luciferofastora

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luciferofastora ,

Right? "Oh look, country with huge population has more downloads than country with small population!"

luciferofastora ,

Instead of trolling kids that get pissed when their game shuts down mid-match and learn not to trust the internet, they get disgusted for life and learn not to trust the internet and also how horrible a place it can be.

luciferofastora ,

You know it's bad when even a two thousand year old gospel considers "rich people don't go to heaven" to be divine wisdom. It has always been thus.

There's no way the CEO of my last company - making a cool 6mil one year that I saw an article about the shareholders paying him a bonus of another few mil - works 125 times as hard as my 48k (gross) ass.

luciferofastora ,

Agreed. The more we argue about the "how" of the protests, the more we're distracted from what they're actually protesting about. The most effective way of stopping people complaining about something isn't to shut them up, but to fix the thing.

If someone's poor and can't afford to buy food, no amount of fines or jail time will prevent them from going back to stealing food the second they get out because - guess what - they're still fucking poor. There's a food bank near where I lived a while ago that notoriously had long lines. Slowly shuffling forward in a queue that screams "I'm poor" must be uncomfortable, but they're still not stealing food while they have an alternative.

If you want people to stop vandalising shit in their outrage over exploitation and greed, fucking do something about the exploitation and greed. I'm sure those people could have thought of more pleasant ways to spend their time than creating their cornflour pigment, driving out there and getting arrested to make a point without leaving lasting damage.

OpenAI's Mira Murati: "some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place" ( mastodon.social )

OpenAI's Mira Murati: "some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place" And you stole everything from creative people who provided free texts, images, forum answers, etc. To date, your company has refused to acknowledge any credit. Rich people truly live in their bubble and have...

luciferofastora ,

Fines for the poor are fees for the rich. When breaking laws becomes an investment, the laws become a hurdle to prevent competition.

luciferofastora ,

Thank you for the details! I find the different properties of metals fascinating but rarely have the time to read up on it (which isn't made easier by having to first read up on and understand a bunch of terminology and underlying concepts, which my ADHD just doesn't have the patience for), so comments like yours giving a bit of insight are perfect.

luciferofastora ,

The internet is full of delightfully horrifying tales like that. Just yesterday, I got to witness a few people regretting asking about the pony jar. (Don't look that one up either)

luciferofastora ,

Actually, wouldn't the repeat offender make for a great slave penal laborer?

luciferofastora ,

To expand on what the others mentioned, it can be used to lure a victim of abuse back to their abuser or soften them up for the next blow.

I won't talk about the specifics of how I know this phenomenon, but the rough pattern usually looks something like this. I'll use the "narrative I" for the position of the abuser, because that feels more comfortable to write.

Imagine I'm some person of authority or admiration, be that a parent, a cult leader, a partner, a friend, or even a boss at work. You care about my approval and support, whether out of dependency, affection or convictions. The exact motivations may differ: You may be dependent on a parent's support even as an adult or hold the conviction that you have to love your parents no matter what. Your cult may (and usually will) have isolated you from other social contacts. Your boss used to be really nice or even a friend and maybe still is, outside of work. Whatever the reason, you want me to like you.

If I treat you like shit, make demands, then punish your disobedience by withdrawing affection, support and approval, that hurts in one way or another. You're used to my affection, perhaps relying on something I'm giving you or some promise I made, and suddenly that has been taken away.

Once it starts to relent and you get used to the new "normal"¹, I suddenly start "loving" you again, maybe giving you nice things, saying nice things, promising nice things. If I'm an estranged parent, a partner or a friend, I might suggest doing something nice together, meet you for coffee, a lunch or drinks - my treat - to chat, ask how things are going, sympathise with your struggles, offer to help, promise you to cover that expensive repair of your car. I reassure you that things will work out, I praise you for things you're doing well, validate where you're insecure, hit all the right buttons to make you feel better. A boss might praise your performance, make a point of talking you up while you're in earshot, promise a raise etc. A cult leader might restore whatever grace you have fallen from, promise salvation, pray for you or whatever else passes for approval and support in the cult.

Most people are suckers for nice things, and even if you tell yourself you'll just take the nice things and not trust me any further, you're still receptive to what I say...

...until the next punch (whether emotional or physical) comes. I express disapproval with something you're doing that I want you to stop, request your help, disparage your partner of many years, make decisions on your behalf, ask you to work overtime "just this once", expect you to follow along with some cult activity, whatever may fit the given dynamic.

