[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 22 points 6 hours ago

Where in the US is it abnormal to have ketchup on hot dogs? This is completely standard where I live. Like if you order a hot dog and don’t specify anything else, you will get ketchup on it.

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 26 points 14 hours ago

There doesn't seem to be an actual political party in the conventional sense.

This seems like it has larger ramifications

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 21 points 14 hours ago

A giant health bar that starts out empty is hilarious

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

For a while, we replaced “Israel” with “occupied Palestine” but it made discussions on the topic confusing so it got undid

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I thought there was a leaderboard for that posted a while back. I sure hope you’re not tallying all your votes lol. Either way, thank you for your service.

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

@SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net didn't you like, lead by an entire order of magnitude in terms of upvotes given for a long time? Gonna be hard to beat.

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

I hope for everyone’s sake that he knows he’s lying. There will indeed be further optimizations in AI computation energy efficiency. There will eventually be ASICs for training models which run a non-standard form of floating point representation which is optimized for LLM training. Those will be more energy efficient. But the idea that LLMs or any near-future iteration on them will be the catalyst for those optimizations is nonsense.

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

Leaning heavily on Hunter is crazy for the POTUS. This is some Game Of Thrones level of “only trust family”.

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If anyone can figure out how to use non-corporate social media to funnel liberal “activism” into building dual power, that’d be cool. Don’t think we’re any closer than the last time this site had this conversation 4 years ago, though.

Edit: I don’t want to be delusional and say that Lemmy is some inherently revolutionary force. But I also think that saying we’re not any closer may have been a bit too doomer. We have software developed by well-read communists and several instances which are run strictly on revolutionary principles. We’ve had several lighting in a bottle moments following Reddit bans and pseudo purges that have netted us increased membership.

Again, Lemmy is not the home of vanguard or anything like that. But we’ve had a lot of weird existing-in-the-cracks circumstances that lead to our existence and weirder things have become important in times of unrest. Who knows what connections made here will have an impact? I think it’s important to have this leftist dive bar at the end of the internet.

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

Oh shit is pavlichenko still around? Love it

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

Transphobes are half the reason we got rid of downvotes over here. They’re simultaneously blowhards and too cowardly to speak.

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Remind: don’t fuck the bunny

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This is clearly the superior way to post

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I’m trying to figure out if I wanna get one of these for the family to share and they look pretty cheap. I like that the ones I see advertised come preloaded with games so I don’t have to do all the setup and downloading. But I’m capable of doing that setup if there’s a better device that doesn’t come preloaded.

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I’m researching hair removal and the sheer amount of options as well as the range in price just seems daunting. Why are there $30 devices and also $300 devices? And why would people chose to pay more for a single session than the device costs on its own?

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It was the most trans movie I’ve ever seen and I don’t know what to do with it.

spoilersI cried when she aged twenty years instead of going back. And I’m pretty sure the ending means she never went back. What a heartbreaking movie.

I was also really struck by usage of tv screens to act less like corrupting forced and more like windows into people’s essences. The idea that TVs are corrupting the youth is so pervasive even now that the usage confused me at first. I remember seeing the scene from the trailer where the main character is being pulled into the tv, remembering that scene while watching the movie and thinking, “wait, they’re gonna somehow make me root for that happening?”

I think there’s an interesting subversion of delusion happening in general in the movie. In most other movies, but big reveal in the bar would be framed like someone losing their mind. But instead it plants genuine doubt and manages to convince the audience that the world they’ve been inhabiting is not real.

I’m not absolutely devastated like so many people have been but maybe I hyped it up in my head. I managed to avoid spoilers. But emotionally I had heavy expectations for it. I also can’t get it out of my head. It’s just swirling around in there.

I don’t know how anyone can watch it and not see the transness of it, but apparently some people do.

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CW for gun violence and for discussion of suicide

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I’d love to do an effort post distilling some of her arguments about fast fashion and modern clothing production.

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