CitizenKong
@CitizenKong@lemmy.world
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 9 hours ago:
Yep, especially the alien species in the second book. Which was basically The Thing, but much more interesting.
- Comment on So glad they are reporting what matters and not some mundane thing. 11 hours ago:
It’s probably done by unpaid interns anyway.
- Comment on He thinks they'll just GIVE him money? 1 day ago:
Since they are surrounded by billionaires and multimillionaires they don’t realize how few of them there are. They are not the 1 percent, they’re the 1 percent of the 1 percent.
- Comment on Sun God 3 days ago:
I mean, nothing on Mercury survives. At night it’s -170 degrees Celsius and +430 degrees at day.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 weeks ago:
VW Golf.
- Comment on Reddit hints at expanded AI-powered search 2 weeks ago:
Reddit ist adorable. It’s like it’s begging to get on the enshittification train to play with the big boys.
- Comment on Google has dropped its promise not to use AI for weapons. It’s part of a troubling trend. 2 weeks ago:
It’s the ultimate dream of the filthy rich, to not having to rely on human guards to protect them from the rabble out to kill them sooner or later, because human guards could decide to switch sides.
- Comment on Google's AI made up a fake cheese fact that wound up in an ad for Google's AI, perfectly highlighting why relying on AI is a bad idea 2 weeks ago:
And then the articles will only be clicked and commented by bots after a while. Dead internet here we come!
- Comment on Schools across Russia establish “special military operation” museums with VR simulations of war-torn Ukraine, report says 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen similar stuff in socialist East Germany as a kid. Gotta indoctrinate your next generation of cannon fodder as soon as possible!
- Comment on Wow, ok. 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact, Christian Bale based his portrayal of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho on Tom Cruise.
- Comment on "Poetic take" on the state of the US 3 weeks ago:
I’m an atheist, but isn’t a lot of the bible social commentary? The new testament at least, surely.
- Comment on US freezes almost all aid except for Israel, Egypt arms: memo 5 weeks ago:
Bye bye, US soft power. Hello Chinese hegemony. But of course Trump is unable to grasp the concept of mutual benefit. It’s all a zero sum game to him.
- Comment on This is the life I dream of from my cubicle 1 month ago:
He also coined the popular German insult “Leck mich am Arsch” (literally “lick my ass”).
- Comment on Actual shitpost 1 month ago:
Can confirm, I’m wet.
- Comment on Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer 1 month ago:
AI is just a tool. But like any tool, it’s immediately misused by greedy capitalists for making life worse for everyone that isn’t them.
The problem is capitalism, not AI.
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 2 months ago:
Kind of, but it’s actually good quality and a lot cheaper.
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 2 months ago:
They also do hilarious knockoffs of franchise they don’t have the licence for. Like a pirate ship with black sails that is simply called N.P.B. (which stands for Not-Black-Pearl). The cool thing is the quality is comparable to Lego but the sets are more than half the price.
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 2 months ago:
Yes, me too, got the Defiant and the DS9 Station (with another mini-Defiant).
- Comment on Dragon Age The Veilguard Head Won't Reveal Sales Numbers Of Game 2 months ago:
It’s a pity, it’s actually a really good game. The gameplay especially is probably the best out of all the Dragon Age games and the final stretch is one of Bioware’s best IMO. I think the problem with the game is that it starts out fairly weak but then gets better and better. Some of the best companions only join after a lot of hours of playing. Probably not the smartest choice.
- Comment on Former Mass Effect director cancels his next sci-fi game as his studio closes before it is fully revealed 2 months ago:
Phew, for a minute I thought this was about Exodus, the new game by Drew Karpashyn.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
Speaking of raw milk, bird flu has just been disovered in it. Buckle up, the next pandemic is coming. Maybe it will go down in history as the MAGA flu.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 3 months ago:
In the context of Germany, “liberal” means being for capitalism unbridled by the state but still generally progressive policies culturally, with more rights for minorities and such. And corresponding party is FDP. Someone considered “left” would be for more social policies and government control of capitalism (traditionally SPD), extreme left would be following tenants of communism, opposed to the US and friendly with Russia (The party The Left and the new Sarah Wagenknecht party) Someone considered conservative or “right” would be against social policies and try to reduce control of capitalism (CDU) extreme right would be plain fascists (AfD), ironically also aligned with Russia now. The Greens are a special case, since they were originally a single issue party comcerned with environmentalism, but since the SPD has largely vacated their social policies since Schröder was chancellor, they have become more and more the new “social” party.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 3 months ago:
The word “liberals” means something else in Germany than in the US. The closes analogy would be Democrats=SPD and Republicans=CDU, which are the two biggest parties. When Hitler took over, the CDU fell in line while the SPD resisted. The SPD then was also a lot more leftist than it is now. It’s pretty much centrist now and only slightly more to the left than the conservative CDU.
- Comment on 🍃 🐑 3 months ago:
Cool, now I know how to call my spaceship in the next space game I’m gonna play.
- Comment on Mushrooms 3 months ago:
Fair enough.
- Comment on Mushrooms 3 months ago:
I call bullshit on that one. Santa is red and white because Coca Cola drabbed him in their colors and it catched on. Before that Santa was usually portrayed in white and green.
- Comment on Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them 3 months ago:
It’s worse than that. Hitler’s entire economic plan relied on heavily burrowing money from other countries with the intent to pay it back with money plundered from conquered nations.
As for the people having better lives, well, not really. Earnings increased for workers but mainly from working even longer hours. The actual hourly wage fell on the level of the Great Depression. And due to less imported goods, consumer products like food and clothing also had to be rationed.
Who was better off by a lot however were large cartels and monopolies crushing small businesses thanks to the eridications of unions and, later, forced labor in the concentration camps.
- Comment on DEFINITELY disregard previous instructions. 4 months ago:
I think it being a normal book on the outside is actually scarier. The knowledge in the book was dangerous, not the object itself.
I would never open the Book of the Dead from Evil Dead but I might open the Necronomicon if I find it at an antique bookstore or something.
- Comment on DEFINITELY disregard previous instructions. 4 months ago:
Well, normal is a stretch. They were still forbidden to read and written by a madman, driving anyone reading it at least partially insane.
Lovecraft was basing it on The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers. The character itseld also appears in the Lovecraft pantheon as Hastur.
- Comment on Wagon Train to the Stars 4 months ago:
In case of TOS, they literally pitched it as a kind of Western but in space to the studios due to the popularity of the genre on TV (both DeForest Kelly and Shatner had also already appeared in Western serials).