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nifty , 34 minutes ago

Reminds me of this, maybe there should be a community of small hand sized animals >.<

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/11931674-73d6-4fb3-9e7c-e3db1a9f557a.jpeg

nifty , 14 hours ago

The term “divine spark of creativity” is meaningless if it’s used to describe something created by a non-human entity. Why? Let me explain, but note that I am not biased against machine learning systems or whatever we’re calling “AI”.

From what I can remember from my studies, the act of creation (in topics as broad as art, engineering, policy making) is inherently biased towards some kind of exploration and examination of how groups of humans can function together. Humans started creating to facilitate and ensure their propagation by communicating and sharing ideas in different ways. Ultimately, if we look at how things came to be in human history (of society, culture, religion, science etc) the goal of this organization around how we think and do things is to ensure our own development as a species.

Specifically, regarding a piece of “art”, whatever it may be: I disagree with anyone who says that “just because it makes me feel it’s art”. Your drug-induced hallucinations can also make you feel, but they’re not art because they’re not an experience that anyone else but you can accommodate.

Similarly, I think that if a creator cannot understand or communicate with some sense of the human condition, their act of creation is devoid of meaning for human intellectual development, and is simply an exercise in mimicry of human creation—it gets the job done, but it’s not moving anything forward for the human collective. For any number of cynical reasons we may “hate” people, but humans are really the only living organism that we know of which is capable of reasoning about the nature of reality and existence. It doesn’t mean anything to “AI” that you or I or anything exists. Or that itself exists. So what’s the point of its creation?

nifty , 2 days ago

Technically it’s bimba for women and bimbo for men

/🤓

nifty , 2 days ago

👀

nifty , 2 days ago

Butt also why is he naked? Interdimensional space travel, but no slacks?

nifty , 2 days ago

I think you’re right! His head is gray and the dude lifts him up by the suit

nifty , 2 days ago

Your comment is insightful and presents a different pov, I don’t think it should be downvoted simply because its point is against the grain of the comic

nifty , 3 days ago

Just gonna make babby cry more 😭

nifty , 3 days ago

To keep it from sharting in the face?

nifty , 3 days ago

Sowing*

nifty , 3 days ago

!shirtsthatgohard

nifty , 2 days ago

This is how you sue dumbasses who pass this law

nifty , 2 days ago

Sorry to ask, but could someone summarize the video? Cannot watch it rn, and will probably forget later.

That said, all organizations face this kind of “what’s the orgs vision or character” challenge. Thats why good leadership is important. Sometimes it’s best to cut loses and reorganize, and also market how you’re different now.

Supporting eugenics in any form is unconscionable, but people make mistakes and can grow from them. There are examples of KKK members who became activists in other direction, and we shouldn’t lock people in to their past bad decisions. I encourage the idea of “reformed racists”.

As asinine as I think the idea of “Satan” is in general, I see value in contenders and challengers to established religious authorities. As a rule, we should remove religion from policy making.

nifty , 2 days ago

Will give it a view when I can, thanks

nifty , 3 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Death is permanent and cannot be undone. Once someone dies they take all their love, potential and beauty with them. We can only live with the memory of it, but that memory doesn’t have the ability to create new things or react to life in new ways.

That said, people should be able to end their suffering in a dignified manner of their choosing without suffering more. No one asked to be alive, it’s a burden imposed on them by the will of the living. The least we can do, then, is to make living as devoid of suffering as we can for everyone.

nifty , 2 days ago

Will they retroactively commute sentences of people who were charged with the previous classification?

nifty , 3 days ago

That’s why you gotta pair those with the right footwear

nifty , 4 days ago

The good ol might is right trick. Seeing that everywhere lately.

nifty , 4 days ago

This just seems to me like poorly trained young people are being forced to go into a fight they’re not fit to fight. The people who are sending them in to die like this should be held accountable.

nifty , 4 days ago

Does this also affect any private establishment that wants to have a non-gendered bathroom? Like can those businesses sue the government for overreach for putting an onerous burden on their business for needing more than one bathroom?

nifty , 4 days ago

I am sorry you went through this, just report this doctors behavior to the relevant authorities if you think that makes sense to do. If you don’t want the hassle of any bureaucratic issues of reporting him, that’s understandable.

nifty , 4 days ago

Would unionizing solve the horrors of this job?

nifty , 4 days ago

I am not sure how anyone can be “weak” when they constantly face so much discrimination, bullying and harassment and choose to spread a message that is essentially love is love. That’s heroic, not weak. You know who else persisted with a message of love under duress and hardship? Jesus.

Edit to say that I agree with the other commenters about being Strong and Gay 💪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

nifty , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Disagree, the U.S. does a lot of things right which quietly go unnoticed because the failures are fun to point out (“haha Richie rich state is failing loool”). All countries have their issues, and the U.S. desperately needs market socialism.

