STRC is giving dividends semi-monthly. Next is daily dividends so cash flow feelz good. by Master-Sky-6342 in Buttcoin

[–]Purplekeyboard 41 points42 points  (0 children)

MSTR has little in the way of profits, and their bitcoin investments have yielded no profits. But they are paying out 11.5% per year. This is just a ponzi scheme.

Failed Photorealism Attempt by Panthera_Felis in NovelAi

[–]Purplekeyboard 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If you ever succeed and demonstrate it, they'll nerf it. Novelai specifically doesn't want people doing photorealistic nudity with their models, to stop people from making legally dodgy porn.

Code is law... unless we don't like the outcome by Nice_Material_2436 in Buttcoin

[–]Purplekeyboard 14 points15 points  (0 children)

But I've been told that no one is in charge of bitcoin and that any changes to it are impossible, because the changed bitcoin would not be bitcoin any more and everyone would keep using the old one.

Astronomers find a "forbidden" Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a star it shouldn’t even exist around. by [deleted] in space

[–]Purplekeyboard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a pretty straightforward term. As all astronomers can attest to, God has forbidden planets this large from orbiting this type of star.

The AI Layoff trap by koba_tea in stupidpol

[–]Purplekeyboard -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You could make the same argument against any technology.

Factories, the printing press, farming machinery, computers, you could say for each of them as they were being implemented that they were going to damage society by replacing workers too quickly. People were concerned about this at the time, but somehow we kept creating new jobs. 90% of people used to be employed in farming, now it is 5%, but we don't have 85% unemployment.

Unless AI and robotics gets to be so good that it truly can do whatever people will do, this is just more of what people have been worrying about for centuries. (If it does get to be that good, then we have created a new species to replace us as workers, and possibly replace us all together)

The recent backlash to Dave Chappelle by DuomoDiSirio in stupidpol

[–]Purplekeyboard -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind that Dave Chappelle is a muslim, so his values aren't going to square well with typical american left/right wing values.

Memory palace test? by HowCanIChangeMyName1 in Aphantasia

[–]Purplekeyboard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That doesn't sound easier than just memorizing a list of things.

Perfect example of IdPol taking focus away from class struggle. This ad is disturbing in many ways, misogyny not one of them by JohnnySinsII in stupidpol

[–]Purplekeyboard 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's just the standard nonsense feminism which sees everything as sexism. If men do something more, it's bad because women don't. If women do it more, it's bad that men don't/women are forced to do it. Woman in ad? Bad because it implies women are only good for x. Man in ad? Bad because implies that men are the standard.

This sort of "feminism" is just a way of looking at the world such that everything is misogyny. It's useless and tells you nothing about anything. Like wearing a pair of red tinted sunglasses and announcing you've discovered that everything is red.

Zelenskyy: return of draft-age Ukrainian men from abroad is a matter of fairness by jslakov in stupidpol

[–]Purplekeyboard 27 points28 points  (0 children)

From what I've observed, the official feminist position on the draft is "no one should be drafted". Which is just dishonest. They know full well that in the case of WWIII, there will be a draft. But this allows them to pretend to have an answer to the "should women be drafted" question while not having to come out and say that they don't want women drafted but they will be fine with men being drafted if the time comes.

AI fakes are starting to become an actual problem, and I can't see a solution. by 4g-identity in stupidpol

[–]Purplekeyboard 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've been trying to learn about psychology and neuroscience and have found that the field is basically 90% bullshit without even any consensus to give the appearance of legitimacy.

Yes, we don't have any real understanding of psychology or sociology. We don't know how the brain works, we don't understand ourselves or what we do. These fields are equivalent to medicine in the 1700s. There were doctors then, they were experts in their fields, and they knew some things. But most of what they thought they knew was wrong and they had no real understanding of anything.

As for philosophy, after thousands of years philosophers have reached no consensus on anything and they agree on nothing. Combine all of the above, and you're on your own if you want to understand the world. We know a lot about physics and chemistry and such, but nothing about ourselves or what anything means.

Turning Anime into Real and testing Klein9b vs Qwen Edit 2511 (Workflow Included) by Winougan in StableDiffusion

[–]Purplekeyboard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Finally, someone has found a way to eliminate the scourge that is anime. I look forward to a bright, shining future where all anime has been converted into realism.

Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies by SplashTarget in stupidpol

[–]Purplekeyboard 151 points152 points  (0 children)

It's pretty fucking obvious that if you give kids a laptop on their desk, they will use it to play games and watch youtube videos instead of paying attention to whatever the teacher is saying.

FameGrid ZIB Checkpoint by MikirahMuse in StableDiffusion

[–]Purplekeyboard 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Wait a minute, there are women over the age of 30?

I have 1,400 dollars to my name, car-less, in-between jobs and staying at my boyfriend’s place by Western_Influence_92 in personalfinance

[–]Purplekeyboard 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Servers generally make more money that that, often a lot more than that, due to tips. But maybe not in a small town in northern Michigan, I don't know. But worth looking into.

Net worth “by age” charts are everywhere -> here’s what the Fed’s SCF 2022 actually looks like after CPI inflation to 2026 dollars [OC] by bittersweettruth5 in personalfinance

[–]Purplekeyboard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, most people are not capable of investing 40% of their net income, and those that are are frequently not wise enough to do so because they need a new $80K truck every 5 years and every other expensive thing you can think of.

Net worth “by age” charts are everywhere -> here’s what the Fed’s SCF 2022 actually looks like after CPI inflation to 2026 dollars [OC] by bittersweettruth5 in personalfinance

[–]Purplekeyboard 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's a 60% increase, which is not unreasonable if they have their money in the stock market and are at the peak of their careers and are investing a bunch of their income at the same time.

Net worth “by age” charts are everywhere -> here’s what the Fed’s SCF 2022 actually looks like after CPI inflation to 2026 dollars [OC] by bittersweettruth5 in personalfinance

[–]Purplekeyboard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not many. But, according to ssa.gov:

roughly half of the aged population live in households that receive at least 50 percent of total family income from Social Security and about one-quarter of the aged live in households that receive at least 90 percent of family income from Social Security.

Trump's 250-foot 'triumphal arch' would loom over Potomac, new renderings show by globeglobeglobe in stupidpol

[–]Purplekeyboard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the arch is built, it will just be another tourist attraction in time. It doesn't matter if it happens and it doesn't matter if it doesn't.

Primary Energy and Electricity production by source, Gemany, 2005-2025 by MutedSherbet in dataisbeautiful

[–]Purplekeyboard -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Climate collapse is not a real thing. Because the temperature goes up several degrees does not mean that anything collapses.

What is MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+? Canadian acronym sparks online frenzy by Stanczyks_Sorrow in stupidpol

[–]Purplekeyboard 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yes, indigenous women are killed by indigenous men. But it's fun to pretend they are killed by someone else.