Soggy
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- Comment on AI behavioral analysis on factory workers, every step is monitored including attention detection from facial expressions 3 days ago:
Seize the means etc.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 days ago:
The explanation I heard was that “ghost” stuck around because “Holy Ghost” was in the printed bibles and people didn’t question that authority.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 4 days ago:
At least use thorn AND eth to distinguish the unvoiced and voiced (respectively) if you’re going to bother at all.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 4 days ago:
Many Native American cultures did not know about alcohol before it was introduced by Europeans, same in Australia and New Zealand. The many deleterious effects of colonization are certainly “a significant element in their cultural development” but maybe not in the way you intended.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 5 days ago:
I know two women who have gone through an ectopic. First very nearly died, second got lucky and caught it while it was merely urgent. They’d both be dead if we lived in a state with worse medical rights.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 1 week ago:
Hmm. I think lane-assist probably makes people worse at driving. Anything that lets people pay less attention on the road does, it trains drivers to be less alert. Adaptive cruise and automatic braking are probably a net benefit but “car safety” is not trending in the right direction.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 2 weeks ago:
Hating Communists has always been an acceptable form of bigotry. You don’t have to listen to what they say, just dismiss them (and insult them!) for wanting a world that doesn’t run on money.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 2 weeks ago:
Stop this ecofascist shit.
We can support the current population, it’s just not profitable or popular to do so.
Birthrates naturally level off as societies develop. Many are already seeing negative growth.
Our current standard of living is mostly predicated on offshoring the suffering and waste to the global South, but even that could be comfortably leveled off if we weren’t living under Capitalism.
We don’t need large AI farms, we need empathy. The techbros will not save us.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
“keikaku means plan”
- Comment on Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds 3 weeks ago:
We need to abandon the patent system entirely.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 5 weeks ago:
I think “agendered” is the best description for me as well and I share your perspective. AMAB and kinda lazy so dude stuff is the default but I can’t internalize the idea of gender dys/euphoria. (Body dysphoria makes sense to me, it seems to me like an entirely different thing than gender presentation which has a huge spectrum and varies wildly across cultures)
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 5 weeks ago:
Education existed before capitalism. Or are you going to tell me that Socrates was an industrial shill?
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 month ago:
When was the last time Randy Pitchford got through a day without being a prick?
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 month ago:
They don’t just put it in there for fun, you can bet that milk powder affects the eating experience in a way most people enjoy. Snack companies invest a ton of money refining every nuance of their recipes.
Very nice supervisor though, the everyday compassion makes big impact.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 1 month ago:
(Beans are technically seeds, the pod/shell they grow in is the fruit. -botany)
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 1 month ago:
That doesn’t seem to be true. Patents are listed foremost among types of IP in multiple sources.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 1 month ago:
How are patents not intellectual property?
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 1 month ago:
cough UBI cough
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 1 month ago:
My point is that people make stuff even without a profit incentive.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 1 month ago:
Pretty neat how capitalists invented art and it isn’t at all an intrinsic part of the human experience since at least 40,000 years ago.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 month ago:
Why come you don’t have a tattoo?
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 month ago:
Probably. Reasonable storefronts are the only thing keeping the warez at bay.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 month ago:
They want fuckin 40 bucks for a vinyl these days and they don’t even throw in a digital download for that price, and the radio is owned by like three companies unless you live near a college station.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 month ago:
Gaben is gonna be the first person to digitally upload their consciousness.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 month ago:
You know, in a few hundred thousand years.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 1 month ago:
Tell that to the noxious invasives.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
Latency is horrific though.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 2 months ago:
Many game communities have opted for the “unbridled vandalism” strategy to push people away from fandom. Just replace all the articles with plausible lies.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’ll happily blame all religion, thank you. Nobody should build a worldview where an unaccountable (and imperceptible) third party is responsible for moral decisions.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 2 months ago:
Size only really matters if you’re using the map for overland navigation. (And it’s quite telling that the project is just injecting their own bias instead of actually pushing for accurate representation.)