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- Comment on Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch 27 minutes ago:
someone well known as him he deserves special treatment
Kanye wouldn’t be this crazy if he wasn’t famous, so it’s not really special treatment.
The constant positive reinforcement no matter what just makes them go crazier.
Like, “pushing the envelope” isn’t sustainable, eventually you get to the point where you’re only paying attention to topping yourself, it’s not “is this better?” anymore its just “is this crazier?”
It apparently doesn’t take long till you’re throwing swastikas on everything just to get people to notice.
Most people grow out of that shit. But Kanye got paid insane amounts of money to act like that, he’s going to keep doing until it stops working.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Dev Believes Unreal Is Ill-Suited For Open World Games, And Is Slowing Down Work On Witcher 4 8 hours ago:
They really buried that this is an 11 month old quote…
But yeah, I was guilty of expecting a groachical experience like Seluna’s without realizing the trade off was an N64 level of being stuck on rails.
5ish years from now it could be different.
But it’s not about making the best games, it’s about making the most money.
If you have a propitiatory engine, your hiring base is limited. And studios don’t want long-term employees, so they want generic engines with a readily available labor pool.
- Comment on ai comments on cbs videos, but why? 9 hours ago:
Some people just never experienced early AIM chatbots…
- Comment on ai comments on cbs videos, but why? 16 hours ago:
these aren’t AI. They’re just spam bots
Same, same.
But different…
But still same.l
- Comment on CISA staffers offered deferred resignations, extending broader cybersecurity fears 5 days ago:
Same offer that expires tonight, they were just told they’re not excluded.
Apparently 40k are taking it, but spread out between now and then those don’t match normal retirement numbers.
So it’s a safe bet the ones taking it were already planning on retiring before then, and not everyone who’s retiring trusts it.
Most agencies can’t even say when someone would be released from work duties if they accept.
- Comment on Freed Israeli hostages ask to return to IDF service 5 days ago:
Propaganda doesn’t mean “completely false”.
Like, they could have received huge bonuses from the IDF to “rejoin” with a cushy desk job.
But reported as their desire to place themselves in danger to defend Israel, which could sway public opinion when Israelis are mostly over it and will vote Bibi out of office the second he stops postponing elections due to his genocide.
Even if it’s true, I got a cousin who’s convoy got blown up in the ME as a US Marine. And he was the only survivor.
For over a decade the only thing he’s wanted is vengeance, to go back overseas and get “them” back.
That might be what’s happening here, but it would be a terrible fucking decision for him to go back over there. So he was medically discharged instead.
- Comment on Freed Israeli hostages ask to return to IDF service 5 days ago:
To be clear:
Although the JC includes diverse voices, internal resignations in 2024, including high-profile writers like David Baddiel and Jonathan Freedland, followed the publication of articles that were later determined to be fabricated. These articles, authored by freelance journalist Elon Perry, included claims about Israeli operations in Gaza that lacked credible sourcing and were subsequently retracted by the publication. The controversy led to the resignation of prominent columnists Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, and David Aaronovitch, who cited concerns over the newspaper’s editorial standards and the decision to publish unverified information.
mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-jewish-chronicle-jc-bi…
This is a known propaganda source and no one should believe anything coming from in regards to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
Propaganda is dystopian as fuck tho, so I guess I’m eaving the article up.
- Comment on Wanted to give Spider-man 2 a try (released in October 2023 on PS5), but seems like the port is a mess 5 days ago:
Not just because of bugs either, pretty sure that shit is like $60 on steam.
- Comment on Wanted to give Spider-man 2 a try (released in October 2023 on PS5), but seems like the port is a mess 5 days ago:
When a console exclusive ports to PC, it resets the clock…
- Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. 6 days ago:
So I should listen to the authors…
“It probably comes as a result, to some degree, of a period of globalization and deregulation, of neoliberalism in the 1990s and even earlier developments that have changed party systems—in a lot of countries—in the post-war period,” she says.
Just not the parts you disagree with?
