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CombatWombat

@ CombatWombat @feddit.online

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In the fediverse since 2017. I mostly talk sports. If something on the internet doesn't spark joy, mute it.

Do not yell at me simply because I am in front of you and the people responsible for the problems are not. It is extremely unpleasant.

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    New ‘Jesus-centric’ Christian phone network will block pornography and LGBT content

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  • Their mentality is wrong, and being lgbt neither needs preventing nor curing.

  • Do you think every generation thinks their time growing up was the best?

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  • I think this is a relatively new phenomenon. I think previously, folks mostly did their best to make sure their kids had it better than they did, and had a belief the future would be better than the past, so they believed their generation had it worse than everyone younger.

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  • I'm not certain that spending time on networks that are "void of lgbt, void of the trans" is the doctor that these people need to cure them of their transphobia and homophobia.

  • How many of these "What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?" replies have aged like milk, and which have aged like wine?

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  • I’m rather proud of how well we’ve done avoiding most of these. The threadiverse is interesting because of how different it is from the rest of the fediverse. It feels like most of mastodon left Twitter because they were tired of how toxic it was, most bookwyrm users left goodreads because it got to corporate, most pixelfed users left insta because they hate meta, loops left TikTok because of the US takeover etc. But here in the threadiverse it can sometimes feels like we spend a lot of time rehabilitating people who got kicked off Reddit for being too toxic, and I’m rather proud of us that it’s mostly a usable and pleasant experience, in particular because I attribute it to a lot of the oldheads being patient about helping people remember how to be people, rather than just another Reddit bot.

  • White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

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  • Usually, tech companies work as hard as they can to lobby the government to avoid regulation. In a usual tech bubble, these kinds of comments would be the lede:

    “The technology is moving extremely fast, and there are few formal procedures, but they also don’t want to overregulate,” said Dean Ball, who was a senior adviser on A.I. in the Trump administration before leaving last year for the Foundation for American Innovation. “It’s a tricky balance.”

    You can tell how desperate these LLM companies are to get a fig leaf of legitimacy before they run out of runway that they’re willing to accept government regulation to get it.

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    I got inspired by the quote "In sterquiliniis invenitur" and made a one myself " if you walk through hell long enough you can fix the devil", is it good?

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  • I would quote Paradise Lost by Milton to express this sentiment: "The mind is its own place, and in it self / Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n."

  • Can someone explain the hexbear community?

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  • Lemmy instance post visibility rankings

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  • Everyone is defederated from somewhere. There’s an entire dark fedi that basically everyone has defederated from.

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  • This, and also it's okay to go a little crazy, as a treat. Get like, an unhealthy obsession with sea turtles or really into witchcraft or something. We went a little crazy about making sourdough during the pandemic and it was kinda nice.

  • What is your favourite Pokemon?

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  • Dragonite -- I love his derpy little wings.

  • Today is May Day, for those in the US. If you are in the US, what are you doing, today, right now, to stand up and make your voice heard?

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  • Right now it's the middle of the night in the US, so I reckon most folks is sleepin.

  • AI's Economics Don't Make Sense

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  • I hope Rimu can figure out how to make Piefed run on GPUs because we are absolutely going to have to bail out these tech companies when the AI bubble pops, and when we do we’re gonna nationalize these shitty data centers and turn them into the biggest fediverse deployment you’ve ever seen (I’m mostly joking. Mostly).

  • How to support a grieving person?

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  • I have a lot of confidence you’ll do well here — anyone considerate enough to worry about this in advance is considerate enough to succeed in the endeavor.

  • How to support a grieving person?

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  • Most of the support won’t be things you say, it’ll be things you do: a cup of tea and a blanket when they’re struggling. Making sure they eat regularly and healthfully. Putting your arms around them when they cry. Getting them out of the house to move their body. Finding the perfect sentiment is much less effective than a well-timed cupcake.

  • We can't just call AI-generated code slop anymore

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  • I can and I will.

  • How long is coffee good for in the fridge?

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  • I cold brew coffee for 2-3 days on my kitchen counter and then store the resulting pitcher in the fridge for a couple of weeks. I don't have a lot of experience with iced coffee, but I would be surprised if there was a significant difference in how well it keeps.

  • What are some words where the "opposite" one means the same thing?

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  • I find intensifying to be more natural than negating for things like “I couldn’t care less,” or “irregardless,” or “misunderestimate” to a certain extent — if something is “worthwhile regardless,” I don’t have to regard that, but if it is “worthwhile irregardless,” I really don’t have to think about it at all. It just seems right that if I put a bunch of negative words in one sentence, it should be really, really negative, instead of it being negative if I used an odd number and positive if I used an even number; same with prefixes and suffixes. I think it’s probably too much to try to reform English to work as such, but if I were building a conlang it’s what I would do.

  • The critic - Herluf Bidstrup

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  • I find the best critics (and, to be fair, the word has not carried this as a primary meaning for quite some time) are the ones who can explain why you should enjoy or respect something you wouldn't otherwise, rather than those who can convince you to dislike something you otherwise wouldn't.

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    What is your favorite conspiracy theory?

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