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Cake day: November 11th, 2024

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  • Right because marriage isn’t about religion, it’s about property. It’s about who owns what and who gets what when someone dies. One could point out the historical aspect of men literally owning their wives, and some people (assholes) certainly still want that, but these days it’s all about money. Marriage is a way for rich people to make sure they get to hold onto their partners wealth, even in the event of a divorce or death. It’s a tool of capitol, forced on the rest of us by the leaching class. We certainly don’t need it to love each other. No war but class war.


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    7 days ago

    A surprisingly simple model can be accurate enough to be usable, but you need to understand the limitations and assumptions of it. You need to understand when the model is prudent and when it gives erroneous results. The problem with models of gender and attraction is people take them at face value and assume that they’re complete, when in fact they are almost all deeply flawed in one way or another. Ignoring those flaws creates blindspots and bias, which ultimately hurts everyone, but hurts individuals who fall inside the blindspots or who become victims of bias most of all. Anyone who goes through a mechanical engineering program will know that steam isn’t an ideal gas, but that doesn’t stop an ignorant layperson from assuming it is and hurting themselves and others as a result.


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    8 days ago

    Counter argument, attraction exists on an infinite dimension hyperspace encompassing all of time and space and all past, current, and future configurations of matter and energy. We try to fit the world to our models but the world doesn’t concern itself with our musings. Attraction is on a case by case basis for all of us anyway.





  • Honestly I think engineers of all kinds can benefit from more study of biological systems. As an engineer myself, I find there’s a lot of inspiration to be gained by looking at life and understanding how it works. My primary work is controls and learning that biological muscle operates as bang bang control was mindblowing. Like look at the agility and complexity achieved by essentially a fuck load of on off actuators. It shows how far you can go with extremely simple methods and honestly helped me chill the fuck out about making everything perfect.





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    I’ve been saying for years this is literal training for anti-intellectualism and ultimately fascism and hate. As soon as you can convince yourself to believe something just because someone said to without any evidence or even contrary evidence, you’re primed to start doing that in other areas of your life. Grifters and fascists will absolutely take advantage of people like that without a second thought, and they scream their propaganda all over Fox news. Religion is more than just some stupid bullshit people believe, it’s a threat to democracy and freedom.




  • Some apartments with central hot water have a recirculation pump, so the water is almost always hot. My building has one. The water is always hot, but for some fucking reason the hot water is like right next to the cold water, but the cold water doesn’t have a pump, so the cold water pipes will get hot from the flowing hot water. Then when I turn on my shower the cold water will be just as hot as the hot water… for like a minute, making the entire thing fucking pointless because you still have to wait to get in. But I can burn myself on demand so I’ve got that going for me.



  • Hentai has a story though. The characters have experiences and respond to them. There is a continuity to it. It wouldn’t be nearly as popular if it was just random variations on a theme for every image. That’s super fucking boring. It’s not about how real or true the images are, it’s about how good the story is at making us feel horny. AI gen slop can’t even tell a coherent story at all.


  • Yeah. I ran into some ai generated porn a while ago without realizing it immediately and initially it was certainly very hot. Once i realized what it was my interest died completely and I realized the flaw with ai gen porn is the complete lack of narrative continuity, especially in the meta sense. You will only ever get the first thing you see and maybe some similar looking derivatives. You’ll never get it to make a true story exploring ideas and boundaries, or even just being able to make the same character consistently, let alone in different circumstances or within a larger meta context. It’s the most soulless art possible. It says nothing and it means nothing, and people are going to realize they care about those things when the novelty wears off.


  • It baffles me that medical device manufacturers use windows for fucking anything. You’d think just the licensing cost would push them away, but it being hot garbage for embedded software should have been enough. It’s amazing any medical device certification process would allow them to use it at all, with the notorious unreliability and not giving a shit what you think about updates. People could die because of a fucking windows update at the wrong time.