I’m just confused here, because me and the author is saying the same thing…
I’m just blunt, and they’re seemingly hesitant to say what their study concluded with.
And you’re saying it’s not neoliberalism, and to listen to the authors…
Who blame neoliberalism?
It’s not mathing
- Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. 6 days ago:
Neoliberalism hasn’t been a uniquely American epidemic, in large parts to their foreign policy shoving it down 3rd world countries throats.
But regardless of country:
will blame corporations and economic leaders
Who else do you think we should blame for economic inequality?
- Comment on Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. 6 days ago:
These leaders do so by finding different targets to blame for the inequality. Left-wing, populist backsliders, for example, will blame corporations and economic leaders. Right-wing, ethno-nationalist backsliders might nurture grievances by blaming outsiders or immigrants.
The difference is one of those groups is using facts and logic to correctly identify the problem…
Like, I couldn’t get over the cognitive dissonance of the author that those two were equally bad.
Who the fuck else should we blame beside corporations and economic leaders for economic inequality?
You want me to go yell at the tooth fairy that poor kids get less under their pillow?
Ideally they would have gotten into campaign finance deregulation allowing the wealthy to buy both parties…
“It probably comes as a result, to some degree, of a period of globalization and deregulation, of neoliberalism in the 1990s and even earlier developments that have changed party systems—in a lot of countries—in the post-war period,” she says.
But I guess that’s close enough. It’s like they knew the answer but were too scared to say it
- Comment on Our brains remembers at random cringe and awful things we did in the past to prevent us of doing them again. 1 week ago:
Yeah…
But that’s not a shower thought, it’s something we’ve known for a very long time.
It’s like saying the sky is blue due to wavelength scattering, it’s true, but regardless of where you are when you realized/learned it, it’s not a shower thought.
- Comment on ‘Humiliated’ mom sues Airbnb after ‘grossly inaccurate’ background check leads to ban 1 week ago:
You can have an argument with me about it, or you could read the article…
Personally, I think the chances of you believing the article is a lot higher than you believing me rewording the article
- Comment on ‘Humiliated’ mom sues Airbnb after ‘grossly inaccurate’ background check leads to ban 1 week ago:
How are these public?
They’re copies of old records that are owned by private companie
Like, that’s the entire point of the article and the lawsuit…
- Comment on ‘Humiliated’ mom sues Airbnb after ‘grossly inaccurate’ background check leads to ban 1 week ago:
Booking the family into hotels and RV parks became the only option for Doe, which were often either unaffordable or too small for everyone to fit, the complaint states.
I dunno about all that…
It’s a legit question about how the expungement of records works tho. Back in the day no one kept records on hand, now if a record exists and part of it is expunged…
Those records still exist out there somewhere.
- Comment on How do I organize a general strike? 1 week ago:
Workers aren’t what’s most important anymore.
Consumers/investors are
So stop buying shit you don’t need, stop buying the same stocks Pelosi does to try and make money.
If you want to hurt the corporations destroying our country, stop giving them money, don’t stop taking what little they pay.
- Comment on Rumor: Marvel Is Making Another Avengers Game 2 weeks ago:
It’s insane to me Disney hasn’t bought up game studios.
They had one till 2016, but they closed it instead of buying up talent.
Just not having to pay for licensing fees is huge, it’s not like Disney to not want the whole pie instead of just a slice.
- Comment on Cross-platform Nexus Mods App v0.7.2 improves the UI, adds Bannerlord Software Extender support 2 weeks ago:
So “cross platform” as in Linux and windows…
Technically correct but for a second I thought they meant Xbox or Sony had taken down their walled gardens.
- Comment on Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek: It has lessons for today's techno-optimists 2 weeks ago:
Does it?
I always liked the idea that Starfleet is the “relief valve” for humanity. It takes the people desperate for adventure, who wouldn’t be complacent even in a post scarcity world, and fling them as far away from Earth as humanely possible so they don’t change the government.