You might (reluctantly) obey at first - that's the price you pay for the nice things, but so far, it's still worth it - until the demands start tallying up and the rewards diminish¹.
I totally forgot to send you the money for that repair, I'll do it later, but right now I need you to help me with this thing.
The raise is being held up on formalities, but I'm sorting it out and it should be coming by the next quarter. In the meantime, could you look into this?
I just don't have the time or energy to do this right now, but I promise, I'll do it when I have the time.
You get the picture.

You start reevaluating pain vs. gain. Is it still worth it? Eventually, you're fed up. You start making excuses why you're not doing some thing, your work ethic declines, you become dispassionate, withhold whatever validation I'm expecting of you. I get angry with how ungrateful you are. you can pay the damn repair yourself if you can't even do this "little" thing for me, I'm not giving you that money while you're with that partner or hang out with that friwnd who I'm convinced is only out to take your (my)² money. The raise is off the table. You'll go to hell.

I won't entirely cut you out, of course, while you're still useful to me (or I expect you will be at some point). You don't entirely cut me off because of the reasons mentioned earlier, because you hope I'll turn around again some day. And so the cycle repeats.

From the outside, it's easy to say "just leave". It's often the reasonable solution in the long term. But emotions are complex, change is scary and sometimes, it's easier to stay with the devil you know.

[1]: If I'm particularly canny, I'll push that line in such small increments that you barely even notice it's creeping and you're getting less and less. Just one more poisonous comment you have to endure, one more loaded question, one slight annoyance at not having read my after-hours email yet (I won't say that I'd expect you to, but my face says enough). You dismiss it, but it leaves you slightly more drained every time.

[2]: Particularly with abusive parents or partners, there's a phenomenon where they'll consider you their property, and by extent, everything they give you is actually still theirs to take back at any time.

luciferofastora ,

I can see the appeal of stealing something expensive, where the expected payoff relative to the risk and consequences of being caught is quite large, but to risk theft charges for food? I don't think anyone would steal food.

If they have a choice, that is.

luciferofastora ,

"What about..." not the point. Both are shit.

luciferofastora ,

Don't fucking jinx it. Just don't.

luciferofastora , (edited )

Das wäre verdammt¹ geil

There, learned a German phrase ;-)

Pronunciation in IPA:
das 'vɛːrə fɛɐ̯ˈdamt ˈɡaɪ̯l

1: Technically, that's "damn awesome". The more literal translation of fucking would involve the word "fick", the most idiomatic version "verfickt geil". I don't really see it used even in rougher slang, so I feel like the general equivalent in terms of usage would be "verdammt".

luciferofastora ,

German or merman (hope you can breathe water)

luciferofastora ,

Desperation preying on desperation

luciferofastora ,

How dare he zip past the congestion with a low-density vehicle instead of contributing to it, wasting fuel (whatever type) and making things worse for everyone like a proper, respectable, carbrained citizen?

Almost as bad as subways, I tell you! Those bastards take a whole chunk of people past the traffic at once, the audacity 😤

Sarcasm aside, I do think people need this angle pointed out to them: Low-density transport options for those where they make sense help those for whom it doesn't. The more short-range traffic happens on bikes, in busses and (light) rail, the more space there will be on the streets.

luciferofastora ,

And then there's me, just barely Z, office job, heading for lunch at 12 with my boss, his boss and some other colleagues, chatting about whatever (not work), eventually getting up to head back to work around 1250 because some of us have meetings at 13. My boss asks me if I want to grab a cup of coffee with him, we end up sitting in the break room for another half hour, eventually turning to work topics too.

On my timesheet, I write lunch 1200-1230 for the legal minimum 30 min break. My boss signs it. Nobody bats an eye.

Sure, I'm incredibly lucky, but I'd wager being in a unionised company in a country with fairly strong union protections (Germany) does some work too. If my boss started being a stickler for rules, I'd be talking to my union rep, and that just doesn't end well.

They're scared enough of the union that, when a round of negotiations failed to achieve the result they were hoping for and the union put out notice (as in, flyers in the break rooms) that they're considering the threat of strikes, the CEO immediately announced raises retroactively effective for the whole month, "as a show of goodwill".
Previous negotiations have also resulted in flat one-off payments even for working students. A 500€ tax-free bonus might not sound like a lot if you're making 4k+ net, but for me it was half a month of wages.
Also, I have 30 days of paid time off, on top of bank holidays and unlimited sick leave (provided I submit a doctor's note on the third consecutive day). One coworker was sick for over half a year.

Unions work.

luciferofastora ,

I'm autistic and sometimes struggle with detecting sarcasm and satire. Occasionally, I miss things others would obviously consider a joke, while at other times I fail to register that something is actually serious.

