Treczoks
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- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 weeks ago:
If they ever set up a GoFundMe to set up a memorial statue of the killer, just give a shout.
- Comment on Canadian minister says Trump was joking when he said Canada could become the 51st state 3 weeks ago:
They could sell Quebec to Trump.
- Comment on Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery 4 weeks ago:
When was the last time that politics was concerned with that odd concept called “reality”?
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 4 weeks ago:
There is a hypothesis that an alien might actually look like a crab. Because life somehow managed to create crab-like creatures from a number of different evolutionary lines. Which shows a certain advantage that seems to be there with this specific form.
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 4 weeks ago:
The scary thing is that this managed to get published in the first place.
And it is sad that they had it withdrawn. I would love to see that real science rips this idea to shreds.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 4 weeks ago:
When the government is out to kill the citizens, they are no longer citizens but subjects.
- Comment on Insider: Tesla Is Breaking Tons of Rules Elon Musk May Slash Under Trump 4 weeks ago:
Just like he did in Germany. The city then threatened to shut the sewer access for the factory.
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 4 weeks ago:
Not just because of bird flu one should not drink this.
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 5 weeks ago:
Watch “Beard meets Food” on YT and learn.
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 5 weeks ago:
OK, that is actually something usable. So far what they could learn from here is how to take a shortcut through the fields ;-)
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 5 weeks ago:
Earth will not care. Life on earth may suffer, but Earth will not care.
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 5 weeks ago:
And this software will probably be able to route soumeone from one special Pokemon point to the other. Wow. There are three of them in our town. It will be very smart in speedrunning that triangle.
- Comment on Australia hardware chain breached privacy with facial recognition — commission report 5 weeks ago:
One can only hope they get seriously fined for that, maybe per incident of scanning someone. But I doubt it.
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 5 weeks ago:
To declare a “National Emergency”, he probably needs a cause. How does American law deal with those “National Emergency” situations? Does he need some proof? Does he need confirmation from somewhere?
- Comment on Examination you say? What kind? 5 weeks ago:
In comparison to some article descriptions on Amazon, this is actually a comprehendable translation.
- Comment on Microsoft is launching a $349 desktop PC that only runs Windows 11 by streaming it from the cloud 5 weeks ago:
And if you thought Microsoft could not get worse…
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 5 weeks ago:
Not going to sign it, too. Change.org is part of the problem, and not of the solution.
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 1 month ago:
Depends on what kind of “poetry” they compare it to. If they talk about Shakespeare or Goethe, that would be a feat. But if they are talking about modern “poetry”, well, that already looks like bad LLM diarrhea for decades now, so there is no surprise in that.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 1 month ago:
Given that nearly all fast food recipies changed in the last decades primarily to make them cheaper to produce, you can safely assume their flavor went down the drain.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 1 month ago:
Fast food is called “fast food” because it’s fast, not because it’s food.
Apart from that, there is probably no production chain that has profited better from making things the cheaper way than anything related to food.
So this does not just concern fast food, but the HFCS loaded soda you drink, your bread swimming in dough raising and stabilizing chemicals, or your tinned soup made from water, starch, food coloring, flavors, and preservatives.
Just because of the masses produced and sold, any cent saved on a single Burger quickly adds up to a million dollar in extra profits. Don’t expect them to waste that money on better ingredients or flavor, as long as you keep buying that stuff, they keep on making it worse to save yet another cent.
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 1 month ago:
I think we’re waiting for a bunch of very stupid and very stubborn people to … what do they say? … “age out” of the voting pool.
Sounds like it. It is harsh, but probably necessary.
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 1 month ago:
I can see the UK rejoining the EU in the future. It just makes sense for both sides. And 15-20 years might be a sensible time scale to get over Brexit, too. BUT: I’m not sure if the UK can afford to stay out of the EU for that long.
The problem is pride and British exceptionalism, like Polish people in the UK are “immigrants”, while English people in France are “expats”. Those expats form close-knitted communities, buy in their own shops, don’t like to converse in the native language of the country, don’t integrate well with the natives - exactly what the leavers said about e.g. the Polish people in the UK. Pride and exceptionalism made the “Project Leave” work. It was a “blue passport”, “our fish”, “souvereignity”, “we can trade on our own”, “they need us more than we need them” that powered the “independence” movement.
So the UK citizens need to overcome that and realize that one state fighting alone in a world of ever-growing Blocks is bound to fail. Any rational person knew this all along - but they were called out as “fear-mongers”. And any rational analysis of Brexit must state that leaving was a monumental failure. But admitting that one has f-ed up on a big scale is probably one of the hardest things one can do. Especially as there are nearly as many people who voted “remain” and will tell the leavers “told you so”.
I expect that the UK needs the time to realize how bad things can get outside the EU, and whatever makes the UK realize this must be harder than the hurt pride of admitting failure. And the UK will have to deal with some points that will hurt - not because the EU is out to hurt, but because things have changed since the UK joined the first time. And quite a lot of those things were actually started by the UK when they were still members.
I wish you guys all the best, and I want you back in the EU. And in the tiny little corner of the universe where I can help I’ll surely do that.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 1 month ago:
I’m outing me as ancient:
- M.U.L.E.
- Load Runner
- The Castles of Dr. Creep
- Seven Cities of Gold
- Paradroid
- The Sentinel
- Hanse / Kaiser / Fugger
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 1 month ago:
Second that! Worms was great fun when hanging out with friends.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 1 month ago:
What I like: It is definitely nicer than Reddit was.
What I dislike: It lacks some of the communities I was frequenting in Reddit when it was good.
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 1 month ago:
This reminds me of “Back to the Future”, where Lorraine calls Marty “Calvin Klein”, after she had seen his underwear…
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 1 month ago:
The problem is creative tax application AKA tax evasion. Somehow, rich people manage to pay way below what one would expect in relation to their income.
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 1 month ago:
While they might need one, they surely don’t look like they want one with that kind of payment offer.
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 1 month ago:
The German equivalent did the same. The list of requirements was as long as an arm or two. from memory: The person should be a team leader with 10+ years of experience, know Windows, MacOS and Linux, networking, security, hacking, etc, pp, and have knowledge of the legal issues regarding this stuff on top of the technical knowledge to boot.
They offered ~€2500/month. Some guy with a company in that business said that he would rent out someone with that level of knowledge (minus the legal stuff) for more than that per day.
They pulled the ad after a few months.
- Comment on The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books 1 month ago:
It still applies. If you cannot X, but X is required, don’t do it.
If you cannot read books, higher education is probably not your thing.