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- 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? 5 hours ago:
- Comment on Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy 1 day 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. 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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’ 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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” 1 month 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 1 month 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... 1 month 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’ 1 month 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 1 month 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! 1 month 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?!
- Comment on Trump unveils 10% tariff on all imports, plus reciprocal tariffs on dozens of nations 1 month ago:
The Democrats, they don’t like my tariffs. They think it’s too big. “Too much Mr. President, we can’t handle it.” The only thing they can’t handle is America winning. My huge tariffs, they’re going to make America great again. Strong tariffs, strong America. Democrats don’t like it, Canada doesn’t like it, too bad for them. They’re don’t want it because they’re scared of how big and successful my tariffs are. They say it will break them and tear them apart, but we all know better. We know better. They took advantage of us. Biden let it happen. Obama let it happen. And I won against Obama, you know. Numbers never seen before that, except last time, of course. They’re asking us to stop. We don’t stop. You don’t get where I am by being bad at business. We’re making the greatest deal in all of American history today. It’s time we took back what we deserve and “say no to no.” No paying the tariffs? No more military support. No keeping drugs from getting into our borders? No more handouts. We won’t accept no for an answer!
- Comment on 4chan's DOGE-inspired April Fools' prank leaves posters seething: ‘This board has been closed by order of the Department of 4chan Efficiency.’ 1 month ago:
They’re affionados of /pol/itically incorrect views. I chose that specific board for a reason :)
- Comment on 4chan's DOGE-inspired April Fools' prank leaves posters seething: ‘This board has been closed by order of the Department of 4chan Efficiency.’ 1 month ago:
They do have a sense of taste… it’s just overwhelmingly rancid.
- Comment on 4chan's DOGE-inspired April Fools' prank leaves posters seething: ‘This board has been closed by order of the Department of 4chan Efficiency.’ 1 month ago:
It’s more like a donut. Not all 4chan posters are DOGE staff, but all DOGE staff are /pol/ afficionados.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 1 month ago:
Someone should check the email and phone number of Adrian Dittman to see if they match Elon’s. Idiots can argue that it isn’t Elon despite speech pattern evidence, but it’s harder to argue when both of them share the same identifying info.
- Comment on FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado 2 months ago:
My money is on them suggesting people will get a bigger slice of the pie once the “fraud” is removed.
