BumpingFuglies
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- Comment on I wonder if antivax kids are OK getting a cootie shot? 1 week ago:
Yeah, a lot of people are still COVID vax zealots, despite everything. It’s become part of their identities, like political affiliation or religion, so even questioning it is a form of “blasphemy” to them.
Reasonable people know not to trust pharmaceutical companies or politicians, but even then, so many had a blind spot for the shots, likely due to fear (both existential and social) and propaganda.
- Comment on Indie Dev Who Pulled Game From Xbox In Solidarity With Palestinian-Led BDS Hopes Others Will Do The Same 1 week ago:
Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad. Palestine leadership may not be great (or even good), but at least they’re not actively carrying out a genocide.
- Comment on First American pope elected as Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes the 267th pontiff 2 weeks ago:
We bought our own pope! Now we can inflict even more suffering on the poor!
USA! USA! USA!
- Comment on After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I agree that it’s creepy and something that could very easily be abused. But in this case, it seems to have been the right move. Whether the dead brother would have approved, we’ll never know. But the living sister seemed to earnestly believe he would have, and that’s enough for me.
- Comment on After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court 2 weeks ago:
What makes it immoral? Nobody was hurt in any way, physically, emotionally, or financially. They disclosed the use of AI before showing the video. It even helped the perpetrator get a smaller sentence (IMO prison as a concept is inhumane, so less prison time is morally right).
- Comment on After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court 2 weeks ago:
Technology isn’t inherently good or evil. It entirely depends on the person using it. In this case, it had a very positive impact on everybody involved.
- Comment on After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court 2 weeks ago:
- Woman’s brother was killed in a road rage incident
- In preparing her victim impact statement for the court, she struggled to find a way to properly represent her brother’s voice
- Her husband works with AI and helped her generate a video of her brother for the victim impact statement
- The video was very well received and true to get brother’s personality. Though she didn’t forgive the killer, she knew her brother would. So, in the AI video, he did.
- After all the real people made their statements to the judge, the video was played
- The judge loved it and thanked the woman
- Comment on Trump reinserts himself into Canadian politics, saying 'as a state, it works great' 4 weeks ago:
What we need is a parental figure to take Trump by the scruff of his neck and force him to apologize for what he’s done.
Excepting that, I hope conscientious Americans are writing to other countries’ leaders to apologize for Trump on behalf of the reasonable half of the population.
- Comment on What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness? 1 month ago:
Look, dude, I don’t have the energy to teach you in addition to my own kid at home. Improve your reading comprehension, reread my last comment, and maybe we can have a reasonable discussion.
- Comment on What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness? 1 month ago:
It’s as similar to racism as any prejudice is. It’s just a lazy term coined, I’d bet, for the sake of quick understanding within the context of its era, rather than for semantic accuracy.
- Comment on What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness? 1 month ago:
I tried to find the correct word or phrase to use, and the consensus seems to be “cultural racism”, so I guess it’s technically a kind of racism, even though it doesn’t directly relate to race. “Culturism” would be a more accurate word, I think.
- Comment on What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness? 1 month ago:
No, the only one approaching racism here is you, as you’re the only one equating culture to race. A black German is the same as a white German.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 1 month ago:
Oh no. I remember that video now. I didn’t need to remember that video. Why did I have to ask?!
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 1 month ago:
I’ll probably regret asking, but I’m out of the loop and insatiably curious.
Brick in the window video?
- Comment on Amelia Earhart's name sounds like "Air Heart" 1 month ago:
The vaudevillian steampunk band Steam Powered Giraffe apparently had the same thought, and made a song about it.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 1 month ago:
Take me with you.
- Comment on I've never said "I love you" to my sister 1 month ago:
It’s okay. I’ve never said “I love you” to your sister, either.
- Comment on I do not agree with their political views, but skinheads make pretty nice punk music 2 months ago:
Any fan (or hater) of punk will tell you:
“Nice punk music” is an oxymoron.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 2 months ago:
That’s just, like, your opinion, man.
I think it’s perfectly sized. No need for change. And the OLED model is noticeably more lightweight than the original LCD model, so the newer one isn’t too heavy.
- Comment on is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father? 2 months ago:
There’s a distressing trend of people (self-identifying “progressives”, for the most part) abandoning family because of ideological differences, so most here will probably tell you to cut contact.
I don’t know you or your father, but as a dad myself, I can tell you that if he has the slightest decency as a parent, he’ll be willing to listen if you come from a place of love and respect. Tell him how you’re personally affected by his actions. Appeal to his paternal instinct. At best, you could convince him to rethink his ideology. If that fails, you can hopefully get him to agree to avoid discussing politics with you.
It’s especially important now, with a nationwide financial collapse looming, for family to stick together.
- Comment on Most of us trust scientists, shows a survey of nearly 72,000 people worldwide 3 months ago:
Why would you trust anybody intrinsically? Scientists are people, too, and are just as corruptible as any of us. And since so many people do trust them intrinsically, when they are influenced by moneyed interests, the negative impact they can make is amplified. After all, who are you more likely to believe - a random billionaire or a random scientist?
I’m not saying no scientist should be trusted, and in fact I do believe that scientific research as a profession is more noble and tends to attract more honest people than most. I just think that anybody attempting to influence the public - through policy or the research behind it - should be met with skepticism.
- Comment on Anything tempting you? 4 months ago:
If Monster Hunter Wilds plays nice on Steam Deck, I doubt I’ll be able to resist. Otherwise, it’s a small game, but Heroes of Hammerwatch 2 releases next week, and I am hyped. The first HoH is the GOAT roguelite, IMO, and the demo for HoH 2 was very promising.
- Comment on PlatinumGames Reveals Bayonetta 15th Anniversary Celebration 4 months ago:
Sounds like you didn’t play the game at all. Or you were just really bad at it.
It’s like Devil May Cry; you absolutely cannot button mash if you want to do well in the game.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Hits Over 2 Billion Mod Downloads 4 months ago:
It’s a Wabbajack modlist. So it’s actually hundreds of mods.
- Comment on Valve set Palworld back as Steam Deck Playable but with multiple listed problems 4 months ago:
I love the Steam Deck; I think it’s the best thing to happen to PC gaming since Steam itself, but the Verified system is so unreliable that I mostly ignore it. I’ve played “Unsupported” games that work perfectly out of the box and I’ve refunded “Verified” games that wouldn’t even launch.
ProtonDB is a much more reliable metric for how well any game will run on the Deck.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
The wrong candidate.
- Comment on Cryptocurrency promoters on X amplify China-aligned disinformation. 6 months ago:
A review of the account revealed that “Watermelon cloth” regularly posted content critical of social inequalities in the United States, the Ukrainian and Israeli governments
Disinformation or common sense?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I disagree with your ban, even if I agree with the reason for it.
But saying Reddit doesn’t ban people proves that you are either disingenuous or deeply ignorant. Reddit is infamous for banning dissenters. It’s one of the big reasons I left for the greener (though still awfully ban-happy) pastures if Lemmy.
- Comment on Whether you've got big plans for your Sunday or are just going to relax, Putin could change your plans, end your life, kill all of your family, and incinerate everything you own. 6 months ago:
If this is the kind of thought you have in the shower, you might wanna get your pipes checked for lead.
- Comment on Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval 7 months ago:
Nah, it’s pretty simple. Pronouns don’t use apostrophes for possession; they only use them for contractions like “it’s”.