theneverfox

@theneverfox@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because it’s infrastructure. It’s very expensive, and needs to be publicly funded to be good - otherwise you have a death spiral of raising prices, neglecting maintenance, and losing passengers because it’s expensive and terrible

  You can easily make it all back from taxes though… Good public transportation means anyone in a city can work, shop, or patronize anywhere, it makes the economy go brr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It theoretically could through the azure remote desktop client since Windows owns every part of that stack and has no concept of not stealing all data. It probably doesn’t because it would involve coordination between several teams

  It could work on Linux, but probably doesn’t because the Linux version of software tends to have more autonomy and better priorities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Teams is software that runs on your computer. Based on what’s described here, it’s now going to ask the wifi driver what access points are available

  Then it will send that info through the VPN along with the voice and video

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great to see some actual progress over there⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  According to that picture, the bell cracked in 1974 and the current bell is named Brian Blessed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, surely someone will set it up for you… For a fee

  Maybe even a subscription, why not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, because this isn’t looking at networking, it’s looking at wifi access points

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here we go again...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Avatar is like 20 years old, had a second series years later that explored the changed world a generation later, and has had only live action adaptations of the original story

  This does not seem like a good example…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And including cold veggies in a plastic bag counts as exposure? Where others aren’t eating it?

  I’m all for science, but you also have to have common sense or you’ll missapply the science. Children aren’t machines, they’re people. People can be communicated with. People are less adverse to new foods when they see others eat them. People have their own tastes

  If your kid doesn’t eat the little bag of carrots, maybe find out what veggie they would eat and continue to expose them to carrots on more palatable terms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like bullshit to me. If your kid doesn’t eat it, it’s not performative. It’s bullshit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bazzite if you’re expecting it to work without any required reading

  I’ll probably be going fedora aurora, it seems more solid but would require more setup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My bet- it’s the conspiracy nuts.

  When AI videos started to flood YouTube, science was one of the biggest areas. It’s stuff like “scientists discover potential signs of vacuum collapse”, then have 4 minutes of clips before going full AI and rambling about quantum physics for an hour

  I think they just take a grab bag of technical terms and theories, have AI spit out a title, and feed it into a video pipeline.

  Then they bait and switch you

  Now throw in a title about Elon musk discovering aliens, and anyone who clicks on it is probably low functioning enough not to realize

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, no. Kids want to be cool and respected, making it clear billionaires are hated will do so much more to wake them up

  And once a billionaire gives it all away to become just a normal person (with a few million in the bank as a safety net), we make them a hero

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve learned it’s a mistake to try to describe the fediverse to people. It’s right up there with getting them to care about privacy

  I’d just describe it as Reddit, but less bots. Or reddit but less toxic. Just focus on what might draw them in and send them a link to lemmy.world or whatever home server you think they’d like

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How will YOU choose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  but on the other hand in the context of the bible - he is the incarnation-ish-thingy of the one who created and perpetuates a binary system of good and evil, and as a narcissistic judge, jury, and executioner to him being “good” includes in major part worshipping him and only him. which is not very based

  The Bible hits very different without commentary. Jesus is even more relevant, and more based, when you read it assuming he wasn’t magic

  Like when he hid wine in water barrels to keep the party going. Or when he convinced everyone to pool their lunches together to feed everyone. Or when his friend pretended to die and he facepalmed and was like “no he didn’t… Go get the idiot out”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨got this ad and uh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No it’s not. They’re playing the victims and grifting ever onwards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See ya.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see that angle, but that’s not how it was presented to me… And based on memes like this, it’s not how it was presented to most students. Teachers legitimately taught this as if it were a justification for giving us so little autonomy

  Analyzing it now outside of that, I see a through line with what you’re saying. I think to really understand the intention behind it, this all points back to one thing…

  “I have always understood the Nazis,” Golding confessed, “because I am of that sort by nature.”

  To drive your point home, most of what you listed are on the fascism checklist. This is something Golding thought of often, because he had that level of darkness within him

  And as a depressed schoolteacher, he did what many small minded people do - he projected himself onto others instead of understanding that people come with all sorts of drives and natures

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See ya.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hated it because it was totally unbelievable, just a paternalistic rationalization for authority

  I was confronted with the knowledge that the adults around me all thought the only thing keeping me from murdering someone was layers of rules and supervision. Like we’re all just rabid animals barely held back by a watchful eye

  Even then, I knew myself better than that. I knew people better than that

  But that’s how our society treats people. Like monsters that must be managed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and a county could say “you can’t do business in our county anymore” and block them

  A country can ban dildos, but they don’t get to tell a foreign factory they can’t make dildos. If an importer orders dildos anyways, that’s between the importer and customs. Which in this case the importer is the ISP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Believe it or not⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh God… You disgust me, and I really like pineapple pizza

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the fall of Rome this stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say this is par for the course. Technology has made it much more public and more rapid fire

  Also the complexity of modern society resists change. We have layers of procedure, checks and balances, even logistical realities that slow or disperse the kind of blunt demands being made at the top

  So there’s a lot of stupid but effective things they could do back then, where today the same things are stupid and pointless

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What fuel will ships burn as they move toward net zero?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fucking wind. And a few solar panels

  Kites are such an obvious answer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on how you define yourself

  I am me. Not my memories, not my body, not my knowledge, not even my mind

  At the very center of my being, there’s a driving spark. My most fundamental self. It’s the desire for understanding in a very specific flavor, and the form of it is reaching out to touch something with your fingertips. It’s like a fractal that has endless meaning the closer you look at it, it contains many understandings of the truth of the nature of things and how things fit together. And within those truths is everything that I am

  That’s me. I am not the animal I inhabit, I act through the animal. I freely share my understandings with the animal, and so the animal can see clearly and know truth to find new understandings in all things.

