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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

At the very least, I'd recommend you:

  • gloves - because you'll get really close to that gross shit. You don't want to touch it.
  • a sponge - it doesn't need to be new; your old kitchen sponge is enough, just don't use it again in the kitchen. Use the yellow side to spread the cleaning agent, and the green side to remove obnoxious grime stuck to something. (Do it gently, and only with a really old sponge, to avoid scratching the surface.)
  • a bucket - mostly to mix some soap and water.
  • a dry rag - mostly for finishing/drying. A cringey old shirt that you won't be using again is usually enough.
  • toilet brush - don't use the sponge to clean inside the toilet bowl; you'll be spreading the bacteria from your shit and piss to the rest of the restroom.

Everyone has the cleaning agents that they swear upon, so look for something that works for you. For me it's

  • alcohol vinegar - to get rid of that brown crust in the sink (water in my city is hard as a brick) and around the shower drain. I usually apply it, wait a few minutes, then use the sponge to scrub it a bit. Then I remove the vinegar with the rag.
  • bleach - exclusively used inside the toilet bowl. I squish some bleach there, then scrub it with the toilet brush, then flush it off, making sure that there's no bleach behind.
  • disinfecting agent - I squish a bit of that inside the toilet bowl and just leave it there. It smells good, and it gets rid of the bacteria.
  • an ammonium-based cleaning agent - I squish it on obvious grime on the walls (except the above), then scrub it with the sponge.
  • soap and water - to "wash" the walls with the sponge.
  • plain water with some disinfecting agent - to rinse it. Then I just remove the excess water with the rag and let the restroom to dry naturally (with closed doors otherwise my cats will step on the bathroom, step outside, and now I got to clean the bathroom again plus the corridor and furniture).

Important detail: do not mix any two of the cleaning agents that I've mentioned. Specially not ammonium and bleach.

For reference, the disinfecting agent that I use is called "pinho sol", but I have no idea if it's sold outside Brazil. You probably have some similar product wherever you live.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Complexity does not mean sophistication when it comes to AI and never has and to treat it as such is just a forceful way to make your ideas come true without putting in the real effort.

It's a bit off-topic, but what I really want is a language model that assigns semantic values to the tokens, and handles those values instead of directly working with the tokens themselves. That would be probably far less complex than current state-of-art LLMs, but way more sophisticated, and require far less data for "training".

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

creating a label and checking the skip invoice box

That works great too, specially if you want to use less foolproof filters. Or even a mix of both strategies.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You wanted me to explicitly address your point; I did, and now you're losing your marbles over the fact that I did??? Also, look up what "straw man" means, as you're clearly ignorant on that.

🤡

My sides went into orbit. Congratulations for shooting your own foot.

What were you saying back then again? Something about "Tankie user defends obvious Nazi dog whistles."? Well, guess what - you just used a Nazi dog whistle.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 74 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Oh "great", more crap between Ctrl and Alt.

[Grumpy grandpa] In my times, the space row only had five keys! And we did more than those youngsters do with eight, now nine keys!

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thankfully we agree. That only reinforces that he is indeed a witch. I'll grab my pitchfork too!

(in the meantime nobody pays attention to my username being literally "lucifer" with a broken grammar.)

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

You're really, really craving for attention, aren't you?

...usually I don't bother with this idiotic "I dun unrurstand lol lmao XD haha" conveying "I expect you to waste your time explaining obvious shit over and over while I pretend to not understand what you say". But since I'm in a really good mood, just this once I'll bite. I don't think that you're able to follow either, but other users will and I think that this is a good example of the problem with witch hunters.

"But gassing vermin!!11 Infestation! lol" - then find some elements prompting the player to conflate the vermin with Jewish people, or any other victim of the Holocaust. Things like this:

  • Is the player's avatar dressed in a way reminiscent of the Schutzstaffel? No. Compare this with this.
  • Are the rooms recognisably similar to gas chambers used in the Holocaust? No. (inb4 "bUt BoTh ArE CrEePy LoL" is grasping at straws)
  • Does the vermin in question resemble a caricature Jewish person? No; it's Mickey Bloody Mouse dammit. And from other screenshots you have a moth and some tumour thing too.
  • Posters painting fascist slogans, symbols, or discourses in a positive light? So far I saw none.
  • et cetera.

Do it. Find those elements. Or elements that are similar in spirit. The burden of the proof is in the one claiming the connection, in this case you.

Without those elements, gassing vermin is simply gassing vermin, and the one creating the association between vermin and Jewish people is you, not the devs.

"88 gives it context" - nope. You need to link them. If they were showing that 88 with fireworks right after you got rid of a rat, then perhaps it would give you the context to interpret that rat as a Jewish person.

