DeceasedPassenger
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- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 1 week ago:
I mean yeah, I would answer your statement as “yes”. But I would prefer to challenge a fundamental assumption within your question, “suffering is good”. Suffering is neither bad nor good, it simply is. Without the experience of suffering, experiences of non-suffering would lose some or all of their meaning. Without winter we cannot appreciate summer, and vice versa.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 1 week ago:
Here is a personal favorite of mine. Silence brands everywhere.
- Comment on Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center 1 week ago:
Agreed, MS and Google are pretty much on the same plane with regards to company ethics.
Makes sense that it becomes a serious trade-off with usability the more a company tries to DIY. The risk aspect is certainly hard to get around. Seems that a solution to this problem would have to be long-term. Any company that has competed with AWS in the past, afaik, has been purchased and absorbed. It would likely require the creation of a nonprofit with a guiding directive to prioritize keeping the organization independent and never being sold. But I’ve seen that sort of thing fall apart and go off-mission in other industries too.
Considering the above, the only other thing I can think of is a regulating body declaring AWS as a monopoly and forcing them to split. The chances of that happening in the current administration are probably near zero.
Shit sucks, though I appreciate your response.
- Comment on Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center 1 week ago:
I know. I’m not a web dev nor do I know anyone who is to convince otherwise, to use other services. AWS dominance is undeniably huge. If you know a way to combat that (alternative infrastructure) I would be happy to hear it, and I will share that alongside what I already tell people. Again I’m not well-versed in that space, but my understanding is that AWS is essentially the only full-stack solution that’s also highly scalable. Open to correction if I’m wrong here.
- Comment on Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center 1 week ago:
I haven’t given a god damn dime to amazon since 2020, ever since I learned about the piss bottles. I’ve asked (and assisted) others to do the same. What the fuck else do you expect someone to do? Speak for yourself asshole.
- Comment on I swear they’ve changed but I haven’t 1 week ago:
Lmao so sorry it hurts your feelings. I can smell your smegma from here. Hope I don’t “lose my sanity” from venturing out of the “whitewashed” internet, oooooooooo. You’re obviously such a real one unlike us wannabes :3
- Comment on I swear they’ve changed but I haven’t 2 weeks ago:
You talk so edgy and then post a basic 4chan-ass iceberg with a youtube video more than halfway down. I’m so glad I don’t feel the need to posture like this anymore, it comes across very 7th-grader discovering gore on the internet. OoOoOo sPoOkY!!1!
- Comment on Chatgpt shared link searchable 2 weeks ago:
Yum, a nicely mixed word salad! Lmfao
- Comment on Chatgpt shared link searchable 2 weeks ago:
I assumed this was a given. Anything offered to tech overlords will be monetized and packaged for profit at every possible angle. Nice to know it’s official now, I guess.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 3 weeks ago:
They tell their manager. That’s it. Enough of them tell their manager, that manager has to tell their superior. It goes upwards from there.
- Comment on A real mans man is married to a real man 3 weeks ago:
The most masculine thing possible is to give zero fucks about anyone else’s definition of masculinity. You speak the truth. I’ve been watching some older cartoons from the 50s, and it’s been a bit strange honestly. Because a lot of that material has a much healthier depiction of ‘being a man’. There was a lot of emphasis on treating others with respect and carrying yourself with dignity. Obviously, a significant amount of behavior at the time didn’t actually line up with most of those ideals. But somewhere along the path, empathy was divorced from manliness, and that’s the root cause of the problem imo.
Classism applied to tops/bottoms has been around since the greeks, it seems hard for society to escape that as a whole.
- Comment on A real mans man is married to a real man 3 weeks ago:
I’m with you there, the modern (currently most popular when counting by volume) take on manliness is very weird and gross overall. Whenever I see guys glom on to that idea of manliness it’s always been a bit bizarre to me. I primarily smell good for myself before anyone else, who wants to smell shit all day? Besides that, I was always told that “being a man” includes looking clean, sharp, and fresh. It has it’s own form of toxicity to be sure (it’s okay to have bad days/off days) but ultimately taking care of yourself with proper grooming breeds healthy confidence and self-image so long as you don’t obsess over it.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 4 weeks ago:
Well I doubt they’re volunteering, probably paid. And not everyone has the luxury of being able to quit a job based on how it clashes with their own values.
If they’re volunteering though, then I agree with you 100%.
- Comment on Single Serve Pudding Cups And Yogurts Are Too Fucking Small. 4 weeks ago:
That’s… why we’re here.
- Comment on Qutos 4 weeks ago:
No, it’s luck despite the system.
No, also luck despite the system.
