Car mechanics are basically going to need to become hackers.

99% of them won’t, but yeah, a couple will figure out how to ‘unlock’ your car, like a smartphone, install a custom OS on it.

… Imagine saying this regarding a male teacher aged 30/31 who groomed a 15 year old and 16 year old student, and got the 15 year old student pregnant.

(This woman got pregnant by the 15 yo student she groomed… and she had that child.)

“Oh I dunno, I guess some people are attracted to kids! 🤷 Its a bad thing to do though.”

What the fuck.

No, its a lot more than just a bad thing, merely immoral actions. Its three innocent lives massively damaged, thrown off course, poetentially fucked up for life, because of the manipulative and selfish actions of a person in a position of trust and authority absuing that trust and authority.

And yeah its three lives, not two, because there’s no way this doesn’t massively negatively affect the life of her baby.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/former-maths-teacher-rebecca-joynes-banned-from-teaching-after-grooming-two-school-boys/news-story/0fe2070f15e4694d585491d7ea183cdb

… this woman is a serial sexual predator, who pursued the second relationship after being investigated for the first one and more or less getting away with a slap on the wrist.

Thats not just ‘immoral actions’, it’s basically downright evil, which, according to the judge of the most recent trial, was carried out with “breathtaking gall” and “astonishing arrogance.”

Downplaying the magnitude of how fucked up this is, is itself fucked up.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/former-maths-teacher-rebecca-joynes-banned-from-teaching-after-grooming-two-school-boys/news-story/0fe2070f15e4694d585491d7ea183cdb

One kid was 15, the other 16.

She was 30 or 31.

… the answer is because she’s a groomer, a pedophile, by how those terms are generally used.

She gets off on the power imbalance, she gets off on manipulating and exploiting those who don’t and can’t reasonably be expected to know better.

She either wouldn’t prefer to be or just couldn’t be in a relationship with someone on an equal playing field.

She’s a sexual predator, the kind you’d stereotypically call Chris Hansen to investigate.

… and my poltiely suggested “polite suggestion” could help swing that balance back into sanity.

Assuming it is done “politely” enough.

Geriatric Oligarchical Pedophiles.

As an American:

Are GIGN or KSK or GROM exceedingly busy at the moment?

If not, I politely suggest that ya’ll “politely suggest” that the Heritage Foundation should be abolished.

I mean… its not really banning Halal slaughter.

Its adding a step to it.

Around 88% of animals slaughtered in the UK for Halal are stunned first. All animals slaughtered under the Shechita (for Kosher) are non-stunned.

Just gotta get that 88% up higher toward 100%, of stunning them (ie, obliterating their frontal lobe, I think?)… and also put that step into play for Kosher slaughter as well.

Well dang, I appreciate the insight from someone who’s actually done it!

But uh… yeah… it really just does seem to be the case that America is run by people who hate poor people, who also become (at least in their own minds) not poor, by creating poor people, who run business models that encourage people to become poor.

Its like a tautological loop of ‘I’m scamming you and that makes me better than you’ as an ethos.

The pathological malignant narcissist society.

Alright, alright, that just took two people explaining it for it to sink in for me.

Thanks, I got too hung up on the specifics and missed the bigger picture.

I mean… I know that…

But my question still stands.

Ceteris paribus, keep as much else the same, same GPU, similar CPU by benchmark scores… swap the mobo and the sys ram…

What do you actually gain by going from DDR4 to DDR5, in total, end-state capabilities?

DDR5 is faster.

What kinda stuff actually needs that being faster, actually benefits from it?

I… ok.

Am I an idiot, or… at least when it comes to system RAM…

Do you really need DDR5 RAM, instead of DDR4?

Like, say I have 32 GB or DDR4 vs 32GB of DDR5.

Beyond I guess crushing some benchmark software harder… what are the actual practical benefits of this?

For an average person?

What can I do with 32 gigs of DDR5 that I can’t do with 32 gigs of DDR4? Or 16? Or 24?

The most humane thing to do would be to kill them somehow in one moment…

This is a thing.

https://easycleancook.com/how-to-kill-a-lobster-before-you-cook-it/

1. The Rapid Destruction of the Central Nervous System

One of the most humane methods of killing a lobster is referred to as the “stabbing method.” This technique involves quickly severing the lobster’s central nervous system, ensuring a fast and painless death.

Basically yeah, as you say, cut its brain stem.

There are chefs who know exactly how to do this, it just requires skill and precision.

This ia arguably the proper way to prepare and serve lobster, as, when done correctly… well, beyond being the most humane method, it also produces the most flavorful dish.

When you either have no personality outside of liking childrens toys, or you find yourself rushing into a store and elbowing people, potentially children, out of the way, so that you can get the toy first.

Fuck those people.

Be you.

Conformity is the death of style, and apparently also critical thinking.

Laugh at how frivolous and petty are the things they ostracize people for.

Such people are contemptible.

Also: Fuck everyone who hates that one person that’s always using a thorn instead of th.

Well no, IM has generally always defaulted to a norm of much shorter messages.

