cosmic distance, or very long term science.
But don’t worry, humanity doesn’t look like it will exist long enough to do very long term science.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 3 weeks ago:
Holy cow, it’s a 70s franchise, but I misremembered, even though I watched dubs in the 80s! Technically it’s a 60s franchise because it was born in 1969.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know. Seeing how modern shows like Foundation, The Witcher, or Star Trek Discovery, to name a few, have gratuitously walked over their own canon, I can understand how the producers thought Velma was a good idea for a new Scooby Doo show.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 3 weeks ago:
It was never about Scooby Doo. IIRC, this was supposed to be an original show, but latching it to a successful 99s franchise must have looked like a sure money maker.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 3 weeks ago:
You ignoramus. This is what allows us artistic geniuses to freely unleash our gifts to the world, what we call “creative liberty”.
- Comment on snail lyfe 3 weeks ago:
The next question I’d expect from a little kid would be “why is your hair long?”.
And another why, and another, and another…
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 3 weeks ago:
We’re still talking about dancing, right?
- Comment on Fear their power 3 weeks ago:
If my species had 20K sexes, sex wouldn’t be an essential part of my identity. It would be like my fingerprints being part of my personality.
- Comment on Smells Great 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t the pineapple sweet enough that sugar could be omitted?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Make up should disappear, and more emphasis should be applied in medically-sound skin care. Your skin should be healthy enough that you don’t need to cover it with paint.
I get that using colors is fun, but makeup as it is today is way beyond reasonable, it’s not only about painting your skin, it’s about insecurity.
Painted hair is cool though.
- Comment on Fear their power 3 weeks ago:
That was my thought as well. That many sexes, if they can be called sexes, basically means everyone would have a single indeterminate sex. Imagine filling a form and selecting your sex among a 20K list of names.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 3 weeks ago:
Shepherds are famous for having lots of free time to write religious fanfiction so future generations bicker about it.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 3 weeks ago:
You can do my chores for me if you want, I know it’s little but it’s something.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 4 weeks ago:
What? It feels like a web wrapper right now, I always thought it was an old backend because the web app had better functionality.
- Comment on arborholing 4 weeks ago:
Every seedless fruit is a testament of how humanity has deviated from its original, seed nurturing purpose.
- Comment on Looking for a good kindle reader alternative 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been happy with Calibre Web and downloading to the official reader apps, but I’m open to try new things.
What strikes me as odd is why starting a Java software in this day and age. Java in the server is the COBOL of the 2000s, mostly used for legacy software.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 5 weeks ago:
Specially when those companies are valued in TRILLIONS. Nothing is worth trillions, somehow these surreal numbers have been accepted as hard fact.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 5 weeks ago:
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger! Or chronically ill, but in a cool way, really.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 5 weeks ago:
If you didn’t like LoZ, you’re discarding a lot of games from that era. Resources were scarce, so games didn’t hold your hand with in-game tutorials, quest marquees, etc. Game magazines with tips were really popular, as was official game guides from game publishers.
That being said, you might enjoy early 90s versions. For example, Phantasy Star IV (1993, Sega Genesis) feels more modern than its predecessors, it’s one of my favorites.
Dragon Quest 4 (1990, NES) is the pinnacle of the series on 8-bit. You’ll still have to guess and get lost, but it has many modern features. Playing it first will permanently spoil you for the previous ones.
Shining Force (1992, Sega Genesis) is also a pleasant turn-based strategy game with modern, although simple, mechanics. Shining Force 2 is even better.
- Comment on wax on 5 weeks ago:
Everyone should mind their beesness.
- Comment on it's true! 5 weeks ago:
How do you deal with native fauna that lives in wild vegetation? Mosquitoes, flies, ticks, etc.?
- Comment on cox-zucker 1 month ago:
I wasn’t very curious since according to them, the primary point of the paper was making a joke. I’d supposed the algorithm wasn’t groundbreaking, just something to publish.