Which, even if Earth is a Utopia, it shows that on a deep institutional level the one world government has no issues with manipulating their citizens and makes me question how much of Earth is really a post scarcity Utopia in the first place.
As many shows Trek has, they just don’t really touch on what life is like back on Earth except rich officers come from giant farms/plantations that still have a bunch of field hands… Which doesn’t really jive with the story we’re told.
Id love to see something about what Earth is really like for people.
Like, what the Expanse did where they go back to Earth and I think everyone had “enough” but that included a large group of homeless drug addicts that lived in squalor somehow.
- Comment on Nvidia are pretty sure the RTX 50 series GPUs won’t melt like the RTX 4090 did 2 weeks ago:
The issue is if they’re not plugged in all the way…
At least one manufacturer set it up so if the power cord isnt fully seated, an error light comes on and the GPU doesn’t work.
And I have zero idea why Nvidia didn’t do it themselves so it’s on all cards.
- Comment on The Nintendo Switch 2 looks like a Steam Deck but worse 3 weeks ago:
Buddy, if you can’t tell this is satire by the end…
- The Switch 2 runs Mario Kart and I hate Mario Kart because my friend Nathan always beats me at it Why should the best driver be determined by the contents of magic boxes, it’s a stupid game
- Comment on 'Take my data': US 'TikTok refugees' flock to alternative Chinese app 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know why people think the Chinese government wouldn’t want to foster a movement to overthrow/oppose trump.
It’s no different than America supporting Taiwan or Hong Kong.
We’re not doing it for the right reasons either, we’re doing it to hurt China.
- Comment on The Marvel Rivals Season 1 Update Has Disabled The Ability To Use Mods 4 weeks ago:
I think the only reason they took off in the first place was it’s free to play.
It’s common sense that PvP and mods don’t mix but because there was a zero investment people did it, which made them popular enough people who do t know better thought it was fine.
Glad to see they just disabled them instead of banning accounts for using them.
- Comment on Quantum computing stocks dropped over 40% after Nvidia CEO prediction 4 weeks ago:
No shit…
And once we have that, then it’ll take another 10-20 years to get actual AI, at bets.
The only surprising part is companies are admitting it, but they couldn’t keep the hype going forever and the house of cards coming down faster could be better long term.
- Comment on VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos 4 weeks ago:
Leave it to VLC to implement one of the few good uses…
Reminder that not only can’t you donate money to keep it going, but also time if you’re good enough with computers.
www.videolan.org/contribute.html
When I grabbed that link tho I was surprised you can contribute “materials” as well…
If you own a rare piece of media VLC can’t play (even stuff like satellite cards) you can mail it to VLC so someone can try to get that format to work in VLC.
- Comment on Heroes of Might and Magic II open source game engine fheroes2 v1.1.5 released 4 weeks ago:
Man, I really really really hope the new one isn’t garbage
- Comment on If the United States has Cuba banned from things, how does Guantanamo Bay exist? 5 weeks ago:
The American government sends the Cuban government a check every year for the “rent”.
Unless something has changed, Cuba has never cashed a rent check, because they don’t want an American base.
It’s incredibly fucked up, but it’s the only A&W combination Taco Bell in Cuba
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 5 weeks ago:
it’s not just pure numerical IQ,
We talk about IQ like it’s a single number, but it’s like SAT/ACT, a bunch of different specific scores averaged into one number. So yeah it’s not as simple as a single number. I was thinking mostly processing speed and associative memory, but obviously you need the general knowledge as well.
The more variety of life you experience, the more you know of human history, different cultures, ways of thinking and seeing the world - the harder it is for you to get impressed by something as shallow as AI.
This is a very specific and easily fixable problem. It’s trained by a certain class of people, so it’s going to regurgitate stuff from that class and ignore everyone who hadn’t trained it.
Tech bros live in a bubble of their own creation and don’t understand the true richness of the human condition.
Nobody is gonna argue with that tho
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 5 weeks ago:
To be clear it will “require” a new cable to push at that max (8k/120fps?)
It’s not like you need a new cable just because a new TV supports it.