TimewornTraveler
@TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 19 hours ago:
I still don’t get it. aren’t pyramid and ponzi schemes more or less the same thing? how is the original subject either of them?
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 19 hours ago:
sounds useful! hope we fill that niche
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 1 day ago:
… in what way? primarily selling products to employees?
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 1 day ago:
never heard of lemmy one
- Comment on Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature 6 days ago:
thanks for posting. I have learned to deal with clickbait like this: if the title presents a provocative question that could be answered in the title but instead requires clicking to get a simple answer, it’s clickbait.
“ONE SIMPLE TRUTH ABOUT HUMANITY!”
we don’t like being excluded. okay cool gotcha.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 6 days ago:
my pc cant run elden ring without nearly overheating… it’s so poorly optimized
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 6 days ago:
Nier Automata. It’s okay…pretty decent. But it’s a JRPG… ugh, been a while since I played one. It’s very, very JRPG.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
I mean that’s the point of research: to demonstrate real world problems and put it in more concrete terms so we can respond more effectively
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
lmao wait what holy shit is that line originally from Arthur??? that sounds exactly like something the bunny dude would say
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
Check the story! They knew they were going to die. That was the point. He told them. He told them exactly what was up and they consented. Their minds were so twisted by his lies that they couldn’t imagine any other life. That’s what drinking the koolaid means: you subscribe to a belief wholeheartedly, even a crazy one, to the point where youd rather die than question it.
- Comment on I have a shamefully dark question for firefighters. I'm sorry but I'm just too curious to not ask... It's about the smell and how that affects life. 1 week ago:
you need to be careful with your assumptions. Just because it looks like facts can connect and lead to natural conclusions does not mean they do.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry but this is fucking stupid. WHO is calling WHAT immoral? Someone babbling on recycling, who the fuck cares about recycling?
Poorest people are 100% capable of making choices that align with their personal values as anyone else. This is such a fucking Christian thread. What, do you think morals come from the Bible? what a joke
- Comment on Study: Hopeful homebuyers need income of nearly $117,000 to afford typical home in U.S. 2 weeks ago:
debt? our mortgage costs the same as my sister’s rent, but we’re not pissing our money away to a landlord every month. when we sell the house, we’ll be getting our value back and then some. even if we only stay a couple of years and merely break even, we’re essentially living rent free during this time
- Comment on Coffee is not brewed homogeneous 2 weeks ago:
it was a pun
should have tried a more violent response
- Comment on In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving 2 weeks ago:
Fair question! I’m not sure if there are any other industry figures holding major positions in the federal government but that would definitely be worth discussing if it isn’t just Elon
- Comment on In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving 2 weeks ago:
of course you didnt. that’s why the misunderstanding comes in. I just wonder what you’re implying with that comment… the interpretation i gave above is the first thing that comes to mind.
id be happy to hear a clarification!
- Comment on In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving 2 weeks ago:
So you’re saying that a corrupt man in power uses that power to benefit himself at the expense of the public, but it’s not corruption, because additional parties also happen to benefit?
i must be misunderstanding
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 2 weeks ago:
it highlights the fact that these LLMs refuse to say “I don’t know”, which essentially means we cannot rely on them for any factual reporting.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 3 weeks ago:
fyi discord had been enshitifying for at least 5 years now
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 3 weeks ago:
there’s a billing dept in my company. i assume they handle billing. they have an office. they sit at desks a lot. they make calls and verify insurance and process payments and whatnot.
I have a friend who is a software dude. i dunno what he does but I’m assuming it involves offices, desks, and software.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 3 weeks ago:
Wolke/Cloud are both pretty names
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 3 weeks ago:
in 2020 when bernie lost, reddit tankies were banning anyone in support of Biden, saying that a Trump victory would be preferable in the name of Accelerationism
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 3 weeks ago:
this is inaccurate. edit tbd
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 3 weeks ago:
stop, wait, what, that’s why tankies believe in comrade trump? because any steps towards subverting American hegemony is mistaken as being inherently pro worker? even if it’s a genocidal fascist who makes workers’ lives worse
- Comment on Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 4 weeks ago:
It is NOT foreign policy that they try to enforce against other warp-capable civilizations.
But this is not about foreign policy! This is about developing planets within Federation space. (Federation space is a specific region of the Alpha and Beta quadrants and may refer to both members and non-members!)
The only reason I ask is because the Fan page for the Federation says they enforce the prime directive on any invaders in fed space. I think False Profits is probably the only example that I can think of! Enterprise is pre-federation and pre-prime directive unfortunately.
- Comment on Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 4 weeks ago:
which series
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- Comment on I should wash my hair. 4 weeks ago:
yeah I don’t get it. i have amazing thoughts all the i but rarely in the shower
- Comment on A French law requiring adult sites to run age checks( facial age estimation, ...etc) and block users under 18 became applicable to sites based in France and outside of the EU. 4 weeks ago:
easy block potential, a dude tagging people from past arguments to rampage about how “Europe is bad actually!” or whatever the fuck nonsense they were arguing about… cherry picking contentious bill proposals and presenting it as some sort of evidence… the mental acuity of a teenager and none of the meme potential. yea I’m gonna get out ahead of this one and make sure you dont randomly tag me on shit either. easy block