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submitted 3 months ago by ReallyKinda@kbin.social to c/scifi@kbin.social

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.

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submitted 4 months ago by ReallyKinda@kbin.social to c/vegan@lemmy.ml

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.

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Love how the narrative went from “nah those can’t be snipers definitely spotters” to “snipers are commonplace at big events!” once it was confirmed. Also the fact that only msn and snopes have published anything about this (or is that just a search indexing problem?).

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ReallyKinda@kbin.social to c/music@lemmy.world

New single

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 187 points 5 months ago

Google photos and apple have been doing it for years too, they’re like we found this person 50 times in your photo collection, why don’t you name them?

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 79 points 5 months ago

The twitter format makes it feel like everyone is speaking from a soap box at all times, and people aren’t their best selves from a soap box.

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submitted 6 months ago by ReallyKinda@kbin.social to c/scifi@kbin.social

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

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submitted 6 months ago by ReallyKinda@kbin.social to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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It was once normal for economists to imagine a world with less work. What happened?

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[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 86 points 7 months ago

This reminds me of when genetic researchers found that the human genome contains less genes than a tomato

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 70 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

google says the incident was in 2002 and the reneg in 2011 (cleared in 2012) so it seems like she’d have to be 16 at time of accusation, courts took a few years to actually jail him, and she would be about 25 when she came clean. It says the statute of limitations for lying in court was passed by the time he was cleared, so no chance for a counter-suit or he would have pursued* it. The accuser was ordered to pay back money she’d gotten from the school district for claiming an unsafe environment.

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submitted 7 months ago by ReallyKinda@kbin.social to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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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?

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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?

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 70 points 7 months ago

I watched a documentary on Amelia recently and her sister was like (paraphrasing) “Amelia would have been so mad they’ve wasted this much money looking for her body, pilots died all the time back then.”

One thing I’d forgotten was that she had another person with her during that last flight—her navigator

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by ReallyKinda@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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

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submitted 7 months ago by ReallyKinda@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Google is not helpful.

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 65 points 9 months ago

“ The county offered to compensate Umana for her veterinary bills if she agreed to refrain from publicly speaking about the shooting, but she rejected the offer, according to her lawsuit.”

Sickening

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 88 points 10 months ago

Google says there are about 160M employed people in the US, so 72M is roughly 45% of the workforce. Vs 5% of the wealth. crazy.

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 58 points 1 year ago

I know a couple teachers (college level) that have caught several gpt papers over the summer. It’s a great cheating tool but as with all cheating in the past you still have to basically learn the material (at least for narrative papers) to proof gpt properly. It doesn’t get jargon right, it makes things up, it makes no attempt to adhere to reason when it’s making an argument.

Using translation tools is extra obvious—have a native speaker proof your paper if you attempt to use an AI translator on a paper for credit!!

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 54 points 1 year ago

Baby Sauce looks to be more accurately 2.5 sauces or so

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 77 points 1 year ago

Banning the reporting of suicide stats to try to save face is some nasty shit. Suicide is often a last attempt at asserting autonomy.

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 356 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The average person shouldn’t be allowed to drive. It’s extremely dangerous and most people are desensitized to it and absolutely don’t take the natural responsibility towards others that comes with having the ability to kill someone with a finger twitch (or a slight lapse in attention) seriously enough. I don’t think it would be allowed if it was just invented this year.

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