Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 1 week ago:
Where I am the charging infrastructure is terrible and electricity prices are bad. I was considering a hybrid but I guess if it’s no better I’ll just grab a regular ICE
- Comment on Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away 1 month ago:
Compliance fines come out of a different budget so who cares
- Comment on Gotta love moms 1 month ago:
(and mitochondrial DNA is inherited exclusively from the mother)
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 month ago:
It’s certainly something besides latitude. Western Canada grows hella tomatoes and that’s 49 lat at the bare minimum
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 month ago:
It was working for a while for the guy. He was paralyzed from the neck down and he was able to use it to play some lame game like LoL or something.
- Comment on Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models 1 month ago:
Can’t wait for chatGPT to start chastising people for asking a question it’s already heard before.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 month ago:
I don’t think it’s been the case that there has been a backslide, though. Win 11 marketshare peaked, then declined, and then 10 increased.
- Comment on Kerbal Space Program 2 feared cancelled as 70 layoffs reported at Take-Two's Seattle offices 1 month ago:
Exactly… On EVERY point.
It’s almost a work of art how PERFECTLY they fucked up.
- Comment on Kerbal Space Program 2 feared cancelled as 70 layoffs reported at Take-Two's Seattle offices 1 month ago:
I mean, they bought the IP, fucked the original devs, didn’t actually create anything new, and clearly had absolutely no fucking clue why people liked KSP1.
This is just an example of some MBA idiots reach extending past their grasp.
They thought they could juice the IP like COD or GTA. They realized they had no fucking clue what was going on. They cut their losses.
If they even did KSP1 w/ multiplayer they’d have struck fucking diamonds. But that isn’t on the MBA bingo card. It isn’t skins, battle passes, and microtransactions.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls and Fallout devs Bethesda want to release games more often, but making them last is more important 1 month ago:
They should just tag team the franchises w/ Obsidian.
They fucking CRUSHED it with NV.
- Comment on arthropods 1 month ago:
I salivate whenever I hear about these ancient mega arthropods. Like, gigantic and armoured, whatever. But by modern standards, blind and incredibly stupid. And in that atmosphere you’d be constantly so well oxygenated. I don’t know why but I’m convinced these big fucks tasted like lobster.
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 2 months ago:
I mean, obviously question: how does one treat them as if they are?
(Make them say the quiet part out loud)
- Comment on The Fallout TV show gave the Fallout games a huge player bump, as everyone remembers they like Fallout 2 months ago:
It blows my fucking mind how badly companies mismanage good video game IP.
Either they absolutely saturate the market as fast as they can to the point where any game is just a grain of sand shifting and swirling as the waves of quarterly releases wash against the shore (Call of Duty)
Or they make a good game, but then spend either DECADES milking them (Elder Scrolls, GTA) or they just wait so long that it eventually falls of the cultural radar and the moment to strike is long past (Half Life, Portal)
Like, let creative people do creative things. Let people who are good at making games make games. No your MBA doesn’t mean you should be directing creative decisions.
- Comment on OwO 3 months ago:
That isn’t a stromatolites
- Comment on If Askjeeves.com was invented today, chances are it would be a GPT Site. 3 months ago:
Oh great. Now you’ve fucking conjured him.
Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with dapper moustache and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Silicon Valley to be born? - Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The most pronounced spending effect that results from hiked interest is on housing. It would drive home ownership even farther out of reach for people who already can’t afford it. Further entrenching the divide between those who own property and those who do not. Further empowering landlords.
I think trying to implement UBI is hard, not because it’s an intrinsically difficult concept, but because what nobody wants to admit is without new legal levers, it will eventually devolve into what pretty much every social net turns into: a subsidy for the rich capitalist class.
Most people who recieve social assistance work, and work AT LEAST full time. Every dollar of social assistance is unpaid fair wages from their employers.
I’m not against UBI AT ALL, but exploitive labour practices and a failure to enforce antitrust laws are why there is even a problem at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Oligopolies handle this by just buying “turds in the punchbowl” companies and dismantling them.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I don’t know how this answers the question, though.
I’m a landlord in city 1, UBI there is 100/mo. I jack my rental prices by 50.
I’m a landlord in city 2, UBI there is 200/mo. I jack my rental prices by 100.
City 1 responds by raising UBI to 200. Landlords follow suit. City 2 to 300. Landlords to 250.
OP is suggesting that capitalist class just says “uwu, for me?~~~ 👉😍👈”, regardless of the amount or location. OP is suggesting that in practice this is just another slice of pie to be extracted by the capital holders.
I don’t have a fucking clue if it’s true, but I don’t think this response addresses the question asked.
- Comment on Did we? 3 months ago:
I have it on good authority that yes, we did. On GOOD AUTHORITY.
- Comment on Did we? 3 months ago:
Sun is coming up later brah
- Comment on Without fail 3 months ago:
Steven?
Yes?
This is Clem Fandango.
I know who you are.
Can you hear me?
YES I CAN HEAR YOU CLEM FANDANGO
- Comment on Without fail 3 months ago:
Glad it made you happy after a long rest!
- Comment on US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program 4 months ago:
No, I don’t think anyone has definitely proven that George W Bush and Colin Powell KNEW that the WMD claims in Iraq were bullshit when they were presenting them as the primary justification for the war.
It’s just the nature of the beast.
- Comment on US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program 4 months ago:
My B!
- Comment on US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program 4 months ago:
The science of putting a ballistic payload anywhere, including heaven.
The space race was awesome because it let the two countries measure their dicks (specifically their military dicks) without actually obliterating the planet.
The “for all mankind” angle was a great way to frame things for the population of Earth, for sure. But just like mobile chemical WMD labs in Iraq, sometimes the given justification and actual justification are two different things.
Don’t get me wrong, there absolutely were beneficial optics. Something doesn’t have to just be for one thing. But it was always primarily about practical demonstration of weapons capacity under the facade of human exploration.
- Comment on What makes fishing as a hobby so appealing that people will fish all hours of the day and in nasty weather? 4 months ago:
- Comment on US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program 4 months ago:
You make it sound like the military advancements were an unexpected byproduct, as opposed to the real goal.
- Comment on If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly 4 months ago:
Lol
- Comment on ‘Boycott Tesla’ ads to air during Super Bowl — “Tesla dances away from liability in Autopilot crashes by pointing to a note buried deep in the owner’s manual, that says Autopilot is only safe on fr... 4 months ago:
Just read it again except for the last sentence.
- Comment on Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? 4 months ago:
In relatively short order, the majority of web content will be AI generated anyways. People will be mad that other AIs are stealing what their AIs wrote. The technology and business aspirations have accelerated us towards a shittier and shittier web experience for a few decades now. I think we’ll hit some kind of web-shit-singularity within 5 years.