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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Software parents are such absolute horseshit.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lol bruh, have some self reflection. People do it because it's easier. If you have the time to have all the hobbies that other people have and to roll your own home servers that's great, but that means you have an above average amount of free time. Otherwise, other people have hobbies that don't include server OS updates and choose to spend their time there and pay for someone else to manage their servers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Notice how all of those numbers are substantially larger or smaller, by many orders of magnitude, than a couple of hundred.

Are you intentionally trying to avoid understanding what I'm writing?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Yes, it's this little thing called context, thresholds, and relative magnitude.

If your brain is only evolved to process numbers up to a hundred or two, then everything 10000+ is similarly processed through abstractions rather than your brain being able to directly comprehend and compare them.

If instead of asking a guffawing question, you actually tried to point out why my reasoning was flawed, you may have realized those basic aspects of how language and reasoning work on your own.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Being factually incorrect about literally everything you said changes nothing? Okay.

Yeah bruh, it's this little thing called being pedantic.

If I say wealth inequality is crazy, no one should have 250 billion dollars, and you say 'well actually Jeff Bezos only has 210 billion dollars', then I will be factually incorrect and my point will still be completely valid.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

That changes literally nothing of what I said. Your brain did not evolve to process those scales accurately. If you think you can, that just means you're lacking in self reflection.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Because pop science articles often throw out bullshit like "blowing your nose can cause you to expel over 100 germs" because they know that 100 sounds like a big number and will get clicks.

People not questioning the actual context and meaning behind those numbers and how they connect back to something we actually care about leads to a lot of bullshit science reporting.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Lmao, bruh here thinks his brain evolved to process scales of millions and comprehend a nanometer.

Are you a special unique bro different from everyone else?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

Til that OP has no concept of what a particle is or how small it is or how many of them there are in any given scenario because our brains did not evolve to process that kind of scale accurately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The joke still works fine, just replace PS2 with PS5 in your head.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone having a FaceTime call does this. Every dash cam does this. Every Ring doorbell and self driving car does this. You can do this with a $10 usb pinhole webcam and an android phone or raspberry Pi.

The problem here is with facial recognition databases, not with people using cameras in public.

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