teuast
@teuast@lemmy.ca
- Comment on ListenBrainz passes 25k users! 11 months ago:
sentences that sound made up but have actual meaning
- Comment on Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever 11 months ago:
They’ve put a lot of work into locking people into an ecosystem. To pick one example, if you’ve got a Logic project you want someone to be able to edit, even if you manage to migrate it with all of the required stuff, they’re still going to need a Mac to open it.
- Comment on Most legible scottish person 11 months ago:
that is also how it’s always been explained to me
- Comment on Most legible scottish person 11 months ago:
where i come from it’s a carpet
or just particularly thick pubes
- Comment on Most legible scottish person 11 months ago:
Bond Name’s the james
- Comment on Your car is probably harvesting your data. Here's how you can wipe it 11 months ago:
My car is a bicycle. Specifically it is a 2017 Masi CX Comp.
Why own a Ford when I have my Chevrolegs?
- Comment on Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles 11 months ago:
when shagging for my country, no sacrifice is too great
- Comment on Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles 11 months ago:
hey babe, let’s rawdog, i jizz pfizer
- Comment on Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles 11 months ago:
that’s the joke
- Comment on Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk? 11 months ago:
They claim to be on track to make another profit year in 2024.
And I’m the king of Thailand.
- Comment on Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk? 11 months ago:
He used to be a right wing billionaire who loved spreading his propaganda. He still is, but he used to be, too.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
set maximum profits aside
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- Comment on Welcome too... 1 year ago:
when you romance curie in fallout 4
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
how about the Abu Dhabi Tour? A week-long stage race on the least interesting terrain on the planet. The first stage frequently has a finishing straight that’s 60k long.
- Comment on NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series" 1 year ago:
You trying to give them lasting psychological trauma?
- Comment on Redditor when women 1 year ago:
my sister frequently sends me reddit memes and tried for years to get me to play league of legends
- Comment on Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec 1 year ago:
Call it paranoia if you want. Mainly I don’t have faith in our economic system to deploy the technology in a way that doesn’t eviscerate the working class.
- Comment on Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec 1 year ago:
In five to ten years, imo, AI will be everywhere and may even replace the need for mobile Internet connections in terms of looking up information.
You’re probably right, but I kinda hope you’re wrong.
- Comment on Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec 1 year ago:
it does have a very funny name though
- Comment on I'm with Kira 1 year ago:
Do you have to commit the murder for it to be bad?
- Comment on I'm with Kira 1 year ago:
OK, you need to be walked through it every step of the way, then.
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Akhil gives a gun to Omar.
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Akhil knows Omar hates, to pick a threatened minority at random, gay people, and wants to kill them.
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Omar shoots up, let’s say, a gay nightclub. In, to pick a city totally at random, Orlando, Florida. And just for funsies, let’s call it The Pulse. I’m sure this totally imaginary scenario bears no resemblance to any actual event, and no gay nightclub called The Pulse in Orlando, Florida has ever been shot up by a virulent homophobe named Omar Mateen. Pure imagination.
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The judicial system would view Akhil as an accessory to murder in that instance.
Let me further introduce you to the concept of stochastic terrorism. Boy, aren’t you learning a lot tonight! I’m happy for you.
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- Comment on I'm with Kira 1 year ago:
But a whole lot of them would vote for somebody who has.
- Comment on I'm with Kira 1 year ago:
Well, I’m glad you at least recognize that your solution to bigotry is not practical. I agree that it’s a moral ideal, but morality to my mind depends at least as much on effect as intention, which is where practicality comes in, and the fact that showing “unearned compassion” to bigots, at least in the way I typically seem to see that interpreted, just emboldens them and makes life worse for everyone else. The most extreme example of this is, as alluded to, Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler, but we see the same thing play out on a smaller scale frequently.
Most people who discuss morality with any frequency will probably tell you that whether or not you know the outcome of an action ahead of time does impact its morality. So I would argue, because we know that showing bigots “unearned compassion” rather than societally refusing to tolerate their behavior invariably has a net negative impact on those who are the targets of their bigotry, that would render it not the moral ideal we might like it to be.
Please observe the paradox of tolerance.
- Comment on X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called 1 year ago:
I can find no sources on this that aren’t just Elon tweeting about it, and Elon’s tweets are about as reliable as a gingerbread space station. If his tweets are enough for you to believe it, then no wonder you’re also wrong about everything else you’ve said.
- Comment on X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called 1 year ago:
If their jobs were that easy to automate, do you really think the automakers would just be threatening it? Do you know literally a single thing about economics?
- Comment on X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called 1 year ago:
Then don’t start shit you can’t finish.
- Comment on X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called 1 year ago:
You know that song “Think About It” by Flight Of The Conchords? “They’re turning kids into slaves just to make cheaper sneakers, but what’s the real cause? 'Cause the sneakers don’t seem that much cheaper. Why are we still paying so much for sneakers when you got 'em made by little slave kids? What are your overheads?”
Funnily enough, I used to work in a running shoe store, and Jemaine is actually 100% right. Nike, Asics, Brooks, Adidas, most of them mostly manufacture in southeast Asia, or at least did at the time and probably still do. Nike has famously had their name attached to the word “sweatshop” on multiple occasions. Meanwhile, New Balance manufactures in the US. Prices are similar, quality is basically the same, personally I don’t get on with either of them as well as I get on with Altra but that’s beside the point. Nike’s CEO makes like 100x what NB’s does, which means NB manages to match Nike on price and quality with a much more equitable pay structure and manufacturing in the US.
If your metric for the economy is anything other than how much money the CEO makes, then New Balance is the clear winner. And I just want to note how fucked it is that I’m looking at a CEO making almost 300k a year, who also happens to be kind of a right wing dipshit, and saying “yeah, he seems equitable” just because I have to compare him to one making 32 mil.
Another example is that Orbea bicycles, which are literally made by a worker-owned co-op in Mondragon in Spain, with a lot (though admittedly not all) of their manufacturing either in house or just over the border in Portugal, compete and win in top-level racing, so the quality is obviously there, with prices that match or beat ones set by giants like Trek, Specialized, Cannondale, or, well, Giant, all of whom do most of their manufacturing in Taiwan (to be fair, Giant is a Taiwanese company, but Trek, Spesh, and 'Dale are all American and, weirdly, Giant handles a lot of their manufacturing).
If you can’t show me that I’m wrong, then sure, pivot to something else again. But the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting something to change. Vaas from Far Cry 3 taught me that.
- Comment on X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called 1 year ago:
My guy, your source proves my point, not yours, even by your own summary of it. If you were capable of feeling ashamed of yourself, now would be a great time to do so.
- Comment on X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called 1 year ago:
Well, if you had heard the things Elon says, seen the people he signal boosts, or heard of the people and groups he associates with, then you would understand why people are accusing him of spouting far right nonsense. It’s because the things he says are frequently far right nonsense, the people he signal boosts are frequently people who spout far right nonsense, and the people and groups he associates with are frequently significant sources of far right nonsense. And I’m not a Democrat in any sense other than thinking they’re not as bad for the world as Republicans are, but I can think of at least one good reason to throw rocks at “the other color,” that being when they’re propagating harmful far-right nonsense. I’d have thought this logic would be bulletproof, but I find myself cowed by the counterargument that “I have no idea what you’re talking about but you seem mean.”
Paying attention to the world around you is a great way to avoid making yourself look silly, if you’re interested in stopping it from happening again.
- Comment on X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called 1 year ago:
Then why does a Big Mac cost almost the same at a unionized McDonald’s in Denmark as it does at a non-unionized one in Tennessee?