Beetschnapps
@Beetschnapps@lemmy.world
- Comment on I miss console ads being this weird 1 week ago:
It’s pronounced “Ibiza”… Batman said so
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
Use kodi for last mile?
VLC is great as a file playing app, terrible as a home server…
- Comment on Trump wanted to drain the swamp to make it easier for the swamp creatures to get around 1 week ago:
Random string of numbers weighs in…
- Comment on Trump wanted to drain the swamp to make it easier for the swamp creatures to get around 1 week ago:
Nothing unread. Nothing of value was lost. No value missed as you cling to BS.
- Comment on Trump wanted to drain the swamp to make it easier for the swamp creatures to get around 1 week ago:
“Ignoring all that”
keep whining… keep adding conditionals…
- Comment on Objectivity 1 week ago:
True. Horny should overrule all. Morality, Ethics, if it feels “off” then it’s non-normative. So fuck you.
- Comment on Objectivity 1 week ago:
Bless your heart…
- Comment on Does anyone print planter heads? 1 month ago:
You may be right…
Just checking comparing this to pottery, thinner/less plastic, or metal…
Or did I miss something by considering the waste from PROTOTYPING everything via spools of plastic? Like I was just talking about planters but if you like, you really have me wondering… what about all the excess plastics prototyping other things… how familiar are you with all that plastic coming off the 3d printing industry?
- Comment on Does anyone print planter heads? 1 month ago:
So in a world where micro plastics are infecting every aspect of our lives…
- Comment on What is the point of Xbox? 1 month ago:
I don’t want to go back to sega fucking up the hardware game that bad…
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 month ago:
WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY.
Now don’t look…
- Comment on Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme 1 month ago:
Totally agree with you. Didn’t mean for an appeal to tradition, or a “we’ve always done it” type of reasoning.
While history sure as shit isn’t pretty, there is some measure of stability and institutional knowledge that we have developed and shouldn’t be written off.
Kinda like that quote from the economist that goes something like “we’re not on the gold standard because it’s some new wild idea, we’re not on the gold standard because of everything we know across history about the gold standard.”
- Comment on Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme 1 month ago:
The same as everyone else on the planet not desperate to sign up for a pump and dump scheme like crypto.
Same as my parents and your parents and their parents and everyone’s grandparents and the whole sum total of hundreds of years of human experience in what has been pretty much a prosperous economy.
But something tells me the whole internet couldn’t stop you from telling us all why we have it all wrong and should instead waste the energy output of Argentina on fake math problems to artificially create a coin…
- Comment on George Takei was on Colbert yesterday 2 months ago:
Point them out. It does no one any service to vaguely make claims. Put up.
- Comment on Long-lost first model of the USS Enterprise from 'Star Trek' boldly goes home after twisting voyage 2 months ago:
True story: there once was a plan to construct a 1:1 enterprise in Las Vegas of all places. Pyramids, castles, whatever… It really wouldn’t be hard to make a 1:1 model.
Merely compare the scale of the enterprise to your average bridge destroying cargo vessel…
- Comment on George Takei was on Colbert yesterday 2 months ago:
Holy shit are you serious?
- Comment on teachings 2 months ago:
I was one of those students who asked how it would be used, the teachers didn’t do the whole real world application part, and I never needed to go past trig.
I work with engineers and use math like any other human on the planet but really wish mathematics was taught differently to make it more interesting. You hear a PHD candidate talk about the hairy ball problem and the math is interesting. Math class never was.
- Comment on teachings 2 months ago:
To translate: As a child learning math this means “ignore math, the explanations don’t explain anything real, they only explain math. So instead focus on language and the arts.”
- Comment on ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say 2 months ago:
Except that feigning both sides/everything’s rigged bullshit is a mindless simplification.
It ignores that net neutrality only became a thing in the last 2 decades there’s only so many presidential admins in that period. So 5 elections vs 20 years to discuss a topic… it’s not weird that it comes up more outside of an election year.
Still, I can’t tell if you’re choosing to ignore how Obama campaigned for it or how Biden and Harris campaigned way more for it, especially concerning reversing trumps FCC decisions.
No reason to ignore the fact that Biden made it a priority in the first year or so of the admin.
Acting like it’s rigged absolves republicans of their actions: “Net Neutrality Won’t Survive a Trump Presidency” and lumps good folks in with the worst.
Net neutrality couldn’t happen while republicans block the commissioners for the job: theverge.com/…/gigi-sohn-fcc-nomination-dark-mone…
So why not blame it on the people who are actually documented as destroying net-neutrality and advocating against it. Why instead invent some all powerful Illuminati like cabal only to end up making it a both sides thing?
Republican attacks over bs tweets are just one of the reasons we can’t have nice things. Another reason is because people like to imagine a rigged system pulling the strings to pretend there’s some order in the chaos. All it does is suck the support away from anyone trying to do the right thing.
