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What are the best steps to reduce the wealth of billionaires?

There are a myriad of news articles here on Lemmy that display the abhorrent influence billionaires have on our society (especially the US, where I reside). I consistently read comments where the posters appear hopeless and despondent of the situation, while others jokingly refer to the guillotine....

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Step 1: Slay the dragon.

Step 2: Redistribute its mountain of gold back into the community.

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Dude, I’m a surgical tech - my job is to stand in an OR and be a surgeon’s bitch while we’re flaying some fucker open. …and I still spend what feels like 90% of my day on Outlook -_-

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They look like a tablespoon of strawberry jam.

Source: I’ve assisted in quite a few abortions.

…apologies if I just ruined strawberry jam for you.

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Some of them, yeah. A lot of them are just dumb as rocks, and have been duped into thinking that what they’re doing is moral.

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The official bird of the state of Texas.

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Hmmm, send it back to R&D. The expelled gasses going directly into the horn would only produce a single-toned “HONK”. Instead, those gasses could be used to inflate a cuff that’s wrapped around a more traditional style clown horn bulb, squeezing the bulb and producing that same noise; but as the cuff loses pressure and bulb reinflates, the air it draws back will produce second tone, providing the clown horn’s signature “HEE-HAW” that our prospective murder victims expect and deserve.

Does AI-generated art posted on lemmy bother you?

I find that i can spot AI Images fairly easily these days, especially the sort of fantastical tableaus that get posted to the various AI communities around lemmy. I’m tired of seeing them; it all looks the same to me. Was wondering if im being too sensitive, or if other people are similarly bored of the constant unimaginative...

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Reading through the comments, I think OP’s question is skipping the root of the controversy here, which is whether or not that content even is art.

As a child of the 90s, a good example that comes to mind would be something like the Windows Media Visualizer - colorful and fun to look at, but it’s just an algorithm interpreting a sound.

If I sneezed into a microphone, ran that recording through Windows Media Player, then posted a screenshot of the swirly colors here exclaiming “Hey Lemmy - Do you like this art I made?” …would that even be an honest question? It’d probably just get downvoted cuz folks would take one look at it and conclude “You didn’t make that, and it’s not art.”

If I posted that same picture but instead with the title “Lol I sneezed into Windows Media Player, and the visualizer went nuts!” I’d probably get a more positive response - it’d still be a shitpost, but readers wouldn’t feel like they’re being lied to.

So… is an algorithm even capable of producing art?

And if no, is it the end product we have an issue with, or just the perception of being misled? …cuz even if something isn’t “art” doesn’t mean it can’t have beauty or some other feature worthy of our attention. Another poster mentioned sunsets - those aren’t art, but we still admire the hell out of them.

My take on all of the above:

  • Don’t give a fuck if it’s technically art or not
  • If it’s presented in a dishonest way, I don’t like the post, and will downvote regardless of the content.
  • If the content looks cool, I can appreciate that in-and-of-itself; so, as long as the presentation isn’t misleading, I don’t mind it at all.
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R’amen.

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A lot, considering we politicized the fuck out of that virus, which lead to global pushback against mitigating its spread and ultimately resulting in avoidable infections, unnecessary suffering, and senseless deaths. You’re on the receiving end of that attack, so previous poster isn’t wrong to include your personal suffering into the broader generalization of the covid dumpster fire as a whole.

That said, his delivery was shit, and he was wrong about the “You don’t!” bit - you can absolutely retrain your senses. I’ve got nothing but heresay on the ‘how’ side of that though, so my advice would be to make an appointment with your doc and see if he or she can point you to an effective sensory therapy process.

And for real, good luck. I’ve gotten that shit twice now, and honestly losing taste was among my biggest fears. Food is one of the only things I can consistently look forward to on a daily basis… losing the ability to enjoy food would be depressing as fuck. Like literally, clinically depressing as fuck - food is a massive part of pretty much every culture, and our social events pretty much all revolve around food. Contrasted against the “it can kill you” side of covid, the taste and smell thing is kind of permanently out of the spot light, which doesn’t do justice to the (albeit nonlethal) severity of that symptom.

