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- Comment on What's the main device to hammer in a nail? 38 minutes ago:
It’s a bullshit question
- Comment on Um, actually, Neville Chamberlain didn't "cave" to Hitler, he actually got a lot out of the deal. 7 hours ago:
Whenever anyone says Chamberlan “gave up” Czechoslovakia I ask one simple question: What was he supposed to do? He could have declared war, like the lion Churchill did for Poland. But I’ll remind you that the only thing England sent to Poland was thoughts and prayers. Followed by over a year of “phony” war.
Look at a map. You’ll notice that Czechoslovakia is quite far from England. With fucking Germany in between!
The whole Chamberlan meme is just right-wing propaganda to delegitimize diplomacy. It only makes sense if you don’t think about it.
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 1 day ago:
So, if the AI bubble pops, it’ll be a great time to build a PC
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 4 days ago:
Public misogynists posing as ‘self help’ have been around forever and the only thing that changes is the nomenclature.
The movie “Magnolia” (1999) features a character that does the whole manosphere shtick back when those grifters had to sell their merch on stage at conference centers because Youtube wouldn’t even be a thing for 5-6 more years.
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Any platform that’s advertising based is a propaganda outlet. Reddit’s function is to manipulate pubic opinion.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 1 week ago:
The oldest praying automaton we know of is from the 16th Century. This is basically that but with more capitalism.
I can’t help but notice how captured the Christian mind is, when even the return of the Savior is a business opportunity; a revenue stream. These people are already robots who can’t worship without a prospectus and a spread sheet.
- Comment on Not Looking for a recipe or a how to guide. But when meth rolled thru my town they called it either redneck speed or bathtub speed. With all chemicals did people really do it in a bathtub?? 2 weeks ago:
Purdue pharma followed strict manufacturing and purity standards to produce a drug that killed more Americans than the Viet Cong and Al Qaeda combined.
Can we say that the American healthcare industry really protects it’s customers from harm any better than the cartels?
- Comment on And I'm not sorry. 3 weeks ago:
What the Skyler? We supposed to hate Rose too?
- Comment on If Hitler’s genocide helped forge Israel, what will grow from today’s persecution of trans people? 3 weeks ago:
Yea, religion is made up and should be ignored. Just like currency, boarders, sovereignty, human rights, the concept of law, literature, art, and language itself. Brilliant.
- Comment on If you feel the US has been kind to you, youre probably in the category of people got us into this mess. I dont think its wrong to embrace the chaos. 3 weeks ago:
The politics that support minorities and marginalized groups in America still throw untold millions of people into the furnace abroad.
You could argue that supporting a particular US government throws fewer people into the fire, but your still choosing who deserves to be saved.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
“Heat death” is the name given to hypothesis that the Universe will continue to expand and cool until there is no light or energy left. Using the term for Earth burning up is going to confuse people.
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 3 weeks ago:
Penis size is 99% male insecurity and 1% female preference.
- Comment on If Hitler’s genocide helped forge Israel, what will grow from today’s persecution of trans people? 3 weeks ago:
The holocaust absolutely facilitated the creation of Israel. The Balfour declaration and Theodor Herzl are necessary, but not sufficient. In the aftermath of WWII and the Shoah, there was a need for mass Jewish migration. Meanwhile, “good” countries like the US and UK had strict immigration policies explicitly to exclude Jews. A ship full of Jews fleeing the Nazis in '39 were rejected by the US, Canada, and the UK. Eventually they were returned to Germany. (the embarrassment of this episode is why countries are supposed to give shelter to anyone fleeing persecution until the matter is adjudicated) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis
And that’s the part of history that’s left out. Western Europe and N America were happy to resettle the Jews, anywhere else. Support of Israel by the West cannot be understood without acknowledging the massive amount of antisemitism in basically all of Western Civilization.
- Comment on Windows 11 Debloat Script/Program? 3 weeks ago:
The problem with Windows ‘debloat’ scripts is that they monkey with esoteric gedit policies and registry tweaks.
Any Windows update, even security ones, can break the tweaks, cause bugs, or even instability. And naturally the users have no idea which of the tweaks is causing the problem. Especially when its been months since you used the scripts.
Now “deep customization” can break Linux too. The difference is that Linux developers are not going break your tweaks on purpose. For example, Windows recently closed some of the workarounds to install Windows on a local account.
Microsoft decides what users can do with Windows. Company officials have admitted that they’re already coding the OS with AI, and that future Windows versions are going to be AI powered. The Recall behavior of taking screenshots to be analyzed by AI to catalogue everything you do isn’t being developed as a Windows feature, but a core functionality of the OS.
What kind of mouse are you using anyway?
- Comment on Luddites 3 weeks ago:
The Luddites were an early form of direct action of working people against the ownership class. They were also an early example of workers rights movement being crushed by State violence.
It’s discouraging that their history in popular understanding is 1000% from the perspective of said ownership class.
- Comment on American cops think they're what American firemen ARE. 3 weeks ago:
Training and culture is important, but one must remember that firefighters and EMTs do not have qualified immunity. Meaning that firefighters and EMTs can and do get sued for negligence and assault. They also have a “duty of care” while the pigs are not responsible to protect the public, enforce the law, or uphold court orders.
- Comment on Sam Altman prepares ChatGPT for its AI-rotica debut 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on She's a pain in my rear but she keeps me straight! 4 weeks ago:
Everybody who laughs at this uses Yahoo for Email.
- Comment on Miami-Dade PD just rolled out PUG, a fully autonomous AI-powered police cruiser. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. 4 weeks ago:
They should have called it the Police Interceptor Ground.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 4 weeks ago:
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
-Marx
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 4 weeks ago:
The big tech boys are all founded on explosive wealth created by innovative technology. And they’re all obsessed with recreating that. Capitalism demands constant growth.
So they’re always in rabid competition to grow and expand while also looking for a new market to exploit.
It’s also why Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet have all been the biggest suckers for AI hype. It would be funny if they hadn’t pushed the entire US economy closer to the precipice.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 4 weeks ago:
But with OpenAI, [Sam Altman] told me, “there’s something real happening here”.
This sentience strikes me because it’s a tacit admission that AI as it stands is way less valuable than people like Altman promised it would be. But trust me bro.
- Comment on Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters 4 weeks ago:
Onedrive is Microsoft’s attempt to make Home Windows users a revenue source by making it a subscription service. This has been SOP in smart phones for a decade now.
- Comment on It would be hilarious if, one day, the Nobel Peace Prize was decided by no rules cage fight. Pay per view, of course. 4 weeks ago:
Not to mention that the prize itself was meant to whitewash the reputation of a war profiteer.
- Comment on It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat. 4 weeks ago:
For heat pumps, the thing they’re moving is heat.
- Comment on Why doesn't anybody get notified about warrants for their arrest? 4 weeks ago:
The police will often inform you of warrants and arrange a time for you to surrender. These perks and more, come bundled with the Founders tier of American Justice.
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 4 weeks ago:
I reject the idea that there is a correct way to read the Bible or worship Jesus. I certainly prefer liberation theology to prosperity Gospel, but I cannot say that one is doing Christianity better than the other.
I used to be Christian and I had all kinds of ideas about what was correct Christianity. I abandoned all that when I realized that those conceptions were much more about me than they were about Jesus or the Bible.
And I think that’s true of the practicing faithful. Some are good, some are wicked, but the difference isn’t in how they read the Bible, it’s who is reading the Bible.
- Comment on One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China 4 weeks ago:
The phone was probably stolen from a protestor they were investigating and the bust was coincidental.
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How come we never got a system64?
