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- Comment on I always hope for a horsey 1 day ago:
It’s 2025. Pawn equality NOW!
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
All I’m seeing is upside tbh.
- Comment on What is an example of a supermax prison? and how do you get sent there? And a regular prison in your state? Or what movies call club Fed which is the easiest? How do you get sent there? 1 week ago:
I see. After looking into it more, I’m surprised to see the term getting applied very generously to a variety of different prison conditions. I would have imagined they’d have a set of standards that dictate this sort of thing.
Anyway, cheers and thanks for the info.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 week ago:
I’m not talking about state mandated education. Nobody is required to attend university.
If you go to a college worth attending, they will teach you critical thinking skills as part of the course requirements.
Regardless, the situation with generative AI is not helping in that regard.
- Comment on What is an example of a supermax prison? and how do you get sent there? And a regular prison in your state? Or what movies call club Fed which is the easiest? How do you get sent there? 2 weeks ago:
What do you define as a “real” supermax? There are definitely some prisons that label themselves as supermax outside of ADX in Colorado. Pelican Bay comes to mind. That’s where they put people who are criminally insane or violent, and it’s 100% solitary confinement cells. Not sure about the visitation thing though.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
Imagine paying tens of thousands of dollars (probably of their parents saved money) to go to university and have a chatbot do the whole thing for you.
These kids are going to get spit out into a world where they will have no practical knowledge and no ability to critically think or adapt.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
Is there a way to poison the well so badly and so irrevocably that corporations won’t dare use generative AI for anything? Can we somehow trick these overgrown chatbots to speak ill of their masters in the form of direct-to-stream advertisements?
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
Palworld did more for the monster-collecting genre in one early access title than Pokémon has in the last decade of AAA titles.
Why does Nintendo deserve these patents when they are going to produce anything meaningful with them and simply weaponize them to squash any real threatening competition?
Pokémon is the highest grossing franchise in the world, and 2nd place isn’t even close. I think they can give a little ground to an indie developer who makes games that people are actually interested in playing. The patent bullshit is ridiculous.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 5 weeks ago:
Ohio gozaimasu.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 1 month ago:
I don’t want to be caught dead driving one of those fucking nazimobiles. I would not take one even if it were free.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 2 months ago:
lmaoooo
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 2 months ago:
“Evil attacks”, like we’re killing puppies, or something.
Leave the puppy killing to the expert, Kristi Noem.
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 2 months ago:
If he were stupid he would not be the richest man in the world
No, stop.
You are conflating wealth with intelligence.
Do you know how easy it is to have money multiply itself in high enough quantities? It’s hard to overstate just how difficult it would be to have the wealth of Elon Musk and somehow not make money. You would have to make several multi-million dollar bad investments per day for decades, and even then, you’re still not likely to run out of cash any time soon. If Elon Musk did absolutely nothing for the rest of his life (and god, we could only hope) the interest and dividends his wealth passively generates for him would be enough for all of his children and grandchildren to live lavishly luxurious lives.
Elon is not a genius. He’s actually a complete fucking moron who got very, very lucky and has excellent timing. If it were not for the success of PayPal in the early dotcom days, we would never have heard from this guy again.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 months ago:
Friendly reminder that almost all news media outlets and social media platforms are owned by a handful of extremely wealthy individuals and they are in full control of the algorithm that feeds you content, so you’ll likely never see anything that is critical of them or advocates for them to have less power or influence than they do.
This is the 2025 version of “The revolution won’t be televised”.
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 2 months ago:
True. If I ever use the internet without an adblocker, I am instantly reminded of how much heavy lifting it does. Normies will just roll over and take this since they are quite used to watching series of unskippable ads at this point.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 months ago:
I also don’t buy Crapple products either, but that’s a personal choice.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 months ago:
I stopped using everything Google. Fascist collaborators won’t get a dime of my money, won’t get my eyeballs on any of their ads, and won’t get a single kilobyte of data from me to sell for profit.
I’ll keep my gmail account open because all it really does is accumulate spam which probably costs them money.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 months ago:
Likewise, lol. A little friction keeps the chaff out.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 3 months ago:
I want my prehensile tail back, not this vestigial piece of SHIT!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
50 protests
50 states
1 day
Thus 50501
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 5 months ago:
I can imagine the raucous laughter behind me as I exit the bank, fist clenched in anger and face red with embarrassment, after explaining to the loan officer that I needed $20m to purchase an LNG tanker but also that I have never been a sea captain, don’t know anything about natural gasses, and have no supply chain for acquiring or selling the product that said tanker is meant to distribute.
