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  1. Comment on What video games have had you taking real-life notes? in ~games

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    I wanted to get into Palia, but the performance on my PC was terrible and it's no shlub, have they improved it?

    I wanted to get into Palia, but the performance on my PC was terrible and it's no shlub, have they improved it?

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Why we’re turning psychiatric labels into identities in ~health.mental

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    The funny thing to me, someone with raging ADHD, is that when someone asks why I make it such a big part of who I am now, all I can think of is all the years of being told I was just lazy, I was...

    The funny thing to me, someone with raging ADHD, is that when someone asks why I make it such a big part of who I am now, all I can think of is all the years of being told I was just lazy, I was just unmotivated, I was just self centered, I just wasn't applying myself, I just didn't want it enough. All of that feels pretty label-y to me, at least it did when people were constantly trying to make that my identity. I was the lazy student who didn't work on their projects until the night before or study for a test until I was outside the classroom. It didn't matter that I had spent my evening on the bed trying, trying, tryyyying to understand my homework, until I finally accepted that I just didn't know and torturing myself by sitting there and blankly soaking in numbers that made no sense to me was pointless. It didn't matter that every geometry class I would walk in and think "This time, this time I'll sit here and I'll copy down every single word the teacher writes, I'll learn this." Then, 10min into class, when I don't understand a word he's saying and my hand is cramping, and I've already missed multiple things the teacher wrote, I give up. It doesn't matter that my brain, quite literally refused to remind me of test dates and I had no one to teach me any skills that a child with raging neurodivergence can utilizing, because I I was just a lazy kid, duh.

    The truth is that there have always been labels and just like I can't understand why someone would make dirt bikes the center of their personality, there's probably a pretty good reason to them and it doesn't matter if I understand. People are a little kinder to me now that people can label themselves with autism or ADHD, sometimes managers or co-workers understand your struggle better and partner with you to circumvent your weak spots, helping you thrive and contribute.

    So, I don't know, it seems fine to me. But I would agree that anyone who makes any one thing the end all be all of their personality is grating and people who use their diagnosis as a weapon are abusing the understanding the rest of us are trying to cultivate.

    16 votes

  3. Comment on Welcome to the millennial midlife crisis in ~life

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    I have recently been wondering something about this issue. When we compare the costs of living between now and another age, why don't we ever discuss the difference in total expenses and the...

    I have recently been wondering something about this issue. When we compare the costs of living between now and another age, why don't we ever discuss the difference in total expenses and the intentional design of products to fail? These two issues alone can account for thousands of extra dollars in your yearly cost of living. Cars are more expensive and made with more plastic parts, furniture is made cheaply, electronics are made cheaply and there is a legitimate necessity to own more of them than in previous generations. We have more costly electric bills, because we need to use more power for daily life, water is more expensive, houses are made shoddily and require more maintenance and repair, it feels like the list is long.

    Maybe some of you have answers for these things that I haven't been able to find, but when I discussed it with my mother (a boomer) and she felt it was true when contrasting the two eras.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on Real estate agents are fleeing the field in ~finance

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    While I'm sure there are complicated situations where a realtor has to do more work, do you think it's worth the thousands of dollars they make in commission? Is the issue so complex and require...

    While I'm sure there are complicated situations where a realtor has to do more work, do you think it's worth the thousands of dollars they make in commission? Is the issue so complex and require such expertise that they should get paid 3-14k for what amounts to no more than one part time or full time week's worth of effort?

    3 votes

  5. Comment on School choice programs have been wildly successful under Ron DeSantis. Now Florida public schools might close. in ~life

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    What's frustrating about this issue is that the average voter isn't engaged enough to understand what is happening here, they don't understand that it's the culmination of a long battle to...

    What's frustrating about this issue is that the average voter isn't engaged enough to understand what is happening here, they don't understand that it's the culmination of a long battle to intentionally de-legitimize public schools. They see reports about a issues that either, point a finger at under performing schools or highlight/twist curriculum content to fit a particular narrative that it is both pervasive and out of touch with parents who want to control their children's exposure to anything.

