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- Comment on China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’ 4 days ago:
The dictator thing doesn’t mean much - the Chinese dictator seems to have the best interest of China, it’s economy and it’s people at the top of his priorities as far as I can tell, whereas the US’s wanna be dictator cares about nothing but to enrich himself and his rich friends - not the long term success of the US or it’s citizens.
I would happily resurrect Augustus and have his as the dictator of the US - but the problem with dictators isn’t exactly the fact it’s a dictator (assuming it’s not a bad one), it’s more of the fact that succession doesn’t really work and you never know what you get next.
After Augustus, Rome had to deal with Tiberius and Caligula, then after Cladius, Rome had to deal with Nero. And so on and so on.
If the Republican/Conservative party wasn’t so utterly broken and filled with the absolutely worst fucking people, maybe this democracy thing would work better, but here we are
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 2 weeks ago:
I can’t speak to “emotional state”, but the thottening is a real thing (I’ve spent weeks trying to stop having all these ass models from cluttering up my feed, it’s impossible)
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 2 weeks ago:
I’m convinced insta knows your a guy and will blast you with reels full of chicks no matter what you do.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 4 weeks ago:
My guy, everything has changed and yet nothing has changed. You are arguing specifics while I’m arguing bigger picture. I’m not saying your wrong or I’m wrong, I just think we have a different view and measuring with a different kind of ruler, and yet I don’t think we are really in disagreement, this seems to be arguing over semantics of what videos were in ~95 (very low res and shit quality fyi) and how many people had access to those shit quality videos - I’m just saying they were always there
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 4 weeks ago:
It’s still the same bullshit - people looking at text on their terminals. Be it SMS, be it discord, etc. people looking at images, listening to music, etc. inb4 “durr durr no 4k res in 95”, no shit
I really don’t know what your crusade is with this topic, but I actually do have(and still use) the same computer I had in the late 90’s - SGI Indigo2 Extreme I got when I bought Alias PowerAnimator. Me and you were absolutely not doing the same stuff with our systems
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 4 weeks ago:
My guy, wtf were you doing in the 90’s on a computer? of course we didn’t have streaming or just stupid useless videos that litter YouTube now, but there were video files all over the place to download and watch. For whatever reason, people were making the time and effort to digitize videos. Mpeg codecs came out in the early 90’s - I specifically remember efnet irc members posting urls to mpegs of Weird Japanese vomit porn. Amiga scene was strong too, (video toaster came out in 1990…). Not really sure why you even feel the need to doubt any of this
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 4 weeks ago:
Oh brother the Grammar nerds are here, as if that really takes away from what I’m saying.
In the mid and late 90’s people knew how to make videos, they didn’t link a YouTube URL but did post links to where one could find a video online, and IRC has bots that did file transfers, as well as people would use public ftp’s as file dumping grounds.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 4 weeks ago:
I was there from the start, you must of never BBS’d or IRC’d - shit was amazing in the early days.
I mean honestly nothing has really changed - we are still at our terminals looking at text. Only real innovation has been inline pics, videos and audio. 30+ years ago one had to click a link to see that stuff
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it really matters if you play them in any sort of order - Super Metroid really perfected the style and set the standard for the rest of the games
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 4 weeks ago:
Did you look into Super Metroid for SNES? I was just replaying it recently and it still holds up as a true gem
- Comment on this town has been well known for a long time 4 months ago:
So it seems we found the snitch
- Comment on this town has been well known for a long time 4 months ago:
The snitch probably will never see a dime from the reward, you need to provide info on very specific ways to be able to collect. What a dumb fuck. I hope we get to find out who the snitch was, I have my theories…
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 months ago:
I feel this is all moot. When we run out of fossil fuels and go off the energy cliff, the nuclear facilities will basically build themselves, assuming there will be anyone around that will even know how to build a nuclear reactor