Science Fiction ReallyKinda • 4 months ago • 100%

I watched it in theaters yesterday and enjoyed it! Beautiful post-apocalyptic imagery, decent writing, great digital graphics, great story boarding. I’m always excited for sci fi epics and this scratched that itch. One facet I thought could have been more robust was the question of human vs ape intelligence (which obviously comes up a lot). I felt there was competing messaging without a lot of complex exploration of intelligence or speciesism which could have deepened the film.

Star Wars ReallyKinda • 5 months ago • 76%

I have only seen the movies once each but I have a vague memory of it being part of the plot in The Last Jedi. Am I remembering wrong?

Vegan ReallyKinda • 5 months ago • 100%

doi.org

Isotope analysis of human and faunal remains dated to the Later Stone Age reveals a substantial plant-based component to hunter-gatherer diets at the site of Taforalt, several millennia prior to the development of agriculture in the Levant, renewing the question of why agriculture did not develop contemporaneously in North Africa.

Music ReallyKinda • 5 months ago • 83%

fanlink.tv

New single

Shower Thoughts ReallyKinda • 5 months ago • 100%

something

I haven’t worn jeans since the skinny jeans days, looking for updated advice! Trying to style a cute bomber jacket.

Science Fiction ReallyKinda • 6 months ago • 100%

a cautionary tale of corporatism gone awry, told lightheartedly, with robots.

Solarpunk ReallyKinda • 6 months ago • 100%

www.vox.com

It was once normal for economists to imagine a world with less work. What happened?

Lemmy Bread ReallyKinda • 7 months ago • 94%

Dinner rolls, biscuits, etc.

Selfhosted ReallyKinda • 8 months ago • 100%

I have a TCL tv with (with google smart TV software) and have been ingesting TV shows, games, and movies primarily from an xbox using various paid streaming apps for like 15 years. As streaming costs go up I’ve wanted to set up a media server compatible with playing stuff from the xbox and have had some friends suggest Plex so that we could potentially share media. People here seem partial to Jellyfin but the internet seems to feel it doesn’t work smoothly with xbox (buggy app/integration). Any suggestions for the most elegant setup possible for hosting a home server for streaming TV shows and movies from xbox?

Moving to: m/AskMbin! ReallyKinda • 8 months ago • 100%

I have a sense of how these decisions look in the board room— just curious what they look/feel like on implementation given that people presumably don’t enjoy putting in effort to make a thing worse, obviously don’t dox yourself and get in trouble at work!

[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation ReallyKinda • 8 months ago • 98%

I definitely consume too much dystopian content to be a fair dystopian barometer, but the sheer amount of ads being pushed my way is starting to make me feel legitimately anxious. It feels like a techno-dystopia where all of the neat and artistic elements have been extracted and then ground into dust for our corporate overlords. Even the ‘regular’ people are just trying to sell themselves. The streamers, the funny videos, the pet videos, the porn, the reposts of all of those, so much of it is just monetizing my attention. Do ads even influence people that much? Does anyone even eat Church’s Chicken?! Do people consider switching their car insurance? I though the postmoderns were jumping the gun a little with the pictures they painted of a future with corporate logos and other advertisements spread across every visible surface, but now I have to see 5 ads and a cookie consent pop up to look up a quick definition. Watching a friend’s youtube video? 30 seconds of rapidfire ads from 15 brands. It’s starting to feel absurd. Are we going to be okay?

Moving to: m/AskMbin! ReallyKinda • 8 months ago • 100%

Exaggerated and made up example of what I’m curious about: My country has legitimate elections. When my government wrongly convicts someone I feel as if I have personally wronged that person by voting for the person who appointed the judge. God will judge both me and the judge for it.

I still don’t really understand crossposting or the multiple link options on kbin. What should kbin users know about crossposting and linking?

math ReallyKinda • 8 months ago • 100%

I’m picturing the math as a very large set of bell curves where most people fall somewhere in the middle, but each person is likely to be an outlier on at least one.

Asklemmy ReallyKinda • 8 months ago • 90%

Google is not helpful.

Showerthoughts ReallyKinda • 8 months ago • 60%

If someone else doesn’t do it and it is a precursor for something you need than it *is* your job.

[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation ReallyKinda • 9 months ago • 84%

Personal identity has long been a topic of philosophical discussion and is clearly taking on an increasingly important role in the social sphere. I’m curious how you guys live and understand identity. I’ve thrown in a disparate list of food for thought intuitions that may or may not be useful. * The minimal set of properties that differentiate me from others. * An essence, a form, or a soul. * How I see myself in relation to others. Identity is largely internal but is impacted by how others receive me. * How others see me. Identity is largely external. What I ‘am’ to others. * The set of actions I take in the world. The impact I make. The things I create. * It’s whatever is thinking “me” or “I” at any given moment and there’s no persistent identity over time to unite those instances. It’s fleeting.

Asklemmy ReallyKinda • 10 months ago • 98%

Self defense? Only on the battlefield? Only to achieve a ‘noble’ end?

Science Fiction ReallyKinda • 1 year ago • 100%

Whew! What a ride. Will definitely need to re-read to absorb everything. Consciousness, algorithms, game theory, “like us” reasoning, hierarchy/control, disability—lots of stuff going on.

