peanuts4life @ peanuts4life @lemmy.blahaj.zone

Posts

0

Comments

166

Joined

2 yr. ago

I got ratted out by the thumbnail 😢

I know right? It's just a total waste of everyone's time.

I mean no offense, but it sounds like you have poorly developed social skills. I used to as well.

You could try reframing it in your mind:

It's not faking, it's practice.

If you pick up an instrument for the first time to practice, you will sound terrible, and possibly be discouraged, but if you practice for hundreds of hours you'll be able to play it for real.

Babies and children aren't born knowing how to express interest or sympathize. You certainly weren't. Children have to learn how to do this. It is possible that you need to practice if you want to build intimate relationships. There is no shortcut to this.

(35, he/him) This is how I met my first girlfriend, in reverse. I was lonely and had mentally committed to making a friend in a manic episode. I saw her on a bench reading and asked if I could sit next to her. I had a book with me too, and began to read. Then, I asked what she was reading. We became friends, and later dated for 2.5 years.

I've spent a lot of time wandering around hoping people would talk to me. I used to feel like it was worthless, because 95% of the time no one will talk to you, but those odds aren't so bad in hindsight. Go into public 100 times a year and you'll have 5 decent shots at making a friend. Make one friend a year, and you'll probably have more social opportunities than you want to deal with.

I've met people randomly in public like this perhaps 6 times.

There are other factors other than randomness:

1. I'm very friendly to people. I like to ask questions once a conversation gets going, and I get animated on just about any topic. I talk to myself a lot, so even when I'm not exposed to people I'm practiced, in a way.
2. There is usually an activity involved. Reading a book together, drawing on an airplane, posting art on a blog, taking classes together, being at the same work event, hiding in the same hard to find corner of the library. These are all situations from my life, and they typically involve a shared activity, or a creative outlet. This is probably why people recommend joining clubs / going to bars, advice I've never taken, but I see the reasoning.

I don't mean to project that my social life is great! I've been terribly lonely during much of it, and these experiences I'm describing took place over several years. However, if I could boil down my successes, I'd say they cultivating a curiousty in others and publically engaging in my hobbies has been the best way to make friends (and occasionally lovers).

I'm not a medical expert, but typically your skin is pretty good at keeping pathogens out, at least when you clean yourself regularly.

Keeping your hands clean (and thus your eyes and mouth) should be a priority. A relatively cheap and easy thing to focus on would be cheap, disposable gloves. Buy them in bulk, and carry a wad in a pocket. You can turn old ones inside out and use them as little trash bags. Change them out whenever you feel like it.

If you don't have a clothes washer at home, consider buying a cheap portable unit that can drain into the shower or sink. I have one, and it rocks.

You might feel a little crazy, but if you have the spare cash, buy some bleach spray and paper towels and wipe down the elevator. It should only take 5 minutes. It could be the case that it only needs to be cleaned every few weeks.

Remember that by keeping your space and person clean, you are doing a lot to stay healthy. People work draining septic tanks for a living and are exposed to sewage, but stay healthy because of good hygiene habits in the long term. I don't mean to minimize your situation, because I'd feel crazy too, but just keep in mind you're already doing a good job.

Just as the guy dodging the moose, his little dog is jumping to attack it. Little dogs are hardcore

Yes. So what?

Turns out that eliminating 70% of all viable workers from employability creates job security for boring, cis men.

Tbh, the hate is largely good old fashioned bullying. The rumors of cheating have been completely disproven. She qualified, she knew she was unlikely to win. She's almost 20 years older than her oldest opponent and this was perhaps her first time competing at that level. Her performance had good parts.

I think the gleeful bullying is disgusting. Fucking armchair critics.

Edit: there are specific moves, but it's largely improvisational. you are judged comparatively against the other b-boy. If you watch the full set the commentators will call them out. her full set

False, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/australian-breakdancer-raygun-olympics/

The Internet just likes to bully people.

Exposure to violence is bad. Fostering a society where violence is commonplace, bad. Exporting violence to places and people unseen, all bad.

but I'm not really sure that illegal or extra-judicial killings are always wrong. Sometimes evil people are protected or above the law. If a Russian citizen shot Vladimir Putin dead tomorrow, I'd be happy with it. I'd be happy to see a sandy hook parent kill Alex Jones, if they could do it without consequence.

It's not that I believe that murder should be legal, Nor do I believe in capital punishment. Institutional violence is bad for the reasons I listed earlier. But, a lone gunman shooting an evil man is not institutionalized violence.

Bad ai generated cat memes from a spam account! Nice!

In a perfect world, men like me would not exist, but this is not a perfect world.

Red flags for sure, but whenever I see stuff like this, I do wish that sex and gender could just not exist for a while. Like, wouldn't it be cool if this dude and his new buddy could just play some gosh darn pickle ball without the subtext that he has to be cheating on his wife?

https://openai.com/index/how-openai-is-approaching-2024-worldwide-elections/

Here is a direct quote from openai:

"In addition to our efforts to direct people to reliable sources of information, we also worked to ensure ChatGPT did not express political preferences or recommend candidates even when asked explicitly."

It's not a conspiracy. It was explicitly thier policy not to have the ai discuss these subjects in meaningful detail leading up to the election, even when the facts were not up for debate. Everyone using gpt during that period of time was unlikely to receive meaningful information on anything Trump related, such as the legitimacy of Biden's election. I know because I tried.

This is ostentatiously there to protect voters from fake news. I'm sure it does in some cases, but I'm sure China would say the same thing.

I'm not pro China, I'm suggesting that every country engages in these shenanigans.

Edit it is obvious that a 100 billion dollar company like openai with it's multude of partnerships with news companies could have made gpt communicate accurate and genuinely critical news regarding Trump, but that would be bad for business.

Perhaps now it is, but leading up to the election, I found gpt would outright refuse to discuss Trump in voice mode. Meta ai too. It was very frustrating. It would start, and then respond with something like, "I'm not able to talk about that, yet."

https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-microsofts-chatbots-refuse-election-questions/

There are plenty of examples of Ai either refusing to discuss subjects of the elections (I remember meta ai basically just saying "I'm learning how to respond to these questions." Or in the above case, just hand waving away clear issues of wrong doing.

Chat gpt advanced voice mode would constantly activate its guardrails when asked about trump or "politically charged" topics.

Incidentally, no Western ai would make a statement on Donald Trump's crimes leading up to the election. Ai propaganda is a serious issue. In China the government enforces it, in America, billionaires.

Yes, that is the speed you're going, then the acceleration you experience due to the change in direction as the earths surface revolves about an axis is a = v²/r. R being the radius of the earth. This gets us our small acceleration value.

You do experience this small acceleration as a very small reduction in weight. You actually weigh more at the poles than the equator. You don't feel the velocity at all, as the whole planet is moving with you.

Maybe my math is wrong but: The Earth's radius is about 6,371 kilometers. With this large radius and a 24-hour rotation period, the centripetal acceleration at the equator is only about 0.034 m/s². This is tiny compared to Earth's gravitational acceleration of 9.8 m/s². So the centripetal effect is only about 0.3% of gravity's effect.