warbond
@warbond@lemmy.world
- Comment on They're completely serious 19 hours ago:
All-powerful Pawns of the Deep State.
New band name?
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, man, I get it. Language is complex. I’m not advocating for the reinvention of English, it was just a conversational observation about a silly quirk.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 weeks ago:
Do you think it’s a matter of choosing a complexity to care about?
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 3 weeks ago:
I think in most cases where this administration seems to have a good idea it’s important to remember that it’s likely designed to keep them in power.
A national database that the trump admin controls will 100% be exploited for their own gain, just like every other aspect of government is being exploited for their gain now.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 weeks ago:
Kinda dumb that apostrophe s means possessive in some circumstances and then a contraction in others.
I wonder how different it’ll be in 500 years.
- Comment on Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars, 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think that the semantic discrepancy is really the point.
- Comment on I have searched far and wide 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t the BC/AD crossover supposed to be for Jesus’s birth?
I just think it’s funny to say Harambe was born 17 years Before Harambe.
- Comment on Sheeple 5 weeks ago:
It was a freak gasoline fight accident
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s a self-defeating attitude. Be careful with what you’re looking for, because you’re likely to find it. If you’re looking for reasons that she doesn’t like you, you’re going to find them!
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 month ago:
15 hours, huh? Have you finished creating your first character yet?
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 1 month ago:
I’ve thought about it and I really should have just let that guy in. I don’t remember all of the details, I just remember feeling righteously indignant afterward, so that’s how I tell the story. It was probably just a coincidence that we ended up at the same speed right next to each other and it would have been super easy to just move over, barely an inconvenience.
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 1 month ago:
In the US the person in the acceleration lane/on-ramp is responsible for merging with the flow of traffic on the highway, presumably because the person already on the highway has less opportunity to yield safely.
One time, in the middle of the night on an empty highway, as a car was getting on they accelerated right up next to me and then did the same speed as me until the acceleration lane ended and then honked at me for being in their way.
I don’t think I was in the wrong there even if it would have been easy to change lanes for the other car. They could have just as easily merged ahead of or behind me.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 month ago:
I like the word “pairents”
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
Tongue-punching the fart box
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 month ago:
It’s not just the information for me, he’s also passionate about the stuff that he explores and that comes across in his videos.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 month ago:
Is there an interpretation where it means somebody who is shockingly audacious?
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 months ago:
People don’t like when you don’t answer their question because it doesn’t give them an answer to their question. Just answer the question first and then hop on your high horse to tell them why it’s not going to work.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Escape from Tarkov PvE.
It’s so much fun to not be head/eyes’d from fucking nowhere by a random PMC. The bots are a little dumb, but the risk/reward for bot PMCs and Bosses is still there, for sure.
I bounced off of PvP Tarkov for years just trying to play with my friends, and now I’m finally having fun with it!
- Comment on Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar 2 months ago:
If they take it down we’ll make it again.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 2 months ago:
No idea why my previous comment shows as quoted, but whatever
My argument is that if they were actually competing that would mess with the performative nature of the storytelling.
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 2 months ago:
Oof, yeah, forgot about that. Yeah, people are people everywhere… I just liked having a more idyllic version of things in my head
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 2 months ago:
When I lived in Germany I found that the people were far more self-policing than Americans. There just seemed to be a general attitude of, “we know we’re not supposed to do that, so we don’t.”
Fully anecdotal, sure, and that was 15 years ago, but nonetheless it’s hard for me to imagine “ze Germans” tampering with odometers to sell cars.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 2 months ago:
athlete Athletes compete or strive against others to attain a goal, TV wrestlers perform.
- Comment on In heat 2 months ago:
As a funny challenge I like to come up with simplified, stupid-sounding, 3-word search queries for complex questions, and more often than not it’s good enough to get me the information I’m looking for.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 2 months ago:
I find that I don’t like full games of chess, but chess.com has these little chess puzzles that highlight the surprising deviousness of the rules that can turn a sure defeat into a swift victory.
They also have an algorithmic engine that will calculate the general effectiveness of each move so you can get instant feedback, which I like.
I guess I need more focus in the things I play, and chess is just too broad as a game.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 2 months ago:
Chess is a logic puzzle that changes as you play it, with the randomness coming from player interaction. If you’re not into solving those kinds of puzzles, you’re probably not going to have fun.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 3 months ago:
I used to try to use them 100%, but there are so many situations where it’s completely unwarranted (in my specific driving circumstances). So I guess I default to using my indicators, but I try to use them the right way, i.e. before a lane change rather than after I’ve started to commit.
Also, I used to put on my indicator for a lane change nice and early, but dear god the way these cars warn about your blind spot being occupied, holy shit. Music turns down, loud beeping, it’s madness.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 3 months ago:
No, but only because I rarely pull out of a driveway or parking spot into any sort of traffic. Parallel parked on a road, though, sure.
- Comment on Trump White House holds Hamas ‘entirely responsible’ for Israeli execution of Palestinian medics 3 months ago:
No, I guess not, but it still hurts every time
- Comment on Going on Reddit today be like... 3 months ago:
Batteries Not Included is one of my all-time favorites