Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 4 days ago:
Alright, well, I don’t believe in ghost stories.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 2 weeks ago:
I prefer “naughties”
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 2 weeks ago:
The comics were pretty good too.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 2 weeks ago:
Team Fortress was not an “extremely popular existing franchise” even among dedicated PC gamers. What the Orange Box did was let Valve experiment with marketing materials like the teaser videos for Portal and “Meet the Heavy.”
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 3 weeks ago:
When I was in grade school we had multiple lessons on using Boolean search terms to find useful information. Google-fu used to mean something.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 3 weeks ago:
Aichteeteepee, colon slash slash, doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou dot…
- Comment on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes I like to think about what the world would look like if Columbus sank in the Atlantic. How long until another European sailed West?
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 3 weeks ago:
Well it started with a genocidal colonial project. Then it started with the repression of class revolts like Bacon’s Rebellion. Then it started with the framing of a union of states that gave extra representation to rural slave-owners because their economic production was important. But it all started when those rural slave-owners wanted to make sure that new territorial expansions (remember, genocidal colonial project) also allowed slavery. Later it started when Lincoln was assassinated and his successor, Andrew Johnson, gave up on Reconstruction so the seditious slave-owning traitors weren’t held accountable for the sedition or slavery and were allowed back into seats of political power.
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 4 weeks ago:
And it’s different from all the times other directors have an actress take her top off?
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 4 weeks ago:
Other than that it’s work that junior coders could be doing, to develop the next generation of actual good developers.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 5 weeks ago:
Yeah but we can’t possibly hold people accountable for the actions of their company, think of the shareholders!
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 5 weeks ago:
Honorless swine! Screen-looking is an offense of the highest order!
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 5 weeks ago:
This is kind of the plot of Armored Core if you also made it a cyberpunk corporate dystopia.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 month ago:
I do not want to have to sit through every cutscenes I already know by heart.
Forget it, there’s no way you’re taking Kairi’s heart!
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 1 month ago:
So your position is literally “impoverish yourself by donating all property you aren’t currently, personally using.” I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 1 month ago:
It’s nuanced, dude. Part of class war is the optics and unless you want every empty-nester up against the wall with the BlackRock executives it’s not useful to paint with such a wide brush.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 1 month ago:
I just think your point is too black-and-white. In the current system there exists people who want temporary housing and people who own more housing than they require and are willing to let others use it for a mutually agreeable payment. Your claim that this is inherently oppressive requires that the renter would not choose ownership if they had the means. Is it often an unfair, coercive dynamic? Yes. Do rent-seekers ruin everything? Yes. Do we need to villainize every single person who doesn’t donate their spare mother-in-law or inherited property to the homeless? No.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 1 month ago:
Putting the cart before the horse here. We live in a capitalist society and people need temporary dwellings now, they can’t wait for a proletarian revolution and total restructuring of society.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 1 month ago:
I think they key counter-argument comes from your position “leeches off of those of the working class who must rent”. I agree with this! But it ignores people that want to rent for whatever reason, like living somewhere for a few years to attend university.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 1 month ago:
“Tummy hurts, gonna hard reset the situation and see if it helps.”
- Comment on Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks 1 month ago:
Settle down Mitch Hedberg.
- Comment on Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks 1 month ago:
Proudly “fluoride free” too, which makes me immediately doubt the veracity of their dental health claims.
- Comment on Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks 1 month ago:
Don’t give the military ideas like that.
- Comment on Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks 1 month ago:
We have a pretty good idea how things work during development, it’s tricking those cells into the same process as a fully-formed organism that’s hard. Isolating and distributing the hormones in the right way. I think you’re underselling the complexity and scale of biology. We can’t just put a tiny camera and chemo-sensor inside a neuron and see what’s going on in real time and synthesize up a hundred thousand copies.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 2 months ago:
Rescue dogs and bomb dogs are cool, traffic stop K-9 units are an affront to civil rights.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 2 months ago:
This is the same reason police dogs shouldn’t be used.
- Comment on AI behavioral analysis on factory workers, every step is monitored including attention detection from facial expressions 2 months ago:
Seize the means etc.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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.