Supervisor194
@Supervisor194@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 6 days ago:
I think the real problem is a government structure that lends itself to being captured by monied interests. The problem of capitalism chasing the money is only a problem because we have a government unable to properly tax the wealthy to ensure no one can amass the kind of wealth that makes it possible to capture the government.
- Comment on US | Trump brags about demanding his own government give him taxpayer money over Mar-a-Lago search: ‘I hereby give myself $1B’ 1 week ago:
You know, as much as it’s possible for me to, I get him. But what the fuck is wrong with these people clapping and cheering for a man seriously suggesting he’s going to just “give himself” a billion dollars from their tax dollars? How do you get from “conservative” to whatever the fuck this is, because it ain’t conservative.
- Comment on TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse 1 week ago:
Welcome to the era of media that cannot die.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 weeks ago:
Yes, yes I will, well Chromium forks.
Yeah, I’m not going to switch to a Manifest V3 browser because Firefox puts in access to an optional AI agent. If Firefox makes it so you can’t turn it off, which I wouldn’t think is likely, I might switch to something like Librewolf, but Chromium? No.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 3 weeks ago:
A nice M.L.T. - a mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich when the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe…
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 3 weeks ago:
Speaking of hacks, that title sucks.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 4 weeks ago:
This is precisely the concept of Asimov’s short story All the Troubles of the World.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 5 weeks ago:
Hey I just did it! I completed my migration today. The only reason I keep a desktop around at all is for gaming and I’ve been locked into Windows for years because of it, but no more. Steam is a given, but I’m running games off Epic and Gog through Heroic and standalone games using Lutris (ESO and Elite Dangerous so far). Not a single problem with any of them.
Mint is great, the only complaints I have are minor and I can easily deal with them. Like when you launch things, you don’t always get a cursor animation to tell you you successfully set something in motion and you just have to wait for the window to pop up. That kind of thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes, White Christmas. That episode fucked me up. It’s a depiction of hell, straight up. And heaven is depicted similarly in San Junipero - not sure if you have seen that one.
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 5 weeks ago:
You can’t see it? It’s *******
- Comment on ‘California sober’: marijuana may help you drink less, study finds 1 month ago:
Very tiny slices of gummies help me greatly with minor aches and pains, I can use it instead of stuff like Aleve. But if I get even 1/4 of a gummy in me it drives me mad. I’m wide awake, my eyes are burning fire, I can’t stop eating and my brain starts doing repetitive loops. It’s incredibly unpleasant to me and I really wish it wasn’t.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 1 month ago:
Yeah, was gonna say - this guy is another one of the “always, in every context, thinking about gay sex” closeted Republicans. Religion does this to them, the systematic and merciless repression of sexuality causes it to become an immense burden.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Lemmy After Dark^TM^
- Comment on Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS 1 month ago:
Yeah, if it’s really under 1K, I’m going to get one as immediately as possible. I’m still rocking my OG Vive.
I haven’t seen anywhere, and maybe this is a stupid question, but can you use it with Steam Deck? I’m guessing not, and that’s not a problem, I switched to Linux from Windows recently and this was such great news to hear because I’m losing my Vive with Windows.
But it would be crazy cool if you could.
- Comment on Love’s a two-way dream 1 month ago:
Well. Robin Williams, a (hilarious) American comedian and actor, gained much of his early fame/notoriety on a TV show called Mork and Mindy circa 1978 in which Robin played an alien named Mork.
The show was actually a spinoff of Happy Days, where the “Mork” character first appeared.
“Bjork and Bindi” is clearly a play on words that leverages this.
- Comment on Love’s a two-way dream 1 month ago:
I barely managed to understand this and I am from this era.
- Comment on Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’ 1 month ago:
If 25% of the available buying pool was disappeared, it would create a glut that would probably crash the market. Just like in 2008, people would give their keys back to the bank rather than accept that their formerly $750,000 house was upside down to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars. This is particularly true now because in 2008, so many people did it that the banks couldn’t properly hold it against their credit. They were essentially forced to let them re-buy much sooner than they would have been able to in a normal world (and they were enabled to do so by government bailouts - they’re too big to fail!). So people have been trained that they don’t have to accept their house values crashing, and rightly so tbh. But it means the next crisis would be worse.
We’d go full RoboCop.
We’re going to, because money doesn’t know what to do other than attempt to further itself.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 1 month ago:
Cyberpunk has a city that actually feels like a real city to me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In the age of LLMs, it’s pretty well guaranteed that it’s going to be far worse than described in a study from five years ago. Anecdotally, it feels to me like closer to half if not more of the responses I get are engagement bait. It’s not just corpo, a lot of it is government trolls trying to shape opinion, our government and foreign governments. I don’t post anymore at all - just read - and that only in my very niche communities that aren’t likely to be targeted for this kind of bullshit.
- Comment on Someone should digitally remake the Bourne movies and make everyone in the films Jason Bourne 2 months ago:
Gary? hahaha Gary! Gaaaaary
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Totally normal, just out of curiosity what was the song?
I had a guy whose name I did know help me out in a bad situation about 30 years ago. But about six months later, I moved across the country and never saw him again. I just recalled him to mind a few weeks ago and… I can’t remember his name.
It felt kind of like a betrayal, I should have remembered, he was a huge help to me when a lot of people hung me out to dry. But such is the imperfection of meat memory. :(
- Comment on Internet email for dummies 2 months ago:
I have a copy of the first edition of “The Internet for Dummies.” It’s worthless, just like the Internet.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 months ago:
Pretty sure Lemmy got on the influence bot radar some few months ago. Comments are now deeply negative and constantly drumming the 2FA and guillotine remedies to every complaint. Interactions outside of this kind of content I still find Lemmy users to be magnitudes higher quality than Reddit.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The President can do anything he wants if the Supreme Court and Congress won’t do anything about whatever it is he does. That’s the end of this discussion that we keep having over and over again anyway.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 months ago:
This is the endgame of all subscriptions. I have not one. Purchase where they will let you purchase without DRM, for the rest: 🏴☠️
- Comment on Lauren Southern accuses Tommy Robinson of lying to protect alleged 'rapist' Andrew Tate 3 months ago:
Lauren Southern was touring English-speaking nations in 2018 and working with local far right figures. In this early part of her career, Southern was linked to the ‘alt right’ and accused of ‘tiptoeing at the precipice of outright white nationalism’. A year earlier in 2017, she released a video promoting the ‘great replacement theory‘, which is a white nationalist conspiracy theory.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for this person? I’m asking a serious question: am I being asked to spend empathy on this person who clearly spends none of her own empathy on anyone else?
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 3 months ago:
Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.
I mean, if it’s really a simulation, all of that would be… simulated.
- Comment on Social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in Turkey 3 months ago:
Ironic that the only way to get a government to put the screws to billionaires and their shit platforms is to threaten the hegemony of the party that used the very same platforms to ratfuck their way to the top.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 3 months ago:
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 3 months ago:
You laugh, but it’s worse than you might think.
