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New comment by spinach in "Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes"

spinach — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:12:39 +0000

But being overweight is a huge risk factor for developing it and absolutely can contribute to it. I don't how it being more deadly in skinny people detracts from that or is relevant at all.

New comment by spinach in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

spinach — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:47:57 +0000

Statistically that is a rather small number. But if we take the number of women in say, America, a web search says 334.9 million. 0.05% of that is 167,450. That is quite a lot of women being killed by their partner.

New comment by spinach in "The Last of Us Part II – Seattle Locations Tour"

spinach — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 05:04:22 +0000

But Lara Croft and Bayonetta were made for the male audience. They were very palatable to males because that was their purpose especially visual wise. I don't think it's very representative of actual women and their experience.

New comment by spinach in "Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator"

spinach — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:44:07 +0000

I'm not sure where you consensus is coming from but AI art is getting really, really good. I used to be able to easily tell what was AI art when others couldn't but that's changing fast.

It's been trained on some of the best artwork. Various artists have been told their artwork looks like AI, meanwhile it's actually the other around. Already in the app stores there are many games full of AI art that the average person without an artist's eye probably can't see the difference compared to something a human made.

I think art is very different from other jobs, it's more like the soul of humanity. When we look back through time, we mainly look at the art and what it can tell us, only a niche portion of people will care about the other things.

If we let machines do everything, even create our culture and art, what is left for us? Just to be consumers?

New comment by spinach in "Thoughts on thinking"

spinach — Fri, 16 May 2025 20:01:42 +0000

I've had the same experience but with drawing. What's the point when AI can generate perfect finished pieces in seconds? Why put all that effort in to learning and drawing something. It's always been hard for me but it used to feel worth it for the finished piece, but now you can bring a piece of computer art into being with a simple word prompt.

I still create, I just use physical materials like clay and such, to make things that AI can't yet replicate.

New comment by spinach in "TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race"

spinach — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:07:13 +0000

And many platforms had a pro-Democrat lean, especially in the 2020 election. Blaming tiktok seems like scapegoating instead of looking introspectively at the Dem's failings like having a weak leader and pushing various insane ideologies.

New comment by spinach in "How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop"

spinach — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:02:34 +0000

Lofi music is a really popular genre to listen to as background music, I wouldn't say it's a tired genre. Perhaps for creators it is, but for listeners it's not.

New comment by spinach in "Peanut Butter Day: Going Nuts over NIST's Standard Reference Peanut Butter (2016)"

spinach — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:50:37 +0000

Do other countries also use NIST's products as standards, or do other countries have their own standards/NIST?

New comment by spinach in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

spinach — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 03:11:59 +0000

Just stating biological reality is "transphobia" now, if even speaking about reality is censored we are lost.

New comment by spinach in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

spinach — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:53:29 +0000

App stores are region/country specific and the accounts are linked to that.

New comment by spinach in "The Origins of Wokeness"

spinach — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:35:29 +0000

People who lean left are choosing to leave.

Greg Lukianoff of FIRE, a free speech defender said Musk made twitter better for free speech (on balance): https://youtu.be/Er1glEAQhAo?si=2aWdSIsbKzjz0nGA&t=2853

New comment by spinach in "Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again"

spinach — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 23:32:34 +0000

It's interesting how this conversation about free speech on twitter really only came up after Elon Musk took over, even though it was terrible before Musk. If you had opinions on certain spicy topics that went against the American Democrat left you would be suspended until you removed the post or banned. There was even the "Twitter Files" which documented some of this.

It actually seems more open to me now, only that people who got used to being able to ban people they didn't like so they left. Yes, Musk does things are suspicious, but overall I've found the experience better, as someone who holds moderate views.

New comment by spinach in "Spotify is full of AI music"

spinach — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:34:32 +0000

It sounds like you mean the ghost music, which several people have referenced already in this comment section. That is made by real people while in the linked article they are talking about AI generated music.

New comment by spinach in "America is becoming less "woke""

spinach — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 21:07:55 +0000

It's usually used to mean identity politics, isn't it? The origin of the word has it's roots in racism, but now it's come to basically mean all forms of identity politics.

New comment by spinach in "DDoS attack on Twitter, when Musk was going to interview Trump"

spinach — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 02:24:41 +0000

I use twitter a fair bit and haven't seen any disruptions - though I use it only in browser, maybe the app has seen some. It seems like only the Spaces part with Trump was overrun and not working which does make Musk's claim seem sus but they got it rather quickly working anyway. Ever since Musk took over there has been an insane amount of doomposting about twitter but it's still going fine.

New comment by spinach in "LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear"

spinach — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:17:17 +0000

Flickering tvs in windows would make being outside in a place with buildings become like being on a webpage full of video ads.

New comment by spinach in "Researchers invent 100% biodegradable 'barley plastic'"

spinach — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:19:59 +0000

Paper bags might be biodegradable, but then we have issues with deforestation for the material.

New comment by spinach in "Traffic noise hurts children's brains"

spinach — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 22:35:43 +0000

Also why are lawn mowers so loud and not made to be quieter in some way? Why does everyone need to cut their lawn in the first place?

New comment by spinach in "Musk, SpaceX sued by former employees alleging sexual harassment and retaliation"

spinach — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:24:43 +0000

Appointing women to posts, and the alleged sexual harassment seem like completely separate issues. What is your point?

New comment by spinach in "Leafy vegetables found to contain tire additives"

spinach — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 17:19:47 +0000

But if part of the problem is simply tire particles in the air and rain, a backyard garden will have the same problem.