makyo
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- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 3 days ago:
I’m not sure there was ever the possibility of a really convincing UFO video. I’d be skeptical of something extremely realistic even if we were still in the days before convincing traditional effects. It’s just too high a bar - it’s much easier to believe that a video was staged, even to an unbelievable level, than it is to believe that it depicts actual beings from another planet. I think that’s why the UFO community hangs their hat so much on Disclosure these days. They must realize that only confirmation from a trusted authority could be real confirmation.
- Comment on This is real 6 days ago:
I just hope they alienate enough people fast enough that we can see an actual effective check to this rogue administration. They’re taking a lot of power pretty fast but also burning a lot of bridges.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case 6 days ago:
Buying your competitors is a pretty monopolistic practice
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
Yeah I was sorta interested in pursuing Chess more at least as a hobby a few years ago. Learning about the ‘meta’ strategy was kind of intimidating and discouraging. The basic strategy is interesting to me but learning and memorizing different games just sounds awful to me. I guess it’s like most things - the more you learn about it the more you realize there is a lot more to it than what you initially thought it was.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Well I guess I don’t know the timing but I wouldn’t be surprised it Lemmy was it - there are a bunch of non-native English speakers here
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
OP’s browsing habits likely recently changed to a place on the web with more English as a second language users. Those kinds of misspellings are pretty common with people who learned a lot of their English from streaming Youtube and other online shows
- Comment on Fund managers worry about Trump’s mental state amid tariff debacle 1 week ago:
It has been long obvious that he doesn’t have the mental capacity for leadership of anything, much less the USA
- Comment on Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 1 week ago:
Yeah the subscription might have been the icing on the cake but their anticompetitive practices have been pissing people off for much longer.
I gotta be honest too, I’d be a lot happier paying Adobe a monthly fee if they seemed more serious about actual updates and bug fixes instead of just jamming more AI ‘features’ down our throats.
There are two bugs in Illustrator alone that have been following me around for years, unfixed.
- Comment on Beauty is still out there 1 week ago:
20 cigars seems a bit much
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 2 weeks ago:
I tried it a while back and was left wanting but that’s been a couple years. I’ll give it another try.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 2 weeks ago:
Still haven’t found a good replacement for InDesign and let me tell you how much I’m hankering to move on
- Comment on YSK: You can block almost all cookie popups with Ublock Origin. 2 weeks ago:
Oh haha I was basically speechless because I’d given up on uBlock on iOS years ago. What a great surprise!
- Comment on YSK: You can block almost all cookie popups with Ublock Origin. 3 weeks ago:
What
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 3 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s driving me crazy too, it’s 2025 and it’s an obvious marketing gimmick to withhold the OLED at this point
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 4 weeks ago:
Yeah there’s a segment of arrogant racist halfwit conservatives that get a superiority kick out of demeaning people for stuff like that.
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 1 month ago:
Why? It’s a win/win for all the same reasons the UK should have never left.
- Comment on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon 1 month ago:
But I just want to sing
- Comment on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon 1 month ago:
Sooooo we built another one
- Comment on Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India 1 month ago:
Winning
- Comment on Art of the Deal 1 month ago:
Agreed, the US needed electoral reform 20 years ago. I mean, there is no perfect system but other democracies are a lot more kid proofed than the USA
- Comment on Trump is giving Russian cyber ops a free pass – and putting western democracy on the line. 1 month ago:
Why that one though? Just because it’s more ‘official’ as the devs instance?
- Comment on Controversial question 1 month ago:
What if the rich kept getting eaten until they figured out a system that the rest of us were satisfied with
- Comment on “It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews 1 month ago:
100% this. Wouldn’t it be something if they weren’t overtly running their companies to replace all of us? If feel like focusing instead on creating great personal assistants that make our lives easier in various ways would get a lot of support from the public.
And don’t get me wrong, these LLMs are great at helping people already but that’s definitely not the obvious end goal of OpenAI or any of the others.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 1 month ago:
Almost seems like they’re afraid of us or something
- Comment on The Downtrodden Billionaires 1 month ago:
Jesus
- Comment on FromSoftware didn’t want Sony to publish Dark Souls as it was ‘disappointed’ by how Demon’s Souls was treated 2 months ago:
Hey I was a skeptic too but got to play it for an hour during the network test and am actually cautiously optimistic. I could still be wrong but it seemed like they put a lot of thought into the new systems.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This, OP - this is the right answer. Take all the opportunies you can. AOC recently said it best: you won’t regret anything you try. Some of it won’t work but if we all work now and keep trying things we can make a difference.
In the 1930s in Germany there was a group that basically tasked itself with the protection of democracy and they waited for a signal from leadership that never came. Because leadership was waiting for the one moment. Don’t wait, try things.
But what, you say, well we’re in uncharted territory now but: join activist groups, protest, make memes, call your congresspeople, if you’re in the gov’t somewhere - gum up the works, if you have money - give to liberty advocates, think of things I haven’t thought of here and do them, and bring friends.
The important thing is that we all do something, and keep doing something. They can only win when we let them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You know what I think would be helpful would be to have someone in the know compile a list of the organizations who are already active and planning things like this and distribute it around Lemmy and other circles.
Motivating people to act is one thing but telling them how and showing them where and who to get involved with is much better.
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 2 months ago:
Yeah the price at their Edeka was €2.79 for 18 eggs
- Comment on No good excuse to still be on Xitter 2 months ago:
I’ve read that it used to be a great place for really niche stuff. BUT your point still stands because I’m really not sure why that would be. Maybe the interface or something lent itself to that well or maybe it just hit the right moment and took off.