Also worth repeating that this association is undesirable for the developers, as shown by the fact that they changed the name of the game to "Infestation: Origins". But hey, this contradicts your assumption, and it prevents you from rolling in certainty like a pig would roll in filth, so it gets "conveniently" (dishonestly) ignored, right?


The above is already enough to address your idiotic point. But I'll go further, because I'm predicting that you're going to grasp at straws.

"But the Discord..." - they already paused discussions there until they get better moderation; that shows that they do not condone whatever was happening there. (They probably got some nazi with the same sort of reading comprehension as you [zero] assuming that he was in good company.)

"But all those pieces of evidence in Twitter! So many things, it must be a sure sign!" The "evidence" being shared there is ridiculous:

counting the space "Infestation 88" is 14 keystrokes.

This is numerology tier idiocy.

[associating TG·44 SST with STG 44, one of the assault rifles used by the Nazi in the war]

Yeah, sure - pick anything written, shuffle it enough, omit some characters, be very accepting on what you're matching it with, and you'll get whatever you want out of it.

And, rewatching the trailer, the found footage section is October 13, 1988 // Meaning the date would end in 13/88, which is SUSPICIOUSLY close, especially if you would be playing AFTER this point.

Not only "13 is close to 14, this must be a sign of an enemy Stand!" is already a silly stretch on its own, but the date being displayed in the picture doesn't even follow that idiotic M/D/Y order. It's displayed in Y/M/D (1988 Oct, 13). Good motherfucking luck associating 88/10/13 with 14/88.

"1-4 players, in 88, taking on an "outbreak of vermin in various locations"."

This was as a reply to a screenshot showing In the year 1988, what was thought to be an outbreak of vermin in varioues locations morphed into something far more sinister. Infestation 88 is an episodic, 1-4 player co- [cut off]

...do I really need to highlight how fucking stupid this is? 1-4 players is fairly common in games, and the text in the screeshot does no effort to align that "1-4" in a way that you'd read "1-4 88". The one doing it is actually Fagundes himself.

Theyve [SIC] been creating horror games since 2010. But at the bottom, copyright 2024. // 14 year difference.

More numerology tier crap.

Yup. There is a REASON to use THIS public domain character, and it ain't a good one.

As a reply to "Let's also not forget Disney himself was an anti-Semite."

If the devs are supposed to be anti-Semite, then why the hell would they represent the brainfart of an anti-Semite as the enemy???

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you! It's working now.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's giving me an error, "Error Finding Entity // Make sure you spelled the entity correctly and that it exists!", when I use my username for lemmy.ml; curiously it works well when I do it for my beehaw.org account.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Create your account through old.reddit.com; when it asks you for an email, simply press "next". And, if you need an e-mail provider for some other reason, protonmail.com doesn't ask you for your phone number.

That said do you really need a reddit account?

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

[Note: this is my personal take, not Chomsky's]

We can recognise colours and things even without properly labelling them. (Colour example: I have no clue on how to call the colour of my cat's fur, but I'm fairly certain to remember thus recognise it.) However, it's hard to handle them logically this way.

  • if you are outside and it is raining, then you get wet
  • if you get wet, you might get sick
  • so if you are outside and it is raining, you might get sick

And at least for me this is the main role of the internal monologue. It isn't just about repeating the state of the things, it's about connecting pieces of info together, as if I was explaining the link to another person.

Perhaps those without verbal internal monologue/dialogue have a more persistent innate language, that is not overwritten by common external language?

Possible; I don't know, really. It's also possible that the "innate language" doesn't really exist, only the innate ability to learn a language; but that ability is already enough to structure simple reasoning.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He's clearly a witch. I'm going to denounce him. Right now.

  • "avater" has six letters. "lemmy" and "world" have five each, suspiciously close to six. His username is almost a literal 666.
  • "I had an 88 in my old email address back in the days cause you know I’m born 1988" has the exact letters, in the right order, that allow you to spell "heil [name of the devil]".
  • He wrote the number "8" four times. Eight symbolises new beginnings, regeneration, and resurrection; he's signalising to be full converted to satanism.
  • He's German. You know how Germany is known as? Birthplace of Protestantism, one of the major heresies against Christianity. How much do you bet that he worships Luther, Mammon, Calvin and Asmodeus???
  • Being German also means that he's from the same place as that witchcraft band called Faun. I bet that he already heard Walpurgisnacht on the radio. Perhaps he even likes the band. Or did no effort to call them out. (If you sit with witches then you're a witch too)

There are simply too many obvious signs of him being a witch. Sure, one or another might be coincidence, but all of them?

