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- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
There’s also the privilege of living in a location where vegan alternatives are readily and frequently available, vast swaths of the US are in what’s known as “food deserts”, locations where “residents’ access to affordable, healthy food options (especially fresh fruits and vegetables) is restricted or nonexistent due to the absence of grocery stores within convenient traveling distance” (foodispower.org/access-health/food-deserts/) these locations also tend to have high obesity or diabetes rates due to the fact that the only food easily and cheaply available is high in sugar. Add in things like the increased price for even simple vegan foods (like rice and beans) and you might be starting to see the picture, as much as some people would LIKE to be vegan it is literally not possible for them without either taking on substantial additional costs or completely upending their life.
A lot of the reason people who are otherwise pro-vegan (like myself) tend to dislike online vegans is that they will, consistently and smugly, while in a location and economic position where its easy to get vegan options, berate people for eating animal products without ever considering the possibility that its MUCH harder to get non-animal product based foods in certain areas
- Comment on Really enjoying my first playthrough of Dwarf Fortress 7 months ago:
Lol welcome aboard the DF party ship!
I still remember my most recent fortress mode cyclops, I had 2 squads who I had been training using training spears, but forgot to change equipment before sending them to kill it, by some miracle, they dodged all of its attacks for about 20 attacks despite having no dodge skills at all, then one of them either punched or bashed the cyclops in the face and got lucky, knocking it out. What followed was around 20 in game days of a circle of 14 dwarves mercilessly beating a puddle of bruises that was once a cyclops, as training weapons do next to no damage, occasionally it would wake up, then immediately give in to the pain again, with the only non bruise damage coming from whenever a dwarf would decide to punch, kick, or bite instead of using their main weapon. It FINALLY ended when one of dwarves punched it in the head, tearing the brain through the skull, putting the poor thing out of its misery.
My dwarves went in competent speardwarves and came out around grand master level, all very dehydrated.
- Comment on Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
No. There are hundreds of entirely valid reasons to be wary of AI, especially the fact that the word AI has just turned into a corporate buzzword, when I hear that (insert thing) has had AI added to it, that can mean anything from a single static image that was made using “AI art” , to a large language model being used, or maybe they just grafted chatGPT to it.
Maybe if people and companies stopped labeling everything even tangentially computer related as AI I’d be less dismissive of it, but as it is now, whenever “AI” is mentioned in relation to a product it feels like a “corp wants to artificially increase percieved value by using latest trend” moment
- Comment on Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
A lot, as in a large amount, its hard to put a finite number on something like a large part of a large community I am not a part of nor interested in.
I am not the only one who has noticed this, here is a skit video from 4 moths ago demonstrating this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTBCzH1UyNY
As for sources there are TONS, it takes 5 seconds of googling to find a whole page, including:
medium.com/…/where-are-the-nft-bros-c6571ba4f1fd forbes.com/…/at-sxsw-it-was-goodbye-nfts-and-hell… businessinsider.com/the-crypto-bros-are-coming-fo… theverge.com/…/chatgpt-ai-get-rich-quick-schemes-… www.gq-magazine.co.uk/…/ai-generative-art-trend
Hell, just open one of the NFT marketplaces like opensea, I went to the art tab and the top trending is AI “art”
- Comment on Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
Also, a large amount of those NFT bros have lately been pushing to allow AI companies to steal artist’s works and otherwise generally licking big AI companies’ collective boot, so
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Foresees AI Competing with Human Intelligence in Five Years 10 months ago:
Not gonna happen, what everyone is calling “AI” isn’t even actually AI, its just a type of predictive text
- Comment on It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch 11 months ago:
Personally, I really enjoy Obsidian ( obsidian.md ), its been fantastic for my notetaking on my PC.
Now, I will admit I haven’t tried it myself but it can apparently work on Synology, so that might be an alternative. Best of luck!
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
Exactly! I’d put money on a group abusing it, admitting to abusing it, and the game devs still being charged in the near future.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
That clarification makes it even worse, this is obviously an attempt to push free to play or indie games out the window while making major bank.
The fraud detection will not help at all to prevent abuse especially in cases like steam family sharing where other “users” won’t have to pay to install the game!
There’s literally no reason to charge per game install here, the only possible reason is greed