sensiblepuffin
@sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world
- Comment on The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so 2 months ago:
Papers, please.
- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 4 months ago:
You really haven’t thought this through. What happens if I email you a bunch of illegal pictures? Guess we’re both going to jail.
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 5 months ago:
Moving away from FPTP is, for democracy, the crucial first step that very few seem to have taken.
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 5 months ago:
Hard disagree. It’s really easy for candidates to talk the talk on the campaign trail, and then do a 180 once they’re in office.
That being said, this doesn’t work if you let them use flowery speech and vague promises. If you had parties submit a platform of actually actionable decisions they would make (e.g. “decrease the federal minimum wage”), you’d be able to suss out what they actually want to do. It would also provide a rubric for re-election - how many of the things you wanted to do did you accomplish? Are there good reasons why you weren’t able to?
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 5 months ago:
It’s extremely disappointing to me (admittedly in the US) that Covid seems to have obliterated any chance for a large-scale investigation on payment processors’ stranglehold on our financial systems. The fees that Visa/Mastercard/etc. charge, especially for tiny merchants with insanely low transaction numbers, are criminal.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 6 months ago:
It’s a fair argument, especially given how much… entertainment he seems to derive from owning it.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 6 months ago:
A cable subscription isn’t a depreciating asset, though.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 6 months ago:
In order to pay your utility bill, you have to beat the Undertale Sans fight in Genocide mode