HiddenLayer5

HiddenLayer5 , 2 months ago

The most exploited people are also the least likely to report it because they're afraid of losing what little employment they have.

HiddenLayer5 , 2 months ago

The thieves that get arrested vs the thieves that end up on magazines celebrating their theft.

HiddenLayer5 OP , 2 months ago

I tried to, Lemmy said yeb image is too large

HiddenLayer5 OP , 2 months ago

The Mr. Beast of chemistry

HiddenLayer5 , 2 months ago

"Then you'll be fired."

"Fine!"

"Out of a canon into the sun."

HiddenLayer5 , 3 months ago

No they're asking how do birds look like the way they do. In which case the answer is that a bird's body evolved to be streamlined and lightweight in order to fly more efficiently. /s

HiddenLayer5 , 3 months ago

8 eyes but still with really shitty vision. Spiders got scammed.

HiddenLayer5 , 3 months ago

I mean just look at cassowaries.

HiddenLayer5 , 3 months ago

Ya like jazz?

HiddenLayer5 , 3 months ago

Water Type beats Rock Type

HiddenLayer5 , 3 months ago

On the other hand, being useful to humans have made them some of the most widespread and successful plant species on the planet.

HiddenLayer5 , 3 months ago

FFS I once even had someone on Reddit confidently and condescendingly lecture me on how a completely fictional world works and why my explanation of it is totally wrong. Note: This was on /r/worldbuilding and they were lecturing me on a fictional world that I created.

People just like to feel superior by claiming to know more than other people. Tale as old as time. Not claiming I'm not guilty of it either because I think everyone is.

HiddenLayer5 , 3 months ago

I love the translucent vibe. It shows exactly what makes the device work which the nerd in me just can't get enough of. Nowadays it seems like tech companies are more and more trying to hide the actual electronics and technology aspect of their products and marketing them more as magic black boxes.

HiddenLayer5 , 3 months ago

She's reading your files

HiddenLayer5 OP , 5 months ago

The video mentions the common claims of why highrises are lower density than low rises and directly responds to them.

HiddenLayer5 OP , 5 months ago

No, and that's what the video attempts to show with real-world comparisons in Montreal.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

Actually, we should go the other way and have more reveal parties for other genetic traits, and elevate them to the same level of perceived importance as apparent biosex! Let's have blood type reveal parties! Joint mobility reveal parties! Relative nose and eye position reveal parties! Relative limb length reveal parties! Roof of mouth topology reveal parties! Single nucleotide polymorphism reveal parties!

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I want thicker phones simply because they have bigger batteries that negate the need to carry around an even thicker battery bank. Also so the camera sits flush with the phone body and isn't protruding and just begging to get scratched to hell.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I think the inverse is true, people don't use those things anymore because they stopped being available. The tech companies managed to convince us that the things they're choosing to take away are somehow obsolete. For example, instead of adopting one of the faster (and backwards compatible) PCIe-based derivatives to the standard micro-SD interface that were already in development and would have given nearly equal performance to the phone's internal storage, they removed SD cards with the excuse that "they're obsolete because they're just not fast enough anymore," forcing those new standards to be shuttered because no one has anywhere to plug the new cards into that could actually take advantage of the higher performance.

With things like removable batteries, the excuse given was "a plastic cover makes the phone feel cheap!" which, sure, but is a phone a tool to be used or an art piece to be admired? I don't know about anyone else but for me it's definitely the former and as a multi-year Fairphone user which does have a removable battery and a plastic cover, I have never once felt the back of the phone and thought "damn this sucks, I wish the back panel was glass instead." In fact I am currently thinking of ordering a new battery for my Fairphone as the current one's usable capacity has degraded significantly from heavy use, that's the only thing wrong with it and the hardware is still plenty fast so I see no reason to get a new phone. Not to mention 95% of people have cases on their phones anyway so the back panel is totally irrelevant from about five minutes after taking it out of the box. Or, even if a toolless removable back cover and battery is out of the question, why glue the phones shut and make the battery impossible to replace then? The iPhone 4 was one of the first ever glass and metal phones, and you could open it by undoing two screws, unlatching the back panel, and lifting it away, and battery replacements were still very easy and capable of being done by a tech inclined user at home with only a few simple tools.

