mzan @mzan@qoto.org

@freemo

Yes fair point. The title of the link is (at least partially) a clickbait.

@rmx

@freemo

For men it can be. For women it seems that "no woman is totally straight"

In this study https://www.bbc.com/news/health-34744903 they showed video of attractive men and women, to women.

68% of gay women were mostly aroused only from video of their preferred sex (i.e. women), while only 28% of straight women were mostly aroused only from video of men, i.e. 72% of straight women find arousal also video of other attractive women.

So only 32% of gay women are potentially bisexual, towards the 72% of straight women.

@rmx

@freemo

> Is it possible they are bi

Everything is possible, especially considering that Marlon Brando and Freddy Mercury, two men with 100% masculine manners, were bisexual. So, how can I answer NO!? :-)

More seriously I believe that many men and women are potentially bisexual, but they don't (want) know this, because they have strong preferences towards the opposite sex, and they have no interest into risking moral judgment from the society. Think to what happens in prisons between men, that probably will have no homo-sexual behavior or fantasies outside of it.

I believe also that a feminine manner or a masculine manner (within certain margins obviously) in a man, is not a a reliable way to predict his sexual choices, in the sense that there can be many exceptions.

@rmx

@rmx @freemo I know two men with moderately but clear gay accent and manner, but they are married with children. In their case it is probably innate or acquired from very early age. I doubt that they started acting in this way deliberately.

So, I suppose that we can born with this accent/manner (i.e. it is one of the many configuration of our brain), and that it is more common in gay men.

Culture can amplify some patterns, but there is usually also a biological reason. Like male and female manners.

@freemo

> It was the lack of bodily autonomy.

As (partially unrelated) side note, if we see the "big picture", we have no full "bodily autonomy", because we live in a society influencing what we eat, drink and breathe, i.e. many things that affects our body and our health are influenced a lot by laws and society behavior, and not only from our direct choices.

It is an eternal balance between how much we are single entities or parts of a group. IMHO, in many cases vaccines require to act like a group, and not as an individual, because with our behavior we are influencing other people.

It depends also from the type of vaccine obviously. For example, in case of COVID, in the end the vaccine was effective only for the variants before the omicron, because it reduced the stress on the sanitary system. But in this case, a nation can also decide to reduce assistance to no-vaccinated people.

@JuliusGoat

@freemo ah, it was a (semi)serious toot.

I were thinking to a diamond reflecting the gold light in its internal... A scenic marketing effect!

@freemo you forgot gold thermal paste! 🙂

@LouisIngenthron

> I feel like there's got to be a limit.
> Is "1+1=2" opinion?

If you mean that "1+1" has the only possible and calculable result "2", then yes it is an opinion 🙂

We cannot prove that mathematics is consistent. So, if we find an error in current axiomatic systems, we can then prove that "1+1=3", too.

We believe that mathematics, as formalized today, is consistent, and that in case there are errors in its foundations, they can be fixed without affecting the majority of useful theorems and result we have now.

@freemo

@freemo oh no, I cannot stomach another SJW debate about differences between male and female meat 🙂

As other administrators of instances with strict CoC, imagine @freemo the barbarian 🙂

@spoltier

@freemo it is a simulation, and there are hints of Moore's Law applied to Life-Hardware-Simulator!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_life

@onelson @simon I agree.

IMHO, it is not completely unrelated from how we interact with inanimate objects too. We try to be "emphatic" with the tool, in the sense that we try to manage it in the way it should be managed. We know when we are "gentle" with it, or when we are using it outside its limits, and stressing it.

When I speak to ChatGPT, I think to some tensors, and I imagine that if I'm kind and I give positive feedback when it is on the right path, then there are less doubts in it, and it can explore further in the right direction, because it knows that it is the correct path. If it is not understanding what I mean, the discussion can become more "rude" and stressful, but in this case it can be a positive "stress", because it helps to be on the same page. Like with normal people.

So there is a very high correlation between how we should talk to a real person and to ChatGPT in an effective way. We are anthropomorphism LLM, but often because this is the correct way to use this tool, up to date.

Said this, there are for sure people that interact with ChatGPT, believing it is a real self conscious entity, and not only the best way to use the tool.

@realcaseyrollins

"Within Gaza City, the population density is over 500 people per 100 square meters in many sections, according to data from the European Commission."

It is not credible that Isrelian soldiers will advance to the target, without self-defense. And self-defence in a city with this density, it is for sure a lot of civil deaths.

@freemo

@realcaseyrollins your reasoning can be correct if the building to reach is near the border with Israel. But, if the troups had to reach a palace in the center of Gaza, it can be a very long "journey".

@freemo

@freemo We can choose between quick and self-proclaimed Hamas terrorism, or long-term, hypocritical Israelian one. :-/

I'm not an expert, but my 2cents are that without an external arbitration committee, this dispute will never be solved.

@jackdaniel "Common Lisp" is an odd language. They should called it "Norm Lisp" 🙂

@jackdaniel your usage of even terms elder and scion is odd 🙂

@freemo I don't like the layout. In particular, I will put the most important info first, on the left.

I will group sections by personal, work, project, hobby, etc... and not by emails, websites and so on.

@freemo the problem of a "deep nuanced quality conversation" is that it will be very brief: "We are destroying the planet, without an effective plan for avoiding this".

We live in an hypocritical time. We are surrounded from lies, and we know they are lies. Journalists are like the musicians of Titanic.

@freemo please... you used "stars" instead of "dots", and this can hurt the sensibility of astigmatic people! 😃