CancerMancer
@CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The duality of man 2 weeks ago:
If the dems can’t even beat the fucking goon squad, what good are they?
- Comment on Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals 4 weeks ago:
True, but how long until that happens too? So far I’ve navigated these things with intelligence and the will to live, but I know better than to think that will always be enough. I’m ~40 and I’ve got kids, I’m not a young man with nothing to lose anymore.
- Comment on Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals 4 weeks ago:
Not OP but I was the victim of years of abuse in school. So many time I was viciously attacked and no one cared. They would follow me home and attack me and my family or steal our things. Reported it all, no one cared.
One day while preparing to go home, I was attacked and one of my bullies began choking me. I thought I was going to die and gripped his neck too. He nearly died. Government blamed me for it and I was expelled pending institutional psychiatric examination.
Another time I was told by someone at college “don’t go to graduation”. He hadn’t been all-there for a while by then so I erred on the side of caution. Took it to local and provincial police, to national police, to the school… No one took it seriously. Had to ping an old friend who worked in intelligence to get someone to take me seriously.
When he finally got raided: thousands of rounds of ammo, body armor, explosives, manifesto, etc… Everything he needed but the guns, but he was working on that too.
Two very serious times the government failed to defend me or other people in my life and I had to take it into my own hands.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 4 weeks ago:
I just personally wish the COVID lifestyle was more accessible.
Same, it suited me quite well and I feel bad saying I missed it because so many others suffered. Now that I’m back in the office 5 days a week, I lose >2 hours a day with my kids. Had my own parents say “i don’t get why you’re complaining, we got by before COVID” while refusing to acknowledge it’s different because one of them stayed home with us, while my wife and I must both work to survive.
I grew up in a religious conservative family. These and other experiences drove me to the left in a big way. I see now that thinking we can solve systemic issues with individualism is bullshit. I want a world where my wife or I could stay home (or some communal solution) to raise our family right rather than having a bunch of latchkey kids and being stuck doing chores from the moment we get home until the moment we lie down. Some people say “well that’s how I was raised” but it isn’t right.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 4 weeks ago:
Now that would be a funny headline.
No sadly COVID lockdown isolation did them in. I’ve never seen minds and bodies decay so fast. I have another friend who developed full-blown psychosis from it too, and at this point it looks like he’s never coming back. The lockdowns were harder on some people than we were/are ready to talk about I think.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 4 weeks ago:
When my wife’s grandparents had to get a new computer they got upset about the new windows interface and the fact their old games didn’t work, so I set them up with Linux and a DE that resembled XP (it’s what they were familiar with), and I was able to get most of their games going.
They used it without issue until they died.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 4 weeks ago:
Your OS isn’t getting regular updates!!!
This is a feature imo.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 4 weeks ago:
It aligns with Democratic Socialists well enough, but not the seize-the-means socialists.
That’s a fair observation I think: UBI doesn’t put the same pressure on financialization that worker- owned industry does. Ultimately I think eliminating work is a terrible idea, but reducing work, focusing on actually productive work, and ensuring we all collectively benefit from it is ideal.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 5 weeks ago:
A system is what it does. If it costs us jobs, enriches the wealthy at our expense, destroys creativity and independent thought, and suppresses wrongthink? It’s a censorious authoritarian fascist pushing austerity.
Show me AI getting us UBI or creating worker-owned industry and I’ll change my tune.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 1 month ago:
I’m in Canada and it’s only marginally better with respect to police under/overreaction. A friend and I once got the “don’t go to school on X day” message and we went immediately to local, provincial, and federal police. No one took us seriously. We had a friend working at CSIS (American analogue would be CIA) look into it and later that week we saw the article in a local paper.
Police investigated the home and found:
- 5000 rounds of ammunition
- body armor
- explosives
- only thing he couldn’t get was legal firearms because of his history of mental illness, but he had been working on connections to acquire illegal ones
Point being we couldn’t get the police to lift a finger to check out what we believed to be a credible threat (this guy never even joked about that stuff), but boy were they willing to burn rubber racing to my school when I committed the crime of defending myself in a “normal” school fight and one of my bullies claimed they felt threatened by me. This event set off a whole series of events, like requiring me to get a full evaluation at a psychiatric facility, before being allowed back in school. Our system is broken.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 1 month ago:
I cannot possibly imagine trusting a school issued device.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 1 month ago:
Imagine it’s 1995 and you’re an average person. You don’t know all that much about separation, you just know that the coming referendum is about it and you don’t want to separate. You likely are not a college/university graduate and a significant amount of the people you know haven’t even graduated high school. You probably don’t have a personal computer or internet access even if you do. Your primary news source is likely the odd updates you get on the radio while driving to or from work, and you haven’t been following and aren’t familiar with how people talk about separation. You show up to vote and you get this question:
Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership within the scope of the bill respecting the future of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995?
