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- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 1 day ago:
Do people still pirate Windows? You can download the iso directly from Microsoft’s website and you don’t need a registration key anymore.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 2 days ago:
Are you going to have to deal with a full-screen ad when you’re trying to open File Explorer eventually?
I was literally reading this sentence when the whole page grayed out and a pop-up asking me to subscribe popped up.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
What if the great filter is just when civilizations learn to live sustainably at home? Perhaps the assumption of infinite population growth, resource consumption, and expansion is flawed.
That’s my optimistic thought for the day.
- Comment on Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World 3 days ago:
Is there any evidence of American rat-fuckery in the Bolivian coup attempt?
- Comment on NBC to use AI-generated version of Al Michaels' voice during Summer Olympics 4 days ago:
There is a concept in post-modern philosophy called “hauntology”. This theory posits that late-capitalist societies loose their ability to imagine different social orders; and cannot imagine the future except as high-tech versions of the current social order. To fill the void of novelty, the culture industry must constantly recycle and repackage old culture.
Anyway, this isn’t a new phenomena, just a technology enabling us to resurrect live people instead of just fictional characters.
- Comment on Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks in US over windshield wiper, exterior trim issues 5 days ago:
The funniest thing about the Cybertruck is the windshield wiper. Not only does it ruin the science fiction ascetic by breaking up the flat surfaces, it breaks up the primary surface with a dumb squeegee arm. It’s also a little reminder that not only were the first wipers invented in 1903, but that they were fitted to electric vehicles.
I think they used one huge wiper in an attempt to make it look innovative by just by virtue of being unusual.
- Comment on Never know til you go. 1 week ago:
This is highly misleading! You don’t need an expensive ship or spend hours sinking into the ocean. So long as you charge up on the beach, you should be able to just drive to the wreak.
- Comment on Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company 1 week ago:
REMEMBER: If you have to have sex with you boss for advancement, that doesn’t make you a slut, that makes them a sex-offender.
“career advancement” is euphemism designed to switch the power dynamic.
- Comment on non vegan pizza time 1 week ago:
anyone who doesn’t agree with you is the bad guy.
You seem a little defensive. Threatened even.
- Comment on non vegan pizza time 1 week ago:
This is ironic because the argument concedes vegan ideology, it’s just attacks them for not doing more. At this point the carnists are not really arguing, they’re negotiating terms of surrender.
Most meat consumers already suspect vegans are right. We get aggravated because we’d rather ignore that question. And a vegan threatens to force the issue, even in our own mind. If you’ve ever wondered why vegans inspire automatic hostility, ridicule, and derision it’s because they threaten a carnists identity as a good person just by existing.
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- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
Liberals are conservatives, they hate leftists.
- Comment on What happens to those who are severely disabled while in prison? 1 month ago:
Ironically medical care is a right to prisoners but it’s not for everyone else.
Medical care in US prisons is largely handled by a few for-profit companies that make money by providing inadequate care or refusing care at all. Prisoners routinely die from medical neglect. Healthcare behind bars is more capitalism, not less.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2211252
Oh, and healthcare is not a right, it’s the State’s duty to care for people in it’s custody. That means prisoners have no agency over their care. For example if you’re arrested at an accident, the EMTs gain consent from the police, not the patient. This is how EMTs can administer anti-psychotics and strong sedatives on the sidewalk after the pigs have kicked your ass.
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- Comment on Innovation or Overreach? UH Research Casts blame on OceanGate's Submersible Design says: Low quality carbon fibre lead to the accident 1 month ago:
DAE remember that the OceanGate CEO bragged that Boeing helped them manufacture the sub?
At the time Boeing disavowed, but who you gonna believe?
- Comment on Faucet removal assistance 1 month ago:
- Comment on I cast Demoncore 1 month ago:
Edging plutonium into criticality with a screwdriver is like lighting a match to get a better look at a stick of dynamite. It’s embarrassing that it got two people this way.
- Comment on Why do whistleblowers always do this? 1 month ago:
A guy who committed suicide had advanced knowledge of his own death? Inconceivable!
- Comment on ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute 1 month ago:
Currently it seems that there is a negative correlation in some places between intellectual achievement and fertility
It’s ironic because the more people who accept the plot of ‘Idiocracy’ (2006) as plausible or scientific is evidence that humanity is getting stupider.
- Comment on time 1 month ago:
The physicist and the philosopher are both claiming that time is the order in which we observe things happening, the actual dispute is over the most fundamental force in science: nomenclature.
- Comment on Ska came before Raggae 🏁>>>🇯🇲 2 months ago:
The reason Dwyer shot himself is that he was facing prison time for a corruption scheme and if he died while still in office, his family got full benefits. Oh, and it turned out he was innocent.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge 2 months ago:
This is a bad take. Software updates that fix life threatening defects are as serious as any recall.
It’s motivated reasoning. Either the people making this argument are Tesla owners, simps, or shareholders and are trying to protect the phantasmagorical value of the company.
Saying “my car’s drive-by-wire software gets more firmware updates than my printer” is not a flex.
- Comment on We don't take kindly to waves of your type round here 2 months ago:
Wave tried that in a small town
- Comment on Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record 2 months ago:
Reading through these comments it seems that many lemmings have wildly optimistic ideals about ethics in the “true crime” genre of documentaries.
Even for sincere documentarians, presenting unvarnished history accurately and completely is an impossibility. For the bad-faith actors, you’d be amazed at how much is outright staged or otherwise faked. The only rule is that it be entertaining.
As far as “true crime”, the question of “should we even make this” is pretty ethically fraught. True crime is cheap, popular, and stuffed to the brim with hacks and bad faith actors.
- Comment on Liz on Liz 2 months ago:
OJ spent more time in Al Cowling’s Bronco than Liz did at No10.
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- Comment on Life? What do you mean? This ain't life, it's surviving 2 months ago:
The thing to know about nihilism is that it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t matter.
- Comment on How do you play classic Mortal Kombat? 2 months ago:
On the SNES, green blood and all.
- Comment on Joseph Heller tried to warn us of MBA's when he wrote the character Milo Minderbinder 2 months ago:
The part that stuck with me was how Minderbinder was a patriot. He didn’t see any conflict between profiteering and being a loyal American. Even when that meant plain treason.
Contrast this with Harry Truman. A lawmaker who made his name investigating “war profiteering”. Truman became a Senator because he had the backing of the notoriously corrupt Missouri political machine headed by the boss Pendergast. Truman was nicknamed “the Senator from Pendergast”.
Truman himself wasn’t corrupt. But he was a poor businessman, and maybe that makes him the least American of all.