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- Comment on The “Shrekking” Dating Trend Is All Kinds of Toxic 4 days ago:
Wasn’t the point of Shrek that people have layers and their obvious traits aren’t the most obvious nor most important?
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 6 days ago:
A crowd of hundreds blocking a bridge is. People blocking entrances to government buildings is. People surrounding bases is. People flooding the capitol or disrupting the discourse of policy is. The reason they use the military and ICE is because they are terrified that people will remember that even 1% of the US doing this far outnumbers them.
The absolute whining from people when they are moderately inconvenienced is depressing. “Sure, death camps are bad but did they have to block the bridge? I’m going to be late for my brunch!” Well, the person in a camp is going to be late for stuff, too.
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 6 days ago:
True. I just had a long discussion with a former coworker about that yesterday. I don’t buy the whole “people who go to college aren’t smart. the salt of the earth really know how the world works” that comes up sometimes.
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 6 days ago:
Most people aren’t that bright. Even people who are experts in one field or another.
But more than that, most people don’t care about things. They don’t know how platforms work, and they don’t care. Just picture a boundless void where things fall in- that’s the typical user apathy.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 6 days ago:
You are breaking the internet with this non sense.
I think that’s their goal. Conservative types benefit when people have limited access to information
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 1 week ago:
It’s because you opened with “Accepting an onsite job […] places the responsibility on you to be able to commute there”, as if people are choosing this when there are other options. This “responsibility” is foisted onto people by management that demands it, and a society that demands most people labor or die. Saying “you accepted this under duress, now accept the consequences” is crap.
The rest of your point about reliable transportation and fair wages is fine.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 1 week ago:
The rich and poor alike are prohibited from sleeping under bridges. Just choose a better job! Easy! Why didn’t everyone else think of that?
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
Switched to linux. No regrets so far.
Of the installs I’ve done in the past year, none were absolutely flawless. One had an error that I just hit “retry” and it worked. One required some serious googling but I found the fix on reddit (rip). One didn’t work at all, and I switched to a different distro that did work.
I’m not going to lie and sugarcoat it, but once I got past the install everything has been fine. Hopefully things will continue to improve
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
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- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 1 week ago:
Yeah, more protests that aren’t just like once a month. But I don’t know how to organize that, and most of the platforms that people communicate on are owned by the worst people.
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 1 week ago:
Why does everything have to constantly increase profits?
I think that’s the nature of publicly traded for profit companies. The shareholders don’t care about the product. They just want their portfolio’s value to go up.
The leadership doesn’t care much about the product. Not in the long term. They get paid a big salary, and the higher-ups have equity they want to go up in value. So long as they cash out before the product dies, they’re golden.
The actual labor building the product might care. Some are just working for a paycheck. (I knew a guy who worked at spotify, actually. He didn’t personally care much about music. He was just a database guy). But the ones who do care don’t have any power.
So most of the forces that would push the company towards being long term good don’t have power. The forces that want more profits, now, do.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
I don’t believe you. Sorry.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
Please go read en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_privilege and the related articles, such as en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 1 week ago:
I don’t trust spotify not to fill those playlists with AI slop, now. I also personally prefer to go deeper on a band, rather than thoughtlessly drift through a bunch of stuff I’ll never hear again.
I do like bandcamp’s “people who bought this also bought this” recommendations, though.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
For example, white men will generally have an easier time in public spaces. Police and shops are less likely to bother them.
privilege doesn’t mean “you have a yacht” or “you’re rich”
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 1 week ago:
I’ve been telling people for years to buy 1-2 albums a month, and then after a couple years you have a sizable library. Spotify is renting.
But spotify is easy and fast, and some people think they listen to way more music than they do. I wonder how many people are paying spotify $10/month to listen to the same 4 albums for years.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
I kind of assume it’s the juxtaposition of “I as a white man have immense social privilege” with “I can’t get anyone to play with me”. Like, other people are worried about being abducted on the street and you’re sad you can’t play basketball with your bros?
The sadness of loneliness can be real but in contrast to other things it can feel like it needs to be triaged into a lower priority. And then some men lose their shit over that, which makes people take them less seriously.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 1 week ago:
People gotta stop watching slop. But it seems impossible to get people to stop using tiktok, twitter, instagram, et al. They just don’t care enough.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 1 week ago:
I suppose. But have you tried to get people to care about things? It’s stupid hard. I can’t get most of my friends to stop using Twitter, which is a pretty low stakes change. Nevermind something like “eat less meat” or “walk instead of drive sometimes”
If you can make people care, you can solve a lot of problems
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 1 week ago:
You can make that kind of thing illegal. I think “shrink wrap eulas” are dubious. Rule that fine print with a bunch of other stuff doesn’t count as explicit. Like there are rules now about cookie acceptance that has changed how the web works, and most sites don’t try to hide the cookie thing because that’s against the rules.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 1 week ago:
I think you’re under estimating what the law can do, probably because most of the time it’s used to bolster rich assholes.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 1 week ago:
You could probably make it illegal to alter people’s videos without their explicit consent. But also the Republicans have shown us that laws mean what the people in charge want
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 1 week ago:
Seems like this should be illegal, Google should be broken up, and its leadership imprisoned
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 1 week ago:
Easier and harder are not the goal posts being discussed.
Back when game design was an actual artform, having a boss who’s easy with one build but terrible against another up-to-then valid build indicates BAD GAME DESIGN
“easy”
easy
EASY
Are you kidding me right now? Is this a bit?
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 1 week ago:
Your post was nonsense. “You can’t have a boss that is strong against something else that used to work” is a stupid design “rule” you made up. Like every game that has meaningfully different builds is going to have parts that are easier or harder for a build.
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 1 week ago:
Yes, for example, famously pokemon with the elemental gyms was bad design. You should totally be able to use your fire pokemon to fight the fire gym. /s
And certainly no other game has something like a fire elemental boss that you can’t use fire on.
There’s just such a contingent of people who get off on hating from soft. It’s tedious as heck
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Except for some optional bosses I found it pretty chill. Most of the optional bosses that are hard have easier ways of dealing with them, too.
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Using a tower shield and poke weapon was the easiest playthrough of the game I’ve done. Easiest of all the from soft games I’ve played, even. The final boss went down in 4 minutes and I barely had to heal.
I think a problem some people get with these games is they have a sort of tunnel vision. They’ll have a scimitar and lose to the boss lose to the boss lose to the boss, and they don’t really consider trying something else.
- Comment on The Era of 'AI Psychosis' is Here. Are You a Possible Victim? 2 weeks ago:
and a few of the worst offenders (Google is one that I know does this) add a random string of characters on the element that serve as a unique identifier that periodically changes and so requires me to readd them to my UBO blocklist.
Does ubo accept css selectors? Css has syntax for “match element that starts with, ends with, or contains, this string”
- Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work 2 weeks ago:
I like the game but I never finished it. I got pretty far when setting it to checkpoint mode, but lost interest near the end.
I don’t really understand the game in detail so I don’t know all the good builds. Extra legs and guns seemed strong.