PeriodicallyPedantic

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Canada is not broken. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

It's all broken, just CPC is more broken than the rest

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Your priorities just make no sense to me.

Yes both parties are bad, but voting for one is voting for more opportunities to save yourself.
The decision to prioritize giving them the middle finger where nobody can see it over helping yourself is something I can't get my head around. Your resistance does nothing but help the speedy arsonist.

It feels like you're just listing off talking points to score cool points with a bunch of Lemmy edgelords.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But you're waving while standing inside the burning house where they can't see you. Your protest just makes it more likely that the speedy arsonist gets the chance, and does nothing to harm either of the arsonists.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The detail/degree matters.
Its crazy to prefer the speedy arsonist, or to leave the decision up to other arsonists, when you and your family are in the house

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mean... It might make the other arsonist think twice.

But it might also just make the arsonists shoot all the firefighters and then set the whole town on fire. Still might be worth a try, if someone was willing

I think my analogy is passing the bounds of its usefulness 😅

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

When presented with the choice between the arsonist who wants to burn your house down slowly vs the arsonist who wants to burn your house down quickly, choose the arsonist who wants to burn your house down slowly, so you have more opportunities to escape or mitigate the damage.

Edit:
Why the downvotes? How is this analogy inconsistent with what was just described?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure the problem is the electoral system so much as it is the people who vote.

I'm not saying that voting is bad, but even if you tore down the system and replaced it overnight with something better, it's not gonna change the way people vote. They still vote in neoliberals and conservatives and fascists.

People on the left will have more options further left, but people on the right will have more options further right.

Fixing the electoral system is still a thing to strive for, and it'll be a positive change; just temper your expectations

Bidet anyone? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, I feel like they're both gonna smell like peanut butter about the same

Especially if you do that with a potato instead of a watermelon

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Mac & Beans (lemmy.ca)
 

Using copilot:

generate and image of Shrek opening a can of beans, but unexpectedly Mac & cheese flies out and lands on the donkey

Unholy union of ai memes

Autocorrect Rule in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Left option:

Women are in a lot better now and I will call them in a bit.

Middle option:

Women are good at almost everything and the kids are you and I don't think they are not statistically significantly better than me.

Right option:

Women are so lucky and proud 🥲

Hmmmm 🤔🤔🤔

Three popular desktop OS and its users in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you just call shinji reliable???

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Does anyone remember a Tiktok/short song about AI taking creative work, with a dancing yellow alien? (lemmy.ca)
 

I've been trying to find this video for a while with no luck, and idk what other community to ask.

The video features this yellow dancing CG blob alien thing, and the lyrics go something like:

We made AI to do the dumb stuff, so we could do the fun stuff
But now it does the fun stuff, and we became the dumb stuff

Does anyone remember it, or know where to find it?
The little singing alien thing popped up a few times on my FYP but I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because I can't find any evidence that it ever existed.

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Why is there a lukewarm but no lukecool? (lemmy.ca)
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Centrifuges answer the age old scientific question: "what'd happen if we spin this really fast?" (lemmy.ca)
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Propane as a Service (lemmy.ca)
 
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It's weird that we enjoy stimulating our fear response (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink
 

What would aliens think if they leaned we evolved fear as a survival mechanism, but we intentionally seek out situations that trigger our fear response, for fun?

Horror movies, extreme sports, thrill-seeking, it's all weird.

Edit
Changed the title and added an extra line to make it clear I'm talking about the fear response, and not specifically about extreme sports

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[Community Challenge 35] Unexpected Astronaut (lemmy.ca)
 

Theme

Unexpected Astronaut!

What could possibly be unexpected, unusual, or surprising about astronauts or the situations they find themselves in?

Rules

  • Follow the community’s rules above all else
  • One comment and image per user
  • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
  • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
  • Posts that are tied will both get the points
  • The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
  • Down votes will not be counted

Scores

At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:

  • Most upvoted: +3 points
  • Second most upvoted: +2 pointS
  • Third most upvoted: +1 point
  • OP’s favorite: +1 point
  • Most original: +1 point
  • Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote): +1 point
  • Prompt and workflow included: +1 point

The winner gets to pick next theme! Have fun everyone!

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A new trend sweeping the nation (lemmy.ca)
 

Slowpoke is my favorite ~~jean~~ meme

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share the cheesiest Ai-generated novel covers you can make (lemmy.ca)
 

Here is my attempt:

cover art for a young adult urban fantasy romance novel, called “moon slime”

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you're in luck, I'm already here! (i.imgflip.com)
 
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I'm right here! (i.imgflip.com)
 
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isekai subgenres (lemmy.ca)
 

Now that isekai has firmly established itself as a subgenre in western storytelling (although it has always been there in some form), it got me thinking about what to call the subgenres of isekai itself.

If isekai itself is being transported to another world/universe, and reverse isekai is someone from another world being transported to ours... Then what do we call someone from another world being transported to another other wold? Or someone from our world being transported to another time in our world? Do these have names already?

Setting aside if we like or appreciate isekai, if they don't have genres names yet I thought it'd be funny to come up with our own. What do you think we should call all the sub-subgenres?

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