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- Comment on No looky for you! 6 days ago:
I remember a while back discovering GE made a clear door that could be used for diagnostic purposes on some dishwashers they had built. Never got to try one out, just thought it was cool they made em.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 6 days ago:
It’s weird–Tesla at least projected some sort of ‘higher-end’ quality back when they first started coming around but as time has gone on it’s proven itself to be a very cheaply-made vehicle.
The fact they insist on using their proven-inferior tech for FSD tells you all you need to know: they aren’t looking to innovate or even bring themselves up to modern standards. They are determined to make their cars with the cheapest, shittiest tech and they’ll just grease the right palms in order to proceed as necessary.
- Comment on Uncultured 3 weeks ago:
A man of culture, i see!
- Comment on Uncultured 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Uncultured 3 weeks ago:
Floogelbinders
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Well said, and i love your user name. Happy Friday 🥂
- Comment on Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t that convenient, seeing how all the money DOGE has acquired will be wasted on military equipment
- Comment on The ones and zeros and tens 4 weeks ago:
Some of my all-time favorite music. They are a massive influence in my taste in music…It had never occurred to me that nostalgia could be induced by ‘foreign’ (unfamiliar may be the better words) music, and for a place/time that may never have even existed or may be misremembered or jumbled with other memories. It’s strange what music can do, how it can make you feel, think, see… They also showed me how ominous electronic music can sound, how much of a landscape can be painted with sound. I love all their albums, and getting to experience the release of Tomorrow’s Harvest was a treat.
This is the second time I’ve seen BoC pop up in the past 2 days. I swear, the one good thing that’s come about in the past couple years has been this place. Thank you all for being here and participating!
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 4 weeks ago:
BoC!!! 🩵🥂
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 1 month ago:
As pointed out elsewhere around these comments, this looks like another classic example of enshittification. Just like everything that’s invented, it often starts out with a fairly solid design–it couldn’t succeed without that. Once the success is captured, they can start dissecting the design and figure out what parts can be made with cheaper materials (common example: replacing metal w/plastic) and/or cheaper tech. From that point it’s iterations of further cuts to material and tech until it’s the cheapest, flimsiest version that can still function well enough to outlast the warranty. I’ve been in my field long enough (appliance repair) to see generations come and go and it often runs that route. Sometimes design flaws get fixed during the process, but rarely does the product itself get better or more durable in the long run.
- Comment on When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan 1 month ago:
Yet another fucking cringe name to add to the modern corpo lexicon
- Bytedance
- Tencent
- Xpeng
- Crunchyroll
I don’t even know that much about any of these companies or their practices but i just really dislike their names. I genuinely cringe when i read those words, lol
- Comment on Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan 1 month ago:
This is exactly what i predict will happen as well
- Comment on One Piece Director Megumi Ishitani Calls For Legal Action Against OpenAI: 'Can't Stand Ghibli Being Treated So Cheaply' 1 month ago:
Just reading this comment, it hit me: nearly every successful capitalist venture in recent times has been managed by cheating. It’s rarely about real ingenuity and more about finding ways to break the laws in subtle ways or attempt to outrun the legal backlash of such ventures (training AI with copyrighted works without permission, for instance).
- Comment on Google Is Helping the Trump Administration Deploy AI Along the Mexican Border 1 month ago:
It’s good enough to get that gov contract $$ though 🤹♂️
- Comment on Please choose one 1 month ago:
I hear they started off in their parents garage
- Comment on I'm not original at all but feel a bit amusing about thought somebody takes it to heart 2 months ago:
User name checks out!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I first thought the image on the right was Peter Thiel, lol
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 months ago:
Guess that’s what threw me off. 240v is what our electric (non-gas) appliances use in the States, 380v sounded like it could be commercial-style equipment or something
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 months ago:
If you have 380V 16A induction, it’s not even close.
Is that a common setup? That sounds very high-powered
- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May 2 months ago:
Would seem almost intentional given the size and success of the company. How do you fuck something like that up so badly? Seems like one of those Embrace, Extend, Extinguish deals or similar
- Comment on Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release 3 months ago:
And millions of other people’s $2. Congrats to Nintendo on their newfound wealth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 3 months ago:
As an American, this is wacky to read–but I’m fully in support. What can i say, i think there’s some good ones here but not enough to balance out all the shite ones ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was a good run, i guess? Lol
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 3 months ago:
Yeah, i usually just shut my computer down between xmas and new years–the calendar just can’t take it
- Comment on USA | Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced 4 months ago:
It’s utterly depressing to see the healthcare system (and thus people’s health) circling the drain – yet another cash cow that’s been overfed and overexploited.
In the wake, a handful of assholes have more money than they can spend while millions of people all get worse–while somehow more expensive-- healthcare. Take note of United Health taking the #2 Shkreli Award this past year, upholding their rep as the scum we know them to truly be.
I think about all the research, work, advancements, sacrifice, pain, and loss that has ultimately made medical technology so amazing and cutting-edge, yet as it’s gotten more capable it’s become less available. Inevitably it became a money game just like every other industry in existence. Compassion, humanity, care–all these things take back seat to the almighty dollar. The greed and cruelty is disgusting, and it’s only going to get worse. Nothing will change the responsible party’s minds and there are scores of self-important shits waiting to usurp any of the roles responsible for this state of affairs. Just a fucking disgrace and a real ‘fuck-you’ to all the innovators and brilliant individuals that shared their talents to give the rest of us a chance at a longer, healthier life.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 4 months ago:
It’s the boring truth–without getting the rudiments and stick control and proper technique, the drum set is not gonna make you a good drummer. It’s fun as hell to have one to play, no doubt–but if the goal is to be a good drummer you really gotta focus on the basics first.
- Comment on YSK: The US is currently giving away free COVID tests to all Americans 4 months ago:
Government excess i can get behind, lol
- Comment on Pentagon Approved Funds for MrBeast, Kelly Clarkson, Guy Fieri in 2023 4 months ago:
The Pentagon also approved funding for content involving YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, who was slated to lead a humanitarian effort in Puerto Rico. “We did complete a PAA for the Social Influencer Mr. Beast, but ultimately did not support the production as he did not go to Puerto Rico for the Hurricane relief, so that PAA is cancelled,” a Pentagon official wrote in an email obtained by Rolling Stone.
Guess Jimmy found something more profitable to sink is grubby fingers into.
We also need to ask why the fuck are we throwing money at people that are ‘planning on’ having a relief effort (as a form of self-promotion, clearly–if he cared that much to help he would have found a way) instead of having a relief effort for the sake of helping people that need help??
Puerto Rico is part of America for some reason so i have to assume they’re entitled to aid. But I’m sure when PR signed the contract there was probably some gotcha hidden in there that allows America to refuse to help or some other slimy bullshit, lol.
Is this really where the future of disaster relief is headed? Whoever decides to make a vanity project out of the reconstruction gets government funding? 🤡
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 5 months ago:
I imagine they will finally succeed in having robots running the operations, but there will be a warehouse full of underpaid wage slaves controlling the robots from somewhere in India
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 6 months ago:
But they’ll have stragglers just the same as any major social media site. Even though many here have standards they won’t easily abandon, there are scores of people that won’t even know if/when AI started being used on the site or would care enough to leave if they did.
Plus every time we leave a platform we need to find or build a new one. The time it takes to get others to migrate and develop into a worthwhile community is hard to predict and it may not even work out. It sucks social media is such shit anymore, but it seems inevitable that it will remain that way given the landscape of the Internet at this point.
I say this as someone who’s drifted from Fark to Digg to Reddit to Lemmy over the past 20-25 years 🎈 (zero loyalty as well)
