There is nothing they could possibly slap into a ‘smart ring’ that would make it worth wearing a battery around my finger.

Certainly doesn’t help that it’s ugly as hell.

Sure, but your idea here is fundamentally flawed. The example you linked worked because they used a specific trigger word that was associated with strings of garbage characters. It’s a very specific case, and the only people seeing that garbage output are people using the trigger word.

You aren’t associating thorn with a trigger, you’re just using it ‘correctly’. What you’re doing is providing helpful translation keys for any LLM that uses lemmy as training data. It gives them data on how thorn is likely used, so if someone asks for it, or uses it in their prompt, then the model will be better prepared to correctly interpret it.

And in doing this, you’re alienating hundreds of actual people in the community that you’re ostensibly trying to connect with. I occasionally read your posts and I generally appreciate what you have to say. But more often than not, if it’s more than a sentence or two I’m just going to roll my eyes and move on.

Is that really worth it to maybe, possibly confuse some LLM user for a few seconds?

This is what made you hate Reddit? Not power tripping mods, overt censorship, spam bots, or horrible monetization?

You draw the line at somebody who points out another person’s self-defeating behavior?

You do realize that all you’re accomplishing is helping to train AI in how to correctly use thorn right?

Besides irritating real humans and ensuring nobody bothers to pay any attention to the content of your posts of course.

Your comment would make more sense if we weren’t talking about industrial monoculture crop production. Honeybees are certainly important in a broad sense (though not to any ecosystems in the US, they are not a native species after all), but they are not involved in the production of these ingredients, and the original image is wildly misleading (though obviously made with good intentions).

I can only hope you open your mind at some point. Good luck dude.

Cute metaphor. It’s very fun to romanticize life in the wild. This is the attitude of a person frustrated with the trappings of society and longing for ‘freedom’. Your ideas of how important ‘freedom’ is to an animal are based on anthropomorphizing them, and quite ignorant of the suffering that is the daily fight for survival.

If you think a house pet would prefer that life, why don’t you spend a month in the woods and see what it’s like? After all, the dog you want to release into the wild comes from a family line that’s been part of human civilization for as long as civilization has existed.

Would you call anenomes a ‘guilded cage’ for a clownfish? Would you force them from the environment they’ve evolved to fit?

The human idea of ‘consent’ regarding animals is peak anthropomorphizing and painfully ignorant of how privileged we are. The only reason we can even consider ‘consent’ as a concept that matters at all is because we have societal structures to enforce order, to prevent simply fighting and killing each other for what we want. While ‘freedom’ is an important concept, social structure must limit it by necessity so that others can be safe.

We can’t ask the animals which they prefer, but with any real consideration it should be quite obvious that losing some freedoms in exchange for safety and comfort is an easy choice to make, after all, that’s the choice almost every human makes in that position. Calling it cruelty is nothing but ignorance.

Yeah, you think, and hopefully come to the obvious conclusion that life inside life for cats is a wonderful luxury compared to any kind of life in the wild.

Don’t get me wrong, I fucking hate cats. I never want one in my house, it’s not worth the stink and irritation. And there are plenty of bad choices for pets, and even more bad pet owners. But this whole ‘pets are slaves’ nonsense is peak ignorance.

Cats and dogs are not wild animals. They have no natural habitat outside of human cohabitation. They exist because they adapted to live with us. Would you prefer they simply be exterminated? That’s the only ecologically responsible option if pet ownership were to be outlawed.

One that has no natural predators and murders anything it can get its claws on. It may be more ‘ethical’ for the cat, but it’s incredibly harmful to native species.

A lot of that is just age too. From my experience, once you get past your mid 20s the constant hornyness dies down. I’m in my late 30s and I still love sex, but it’s not a need in any capacity.

I can understand the aversion, especially when it is so ever present in our society.

The thing is, why shouldn’t it be? Sex is completely normal, natural, and frankly incredibly important to us as a species. It’s only slightly less important than eating and breathing. Not necessarily on an individual level, but as a collective. Sex is the reason every single one of us exists today.

Unfortunately many religions like to use it for control, they connect it to shame, evil, weakness, corruption. They work very hard to make something that is inherently beautiful into something their followers fear and hide from, leading them to engage in deeper cultural taboos. After all, if watching porn is already a sin, and all sins are equal, then there’s no difference in looking at the Venus de Milo or watching graphic rape. This criminalization of normal sexuality is incredibly depressing to me.

Anyway, at this point I’m just rambling about my own issues. I do hope that you come to find peace with it, even if it never appeals to you personally.

I’d have to know what a ‘normal’ person is to recognize one, and it’s a concept that just fundamentally doesn’t make sense to me. What does a ‘normal’ fingerprint look like?

Really? I don’t think I ever have.

It’s not meat.

It’s cars and planes. We know this because we observed a drastic drop in air pollution in both 2008 (following the financial crash) and March 2020 that can be attributed to basically the entire planet no longer commuting and traveling.

It’s both, and a handful of other industries. The tiny blip of dropped emissions during covid did absolutely fucking nothing to help air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. It’s just feel-good bullshit the media spread around. Travel is a significant portion of ghg emissions, very comparable in impact to meat production.

Evolution does not ‘advance’, that’s a very commonly repeated fallacy. Organisms change and adapt to their environment, but what is ‘better’ or ‘worse’ is entirely dependent on that environment, which can easily change. Asperger’s is no more an ‘advancement’ than red hair or sickle-cell anemia.

I agree that classing all forms of Autism as a disability or negative trait is absolutely foolish. But believing it to be superior is equally foolish. People are diverse, and some better adapted to this life, this society. You perhaps see Asperger’s as a better adaptation to how you perceive society ‘should be’, which is relatable to me.

Tomorrow I believe, they’re all being presented this week.

There is no way that story is true right? How would that be any way better than a normal wide glass with a low center of gravity? Those would be rolling back and forth all over a rocking boat.

Just like all the thousands of people eating tide pods? Or maybe it’s just rage bait…

Don’t give him credit for TFA. That film set the entire trilogy up for failure with its opening crawl. There was no future for the sequels as soon as he decided to make a shitty ANH remake.

It’s both, people don’t draw inspiration from just one thing. It’s also Hidden Fortress, but that doesn’t make the WW2 elements any less relevant. Star Wars is about the fight against fascism and imperialism in many forms.