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  • her activities. They range from very productive performatism to useless but mostly inert lip service

    You seem to be using the word performatism in both senses of it’s meaning, as performative has become a contranym. Here you are contrasting it to “inert lip service” as opposed to your earlier comment that implied the opposite meaning:

    what she does is performative and doesn’t really accomplish much

    Putting the confusing nature of your comments aside, I do think it’s worth highlighting very clearly that - as you yourself pointed out - performative action can be quite useful in the original sociological sense of the word. It means bringing something into being through speech/action, which is the polar opposite of “inert lip service”.

    Many of Thunberg’s actions have inspired and informed others precisely because they include a performative aspect (in the sociological sense), and she doesn’t do anything that is “inert lip service” as far as I am aware. In fact, based on interviews I’ve seen of her, I suspect that “inert lip service” is incredibly annoying to her as well.


  • Luke@lemmy.mltoFuck AI@lemmy.worldthe guy gets to fuck_ai...
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    12 days ago

    If someone needs/wants to use AI to do extremely simple things like plan their date activities, that’s a good indication that they are an exceedingly uninteresting and unengaging person overall. They can’t even do the simple things, so the hard stuff in life is going to be insurmountable and they’ll be a massive burden on their friends and partner(s).

    Where’s the incentive to “give them a chance” in this scenario? The books at home are the better option by far.




  • Luke@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlAlternatives to AdAway
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    21 days ago

    FWIW, if you self-host Adguard, you can do those things without needing to bother with touching individual hosts files. It’ll also then just work for every device on your network. Create your own domain and expose adguard via a subdomain and you can just point your phone at your DNS server while you are on external networks too.





  • Like you, I am excited about it for the sake of the community, though I’m hard pressed to find any reason to play games on my Android phone as it is. Android games are either ad infested junk that isn’t interesting to me, or open source and playable on Linux already.

    I’ve messed around with Waydroid because it sounds cool in theory, but every time I get it installed, I’m like “now what?” I can’t think of anything to actually do with it, so I imagine it’ll be the same for Lepton.

    Still, very cool to have the options, and I’m happy that Linux is getting more attention as a preferred platform such that gaming companies recognize the value in supporting translation layers for it.


  • I’m not even sure how you’d figure that out anyway. At this point, the “non AI” content by influencers is likely stuff they or their production team wrote using AI. Everything I accidentally end up seeing that was posted on the big social media platforms feels to me like regurgitated algorithmic AI influenced slop, regardless of whether a meat sack is the performance puppet or not.





  • I guess it depends how tech illiterate they are and where their confusion stems from, but as long as they know what email is, then I like to explain anything in the fediverse by using email as an analogy:

    You know how, with email, you don’t have to care about whether the person you email is using Gmail or Apple or Yahoo or whatever? Email is the kind of message you send, and whoever gets it can use any email app to look at it and reply to you.

    (Insert federated platform name here) works the same as email. You want to post or reply on (Insert federated platform name here)? Use whatever client you like, and it doesn’t matter if the people you’re communicating with use the same client.

    It’s not strictly a perfect analogy, but it’s close enough to get over the usual confusion where people have been conditioned by corporate social networks to expect services to have one and only one blessed app.



  • Sounds like you might want to read about splashback:

    it would not be unlikely for urine droplets to travel a distance of 5 feet to the side of the urinator,” Dr. Truscott tells us in an email. “And if someone were standing next to him, they would most definitely get small droplets OF THE OTHER MAN’S URINE on their pants and shoes

    Your hands are almost certainly getting covered in your own pee unless you’re a sitter. If you’re a sitter, then you’re probably still touching something in the bathroom that someone else peed or splashed on. Either way, wash your hands!



  • TNG sure did have some surprisingly graphic scenes at times for an afternoon/evening show that was mostly family friendly until surprise gore and then back to family friendly for a couple seasons.

    Remember the one where they opened those dudes torsos like cans of spaghetti so they could kill the mind-control bugs in them? Why was that deemed necessary for the story at the time, I wonder, versus just having the phasers make them disappear?


  • I’m not clear what the purpose is for expressing a judgmental attitude about sex workers who are affordable for you. By that logic, you must really hate the idea of sex with anyone doing it for free. Can you not manage to personally avoid sex while also supporting the dignity of those who engage in sex (for money or not)?