I hope that someone publish this in a sensationalist news site. Then other people will find further evidence that he's a witch.

He could prove his innocence, though. Witches float, honest people sink, so w could put a 20kg stone around his neck and throw him into the river. Of course he won't accept it, witches do not want to be outed as witches.

By the way, anyone trying to defend him is just trying to cover a witch. They're probably dancing partners in the Hexennacht (German for "the devil child-eating ritual")

[/sarcasm][/irony]

 

A TL;DR:

  • Laying out context and background info (API prices)
  • Exposing maths on API access prices, in comparison with Imgur ones, to show that they are unreasonable.
  • Concluding that Reddit is using the huge prices to intentionally kill third party apps*.
  • Talking about the poor quality of the official app.
  • How the move effectively deplatforms blind people, followed by a Torvalds style "fuck you, Reddit".
  • ~~Cat tax at 7:20~~
  • Devil's lawyer point: the fact that we cannot see Reddit's finances, as it is not a public company.
  • The "fever dream" of the 2010s, and how many companies of those times were never profitable, as they were focusing on [my own words] on the value instead of the profit [/my own words]
  • Mentions on how even the site originally hosting the video [Youtube - NB, the link is from Odysee] lost money in those times, as well as Twitter did, implying that Reddit is probably in the same bag.
  • Talking about transparency - i.e. that if Reddit is bleeding money, it should say it, so the users do not assume the worst. That concludes the devil's lawyer point, as he shows that even if it was a necessary action from Reddit's side of the thing (is it?), it's still scummy as fuck.
  • On users losing trust on Reddit and saying "we're leaving". Ipsis litteris "the community will remember what you did, and screwing over vast swaths of disabled people is a really, really great way to look like the type of piece of shit that nobody wants to give money or revenue to, ever again."
  • Telling Reddit to either reconsider the decision or at the very least give it a damn good reason, otherwise users will outright refuse to use Reddit or do it with the most restricted ad blocking possible.

*personal note: Rossmann didn't mention it, but I will. Reddit is lying that it doesn't want to kill third party apps, and the lie itself makes everything worse.

 

I like this analysis because it's a bit deeper than just mentioning the media references present in the intro; it contextualises them, and connects them to the plot of the anime.

 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 
 

Remove your content from Reddit.

As a platform, Reddit is only as valuable as the content in itReddit is as valuable as the content in it. So by removing everything that you posted or commented from the platform, you're discouraging its usage. No more suckers being lulled into Reddit by your content.

If you're concerned about the potential loss of internet information, consider storing anything that you feel as "valuable content" elsewhere where other people can access. And, if you're too lazy to do it by hand (like I am!), two helpful tools are u/dessalines' Reddit-History and Power Delete Suite.

It should be obvious too, but don't produce new content for the platform.

Feed the Fediverse. (Or other alternatives.)

If you're reading this, odds are that you're already feeding lemmy.ml with some content. Good! Bring content here to the Fediverse, or to Tildes. It could be your own original content or stuff copied from Reddit (just don't advertise that site when doing it.)

Even building your own personal blog helps, as information found in Reddit becomes way less valuable if it is also found elsewhere.

If you're still using Reddit, do not install their app, and do not consent to their targetted advertisement.

I think that it is no surprise for anyone that Reddit Inc. lives off adbux (advertisement money) and data mining its own users. As such, by accessing the site through an advertisement blocker, and by refusing consent to personalised ads (check the preferences), you're already helping a bit.

Scorch the land, make it unpleasing.

Being obnoxious, mocking users, being abravise, or overall being a jerk is not illegal. You can always do it there, specially in subreddits with large numbers of subscribers.

Evading bans is also not illegal. If a moderator kicked you off, make his work extra hard by coming back and shitposting in the same subreddit.

Derail serious threads with uninteresting content. Noise makes any environment less valuable.

Raise awareness.

Reddit killed the third party apps out of greed, because they want to datamine you through an official app that sucks.

Reddit has been censoring its users since forever.

Reddit used to host the alt group site called The_Donald, and refused to take action against it for too long.

Harassment is rampant in Reddit, Reddit has the tools to prevent it (as the Aimee Challenor case shows), and yet refuses to protect its own users with them.

The Reddit administration is consistently lying to Reddit users, as it expects them to be stupid.

There are a thousand issues with Reddit. You can - and should - make people know them.

 

The Makima wallpaper is 2560x1440, while the Yoru one is 2560x1080. If anyone wants I can redimension either or both. (Note: contrariwise to what Imgur is claiming, neither is NSFW, they aren't even suggestive.)

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