Ultraviolet

@Ultraviolet@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I put on my robe and my wizard hat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is much, much more overlap between them than you may think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To quote the Onion themselves:

  No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds. And yet, in a stroke of good fortune, a formidable special interest group has outwitted the hapless owner of InfoWars (a forgettable man with an already-forgotten name) and forced him to sell it at a steep bargain: less than one trillion dollars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason given for hiding them just makes that fact worse. It’s for “aesthetics”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tradition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is a gmod shitpost anything but a return to tradition?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The worrying part is the implications of what they’re claiming to sell. They’re selling an imagined future in which there exists a class of sapient beings with no legal rights that corporations can freely enslave. How far that is from reality doesn’t matter, it’s absolutely horrifying that this is something the ruling class wants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half as Hot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  90 F to Kelvin, halved and converted back, is approximately -190.

  It’s difficult to find data on what exposure to that temperature would do, the threshold for an extreme cold warning (meaning absolutely do not go outside without heavy protection) is about 150 F warmer than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which raises the question of why he would create a planet with the illusion of age and send you to hell for falling for his own trick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Privacy regulations are to the left of the Overton window. The idea that corporations don’t have some divinely ordained ownership of our personal data is unthinkably radical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kicking is our natural unarmed attack. Still a last resort compared to throwing rocks or whacking with sticks though. We evolved from ancestors who already used tools to defend themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are horseflies a lie because they don’t eat horses?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I’m looking forward to the first few seasons of PoE2. It sounds like they’re starting out focused on making the moment to moment gameplay more interesting. They’ll cave to the zoom zoom crowd soon enough and ruin the game with power creep within a year, but it’ll be fun while it lasts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was, but now it’s a steaming turd with Nazis and KKK apologists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Charge the manager with a separate count of murder for every employee that died due to their orders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Installation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Get the fuck out and call the fire department.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always get them confused.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just remember it intuitively based on vibes. Stalagmites sound bulky and lumpy, and stalactites sound sharp and light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me at 'em!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To put into perspective just how trivial it is, the actual amount of energy of splitting a single nucleus is on the order of picojoules. The shock from touching a doorknob is a few millijoules, literally millions of times more powerful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Historically it was just a US/UK English difference, but it evolved into both being used because one of the first big manufacturers of optical discs, Philips, called them discs, while the US-based IBM spelled their magnetic disks with a K.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path of Exile 2 - Gameplay Overview | gamescom 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. I give it 50/50 odds that this video is something people will look back on and laugh about how much effort went into bosses that were functionally removed from the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path of Exile 2 - Gameplay Overview | gamescom 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hope they keep the power creep in check. Everything they’ve shown looks great, but if player power is even a fraction of what it is in PoE1, it’ll just be a neat bit of trivia that if you intentionally hold DPS and let bosses live they all do unique things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “For too long, the average American has been squeezed by the big banks and financial elites,” Trump wrote. “It’s time we take a stand — together.”

  Do people actually believe for a fraction of a second that Donald Trump of all people is on the side of the average American? And that the way to “take a stand” is with a crypto pump and dump scheme?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Power bottom/service top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead Cells has its final update out now with The End is Near⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While there’s nothing wrong with a game being declared complete and stopping updates, the way this went down doesn’t sit right. Evil Empire (the studio that split off from Motion Twin specifically to maintain Dead Cells) had longer-term plans and the resources to make them happen, but Motion Twin then ordered Evil Empire to stop development because they thought an actively developed Dead Cells would be a competitor to Windblown that they could preemptively kill off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Octopi⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Octopodes nuts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The change is if you see one, there’s an implied truce between every non-Cybertruck-owner until they’re dead, then it’s back to a free for all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp ...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a way to deal with it, but in the long term, “pre-AI” becomes a longer and longer time ago, and less and less useful for any practical purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when planes and hospitals had smoking sections? (Probably a lot of you do not).⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like having a pissing and no pissing side in a pool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they say English is bad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only partially, unfortunately. There aren’t a lot of people who speak full on Scots, the majority of Scotland speaks a dialect of English with a handful of Scots vocabulary now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when they renamed PMs to DMs and everyone who pointed out that they’re trying to remove the expectation of privacy was “paranoid”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. We could have had a planet Orcus and we were like “nah, we’ll pass.” That would have been metal as shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English, old⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the unabridged ISO 639 list.