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TheV2

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  • Anyone feeling like doesn't belong anywhere?

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  • Yes, and I think a lot of immigrants and especially immigrants (grand-)children feel that way. We are lions in the sea and sharks in the woods. It's always difficult to explain to teachers (those who mean well) that not only I do not feel like a German, but I don't even consider it necessary. To me personally it's positive. I like cultures and traditions and obviously they are still part of my identity. But I like that I don't have the vulnerability of making them a bigger part of my identity than they need to be.

  • Stand somewhere else

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  • Did you hear him say "I'm in"?

  • For people who, like me, believe in Determinism(the Believe that is no True Free will), how do you draw the line for free will.

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  • I believe in causal determinism and personally I still believe in free will, because in a hypothetically undetermined existence where we have this magic power to make a decision, it makes an impact whether or not I believe in it. In a determined existence whether I'm aware of it or not doesn't matter as it's already determined.

    When it comes to laws, ethics and judgements, I don't think there is a clear solution, since all of this is built on the idea of free will and specifically accountability. We have this weird line, because only with time we took some levels of determinism into account for judging an action, e.g. psychological determinism.

    I'm not sure where my line is. I guess in practice it makes sense that we can only consider determining causes where we can describe the events that lead to the action in detail (that too is vague and contextual). E.g. Tourette causing someone to say the n-word is more direct, clear and definitive than a traumatic event leading to abuse. Then again, it also means my lack of (specific) information in the chain of causation decides how I view someone.

  • Is it possible to not know who a famous person is?

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  • He had wanted to call himself the Weekend, but there was already a rock band in Ontario called that, so he dropped a letter.

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  • What's your backup plan if AI takes your job?

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  • When people tell you that AI will (or already does) take a lot of jobs, it's not necessarily implied that it's good enough to replace humans. Just that it is sold well enough to the people who make those decisions.

  • Why don't I care about the Artemis mission/program?

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  • Funny that you feel this way, because I thought about posting a similar and yet almost opposite post to !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world. I think it gets too much attention compared to other missions.

    I think the Artemis mission isn't completely useless and even regardless of Lunar economy and nostalgic motivation, there are some benefits, sure. But all of this over-sensationalized exposure with more emphasis on the USA is the reality check that we're slowly resetting to a space race. I always thought that it was a beautiful story that what started as competition turned into the biggest evidence of our united efforts. And while I don't think collaborations will end, I fear that they will turn into alliances and we are back to competition.

  • Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.

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  • Shit like this is a reminder to me that a large portion behind some AI products' hype are people who have no clue what these products even do. I wonder how the world would change, if these jack of all trades who invest waste so much time into collecting ideas to fill up their pockets, instead spent more time on actually understanding the ideas they have chosen and build at least a fundamental knowledge.

  • Straight people, would you date a non-binary person?

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  • No, because I'm not dating at all.

  • How do first time movie writers ensure someone along the way won't get ripped off? Like say Jay in the mail room sees your scripts and develops it himself, what recourse is there against mail clerk?

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  • For legal protection you register your script (e.g. in the USA with the WGA or USCO) or you maintain evidence. Whether or not you should worry about it is debatable. And it might be different everywhere. But first time movie writers, especially in Hollywood, should rather worry about getting into the industry in the first place. And for that, no matter what some scammy gurus, who teach you the 3 act structure like some form of deep complex science, tell you, your screenplay matters very little.

  • Does anyone else remember the Tesseract (the computer)?

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  • Just to rule this out: are you certain that you're not confusing this 3D projection of a tesseract with some other news?

    Or if you are certain that you saw hardware in a cube shape, did its design give you any clue why it was named "tesseract" - similar to this PC.

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    Chickens

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  • But it's the other way around. The focus point of the artist is the erotic depiction. Can you really blame the artist for making this kind of art with otherwise amusing situations and humor?

    That's the thing with comic strips. They can be self-contained entertainment, but you lose some context nonetheless.

