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- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 2 hours ago:
One of the biggest victories of capitalism during my lifetime is how consumerism has swallowed ethics. I’m not saying that buying stuff from shit-heel companies is OK, or that boycotts are useless. But the mentality of shopping as ethics reduces moral agency to consumer choice and spending habits. Its gross.
Has anyone else noticed this? We don’t shop anymore, we support businesses now. Maybe the reason Americans are reluctant to protest is because we already feel like an activist for spending an extra dollar on cage free eggs.
- Comment on Linux just works until it doesn't 4 hours ago:
This works on libertarians too.
- Comment on YSK that the guy who created the hardest quote on conservatives is also a contemporary classical music composer 22 hours ago:
I read a book called The Reactionary Mind, by Robin.
It’s thesis was that if you survey Western conservative writings from the French Revolution to today, the only consistent value is hierarchy. God, guns, small government, capitalism, and traditional family values may all be jettisoned, but never hierarchy.
I’ll point out that this week, Trump pitted gun rights vs. enforcement of the out-group and the American Right shuddered.
- Comment on Currency 23 hours ago:
Fiat currency is socially constructed and would cease to exist if we stopped believing in it. It’s just that the value of gold works exactly the same way.
- Comment on Women receive more hatred for defending themselves against violence than men do being pedophile rapists 23 hours ago:
Amber Heard was a victim of a violent Depp and his lying public relations barrage. She’s a great example of what OP is talking about, and so is your comment.
- Comment on Interesting concept 1 day ago:
Sci-fi eugenics is still eugenics.
The Nazi term is “useless eater”, but I suppose “drain on society” is a pretty good translation.
- Comment on WinRAR path traversal flaw still exploited by numerous hackers 1 day ago:
FYI: the prefix “win” is software jargon for insecure software to let advanced users know to avoid.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 2 days ago:
Media criticism has become so full of right-wing messaging, that quality-slop doesn’t sound off-base. Kinda like poes law.
These CHOADS take the time to learn media-criticism jargon and aesthetics, but they use those to make single-digit ‘your Dad’ type complaints. The most popular being the existence of black actors.
I’ve seen people vehemently argue scientific accuracy in Star Wars. People are aggregated right now at the “unrealistic” casting of black actors in a Cyclops movie. Next to this insanity, quality-slop sounds pretty reasonable.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 2 days ago:
Also…you don’t think that LAWYERS willing to go up against Meta would have rock solid proof from these whistleblowers FIRST before filing a lawsuit?
This is not how civil court works. It’s not trial by combat. There is no standard for the quality of lawsuits filed. And despite what the ambulance chasers say on TV, Layers get paid even when they loose.
“alleged in a lawsuit…” is the same level of credibility as “they out here saying…”.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 2 days ago:
All the talk of games ownership and preservation overlooks the fact that I can play my first steam game today, while so many of my disks have been lost to time.
And let’s not forget how much bullshit came with those disks. DRM schemes up to and including root-kits. Serial # and activation codes. And don’t forget, though you had physical media, what you actually owned was a licence.
- Comment on You could make it your homepage 3 days ago:
Con man Albuquerque
- Comment on Is there a Paula Deen of the Midwest? 3 days ago:
Anybody can cook like Paula Dean. All you need is lots of butter, cheese, and racism.
- Comment on Penetration 4 days ago:
- Comment on Haha that's really cool, funny number man 4 days ago:
I like to watch PBS spacetime on Youtube. It keeps me humble.
- Comment on Proof that the ICE victim was shot AFTER he was already disarmed 4 days ago:
This instant-replay shot for shot stuff is nice and all, but remember we’re dealing with people who watched a pig square-dance on George Floyd’s neck and called it an overdose.
- Comment on YSK: 1930s Germany used Jim Crow America as a model, which was a resurgence of Antebellum American racist policies — segregation, imprisonment, enslavement, and homicide. 4 days ago:
You make a great point, but WTF does Tyler Durden have to do with anything?
There are many ways to read media, and one of the popular ways to read Durden and his project is as explicitly fascist. The speech your meme references sounds to my ear like white-male-grievance-porn straight from the Daily Wire editorial page.
I’m not saying you should adopt this reading, just that you should be aware of it.
- Comment on What if brains are eggs? 5 days ago:
I don’t believe in a soul or an afterlife. And neither do you. The only person I can think of who lived their life like that stuff was true is Andrea Yates. The rest of y’all are just kidding yourselves because you’re scared of dying.
- Comment on Is such a thing even possible? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes. 5 days ago:
- Comment on I get my inspiration from nature 5 days ago:
I love it that the B2 is a dive bomber now.
- Comment on This guy was a “villain” 5 days ago:
Well, then it must have been pretty true to the character because many people felt the antagonists had a good point in that show. In fact, many believe the series failed because of the way this arc was handled in that respect.
- Comment on Major Bing Bong 5 days ago:
Just for those who don’t know: Maj. Bong was the highest scoring American ace of WWII with 40 (IIRC) kills. He mostly flew the P-38 in combat and was killed test-flying the P-80 shortly after the war.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 6 days ago:
You would have to design the game around an LLM, not just drop one into existing games.
It might be cute for the guards in Skyrim to have unique dialogue, until one of them denies the Holocaust or says feminism is cancer.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 1 week ago:
On the whole, achievements encourage players to do stuff that isn’t fun. Sometimes they’re funny or encourage good gameplay, but too often they’re just busywork, mindless random drops, or insane investments in time/skill.
- Comment on What do all the subgenres of music mean? How does anyone make sense of them? 1 week ago:
This is what happens when you pay too much attention to any kind of taxonomy. Even scientific and rigorous taxonomy disintegrates into subjectivity when you look too close.
The idea of precisely labeling and categorizing things appears to be a human desire imposed upon an uncooperative universe.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 2 weeks ago:
Linux can be intimidating. And there is going to be a learning curve. Especially if you’re the kind of windows user who’s familiar with gpedit and has custom .bat files.
But what get’s left out is the joy and satisfaction that comes with learning how to Linux. I just re-installed my OS a week ago, and I was able to recognize and resolve dependency and permissions issues without having to look anything up. I also finally learned and started using rsync for backups over SSH/SAMBA. I know it’s not much, but it made me feel like a real hackerman.
The only thing I learned in my last few years of Windows was how to disable features that annoyed me.
- Comment on LLMs are already doing fascists a favor by ensuring that anything that is reasonably eloquently formulated on social media is automatically suspected of having been written by LLMs. 2 weeks ago:
Because of the massive amounts of data LLMs need, there will always be garbage input. So the overall quality is limited to “average” writing. Punctuation, grammar, and spelling can be imitated rather easily. Quality prose cannot.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 weeks ago:
Any game ported to the PC needs to recognize controllers that are plugged in after launch and need to have a “quit to desktop” option.
- Comment on YSK: Albert Einstein wrote about Socialism, and specifically calls out issues with the version proposed by technocrats. 2 weeks ago:
I like Einstein and Socialism! But Einstein’s opinion on politics, while interesting, carries no special weight. On matters of mathematics and physics Einstein carries the authority of his knowledge. On matters of politics he’s just another dude.
