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- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
This is the thing. People like to blame Berniebros and whatnot for Clinton’s loss in '16, but the reality is that the centrist Democrats that vote for the party’s corporate-backed candidate wouldn’t vote for a progressive one, so even if Bernie had won the nomination, he probably still would have lost because he would have lost the support of these DNC hardliners. I heard people literally say in '16 that if Bernie had somehow won the nomination over Hillary that they would have just stayed home. It’s wild to think how ideologically balkanized the Democratic party is, with so many people fervently belonging to the leftist minority that holds their nose every election to vote for another mediocre person whose best attributes are being “not an outright fascist” versus the people who will never vote for a truly left wing candidate because they’re fiscally conservative but socially liberal and just allergic to compromising in the same way that they’ve forced the leftists in their party to do since forever.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
What are they, 1-2% of the potential Dem voter base?
Add a .000 in front of those numbers and you might be right. If those numbers were accurate you would expect somewhere between, what…1 and 2 million tankies in the US alone?
- Comment on Never make the mistake of visiting a community for your favorite podcasts 6 months ago:
My favorite was the Chapo Traphouse subreddit because the image in this post describes the hosts and their relationship with their fans. Whenever the subreddit got banned and the hosts heard about it their response was “good, that was the right choice. We fully support the admins here and their banning of that subreddit.”
- Comment on Never make the mistake of visiting a community for your favorite podcasts 6 months ago:
Under the Dome has always been super interesting to me because Brian K. Vaughn is one of the best comic book writers of all time and a consistent criticism of UTD is how bad the writing is. I know he didn’t write many of the episodes, though, but I also wonder how his episodes rank in comparison with the others.
- Comment on Never make the mistake of visiting a community for your favorite podcasts 6 months ago:
Anything related to a DND live play I’m going to assume will be immediately toxic by virtue of what I understand about DND’s fanbase. I love Dimension20 and I like Critical Role but I’m going to assume every other fan of the show is an insufferable idiot.
- Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing 8 months ago:
Part of me is glad that my continuing insistence that younger generations are dumber than I was at their age is not just me being an old man mad at kids for still having the youth that he squandered. A larger part of me is terrified at the prospect of a generation being continuously microdosed with levels of garbage entertainment and misinformation that would make George Orwell nauseous.
- Comment on Fake news, fake penis... 9 months ago:
Black goes with everything and hides stains better than lighter colors.
- Comment on Fake news, fake penis... 9 months ago:
Don’t forget the programmers! (teledildonics)
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 9 months ago:
“Billionaire has shitty beliefs. In other news, the weather in London is still shit.”
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 9 months ago:
The preferred term is NaMP - Not a Magical Person/Non-Magical Person. You could also say “Person of Non-Magic,” but it’s hard to pronounce “ponm.”
- Comment on Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? 9 months ago:
number puzzles that need to be solved.
In JK Rowling’s mind the number puzzles are things like “How many genders are there?”
The correct answer, of course, is “Fuck you, JK Rowling, that’s how many.”
- Comment on Also, the doors actually open. 10 months ago:
I didn’t read that part. So there.
- Comment on Also, the doors actually open. 10 months ago:
Unless he wants them to have large dicks in front of a large crowd, I think you mean hanged.
- Comment on Also, the doors actually open. 10 months ago:
Most if not all of the actual military leadership of the Confederacy also attended West Point.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
I really hope startups are using Copilot and stuff as much as possible because so much of that code is absolute bloatware trash and it’ll make Copilot worse with time. Or maybe it won’t. Would be funny if it did, though.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
I remapped the Bixby button to turn on the flashlight. Best decision ever.
- Comment on Merry ChristmaX 10 months ago:
Hmm…that one’s probably around 150 gently used.
- Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit 10 months ago:
This isn’t Elon’s hyperloop. It’s a company called Hyperloop One, predominately funded by Richard Branson.
- Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit 10 months ago:
No one reads the article, my guy. Everyone just assumes its Musk’s imbecilic project, when in reality its Branson’s imbecilic project.
- Comment on Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same 11 months ago:
We both know the answer to that question. And boy howdy am I stoked for cars to get fully enshittified where you have to have a yearly subscription for the software that allows your tires to move, otherwise you functionally just bought a 45,000 dollar paperweight.
- Comment on subs > dubs 11 months ago:
That argument never held much weight for me years ago, because a lot of subs were trash back then, too. You just picked whatever trash you wanted and let the weabs on the internet be damned.
- Comment on Glad it's almost over 11 months ago:
November is National Novel Writing month and December is National Edit the Terrible Novel You Just Wrote month.
- Comment on A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month 11 months ago:
The article says
Aitana, a 25-year-old woman from Barcelona, is described by her creators as the first Spanish AI model, Euronews first reported.
Which means the article is stating that the model is an AI. Did no one read the article?
- Comment on A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month 11 months ago:
It seems like this isn’t even an AI model. They just had an AI create fake pictures of a person that doesn’t exist based on design specifications. Does this thing engage with users automatically, does it generate new “photos” on the fly and upload them? Like, what part of this is intelligent? Because if it’s not, the article is simply lying at worst, and wrong at best.
- Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea 11 months ago:
Biden literally signed an executive order blocking railway workers from striking. If he has that kind of authority and is willing to use it in that way, then all he has to do is make an executive order declaring all strikes illegal. Also, not trying to be a naysayer, but a general strike is a pipe dream. You can barely get people in the same union to cooperate, let alone multiple unions cooperating for a general.
- Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea 11 months ago:
Unions are tragically toothless when the federal government can just decide a planned strike is illegal.
- Comment on Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated 11 months ago:
It’s an effective tool at providing introductory information to well documented topics. A smarter Google Search, basically. And that’s all I really want it to be. Overrated? Probably not. It’s useful if you use it correctly. Overhyped? Yeah, but that’s more a fault of marketing than technology.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
Why the gay one?
Because the gay one is hella cute and I’m all about that shit.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
The intent of Black Mirror is to make you think about how you use technology
This is the intent of the vast majority of most science fiction. It doesn’t make Black Mirror’s execution good or insightful. Much of Black Mirror focuses on people “surrendering control” to technology in ways that prove self-destructive or just generally destructive. At their best, many of the stories aren’t really about technology. Technology serves as an aesthetic component, but you could still make the stories work without them. The Orville actually has a better version of Black Mirror’s Season 3, Episode 1 episode “Nosedive.” It actually engages with the underlying themes and ideological basis of a world that operates like that and suggests that the technology isn’t really the problem: it’s how people elect to perceive and judge one another and the ease with which we condemn one another from a distance. It’s not a technological problem, fundamentally, but a cultural one. Technology can facilitate bad behavior or exacerbate negative societal tendencies, but it doesn’t sit at the functional center of them. Because, functionally, it’s just a Salem Witch Trial story with additional technological flavoring on top. This is something that Black Mirror never seems to “get.”
Which is why, and I will stand by this, the best Black Mirror episode is the gay one.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
“What if technology was…(wait for it)…bad sometimes.”
So thought provoking.