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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Henry Symeonis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You could do something to help an enormous amount of people. But realistically in the world we live in that would probably still involve killing someone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow this thread is kinda fucked. Im way more left than most to the point that i think supporting biden/harris leading up to the last election was a mistake, although i would’ve begrudgingly voted harris when it came down to it. But this is just vindictive and unproductive. How about “lets both admit the corporations and their stooges have fucked us for way too long and come together to stop them” rather than some stupid childish finger pointing shit. Like i get the rage, but keep it pointing at the ones who are actively fucking you over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a seat. Don't you know caveman 234 beat caveman 211 with a rock.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Use some reading comprehension. I think they still teach that in US schools, though maybe not for much longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a seat. Don't you know caveman 234 beat caveman 211 with a rock.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That post was a hypothetical comment about if the US became an invading force in Canada. It wasnt about ‘ordinary citizens who want to burn it to the ground’. If you care so much maybe go out and do something about what your government is doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Hotel Paradox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But if being without a room is a form of suffering, then wouldbt it make more sense to distribute that suffering equally, so that no one person has to bear an unendurable length of time without a room, instead each person is just momentarily inconvenienced as they shift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How technologists and chemists respond to fascism: C7H5N3O6⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does leaded gasoline react differently? Honestly just curious even though i doubt enough leaded gas exists in my part of the world to make the question anything more than purely academic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember my buddy getting a whole bunch of viewsonic CRTs from his dad who worked at a professional animation studio. They could do up to 2048×1536 and they looked amazing, but were heavy as fuck for lan parties lol. I loved that monitor though, when i finally ‘upgraded’ to an lcd screen it felt like a downgrade in alot of ways except desk real estate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gowron delivers every single time 👌⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think its the ratings of all the episodes. Probably from imdb. I thought it was season.episode at first too, and assumed it must be counting the first two seasons of ds9 as seasons 8 and 9 since tng only goes up to 7, but that doesn’t make sense for a number of reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to note, in a few years theres a convergence of when the major union contracts are up for renegotiation, so they’re already planning for a general strike. So it sucks having to wait until may 2028, but do what you can to get as many unions off the ground and onboard in the meantime. Getting any new unions going would probably be the most impactful thing you could do regardless of if there is a general strike, as it increases the negotiating power, and anyone not in a union is in a really difficult position if and when a strike does happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr. OpenAI will see you now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was never about drugs, it was about profits for the militarized police industrial complex and the pharmaceutical companies with a good sprinkling of privatized prisons on top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director thinks GTA 6 might have the "clout" to normalise a $100 price tag⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does the price have to increase? As you said, if rising sales covers the rise in development costs, then also raising the price on a digital good that is infinitely reproducible at no extra cost is just double dipping. These game publishers make crazy profits. Prices for everything don’t have to just keep rising perpetually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A shopping mall is absolutely not a public space, and if youre shouting slurs into a megaphone, or even just harassing random shoppers with your crazy beliefs, you are definitely going to be dragged out by security. And or/have the cops come to remobe you. I hope you understand how badly you just disproved your own point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just wrong. Im canadian but think about how you would pronounce the word ‘clothe’ as in 'he can barely clothe himself" and then add an s sound. Although it is more of a ‘z’ sound abd can blend with the ‘th’ a little bit, the ‘th’ is definitely pronounced clo-th-z.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah ‘loose’ could probably be pronounced like ‘choose’ and it would still make sense, but it absolutely wouldnt make sense for ‘lose’ to be pronounced like ‘moose’ or ‘goose’. Im not sure what you even mean when you say they switched meanings either because thats just false.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao the subway complaint is the dumbest thing ive ever read. The subway was added to the game and it was the most boring shit ever, why would you want to have to walk into a train system and watch a non skippable cutscene just to be able to travel somewhere. Talk about a stupid feature that somehow got latched onto by thousands of bitter basement dwellers who will never be satisfied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean i dont think its the best game ever or anything, but compared to say breath of the wild which is celebrated for its open world for some reason but which is just 99% empty space with a thousand rocks you have to turn over, cyberpunks world is so much more dynamic and alive. There are tons of little hidden quests that you have to stumble upon or be in the right place at the right time. There are tons of little hidden easter eggs, like a dead sniper on one roof with a log entry, and on the roof opposite that a bunch of dead gang members with a corresponding log entry. You really have to search and read everything in cyberpunk to find the little gems, and by the end theres a lot of unnecessary loot and repeated data files, but when you stumble across the reallt interesting hidden bits it makes it all worth it i think. Regardless if you play for more than an hour or two and take the time to explore then its obvious a lot of care went into crafting the world, more than just creating a dumb little puzzle and then copy pasting it 50 times all over the map.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else noticed that Steam no longer requires self-updates that restart the client?