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fruitycoder, in If You Had to Worship or be the Champion of an Ancient Greek God/Goddess Which One Would You Pick?

Prometheus for sure. The Titian that humble his kind, the Titan that modeled man from clay, that stole fire from the Olympians when he saw man had no other gifts, that freed hope from Pandora’s box.

Athenas and Hephaestus’s gifts are invaluable gods of wisdom, craftsmen, and artificial beings, but without fire from the defiant Titan we had nothing to really build our cities from.

tal, (edited )
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Also, Prometheus paid a horrific price for helping humanity. Generally-speaking, the Greek pantheon is fairly self-interested, and not terribly interested in helping humanity in general.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus

In Greek mythology, Prometheus (/prəˈmiːθiəs/; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning “forethought”)[1] is sometimes referred to as the God of Fire.[2] Prometheus is best known for defying the Olympian gods by stealing fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge, and more generally, civilization.

In some versions of the myth, he is also credited with the creation of humanity from clay.[3] Prometheus is known for his intelligence and for being a champion of mankind,[4] and is also generally seen as the author of the human arts and sciences.[5] He is sometimes presented as the father of Deucalion, the hero of the flood story.[6][7][8]

The punishment of Prometheus for stealing fire from Olympus and giving it to humans is a subject of both ancient and modern culture. Zeus, king of the Olympian gods, condemned Prometheus to eternal torment for his transgression. Prometheus was bound to a rock, and an eagle—the emblem of Zeus—was sent to eat his liver (in ancient Greece, the liver was thought to be the seat of human emotions). His liver would then grow back overnight, only to be eaten again the next day in an ongoing cycle.

I don’t think that any other character in the pantheon could realistically be called as sympathetic. I’m not sure that any other divide Greek figure deserves humanity’s gratitude.

ryry1985, in Is there an artist whose work you love but was a shitty person?

Bill Cosby

ivanafterall,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

I'm currently watching We Need to Talk About Cosby. It's extremely well-done, but predictably brutal.

birthday_attack, in Honestly - How much will you sacrifice for a better world?

It’s always crazy to come into threads like these and see people say “I would murder as many elites as possible” without batting an eye, and in the same comment say “I could never give up hamburgers.” It’s some kind of insane self-soothing to throw all of the responsibility for a global issue onto a few scapegoats. It also shows that people have no intention of doing fuck all about climate change beyond typing up snarky comments on the internet.

People can misquote all kinds of studies they half remember to pretend that they have no responsibility for making changes, but that doesn’t make it true. Just as one example, first world countries’ per-capita rate of meat consumption alone is enough to push the world over our 1.5C warming target. But because it’s an inconvenience to make any changes to my life, I’m going to pretend I would personally kill scores of people rather than make a new recipe for dinner. We’re fucked

rekabis, (edited )

The CO2 impact of one member of the Parasite Class is usually in excess of 100,000 working-class people, and if a personal jets and yachts are involved, can exceed the impact of 1,000,000 working-class people.

So yes, violently denuding the Parasite Class (which can also be done via effective taxation; just saying) is an effective way to combat climate change, provided the outcome doesn’t involve the working class adopting more excessive lifestyles due to more a equitable distribution of wealth.

Garbanzo,

first world countries’ per-capita rate of meat consumption alone is enough to push the world over our 1.5C warming target

Gee, I wonder who lives there

KpntAutismus,

i love corn(?)-based meat patties, but i haven’t really seen any meat replacements like the impossible burger anywhere for sale where i live. people just don’t want to never taste meat again, a replacement would work fine. probably.

Riccosuave, (edited ) in Does "Rock music is evil / of the devil" have racist roots?
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The core of Abrahamic religion is based around an in-group / out-group ideology. When you dove-tail off that premise it is clear that Abrahamic religion uses labelism such as “evil” or “from the devil” in order to obfuscate their suppression and opression of the out-group.

Fake4000, in Is it just my circle, or has it been a challenge getting into the Christmas/holiday spirit the last couple of years?

I’m guessing it has become more of a financial burden to be honest.

Choosing the right gifts, decorations, food. Etc.

yuki2501, (edited ) in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
@yuki2501@lemmy.world avatar

Here’s some of my own, in no particular order:

Gotham Chess - also known for his catchphrase: “Sacrifices… THE ROOK!!!”. Yeah, that guy.

Kyle Hill is a science communicator and makes awesome educational content; he also debunks conspiracy theories.

Jeff Geerling is a RasPi aficionado who’s made tons of projects.

Louis Rossmann specializes in consumer tech (mostly computers); he’s a great critic of corporations and DRM.

Jenna Moreci is a published fantasy writer and has great videos on what to do and not to do when writing fiction.

One Topic at a Time - shares LGBTQ memes found on reddit. His voice may sound annoying. (What can I say? It’s an acquired taste)

Bits inside by René Rebe specializes in Linux and Open Source stuff.