Today I Learned ReallyKinda • 1 year ago • 100%

Why YSK: In many places it can take years for a case to come to trial. Judges have to make a decision in such cases to determine whether an accused person should be jailed in the interim. In recent years many jurisdictions have adopted algorithmic tools that essentially create a “risk profile” which assigns a value. Threshold values are used to classify the scores (for example “High Risk”). Some models include iterative algorithms (machine learning) and some do not. The use of these models in pretrial assessments can have some major consequences. As you might know—aggregate data cannot be used to make sound predictions about individuals. What aggregate data allows you to do is model trends, correlations, and averages across groups. We often use these profiles to help us make predictions on behalf of individuals. This is what “risk factors” in the medical sciences are usually doing. If 80% of people who are vegetarian and weigh 120 lbs have bone density issues later in life I might want to look at interventions to reduce that risk even if I could potentially fall into the 20% who have no issue. While this seems acceptable with the intent to protect my health, I would be quite unhappy if a similarly accurate model was used to determine whether or not the state considers me a risk prior to trial. Now if I fall in the 20% I may turn out to be innocent and held against my will. Courts use similar tools to decide whether a child should be removed from a home prior to CPS investigation. Now add in the fact that these models are fed existing criminal justice data which is often flawed and almost always contains a racial bias. One familiar example is that black people are arrested at higher rates than other groups due to well documented racial bias in both policing policies and police themselves. A pretrial risk assessment tool that takes prior arrests into account will obviously perpetuate this bias. Someone from the ACLU recently gave a presentation on this topic and I had never heard of it! Thought others might be interested as well.

Woodworking ReallyKinda • 1 year ago • 0%

I am working on a project made of African mahogany. It’s a wall mount for our guitars that will stay indoors. I have a water based polyurethane stain. I’m going for a darker stain. I’ve put a layer on my test piece and it’s a nice color and spreads on well but it has no shine. From what I understand, more layers with high grit sanding will get some shine, but I should also add a layer of wax, oil, or varnish. I’m having a lot of trouble deciding what to get for the final layer! Advice would be appreciated.

History ReallyKinda • 1 year ago • 100%

www.ancient-origins.net

“In an era where the term “burka” evokes images of oppressive regimes, notably Afghanistan's coercive imposition on women, it may come as a surprise that the tapada limeña (meaning “the covered one from Lima”) was used as a cloak of female resistance to authority by the women of Lima for over three hundred years…. Women who wore them were described as “insolent vipers” by one poet, while they were even blamed for the 1746 earthquake which destroyed Lima: “God had punished the capital for the audacity of some women that everyone, native and foreign, considered to be an erotic symbol,” claimed La Vanguardia . In 1833, the feminist Flora Tristán wrote that the women of Lima were the “freest in the world” since their clothing allowed them to evade the surveillance of men.“

techsupport ReallyKinda • 1 year ago • 100%

It’s constantly becoming unmapped (sometimes randomly in the middle of the day). File explorer pages close out by themselves somewhat frequently too. Just curious what might be going on in IT (they’re the ones who showed me how to re-map).

Television ReallyKinda • 1 year ago • 100%

vv late, but I’m quite struck by\* the fact that the main character in Poker Face is so smart with such bad judgement. I feel like they almost always write smart characters to be quite situationally competent. [\#television](https://kbin.social/tag/television)

Is it possible to have RSS content automatically post to a kbin magazine? If so, how? [\#kbinMeta](https://kbin.social/tag/kbinMeta)

SkincareAddiction ReallyKinda • 1 year ago • 84%

If I wait for my face to be completely dry before applying tretinoin (which is recommended practice afaik) my moisturizer (which is recommended to be applied on damp skin) will not be able to trap much moisture in. How do other tret users navigate this conundrum?

Moving to: m/AskMbin! ReallyKinda • 1 year ago • 50%

If Facebook made their content compatible with activity feed could I potentially subscribe and interact with (for example) my dad’s posts only so that I can keep up with family without having to visit (or have a) Facebook myself? [\#AskKbin](https://kbin.social/tag/AskKbin)

Relationship Advice ReallyKinda • 1 year ago • 93%

I have a cousin, 35, Male, who has always been susceptible to conspiracy. He listened to Rush and other right wing favs when we were younger, and after a mildly messy divorce, I’m afraid he’s pivoted to blaming women for everything (including, and especially, male urges). Along with his heroes, he’s committed to anti-intellectualism. I almost miss the tea party days. Recently he’s been reading self published books with titles like “Analyzing the ROI on Pursuing Women,” and “Why women deserve less.” They bizarrely juxtapose tidbits from economics onto ravings about value and gender that don’t make sense. Weird that he trusts random opinions and not researchers who at least provide rigorous reasoning for their theories, but I digress. As a lady, it’s hard to care about the dude, but I do feel like I should say -something-. Does anyone have ideas?

No Stupid Questions ReallyKinda • 1 year ago • 97%

If my dental insurance has 100% coinsurance on preventative and basic care, 70% coinsurance on major care, a deductible of $50, and a maximum payout of $2000, does that mean I can only spend the insurance $ on major services and pay out of pocket for everything else?

How to view a feed of subscriptions only? I’ve gone into the settings and chosen the homepage drop-down that says subscriptions and saved. I’ve also chosen “subscribed ” under the drop-down next to my name in the top right while on the Home Screen. Neither seem to impact what shows up in my feed. Help? [\#kbinMeta](https://kbin.social/tag/kbinMeta)

Unethical Life Pro Tips ReallyKinda • 1 year ago • 100%

ULPT: Post job ads in your area for jobs similar to the one you have(or are looking for) at your desired salary. This way if your employer checks to see if your wage is competitive it will look like they should give you a raise in order to retain you.