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Comment · 3 years ago
>sexist alt-right meme

Don't make me laugh. "Alt-right" is a stupid, nonsensical term made up by news corporations to serve as a convenient boogeyman, and the meme itself isn't sexist in the slightest. Elevated estrogen levels in men ARE detrimental for numerous reasons. This has nothing to do with women, period.

Soy is associated with elevated estrogen levels because of phytoestrogens. Whether or not they actually affect the human endocrine system isn't clear, but you can't deny the customers of Soylent products all share... similar traits.

Comment · 3 years ago
A different version of "Soyboy" which itself is based off of the "Nu-Male" meme. Defining traits of a "Nu-Male" include (but are not limited to):

- A lack of masculine and mature traits (Excessively self-conscious, weak-willed, a canvas for [Current trends], potentially narcissistic)

- Beard-and-glasses aesthetic (Also previously known as the "Hipster" style)

- Terminally online and outspoken. Slacktivists

- Usually (but not always) "Leftists" with pronouns in their bio, LGBT+, BLM, Etc.

- Usually (but not always) white, male, and lives in urban areas (Portland, New York, SF, Etc.)

- Tries to come off as more intelligent than they usually are. Lacks perspective of the world at large.

And there is no shortage of these kinds of people on social media and in large technology-oriented organizations and corporations.

Comment · 3 years ago
Man that must've been difficult. Great job on it!
Comment · 3 years ago
>Hackers might breach OpenAI systems and leak its data.

I think you should be more worried about OpenAI themselves instead of "Hackers".

Comment · 3 years ago
This is a good opportunity to bring up Blender. Its quite powerful as a full 3D suite and can be used for modeling in 3D printing.
Comment · 3 years ago
>Unfortunately, we just couldn't back down from the demands to have a discord server

Except you could've, and still can. People need to learn how to adapt. There's no reason a Discord server is necessary for distributing and discussing anticheat software. Thousands of much larger, more important projects are doing just fine without Discord™ servers, and part of it is the people with influence putting their feet down at the mention of Discord, a glorified spyware platform populated with the socially deprived. Discord is rarely ever a key piece of infrastructure necessary for advertising and documentation for the majority of projects that have one attached to themselves.

Comment · 3 years ago
That NSA datacenter in Utah is probably at what, a few hundred exabytes of capacity now? They should make themselves useful for once and repopulate all the dead images they've certainly collected over the past few decades.
Comment · 3 years ago
>Experts

Give me a break.

The headline aside, people are absolutely going to grow closer to technology as it becomes more generally useful, its simply a matter of efficiency. Lots of people already live their lives being guided around by the invisible algorithms powering search engines and social media websites. The levels at which sites like Youtube and Twitter control peoples perception is insane. We're lucky that the people running them are too incompetent to make use of their personalized curation functions fully.

Comment · 3 years ago
4channers use Normalfag. "Normie" is the sanitized version for Redditors and Youtubers that are too afraid to use the -fag suffix. Same with the "Glowie" meme.

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