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- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 1 hour ago:
Doesn’t SoCal sometimes have negative humidity? 20% seems pretty high to say it works in the desert.
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 1 day ago:
Well, as I get older, my body is breaking down. If it wasn’t for my shortage of memory, I would be even more miserable. So it must be intnetional. Oh… wait, not that memory…
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 4 days ago:
Fully stocked bar. That’s crazy. I wonder if they can claim workmans comp or something.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 5 days ago:
Well I did interview at Microsoft once a long time ago. They did ask some stupid questions… lol
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 5 days ago:
This here is the point most people fail to grasp. The AI was taught by people. And people are wrong a lot of the time. So the AI is more like us than what we think it should be. Right down to it getting the right answer for all the wrong reasons. We should call it human AI. Lol.
- Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 6 days ago:
I see. I wasn’t posting a question looking for an answer. It’s just an observation. If you want to go deeper down the rabbit hole, the answer is religion. And I don’t value It’s opinion. It was a construct that stole power from the dictators, but sort of struck a deal with them eventually. It pushed morals that made the people do more for the dictator, obey the dictator and all that. Those morals as defined by religion continue to influence people. And people think those morals are natural or what not. They don’t realize they were indoctrinated to think that for the benefit of the powers that be. There are some reasonable morals mixed in of course. But many people can’t tell which are which.
- Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 1 week ago:
It is possible you have lived a sheltered life, and maybe also all of your firends have to. But just about everyone I know who puts significant time into a hobby has had people say judgy things to them about how much of a waste of time it is. Me personally not much more than my parents. But my more outgoing friends hear it all the time. The ones from foreign countries seem to hear it even more, and from people they barely know.
It is also commonly seen in media. This is of course anecdotal, but there is a lot of it. I haven’t seen anyone argue that it isn’t true untill maybe you, if that is what you are saying. If you haven’t seen this. Good for you. Be happy. - Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 1 week ago:
I wasn’t intending to imply any rules. I was actually speaking about how people are indoctrinated to think that producing value for the elite is more important then doing what makes you happy.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 week ago:
But then you are trusting that 3rd party vendor. Who approved them… MS probably.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 week ago:
On the one hand, google is obviously evil, and it’s intentions here are undoubtedly evil as well. On the other, I do think some kind of verification of developers should exist. Just not in google hands. But who. There really isn’t anyway to create an organization that could be trusted to do this. And of course, the user should be able to chose to install apps from an unverified developer.
- Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 1 week ago:
I am thinking more like figure the % of people who would look down on DnD time vs working late at the office. It’s massively different. There are people who know better, but they are in the minority.
- Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 1 week ago:
I think you see what I am saying. Money (which pays for the food and shelter) determines the value.
- Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 1 week ago:
Now compare how many people would consider a strong work ethic at the office bad to how many would consider spending a lot of time on DnD bad. The difference is massive. And don’t just think US or Europe. Consider the whole world. It won’t even be close.
- Comment on A strong work ethic at the office is considered good, while a strong work ethic at your hobby is considered bad. 1 week ago:
Think of how much the “train guy” gets made fun of for his super detailed scale model train set. Or the guys/gals that put a ton of energy and time into DnD. Both of those often involve a lot of math and planning. Which would normally be considered valuable skills, but spending time on those hobbies is generally (with exceptions of course) looked down on.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 week ago:
I think the focus on the shareholder perceptions is the core issue. It’s compounded by the short term interests of said shareholders.
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- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 week ago:
You would, but making such a product is extremely expensive. And consumers will in general buy the cheaper not better product. Major investors know this, so spending on making a better product would actualy cause the stock price to go down. Maybe it would have paid off in the long run. But they want the stock price to go up now, not a year from now.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 week ago:
I tie it all into how a public company’s board has a fiduciary responsability to the shareholders legally. Which means they can (and often do) get sued for doing whats best for the customer over the shareholders. It sometimes clicks with people.
And many who don’t see it aren’t dumb per se. They are more or less refusing to see it because they would have to realize that they are the slaves or pawns, or cogs in the machine. And they are not in control of thier destiny. Thats a hard thing for a lot of people to swalllow. Especially since there isn’t much they can do about it. - Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 2 weeks ago:
Great statement. But why?