    Legitimately frustrated parents, who have a child who needs help in school, will pull their kids out to send them to a charter school that is well funded and can offer that help. They have every reason to be frustrated! But they don't realize their frustration isn't with a school that doesn't want to offer them help, it's with the politicians and special interest who have worked hard to defund public schools and pay public educators poorly.

    More frustratingly, this largely started after schools were integrated. This is just a campaign that white interests have lobbied for decades, in order to obtain the racist separation of classes they want. I see posts like this and read about SCOTUS protecting racist gerrymandering and eyeing Brown V Board and I'm legitimately scared. The average voter doesn't realize what's happening to their America, a country and ideal they would probably fight for passionately.

    Americans have the luxury of being largely isolated and that has fostered the idea that America is eternal or something, they don't look at a human history strewn with rising and falling empires and think "This could happen to America." I believe that, like Soviet Union citizens who believed their empire to be strong and viril, despite the rest of the world being able to see the signs of decay, Americans are largely unaware how far America has fallen and at some point it will just be too late to salvage what America used to be.

    31 votes

  6. Comment on US Supreme Court ruling greenlights nearly all racial gerrymandering in ~misc

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    I totally agree and have been struggling with the same issue. I just thought it was cool that they did it on the side and were simply passionate about the issue, at the time I was really thinking...

    I totally agree and have been struggling with the same issue. I just thought it was cool that they did it on the side and were simply passionate about the issue, at the time I was really thinking I might want to do something similar and it was cool to ask them a couple questions about their process and background.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech' in ~tech

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    From the article: I think anyone would be hard pressed to find a large retailer, maybe even many smaller retailers, that tell their employees to interface with potential shoplifters. Every company...

    From the article:

    The company declined to comment on Sara's case to the BBC, but did say its technology helped to prevent crime and protect frontline workers. Home Bargains, too, declined to comment.

    I think anyone would be hard pressed to find a large retailer, maybe even many smaller retailers, that tell their employees to interface with potential shoplifters. Every company I have ever worked for, or heard the policy of, tells employees that they are discouraged from stopping theft and some even go as far as to say they will fire employees that try to, since it exposes the company to lawsuits.

    In what world does this technology "Protect frontline workers," if the result is employees being told by their employers to confront presumed criminals? Why would this software even change how most companies view the risk involved in compelling employees to confront shoplifters? I presume that the issue at focus in this piece, itself, opens companies who misidentify shoplifters to lawsuits, let alone the complication of harm or threat that already exists.

    I guess this all presumes that the company is referring to this software and not some other AI that does something different and they're just speaking generically about their IP.

    27 votes

  8. Comment on US Supreme Court ruling greenlights nearly all racial gerrymandering in ~misc

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    rusticgorilla is very cool and very thorough, they are worth following. Keep_Track was a massively impressive project.

    rusticgorilla is very cool and very thorough, they are worth following. Keep_Track was a massively impressive project.

    13 votes

  9. Comment on Return to Senua: Hellblade's Melina Juergens on reprising a role she never thought she'd play in ~games

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    I had Senua: Hellblade on my wishlist for years, was gifted it recently. I don't know what I expected, but what I played through (about 40min of tutorials) was unbelievably disturbing and...

    I had Senua: Hellblade on my wishlist for years, was gifted it recently. I don't know what I expected, but what I played through (about 40min of tutorials) was unbelievably disturbing and beautifully executed. I was however deeply concerned for the friend who bought it for me, since they were interested in and bought it for the two of us after seeing it on our lists, they have schizophrenia.

    9 votes

  10. Comment on Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree | Story trailer in ~games

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    A tarnished need not understand in order to fell gods

    A tarnished need not understand in order to fell gods

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 Recall AI hardware requirements in ~tech

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    I think that's just because our data isn't safe when stored in one place, that's true for anything. If it's all stored in one place, the more you store the greater the value, the more eyes it...