French:
Acceptez-vous que le Québec devienne souverain, après avoir offert formellement au Canada un nouveau partenariat économique et politique, dans le cadre du projet de loi sur l’avenir du Québec et de l’entente signée le 12 juin 1995?What the hell are you even voting for or against here?
The Québec referendum on separation was so confusing people remarked they didn’t actually know what they were voting for. The situation resulted in a law (Clarity Act) that forced all secession votes to pass some tests to be considered valid, and also indicated that a secession requires amendment of the Constitution of Canada, which makes it incredibly difficult to actually do.
I really don’t want to give Québec undeserved credit on this, they handled it quite poorly tbh and the whole thing felt like it was exploiting the ignorance and anger of a minority population that had even less education and literacy than the average Canadian at the time. That said, Canada has since devolved further into being a neoliberal anglosohere shithole so perhaps they were on to something.
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 1 month ago:
That’s not a no.
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 1 month ago:
Knowing full well you are leaving to find a man in another town, you accepted another man’s request for a date and now you want it to be platonic?
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 1 month ago:
Afraid I can’t say, I don’t believe China can do no wrong, or that Russia/North Korea are actually socialist, or other similar tankie nonsense.
What I can say is I’ve seen a shockingly large number of trans people standing up for the Visa/Mastercard oligopoly, Israel’s genocidal “military action”, private healthcare over single-payer / public options, etc… This is becoming difficult to ignore.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 1 month ago:
What is it about trans people that has them standing up for capital all the time?
- Comment on Reddit assemble 2 months ago:
Selection bias. The nature of Reddit and its past as a liberal free speech zone lends (lended?) itself to particular traits. Reddit’s average user is some combination of the following:
- male
- in a STEM job or training/educated for STEM work
- grew up middle-class
- downwardly mobile
- has ADHD or autism
Altogether this does actually mean IQ probably trends a bit higher on average. That doesn’t mean shit for the quality of your arguments if you don’t critically examine your beliefs though, and anyone sprouting American media talking points is not examining anything.
- Comment on Tunic is awesome and I wish more people talked about it 3 months ago:
Nah this game got covered by many of the indie gaming channels, the game dev channels, was all over Reddit and even 4chan… It was received pretty well. The difficulty filters out some people but besides that it’s pretty good.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Gay men are men too?
- Comment on Darktide is a banger 4 months ago:
Fatshark has a bad habit of half-baked releases that take a year or more to get right. When they finally do, they leave it that way for a bit and then swing back around and completely change everything again even if we liked it. They just keep doing this shit.
I will not be buying Fatshark games until at least 2 years after release at this point.
- Comment on doctors 4 months ago:
Used to see the odd “genetics” fat person and they’d just be built a bit bigger. Now I’m seeing fucking waddling planetoids and that’s not genetics man. Part of that blame belongs to individuals but part of it belongs to the food lobbyists and their quest to add sugar and corn syrup to everything.
Incentivise people to grow their own vegetables (or source them locally from those who already are) and disincentivise the purchase of processed and sweetened food. Have our agencies promote healthy recipes using weight rather than volume measurements and show people how to use scales to properly weigh ingredients and help make it as easy as possible to count calories.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Using the find function on my phone browser doesn’t find it but it does come up when manually scrolling and as long as you don’t move too far the find works. I’m thinking there is some sort of rendering magic going on, would explain why scrolling is so fast.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Windows documentation is an absolute mess. The only reason you can claim it is “documented” is the sheer volume of users, but that’s not necessarily a good thing when suggested fixes include registry edits, disabling security features, and running everything as an admin.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 months ago:
Excel is probably the one sore spot for LibreOffice, but also Google’s suite and really everyone else. Excel is tough to beat, especially when you consider the additional power of things like Power Query and Excel on web having JavaScript functions.
That said: I truly despite pivot tables and I no longer use them. Like pie charts, they are usually useless.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 5 months ago:
Just about every major advance in technology like this enhanced the power of the capitalists who owned it and took power away from the workers who were displaced.
- Comment on Please choose one 5 months ago:
lol but seriously this is the first time I’m not buying a Nintendo console on launch in a long time. Their prices here in Canada were already absurd but this gen is just unreal.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 5 months ago:
It’s all in one place. You look at your “feed” of things and your stuff with a new post every week is right there with the stuff with new posts every ten minutes.
RSS exists, sadly average people just couldn’t figure out how to use it.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 5 months ago:
Still hate spitters though.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 5 months ago:
I’m building an arcade stand I can put in front of my TV so I can play emulated games with my kids. I could not care less about most of the new games coming out these days.
GPU prices priced me out of the gaming market, got new hobbies now.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 5 months ago:
The hardware is 10 years old and it wasn’t even shiny at the time. Shield is a damned joke.