- Comment on Pro-Palestinian protesters light US flag on fire in NYC 2 months ago:
Because the republican party full of congressmen who spend the 4th of July in Moscow…
…the same party that paul ryan said was “a family” sworn to secrecy after he said trump and rorabacher were paid by putin…
…the party full of the same people that erected gallows and chanted “hang mike pence” ON THE CAPITOL LAWN…
…well they like to say that other American citizens aren’t Americans (Obama isn’t a citizen and only the HEARTLAND has real Americans) and threaten other American citizens with “second amendment solutions”.
So this feeds directly into that bloodlust and misinformed opinion that city dwelling liberals are what’s wrong with the world.
- Comment on Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images 2 months ago:
Yea! Can you believe how long it took us to make garbage before all this?
- Comment on Column: Social Security is again in the crosshairs of a GOP budget, even though a long-term fix would be simple 2 months ago:
Didn’t think otherwise, just wanted to get to this part:
I’d rather eliminate social security.
You’d gladly use my tax dollars if it stopped your house from burning down, but you’d rather eliminate the single program keeping the nation’s elderly out of poverty than spend one tax dollar of yours. Certainly starting to sound like theft now.
- Comment on Column: Social Security is again in the crosshairs of a GOP budget, even though a long-term fix would be simple 2 months ago:
Do you have kids? If so then other people helped pay for their schools, if not then you’re already paying for other peoples’ kids school.
Hell do you have insurance? Do you know how that works collectively?
You are already paying for roads you’ll never drive but others can, firefighters you’ll likely never need but other will, etc etc. conversely you are able to drive from A to B because of financial input from people that may never drive the same road.
You are already contributing to and benefitting from this “theft”you speak of. The difference seems to be that you take issue with knowing that you are helping other people. It can’t be the money, you are already benefitting from that and you’d have to be stupid to say you shouldn’t.
It’s frankly kind of weird how much you are already benefitting from everything you call “theft,” it only seems to be an issue as soon as you’re asked to contribute your fair share.
- Comment on Column: Social Security is again in the crosshairs of a GOP budget, even though a long-term fix would be simple 2 months ago:
SS doesn’t fund people’s retirement it’s not an extravagant pension, it keeps the elderly out of poverty.
You pay for roads you don’t drive on, I pay for schools for kids I don’t have, get over it. Selfishness isn’t a virtue.
You are not rejecting the system making you a benefactor, by your own logic that ship has sailed. Congrats you’ve already contributed, and you’re not a slave and atlas has not shrugged.
Right now you’re just making up reasons to be selfish… like you personally funding the nation’s retirements. Get over it.
- Comment on Column: Social Security is again in the crosshairs of a GOP budget, even though a long-term fix would be simple 2 months ago:
So you make above the cap? So you pay nothing?
Would you reject SS payments when your of age? You didn’t put in right?
So you’re saying that having never paid into a system, and despite that you have access to benefits whether you pay or not, you consider it too much to bear to start paying anything?
Again at best the argument is you’re selfish.
- Comment on Column: Social Security is again in the crosshairs of a GOP budget, even though a long-term fix would be simple 2 months ago:
Larson’s proposal would extend the standard 12.4% payroll tax, which is levied this year on all wage income up to $168,600, to income over $400,000, leaving an income gap that would be narrowed over time. Larson would also levy the payroll tax on investment income over $400,000; that income is currently not taxed at all.
If you make less than 400,000 a year you would never see a new dime of taxes and social security would be solvent for your lifetime even with an increase in benefits.
I wonder if anyone screeching about “my taxes” concerning this approach even makes over 400k YEARLY.
It sounds like the raising “my taxes” bit is a lie, often repeated by people who are not so rich as to be affected. At best the argument is “I am selfish so fuck you”
At worst it’s a deceitful argument that ignores how easy it is to continue a program that is the main thing keeping the elderly out of poverty.
The same group of old people you will likely fall into if you’re making less than 400k a year these days…
- Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used modder's work without credit 3 months ago:
Almost like they earned a reputation or something. Almost like it’s expected.
Kinda like doing something 10 times in a row so on the 11th time an assumption is made….
I suppose someone could think that “amazing.”
- Comment on Tesla's recall of 2 million cars relies on a fix that may not even work 6 months ago:
Had a chance to cancel a cross state rail project cause elon would rather crowd cars into a tunnel with no fire exit than let people take a fucking train.
time.com/…/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions/
“Musk later admitted to his biographer that he had never planned to build a Hyperloop system in California, and primarily promoted it in order to prevent conventional HSR proposals from breaking ground.”
- Comment on God of War Creator Is Unhappy With New Games and Kratos' Story 6 months ago:
I mean on the one hand you have a story of a father and son grieving over loss while finding themselves…
And on the other you have gratis in a hot tub fucking bitches with my rhythm-based mini game.
I really do wonder what he thought was so great about the character before?
- Comment on Twitch rescinds policy that allowed ‘artistic nudity’ / The decision comes two days after the company said it would allow some sexual content 6 months ago:
Thank you! I feel like the plot was getting lost here debating the morality of nudity while ignoring that the site is a gaming streaming service.
Nudity/porn doesn’t bother me at all but the moment twitch becomes widely associated with it is the beginning of the end. Parents will think twice about allowing kids into the service, brand equity suffers, other services start up that allow for safer spaces and eventually, as you said, twitch risks being considered OF 2.0.