    I think that's just because our data isn't safe when stored in one place, that's true for anything. If it's all stored in one place, the more you store the greater the value, the more eyes it attracts. With the face of war continuing to transition to cyber, collecting this type of data on users would attract the kind of attacks we've seen on User Data stores. It becomes a question of when, not if.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on France declares state of emergency in New Caledonia after deadly riots in ~news

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    I thought I read the whole article, but I didn't catch that last part. That's a pretty big deal if France is diluting their voting power after making that commitment.

    I thought I read the whole article, but I didn't catch that last part. That's a pretty big deal if France is diluting their voting power after making that commitment.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on France declares state of emergency in New Caledonia after deadly riots in ~news

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    This is pretty sad to hear. As an outside observer, a 10-year waiting period to vote seems very reasonable and I wonder what voting rights residents of that length had before the law. Maybe...

    This is pretty sad to hear. As an outside observer, a 10-year waiting period to vote seems very reasonable and I wonder what voting rights residents of that length had before the law. Maybe someone more familiar with the history and current situation can answer, is this some classic racism or something else? Why would the local population, who has cohabited with French for awhile, I assume, be so upset about something so reasonable?

    1 vote

  14. Comment on ChatGPT will show sources for their search now in ~tech

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    Wow, it's actively querying for searches now? That seems like a ton of traffic.

    Wow, it's actively querying for searches now? That seems like a ton of traffic.

    5 votes

  15. Comment on Meet Max, the cat receiving an (honorary) doctorate from Vermont State University this weekend in ~life.pets

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    If we can't all rally around giving a distinguished cat a doctorate then what has all of this even been for?

    If we can't all rally around giving a distinguished cat a doctorate then what has all of this even been for?

    15 votes

  16. Comment on ChatGPT will show sources for their search now in ~tech

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    I wonder how they taught the AI to catalogue it's sources, it was my understanding it was completely incapable of finding a reference due to the way it learned the data.

    I wonder how they taught the AI to catalogue it's sources, it was my understanding it was completely incapable of finding a reference due to the way it learned the data.

    15 votes

  17. Comment on Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches in ~food

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    I already know this judge has skin the tinge of milk. I have family that lives in Indiana and comes to visit me in a largely Hispanic population, they don't know anything about tacos.

    I already know this judge has skin the tinge of milk. I have family that lives in Indiana and comes to visit me in a largely Hispanic population, they don't know anything about tacos.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on ‘Furiosa’ fires up Cannes with six-minute standing ovation for Anya Taylor-Joy and teary Chris Hemsworth in ~movies

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    For me, the trailer didn't do it because it just looked like a ton of green screen and stage lighting. But I'll check it out, regardless, I love Mad Max.

    For me, the trailer didn't do it because it just looked like a ton of green screen and stage lighting. But I'll check it out, regardless, I love Mad Max.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on ‘Furiosa’ fires up Cannes with six-minute standing ovation for Anya Taylor-Joy and teary Chris Hemsworth in ~movies

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    I agree, there isn't much point in arguing over subjective tastes, but you did open up your subjective taste to critique and cloud_loud seems to be right, your reasons for thinking less of it seem...

    I agree, there isn't much point in arguing over subjective tastes, but you did open up your subjective taste to critique and cloud_loud seems to be right, your reasons for thinking less of it seem baseless. Other than there being no Max.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on What is a value or belief you have that is extremely outside the norm? in ~talk

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    I think I may have confused you based on what you chose to reply to, my reference to "Two people" wasn't an argument against multiple partners, just a slip of old brain. I don't think God cares...

    I think I may have confused you based on what you chose to reply to, my reference to "Two people" wasn't an argument against multiple partners, just a slip of old brain. I don't think God cares one bit about who gets married and how many people are in that relationship.

    4 votes