theneverfox
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- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 6 days ago:
I don’t think that’s fair in this case, she’s been killing it. She’s been drawing hard lines and meeting Trump blow for blow…
As for what’s important, she got concessions so far. Trump got to claim a win, but she let Trump use a previously negotiated deal while getting the US to commit to cracking down on the flow of guns into Mexico
And now she’s fighting on the bullshit culture war stuff… But you know Mexico speaks a different language and isn’t changing the name on their side, right?
The threats against Google are a threat to crack down on a massive US tech company, which is probably (undoubtedly) related to the threat of delayed tarrifs
She’s playing the game. If only the liberals would wake up and realize the game has changed too
- Comment on Egg prices... 1 week ago:
It’s not about egg prices. It’s a shorthand for inflation, it’s nailing Trump supporters down to this one metric
These people are divorced from truth, but they want eggs. It’s hard to ignore how much eggs cost. It’s apparent how the egg section is half empty
This is a drum beat for people to look through their lying eyes, to pay attention to the world around them despite the lies
- Comment on Boeing Has Lost a Staggering Amount of Money on Its Starliner Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that there’s an incentive to game the system, especially when there’s requirements that restrict how the government picks contract winners
If it’s fixed cost, they cut every corner to be picked, then deliver something shitty and the government either lives with it or awards a second contract to fix it. Sometimes they don’t even complete it - sometimes there’s a bail where you put up collateral meant to be used as punishment and so someone else can be paid to finish your failed contract, but with large companies there’s often so much proprietary shit/institutional knowledge that no one else could reasonably complete the contract without starting over… So they can fail a contract and still come back for more
If it’s cost plus, big contractors take a loss initially to basically buy revenue streams they can milk indefinitely. Sure, they can only make so much per head, but that’s money they know will be coming in so they’re incentivized to push the headcount on the project to the limit and keep the party going as long as possible
That’s the problem with rules, if you have clear boundaries corporations will inevitably exploit them. They are meant to fight corruption or bad/incompetent actors, but by codifying all of it they clearly divide what is illegal and what isn’t, setting it all up to be gamed
- Comment on New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony 2 weeks ago:
You hit the nail on the head, it’s just the biggest sites
- Comment on Uhmm.. WTF? 3 weeks ago:
From what I’ve read, even first cousin is far enough if you don’t already have inbreeding problems
But it’s an uncomfortable topic, so we don’t talk about it much… Hell even the fact that it’s legal in half the US and not the other is crazy, people just really don’t like thinking about it
- Comment on Meta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI's GPT-4 internally, court filings reveal 5 weeks ago:
That’s basically what’s down stream from an open source model. Llama derivatives are what I use on my mid range gaming computer, and honestly they’re comparable. They can handle fewer details at a time, but they’re faster and way more efficient… Once you add in rag and tool use, they’re better than models 200x their size
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 1 month ago:
12am Happy new year! 1am Friend an hour back: Now it’s new years Me: well, I’ve been in 2025 an hour and it seems uneventful, probably a good sign
I’m sorry for jinxing it, everyone
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 2 months ago:
The fuck did I just read?
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 2 months ago:
Exactly, do you want them to know we polluted ourselves to death? That’s just shameful
Now, if we accidentally unleashed an ancient parasite? That’s just unfortunate
- Comment on Steal Her Look 2 months ago:
Well, FWIW, I drank my own pee. It tasted like mushroom tea… Then the next time, it tasted like piss. Very much night and day
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 2 months ago:
They do… It’s just not expected that they won’t
Pains of being a prototype democracy and all… If only the founding fathers had explicitly told us our system would need reform as issues came up
- Comment on Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps 2 months ago:
All of that makes me nauseous.
You’re free to use what you want to use, but the layers of dependency on vulnerable product lines is exactly the problem
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 2 months ago:
I really like my wired-wireless earbuds. They wrap around my neck and the magnets keep them in place like a necklace when not in use, the microphone/controls are closer to your mouth so the sound quality tends to be better
But of course, we can’t have nice things anymore, so they seem to be phasing them out
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 2 months ago:
Sprint merged with TMobile
- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 2 months ago:
I just think this is sad.
This is a person who believes if they go to Southeast Asia, they can easily find a life partner who fits their expectations about what that means
There’s nothing intrinsically wrong about that - it’s very naive, but only that. It’s not intrinsically racist or sexist - they might also be racist and sexist, in which case I’ll feel significantly less bad for them.
