520
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- Comment on People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? 5 months ago:
Uh, they DO still make dumb phones. And people still buy them.
- Comment on I need to wake up early 5 months ago:
You can get alarms that you place under the mattress and they shake the entire bed
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 5 months ago:
Well, you pulled out of your ass that I've never been to the UK when I lived there for nearly 30 years, you pulled out of your ass that I've never actually seen public infrastructure being used by the homeless, which I obviously have given how long I've lived there.
So now that we've established that my accusations of you pulling stuff out of your ass is well founded, do you have anything to say that isn't an attempt at setting up a straw man or 'no u'?
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 5 months ago:
My "can" includes infrastructure that I've actually seen being used by the homeless and setups that can feasibly be used by the homeless.
Stop pulling things out of your ass. It doesn't make your argument stronger.
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 5 months ago:
I've lived up and down the UK for nearly 30 years. In both the north and the south you can basically bump into public spaces that can be used by the homeless. Just because your city ain't got them doesn't mean it's the same for the rest of the UK.
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 5 months ago:
Bro wtf are you on about? There's tons of public spaces in the UK.
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 5 months ago:
Slippery slope? All it does is provide an enforcement option for orgs who don't want people begging on their property.
- Comment on Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First 6 months ago:
They believe Tories don't go far enough.
- Comment on It's important to get a good interest rate 6 months ago:
It can be. Depending on the circumstances in life you are in, credit may be the only way you're able to pay for food.
- Comment on Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes 6 months ago:
The problem is the cat's out of the bag.
Open source image generators already exists and have been widely disseminated worldwide
So all you'd end up doing is putting up a roadblock for legitimate uses. Anybody using it to cause harm will not be seriously impeded
It would be as effective as the US trying to outlaw the exporting of strong encryption standard. That is to say, completely ineffective.
- Comment on Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes 6 months ago:
Would it be a crime to have access to the software, or would they need to catch the criminals with the images and video files?
Problem with the former is that would outlaw any self hosted image generator. Any image generator is capable of use for deep fake porn
- Comment on China: Uyghur served 7 years in jail for advising others not to drink or smoke. It is first time that one of the jailed residents from Xaneriq village are released alive. 6 months ago:
You would have to be a Muslim. Not drinking and smoking is usually something that they like to promote in their citizenry.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
They'll try, I'm sure. Tesla and law abiding don't go well together.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
Yet.
- Comment on How come TurboVPN can have double the amount of downloads compared to NordVPN and ExpresVPN? ++ 6 months ago:
It's not specific to e-girls. Can be twitch streamers, bloggers, etc
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 6 months ago:
Also the app is used by children.
It's not scary in any way though? Or inappropriate for kids in any way?
Calling it nightmare fuel is quite the stretch tbh. It's like calling a 6ft basketball player incredibly tall.
- Comment on If Hitler was captured, what would have been his punishment in the Nuremberg Trials? 7 months ago:
Well in the unlikely event that he did turn up at Nuremberg, he'd be hanged just like the top ranking officials were.
But if Hitler was captured, there's a slim-to-none chance he's living to even see that trial
- Comment on If Hitler was captured, what would have been his punishment in the Nuremberg Trials? 7 months ago:
It's not though. The question makes the assumption that he would have been handed over for the Nuremberg trials.
But the Soviets were fucking ruthless against Nazi Germany. They were REALLY driven by hatred for them. If a Nazi soldier surrendered to Russians, a summary bullet to the head was often the more merciful outcome.
And it was the Russians that would have found Hitler first, so it's far more likely that they would:
- execute him on-the-spot
- torture him until death
- have their own trial for him in Russia before torture/execution.
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 7 months ago:
The government is already the one who makes that decision. The only thing new here is a line being drawn with regards to social media's push towards addiction and echo-chamberism.
- Comment on California sheriff releases bodycam video of killing of boy, 15, holding gardening tool 7 months ago:
A taser would have been enough. That 15 year old kid wouldn't be able to shrug off a taser.
- Comment on GB News poll backfires, as 90% of voters choose to 'rejoin the EU' 8 months ago:
I mean, polls on less fundamentalist outlets have shown similar polls.
- Comment on GB News poll backfires, as 90% of voters choose to 'rejoin the EU' 8 months ago:
How can you be so sure it's not genuine? Brexit has absolutely fucked Britain and the conservative party is a fucking mess
- Comment on GB News poll backfires, as 90% of voters choose to 'rejoin the EU' 8 months ago:
You know you done fucked up when even your partisan viewerbase thinks things have gone horribly fucking wrong.
- Comment on The upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot is a triple-A game, according to Sega 8 months ago:
Deus Ex
True about Deus Ex. But then the original was very much an early 2000s PC shooter (which do not work on consoles) and Invisible War was a disappointment.
Mortal Kombat
The first reboot didn't change the gameplay all that much. It was more of a story-necessity to do a reboot: Armageddon ended with all the fighters dead. Ditto with MK11 but MK1 did change up the gameplay a bit more.
Mario
Mario? Mario as a franchise never really has been rebooted. Certain genres of Mario have though, like New Super Mario Brothers on DS.
Sonic
Oh boy...are you talking about 06 or Boom? Actually it doesn't matter... Both are examples of how not to reboot a franchise.
Tomb Raider
The tomb raider reboots (both of them) do kinda make sense as all three eras are completely different gameplay styles.
Can't comment on NFS, never really paid attention to the franchise.
- Comment on Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot 8 months ago:
Not only that, they set a precedent that will hugely discourage the use of LLM chatbots too. Great for us humans though
- Comment on The upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot is a triple-A game, according to Sega 8 months ago:
AAA simply means a huge ass budget. Most AAA games stick to tried and true formulas because they are less risky
- Comment on I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system? 8 months ago:
Retention. You'll find the threat of lack of healthcare to be fairly coercive.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 8 months ago:
This thing went out to SMEs too. The smaller ones often aren't much of a step up in terms of knowledge from consumers
- Comment on On social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane? 8 months ago:
Except we've had this kind of brand of plutonium for hundreds of years. The concept of a widely distributed collection of knowledge dates back to the printing press. And believe it or not it was even more filled with utter bullshit than anything today. Remember when we thought diseases were caused by bad smells?
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 8 months ago:
Ditto. I went one step further and put OpenWRT on mine.
Messed up thing is, some ISPs make it an absolute bitch to make this work.