theneverfox
@theneverfox@pawb.social
- Comment on US | Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court 1 day ago:
Yeah, that’s why we have to sweep the field with progressives
- Comment on ‘It speaks to me in brain rot’: Theorising ‘brain rot’ as a genre of participation among teenagers 4 days ago:
Are teenagers animals we don’t understand to be studied?
Genuinely, yes. They’re the stage where humans stretch boundaries and react to the society they’ve been raised in
Teenagers want autonomy and support, but beyond that? To understand them you have to study constantly emerging culture, constantly changing language, endless subcultures and remixes
- Comment on New Shoes Blues 5 days ago:
I guess that’s fair, I’m not into shoes but I could spot running shoes at a glance
- Comment on New Shoes Blues 6 days ago:
Come now, there are legitimately shoe designs that can give you 15+% speed increase.
It’s not all intuitive, there’s some pretty wild physics going on in some shoes
- Comment on 'I won't humiliate myself': Brazil's president sees no point in tariff talks with Trump 6 days ago:
I mean… There is something to be said for playing along
What if you go to Trump, agree on a deal, then just delay endlessly? It’s not weakness to suck up to a tyrant while walking away with an objective win
Or loudly tell them to fuck themselves
The in between…I don’t see the appeal
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 1 week ago:
Don’t interrupt your enemy’s enemy dumbass
I’m not saying they’re your friend, just don’t interrupt the fight. Use it. Let them fight
Don’t interrupt two enemies who are making a mistake, don’t be a fucking idiot. Use the opportunity, win.
That’s all that matters - win and never forget why you did it
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 1 week ago:
You know what… You run with that. I have no idea wtf it means, but if you stay pointed at the billionaires…
Well, a piece of shit launched at my enemy isn’t my friend, but I’m not going to get in it’s way either
- Comment on Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology 1 week ago:
If you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of platforms both quietly and openly tweaking the algorithm to boost Nazi content
This isn’t just normal algorithm stuff, this is something darker. It goes hand in hand with censorship, the Internet is being shaped into a tool of control right in front of our eyes
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 2 weeks ago:
Damn, I thought we had another year or three… That’s already in production
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
No duh. I don’t care if a few people got slammed into the ceiling
I care that two planes almost collided and killed everyone
Why even consider the seat belts? They’re not the real issue here
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you get what I’m saying.
If you build your house in a flood zone… Well, I feel for you. That sucks, but I’m not going to lose sleep over it
If the state is cutting taxes to incentize building in a flood plain (which is a thing that has happened), in going to be very upset
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
At any time, you can expect at least 2-6 people out of their seats if the fasten seatbelts sign isn’t on. But I don’t really care about that part, shit happens
Planes shouldn’t be dodging each other in the first place… That’s the actual problem here. I don’t blame the pilot either, they avoided a collision, so as far as I’m concerned they did what they had to do
The situation itself never should have happened
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
It applies to everyone - you’ve had an event this year too. I should have said our governments
Air traffic control is just not an individual thing. Not even an individual country thing.
And I’m aware of unexpected turbulence…I just don’t see getting banged about that big a deal. Shit happens. Wrong place, wrong time… Sure, put on your seatbelt when you’re sitting down, but even if you don’t you’re probably not going to die from it
But planes nearly colliding? Actually colliding? That should never happen… It’s a 3D arena, the sky is huge. Planes should neither fall apart nor be anywhere near each other without coordination
We made air travel very safe with old technology, for a long time too. This is a very recent problem, and totally unacceptable
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
Fair, but it has gotten very noticably worse based on Trump’s deregulation catching up on the aircrafts and the latest round of forcing out air traffic control
Also, I didn’t know you could just say “all pronouns”. I like that a lot, I’m really uncomfortable putting myself in boxes and that describes my preferences very succinctly
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’ll keep you from getting slammed on the ceiling…in a situation that should never, ever happen. Which I’d over a midair collision, in which case you’re just screwed no matter what you do
I don’t blame the pilot either, they did their job properly. It was the military that failed to coordinate with the civilian air control tower, which also could have been avoided if the civilian tower had radar
What should you do? Demand better. Not think “I would have been fine, they must’ve been stupid”
You can’t protect against every freak event, what you can do is be one drop in the wave that demands competence from our government
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
And airplanes shouldn’t be in each other’s airspace
I don’t know what you’re trying to say, the airplanes nearly running into each other is the clear problem
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
Which time? In January or in Trump’s last term?
- Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport." 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but people are still going to be using the bathrooms and such, even if you assume everyone actually obeys the rules
- Comment on White House lashes out at 'South Park' Trump parody 2 weeks ago:
Not yet he hasn’t. He just tweeted about it so far
The bait is to see if he’ll go after Paramount again, and how Paramount responds
They just signed a deal for 1.5 billion, then painted a target on their chest and said “I fucking dare you”
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 2 weeks ago:
Just do it and say “oopsie!”
- Comment on do they hate money now for some reason?? 2 weeks ago:
Why do they care? They’re in the debt game, and they get 2% of like half of all purchases too
They won capitalism, they’ve stacked the barriers to entry up high and taken economy activity hostage.
Now a group is pressuring them to reach further with that power… Why not normalize overreaching when they’re being invited to? They’re probably giggling at the opportunity, if it goes badly they can reverse course and blame collective shout
Hell, if this keeps happening they might as well open up a protection racket
- Comment on Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day 2 weeks ago:
Well, it’s a zero day for 24 hours, right?
- Comment on bad board games 3 weeks ago:
Only countries where the local rich or the government bought up enough that when the real capitol arrived, they said “not for sale”
Oh yeah, and also had a military strong enough to make it too risky to send in the private armies that companies used to have
- Comment on kingdom come 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think you can just use two classification systems in the same sentence. It should probably be illegal or something
- Comment on 1940s do be repeating 3 weeks ago:
It’s kinda both… They’re both recruiting a Nazi AI, and unleashing an AI with the purpose of turning people into Nazis
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 4 weeks ago:
You should be more terrified. And also more glad
- Comment on Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” 4 weeks ago:
Well, the cars themselves weren’t racist though
Progress!
- Comment on The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker 4 weeks ago:
What do you mean? Any AI can replace any knowledge worker. You just fire the worker and say AI will do it, easy
Look around… Running a corporation isn’t about doing things or making things anymore, it’s about the stock price. And consulting companies have convinced investors that layoffs are so hot and rich
If you haven’t noticed, the quality of everything has been plummeting since COVID. They don’t care about tomorrow problems, just extracting as much wealth as they can before it all comes crashing down
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 4 weeks ago:
I mean… They kind of didn’t though
In major cities, sure. Even smaller ones will have Indian places. But they’re proportional to the amount of Indians in an area
Because there’s a big difference… Everyone can go to a Chinese restaurant and confidently order. Everyone knows what sushi is, even if some people don’t eat it. Thai foods are less known, but the menus are very Americanized, so you go once and you get the idea
I know the good Indian restaurant back home, but I only know the dishes by color. Lots of naan and wet dishes… They were good, but I couldn’t tell you what they were. And if the sign says Indian food, I don’t know what they serve. So I’ve only been to the one place
Vindaloo and curry? That is everywhere, but I’ve never had an Indian version of it. The British spread vindaloo and curry spread itself
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 4 weeks ago:
I think Chinese food spread was more organic, they helped each other immigrate, shared recipes, and acted almost like a franchise in how new restaurants were chosen in unserved areas and given a general playbook
And then the Thai government did it more formally, Korean culinary movement copied the success (or maybe the other way around)