BilboBargains

@BilboBargains@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where the fuck am I?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do ostriches have attention deficit disorder?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would a company force you to use a rental car instead of your own for a drive to the office/Christmas party?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most domestic insurance policies do not cover the use of a vehicle on company business and your employer would become implicated in the event of an accident. This necessarily implies that driving to work is not company business which doesn’t make sense to me. Do they think I was out for a drive each morning and just so happened to be in the vicinity of my workplace so I thought why not drop in for a shift? Them’s the rules.

  If you do get into an accident and they ask you ‘what gear were you in at the moment of impact?’ Tell them Gucci sweats and Reebok Classics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about 5-10% more in the UK. The maintenance on a reliable transmission is fairly minimal but any mechanical problems are almost guaranteed to be a nightmare buried under a mountain of metal. I’ve been spared that trauma so far but I remember test driving a used VW Passat which clunked with every shift. Thanks for the test drive, bro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This works well and it’s not a hill I’ll defend but automatic control of temperature is better when it’s done well. In the UK we have a culture of driving cars with manual transmission and I’ve never understood it when automatic transmissions exist and are pretty good. People wanna feel like they are in control of stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would I buy this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Short answer: you wouldn’t buy this game, given your valid criticisms.

  This type of extortionate pricing policy speaks to the general user base being nobs, die hard try hards and probably a toxic gaming environment. Having a barrier to entry in any activity prevents total idiots from entering. Consoles have made it easier for people who don’t understand how to operate a PC to play games but that necessarily means those games will be replete with obnoxious people. The advent of smartphones has done that for the internet.

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

  It’s ofcom but my phone desperately wants it to be Offcom for some reason

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

  Offcom has been drinking, came home in a blackout and committed domestic abuse of 4chan. Does Offcom even internet? Alternative plot twist, Offcom is trolling 4chan.

  I wanna say that Offcom is doing a good job and trying to protect British people in good faith but I feel like they are being used as a cudgel by the British ruling class to advance an anachronistic agenda. Don’t forget, they fired their expert drugs advisor for telling them that MDMA is comparable to horse riding in terms of safety. They want certain things to be true, regardless of the scientific accuracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've recently turned into a blocker.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t felt the need to block anyone but it’s nice to have the functionality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a sane way to use LLM. Also, pick your poison, some bots are better than others for a specific task. It’s kinda fascinating to see how other people solve coding problems and that is essentially on tap with a bot, it will churn out as many examples as you want. It’s a really useful tool for learning syntax and libraries of unfamiliar languages.

  On one extreme side of LLM there is this insane hype and at the other extreme a great pessimism but in the middle is a nice labour saving educational tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#freepenisman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How big is Penis Man?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Assius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s gonna make all the technology, music, art, etc, after we’ve finally cured autism? We might have to start re-autisming people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QUACK QUACK QUACK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent news. Autism finally squared away. We can dedicate our scientists to finding a cure for trumpism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only people this effects is people who don’t know how to operate a torrent client or have a friend that does, e.g the old people that dream up these ineffectual laws. They want to put the genie back in the bottle by making it someone else’s problem and it will fail like the war on drugs has utterly failed.

  Meanwhile, back in reality, developing normal sexual relationships is much more complicated than abstaining from porn. It comes from a cohesive society that values education, healthcare, community and compassion for others. How are we still trying to make abstinence only methods work despite their horrible track record? Our politicial class are mendacious morons from a bygone era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism prevailed during the rise of the internet but correlation is not causation.

  Rockets were sent into space and capitalists would surely love to claim that achievement too, unfortunately it was first fascists followed by communists with the capitalists getting the bronze medal. Should we now decide that space flight is fascist-communist? No. Only scientists and engineers know how to do that. Why didn’t Genghis Khan invent the internet? He didn’t have enough capitalists, surely that was the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We can claim anything we like and also retract any statement except when a user claims to be 14. That person remains at age 14 for all time. Is this the logic? What about all the ‘damage’ that was done before they discovered the underage user? Somebody should look into that, they might find themselves face to face with a 51 year old who takes a prescription stimulant every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what peak trolling looks like guise. It has all the elements for a perfect recipe. Bloated and petulant narcissist target, check. Corpulent and obsequious hosts, check. Incredibly damaging and embarrassing open secret that nobody wants to publicly discuss but everyone is dying to find out what’s in the dossier, chef’s kiss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Got banned from the stims community after satirically commenting ‘I’m 14 and what is this?’