Neither of them are super frequent, but compounded with difficulties reading subtle cues and the shame of being called out it's enough to induce some insecurity: How many times have I been wrong and never knew bcause people glossed over it to save me embarrassment or I failed to read their reactions?

Short of explicitly writing that it's a joke, there's always some insecurity, and particularly since the embarrassment of "I was serious and you've now made a social blunder" is usually worse than the light ribbing of "that was a joke and you're oblivious", it often feels safer to err on the side of caution for me and ask.

I'm not saying that's the case with the other person (given they already blamed it on inebriation), but it's a possibility that I feel more people should be aware of.

(It also doesn't help that it's election season here and the streets are lined with the capitalist party's adverts explicitly saying "Finally end this red-green government")

luciferofastora ,

People also seem to think giant eyes with no nose look cute... yeah, basically the meme.

luciferofastora ,

What a generous rate! And a great way to ease them into the shock that the real rate is much, much worse

luciferofastora ,

No, the buckets would be communally owned, and those who were luckier - perhaps they got to the good houses earlier - would be made to give some of their surplus to Jimmy, who fell ill just that morning and couldn't go trick-or-treating to not infect others. They'd still have enough, but Jimmy wouldn't be left out just because he was unlucky.

luciferofastora ,

I don't even have a car, because I can't afford one, nor do I have a spare bedroom because I live in a small apartment, paying a chunk of my monthly earnings to a person whose only contribution is having a piece of paper that says they're allowed to charge for the fundament necessity of having a place to live.

My neighbour has a big house, three cars in their driveway and most of the time, at least two of them are standing around unused. He probably could afford to share. That's the meaning of "everyone, according to their needs" - that guy most likely doesn't need as much as he has, so it won't hurt him to give some away to people that do need it.

But the issue isn't him having something nice. He can have his house for all I care. I want him to have a nice house. I want Jimmy to have a nice house, and you too! I want all of us to have nice things, because a bit of luxury isn't the problem, and covering a symptom won't cure the disease. And the disease is the belief that property rights matter more than human welfare.

You wouldn't achieve anything by taking a little from those that have a little more than the rest. You'd have to take away the systems that constrain us.

There's an empty flat? Great, let's give it to Jimmy! What do you mean, if he can afford the rent? Man needs a place to live, for fuck's sake. Jimmy needs medical care? Get him to a doctor. The community carries the cost, because we all would want the same if we needed care.

How do we reach that? That's a tough one. Eventually, a concerted effort to uproot that system will have to take place. I'm not positive that'll succeed on ballots alone and as has become increasingly evident, peaceful protests tend to meet violence all the same.

But whether through coordinated civil action like protests and disobedience or through outright revolution, awareness is the first step. Informing people of the injustice done to us all, that it doesn't have to be this way, and that together, we're strong enough to change it.

The only people that don't profit from it are the ruthlessly selfish ones that think "I'd rather have a second car than let someone else have one" is a reasonable sentiment.

Because yes, if I had a car I didn't need, and Jimmy needed it, I'd let him use it. What good would it do standing around?

luciferofastora ,

As someone on the outskirts of Data Science, probably something along the lines of "Just what the fuck does my customer actually need?"

You can't throw buzzwords and a poorly labeled spreadsheet at me and expect me to go deep diving into a trashheap of data to magically pull a reasonable answer. "Average" has no meaning if you don't give me anything to average over. I can't tell you what nobody has ever recorded anywhere, because we don't have any telepathic interfaces (and probably would get in trouble with the worker's council if we tried to get one).

I'm sure there are many interesting questions to be debated in this field, but on the practical side, humans remain the greatest mystery.

luciferofastora ,

If I was that rich, yet so addicted to junk food, I'd at least get higher quality junk food. My patties would be made from organic beef, in buns that don't fall apart, with vegan cheese from that one brand that I found exactly once, can't remember the name of but really loved (I fucking love cheese, but that one kocked out any real cheese from the cowmpetition)...

The food would come in reusable containers with non-porous surfaces that are easy and efficient to clean, delivered fresh and hot, made to order and delivered by students (cheap labour) on bikes (saves gas money), generously tipped for their express service (to incentivise continued quality service).

It'd still be cheaper than a decent meal, still be a pig move, still just as greasy and unhealthy, but at least it wouldn't be so embarrassing. And if it really had to be McD's, I'd pay to have it packaged into those generic foam containers that don't make it super obvious and delivered by unbranded delivery drivers (like generic DoorDash, Uber Eats or something).

luciferofastora ,

Do you think the risk of losing is preferrable?

