Tinidril

@Tinidril@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that supposed to be a positive? What’s going on now with the ACA was written into it’s DNA from day one. I don’t think there is a single government program that has transferred more wealth to Wall Street than the ACA. Not even defense contracts can compete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much everything wrong with Democrats is as bad or worse with Republicans. On the other hand, the Republican establishment did not want Trump to be nominated in 2016 any more than the Democrats wanted Sanders. It’s up for debate if they were less heavy handed in manipulating the process, or if they were just more incompetent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Bill Clinton is more responsible than anyone but maybe Reagan for the gutting of the middle class. The Clinton’s set is on this path. Hillary’s only real track record is on foreign policy, and her positions there reflect the absolute worst aspects of American arrogance and interventionism.

  The Clinton’s and the rest of the Democratic establishment are responsible for destroying the underlying social fabric that would have made any of what you want possible. They are also diametrically opposed to a “fair” primary. Democrats have near 100% control over their own primary process, and the whole thing is rigged to maximize their ability to manipulate voters through their domination of media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What? How the hell did you get murder and terrorism out of that?

  What I want is is social libertarianism. What I’d settle for is an FDR progressive. My bare acceptable minimum is liberal democracy. What the Democrats are is ineffective illiberal elitist technocrats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was not Biden’s job to prosecute his political opponent,

  Bull fucking shit it wasn’t. The President is the chief law enforcement officer in the Federal government, and his “political opponent” was the most dangerous criminal we’ve seen in decades. Yes, it was his fucking job to make damn sure the DOJ did theirs.

  • Give it up. We know what he did and what he tried to do. You assume we don’t, but we just have higher standards than you.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If Democrats had absolute control, we’d still be on a slow boat to oblivion. That is no doubt an improvement over the express train we are on, but let’s not pretend the Democratic establishment has anything in mind for the future of the middle class but utter destruction.

  Oh, and Congress didn’t exactly need to put a gun to Biden’s head on Palestine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we have a boring and uneventful week for a change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been like that a lot longer than that. It’s just that most of the damage leading up to 2016 was under the surface and most people didn’t read their damage reports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science Is Drowning in AI Slop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really can’t imagine a world where I would care how many seams my beanie has. If anything, seams make them easier to fold. Also, modern 3D knitting machines can make beanies without seams, as well as more complicated seamless garments that a human would really struggle to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump threatens tariffs on nations that don’t back US takeover of Greenland⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in the US and I’m divesting from the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are mistaken. The rest of NATO arguably outmatches the US in arctic combat capabilities by a pretty big margin. Most US war equipment would fail almost immediately. The Nordics have more arctic trained soldiers than the US and equipment that’s been designed and tested in that environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US is also totally unprepared to deal with the kind of cold it would encounter in Greenland. Nordic military forces have way more experience, and they are far better equipped. Most US tanks and artillery would not operate reliably in Greenland.

  Trump made a joke about Greenland defense forces having two dogsleds. That would be two more than the US has, and the dogs would actually function, unlike US troop transports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russian bombers fly near Britain, NATO scrambles fighter jets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re seeing already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russian bombers fly near Britain, NATO scrambles fighter jets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If NATO wanted a war with Russia then there would be war with Russia. Russia has made it easy enough with hybrid war actions against Europe. Of course such a war would be something like a three day operation since Russia has proven it’s military to be even more pathetic than everyone suspected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How AI broke the smart home in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The smart home has been broken for over a decade. From day one the goal was always to lock in users to an ecosystem and invade their privacy. Actually providing useful and reliable products didn’t even register as a goal.

  The one way to do decent home automation is with locally run He Assistant and Zigbee or Z-Wave. It should only rely on the Internet for resources that are truly non-local like weather reports.

  Thread/Matter might also be becoming an option. At this point I’m still watching to see what they do with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I completely agree that LLMs aren’t intelligent. On the other hand, I’m not sure most of what we call intelligence in human behavior is any more intelligent than what LLMs do.

  We are certainly capable of a class of intelligence that LLMs can’t even approach, but most of us aren’t using it most of the time. Even much (not all) of our boundary pushing science is just iterating algorithms that made the last discoveries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I solved that for most of them by going AMD with my last upgrade. No more binary drivers solved most of my issues. Al that’s left is really the anti-cheat kernel garbage. For that I just decided fuck it. I found it easier to stomach changing some gaming preferences than the Microsoft ecosystem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally went 100% Linux and I’m never going back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s only gotten worse’: As ACA premiums are set to climb, some Americans opt to go uninsured⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I already started. What the fuck are you all waiting for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRUMP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, getting groped by a Republican is meth and getting groped by a Democrat is weed is this analogy? Please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRUMP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely true. However, it hardly looks any better for Democrats. Bill Clinton is barely any better than Trump, and yet he is still revered in party circles.

  Also, Democratic party elites have yet to back Mamdani in NY which is defacto support for Cuomo who has the same kind of track record.

  This isn’t a Republican problem, it’s a wealthy elites problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not forget that prior to Jesus any punishments were over when you died. Permanent Hell was a new testament thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Charlie Kirk proven wrong.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age check⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Consensual means we have no basis for demanding he stand trial for rape. Squeaking past that bar doesn’t say anything good about his moral character. He should not have been impeached, but he should have been run out of the Democratic party on a rail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspiring. Innovating.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Carbon is an amazingly flexible element that gets bound up with lots of other elements. Oxygen is also incredibly reactive and makes up almost half the mass of the Earth’s crust. Add in all the heat down there for activation energy, and it starts to make sense. I’m no expert though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I may let him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Newton had massive social adjustment issues and deep religious convictions. I’m not so sure he would react well to the modern world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything as complex as an atom will be disintegrated too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What payment terminals? They could go years just being an online credit card. Hell, initially it wouldn’t be very different from any company that bills their customers. Start it as a Steam only thing, then add select partners one at a time. It doesn’t have to be in your grocery store on day one, or ever really. Fraud detection is easy when you can just yank the game back. Sears couldn’t do that when you bought a washing machine. I worked in banking infosec and I have no idea what “digital compliance” means in this context. The hardest compliance standards in this space are PCI, and those are defined and enforced on clients by the payment card industry itself.

  Valves internal structure wouldn’t scale to that size either

  Which is why I specifically said it would be run as a subsidiary.

  and they have no experience running a company of the size that would be required in a different structure.

  Gosh, where on Earth could they find people with experience running a company that would look like 99% of the companies in existence?

  You’re just throwing shit on the wall and hoping something sticks. You could neigh say anything, and nothing in the world would ever be accomplished.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they had hundreds of thousands of employees, and they didn’t need to deal with all the digital shit we gotta deal with now.

  They needed hundreds of thousands of employees because they didn’t have “digital shit”. Today, the entirety of Discover Financial Services is around 21k, and probably falling.

  If Valve did it, it wouldn’t be under the Valve organization anyways. It would be a subsidiary, and Valve has plenty of cash-flow to build it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point is that Valve has the reach to start their own credit card network. It might be far fetched, but I’m old enough to remember when Sears launched the Discover card. It’s totally doable for a company that already has the technical capabilities of Valve.