jsomae

joined 1 year ago
[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

where can I move to

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Didn't they leave a retro-reflector on the surface of the moon after the first mission? This seems pretty definitive to me.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

idk, I'm not them. I convey explain their feelings with any justice.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, definitely true for the Texas parade. I know somebody who is ashamed of being straight though, so there probably could exist an earnest straight pride community. What there is definitely not a need for is a straight lib movement.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

you must be mistaking me for user gandalf_der_12te, earlier in this thread.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

There is a straight pride movement. Wasn't there a heterosexual pride parade in Texas last month or something?

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Are Becky and Kyle the new Karen and Chad?

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

Okay so I must be in the minority, but I don't feel any particular pathos for these billions of slaughtered animals. Seeing myriads of baby chicks ground into dust doesn't really move me in the slightest. Just understanding that the farm industry causes intense, agonizing, slow deaths for billions if not trillions of creatures every year is enough for me to understand its morally imperative to not consume the vast majority of animal products. Bentham's Bulldog has been quite moving for me.

Yesterday I decided to stop buying honey after reading his article about how honey plausibly causes orders of magnitude more suffering than everything else. I'm also vegetarian, and I have replaced most of the dairy in my diet with plant-based alternatives. I still haven't eliminated cheese and eggs from my diet though. For cheese it's because I don't think there's good evidence the cheese I buy causes any agony in particular, but eggs is the next step for me.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

It's been 53 years since we stopped sending humans to the moon. Now we have the world wide web, touch-screens, voice recognition, human simulcra, and CRISPR.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Given the amount of perpetual torture these very-likely-to-be-sentient creatures go through, it's certainly worse than any genocide in history has ever been. Even if you only think that animals are capable of 5% of the suffering of humans.

 

Seems like over the last week everyone in this community is talking about how the real reason AI is bad is because it is destroying the planet. Does this even matter though? AI is bad for so many other reasons. It's destroying art. It's destroying Hollywood. It's removing jobs from the workforce, and it's concentrating power and money. And ontop of all that, it produces only soulless slop.

We have a good front line there. We can rally around those points.

When you try to bring questionable objections like power an water usage onto the table, it just makes our front-line look weaker, since opponents can easily pick these arguments apart. "Sure it's a lot of power, but this will lead to nuclear power, which is a net win environmentally." Or, "a single AI query consumes 2 litres of water?? You mean milliliters, and it's just going to rain from the sky, and nobody is putting big datacentres in California anyway, and that's only 1/6th of the amount of water it takes to grow an almond." Or "yeah, google alone uses as much power as the entire city of Toronto, but Toronto uses green power; so what?"

And yes, we all have counter-arguments to these -- "how to deal with nuclear waste?" and "only a fraction of rain water is collected as potable water" and "almonds may take more water than AI but almonds are still bad" and "there are some datacentres in California" and so on but the deeper these arguments go the harder it is to maintain a stable front.

Can we all just admit that this environmental angle is a red herring? I could almost believe it's a psy-op intended to discredit the anti-AI crowd. Even if the environmental impact of AI is bad, I still think it's worse for our cause to focus on the environmental aspect than the other aspects. The world has already decided it doesn't care about the environment.

 

Curious if any women have tried taking T. I'm much younger than her but I've been feeling some of the symptoms she's talked about a lot, and I'm wondering if T might help. But obviously I'm worried about the effects of it.

Not looking for medical advice, just curious about other people's experiences.

 

I'm really loving Pedro Pascal these days.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by jsomae@lemmy.ml to c/WomensStuff@lazysoci.al
 

This is an inclusive community for all things women. Whether you’re here for make up tips, feminism or just friendly chit chat, we’ve got you covered.

I feel like men can do all of those things, so I don't see why we are excluding them. Just because it's a women-centric community doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed. I think we should exclude people who are bigoted instead, or even people who just don't "get" women's issues.

Aside: I'm personally irritated that make-up is what's considered a woman-centric topic. That's kind of reductive -- not everyone is femme.

 

I changed the title from "Spying" to "Eavesdropping" because the article actually directly supports that it is "spying" on you, just not listening.

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AI Art Turing Test (ai-art-turing-test.com)
 

They're very portable, so you can carry them around with you in case you come up with an idea of something to write on your Tesla while you're out and about. They stick to the surface quite well and don't wash off in the rain.

(Please try not to succumb to the temptation to write "F**k off Nazi Scum" or similar on somebody else's though like other people are suggesting. That might encourage people not to buy Teslas, which is a shame, because they're great American cars.)

 

Just wanted to prove that political diversity ain't dead. Remember, don't downvote for disagreements.

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