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Fair trade.

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Weird how everything happens ‘quietly’ lately.

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Not censorship, but enshitification. Reddit has been steering in an anti-user direction for quite a while. Killing the 3rd party apps that made that site useable was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

People who whine about being booted over “personal beliefs” tend to conveniently neglect to mention what those beliefs are. If you feel strongly that pineapple should absolutely NEVER go on pizza, then I’ll disagree with you and leave it at that; if you get booted from a community over that opinion, yeah that’s fucking crazy and indicative of a community that should be abandoned anyway. If you feel strongly about things like gay people should be killed or women should have restricted rights, then I’ll disagree with you and report your ass for every comment that even hints at bigotry, cuz you’re a horrible person and are absolutely not welcome here.

What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?

EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something...

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I saw a study that concluded toilet seats in public restrooms were actually one of the cleanest surfaces in the restroom. Don’t dispute that - it just means that the entire area lands somewhere in the spectrum between disgusting and eldritch nightmare. Due to the finding that the toilet seats were cleaner than most other surfaces in the restroom, it further concluded that it was perfectly safe to just plop down bare-assed onto that nastiness.

Abso-fucking-lutely not. The toilet paper bird-nest is a must. A few layers of splash protection toilet paper in the water before I even sit down is a must. ‘Ick’ factor aside, there are enough contact acquired pathogens to justify extreme caution in environments like that. I ain’t risking ass warts over some hypothesis, study, full-blown peer reviewed theory, or anything in between.

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“Oh shit, you didn’t spend all of the $90,000.00 I literally just gave you, did you?!”

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Yea if you want to steal something from Reddit, copy the content and paste it here. Don’t just post a link and direct traffic back to that shithole.

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Fwiw, the recipe for the white stuff in an Oreo is just shortening and powdered sugar.

Make some of that, and a batch of chocolate cookies, and live your best life.

And if you’re into videogames, buy Grounded - HEAVILY inspired by Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and also just an overall really well made and fun game.

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I’ve saved literally a couple thousand+ dollars and a shit load of time by cutting my own hair.

Buzzed is easy mode if you’ve got the head for it (definitely NOT a good look for everyone, so proceed with caution).

Actual styles are doable by feel / with a double mirror setup, but that ofc comes with a learning curve, and it WILL look janky until you get a feel for it.

I spent $30 on an electric clipper over 15 years ago - paid for three haircuts since then, which were all mandatory purchases in basic training. Easily the best $30 I’ve ever spent.

Also, super short hair takes like two drops of shampoo per shower, so if you go the buzzed route, you’ll save a lot on hair products too.

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They don’t give a fuck about Christ, he’s just a mascot for them to moralize fascism.

We’re overthinking the far right’s support for Israel: they just hate Muslims more than they hate Jews.

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Goya. It’s easy to forget amidst the tsunami of far more severe bullshit between 2016 and 2020, but when Trump abused his authority to hawk a fucking bean advertisement in the oval office instead of leading the country during a pandemic… yeah, decided I’d never buy a Goya product again, ever.

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This comes off like those articles about how office workers “actually hate working from home - can’t wait to return to office!”

Absolute bullshit.

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Onion is satire, not misinformation. Try Fox, or some of the more blatant shit like Info Wars.

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Bricklaying doesn’t normally involve sexual experiences

…oh. Um… whoops.

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For those in school:

www.desmos.com/scientific - badass scientific calculator. Desmos has a mobile app as well.

www.madeintext.com/subscript-generator/ - Helpful for typing out shit like: Na₂HPO₄ + H⁺ → NaH₂PO₄ + Na⁺

Also Windows Key + Period will open up a menu with a shit on of emojis and special characters, for things like that → arrow.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/475b8c27-324f-479b-b735-b61addbb40d7.png

^note that it’s got tabs on both the top and bottom of the menu

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To actually fall asleep within a few minutes of laying in bed, and stay asleep until I actually need/want to be awake.

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