[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago

Another from chemistry: "small dangers are still dangers, don't underestimate them".

This was in my first uni. The person saying that mentioned how he never saw students harming themselves with cyanide, nitration solutions (sulphuric+nitric - highly corrosive and explosive) or the likes. No, it was always with dumb shit like glacial acetic acid skin burns, or a solvent catching fire.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago

Got someone in my family with diabetes type I, and we've been hearing about the "magical" solution coming "soon" since she was diagnosed with it, in her childhood, around 30 years ago.

As such I'll keep what I see as a healthy amount of scepticism towards this piece of news.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

More like "tankie user defends basic reading comprehension".

What Josh is doing here is witch hunting like a moron. That only helps the Nazi by giving them a believable cover.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I was trying to trigger the same output from Bard, and it answered correctly; they probably addressed that very specific case after it got some attention. Then of course I started messing around, first replacing "elephants" with "snakes" and then with "potatoes". And here's the outcome of the third prompt:

My sides went into orbit. The worst issue isn't even claiming that snakes aren't animals (contradicting the output of the second prompt, by the way), but the insane troll logic that Bard shows when it comes to hypothetical scenarios. In an imaginative scenario where potatoes have legs, the concept of "legless" does apply to them, because they would have legs to lose.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 months ago

The post is clear. That is what matters. If some assumer starts making shit up based on the title alone, the assumer is at fault, not the poster.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 27 points 11 months ago

Some site that used to be relevant a long time ago, that now we watch die with morbid curiosity.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
Luigi Yoshi
Scared of ghosts Eats ghosts for breakfast
Gives Mario trouble Gives Mario a ride
Started out as "Mario for those who can't play as Mario" Designed from the scratch as a character
Uses synthetic green dyes in his clothes to LARP as an environmentalist Has his own self-sustainable island, is naturally green
Weirdo in a costume A MOTHERFUCKING DINOSAUR

Mama should disinherit Luigi and adopt Yoshi in his place.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

I've checked the molecule in question, it's that sort of stuff that even amateurs could make in a backyard lab, from indole and dichloromethane (use AlCl₃ as catalyst). So if the effects are real and there aren't too big counter-effects, this will spread like wildfire.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

Frankly, I also hate this sort of word filter. I fully agree with the OP here because the issue is not the specific words that you use, but what you convey through those words within a certain context. The book title is a great example of that, as "bitсh" is partially reclaimed and the author is using it to label a group that she is part of.

It's also damn easy to circumvent this sort of filter, as I've exemplified above, so it's often useless.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

Got my old lady illustrating stages 1 and 3:

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

Some months in the future...

u/notspez: "Hello Reddit, this is u/notspez. I'm the new CEO of Reddit. Pic related, it's me. We snoos stand together."

Reddit: "WE DID IT REDDIT! WE DEFEATED SPEZ! REDDIT IS SAVED! WOHOOOO!!!!!!"

...serious now, I agree with you. It's a lot like Ellen Pao, except that spez probably knows that he's being used as scapegoat and he's OK with it. The business itself is rotten, and the very fact that they're giving spez a green card to screw with the userbase shows that anyone who they put in place would be as trashy as him. Fuck spez and fuck Reddit Inc.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A quick summary of this [frankly, rather crappy] article boils down to "I don't understand, why people ignore the 4% of ChromeOS usage when talking about the 3% of Linux usage?" written in the most facepalm-worthy way, spamming fallacies like there was no tomorrow:

  • "Which is also Linux, but the wrong kind of Linux." - strawman
  • "which means that [desktop Linux]¹ has less than half of the [desktop Linux]² market." - ambiguity ("1" refers to a subset of "2")
  • "It's not a typical Linux, because typical Linuxes are tools for nerdy hacker types, and that kind of OS will never, ever go mainstream unless someone forces people to use it" - begging the question + ad hominem
  • "So naturally the Forces of FOSS hate it. Of course they do. And how do they express that contempt? By saying it's not a True Linux." - repeating the strawman again, for an ad nauseam

Also note that the same type of stupid reasoning from the article would also "prove" that MacOS is a *BSD.

What a weird hill to die on.

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