Mirshe

@Mirshe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the fact that there’s an enormous machine of conservative think tanks and funding groups and PACs and corporations that will fight every and any change tooth and nail. The obvious ones like abolishing ICE? They’re an enormous source of revenue for dozens of companies, from tech to defense, not to mention that private prison companies are running the concentration camps. They’d need to be ready to effectively run things as a true dictator in order to get anything done, because large portions of the economic sphere have been retooled to rely on things continuing the way they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  All of those are MORE expensive, at scale. If you can just hand 1500 kids a $200 Chromebook that fulfills ALL those functions, that’s $300k, vs 1500 e-ink readers at $40 a pop, 1500 digital typewriters @ $100 apiece, etc. Hell, that scientific calculator ALONE might be $200+ in some markets because Texas Instruments practically has the market cornered (to the point that I had to go to the administration of my school district to show them that the Casio I had was functionally identical).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So many donations and funds for schools are earmarked, you can only spend them in specific ways. If you spend them in ways that don’t align with the earmark, it’s incredibly easy for the donors or the state to claw them back. So that $40mil your local suburban school district spent on a new football stadium? That was likely earmarked SPECIFICALLY for football, they can’t really just swish the money to better textbooks, or whatever. Same with tech funding - you get $250k to upgrade your school district with Chromebooks or whatever, you MUST buy within what the funding packet tells you you can buy, and you can’t really do anything else with it.

  That doesn’t even get into the cartelization of textbooks and school software. There’s so few real options that it’s incredibly easy for these companies to collude without really looking like it’s collusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The SAM episode was a little meh, personally, but I like that they’re dealing with the shorter season format and still doing episodes based around each character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve stated elsewhere that even though they’re deploying “age inference” (whatever that is), verification is mandatory if you don’t want your account to be restricted to PG-13, basically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure, Jan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also doesn’t help that they apparently gave a bunch of half-truths to every other artist on the card (like Shinedown), and potentially just added some names they thought they could dial last-minute (Ludacris).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now he’s also retooling Tesla facilities to build his Optimus humanoid robots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except your managers might think it’s important, or you’re a shitty manager trying to fill their time and look important by micromanaging your employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s anticompetitive. Trying to keep up will kill off many businesses, which can be snapped up by the larger firms and corpos that can either afford to pay the fines or can simply ignore new regulations while their lawyers try to fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that takes more time and actual work. By forcing her to trial, prosecutors and police get to up their numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨u WoT m8⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. They need some form of actual income, and ad revenue gives them theoretical capital to loan against.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure a good chunk of them didn’t view him as a child.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you also thought of the idea that maybe she’s masking some of those symptoms around you? A lot of the language in your post seems judgmental, if just ignorant. It could be she’s willing and able to internalize those symptoms around you or other people in order to make her life easier - lots of us do it around family because a LOT of parents wind up coming out of the gate sounding like you, and it’s easier to just go “look I’m fine” rather than have to justify our diagnosis constantly.

  Autism, especially what used to be considered “high functioning” autism like Asperger’s, isn’t always a “constant” feeling of these symptoms anymore than an average schizoaffective person or someone with BPD or someone with bipolar is constantly experiencing their own symptoms. You have good days, you have bad days, and you have triggers and sometimes you can nut up even on the bad days and go to work or school or whatever. Autistic people aren’t constantly Rainman-ing their way through life, or constantly reenacting Sheldon from Big Bang Theory or whatever your popular conception is.

  You’re already saying “she’s mostly not off”, so why is it so hard to believe that she has this disorder, or that it’s hard to take the next step and say “huh, she says that the medicine really helps and makes it easier for her, so I’ll believe her on that.”. I understand wanting the best and worrying about things like chemical dependency, but her doctor should be - and almost certainly IS - monitoring for this at regular checkups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “I feel like we couldn’t let Congress know first on the off chance someone actually grows a spine and says you can’t launch a war without approval from us.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That would make sense. Remember all the hullabaloo in the first go around every time he wound up anywhere near Walter Reed. Now, I’m unsure if there are even DOCTORS there anymore, given that DOGE determined that the VA is a horrible waste of money, but if I were wanting to keep my daily dementia drugs secret, I’d convert an interior room at Mar-A-Lago for the setup. No cameras, no paparazzi, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨☪️⛎♑️☦️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t look too Old, because then your audience might not take you seriously. Mid-20s at BEST, unless you can look Old And Erudite, in which case you might be able to pull off mid-40s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"enjoy the show"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, early antifascists kinda sucked too. It didn’t help that the leader of the SA was openly gay, so a lot of antifascists latched onto that as an attack and a rallying cry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assumptions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People are gored by bison at Yellowstone every year. When I visited a few years ago, the rangers were actively having to tell people to avoid an elk who, with his harem, had decided to hang out in Fort Yellowstone for a couple days. People are dumb, or don’t think “wow that’s a 600+ lb animal the size of a minivan”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holy shiiiiit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is that Dwyer did it on live television, in a highly publicized press statement. Cameras didn’t cut away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UNIFIL—Israeli tanks fire on UN peacekeepers in South Lebanon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not without direct authorization of the Security Council, or if they’re directly fired upon. Considering these were TANKS firing on a foot patrol, I highly doubt anyone brought along a LAW or Javelin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Confederacy (or whatever)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to say, just from the few BD toys I can identify, that’s an easy $4-600 depending on size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s my point. He is enough of a fan to know the connotation. He knows what the name implies, and company names are a deliberate choice that imply things about that company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Typical First-Time Homebuyer Is Now 40 Years Old, a Record High⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While this is true, job opportunities for remote markets are drying up. Those markets in rural areas went big because everyone was working remote, and you can do that from anywhere with an Internet connection. Now that everyone is being forced into RTOing, people are selling those nice little rural homes to move back into apartments in the city, or else trying to find business opportunities or something out in the country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also just the fact that “weapons grade” just means it’s useful for a fission weapon. Nothing’s stopping you from taking that cobalt-60 you found in that Therac at Daryl’s junkyard, strapping it to an IED, and using that as a dispersal device to give a lot of people radiation poisoning or whatever (the traditional “dirty bomb”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So officially it’s just ACCESS. You’re not carting it away without an escort or a clear idea of where it’s going, and it’s still technically controlled by the DOE. However, since the levers are all ripped off by the administration cutting everything to the bone and then some, this is effectively a cash injection to OpenAI by financing some terror organizations and rogue states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even into the later series, people had to fight to do interesting things with it. IIRC the network was skittish about Voyager because nobody would possibly be interested in a scifi show with a female lead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically it’s a cipher, BUT it’s also perfectly constructed to work as a language (by making the cipher easier - vowels only get replaced with vowels, consonants with consonants).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a real language, it’s just German spoken by a person with a head injury /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost forgot about the storyline for FFX because I played so much blitzball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s xAI joins race to build ‘world models’ to power video games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what we’ve seen of him playing Path of Exile, basically, yeah. As expected from most rich assholes, he wants the prestige of being good at a game, but wants to shortcut the whole part in between where you’re not good YET.