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    Steam lawsuits in a nutshell

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  • I hate them for downplaying the problems of their loot-boxes and for not willing to take any measure against it.

    I do not hate them for taking a massive slice out of developers' paychecks. A developer must make the choice whether the benefits of Steam are worth that slice or not.

    And uh...I do not feel overwhelmingly happy, when a game on my wish-list is on sale. But I do not hate it...If people buy a game they didn't want...out of fear of missing out on a sale...then, sorry, but they need to get their shit together and take active efforts to have more control over their money.

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    Steam lawsuits in a nutshell

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  • This might seem unusual, but some weird people out there hate corporations for what they actually do and not because hating corporations is their fashion statement.

  • Was Tak a good game/series?

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  • Are you talking about "Tak and the Power of Juju"? I only know Tak as a boardgame from the Kingkiller Chronicle, which didn't match your complaints :D

  • Got tired of React… so I tried going back to COBOL

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  • The real alternative is much more simple - static HTML + CSS with manual deployment and manual file transfer. If that's not enough, you can step-by-step add to it. There certainly are web applications that benefit from the complex defaults. I don't hate these tools per se. I hate that they are the default. Yet it only makes that most web developers need a job and to get that job they need to use an overkill stack for their personal and community projects.

    If you want to hear an upside, just remember that this happens everywhere and at least the modern web dev chaos is mostly built on top of free and open-source tools and not proprietary bullshit.

  • Should there be a rule against removing credits?

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  • Yikes! I caught myself making the assumption that this was an "official" mod's post in response to the existing discussion...

  • Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling?

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  • I hope you don't mind a non-US-American comment on this one. I see this kind of statement/question quite often and I have a few things to say about it:

    1. It is not common to learn 3-4 foreign languages at school

    It's not rare to find people who speak more than 3 languages around the world. However in most countries schools just cover the languages you are expected to know in your country/region and the most common lingua franca(e). You guys simply need less languages in your daily business. If anything, there should be a bigger emphasis on Spanish in your education, at least in some states.

    1. School education isn't enough to properly learn even one language

    The truly foreign languages we learn at school do not stick with most of us. On the one hand, we had to pick a language that we may have not been interested in. On the other hand, you need to spend much more time beyond and after school to get beyond the basics for real life communication - even if the common reference level says otherwise. Even English or the respective lingua franca for the given region is mostly learned from real day-to-day communication. The school lessons serve more or less as a frame.

    1. An overlooked advantage of learning a foreign language is to understand how little we understand

    Sure, learning a foreign language is naturally useful for traveling, job prospects and educational value. But when you rewire/extend your brain a language beyond some basics for traveling, you have a bigger understanding how different languages can be, how much gets lost in translation and how little you understand of the world.

    I'm not sure, if Spanish in the USA can be as important as e.g. English in many European countries (as an outsider I get the impression that it should be even more important :D), but I think treating it that way would be a much bigger benefit for the entire USA. Oh and 4) most bilingual Europeans who are yapping about dumb Americans on the internet have no idea how ignorant they are themselves. Greetings from an immigrant child from Germany! <3

  • Are Europeans more well versed with world geography than Americans?

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  • People who only ever think within their country and, related to that, don't know any geography beyond their borders exist everywhere. Hell, that's the majority of the world. You just don't see their gaps in world knowledge in the English-speaking world, because, well, they don't speak English. And in my opinion, as long as you don't have any responsibility towards the world, it shouldn't be reprehensible to be ignorant towards the world.

    However, I can imagine that the average European has a higher minimum knowledge about world geography than the the average American. And I think the biggest reason for that is the worldwide reach of US mainstream media. In European countries you passively get more exposure to the rest of the world - especially US music, movies, etc., but not only that. E.g. football fans will at least hear about countries and cities all around the world. The US media on the other hand, although it is definitely widening, is still much more egocentric, again, especially because they are the mainstream.

  • Types of Podcasts, a guide

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  • The video series that is now labelled as a podcast