Thou shalt not create a machine to counterfeit a human mind.

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  • TIL about the Kinsey scale. It would appear that yeah, I’m definitely a 0 by the description.

    But thinking about it, it makes sense. I’ve heard people say they “always knew they were gay” and “they were born in the wrong body.” And it was things that were just natural.

    That’s the only way I can describe it. I’m attracted to women. I’ve always known that, and no matter how hard I try, it’s impossible to imagine non-women to be sexually (and romantically) attractive.

    Like there’s just something there that stops it going any further. Like, hell, a woman that visually has a body that can indisputably only be a woman but then talks with a baritone voice it’s instant off (there’s several comedies where this sort of character is used).

    What’s cool though is that if I’m that sure about myself, there is no doubt in my mind that other people know what their attractions are, and there is no reason for anyone to doubt a person’s (honest) attractions.




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    8 days ago

    The meme is “science guy doing science”

    The joke is that the DC in “Washington DC” also stands for “Direct Current.” Direct Current is usually stable in a circuit.

    What our Punny scientist did is make Washington “Alternating Current.” By creating an oscillating image of the Washington DC buildings.

    It’s a very funny shitpost for electronic nerds.



  • There’s a theory in my family.

    You have true farmers, then you have factory farms. Factory Farms are not just for animals. They exclusively produce cash crop, they exclusively optimize profit, they also do hardly any of the work themselves. They’ll be in a combine, sure. But combines are quite literally automatic nowadays, so it becomes a second office where they’re negotiated deals and labor and contracts and taxes.

    The true farmers on the other hand? Way back when, before Monsanto and Tyson, farm communities took care of specific jobs for specific farms because one of those farmers found a really good way to do it, or is just much more efficient.

    That left a little more time for each of the farmers to work on something they were skilled with, or do a hobby even.

    Guess what was a popular hobby amongst farmers? Electric Scale Trains. These farmers also invented and designed and engineered a lot of these tools and equipment, because they had to repair their machines quicker than a service tech could come out.

    So you get robust engineering out of a Farmer. Then the Factory Farmer comes in and says “Hey, I got a friend named John Deer who could mass produce these, and the non-presceint Farmer said cool.”

    BAM innovations stifled.