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- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 8 months ago:
If you make a system idiot proof, nature will always come up with a better idiot
We live in an age of subway wrappers telling you not to eat them, and microwaves including warnings to not use them to warm up pet dogs and cats. Because nature keeps improving on Communi Idiota
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 8 months ago:
Show us on the doll where the tesla drivers annoyed you?
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 8 months ago:
Instructions unclear, trash can now wedged into my dishwasher and a pipe burst behind it
- Comment on Meta is ending its deals to pay for Australian news content. This is how it could change your Facebook and Instagram feeds 8 months ago:
Freebooting of news article is distinctly what this is about
- Comment on Meta is ending its deals to pay for Australian news content. This is how it could change your Facebook and Instagram feeds 8 months ago:
This. Freebooting is a huge issue and Meta made it a big thing and profits from it.
A video or image goes viral. Creator has it on a platform where they can monetise or benefit from the views. Some chucklefugg at a content network like ladbible takes it, strips watermarks and logos, posts it on their own Facebook page. Facebook makes money off the adverts on that page.
Original creator is deprived of clicks, and likely revenue, dutifully completes a DMCA on their stolen content. Maybe a day or two later Meta takes it down. They don’t care, they still made money. Ladbible got a few thousand more subscribers to make impressions on their promoted posts, which nets then more money. The vitality of the content has passed, the original creator doesn’t even get 1% of the same clicks.
Now multiple the number of content networks by about 50. Some of whom are fully automated with no human intervention.
This is not okay, and Meta should be held to task for creating a financial incentive for people to do this.
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 8 months ago:
and have a yeet day!
Right here officer, this is where they sinned against all of humanity!
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 8 months ago:
My Lover
- Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns? 8 months ago:
Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU) wrote a piece of fiction along these lines. In The Light Fantastic:
The reason for this is regrettably all too common. When the first explorers from the warm lands around the Circle Sea travelled into the chilly hinterland they filled in the blank spaces on their maps by grabbing the nearest native, pointing at some distant landmark, speaking very clearly in a loud voice, and writing down whatever the bemused man told them. Thus were immortalised in generations of atlases such geographical oddities as Just A Mountain, I Don’t Know, What? and, of course, Your Finger You Fool.
- Comment on credit where credit is due 8 months ago:
Why is it that the only way that someone could give zero fuggs about Taylor Swift in general can only feel that way if they are conservative or alt right?
What do you think is going to happen, I’m going to read that and go “whaaa… WELL I DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO THINK I’M A REPUBLICAN!” and overcompensate by putting on a front by obsessing over Tay Tay?
I don’t give a crap about Taylor Swift. I don’t give a crap about most celebrities. Politics has nothing to do with it.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 8 months ago:
This surprises people? Mozilla has always been Mozilla’s biggest enemy.
- Comment on Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has a warning about racial and ethnic stereotypes 9 months ago:
“Shut up and consume”
That’s not how this works
- Comment on Venus by Tuesday 9 months ago:
Which is the flaw of social media science these past few years. Theories evolve as new data is presented and new hypotheses are formed. The average twitter denizen won’t have that, no sir, and will with glee smack you with an outdated textbook with equal zeal as a Bible basher.
“FACTS DONT FUGGING CHANGE YOU BIGOT” == “THE WORLD IS ONLY 6,000 YEARS OLD SAYS SO IN THE BIBLE”
- Comment on My Sega Genesis running Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) 10 months ago:
S E G AAAAAAA
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
Valve is one of the few companies I trust these days. That trust is Valve’s to lose, not any other competitor’s to gain
So much this!
- Comment on It's canon now. And so is a certain image format. 11 months ago:
After smearing myself with chool hwip
- Comment on Do "chest pillows" hurt for women to do? 11 months ago:
…I’ll be in my bunk.
- Comment on Shit story 11 months ago:
I bet all redhead white people look alike to you /s
I thought Conan O’Brien was looking good for his age in this video /s
/s
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is betting that Australia is too weak to protect its elections 11 months ago:
Careful, speak against the “Electric Rocket Man Bad” narrative online and your life is over :/
- Comment on A genre of Country Music... 11 months ago:
Indeed. Apollo I didn’t land on the moon. Even after building on 20 Gemini missions. Apollo 11 was the iteration that landed on the moon.
- Comment on Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper 1 year ago:
SAMURAI SAMURAI SAMURAI
- Comment on True love 1 year ago:
- Comment on Open for discussion 1 year ago:
“At what hour does the narwhal bacon?”