lyth

joined 11 months ago
[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We can have this talk if you ever pass Kolanaki's comment total

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 47 points 6 months ago

Besides the immediate threat of mass rioting and an armed resistance no matter who you're flogging, public torture as entertainment is a very, very bad precedent to set, and only serves to build up a culture of antipathy. Imagine how the wider justice system would change once that's normalized.

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Congratulations, you've invented the Martingale betting system and are well on your way to becoming an adept probability theorist

The short answer is that casinos account for this by changing the profit returns and the odds of making a profit at all so that catastrophic losses are much more likely

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

pros: exceedingly small chance that the one decision-maker and everyone who succeeds them are correct about everything all the time and we reach utopia

cons: likely genocide

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In case you didn't know, you can turn off promotional emails in Settings -> Dashboard -> Email Subscriptions or by adding a mail filter to push them all into an advertisement folder, and the other ads can be mitigated by hitting "don't show this offer again" on each one

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

Nitpick: the proper term is "virtual desktop" or "workspace", as "desktop environment" is already a common term for the software composing the entire user interface.

I enjoy using this feature on any operating system since it lets me quickly scan through and declutter open windows, and place categories of windows in their own workspaces. I might have only productivity windows on one, and leisure and socials on another. It's especially effective if you learn the keyboard shortcuts for navigating inside and between workspaces. All this improves my productivity and keeps distractions away.

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Every time I sneeze I redirect all the air into a cough. If I actually need my sinuses cleared (e.g., at the end of a cold germ) I just blow my nose. Am I in the minority?

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The Mandela Effect does not exist in the manner you're describing, and by priming your audience to expect a specific false memory you're tainting the data from any responses you get.

People wouldn't have the Berenstain/Bernstein thing mixed up in their heads so much if the conversation about it was always phrased as "Who are the authors of that old children's picture book series with the bears?" instead of adding doubt with "Do you remember the authors as Berenstain or Bernstein?"

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Try hanging out in philosophy-focused spaces, some of them are pretty close to the "civil discussions on hard topics with moderation good enough to toss out manipulators and build everyone else up" sweet spot I'm always searching for

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
  • any organization found to be using human meat in their product would be massively and permanently screwed, except maybe north korea
  • human meat is a bad choice economically because farm animals have centuries of selective breeding behind them to make them ideal for consumption (pretty horrible but that's how it's worked out) and humans put all kinds of toxic stuff in their bodies which makes eating any human a gamble
  • I don't eat veal so my risk of eating a person by accident is further diminished Edit:
  • Eating people also leaves a paper trail, you would need to source bodies from prisons or mortuaries, and that couldn't be kept secret for long. This kind of logistical mess and legal risk makes it even less likely for even the worst corporations to pursue
[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

two year retrospective: my pinephone still doesn't work lmao

[–] lyth@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

How basic are we talking? You can already tear out the desktop environment if that's important to you

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