Noralities is a girl who makes video essays about anime, and they’re not trivial opinions They involve writing, stereotypes, romance, society, and stuff. She’s done her homework.

EDIT: Added details.

theherk,

Love Geerling and Rossmann, but I simply don’t understand the appeal of Levy; he is so over the top. Not that I would downvote this though, he is just not my style, and there are many good chess channels since the boom. Chessbrah, Anna Cramping, Hikaru, Banzea, and Hanging Pawns all come to mind.

Anna’s content, especially with parents GM Cramling and GM Bellón López is so fun and wholesome.

🐮

yuki2501,
@yuki2501@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a matter of taste. I like his humor, but I do understand he’s not for everybody. Yeah, Anna Cramling is one of my favs, too.

v4ld1z,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

I second Second Wind. The quality they’ve been putting out so far is surreal

NikkiDimes,

To boil down Kyle Hill as simply debunking conspiracy theories is so sad… He’s a science communicator and makes awesome educational content. Occasionally, he debunks a conspiracy or two.

TicklePickle,

His video about the SL-1 meltdown was the first I saw of him. Incredible video and definitely not worthy of being called just a conspiracy debunker.

Excrubulent,
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Funnily enough I just got done with his video about the “nukes aren’t real” conspiracy theory. Of course that’s just one in his long Half Life Histories series which is mainly about the science and not conspiracies at all.

yuki2501,
@yuki2501@lemmy.world avatar

Fixed, thanks for the heads up.

NikkiDimes,

Thanks!

Highly recommend anyone interested in approachable nuclear science adjacent entertainment or science entertainment in general to check him out.

Raiderkev,

Lol, I used to hang out with Jenna way back in HS. I knew she was writing books, didn’t know she had a YouTube channel and/or was successful at it. That’s cool to hear.

UntouchedWagons, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
@UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca avatar
  • Cathode Ray Dude - goes over tech from the 80’s, 90’s and early 00’s
  • CloudCuckooCountry - Infrequent book reviewer
  • Distant Signal - Like trains? You’ll like Danny Harmon
  • Great Art Explained - Does exactly what it says on the tin
  • Jacob Geller - I’m not sure how to describe him to be honest
  • Jay Foreman - MAP MEN MAP MEN MAP MAP MAP MEN MEN MEN
  • Josh Strife Hayes - Reviews of terrible MMOs
  • Mr Samuel Streamer - High quality Rimworld videos (has also played Terraria, Stardew Valley, Fallout NV and other games), has a bit of a motor mouth however
  • PatricianTV - Extremely long video game reviews; his Skyrim review is 20 hours spread across two videos
  • Technology Connections - Through the power of buying two of them!
  • The Unlucky Tug - Mainly talks about Thomas the Tank Engine
Damaskox, (edited ) in Is it just my circle, or has it been a challenge getting into the Christmas/holiday spirit the last couple of years?
@Damaskox@kbin.social avatar

Could it be an age thing?

I'm 32.
I've had issues with it past maybe 3-6 years.

  • Listen at a Christmas radio
  • Watch a Christmas movie/animations/cartoons
  • Read Christmas books/comics
  • Write your own Christmas stories
  • Talk about Christmas
  • Do your favorite Christmas'y thing
  • Create a new Christmas'y habit
  • Make a Christmas music playlist
  • Create a Chistmas get-together
  • Sing Christmas carols (alone or with someone(karaoke))
  • Craft something Christmas'y

Listening at music, watching a movie and the radio has helped me reach some level of Christmas!

vox, in Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?
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two minute papers

victorz,

I’m gonna just jump into the deep end and blurt out that I can’t freaking stand the cadence of his voice. It’s so choppy. And the inflections are just so off. I know he’s not a native speaker and all that but… God. It’s almost unbearable to me. I can’t compensate for it.

Daxtron2,

How so?

Fisk400,

I stopped watching because it turned into the AI channel and doesn’t actually talk about papers.

Daxtron2,

I mean Dr. KZF is a PhD in computer graphics and machine learning, his channel has always been on those two subjects. There’s just been a lot more papers about AI the past year, he still does graphics stuff.

Fisk400,

And is was interesting when he went trough a paper on light calculations when rendering object and new physics calculation on fluids. The bulk of his content now seems to be “LOOK AT THIS STABLE DIFFUSION!” With “CHATGPT! Look at the AI do stuff!”

Daxtron2,

I mean it’s objectively the direction that computer graphics is going, we’re seeing more and more ML based rendering papers. It’s a rapidly evolving field so I wouldn’t expect it to have less papers in the future.

jol, (edited )

I never thought of that but yeah. I started watching shortly before ChatGPT exploded. The videos are really uninteresting after a while. It’s basically all just reaction videos but worse.