  The moderator demanded that I submit identity documents. I pointed out that the account was twelve years old but they couldn’t back down at this point. I think they were trying to do a good job and were at least active but it was another nail in the coffin. In theory, an unpaid mod could be more objective because there’s no profit motive but the reality is that many are ideologically biased or dumb or controlling and none of them are trained. That any single individual wants to be in charge of the narrative is suspicious. Scale that ambition up to hundreds of thousands or millions of people it’s a red flag. Reddit is completely cooked these days, I haven’t returned since finding Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could make the same argument about almost anything that is created under our present economic system, it’s void of content. I paid my gas bill so now I can tell my friends that I’m responsible for North Sea gas extraction. People imbibe Joe Rogan’s billionaire koolaid and forget where all this stuff we take for granted comes from.

  Capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty and that is a minor miracle. Now it is eating itself like an ouroboros. People are upset and it’s not a good time to defend big capital, ask TPUSA and United Health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could make the argument that nothing can be achieved without being able to dedicate the time required. That was the miracle of the agricultural revolution, we could do something with our time other than gather food. If you said ‘we got the internet thanks to farmers’ that would be indisputable, everything flowed from that. I don’t see why an internet couldn’t emerge in other economic contexts because internet technology depends on physics and those laws transcend any and all economic systems. We already know this because almost every jurisdiction has the internet.

  The influence of capitalism on the internet has been a mixed bag. e-commerce: good. App ecosystem: ranging from good to addiction health crisis. Walled gardens and enshitification: bad. Misinformation and radicalisation of political groups: dire, potentially an existential threat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We got internet thanks to scientists and engineers. No amount of capitalists, politicians, managers or business people can create an internet. They say ‘here’s some money to make stuff’ and that’s the limit of their involvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need science if your business is fraud, graft and conspiracy theories. In fact you need to keep your citizens as far away from any sort of critical thinking practice. Throttle the education sector and reduce access to healthcare. Give everyone a phone and a social media account where all of their preconceived notions are continually reinforced. Then sit back and watch all the educated people leave in droves as your society devolves into a robber baron mafia state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New number, who did?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Daily Zeitgeist podcast also doing some solid reportage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an unusual gift and would make most people incredibly awkward but there’s nothing sinister in the act itself, absent of the context. People gift things like guns and alcohol and I would argue those do more harm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The obfuscated nature of compiled code does an incredible amount of heavy lifting on behalf of shareholders. Imagine a world where x-ray specs suddenly revealed source code. The flight to open solutions would be irresistible. Windows is hot garbage but it clings to its market share like a limpet, through the magic of closed source, occupying space like a flabby tumour. It doesn’t care if it kills the host because the top priority is growth and an unassailable market share. That’s the magic of capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The consequences so far have been a warm feeling on hearing the news but I’m starting to doubt that feeling. Shawty, are they playing me like a fiddle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatmeal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t call him ass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the business model that shareholders love and seems to be fairly ubiquitous. Eventually these corporations undergo trial by anti trust as their influence becomes increasingly toxic e.g. Google. The concentration of power into the hands of a few people is a problem with large hierarchies generally, ordinary people end up doing whacky stuff on the whim of someone that you never meet or know in any meaningful way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s had two more years of gambling ad harm since the Murphy report. It’s time for Labor to show some courage⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gambling addiction is a medical issue in exactly the same way every other addiction is a medical issue. We are busy designing a world of addictions, due to the profit motive. Food, games, phones, all have been cynically designed to be as addictive as possible and lure in the children that conservatives claim to be so concerned about. It’s time to ban conservatives and solve this problem and all the other problems that are caused by too much conservatism. The only thing they don’t conserve is the environment, which is collapsing around us.