The current trajectory of smartphones, to me, frustratingly resemble the fate of streetcars in post-war North America, where instead of thinking of how to improve the aging streetcar/tram lines (like Europe did to great success), they chose to rip them all out and replace them with urban freeways. IMO, any claim of "it's obsolete" from a company looking to sell you something else needs to be met with extreme scrutiny. Is the concept itself obsolete? Or is the current implementation obsolete and therefore further development of the concept is needed to bring it back up to date? Nearly every time it's the latter.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

Reminder that the most dangerous drug in terms of deaths caused per capita is alcohol. Refined sugar and HFCS probably has alcohol's numbers beat if you consider that a drug though.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Standup comedy is meant to be relatable, the best standup material makes fun of the writer's real experiences and/or common experiences of the audience. This is just my hot take, but I think an AI writing standup comedy is and always will be completely soulless because the AI has never experienced anything and is just putting words together that it doesn't even know the significance of, and is doing so purely based on the statistics of how real human standup uses those words. Even with AI acting out standup written by humans, they still don't understand what they're saying and the emotions they supposedly show are still based on statistics. If you find AI standup funny, you have that right, but I personally don't and that's just me.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

No, but many still living people can and do consider the fact that a giant media corporation is puppeting a dead man to squeeze the last bit of profit out of him to be more than a little fucked up. Not an infringement of his rights specifically, but IMO an infringement of ethics and decency.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

YUGE abuse of the legal system! The YUGEST!

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

I mean, not the NYT directly, but whichever law firm represents them. Probably a lib one though which would still get their blood boiling.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

Look, if you can somehow find or synthesise a cyan or pink dye that's stable in sulfuric acid, you can do whatever you want with it.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

I am now picturing a baby competing with a 100 year old in the hundred meter dash.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

Worse, I see this with Fediverse platforms like Lemmy. During the initial Reddit influx so many people expected the exact level of polish and user experience as Reddit and there were tons of threads (on Lemmy itself) basically complaining how much Lemmy "sucks" compared to Reddit, despite them coming over to Lemmy because Reddit was being enshitified. Same with Mastodon when the Twitter people were coming over.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

I'm sure the top military generals have unlimited sick days though (the soldiers can go fuck themselves they should be dying for the empire anyways). Same for senators and congress people who get multi-week paid holidays every year while the country's stack of pending bills and legislation get higher and higher. So it all balances out in the end!

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

Alpha male is the most unstable and failure prone male.

Beta male is a little better, since the developers would have tested it more.

Release Candidate male is probably the safest bet if you want a fairly reliable male while still having early access to new features.

Stable Release male is the one most non male enthusiasts would use though.

If you're running males in a server or enterprise environment, you probably want Long Term Support male.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

Only issue is you can't eat passion or use it to protect you from the elements. The idea of doing something for passion while tangentially making just enough money to support yourself is and always was a lie under a capitalist system. If we want to do that, we need to change the system first.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

Are we sure this isn't satire?

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

Just give me the option to mute the damn hold music so I can do other stuff while waiting for someone to answer.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

At some point the only way to verify someone will be to do what the Klingons did to rule out changelings: Cut them and see if they bleed.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

As a Canadian, I can't see this not fucking over our own access to medication that we need, especially when our own governments are actively trying to dismantle what little socialised healthcare we have. It's going to be like the Ozempic weight loss craze depriving diebetics of the drug, but for every drug. You're one of the wealthiest states in the single wealthiest country in the world, surely you have the means to provide your own citizens with affordable medication, at least much more so than Canada with our tiny population density and comparatively low GDP. To put it not so politely, we shouldn't be punished and forced to take on the burden of providing medication to you simply because you choose not to.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

Technology makes advancing technology easier, so it grows exponentially.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

It's honestly really gross that he immediately jumps to thinking she's hitting on him. Like, him freaking out and going into a fit of rage might have been a less terrible response.

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

I prefer 𝕏creetion

HiddenLayer5 , 5 months ago

Instead of bootlegging liquor during prohibition we are now bootlegging outside food into venues to avoid their inflated prices.