Robust Mirror

You can definitely lick your elbow, it just depends how attached to your arm you are…

Honestly I hope it’s not. Like I said in another reply, I’ve generally had negative reactions to it when I’ve mentioned it online before that lead me to question it.

No no, they aren’t silent. They’re cheering.

No idea but it sure isn’t talked about, and any time I’ve mentioned it online people act like it’s weird and get grossed out. Just look at the only other reply I got so far.

Drank breast milk straight from the source as an adult. I highly recommend it if you get the opportunity though.

Wrong. The act of living in the USA at all is agreeing to recognise their laws and processes and outcomes of elections. You sound like one of those sovereign citizens that think they can get out of arrest/court/prison by “not consenting” to it.

I don’t think Lemmy was really big enough to have THAT many bots. And at least of the ones I saw, if they were bots they’re doing an incredibly good job of making them blend, since many had a history of generally normal commenting before that time, and have continued posting normally since.

I really like this example too:

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” -Seneca

When we complain about not having enough time, we think of ourselves as being passively allocated an insufficient resource. But maybe the problem isn’t that life is too short, but that we waste much of the time we’re given.

I think this is relevant in these modern times more than ever. How much of our time goes to mindless scrolling, worrying about things beyond our control, or pursuing goals that don’t truly align with our values? We should be thinking about the difference between being busy and spending time meaningfully.

And that’s not to say all time spent should be something “productive”. Leisure time can be meaningful. But I think it’s worth even thinking about that. Are you truly happy with how you choose to spend your leisure time when you watch 100 short videos you probably won’t even remember? Or when you sit there getting angry or depressed about article after article after article? I think it’s worth thinking about.

So they were allowed to surveil you for any other reason, even if you were trans or gay? Because in that case this changes nothing.

Sure, but it won’t sustain itself at any mass. A black hole with a mass of 500,000kg lasts about 10 seconds and is harmless. If you managed to compress 300,000,000kg into a black hole you’d have it last about 100 years and it would still be too small to do any damage to the earth during that time.

You’re correct there’s enough mass in the solar system to create a self sustaining black hole though. Anything around the mass of the moon or larger we should worry. A black hole the mass of the earth would definitely be self sustaining, and about a centimetre across.

I find it hard to believe any given post would have enough information to link it back to a specific person when viewed in isolation. Even “I’m Mary and going to visit my friend Sarah in New York City.” isn’t going to tell you who that belongs to if the profile and history itself is gone. It would have to be ridiculously detailed and all contained within a single post to actually reliably point to a specific person.

Containing personal information in general and even having an AI spit it out (which good luck, that’s not really how LLM work unless there’s something SUPER niche that essentially only you have spoken about) isn’t enough to say it isn’t anonymized. You also have to show it could specifically be linked to you by other people, in other words, that it can be de-anonymized.

GDPR permits anonymizing data instead of deleting it, provided anonymization is irreversible. They’re keeping it one way or another. They don’t need to know who the data belongs to to feed it to an AI.

I think there really needs to be a “long term” of some kind. I definitely have files and templates I only use once a year.

If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be sold, moron.

I think more people should be concerned about their privacy, but I don’t really agree with this premise. It’s kind of like if there were diamonds in some peoples trash, so a company collected everyone’s trash so sift through it and take the diamonds to sell. The fact that some people’s trash is valuable enough for them to do this, doesn’t mean mine is.

That’s how these work, they hoover up everything and sell it in bulk. It doesn’t mean any given users data is valuable. And that’s why so many don’t care.

As far as scam calls go, I have a number I have never given to anyone outside immediate family, who I know haven’t shared it, and still received scam calls. They just call every number, even if you don’t answer. Pretty sure if it rings at all they flag it as potentially active. Sure spreading it around may increase the number, but there’s no true way to hide.

He was born in 89 which is very close to my age. Most people my age that are kind of techy but don’t do it as a job or main hobby probably tried Linux around 2010 or so, at which time it was rubbish for gaming, and wrote it off as impractical. It absolutely makes sense for someone that hasn’t tried it since then to say “now” when referring to its ability to play most games well, because it’s relative to when they last tried it.

The rooms are all full by definition. You’re literally telling him to walk until he dies. Just kick him out at that point, hell shooting him on the spot would be more merciful.

But the weird thing about infinite sets is they don’t process over time as we perceive it. Things happen all at once. There’s a classic situation where an infinite tub is filled with an infinite amount of numbered balls, and for every number that goes in, it’s square root is taken out. So when 1 goes in, 1 goes out, when 2 goes in nothing happens, same with 3, when 4 goes in, 2 gets taken out, when 9 goes in, 3 gets taken out.

How many balls are in it at the end?

Intuitively it seems there must be infinite balls, as balls are being taken out at a slower rate than they’re entering. But the actual answer is 0. Because the process happens all at once. So the question becomes, which balls get removed in this process? Well, the numbers that can be squared. Which is every number. If every number can be squared, every number gets removed. So if this infinite process were to play out, there would be no balls left in it.

But if we were to try to physically do this, it’s impossible for it to actually play out. Infinity isn’t a number at the end of a line, it’s the concept of an entire unbound set. That’s why things like the hotel are good to try to explain and visualise the concept, but break down if you try to imagine them as real world places that follow time and physics.

There are infinite types of infinity. Crazy right?

And those things mean they couldn’t have just had at least ONE of the 5 boy dogs as an additional girl? I don’t see what another show or the race of characters has to do with this.

https://youtu.be/F40F5qivFIw

I think this guy says it well.