No, still luck despite the system.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 4 weeks ago:
Hells yeah thank you for sharing :D
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 4 weeks ago:
That is tight as hell and I love it
- Comment on "Quell your rage" must be lesson 1 in how to internet 5 weeks ago:
I’ve heard of people running it as a side gig. Shady advertising companies will buy your reddit account, the more history the better. I have no idea the price range but I can’t imagine it’s much, because the entire process can be automated at this point.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 month ago:
Fwiw, my mom had a similar debate and decided classical music instead. Came from some company called baby beethoven. So I’m biased but I think music is probably best. Words won’t really be understood anyway just tones. No angry sounds around baby.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 1 month ago:
Agreed, for the features included the premium is genuinely worth it. Much better company to give money to than spotify.
The UI has lagged behind a bit but there are firefox and chrome extensions to improve/customize the web experience to a pretty decent extent. I do wish they could get their shit together with the placement of stations on mobile. Still as you said it consistently finds new music. When I try to look at a song’s “radio” on spotify, it gets me angry 0-100 real quick. Why? Well I ran a small experiment.
I started by going to a song radio playlist. From there, go to the radio playlist of the first song. Now add every one of those songs to another playlist. Back up, go to the next song radio, repeat while excluding duplicates, for 10 songs.
Each of the radio stations had about 180 songs. So the final playlist would hopefully have in the neighborhood of 500, accounting for duplicate overlap. But how many songs did I actually end up with? 195. The recommendation algo is not designed for discovery it’s designed for comfort and familiarity at every angle. And i hate it.
Sorry this turned into a spotify rant aha I just needed to share that experiment after seeing my own results.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 1 month ago:
I browse lemmy exclusively, as a result of distaste for corporatization. Personally I have no reason to leave and I doubt I will anytime soon. I don’t have any particular niches that I’m a part of, so the only thing that would cause me to leave is if the feed dried up. I usually open lemmy in the morning and scroll All - top 12h. I get an hour or so of scrolling before I reach posts with sub-10 votes. And that’s all I really need. I’ll be here until I can’t do that anymore.
- Comment on Ahem, well well 1 month ago:
That’s why I specifically try to avoid saying that, and instead say “important question”. Almost always interchangeable, gets the point across, and you don’t sound like a subservient AI.
- Comment on A very curious situation indeed 1 month ago:
Immediately kill myself as quick as possible. That’s genuinely one of my worst fears is being entered by a bug. I have an obsessive habit of wiping the inside/underneath the lip of the toilet every time I use it just in case there could be a spider. There has never been a spider. Yet I’m compelled to do it every single time.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 1 month ago:
I haven’t seen anyone mention Pandora but it’s still around. I kept using it even when I was paying for spotify. Over and over again Pandora has played new (to me) artists that have really caught my ear. I listen to a lot of different things and it’s been responsible for probably 50% over the last 15 years that I’ve been using it. The ads are less invasive than spotify and can be easily removed with uBlock origin in the web player. Can’t recommend it highly enough.
- Comment on Taekwondo player alleges gang-rape by priest, others inside Kanpur ashram. A national-level Taekwondo player has alleged that she was gang-raped inside an ashram located right next to a police station 2 months ago:
I’ve noticed the same exact thing. Makes me wonder if there could be some kind of difference in reporting, like how florida’s laws led to the florida man/woman trope.
- Comment on Ed Sheer-enough 2 months ago:
Seriously. It’s peak reddit behavior. Part of what made lemmy feel like such a breath of fresh air when I migrated was the distinct lack of karma-farm-esque posts. I’m unfortunately speaking in the past tense now.
- Comment on You can now format text in Windows 11's Notepad 2 months ago:
It’s interesting how similar patterns arise in different areas of capitalism. For instance, cars. A Toyota Rav4 used to be significantly smaller and less complex. Same with countless other models throughout the decades. And same with notepad here. More bloated and complex, jack of all trades and master of none. Erasing distinctions between toolsets, ultimate convenience with everything at your fingertips, etc etc. Convenience at the price of a logical workflow, with no thought given as to why the tools were in different places to begin with. It’s like the ultimate purpose of capitalism is to increase entropy to maximum.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 2 months ago:
I arrived at that point a few years ago. You’re in for a world of discovery. As an fps fan myself I highly recommend Ultrakill. There’s a demo so you don’t have to commit.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
They are hollow, only a couple millimeters thick. They melt in less than a minute.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
The deletion is absolute (all atoms, creates a true void), and infinite in size vertically. Your first use of this power results in massive tectonic shifts and (admittedly low-key) global chaos.
