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- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 1 day ago:
They didn’t become conservatives to understand things…
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 2 days ago:
This is why most conspiracy theories are false. People often can’t even keep a secret about a crime they themselves committed. A whole group of people keeping a complete lid on something like that for any large length of time isn’t very believable.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 2 days ago:
Wow he does look terrible here.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 2 days ago:
What a relief that they they secured those nearby trees.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 days ago:
Did it not at some point?
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 3 days ago:
Yup, just like how wage theft is an order of magnitude or two bigger problem than petty theft and shoplifting, but they just ignore it or even worse legalize / normalize it.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 days ago:
I use www.albumoftheyear.org and I subscribe to pitchfork and the rolling stone in my RSS feed.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 days ago:
Same but I have a huge collection of digital media.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 days ago:
Eh, I switched back to running my own server like five years ago. Sure, technically I’m not giving individual artists their $0.0005 a stream, but nowadays I discover more music, attend more shows, and buy more merch.
During the couple of years I spent streaming, I discovered like Alvvays and Yumi Zouma. Nowadays, I discover new bands monthly if not weekly.
Like AI, streaming recommendation engines are mediocrity machines. All they can do is find you things that sound like the things you already listen to. Sometimes, if you’re adventurous, you find things that sound unlike anything else you listen to. If you find a great thing like that, it can change you. Unlike recommendation engine music, which will try to keep you the same forever.
- Comment on A Love Letter To Internet Relay Chat 3 days ago:
Shit provided me a social life in my teens. I still think of those guys sometimes.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 5 days ago:
I think this whole genre is wack, TBH.
Agreed. I’m not sure why I would waste my time with shit like this when it’s just objectively not fun for me to play.
Different strokes for different folks, so if you like it more power to you, but I’d rather play games that are fun to play for me.
I only have a certain amount of time to play video games, and if I can’t make any progress at all in an hour or two, why would I bother continuing when an hour or two is usually all I have in a day to play your game?
I’ve decided not to bother picking up silksong because I found HK tedious, frustrating, and unrewarding.
- Comment on ngl im kinda here just waitin for it 🤣 5 days ago:
My truck left me and my wife broke down
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 week ago:
It’s fucking Cheungus making these things. Dude’s like the incel m’lady in chief.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 week ago:
It’s not that difficult now after multiple decades of decay for media organizations caused by “this quarter is all that matters” business idiot administration.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
The concept of the white “race” was created by the acceptance of new nationalities into the fold in America and then dividing “us vs them” in a new way.
It’s much the same way that we now have “Judeo-Christianity” so that we can draw the line between white people religion and everyone else.
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 1 week ago:
Yeah, but they have tied AI to LLMs. If the investors that inflated this bubble sour on LLMs, the investments for AI more broadly speaking will probably dry up with it.
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 1 week ago:
That all depends upon if they keep throwing dollars into the furnace to run the models.
“Useful” stuff will have to do an evaluation once they’re paying the true cost for these things as well, because most people are not running their own models…this shit is more centralized then even regular cloud computing.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 week ago:
😷 ⬆️
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 week ago:
Same but with 2012.
Maybe the Mayan apocalypse people were right.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Yes but that would require them to regard all children as being worthy of protection by the law.
They don’t.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
And you’re in one lane of like five going in the same direction.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
Do you also believe that only you can prevent forest fires? Or that we can recycle our way out of climate change?
Get real. Uncoordinated individual actions cannot solve systemic problems.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
You’re right of course, the reason traffic exists is because you, DancingBear, cannot be on every roadway in America at the same time.
Seriously dude, have you ever been in traffic? I’m not talking about a small slowdown on a one, two lane, or even four lane road. I’m talking about sitting on the 5 or the 101 in any of the multiple times it becomes a parking lot daily.
Manually maintaining a large gap in front of you is not solving that shit, and it’s frankly ridiculous to suggest that it will.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
You aren’t solving traffic as an individual driver anyway. Sorry to burst everyone’s atomized bubble here but that’s complete nonsense.
If you manually maintain a large gap in front of you, everyone behind you becomes complete weirdos.
We could “solve traffic” by not requiring single occupant car drives to accomplish everything in our daily lives.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
I have adaptive cruise with a settable car length and increasing the gap length just makes the cars behind you act more deranged.
I’ve found the only setting that doesn’t make everyone around me fly off the handle is the lowest (one car gap) setting.
I also drive in the diamond lane on long trips and typically have my upper speed limit set well above what the person in front of me is driving.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 2 weeks ago:
From 187 on a cop to blue lives matter.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 weeks ago:
Everyone was kind of dumb, they only talked about other people they knew, and told drunken stories about being drunk before- it was boring.
Yeah, somehow that’s a thing, “…and we got so wasted!”. Being somewhat of a lush myself, I am sitting there drinking heavily listening to these stories and want to blurt out, “I’m getting wasted right now just to deal with having to listen to this.”
I’ve found that nonsexual friendships between the sexes aren’t usually possible in practice. It’s not because it’s necessarily the case that all friendships are based upon sex, but instead because someone somewhere (most often outside the relationship) will eventually believe that, and it will lead to drama that degrades or ends the underlying friendship.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 weeks ago:
It’s really been strange to me that my whole life people have insisted that it isn’t possible for men and women to be friends and that every relationship there has to be either sexual or sexually motivated.
I’m a bit of an odd ball in that I am straight, male, cisgendered and have basically always felt better hanging around girls since I was a child. However, I never felt like I could just have girls and women friends though because inevitably it would be implied from some direction that I actually just wanted them sexually.
I’ve also met very few guys that weren’t into talking about sex and women as soon as there were no women around, and I’m just plain uninterested in talking about sex with other guys.
So, instead now I’m married and I basically talk to no one.
- Comment on Be Fast. Be Spontaneous. Don't Suck. Get Paid. 3 weeks ago:
Read this in Nathan Fielder’s voice.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 3 weeks ago:
And the worst part is even if it succeeds you’re still running Windows.