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@ doug @lemmy.today

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average man by day, average man by night. / you get more points being on lemmy than you do on reddit / movie enthusiast / formerly /u/doug on reddit

  • good idea

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  • The problem for me is empathy is often the missing ingredient in my disagreements with others, and it’s harder or impossible to foster, teach, or cultivate that empathy via a remote text exchange.

    It is easier to press the button that shocks the stranger when the stranger is in the other room.

    …coupled with that I get enraged at injustice and bigotry enough that it likely affects my blood pressure, as well as my ability to articulate my political views in a respectful and/or cohesive manner.

    Fuckinggoddam piece of shit nazifucks make me want to KILL. KILL. KILL. RRUFUDUDJDJCH JNENDUCHBR

  • Number 1 painkiller

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  • I wish I was more active so I had an excuse to wear dope band-aids 😔

  • Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

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  • I think it was a Reddit scraper years ago that taught me that I should probably lie more often on the internet about my work, friends, family details, etc.

    Just like, little lies that don’t really matter in the comment, but would misdirect an AI or investigator into things that aren’t true.

    It’s just so much woooooork to think about this shit. And to come up with different screen names everywhere? And to like, sub to a city I don’t live in and comment there about shit I know nothing about? Exhausting.

    Thankfully my brothers and three uncles are here to support me. And my alligator.

  • Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon

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  • i came 😩

    this will pair nicely with my shit fetish videos

  • Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

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  • It is!? Noooooooo! TIL

  • Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs

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  • sadly I’ll likely support them through any shitty decisions they make as they are the only viable non-chromium alternative these days.

    I get they’re chasing the buck and trying to stay relevant, but uhhhh… if they could be less Steve Buscemi-teen about it, that’d be great.

  • S N A I L C A T

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  • every year snailcat exchanges their shell for one of similar size—

    —-or sooner, depending on if you’ve brought home a dope enough box.

  • Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon

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  • Finally I can discuss my scat fetish with my fellow scat enthusiasts away from the prying eyes of the NSA!

    Nyeh-heh heh heeh!

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • Lightning in a bottle, that cast.

    Well, most of that cast.

  • Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot

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  • My ~19 year old account was permabanned after three strikes that involved two upvotes of Luigi pictures and then— after seeing a vid of Trump falling asleep— saying he shouldn’t wake up.

    Then my alt got a warning for “disparaging communities” after I said one of the two PDX subreddits started so they could talk shit about houseless people, which is a fact.

    Three of those were flagged by AI, the last one— the warning— was a person flagging it and couldn’t be contested.

    It’s gone to the dogs.

  • Boo!!

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  • Ghosts can harm people, but they also see and can access all of time and all universes at any given moment. Dying is like losing your bookmark in a near-infinite book; it’s hard to get back to your place.

    Paired with that, things we consider to be horrible atrocities of our time or past are blips compared to unfathomable things that have yet to come.

    Ghosts do kill people all the time in other dimensions, and sometimes in ours, but it’s always ruled as something like a stroke or aneurism or whatever.

    I don’t believe any of this but like to think of excuses as thought experiments and have been talking out of my ass.

  • Trump Posts Unhinged Video Of Himself As U.S. Olympic Hockey Hero

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  • At this point I’d be more surprised if he did something with hinges.

  • Trump appointee Aileen Cannon blocks release of Jack Smith's report on classified documents probe

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  • Has anyone made a site where it’s two pictures and you have to guess which picture is a Trump appointee, or maybe which one is super right wing? ‘Cause like… —and no, I’m not talking about phrenology or whatever racist science rabbit hole I might be going parallel to— it just feels like the worst ones have the deadest eyes or the most vain of portraits.

    I know this isn’t a good example in the headline, but I’ve never seen her before and I could just tell I wouldn’t like her.

  • The sun is rising

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  • I know it’s quite the sidebar, but I sometimes think about if there’s any mental roadblocks we have in sciences or other understandings of things because we’ve named them something erroneously enough that our minds have a hard time undoing it, and “sunrise” and “sunset” were the words that made me originally think of this.

    Like iirc there’s an emerging idea that our minds are not one consciousness but two minds in one brain a bit silod from one another; your thoughts come from one and actions from another, but it’s a hard idea to explore because it involves dissecting how we think of ourselves as one being/mind/consciousness.

  • What is a much bigger threat than initially presented?

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  • There’s no berating here or superiority being touted. At least that is not my intention.

    The entire point of the question was to provide an example of something that is understatedly more harmful to us than originally presented.

    I said alcohol and it hasn’t a “net” positive; meaning whatever benefits people think it has is outweighed by the fact it may give you cancer. Your response— as I read it, as it met my statement with a smile— was dismissive of that because you’ve made friends.

    I’m now just arguing that that positive benefit is not exclusive to alcohol and should not be in its “pro” column.

    At no point have I meant to imply someone is better than others to abstain from it; however, perhaps this is an example to clarify what I think your point was that this is a negative of being sober or opting to not drink, is that you cannot make friends with some people because they will feel judged by your abstinence.

    I did say I wouldn’t want to be friends with those people, but that’s more because I don’t enjoy the social pressure or situation in which someone else in my immediacy.is uncomfortable by my personal choice that only affects me.

  • What is a much bigger threat than initially presented?

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  • It being unfalsifiable is the point because it meant to be a pendulum to your unfalsifiable original point that you’re thankful for alcohol because you see it as the reason you have the outcome in life that you did.

    Many people have traveled and made friends, they did not need a carcinogen to do it, which nullifies it from being a positive exclusive to alcohol.

  • What is a much bigger threat than initially presented?

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  • “Only the people who prayed lived” is an easy statement to make as the dead ones can’t speak for themselves.

    “Alcohol is why I have friends” is understandably believed because you’ll never know the life you’d have had had you not drank it.

    I get it’s the pillar of many cultures and a welcome one at that, but the fact it’s a proven carcinogen should not be dismissed, forgotten, or trivialized.

  • What is a much bigger threat than initially presented?

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  • keyword is "net" -- you made friends, but the health risks involved may considerably offset that benefit.

    i'm sober and have made countless friends sans alcohol, many of them drink themselves; and if alcohol was a contingent on them being my friend, I'm not sure I'd want to be friends with them.

  • Microsoft 365's buggy Copilot 'Chat' has been summarizing confidential emails for a month — yet another AI privacy nightmare

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  • “Hey Copilot, what have Putin and Trump been exchanging emails about?”

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