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this is probably due to the steamdeck and so much steamos functionality requiring steam to be running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay but words are not math. Language exists solely for the purpose of communicating ideas, and if you understand the idea that someone is trying to convey and that idea is not false, but their word choice is inaccurate then you most definitely are just nit-picking, and its not in search of some greater ‘truth’ because the actual truth of the conversation is what they were intending. I feel like you’re conflating truth with accuracy. Misusing the word animal when you mean mammal is not false in the same way as saying the sky is green or the covid vaccine gives you aids. Words can also have multiple meanings, which lends itself to more than one truth. Theres the scientific definition, and as i mentioned, the colloquial usage. So if a majority of the population understands a word to mean one thing in one context and another thing in a different context, and you willfully ignore that societal understanding in favor of ‘scientific validation’, then you are again ignoring a form of truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure in some cases there can be an objective truth probably, although i doubt any of us is as close to it as some people seem to enjoy thinking they are. But i think what you’re missing (possibly intentionally) about my point is that if you know what someone meant then they achieved the objective of communicating, and choosing to ignore what they meant and instead focus on what they incorrectly said then i feel like you’re consciously choosing to move the conversation away from ‘truth’ and toward ‘correctness’ out of some need to feel superior. There is a time and place to correct people, but lots of people (and you may or may not be one of them) seem incapable of distinguishing when it is not the right time or place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they don’t care because they’re using it in a colloquial sense and 90+% of people they talk to would understand their intended usage, so they resent being lectured on semantics rather than responding to the meaning behind their words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Black is what happens when the class clown doesn't become depressed and instead becomes even more of a clown⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if i was kyle gass id tell jack black to go fuck himself. He made a big fit over a simple joke when his whole shtick(before being a literal clown for Disney™) was being an ‘edgy’ comedian who writes songs that are supposed to be offensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if your life started in 2005 and you didnt live through any of the 20th century, calling it the late 1900s seems totally reasonablr. You werent there when people were living through the “90s”, to you its just another bygone era that people speak about in waya you’ll never be able to relate to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Im sure you could find a usb c camera that could easily be obscured or pinned to a lapel or otherwise disguised for cheaper than the price of a pair of smart glasses, or even just wear your phone on a lanyard around your neck with the screen facing your chest. People might think its weird but noone is going to second guess it unless your phone is in your hands actively pointing at them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it realistic to set up a HTPC that doesn't need a keyboard or mouse?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Get an air mouse remote. Theyre like 20 bucks on amazon and you just point the remote at the screen to control the mouse cursor. Mine also has media controls on one side and a full keyboard on the other, and only one set of buttons works at a tim3 based on which side is pointing up so you dont have accidental button presses. It makes it way more functional if you want to do even casual web browsing and the media controls are great for htpc apps. You can also use in browser streaming services this way too though. Honestly one of my favourite peripheral devices that ive ever bought, and super cheap and works way better than i wouldve thought for the price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risky Buisness⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah probably if it communicates who im talking about and why im talking about them. Theres lots of times when ill be talking about an actor and refer to them by the name of their character because i either cant remember or dont know their name, or because its more recognizable for whoever im talking to. But hugh jackman also has other accomplishments that he is known for and that he uses to further his career, its not just him marketing himself as ‘wolverine’ which is kinda the whole point. If he had never acted in anything else and did livestreams in his wolverine costume and personally sold wolverine merch and had a podcast called wolverine talks then definitely i would call him the wolverine guy. But also acting in a movie is a much bigger accomplishment than being a living meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risky Buisness⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And im saying its not at all accidental when she hired a publicist to promote ‘hawk tuah’ and named her ppdcast ‘talk tuah’. Its the identity shes chosen to adopt in the name of fame so she can lie in the bed shes made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risky Buisness⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you serious? She brings a couple hundred dollars worth of animal food to a shelter (on a live stream) and you think thats actually something notable? She definitely got more out of the publicity and ads than she even spent making that video. Thats literally attention seeking behaviour. And yes, 99% of internet personalities are also attention seeking individuals. Anyway this discussion isnt worth my time, im not gonna give her another seconds thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risky Buisness⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  She gave a three second interview that went viral, that shes now desperately trying to spin into merch, tv interviews, a podcast, and whatever else she can attach the ‘hawk tuah’ brand to. Thats pretty desperate. Shes like the new ‘cash me ousside’ girl, and i think its a gross side effect of our media and celebrity obsession that we shouldnt be glorifying or even humoring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risky Buisness⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont want to know her name. I literally could not care less, until she does something worthwhile. For that matter, i wouldnt even ever refer to her as ‘hawk tuah’ if we werent having this conversation because shes really not worth talking about except to crtiticize her desperate attention seeking behaviour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risky Buisness⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean shes the one making it her entire personality, and attempting to publicize and monetize it as much as possible. Its not like a cruel nickname pushed on her by the media, she’s actively making it her brand/identity.