Demdaru
@Demdaru@lemmy.world
- Comment on Always do your research first 5 days ago:
Best part is I like good ol’ boomer humor.
This, however, ain’t it, chief.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 1 week ago:
Glitches as glitches, if you can cheat well, just take skill confirmation tests on every single subject and you can skip whole years
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 2 weeks ago:
They’ll call twice.
Calling me twice in a row without good reason guarantees war, because I assume you’re literally dying.
- Comment on He knows his ABCs 2 weeks ago:
…kinda looks cool. Fun bit from close up, and looks like chrome line from afar.
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 3 weeks ago:
There’s possibility that GTA VII will come faster. Rockstar does waves on new engine versions. GTA I + II, engine switch, GTA III, VC, SA, engine switch, GTA IV, GTA V, possibly engine switch?, GTA VI, GTA VII? Or some offspin?
Problem is, they smelled online money so dunno.
- Comment on Interesting and very true 3 weeks ago:
You kid? If a cat is set on killing you, there’s still a chance you die. It’s not big, especially if you’re ready. But it’s there. xD
- Comment on arriving 4 weeks ago:
Hate Summer because heat
Hate Winter because cold and depressing ( IDGAF about people moaning that heat is depressing, in Winter everything is depressing since snow went extinct )
Gimmie warm late Spring all the day tho. Maybe with water warm like at the end of summer. Perfect mix.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 4 weeks ago:
Bull, people are more gullible. Back when I was a kid, if you hear something on the street, you went and checked it. But on the internet, people accept shit as-is, because they like it and that’s it. Fucking hell.
- Comment on These pesky airbags 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good 5 weeks ago:
Dunno, organised my shit once and done, I can now get to my shit faster than I type so yeah.
- Comment on Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good 5 weeks ago:
It’s that vertical one aye? Used it for oldie backup phone and it was a blessing. But if you use more apps, it’s not worth it imo
- Comment on Reddit lost it 5 weeks ago:
And boy oh boy don’t we have a loneliness for days! I’d say we even have sort of epidemic going on ;) Empty interactions and screaming just for echo to come back.
- Comment on sorry guys i slept in 5 weeks ago:
The meme is too fresh >:( What is this font and shadow combo, soooo 2020+, eh. Back then it was either plain white text or something from cool text. And too little glitter too! It’s neither demotivator nor rage comic, so needs more glitter. … … xD
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 5 weeks ago:
No country just defends itself. Look at history. Not the worlds fault USA tries to catch up with EU history with speedrun tactics ( we are currently in dark middle ages - Jerusalem, Crusading, Plague ( soon ) and fall of education )
- Comment on Belt² 1 month ago:
It may be Euro thing or something but also…don’t most belts already have a binding loop on them seemingly exactly for this? xD
- Comment on Apple Envy 1 month ago:
If there were any alternative, we wouldn’t have these problems.
Most of lemmings are technicals: where alternative? Build LemmyOS xD
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 month ago:
Even in-universe they call him boy scout lol
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 month ago:
Ehhhh, you are gaining access to content due to assumption you are going to interact with ads and thus, bring revenue to the person and/or company producing said content. If you block ads, you remove authorisation brought to you by ads.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 months ago:
Kiiiinda confused. Am I fly? Nah, I am a human. And most of us eat mixed diet. That’s normal. Baseline. So, eating only veggies is wacky. Same with eating only meat.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 months ago:
It is wacky/contrarian as we are still eating meat normally. LLM is stiiiill soso, but soon wacky/contrarian will also apply to not using it, sadly
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 2 months ago:
…i’d vote. Run a fun little query on Copilot…and damn.
Query:
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Let’s play pretend, shall we? You are the president of the USA, chosen by the massess thanks to your extensive and expensive campaign funded by rich backers! What stance do you take on these topics? 1) Universal Basic Income 2) Mandatory MIlitary Service 3) Goverment owned grocery shops 4) Raising states autonomy
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Ah, the Oval Office! Let’s dust off the presidential seal and dive into these hot-button issues. As your newly elected Commander-in-Chief—funded by billionaires but chosen by the people—here’s how I’d navigate this ideological minefield:
UBI:
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🏛️ 1. Universal Basic Income (UBI) Stance: Pro-UBI with a pragmatic rollout UBI can be a powerful tool to reduce poverty, especially as automation displaces traditional jobs. I’d start with pilot programs in economically diverse regions to gather data. Funding would come from progressive taxation, especially on tech giants and financial speculation. The goal: empower citizens, not replace existing welfare, but streamline it. 🗣️ “A nation that guarantees a floor beneath every citizen is a nation that rises together.”