It's a fucked up situation, but until enough of the voterbase is convinced or he no longer has to worry about the election, he's in an awful bind.

The unpleasant truth is that, to some extent, the US is still a democracy, and the opinion of the people matters. If the majority of the US populace doesn't see it as genocide, it is democratically right for him to act on that opinion.

Which means the fault isn't with him alone - arguably, he could take the risk and attempt to inform people - but also with the voters, the propaganda that misled them and the fucked up election system.

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luciferofastora ,

Ah yes, they're so intense about fighting capitalist oppression they've circled around to... checks notes defending police brutality and advocating for the further privatisation of every public good and dismantling all worker protections.

The difference between "eat the rich" and "feed the rich" is really just one syllable, right? Almost negligible.

(Also, no, they don't call everyone fascist. They just don't think being liberal is enough for change, when the "liberals" of the US have a history of complaining about the things they don't stop the regressives from doing. There's a difference between calling people "naive and spineless" and "actively pursuing oppression".)

luciferofastora ,

Dangerous to democracy? Where'd you get that idea? I'm not the one trying to install an authoritarian plutocracy.

I'm a staunch believer in educated democracy, but that requires education in the first place. Education regressives have been undermining forever, because it would inform the people of their actual democratic power.

where it actually matters

Which would be? What, in your opinion, actually matters?

My priority is a sustainable and enjoyable future. One where you can grow old without worrying about our pension or affording medical care. One where you no longer pay a cut of your work to a person just becaude they're rich already. One where you can do the job you love without worrying about how well it pays or whether you'll get fired.

The Liberals keep bartering for compromise instead of progress, gradually ceding ground to the Conservatives. The spoiler effect means an actually progressive third party has no chance and risks handing power to the regressives by splitting the vote. Because all the Liberals have to do is "be less bad", you get the choice between right-of-center and far right. This isn't democracy, it's slowly dismantling it.

I'll take the Liberals, because they're "less bad", but it's not a solution. It's buying time in the hope that we can actually fix the underlying issues.

luciferofastora ,

POV is the commissar - look at the gloves

luciferofastora ,

Obviously the blood of morons who didn't know what they're doing. I know what I'm doing, so I'll be fine.

(Until they get an unforgettable live demonstration on optimism bias and cumulative probability)

luciferofastora ,

Maybe if people have less stress factors in their lives, they'll be less of a prick too. At the very least, if you have less, you'd be able to bear it more easily.

luciferofastora ,

There's a tradeoff between precision and conciseness. Outside of a mathemadickal context, it doesn't really matter whether it's 2.72 or 3.14 inches.

Obligatory XKCD about coordinate precision

Hotlink

(You probably knew this, I just wanted to tack on a joke)

luciferofastora ,

Maybe "God-foolers", as in: we're hiding the meat so god doesn't know we're still eating it

luciferofastora ,

It was my last Windows too. I used it until shortly before the end of Extended Support, stubbornly refusing to upgrade.

I had been running Dualboot with Ubuntu for a while, but something bricked my bootloader (I didn't bother investigating just what nor trying to fix it) and I decided the time was as good as any to take the leap and go fully Linux.

I'd love to say I never looked back, but every now and then I'm tinkering to get something to run and think of the days when the question "will it work?" was reserved for complex mod setups in Skyrim. The compatibility tools have gotten a lot better and I've gotten more experienced and confident with them and the system itself, but there are days where I miss the comfort.

Still, the newer Windows versions never appealed enough to consider going getting, and they're growing less and less appealing with each new update. I'm using Win10 at work and it has only cemented my conviction to not get it for myself.

luciferofastora ,

I mean, it seems like that's the cultural push-and-pull depicted here: Some people don't like it and make that known. If their opinion ends up prevailing and papers containing silliness end up being rejected by the major journals of their field, doctoral comittees etc., eventually the silliness may be driven out and gatekept.

We fans of harmless humour would lament as much as the guy in the OP laments now. We would presumably attempt to encourage silliness, as the guy in the OP does now.

Consensus swinging one way naturally doesn't magically mean we now have to change our opinions to fit the consensus. Right now, language evolves in our favour, and we will attempt to support and leverage that evolution because it suits us.

luciferofastora ,

So glad slavery got abolished*!

*terms and conditions apply

luciferofastora ,

The money's in the treatment, not in the cure

luciferofastora ,

Would that make him the grandfather of smartphones?

luciferofastora ,

Free market for jobs, how does that feel? Bet they're ecstatic to try the principles of fair competition for themselves.

luciferofastora ,

When sexist objectification accidentally teaches a point against sexist objectification

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