  One day the animal will die, and everything but the understandings will be burnt away, because the animal is afraid of being left behind.

  I’ll have understandings of people, but memories are a physical thing. I’ll have understandings of how the world works, but knowledge is in my mind. I’ll have understandings of beauty and emotion and the full spectrum of the human experience, but my nature is not human

  So it all depends, who are you? Are you a person who acts a certain way? Are you your relationship with others? Are you your memories, skills, and experiences? Are you your physical body?

  Have you awakened your spark? Have you looked deep inside yourself to learn from it and add to it? Is it you, or is it something that whispers to you? Are you the combination of the spark and the animal?

  Or do you walk another path? Are you your blood? Your legacy? Will you die when your name is last spoken? Will you live on for the rest of time through the ripples you made on the world?

  It’s a question you have to decide for yourself. I think maybe the most important question

  But that doesn’t have the truth of understandings, so I guess it’s just my opinion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VTuber Graduation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually like molting, they might disappear for a couple weeks then show up in a different skin

  But it’s also a very dangerous process and disturbing them during this period can cause them to hurt themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what the class is for. To make you care

  I’m not saying it’ll work, but that’s why every country does this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to have a shared cultural identity to be Egyptian

  It’s not useful, hell it’ll be mostly half-truths and plenty of outright lies, but it’s a way to build cultural identity in a top down stort of way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They deported my Chihuahua⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No… Do you think Mexicans are ashamed of Chihuahuas? Or sombreros? Putting the two together? They love that, it’s their culture and they love to share it. That’s not even a generalization, it’s part of their culture

  Or do you think they’d be offended by a joke about ICE doing nonsensical deportations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that like his entire arc? He slowly realizes his leash is only as strong as he believes it to be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Hamas or Israel just meet at a predetrmined place and time and just have out or kill the crap out of each other? Instead of involving civs who don't have anything to do with war?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that’s not how any of this works.

  For one, modern warfare is always asymmetrical. There’s no fair fights - the weapons are too strong. There’s no way to do this without turning it into a sport, at which point why make it lethal? Either way, the loser could decide to go back to violence

  For two, this isn’t a war, this is denying aid to starving people, then shooting at the bread lines for reasons such as… Showing up too early

  For three, Hamas are hardliners. They want all of Israel, which is obviously impossible. So their method is to make Israel martyr the civilians in the hopes the rest of the world will attack Israel

  For three part 2, Israel is propping up Hamas because they’re hardliners. When Hamas gets to open to a real piece deal, Israel assassinates the moderate (and often the negotiator)

  And beyond all of that… This is violence. This is what happens when you flip the table. We could settle conflict with Yu-Gi-Oh games, but only so long as everyone abides the results.

  We have rules of warfare… But even those are broken all the time. In fact, if everyone followed the rules, both sides would only be allowed to hit military targets. Hamas wouldn’t be able to hide among civilians, so they’d just occasionally attack Israeli troops before running off to a deep hole somewhere. Israel would only be able to attack that hole, so they’d probably occasionally find one and cut the numbers

  So don’t ask why the combatants don’t duke it out… Ask why the rules aren’t working

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if you’re incredibly insecure about yourself.

  Bullshit. This is hardwired into our brains. False accusations hurt, but only when you can’t imagine yourself doing what you’re accused of.

  If someone doesn’t bristle at being treated like a wild animal, that’s a huge red flag. They’re not confident, either they’re manipulative or they could see themselves warranting the protection. They’re probably not an immediate threat, but that is what a future abuser looks like

  And what good is having a friend next to you as opposed to nearby? That’s not safer… What, do you think they’re going to grab someone out of the coffee shop and run?

  There’s lots of normal reasons to have someone you know nearby. You can get dropped off and picked up, have a friend in the area doing things. If you have bad vibes, stay in the damn coffee shop and have your friend come in and get a drink.

  You can go somewhere you know a worker. You can get to know a place and spend time with the staff so you have a safe ground.

  I’ve had someone introduce me to their co-workers before walking to a cafe a few doors down, that was a positive experience, because it was very friendly and I could feel I just passed a bunch of vibe checks… I didn’t even consider that there was a handful of people who saw my face and had eyes on the car I drove up in nearby until much later

  That’s about as safe as you could ever be, and it wasn’t offensive at all, because it was natural and affirmative. It feels good when people notice I’m a good person, and I think having a community is cool.

  At the end of the day, no one is ever truly safe, but having community around is how you make yourself safer.

  And I really do mean the manipulator thing, if someone doesn’t react at all to an implication like that, that’s a red flag… Honest people get angry at accusations, guilty ones get calm, manipulators use that information

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Both. He wants violence on others, but wants you to be part of the in group doing it

  It’s an act of love and hatred. I don’t respect it, because I know the hatred will be turned on me soon enough, but you do have to try to understand it