But… fairly lengthy forum posts?

Yeah, that used to be pretty common.

And it used to be normal that if someone posted ‘I ain’t readin’ all that’, they would be mocked.

Now, its the reverse.

And also… yeah I am still baffled by people whose response to … an introduction message, on some kind of dating app/site… is to just laugh at how long it is.

… I’d used OKCupid in its early days.

Generally?

If you took the time to actually read someone’s profile, and… write something, based on shared interests… that was … a good thing to do.

Shows that you actually care.

Now? Try to do the same thing?

Apparently people can’t comprehend that an initial, long, introduction message, does not mean that all other messages will necessarily be as long, unless you explicitly tell people this.

I keep encountering this kind of behavior.

And I’m just doing the same thing I’ve been doing for … almost 2 decades?

Like… for the record, it has ‘worked’ to at least some extent, I’ve had multiple year+ relationships that started from doing that…

Just seems like more and more people are having a hostile response to a lengthy intro.

Yep.

Its why I never used Twitter.

Well, beyond creating an account when Elon basically accidentally bought it, to scream at him, untill in all likelihood, he personally banned me.

Twitter took off because celebrities and primarily Democrat politicians joined an used it as essentially a microblogging/messaging system.

Our first social steps into modern parasociality.

They were of course eventually more or less thoroughly routed and out-influenced by hordes of right wing 4 chan trolls, who were much, much more adept at understanding how information flow actually works on the internet.

… anyway, yeah, i more or less see lemmy and piefed and mastadon as the last sort of… strung together set of rafts, floating amidst a sea of corporate sponsored, literal insanity, at this point.

I was under the age of 10, for most of the 90s.

I am the most ‘unsupervised internet access as a child’ person I know, lol.

I just really really like computers, hahaha!

… I also am arguably even worse than the ‘eternal september’, lol, as I hadn’t even gone through puberty when I first started talking to people online, via forums or AIM or mIRC or Ventrilo or what not.

But as far as writing experience goes… you’re correct for a small subset of hyperliterate people, but generally your conclusion at this end is wrong.

Americans, American adults read and write at an average of a 5th grade level.

Around 15% of adults read and write at a 2nd grade level, functional illiteracy.

Something like less than 5% of American adults can read multiple news articles about the same topic, and compare and contrast the way they’re differently presented, to determine bias and missing or emphasized details, differing framing, etc.

When I went to college, this was referred to as having a collegiate level of literacy, post 12th grade literacy.

Well, how many American adults have a bachelors degree or better, and have an accompanying collegiate level of literacy?

Roughly 38% have a 4 year degree or better.

Yet only about 5% of them can actually do critical analysis.

So, roughly 87% of college degrees were given to people who did not actually learn how to think.

You don’t seem to understand how seriously the entire education system has already collapsed, how many college degrees are half comprised of what older, educated folks would just call remedial high school classes.

Our literacy numbers are comparable to those of what Trump refers to as ‘shithole countries’.

The possibly optimistic way of looking at this is that certified morons will let you know they are such, so, writing something of moderate length effectively serves as a kind of shit-test.

Also, people seem to be mostly unaware that different formatting standards exist and make more sense for different viewing contexts.

I write the vast majority of my lemmy posts on mobile, because I engage with lemmy via mobile.

Every once in a while I get someone screeching at me about horrible formatting… it looks fine on mobile.

Sometimes I get much more polite critiques or suggestions, and then I just usually explain ‘oh I use lemmy on mobile’ and that is generally an amicable conversation…

But a good chunk of people are seemingly baffled and offended by the idea that anyone could be doing anything in a manner different from how they, personally, do it.

I mean, there’s always gonna be some variability as to how people understand terms, and I personally lean much more toward your understanding, where its a uh…

Its more reminiscent of an ancient slab of greek or roman text, just, all letters, no spaces, no punctuation, ie, terribly formatted by modern english standards.

But, what I’m trying to describe is more of … a visceral anger or mockery at the concept that someone would read more than about a single paragraph.

Its happening because people’s brains are ‘adapting’ to the short form, brainrot mode of modern social media.

Everything is a clipshow.

If its longer than a clip, its boring, and or excruciating to attempt to parse, for people conditioned by things like TikTok.

I have had multiple VPs ask me complex, technical questions, and then I write them a complex, explanatory answer…

And the reply that I get back includes them literally just saying ‘I didn’t read anything that would have required me to scroll.’

These were boomers.

Fuck, man, ok, at that point, you’re just asking a question to waste my time, apparently?

I’m not gonna dumb down concepts that can’t be dumbed down and still meaningfully answer the question.

I was hired here because I have specialized skills, if you’re too stupid to understand them, maybe realize that good leadership is more about knowing when to defer to your trusted experts, than it is about feeling like you are in total control and understanding of everything, all the time.

It really is no wonder why the entire economy is collapsing, the elites really are just pantomiming a caricature of having a job, doing a job, being an important person.

We’ve 'boys club’d and nepotism’d our way into mass executive incompetence.