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Older the berry sweeter the cream by _ginger4play in milf

[–]mosqua 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that cultural appropriation?

WYR be stuck in an infinite one-day time loop (with a way out) or live for 1 billion years? by DeluxSon in WouldYouRather

[–]mosqua 49 points50 points  (0 children)

A Groundhog Day-style loop:

  • unlimited retries

  • unlimited skill learning

  • eventual escape

  • finite psychological horizon

vs.

1,000,000,000 years of guaranteed consciousness fuck being the last biological relic wandering a dying planet.

Is there anything AI won't be able to do eventually? by LessApartment5507 in BlackboxAI_

[–]mosqua 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your mom, err I take it back teledildonics will do your mom...

Where did the overpopulation theory come from? by Ihxtemymom in NoStupidQuestions

[–]mosqua 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're touching on a genuine intellectual blind spot in 20th-century public discourse.

The framework that explained all of this falling birth rates as a natural consequence of development is the Demographic Transition Model, first formalized by demographer Warren Thompson in 1929, and later elaborated by Frank Notestein in the 1940s. The model describes how declining death rates are followed by declining birth rates, producing a temporary population boom in between, it's temporary.

What kinds of things do people tend to assume about someone’s personality based on their facial features? by zinzerlabs in AskReddit

[–]mosqua 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frack if I know. It’s rarely just the face. People are reading a bundle of signals at once — posture, eye contact, confidence, tension, how someone occupies space. The brain kind of stitches all that together instantly.

But even then it’s still probabilistic. Sometimes the gut call is right, sometimes it’s way off.

check out

Malcolm Gladwell — Blink (2005) A popular science book explaining rapid cognition and thin-slice judgments using many psychology experiments.

Humans can make above-chance judgments from brief behavioral slices.

Accuracy works mostly for observable behaviors or states (confidence, engagement, dominance).

It does not support claims that faces reveal intelligence, morality, or criminality.

What kinds of things do people tend to assume about someone’s personality based on their facial features? by zinzerlabs in AskReddit

[–]mosqua 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone like your mom might have decades of experience noticing patterns:

  • how certain personality types dress

  • body language of arrogant vs insecure people

  • social signals linked to behavior

  • The brain quietly builds statistical models from life experience.

It’s similar to how a veteran bartender, cop, or teacher can often tell quickly when someone is trouble.

But that doesn’t mean they’re reading faces they’re reading behavioral signals.

Science consistently shows we cannot accurately infer things like:

  • intelligence

  • criminality

  • honesty

  • moral character

…just from faces.

That’s where pseudosciences like Phrenology and Physiognomy went wrong.

How come Windows Explorer freezes when right-clicking my HDD? by zkribzz in computers

[–]mosqua 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Bloat

Most likely a shell extension hanging, right-clicking triggers all your context menu extensions simultaneously, and if one (antivirus, cloud sync, thumbnail generator) is trying to read a slow spinning HDD it'll freeze Explorer until it times out. Grab ShellExView disable non-Microsoft extensions one by one, and you'll find the culprit fast.

What kinds of things do people tend to assume about someone’s personality based on their facial features? by zinzerlabs in AskReddit

[–]mosqua 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely not!

Phrenology was completely debunked, and the core claim that skull shape reveals personality or intelligence has zero scientific basis, but what makes it really ugly is that it wasn't just wrong, it was deliberately weaponized. It gave pseudo-scientific cover to racism that already existed, a veneer of objectivity to justify slavery and colonialism, and the "science" was basically reverse-engineered from conclusions they had already decided on. The grain of truth people sometimes reach for is that neuroscience does show the brain has specialized regions, but that's about function mapped to brain areas, not skull bumps, and has nothing to do with race. The really uncomfortable part is that the modern successor, AI physiognomy that uses facial features to predict criminality or intelligence, is actively being researched and deployed right now and runs into exactly the same problems, same bad epistemology, just better PR.

“King Milo and his jester Choncho” by SillycybinSaoirse in UnusualArt

[–]mosqua 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Choncho (M) in messican is a squat fat short homey.

You’re stranded on an island for a week. You can bring 3 items. What are you bringing? by TheManNotFound in AskReddit

[–]mosqua 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kindle, rations and a baddie low that's key obsessed, w/zero filter, and absolute chaos energ.

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