It’s the result of weird ethical standards, which make the side effects justifiable for women since women experience all sorts of effects from periods that can in some cases get better with hormonal birth control. The fact that someone (many people I’m sure) might choose to deal with these side effects in exchange for their partner not having to, or just for additional safety, doesn’t factor in there.

I honestly think it’s rooted in the same beliefs that also make it hard to get any permanent body alterations done if not deemed “medically necessary”. Things like a vasectomy or HRT, both of which reportedly have tons of hoops to jump through to get them.

A lack of trust in people to be able to decide what to do with their own bodies.

It is more appropriate for llms, but not for diffusion models (imagegen). Those are more throw shit at a wall and refine it a thousand times (whereas llms just grab shit that looks similar to what they want). It’s why generated images usually look normal at a glance and fall apart the moment you pay attention to details, because the AI judges the whole image to be close enough to training images that match the prompt instead of having any intent behind individual parts.

Ime with ublock it’s not nearly as easy to manage allowing only specific scripts to run on each website to make it work but with less garbage added on compared to noscript

In what fantasy world do we stop using it large scale for any reason other than supply dries up? Freight ships run on oil, planes run on oil, both do not have economically viable alternatives yet. Cars run on oil and it will take more than 2-3 decades until 95%+ of global cars are EVs. Plastic currently uses around 10% of global oil supply, so even if everything else drops to 0 we still need a lot.

Thanks, I’ll have to check that out

Bowling stemmed from a gambling ban. It’s gambling if you play a game where you wager money, it doesn’t have to be purely or at all luck based (and technically chess has a luck element since white has an advantage).

Though there’s a good chance this is just a pretext to stop people engaging in things that might make them too good at thinking for themselves.

Sometimes I get clickbaited into watching one because yt doesn’t let me hide them forever (is there an extension for that maybe? Surely it’s doable with css or something), and they’ve been alright. Though the ones I clicked on have only been from one creator and I don’t mind fast talking (not sped up) and those didn’t have the fast cuts.

I also really don’t get the appeal of the format. I’ve been sent shorts from other creators and it just feels worse than the same thing as a proper video. It doesn’t overload me because it’s essentially how my brain operates anyway, but that’s also why I want things that make me take a break from constantly thinking in overdrive by simply being slow.

A few years back a known guy from a game I play said something similar on twitter. Though he said it was specifically because he has had only bad experiences with transfolk so as a result he’s now literally scared of them/instantly gets a bad feeling interacting with a transperson.

Sooo many people cancelled him for it but I never saw the issue, you don’t control your fears and if anything it’s just confusing that we use the suffix -phobia for bigotry but in some cases it’s a literal phobia. If you interact only a few times with members of a small group and it’s always negative you’re almost guaranteed to end up with that reaction, and no one but the person themself can know how bad the fear is.

I mainly struggle with the executive dysfunction part. I found that preparing anything at all helps, even just opening the document I need to write on another screen will mean that whenever my attention next detaches from whatever else I’m doing, I will automatically latch onto what I’m supposed to do as the next thing.

This is the only way I managed to make progress on my bachelor’s thesis.

I’ve come to realize that this is all stock markets. They are vibes-based, in their entirety. Often the vibes coincide with economic reality, sometimes you have a powerful person bullshitting enough people to make the value go up (or down) which at a certain point leads to even those that weren’t fooled to join in because the price change is real.

Da gehts ja auch um Geld, und nicht sowas unwichtiges wie Menschenleben.

/s wenn das da noch nötig ist.

This is obviously straight up stealing but it’s not like many artists haven’t been caught tracing. Saying that imagegen AI in general just copies existing artwork like this is just misinfo.

Reality is bad enough, we don’t need to make things up (even if I don’t think it’s intentional here). Gobbling up artwork without the artists permission to then make money off it is more than enough.

Yeah, what people forget is that even average americans (and central/northern europeans and some other plaves) are quite wealthy from a global perspective. Many people on lemmy, self included, are in that global 10%.

And many of those emissions aren’t something you can just avoid either, they often come as a result of being a user of local infrastructure etc.

It still hurts russia. Azerbaijan (or any other country proxying russian gas) will take a cut, and russia will almost certainly end up with less money for their gas than before. Strategically it’s still not a terrible move. Long term we just need to phase out gas entirely, but that necessarily takes time.

Should’ve started a decade or two earlier, but you can’t change the past.

I have never seen “Darth” or anything similar used to mean dark in german. If that’s a thing it’s something both old and obcure.

The economy of US propaganda where the US is so strong and either loved or feared and such an important market that everyone from all other countries will bow to them and ignore making a profit to appease the mighty Murica, because they are simply the greatest in the world.

Not to be confused with reality, where most of the world hates the US.

I didn’t actually know this (all my math knowledge comes from what my cs degree forced me to ingest) but google says yes (since natural numbers, being a countably infinite set, are apparently an example of the smallest possible cardinality of infinite sets, so any infinite subset of natural numbers is always the same cardinality.)

The answets to this stackexchange question go into detail but that’s beyond what I understand without a lot of effort tbh.

Funnily enough that’s an example of two infinities that mathematically have the same cardinality (which is very often conflated with size since for general mathematical purposes that’s what it is) since you can map a bijection (i.e. every number in the first set has one and only one mapping in the second and vice versa) between the two (and it’s as simple as f(n)=2n).

And intuitively that makes about as much (or rather, little) sense as the infinite hotel.

An example of infinities with different cardinalities would be rational numbers vs natural numbers.

(Not the original guy that replied to you) I do agree about the blandness of many logos (god I hate flat design) and think the logo on the left is very bland, but the one on the right just does not work in many contexts. There’s a middle ground where it works just fine, but with as much detail as in the AI gen logo it will look awful at small sizes. One is usable as a general purpose logo, the other isn’t.

Fully guilty of not even knowing there is one. I kinda just poked around installing DEs until I found one I liked.

It’s definitely the windows background for me though, gnome is just entirely different. Not saying it’s bad, but the people we’re trying to convince to switch usually have just as much of a windows (or sometimes mac) background, and often less willingness to learn.