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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sega Dreamcast is not an example of a console that inbound describe as “built to last”. I had two and both of them died in the same way - the optical lens cracked from heat stress and stopped reading disks. There was never any warning it was about to happen, and no way to prevent it as far as I knew.

  As unlucky as I was with the Dreamcast, I made up for is by only ever having to buy one Xbox 360. I still own my original console which was never refurbished and never red ringed on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming up with a stage name is usually something that agents will tell their clients to do if their name sounds “too ethnic”. Happens when they are auditioning for roles, not when they get famous.

  Random fact I heard the other day: Leonardo DiCaprio almost sent out headshots with a stage name at the advice of his agent, but his dad talked him out of it and told him to be proud of his name. I forget what they told him his stage name should be, but it was way more generic and forgettable than his real name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Date pays for their stuff, you pay for your own. Basically, separate tabs.

  To be clear, I would have paid if she had asked me to at the time. When the bill came for the food, I asked if she wanted separate or together, but my phrasing made it sound like I wanted to split it and she said that was fine. Whoops.

  Don’t worry, she’s making up for lost time. I pay for almost everything when we go out now 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Theory of American Reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Second term has been so much worse than the first in that regard. I was just telling my co worker the other day that it’s funny how Trump’s first term, and especially his first year, was just him firing tons of people that he appointed, and in his second term he’s hardly fired anybody. It really sends the signal just how much Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants, yes-men, and puffers this time around.

  I think that’s part of the reason why the moron feels emboldened to say and do some truthfully horrifying shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My current fiance said she almost didn’t want to go on a second date with me because I wanted to go Dutch on our first date. She still tells me to this day that I’m lucky I was cute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My fear is that the US and Chinese governments will be propping up AI long after it’s shelf life because we’re in a mini economic cold war with them and nobody wants to get “left behind” in this ridiculous AI race to the bottom.

  Literal trillions of dollars are going into AI related initiatives. But the bubble can’t burst unless the money dries up and I don’t see that happening with the current regimes.

  I just realized that the GenAI craze is like the modern version of Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars project, but somehow both countries got fooled into pouring money into a colossal folly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QUACK QUACK QUACK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep forgetting to comment this, but does anyone else remember RFK jr setting a September deadline for “curing Autism”? Like, I remember it being a big deal at the time because that’s not really how science works. Right wingers tried to contrast it with Biden claiming he would find a cure for cancer, but he didn’t set himself an arbitrary deadline to make that happen.

  How suspicious is it that he nailed his deadline window for discovering the “cause” and now has a bogus cure in the chamber as well? Nevermind the fact that they don’t provide any actual evidence of any of these claims.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Early access to porn is nowhere near a new thing. As a millennial, I was exposed to sexual content at a very young age thanks to the internet being largely unregulated. I turned out fine. GenZ and Gen Alpha will be fine too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing that will kill this is forcing users to migrate to a new app. Removing the largest friction barrier that prevents people from leaving your app by forcing them to cross it is a great way to scatter the TikTok userbase to the four winds.

  I hope this kills TikTok, and that the people who enjoyed using it remember who was responsible for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny, the fascists “won” here, but they are still expatriating themselves to fuck up other people’s countries too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the 3x salary requirements are insane when housing accounts for almost 50% of people’s take home pay in most places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New article says #StarCitizen will release in 2027-2028, we contacted the author to ask for clarification on the source and he quoted Chris Roberts himself as saying "1 or 2 Y probably after S42"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind of wish that Chris Roberts would just take the hint and STFU about release dates for SQ42/SC. There were so many broken promises that any trust that they will hit targets is gone.

  I can at least say that, based purely off of what I’ve seen of their gameplay trailers, 2026 is a more realistic release date for Squadron 42 that any of the previous target dates were. The question isn’t if it’s going to be finished by then, it will be if they are going to release it in a playable state at that time.

  2027-2028 for Star Citizen is completely unrealistic. The game is nowhere near finished enough to consider that a date that will stick, even if you get all the people working on SQ42 to move over to SC after it eventually releases, the extra manpower can’t make up for the huge hole they’ve dug themselves into. They still have a years-long backlog of content to produce and show no sign of slowing down on offering new pledges. When they catch up with releasing all of the ships that people have paid money for and 10 years later still have nothing to show for it, then we can talk about release dates - ones that give enough time for proper bug fixing, polish, and gameplay balance. 2 or 3 years from now ain’t it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I actually find it quite repulsive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all in for banning pornographic content

  Fuck off. Just don’t consume it, idiot.

