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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Yeah, imagine that, being so rich that you can do dumb shit with your friends (who are all celebrities) and that dumb shit somehow prints even more money being fun.

Gee, I wonder if I could have fun doing that? Never having to worry about things like finances and doing every stupid thought that ever came to me without real consequence?

I mean, like, no shit they had fun.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 165 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

"Those young women were my property!" vibes.

He just keeps digging the hole deeper... for anyone with a brain.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Unpopular Opinion: Billy Madison was his first and last good comedy movie.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yarrrr mateys, private torrent trackers don't have an age-gate!

There's definitely a handful of private porn torrent trackers.

Then you don't have to hit an age gate anymore because it's safely stored on your own hard drives.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh good, so that means we can just replace the C-suite with LLMs then, right? Right?

An AI won't need a Golden Parachute when they inevitably fuck it all up.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Interesting talk but the number of times he completely dismisses the entire field of linguistics kind of makes me think he's being disingenuous about his familiarity with it.

For one, I think he is dismissing holotes, the concept of "wholeness." That when you cut something apart to it's individual parts, you lose something about the bigger picture. This deconstruction of language misses the larger picture of the human body as a whole, and how every part of us, from our assemblage of organs down to our DNA, impact how we interact with and understand the world. He may have a great definition of understanding but it still sounds (to me) like it's potentially missing aspects of human/animal biologically based understanding.

For example, I have cancer, and about six months before I was diagnosed, I had begun to get more chronically depressed than usual. I felt hopeless and I didn't know why. Surprisingly, that's actually a symptom of my cancer. What understanding did I have that changed how I felt inside and how I understood the things around me? Suddenly I felt different about words and ideas, but nothing had changed externally, something had change internally. The connections in my neural network had adjusted, the feelings and associations with words and ideas was different, but I hadn't done anything to make that adjustment. No learning or understanding had happened. I had a mutation in my DNA that made that adjustment for me.

Further, I think he's deeply misunderstanding (possibly intentionally?) what linguists like Chomsky are saying when they say humans are born with language. They mean that we are born with a genetic blueprint to understand language. Just like animals are born with a genetic blueprint to do things they were never trained to do. Many animals are born and almost immediately stand up to walk. This is the same principle. There are innate biologically ingrained understandings that help us along the path to understanding. It does not mean we are born understanding language as much as we are born with the building blocks of understanding the physical world in which we exist.

Anyway, interesting talk, but I immediately am skeptical of anyone who wholly dismisses an entire field of thought so casually.

For what it's worth, I didn't downvote you and I'm sorry people are doing so.

It's a bit of an overused concept now, yeah.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 105 points 1 week ago (10 children)

That's because they aren't "aware" of anything.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Courts worldwide gotta get their shit together and get faster this is a joke.

 

Vice President-elect JD Vance just provided the clearest explanation yet of the Trump administration‘s plans to pardon Jan. 6 rioters, telling “Fox News Sunday” that while there’s “a little bit of a gray area there,” those who committed violence during the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack “obviously” shouldn’t be pardoned. Those who protested “peacefully,” however, can expect to have their records wiped clean.

“I think it’s very simple,” the former Ohio senator said. “If you protested peacefully on Jan. 6 and you’ve had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”

Vance’s comments provide a stark contrast to what President-elect Donald Trump has been saying over the past few months, with the future POTUS providing little to no details about who would get the pardons he’s been promising except declaring that protesters who assaulted Capitol police officers “had no choice” that day.

 

Not here on Lemmy, but I've definitely seen some examples in the last few days that made me a little uncomfortable in other places online.

I can sympathize with the desire to dehumanize him because as an individual he's completely reprehensible, but I just worry that the ease at which the dehumanization is happening that it's allowing fucked up people to slip in anti-semitic messaging among it and that it's helping solidify fucked up right wing bullshit views which are already running rampant.

Sorry if this is the wrong community for this, don't hesitate to remove the post, mods.

 

At CES 2025, a company called Sybran Innovation showed off the Code27 Character Livehouse. It's an AI-powered digital purgatory that you can trap a small anime girl in, forever.

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Les Claypool - One Better (www.youtube.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/music@lemmy.world
 

I figured since the world is suddenly being filled with weak-ass "strongmen" who do nothing but get into dick measuring contests, it was time for a nice song about it! "I'm gonna get me one better! Just you wait and see!"


Remember ol' Khrushchev when he was ridin' high with that sputnik satellite

He told us Yankee boys, he's gonna fill the skies with them shiny new satellites

He said "Hey Mr. Eisenhower, watcha think of my sputnik satellite?"

Well, Ike reeled his head back

Looked him in the eye, "that's a mighty fine satellite"

But I'ma gonna get me one better (just you wait and see)

I'ma gonna get me one better (you can't get the best of me)

I'ma gonna get me one better (the baddest one around)

I'ma gunna get me one better ('cause' I got the biggest balls in town, mmhm!)

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Les Claypool - One Better (www.youtube.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/music@beehaw.org
 

I figured since the world is suddenly being filled with weak-ass "strongmen" who do nothing but get into dick measuring contests, it was time for a nice song about it! "I'm gonna get me one better! Just you wait and see!"


Remember ol' Khrushchev when he was ridin' high with that sputnik satellite

He told us Yankee boys, he's gonna fill the skies with them shiny new satellites

He said "Hey Mr. Eisenhower, watcha think of my sputnik satellite?"

Well, Ike reeled his head back

Looked him in the eye, "that's a mighty fine satellite"

But I'ma gonna get me one better (just you wait and see)

I'ma gonna get me one better (you can't get the best of me)

I'ma gonna get me one better (the baddest one around)

I'ma gunna get me one better ('cause' I got the biggest balls in town, mmhm!)

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/police-investigating-vehicle-explosion-trump-hotel-las-vegas/story?id=117252987

The sheriff said Tesla CEO Elon Musk helped the investigation by having the truck unlocked after it auto-locked in the blast and giving investigators video of the suspect at charging stations along its route from Colorado to Las Vegas.


What if this hadn't been purposeful but an accidental blast... and the doors auto-locked someone inside? Do you need Musk's personal cell number to be able to get out alive? What even is this?

Seriously, how are Tesla's not widely considered dangerous deathtraps at this point.

 
 

*slow clap

 

Possibly the most German music video ever.

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