PP_BOY_, in What are some happy endings that really wasn't all that happy?
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

I got a bittersweet happy ending last weekend at 좋은 시간 Massage Parlor. It was fun in the moment, but when I was paying a Polaroid of my wife and kid that I keep in my wallet fell out.

pastermil,

You’re supposed to destroy the polaroid.

unreachable,
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fosforus, (edited ) in Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?

Philosophy Tube. After she transitioned, she’s pretty much talked about nothing except trans issues and went more blatantly to the left.

starman2112,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

After she transitioned, she started talking about being trans? The nerve

fosforus, (edited )

She can do that, it is 100% her right, and I can understand a celebratory phase. But to me, personally, that quickly becomes uninteresting.

It’s all fine. I can do something else and I’m sure she’ll survive without my ad-blocked views.

Coolishguy,

She was always far left, and that fact underpinned pretty much every older video. She has always talked about social and economic issues, and done a damn good job of it.

banneryear1868,

As a socialist she isn’t really that leftist, left side of the neoliberal consensus for sure.

fosforus,

I thought there was definite leftness there, I feel like it was perhaps more moderate, balanced, and based on facts. But perhaps I just grew up.

CancerMancer,

But perhaps I just grew up.

Interesting take. I grew up and swung hard left. I’m a union executive and an advocate for voting reform and a universal basic income. My conservative father and I have the odd clash but surprisingly he’s pretty receptive to all this, and I’ve found many conservative folk are when you don’t treat them like they’re stupid.

fosforus, (edited )

Well, people don’t of course all grow to the same direction.

I think we old people (in 40+s) generally appreciate when young people passionately achieve something, even if it doesn’t exactly align with our own values.

banneryear1868, (edited )

I don’t think she knows the subject matter enough a lot of the time and is part of this weird commodification of philosophy happening. The political angle never bothered me.

GrayBackgroundMusic,

I’ve no problem with the trans and lefty commentary, I find that stuff fascinating…

Who is miss is Oliver. Abigail is nice, but I identified with Oliver in a lot of ways. I can’t identify with Abigail. I wish they could have cloned/split into 2 people.

banneryear1868,

Check out the Carefree Wandering vids that use Abigail, coincidentally right before and after her transition, as an example of how philosophy is commodified by influencers, and some of the interesting things around identity and how it impacts the content etc.

GrayBackgroundMusic,
banneryear1868,

That’s the one!

fosforus, (edited )

Who is miss is Oliver. Abigail is nice, but I identified with Oliver in a lot of ways.

Yeah, I suppose this happened to me as well. She’s a good actor.

TonyHawksPoTater, in Why aren't modern 3D platformers as good as the PS2 era of 3D platformers?
@TonyHawksPoTater@kbin.social avatar

You've answered your own question. You like 3rd-person shooter platformers, a genre which isn't as prevalent as it was in the 6th generation of consoles. Not as many games are coming out that fit your tastes. You're also nostalgic, which is perfectly fine, but you have to take off the goggles sometimes. I like Mario Sunshine better than a lot of modern 3D platformers, because I've been playing it for years and it was a big part of my childhood. But just because I love revisiting that game more than playing a new game sometimes, that doesn't mean modern games aren't reiterating and improving upon the things that made it great. A Hat in Time, Psychonauts 2, The Cosmic Shake, Spark the Electric Jester, Orbo's Odyssey, SEUM, Frogun, New Super Lucky's Tale, Supraland, Crash 4. So many great 3D platformers in recent years, with a ton of improvements to quality of life and control compared to where we were back in the day, as well as many new concepts.

Also, claiming that PS2 platformers as a whole look better than modern platformers as a whole is ridiculous, and you're also giving no examples of either case.

Spaghetti_Hitchens, (edited ) in What system or method do you use for your monthly budget or personal finance?

I have my wife handle the budget and finances. She is very responsible. I am not.

The system works very well.

BassTurd,

Marrying an accountant was the best financial move I’ve ever made.

RBWells, in What is your unpopular flim opinion

I hate Life of Pi. The book. My kid had to read it for school and warned me not to, I thought, well I read fast, no big deal if it’s not great.

I want that two hours of my life back and can’t watch the movie because I hated the book so much. So much.

TheSanSabaSongbird,

Agreed. Very overrated. I was dissapoint.

jameskirk,
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You read a book in two hours?

RBWells,

That one, yes. Not all books, no.

ultra, (edited )

Why?

RBWells,

The whole part when he’s on the boat with the tiger. Awful. The end. Awful. Please don’t make me remember it, I tried to forget.

EuroNutellaMan,
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

I agree and I can tell you that the movie was boring af and I felt like I learned nothing valuable

carnimoss, in What is your unpopular flim opinion

Meet the Robinsons is one of Disney’s best 3D movies and aged like wine

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