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- Comment on True art is polarizing 3 hours ago:
“War of the Worlds” 2025
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 6 hours ago:
“I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”
You could fertilize 200 acres with that much bullshit. truly a crime against the English language.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 1 day ago:
- Comment on Let's Stop Chat Control 2 days ago:
That website looks like it was designed in GeoCities.
- Comment on Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months 3 days ago:
Don’t think of this as an individual making stupid choices with a game. Think of this as a game with thousands of players designed to target and take advantage of the neuro-divergent or those susceptible to problem gambling.
Micro-tranactions are a predatory gambling mechanic and this person was robbed of this money.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 3 days ago:
Every Zelda game is a sisyphean adventure where you never really defeat the evil or restore Hyrule, you just reset the board for the next evil apocalypse.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 4 days ago:
Unlike Bat or Super, people like Lex exist. Lex doesn’t hate Super because he’s powerful, he hates him because he’s loved.
Lex’s whole worldview is that the people who are smart and cunning should rule over those lesser. Super’s existence contradicts this by serving the interests of people who are his inferior.
Lex must believe that Super is a fraud who doesn’t deserve his position because otherwise Lex is the pretender.
- Comment on Is it worth selling on eBay in 2025? 6 days ago:
What I don’t like about ebay is that as a seller you appear to have few rights or recourse in a dispute, while being a buyer comes with little protection or assurance either.
Just goes to show which party is being protected. I know I’m horrible for buying from Amazon, but easy returns and shipping are worth any money you may save on ebay.
- Comment on Man Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT 6 days ago:
The thing that bothers me about LLMs is that people will acknowledge the hallucinations and lies LLMs spit out when their discussing information the user is familiar with.
But that same person will somehow trust an LLM as an authority on subjects to which they’re not familiar. Especially on subjects that are on the edges or even outside human knowledge.
Sure I don’t listen when it tells me to make pizza with glue, but it’s ideas about Hawking radiation are going to change the field.
- Comment on Iron 1 week ago:
It’s always lovely to be reminded that eugenics remains a popular idea so long as you don’t call it that.
- Comment on NO! I don't want to download your app and set up an account. Leave me alone 2 weeks ago:
Simply rename the file from “file.webp” to “file.png” and it’ll work fine. No need to convert anything.
- Comment on China’s Unitree R1 Is a Humanoid Robot Costing Less Than $6,000 2 weeks ago:
Humanoid robots belong in the trash (1:04:18)
- Comment on Interesting 3 weeks ago:
The idea that our nervous system is the true “us” that pilots an inanimate and disposable body is the same dualism concept as a “soul”. Except it lacks the divinity of religion or the accuracy of biology; worst of both worlds. Science-fiction-scripture.
- Comment on Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers 4 weeks ago:
Pictured are space-bombers. They drop gravity bombs… in space. Please stop talking about scientific accuracy in Star Wars.
- Comment on Ever think of the inconsistency of airlines weighing luggage? 5 weeks ago:
I wrote on a magnitude English better quality than 90% of the world.
- Comment on No need for blue tooth 5 weeks ago:
The biggest difference between transistor radios and BT hardware is that BT will never give you a prize for being the 9th caller.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I’m just starting “blasphemous” and “inscription”. I just completed “Axiom Verge”.
- Comment on Millions of websites to get 'game-changing' AI bot blocker 1 month ago:
This is not about stopping bot-scrapers, it’s about charging them.
- Comment on double kill! 1 month ago:
No recoil, but you might feel a little sting.
- Comment on Finally someone who can pronunce it 1 month ago:
This is the first one of these I’ve upvoted.
- Comment on I have searched far and wide 1 month ago:
Your search has still only turned up a forgery.
- Comment on Brand awareness 1 month ago:
This is a real thing. They’ve got a website, a facebook, and a youtube.
- Comment on A simple experiment to demonstrate that Astrology does not work is to keep a detailed journal of events, and periodically check past horoscopes for accuracy.* 1 month ago:
What’s the deal with people hating on astrology? DAE get the vibe that there’s more to this than “astrology doesn’t work”?
The thing is that even in the James Randy world of people taking advantage of the credulous, astrology is still a pretty small fish. The skeptic doth protest too much.
- Comment on Orthodoxal jews occasionally make something right 1 month ago:
I love all the little ways observant Jews try to lawyer their way out of the inconvenience of their own religious observance.
For example, some elevators in NYC run continuously on Shabbat, stopping at every floor so nobody has to push any buttons.
I just love the contradiction of an all powerful, omniscient God that can be so easily tricked, delightful.
- Comment on Oh lord, Oh no 1 month ago:
I swear baby, this is my first early access. This has never happened to me before.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 month ago:
Crush patriarchy. That’s the system that’s failed these men after all. It wasn’t progressive values that promised them women to dispose of. It wasn’t feminism that promised them easy success and automatic status.
It’s the promise of patriarchy that has “been stolen from us”. And it’s the restoration of patriarchy these men are clamoring for. Men want their privilege back and the Left can accommodate them for the low low price of jettisoning feminist values from the movement.
This is really the most Democrat bullshit ever. Left politics is getting more support than ever, but we’re going to get obsessed with pleasing the groups that hate and oppose us instead of championing the issues of those who support us.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 1 month ago:
I was tired of being a Darwinist. Now I follow the writings of Dickens; I’m a Dickhead.
- Comment on The New Digg’s Plan to Use AI for Community Moderation 1 month ago:
Capitalists are so fucking innovative that they’re trying to replace unpaid human labor with robots that are worse and cost money.
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s 1 month ago:
Your argument is more out of date than Vista. Windows is not the default because people like their software, or would choose it over anything else. It’s because they’ve positioned themselves as the default monopoly since the goddamn 1980s.
To see what happens when Microsoft has to compete on quality of software, just ask yourself why Copilot and Recall aren’t being rolled out on Windows phones.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 month ago:
If you think about it, almost all computer-technology is radio. Wifi, bluetooth, GPS, radar, and cellular are literally radio. Meanwhile everything else runs on transistor tech developed and refined… for radios.
Our modern economy couldn’t exist if people like Hertz and Maxwell didn’t get to toy with their useless hobbies. But we can’t rely on the curiosity of the leisure class anymore. Basic research is expensive, necessary, and a public good. I’m afraid that the Trump regime has already spoiled the secret sauce that makes America the technology leader of the world.