But please give me an example of any other top GDP country in the world where immigrants can become elected officials (not president) at the federal level. Russia? China? India? All of the other examples in top GDP earners are inherently xenophobic.

nifty , 5 days ago

Fr

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c8a31aa0-85ef-44e7-8df6-62c93c644e27.jpeg

nifty OP , 6 days ago

Hire POCs, raise awareness regarding double standards

nifty OP , 6 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

It’s not my circle of friends, and I am not taking about myself. I am about talking other people and speaking for other people

nifty OP , 6 days ago

But nepotism only relates to family or friends, I believe. Not necessarily to someone who’s unrelated. That’s why I suggested the term “familiarity hire” or “cronyism hire”

nifty OP , 5 days ago

I didn’t say it would be done as a spite

nifty , 5 days ago

Google is effectively IBM at this point, MBAs ruin everything. Another case in point: Boeing

nifty , 6 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/19e61365-3b3c-4e48-b4c4-e0ed34892b99.jpeg

nifty , 6 days ago

A lot of comments are questioning Trumps appeal after listening to him talk, but I think I understand why he’s appealing to his base and I think that it’s the same reason many are finding Biden a repellant: people are mired in uncertainties about their futures, their families futures and that of things they thought were tried and true (work hard, get job, get house and raise family). People like how Trump sounds certain and sure and strong, even if some of them don’t like what he’s saying. They want someone certain and sure to lead them when they’re feeling uncertain. The counter to Trump is to use reassuring and strong language for similar themes (job security, inflation, climate, housing, migrants, health). Or at least I think so, I could be wrong.

nifty , 5 days ago

He does lie, but he also delivers at times. I don’t doubt for a second he’s going to do away with trans protections on “day one”. My issue is that the Biden admin has also delivered over and over again, but the Biden admin actions are not accompanied by “strongman” rhetoric so get downplayed.

nifty , 4 days ago

Kinda wholesome

nifty , 6 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2346815d-f23a-4b91-acca-662d39d7653d.jpeg

nifty , 7 days ago

Bandcamp is nice, they have a curated genre section that updates frequently. College radio stations as someone mentioned, then just Shazam or whatever or look at their playlist online. I hate Spotify because it just gives you pop shit and doesn’t do anything niche or indie. There’s also SoundCloud, they make curated playlists of new stuff frequently. Sound cloud also has labels on there which curate some of their newest bands. It’s super easy to find niche indie labels I think. Lastly, look at lineups of local music spots. I used to listen to Deezer for finding non-US artists, but haven’t used it in a while since Bandcamp is kinda great about covering everywhere.

nifty , 7 days ago

He could be signaling to some cult or secret society that he will literally let them eat people if he wins (/s)

Or he’s signaling to his base that they should go all Brevik and kill brown and black people (not /s)

Or he has dementia (also not /s)

nifty , 6 days ago

There are many options, but the “easiest” one which comes to mind is to cap CEO pay at some value, like 2 mil say, and increase wages for lowest earners to a living wage. This is effectively moving the same money around, so shouldn’t really result in inflation, but I am not an economist.

Secondly, the nature of reality requires caps on expected profit margins, and shareholder expectations need to be adjusted. If people expect unmitigated growth, then they need to open up to exploring the universe (literally). Given that the universe is boundless, all our calculus based on resource limitations will need to change.

nifty , 7 days ago

Okay, this is awesome and now I also want to see dog sledding with something like Boston Dynamics Spot

nifty , 7 days ago

The end of democracy in the U.S. is not going to come from fascist conservatives, but from too-busy-with-life normies, the type who don’t vote in anything but presidential elections. They’re just too busy to notice anything other than their bills.

In their minds, they’re going to “punish” the blues for inflation while ignoring that the reds only ever made them poorer. These type of people don’t care about genocides (someone else’s problem, there’s always brown people dying, Israel is an ally etc), abortion rights (only stupid people get pregnant or only sluts need that), or trans people (that’s too weird for them). They don’t care about climate change (it’s a topic up for debate, it’s not factual), but have kids. They don’t care about workers rights, but work deadend or multiple jobs. They don’t care about getting more healthcare rights, but are a medical emergency away from bankruptcy.

I am not saying these people are dumb or callous, they need outreach and they need to be presented clearly with their options and outcomes. If you can, volunteer to sign people up to vote and present what’s at stake.

nifty , 7 days ago

How is macOS hipster? Apple products are so damn popular.

nifty , 7 days ago

Hmm idk man, anything that has ads playing everywhere 24/7 is not hipster, hipster is unknown, but stylish etc. Hipster is more trendsetter and macOS is not a trendsetter, it’s just a trend at this point. Anything pop by definition is not hipster.

To give a pithy example: macOS is to tech hipsters what hot topic is to goth hipsters

nifty , 7 days ago

I didn’t invent the term lol, that’s how it’s been used since whenever