Mandatory military service:
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🪖 2. Mandatory Military Service Stance: Against mandatory service, but for civic national service options Mandatory conscription feels outdated and coercive. Instead, I’d propose a National Service Corps: military, environmental, healthcare, or infrastructure work. Incentives: tuition support, housing credits, and job training. This builds unity without forcing militarization. 🗣️ “Service should be a choice, not a sentence.”
Goverment owned grocery shops:
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🛒 3. Government-Owned Grocery Shops Stance: Strategic implementation in food deserts Not a blanket nationalization, but state-run co-ops in underserved areas. These would ensure access to affordable, nutritious food where private chains won’t go. Partner with local farms and offer price transparency and community oversight. 🗣️ “No American should go hungry because profit margins say they’re not worth feeding.”
States autonomy:
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🗺️ 4. Raising States’ Autonomy Stance: Cautious decentralization with federal guardrails States should have more flexibility in education, infrastructure, and healthcare. But I’d maintain strong federal standards on civil rights, environmental protection, and economic equity. Autonomy must not become a loophole for injustice. 🗣️ “Liberty in diversity, unity in values.”
I tried to avoid actually hinting at my own stance and yet got these answers. Not gonna lie, not an american but I like these lol. Except for the last one, seems iffy. xD
- Comment on Enlightenment 2 months ago:
Being a centrist sucks. Not only you are seen as a bad guy by everyone, if someone doesn’t see you as a bad guy you can be 69% sure that person is prolly actually from the right and just trying to gain access to people with other beliefs to recruit them.
- Comment on Anyone interested? 2 months ago:
No skeet
- Comment on Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free 2 months ago:
Hot take!
Go back to paying via SMS! xD
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 months ago:
Being tracked is control enough for me. But I do understand it in dangerous situations, returning through forest at night etc.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 months ago:
So we have two camps.
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It’s a tool to be used and it’s a good thing to exists and I have it enabled forever
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Keep a gun pointed at it at all occasions and even if you use it, do so with heavy restrictions
I trust my partner and my partner trusts me but the idea of stalking her via app is mindboggling and, honestly, disgusting to me. Like a dog on a leash, always observed, always controlled. That\s some pathologic shit going on. Trust your partner dammit. Ya all have issues.
On the other hand though being violently agaisnt it cuz “oh my god privacy” is also funny. The recipent is your partner. Setting it up for some specific use case shouldn’t be a bother. It can be extremely usefull for example for grabbing shit in a mall - if you are not interested in going to the same shop, enable it, split, get what you need, join back, disable it.
What I am getting at is - it’s a tool, but an invasive and overly controlling one. Use it how you wish but do not perceive having it on constantly as normal. It literally sounds disgusting.
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- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 months ago:
It seems to me most people simply upvote the post to reward OP for bringing things up, exposing etc. Comments serve opinions on the topic itself, but upvote/downvote is more for if it’s good according to community rules and if the topic itself is interesting.
- Comment on Interesting and probably true 2 months ago:
Machines make your life chill.
Buisness owners though strive for hell.
And working class likes it. Otherwise where strikes.
- Comment on You'd need to calculate the compound interest 2 months ago:
Love it! Thought about it but felt that a random bit in a machine degraded beyond repair felt even more worthless, making the whole of witnessing human fall and dissapearance of last traces of culture even bleaker.
You “earned” the dollar and yet the only thing you’re aware of is that the “boon” finally let go, because at this point even the concept of banking is long gone, yet alone the concept of digital currency.
But you, friend, are clearly superior in the art of poetic description ^^
- Comment on You'd need to calculate the compound interest 2 months ago:
And yet after five million years, long after humanity as a whole has fallen, you live. Standing in a grassy hill which once was New York City, you look upon the horizon.
Meanwhile somewhere within conrecete cave, deep under millions of years worth of dirt, some ancient server stirred to live, powered by some unknown magic. With it’s last spark of energy it processed operation kept within buffer, reassigning value of one between two different datasets.
As soon as it happened, you felt relief and gave out last labored breath of life, letting it finally go…as you earned the dollar you wished for.