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- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 3 hours ago:
going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response
More likely, it makes the poor baby (-hands) cry and throw a tantrum. Being the malignant narcissist he is, he thinks the resources of the United States government are entirely at his disposal.
He’s absolutely going to demand a military response to any attacks on his businesses. Whether saner heads prevail, all we can do is hope.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 day ago:
Nintendo: “hold my beer”
Game key cards are the stupidest idea I have seen in a long time.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 4 days ago:
What long weekend? Their asswipe of a boss doesn’t believe in anything but the 80-hour workweek for employees.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
To be fair to Ubisoft, the newest Prince of Persia game was a great metroidvania game.
To be fair-er to Ubisoft, they can go fuck themselves for closing down the studio that made said game only a few months later.
They can make good games. They just clearly would rather rehash the same tired formula that they’ve been running with for the past decade while unreasonably expecting to make more money each time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ok, now suppose you want to release a game for any of the modern Nintendo consoles.
You need to get a devkit. To get it, you need Nintendo to approve your request, and you need to pay them for a license to use the devkit hardware. And, to actually use the devkit, you need a PC running Windows.
Sure, to develop a game for PC, you need a PC. But do you know what you don’t need? A devkit or a Windows license.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
One instance? There’s at least two. But does that really matter? Reddit had r/TheDonald and r/conservative, and trying to those people to fuck off and stop proselytizing elsewhere was like trying to play whack-a-mole against an anthill.
Here, you block the tankie instances and move on with your life.
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing international outages for a second time in a week. 4 weeks ago:
Only one? “Ukrainian liberal trans communists” is probably pretty high up there in his scapegoat list.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 weeks ago:
Might be. It is definitely a thing, though.
When I used to work for a large American corporation that sold products to consumers, they took it extremely seriously and breaking it would result in disciplinary action. It probably had something to do with advertisement laws.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 weeks ago:
Corporations drill it deep into your head that you do not positively promote your own products or negatively review competitor products without both making it clear that you (1) work for $Corp; and (2) are sharing your own, personal opinion.
Giving the benefit of the doubt to Plex, they suck at training employees about social media policies.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Buddy, quit while you’re
aheadnot too far behind. You’re just proving what @Tattorack@lemmy.world said: you don’t understand the difference between patents, copyright, and trademarks. - Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #14 1 month ago:
Another great post as usual!
For people interested in what’s been going on with Limited Run, here’s a 90-minute video that goes into a lot of detail about the sketchy stuff they did before this latest controversy:
- Comment on Florida's plan to replace migrant workers with children falls apart 1 month ago:
This is so WRONG! We NEED tiny hands to fit into dangerous machinery. The president is too busy doing more IMPORTANT work.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
plus these are benches too it looks like
This part is the most surprising. For something meant to go in urban areas, where’s the hostile architecture? No railings between seats? No spikes?
- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 1 month ago:
Well, that’s on me for only reading the summary posted here.
- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 1 month ago:
For life? Someone is delusional.
Maybe for 5 years, at most. Humans need food. Humans need breaks. Automated assembly machines? 24/7 production, no annual leave, no insurance plans, and no unionizing.
The up-front cost is much higher, but it’s cheaper in the long run. Good luck keeping that factory job long enough to have kids, let alone pass it down to them.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 1 month ago:
If you do, better hope it’s not loaded.
- Comment on In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving 1 month ago:
In a Musk-approved world:
- You’re hit by a Tesla in FSD mode, the driver gets sued for not driving.
- You’re hit by a fully autonomous Tesla taxi, you get sued for vandalism.
- You’re the driver and FSD hit someone, you get sued.
- You’re the owner and the car hits someone while you’re not in it, you get sued for owning it.
- You’re the owner and it catches fire with you inside, you(r estate) gets sued for “not maintaining it”.
- Comment on China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’ 1 month ago:
As much as I despise the Chinese government and its policies, it does have one thing going for it:
We can do a complete 180 every 4 years, whereas they have a dictator. That stability is looking pretty appealing these days.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 1 month ago:
I don’t normally victim-blame, but streaming an unreleased game is really asking for it.
It’s one thing to pirate a game for yourself. That’s just called being poor or being someone who doesn’t believe in copyright. The only party who can argue they’re being harmed is the developer, who may or may not have received a sale otherwise.
It’s another thing to pirate an unreleased game and stream it for others. If you do that and receive ad revenue or donations, you’re profiting off of someone else’s work. Not only that, but you’re also harming the console modding community by incentivizing the developer to go after homebrew developers and emulator developers. It wasn’t a coincidence that shortly after some asshat streamed an unreleased Zelda game, Nintendo came down on Yuzu with an iron fist.
In conclusion, between pirating a game to enjoy yourself and pirating a game to play on a for-profit streaming platform, one of those two things is morally gray and the other is someone being a selfish fuck.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 2 months ago:
It’s pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives.
Equally disheartening is knowing that both of those have a shelf-life. Old USB flash drives are more durable than the TLC/QLC cells we use today, but 15 years sitting unpowered in a box doesn’t have very good prospects.
- Comment on Mad about a senator flying to El Salvador to investigate the condition of the father of his constitutes. Doesn't give to shits about the millions we spent to put him there. This is conservatism? 2 months ago:
After conservatives get to be on top, it’s conservative men on top. And then, white conservative men. Next, rich white conservative men.
It’s going to be one hell of a lemon party by the end.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant 2 months ago:
When it comes to compliance and regulations, anything with the literal blast radius of a nuclear reactor should not be trusted to LLM unless double or triple checked by another party familiar with said regulations. Regulations were written in blood, and an LLM hallucinating a safety procedure or operating protocol is a disaster waiting to happen.
I have less qualms about using it for menial paperwork, but if the LLM adds an extra round-trip to a form, it’s not just wasting the submitter’s time, but other people’s as well.
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 2 months ago:
"If you feel like your government is not representing your needs as a citizen, your best course of action would be to vote for a different political party."I should vote for Democrats?
I'm sorry, I misunderstood your question. If your government is not representing your needs as a citizen, you should contact your local representative. Here is the email address: representative@localhost - Comment on Trump-backed bill to stop 'rogue' judges passes House 2 months ago:
They might consider doing it eventually. I suspect the heat death of the universe will come first, though.
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t put it past them to pull a move out of the authoritarian playbook and hire people to act as violent protesters just in case.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 2 months ago:
More importantly, with what money? Mega corporations can afford to draw out lawsuits until the end of time (or until the judge gets annoyed), but individuals can’t.
- Comment on The left went too far - time to move things right 2 months ago:
It really should use a vertical line from 0 to 5 as a way to represent the welfare cliff, too.
- Comment on THE DeMOcrAps just don't understand!1 Line going up is just DEI!11! 2 months ago:
We did it America! The red wave is here and the Dems are no more!
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Wait… what?
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That’s not a map of the United States?
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What do you mean that’s the stock market?
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Well, I don’t care. I don’t own any sto—
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Of course I have a 401(k).
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What?!
