Couldbealeotard
@Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bluesky hits 20 million users 11 hours ago:
I thought it was a great idea for official statements. Kind of like a new type of RSS feed.
Local transport companies can advertise delays, meteorology organisations can advertise natural disasters, police can post active missing person alerts, etc.
But it seems like it is just vapid narcissists thinking other people give a shit about their random thoughts.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 5 days ago:
If you start with the second one you won’t know what’s going on and feel like you’ve missed a bunch of important story.
This is how it felt after playing the first one as well. Half Life 2 is almost an unrelated game. The plots of the two barely line up.
- Comment on nighttime pollinator gang rise up 1 week ago:
Hang on, what is bad about the word moist? Some of my favourite things are moist!
- Comment on nighttime pollinator gang rise up 1 week ago:
What do mean regarding terrible names? “Moth” isn’t inherently a bad name; any negative connotations of the word come from the creature itself.
- Comment on Brazilian Wandering Spider 3 weeks ago:
The good news is you get a four hour erection.
The bad news is that you die within two hours. - Comment on Starlink dishes found on Russian military drones after being shot down 1 month ago:
Why would private ones need to be registered?
Mobile GPS is artificially disabled above a certain ground speed to prevent them being used as bootleg missile guidance systems.
Just put a speed limit on Starlink dishes, and then if you want to permit one side to use them simply whitelist those MACs. Perhaps the real reason is that a private company doesn’t want to be seen as choosing sides or maybe there are implications for international rules of war.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
The ones that pay are the ones running the ads. If the content creators have to pay, they will be the ones doing ads. This is how AV content has worked since the dawn of broadcast radio.
- Comment on THICC 1 month ago:
What is aave?
- Comment on Just for a moment 1 month ago:
If you’re good at what you do, it’s not hard at all. Doesn’t even feel like work. The one thing it takes from you is time. Long long days, time away from family. It’s wonderful but it’s a doozy of a price you pay
- Comment on Has anyone else ever seen an SSH key/fingerprint thing string together an actual word? Or how about a curse word? XD 2 months ago:
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!?
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
I think the Botting of streams to game the royalties is the bit they don’t like.
Obviously it would be a beach of t&cs
- Comment on Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame | Reena Gupta 3 months ago:
The houses I’ve seen in America were thoroughly insulated and heated to cope with the climate. Large amounts of that country is subject to snow in winter. In Australia you only find snow on the mountains in the south east.
- Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says 3 months ago:
How do you determine what is good or bad for the environment?
The environment is just the result of many interactive factors. People need to reverse the perspective and ask is the environment good for us?
- Comment on If a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemetery 3 months ago:
Did you think graves were perpetual?
I’m sorry to bake your noodle on this one, but when you get buried you’ll get 6 years tops before the site is recycled for the next person.
- Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes 3 months ago:
What are the chances that Crowdstrike started using ai to do their update deployments, and they just won’t admit it?
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 4 months ago:
That’s kind of why they are successful though, right? They were the ones that figured out how to supply games digitally for a profit, which required a way to prevent people from sharing the product for free. This was previously done with CD keys, but the advent of the internet rendered that mostly ineffective.
- Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says 4 months ago:
Yea, it would be pretty rough.
- Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says 4 months ago:
There are historical accounts of volcanic activity blocking the sky, I think in Europe, for a few years. For all we know it was the whole planet. That would definitely disrupt solar energy collection without being an extinction level event.
Diversity is a genuine factor of fossil fuel free energy generation.
- Comment on Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets 4 months ago:
Going through a scalper means that the ticket supply is artificially decreased, which pumps up the price. Then you run the risk of your ticket not working when you turn up to the venue.
- Comment on Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets 4 months ago:
You’d rather have 2 middle men for your ticket purchase?
- Comment on Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI 4 months ago:
No straw though, right? You’re in the clear.
- Comment on Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI 4 months ago:
I know this is true, but I find it bizarre that there’s this fixation on straws and not the hundred other things we are likely doing that also kills turtles.
It’s like someone saw that viral video of the turtle with a straw up it’s nose and decided that’s the only thing to focus on.
- Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society 4 months ago:
I think OP doesn’t even know what their point is.
They keep saying will continue to perform sex work if there’s no economic gain, but at the point it’s not work. Then the counter argument to that is “there’s many different kinds of sex work”, but the point still stands that having sex voluntarily, being an exhibitionist, or having a hobby of filming sexual encounters are all things that people do for personal gratification and are not considered a career now, or in this hypothetical post-scarcity civilisation.
Like someone else said, it sounds like they are just fantasising about sex slaves. To me it also sounds like OP is overcompensating on the whole “I respect sex workers” virtue signalling.
- Comment on New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega 4 months ago:
I mean, that was Driver on psx, which was a good game. It’s the MMO bit I can’t imagine
- Comment on The Force Unleashed I/II was not as fun as I thought 4 months ago:
Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy were miles better. It’s hard to say what they did so right compared to Force Unleashed but it’s a shame these ones sucked.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 4 months ago:
You are thinking about IP with tunnel vision. You just want to gain entertainment for free. There’s more than that to IP laws. How would you like it if you made art that was then used in a manner that you philosophically disagree with. For example, Meghan Trainor had a song that was used against her will in a political campaign against same sex marriage, she was able to cease and desist this use because of IP laws.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 4 months ago:
I think there’s room for improvement on copyright laws, but that’s a far cry from the outrageous claim that intellectual property isn’t a real thing.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 4 months ago:
In most if the modern world, copyright laws give automatic ownership of unique works of art. Legally IP is a real thing.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 4 months ago:
So if an artist creates a piece of intellectual property, do you not think they should have control over how it’s used? Including who can make profit off of it?
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 4 months ago:
Sorry, I’m not going to read all that, but it seems like you’re upset about the shitty deals made by record labels and other large corporations, not intellectual property rights.