They might also just be genuinely clueless and/or neurodivergent… Propaganda works. Especially on those who haven’t been inoculated through experience or instincts
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 months ago:
Nah, we just went up and fixed it. I think I did it while the guy on the ground eyeballed it… It’s weird how it’s impossible to see up close, but from 40 feet away humans can tell to a fraction of a percent, I was tapping it with a wrench to dial it in based on the intensity of hand gestures. Honestly, we were more impressed by how he spotted it at a glance, it’s not like we did shoddy work - it was barely not tongue click, as he put it
It helped that I liked the engineer. Always cheerful and he gave me mini multi tool pliers for my birthday. Totally unexpected and not expensive, but I’ve got them right next to me right now, I still use them years later. And he was like that to everyone - he was a stickler for the details, but actually took an interest in us as people
Just a good guy all around. It’s hard to be upset with someone like that, even when they make you redo work now and then
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 months ago:
I remember we once installed something on a beam 40’ feet up. While waking through an inspection of many such things, the engineer stops, cocks his head for a second, and says “that’s not quite straight”
And then it wasn’t. Like a cast of manual breathing, the thing I had been frequently walking past for weeks was suddenly wrong, ever so slightly
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 months ago:
No, you feel a house. Think of how many houses you could feel at once #shrinkearthtoagolfball
- Comment on fuckery 3 months ago:
Or it implies that eternal love cannot exist or cannot exist in the presence of a never ending fuck, leading to the surprise in the statement
- Comment on fuckery 3 months ago:
Both could be both. You could have an imaginary fuck while awake, you could have a simulated fuck with a wet dream that doesn’t involve any fucking, stimulating fucking without actually imagining it
- Comment on Little dude ATP 3 months ago:
My biology teacher had this thing where every test you had to submit a question. My question was always the same - how the fuck does atp synthase work?
She did not appreciate my question especially after the first time, but it was always genuine… How the fuck does that shit work? If you understand it, please attempt to put it into words
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 3 months ago:
I think this is just whitewashing history… Even if you look to the ancient Western world, they had goddesses like Artemis
Generally, men fought wars. Like a lion pride - the males are the defenders because they’re bigger and stronger. Hunting doesn’t require raw strength - it requires diligence, patience, and/or endurance
But they all hunt. Lionesses are known for it, but lions do it too. Complete division of responsibilities is an insect thing
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 3 months ago:
I feel awkward being in public without interaction. It’s like my brain goes into overdrive, trying to predict a sudden interaction incoming like a quick time event
I’d comment on something slightly more relevant than the weather, because the conversation can then fade to comfortable silence (for me at least) knowing no more conversation is likely, or I’d do what I always do when someone engages - everyone has something interesting about them, I’ll throw the conversation in random directions until I find a topic worth speaking about
- Comment on Grr Windows 3 months ago:
For me it was a mix of that, plus “great, so you’re going to close everything maybe was using, sometimes restart some of it, and everything is going to be on the wrong screen and virtual desktop. Now that I’ve spent several minutes getting back to where I was yesterday, let’s see what garbage I don’t want that you’ve added”
Linux has its own inconveniences, but I don’t regret the switch… It gets better every day while windows gets worse
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 3 months ago:
So the CEO gets less than half their salary for the year?
Sounds like a great deal for the company. Until, you know, the whole thing collapses because they laid off the workers who kept the whole thing running
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 3 months ago:
Ah, but that’s the beauty of it. Why are they here? If it’s to troll, don’t give them what they want. If it’s for social interaction… Why are they venturing out of their echo chamber?
Every interaction with a community pulls you slightly closer to the group consensus. You can fight it to some extent, but we’re wired to fit in with the tribe
Social rejection is wired similar to pain in our brains - it’s far more salient, far more memorable and impactful, than normal interactions.
The highest form of this is rejection by the community - it hurts most when everyone’s attention is on you and they all reject you. Even a single person quietly reaching out afterwards is like a lifeline - it stands out to you. It takes hundreds or thousands of “normal” interactions to counteract one extreme negative one
A supportive community back home doesn’t counteract the impacts from an away game. Don’t go to their turf, let them come to ours. Do not feed them - we have better content, they’ll lose members to us, and if we do it right they’ll shrink until their echo chambers can no longer sustain themselves
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 3 months ago:
What do you mean? It works the same way, the opinion of the community will pull you closer to the group consensus. Too much exposure will have horrible things you don’t really believe spilling out of your mouth
Don’t go there, don’t spread word about it, don’t feed it in any way. It’s like flood water - pull others out of it if you can, but minimize your exposure
As to shutting them down if you have the ability? Shutting down a cesspool is good - it fragments the echo chamber, and some members won’t make the migration. The only question is if I trust the one making that decision to remain impartial
- Comment on Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen’s Suicide 3 months ago:
Therapy is also about fit. It takes something like 5 tries to get a good match - both the kid and the parent need to be on board, or the whole thing will end up as a bad experience for everyone involved
- Comment on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect 3 months ago:
How about the opposite? A decentralized system, avoiding concentrating power in any one place, and focusing on building platforms for coordination to act on larger scales
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 3 months ago:
No, the community needs to cyber bully them off the platform. They need to feel rejection for their words, not censorship. Censorship lets them frame themselves as the victim as they seek out a smaller echo chamber on the fringes. They need to learn their words will turn the community against them
We still have to live with them. We can’t ignore them or silence them - we have to correct them