Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)M

MoonMelon

@ MoonMelon @lemmy.ml

Posts
1
Comments
274
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Fall attire enjoyers unite

    Jump

  • President Maduro: The U.S. Evades Its Responsibility in the Fight Against Drugs

    Jump

  • Given the opacity, unaccountability and character of ICE it's almost certain that ICE agents are taking bribes, running drugs and guns, doing shakedowns, pimping, and engaging in all kinds of organized crime shit. If you're a cartel, who better to pay than the masked mercenary who's above the law and doesn't give a shit about anything but power and money? Easiest partnership ever. Hell, they're probably bribing from the top down and getting entire local chapters on the payroll.

  • What are your opinions on anti-natalism?

    Jump

  • I don't want to die, but if I could un-exist like Marty McFly disappearing from a photograph I would choose it in an instant. I have a pretty privileged life but, even for me, if I try to honestly inventory my experience there appears to be more suffering than pleasure. I don't think this is unfair or unnatural, I believe suffering is integral to being alive because it's how organisms respond and adapt to a world that is constantly trying to dis-organize them. Basically you can't have life without it, given the laws of physics.

    I don't think "humans are a virus" is correct because it's a pejorative and I don't think viruses or humans are inherently bad. If I was going to classify anything as bad it would be the capacity to suffer, which is so foundational it actually informs the concept of "bad" rather than they other way around. I think suffering also becomes more acute the more processing power you have. Unfortunately for Agent Smith, the "virus" is intelligence and the machines already caught it.

    I admit my ideas are probably half-baked on this because I just don't feel articulate or intelligent enough to describe it. All I have is my own experience. As far as I can see, it appears that more complex animals have a greater capacity for suffering than less complex ones. It seems that the mechanisms of suffering are "body stuff", mainly nerves, and more complex organisms simply have more of those in more robust configurations. This might just be cope, because the alternative is horrific. As a kid I looked through a microscope and saw an entire world of rotifers and paramecia ripping each other apart, struggling for energy, and realized that if all organisms can experience the same "level" of suffering than we are truly in Hell. It was literally inconceivable.

    I don't care for the "antinatalist" label. I admit that suffering is hard to quantify and may be totally subjective. This is why I don't mind what other people choose to believe. It's none of my business. Based on my subjective experience I will not be doing so. Sometimes people pry into why I don't have kids and I am forced to expose my beliefs. Suddenly, in their eyes, I become an evangelist. I'm not. They won't engage with the notion of 'the non-existent mind". They constantly argue from the position of a hypothetical mind that chooses stuff. Eventually they think I'm suicidal because in their mind dying and non-existence are the same. They also get angry and insulted even though I'm leaving more resources for their own children by not having my own which, by their logic, should be good. So I just don't bother. Do what you want. Maybe they are right.

  • Amerikkka land of the jailed (But China is defo AuThOrITarIAn!!)

    Jump

  • I think some of the Reddit refuges honestly think Reddit sucks because Spez Man Bad. There's no analysis of what creates Reddits and Spezes, and therefore they don't recognize who made this platform and why.

    I have to believe ultimately some of these people will come around, so that's good at least.

  • FFmpeg 8 can subtitle your videos on the fly with Whisper

    Jump

  • I really like this website for exploring all the options. Not sure how up to date it is with this latest ffmpeg.

    https://ffmpeg.lav.io/

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • I still think about the dude who repeatedly put massive amounts of paraquat on his balls, and died, instead of just getting some antibiotics.

  • Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store

    Jump

  • Aside from Signal messenger, I feel like I could go back to having a casio watch, some sort of GPS in my vehicle, and a dumb phone. My phone is ancient and hasn't gotten a security update in years, I was thinking of going Graphene next but maybe the solution is to just dump it and go full 1990s again.

  • Trump’s controversial homelessness solution? Blue states have done it for years.

    Jump

  • It's like the, "they don't want to go to shelters because they have to be sober" line from people who have never witnessed how fucked up shelters can be.

  • What questions do you have for folks older than you?

    Jump

  • In my experience people didn't trust each other more, but it did feel like you had more autonomy. Cell phones are what really changed everything, for better and worse. I think the dumb phone era was the best because you were no longer in a position to need to walk miles in the countryside due to a breakdown, but also they weren't ubiquitous enough that everyone demanded constant contact (old rules of phone etiquette were still in force). Also no algorithms. Brain rot was confined to TV, magazines, and radio.

  • Can we talk about Anathem?

    Jump

  • I think Stephenson is a genius but honestly I slog through large parts of his books. He always creates a dozen threads, over hundreds and hundreds of pages, and on the last three pages they tie together beautifully and you end the book with an ache in your heart because of how beautiful it was. Even when I know that's coming I sometimes can't make it. He's like the anti-Stephen King: the middle drags but the ending is wonderful.

    Anathem is the exception. I couldn't put it down. It's one of those books that infected the way I think and little things remind me of it all the time.

  • Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

    Jump

  • If jacking off constantly at age 14 doomed a person we would never have left the Miocene epoch.

  • Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

    Jump

  • It seems like a perpetual panic, sustained because it creates a lever of exploitation to control the gullible. Like you can read complaints about "oversexed youth" from time periods when pornography was totally banned and women were essentially chattel. And hey, Boomers didn't have internet porn and they are fucked.

  • No Ceasefire, No Concessions: Putin Emerges Stronger from Alaska

    Jump

  • It would peel off a few for about a year but then they'd be back. The core would just joke that the child was a democrat.

  • Python!

    Jump

  • Python is actually pretty baller with string operations too since so much of the C has been heavily optimized.

  • Tennessee executes inmate by lethal injection without deactivating his implanted defibrillator

    Jump

  • No part of executions in the USA make sense until you realize all the kayfabe about humane execution is to assuage the conscience of the executioners and has nothing to do with the condemned. If you actually start looking for cruel and unusual punishment in practice you see it literally everywhere, and if you point this out then all notions of prisoner dignity disappear in a flash and suddenly wanton suffering is "the point". That is actually the truth, but it can't be squared with the pomp and dignity our civilization loves to assign itself. Trying to square the state's highfalutin morality with the reality of the its actions just leads to contradictions because its simply not consistent or logical.

  • Magic Rocks

    Jump

  • Learning to ID plants is a curse too because you see so many invasive monocultures everywhere.

  • Child labour with 10 years of experience, 'AI-native' accepting 250k lines of Cursor code

    Jump

  • This is just some library too, not their main application. I know "lines of code" is bullshit but just for reference I looked it up and apparently curl is ~180k lines of code. I can't imagine how crufty this fucking code must be, assuming this is even real because it seems too ludicrous.

  • DIY rule

    Jump

  • If we want to truly honor the 18th century craftsmen we wouldn't use L brackets at all. Maybe some nice wedged through-tenons and dovetails and stuff. I guess it depends on the aesthetic. Like are we going for historic, or can we 3d-print the little decorative swirly bits?

  • Amazon requires gov-ID photo before refund.

    Jump

  • You paid for something and never got it. Initiate chargeback with your bank. Amazon may close your account for this, but fuck them.