  If you are worried about your kids getting exposed to it, be a better parent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monthly challenge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The first two seem too loosely defined. Does it count if I just log on to e621.net, select latest/popular and then close the window down? Or do I actually have to watch porn and masturbate to completion? Does daily alcohol count if I drink a Bud Light, or make myself a fancy cocktail? Or do I need to get blackout drunk?

  Toughest for me would probably be 5-8 hours of uninterrupted gaming (I don’t have the attention span for it anymore) and running on 5 hours or less of sleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I was gonna say… there are definitely way to push anything AI related into an unrelated existing outgroup. Just say the liberals are using AI to steal elections and BAM, just like that you’ve got all the MAGA zombies hating AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m down with that. Web 1.5? Let’s do it. I’ll get my Geocities page up and then we can rev up that hit counter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did cavepeople have domestic pets, like wolves or cats?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans had probably moved to being nomadic rather than living in caves by the time wolves had been domesticated into dogs, but there might have been some overlap between the two groups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really give a shit about the AI race and I genuinely hope that we lose it, because I feel like being a winner in that “industry” is inherently unsustainable.

  The AI hype is so infuriatingly frustrating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never downvote Canada/Europe posts and I’m always happy to see the German memes materialize to take over the front page at like 3:00pm even though I don’t understand 95% of the content on ich_iel. I do kinda wish there was a larger international community on Lemmy.world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another 1 million Russian soldiers into the meat grinder it is, then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big things happening in the 3D print community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a lil somethin’ to take the edge off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep that AI horseshit out of video games, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He could be the Cincinnatus of our time. Trump proved you don’t need qualifications to do the job, so why not pick someone who has demonstrated that they are willing to fight for the average American without an expectation of a reward? Rather than some business tycoon sociopath who wants to run the country like a business and promptly bankrupt it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yes, let me protest this thing that just happened by throwing my Android-OS phone that I bought years ago away. That’ll show 'em.

  You’re just as disingenuous and stupid as the morons on the right who smashed their Keurigs.

  FYI, my next phone will probably be a Linux phone anyway and I hardly use YouTube at all these days, and when I do it’s with AdBlockers on, and I never gave a cent to them for premium, so I cost them money to use their platform if anything. If PeerTube or some other non-Google video hosting service could go mainstream, I’d use that in a heartbeat. I’ve de-Googled my life as much as I could reasonably be expected to, and this was before their CEO kissed the ring. So fuck off with your judgemental attitude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I already hate Apple products, so I can’t not buy them to make a statement about not supporting fascist loving corpo scum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Republicans so fuckin’ stupid they’re trying prohibition again, but this time with porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the government forces you to act like a clown for no apparent reason⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just had this experience the other day. Flying SFO to BOS and it was like the security people didn’t even care. Leave everything in your bags, leave your shoes on, leave your belt on. The only thing they asked was empty your pockets, and it could all go in one bin. I thought that finally TSA was getting a bit better about not being such pricks about every little thing.

  And then on my return flight, I got pulled out of the security line three times. Once for a mistake printed on my boarding pass (not my fault, but I had to get it corrected at the service kiosk anyway), once for my CPAP machine that I left in my carry on bag (which is exactly how I did it in SFO and they didn’t give a shit), and once a bottle of liquid that was 8.5oz (limit is 8.4oz), so they made me pour out 0.1oz of fucking liquid.

  They yelled at me all three times and said that I should know the rules by now, but none of those things came up during my first flight. The rules change literally every time I fly somewhere, so there’s no point in memorizing them anymore. There are the “hard” rules which are sometimes not enforced and then there are the “soft” rules that seem to vary from airport to airport, or even individual TSA agents having a bad day or going on a power trip or something. I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You make a great point. My own counter to that would be that not every consequence needs to come directly from the courts. People are more than capable of making up their minds about it with just the testimony from the accusers and then acting on that information accordingly, we just didn’t. That doesn’t seem to be OP’s principal argument, though.