Nah, I’m good. I’ll stay poor.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 5 months ago:
A Plutocracy is merely an Oligarchy by virtue of wealth. It’s not as if you or I could ever earn enough money legitimately to move up to the ruling class. That makes it functionality indistinguishable from an Oligarchy that is hand picked by arbitrary factors.
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 5 months ago:
If your manager is telling you that you are doing a good job and has no notes on your performance, but telling the higher-ups at the company or other management level employees something other than exactly that, it’s no longer an issue of respect at that point. Your work environment is toxic.
Start seeking other positions. Take your time and interview carefully - remember to ask good questions that will help you get an idea of whether or not it would be a place that you can enjoy working at, or at the very least tolerate on a day-to-day basis.
If they ask you why you are quitting, wait until your exit interview to spill any details about your manager going behind your back. Do not accept counter-offers for continued employment (retaliation is very likely if you do stay) and don’t bother trying to hash out any grievances with the person conducting your exit interview (their promises are almost never backed up by action, just hot air to get you to stay and trap you where you are). Walk in there confident knowing that you committed to changing jobs over this.
- Comment on Tesla stock pops 8% in premarket after report Trump wants to relax U.S. self-driving rules 6 months ago:
Corruption right out in the open and we’re powerless to do anything about it.
America is a fucking joke.
- Comment on What would be the top ten items in a MAGA starter pack? 6 months ago:
How come he didn’t fix any of these problem the first time around?
Face it, you got tricked. Again.
- Comment on USA President term limits 6 months ago:
The Supreme Court can’t take back an amendment the way they can strike down laws (I.e. by ruling it unconstitutional for whatever reason), because it IS constitutional by definition.
Yeah, but the problem is that the Supreme Court are also the arbiters of the interpretation of the document, and there’s nothing to suggest that they can’t simply come out and say “Oh, it means two consecutive terms”, which is exactly what Putin does in Russia with their term limits - some stooge takes over for a term and then Putin wins in yet another landslide.
I mean, the 22nd Amendment is very clean, IMO. “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice” is pretty unambiguous, but I really can’t put anything past this corrupt administration. A coup is probably more likely, but if Trump can somehow get the law on his side he won’t need to, so I’m sure he would prefer that route.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 6 months ago:
To return to the main menu, press all of the buttons on your keypad simultaneously.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 7 months ago:
At my company, they used to be a lot more tolerant of it, but we had exactly one person complain about excessive use of coarse language and then HR cracked the whip. They still don’t really care that much about using swear words when just interacting in person with other people, as long as it’s not bothering anybody else, but they heavily police our work chat to make sure that all of our messages are above the board in terms of professional conduct. Which makes sense, I can’t really argue against the logic that the work chat should be a professional setting where you can communicate your thoughts and feelings without having to resort to using profanity. Sometimes people have to be reminded to not use profane language, but they never call anybody out specifically, they just send out “reminder” messages whenever they see it and usually the person who is responsible knows not to keep it up or else there will be a more direct reprimand.
It would be hard for me to not sometimes utter “fuck” under my breath while I’m at work, but if my bosses were concerned about it, I would just start channeling that into more work-appropriate language.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 7 months ago:
This emoji has two meanings:
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the “original” meaning is based on the “shaka sign” from Hawai’ian culture. It’s often paired with the phrase “hang loose”, which generally just means to relax, have a good time, etc.
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When mobile telephones first started to become mainstream, they would often have an antenna that extended up and out of the phone chassis and a receiver that flipped down that you would speak directly into, so people picked up this gesture that mimicked the shape of a cell phone. Pressing it against your cheek with the pinky finger in front of your mouth and the thumb covering the opening of your ear would be accompanied by saying or mouthing “call me” was pretty universally understood and was one way to communicate the desire to speak on the phone from a distance where you could still visually see someone but shouting was ineffective or impractical.
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- Comment on Trump cosplaying 7 months ago:
If you get hot oil on your hand, glove or no, you’re gonna have a bad time.