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Cake day: September 20th, 2023
  • brbposting@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.world•HubrisEnglish
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    5 days ago

    (Not parent commenter) lil hedge makes it harder to argue! And more clear to me about experience/intuition vs. some specific dataset on hand.

    Hope this comment doesn’t feel pushy - emphasis on my additions:

    The lift is likely on a gimbal. If the wheels on one side of the lift are 1cm higher than the other, that would move the platform at the top by 8cm or something. If both guys are on one side of the platform that could be enough to make the whole thing tilt by another 1cm at the wheels, and so on.

    From what I can tell, that lift is not designed to be operated on a plastic barge. So, ostensibly:

    That dock is not designed to carry equipment, certainly not an elevated platform, and is not designed to be operated as a barge.

    :)

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.world•Voicemail should be bannedEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Interesting, one of the recent voicemails I received was a very high-quality voice courtesy one of everyone’s favorite text-to-speech companies (perhaps ElevenLabs)

    Wonder if it’s possible they were trying to route on the fly, if they had such a low latency system that they’re able to wait for potential victims to say hello before instantly transferring to a human scammer.

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.workstoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Mad LaddicusEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I forgot the biggest laugh of them all. This YouTube astrology dude explains some different types of astrology, including one he called mundane astrology. He explained mundane astrologers attempt to explain entire society’s behaviors and fates using the stars or astrology or whatever. And the example that he gave was COVID. And also he brought up, believe it or not, elections. And said that there’s an election astrology.

    So I think there are only three possibilities.

    One is that astrology, including election astrology, is super effective. And a handful of people can do it. And they’re all billionaires.

    Scenario two, the same scenario, except election astrologers don’t like to mix money with their craft. And that’s why we don’t know about the 30th through 50th richest people on the planet, all being astrologers, who enjoy the betting markets, the prediction markets.

    Scenario three is that we don’t see billionaire astrologers. Not because they are too ethical to mix money with sky gazing (or whatever it is), but because they’re making it all up.

    So to the astrologers out there, who amongst you are billionaires thanks to owning the prediction markets every day or every election cycle? Or what kind of ethical code prevents election astrologers from using prediction markets?

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.workstoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Mad LaddicusEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Awesome, I didn’t reply yesterday because I had too much to say so here is a simple thank you to avert a common never-reply scenario :-)

    Well, just a quick dictation, too. Apparently I forgot that stars were involved with astrology at all, so I slapped my forehead and searched YouTube. And I was hoping to find a skeptic who steel-manned astrology, but that would be pretty odd to spend your time doing such a thing if you were a skeptic. Unless, of course, it was teeing up an explanation for a teardown. But anyway, I listened to some goofball talking super seriously about astrology, and he made a claim about celebrity star charts and said that Iron Man, Robert Downey Juney, had foreseen that he would have a big change in his life. And then, sure enough, Iron Man came out and changed his career. Wow, great job, astrology. You nailed it. Once energy is just about free, and so is compute, it would be pretty easy to disprove that line of thinking by feeding the world’s celebrities into a system and analyzing all of their little charts. Anyway, I was only thinking about birth months and the idea of the positions of balls of gas having meaningful impacts on all of our lives is quite the stretch. Please excuse the lack of editing here. Thank you.

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.workstoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Mad LaddicusEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Astrology is really dumb. I do have one curiosity with it. It’s a big deal for hockey players to be born early in the year to the point you find fewer pros born in December and in the later months compared to January through March born hockey professionals.

    One other thing, kids have birthdays every year and if they have their parties outside that means some kids are having snowy birthday parties and others are having sunny birthdays and plenty of crossover. The kinds of interactions you have with your friends will be slightly impacted* by how much outdoor gear you have to wear, etc. (*maybe imperceptibly)

    But the point is there are at least two possible differences that come depending on which month you’re born in. What if there are like a hundred of them and astrology is a really terrible way of trying to figure that out? Now I realize it’s not so maybe a better question is I wonder if there is any version of birth month based assessments, correlations, or analyses that might be fruitful or useful in some way or another.