Do the math on dollars per hour of entertainment. Games are comparably cheap at first glance. They problem is that people are cheap too. So they won’t pay more for a better profuct. That has led the industry to invent more ways to get your money. Microtransactions, dlc… I would pay $100 for a game like portal these days. It would be less than a dollar per hour enjoyed. And no extra costs. But instead we have thousands of “free” games that are now geared to be most enjoyed by the people who pay the most.That said, today’s games aren’t just a cd in a package. Most require servers running to be played for the most fun. What I would like is more of a subscription to a server provider that pays for servers for all the games. It’s more efficient if you play lots of different games. And a lot less hassle.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but. If they add enough “special” things you need, that will reduce the number of average people and independent mechanics that will go through the trouble of getting all the “special” tools. Thier goal isn’t to stop you. It’s to inconvenience enough people so that they won’t bother. Which drives more business to thier shops, which in turn makes them more money. And since they are publicly traded, it doesn’t even have to actually make them money. Just make the market think it might.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m not debating that a person would lose. Just pondering where the line between losing and winning might fall. Any thoughts on that?
- Comment on A Statement From The White House 2 weeks ago:
Very true. My mother in law calls it motrin. If I ask if she wants ibruprofen for a back pain, she says “no, but do you have any motrim”. It’s been like 20 years, she still can’t get it in her head that they are the same thing. Even advil is different in her mind.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I just wonder where the line is. Is it intent to harm. So if say the thing was a gift, and they didn’t know it was explosive. Would that absolve the person of guilt. Maybe it goes to manslaughter in that case?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Gotta ask though, if it needs to be shot to go off, is that really a booby trap? I have draino in my house, that isn’t a trap. Maybe you have to put a sign on it saying don’t shoot?
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
Thats the problem. You can go through all the pain to move to an alternative, but eventually it enshitifys too. You could go open source, but those solutions rarely have the polish to get the large quantity of users needed for niche communities. And most users won’t understand why they are better anyway. So it’s just a horrible cycle.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 3 weeks ago:
The vast majority of lawyers don’t work that way. They get paid as they go. The ones who do… aren’t going after your average private person because they don’t have enough money to be worth it. Even 100% probably wouldn’t be enough in these cases. How much do you think they could win from Joe public per case?
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure you are following my logic. For them to take every person who shares a plex server with people to court would cost an exorbitant amount of money. First they have to find them all, which is non-trivial. We are talking hundreds of thousands here. Then they have to get proof according to local laws. That already requires them to employ experts in each jurisdiction. Then they can send the letters, which have to be tailored based on the jurisdiction, which probably isn’t much, but they have to be sure it is legal to even send it. Some places (though few) it will open them to being sued if not worded correctly. Then to take it to court they will need licensed lawyers in every jurisdiction. The cost would be crazy. And for the cases they win, they won’t get much money because they aren’t sueing companies, they are sueing people.
It’s not that a person would necessarily win in court, they may or may not. But the scale of the expense is soo much higher than the revenue as to make it a very bad financial undertaking. - Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 3 weeks ago:
You don’t have to respond to the letter at all. That’s my point. It has virtually no meaning other then to allow them to say “I told you so” in court. And for that to have any meaning, they would have to show that you knew the letter came from the legit rights owner. Since the name is likely something none of us have actually heard of, you could argue you didn’t think it was legit. But to even get to that point they have to file a suit and pay lawyers and all that. I can send you a cease and desist letter claiming the right to tell you to stop doing anything I want. It’s just a scare tactic. Plenty of companies have been caught sending them when they had no legal right to make the demand. Most pirates know this, and will just ignore it.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 3 weeks ago:
You can trick people into paying… but if you are talking people who pirate media, your sucess rate will be pretty low. Legally, cease and desist letters do nothing on thier own other than prove you notified them. Any free defense lawyer would argue that thier client didn’t believe the sender had any right to make the request, and the send provided no legal proof. But again, even ifnthey could get say 100k from each person running one of these. It wouldn’t pay they law firm bills, not even close. It would be a major expense.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 3 weeks ago:
Well for starters, those 100k would be spread all over legal jurisdictions, like even different countries. So you would need a representative certified to practice law in each of those jurisdictions. And of course the laws are different, so each case would be different. And the people you are suing have relatively little money to pay in compensation. The number of people needed to pull that off would be so high that the cost would be drastically larger than the potential financial gains. And since the board of directors have a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders, they would have to put a stop to it. The shareholders care little for the long term potential gains of such an enormous expense.