TheFogan

@TheFogan@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I mean it’s a disease agency. Missinformation on X is bad. Their job however is about getting the word out to people of what to do to avoid diseases. People don’t switch networks to follow their favorite health agencies. So… if the job is to warn people about serious shit… it kind of is important to be where the people are currently and try and get the facts heard among the misinformation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a facepalm concept

  Capitalists. We can’t regulate businesses, if a corporation is opperating unsafe, harming the environment, spreading hateful messages etc… the only check and balance we need is the free market, and the consumers voting with their wallets.

  Consumers vote with their wallets, This is unspeakable… we need the government to regulate to make sure the consumers don’t organize and vote with their wallets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frog's Gift⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  wow, yeah thanks for the repost of it then, and yeah seems even further to go in there, when conservatives comb for examples of the terrible things they are fighting… and it seems like over and over again, even their cherry picked examples seem to fail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frog's Gift⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4263280/#:~:text….

  Sunfish I can’t find the actual study, it appears it was done in 1975, and was a big thing that congress at the time used as the examples of wasteful spending.

  First 2 I can’t really say the value or lack of value of. I mean they were studies on effects of dangerous substances on behavior. and yes of course like all studies you pick animals that you might be able to get the effects of. Obviously a lot of science is just randomly probing around looking for oddities that give you a hypothesis to try and refine later into something useful. Obviously addictive substances is an important topic to understand, and poking around randomly might actually give solutions that could be discovered IMO.

  Now the last one is the only one I’d agree, isn’t exactly super useful.

  washingtonexaminer.com/…/feds-blow-700k-to-find-o…

  was done in 2016.

  All that being said… lets also take a serious statement on cost here… a million dollars in 2016. That’s like, 15 minutes of iraq war money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're called leaves for a reason.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad HOAs are far more concerned with making sure everything looks plain and perfect to the 70 year old humans walking on the street rather than giving any craps about wildlife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s just like e-mail addresses, I really don’t understand the difficulty. Yes technically if I want to e-mail joe smith, I need to know his address, including what mail provider he uses. Which is why when I ask for his e-mail address he tells me “Joesmith@gmail.com”. and not just joesmith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Opens Its AI Models for the (U.S.) Military⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In general agreed, but also depends on what the reason you gave on if you are a hypocrite.

  IE if you said “I’m not opening this up to Chinese millitary use because I don’t want anyone to be killed using the tool I’ve made”.

  on the other hand if your reason given was

  “I am not opening this up to chinese millitary because I would fear they might use this against the US millitary”. then you at least aren’t bullshitting anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casio made an Oura Ring alternative that's everything but smart⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m about to release a not so smart AR Headset. Super light, It won’t generate fake TV screens or give information like the apple vision pro, but it will just be tinted to help bright sunlight be less bright. Still brainstorming what to call this low tech VR/AR technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casio made an Oura Ring alternative that's everything but smart⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Won’t track your health, Won’t prevent aids. May make you invisible to the seen realm, and draw the attention of unseen beings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨make it make sense⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean obviously depends on the god… but if we are going with the judeo christian god. He does a lot of insane things for very little.

  Floods the earth for being evil

  Kids mock a bald man… God sends a pack of bears to kill them.

  Woman turns around and glances at her home town being destroyed, turned to salt.

  Quite simply god of the old testament bible is pretty all over the place on what he’ll punish large swaths of people for. Though while I’d note he didn’t worry much on collateral damage. He didn’t miss his targets (IE… sure I could see the god of the bible letting a hurricane kill millions in the bible belt on it’s way to hit LA or New York… but doesn’t seem those storms have a great track record of reaching the people they think god wants to punish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨make it make sense⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be nice if they could at least blame god. They’d rather blame drag queens for upsetting god.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because growth… Without the R&D money, Microsoft or Yahoo, or someone else would have figured out how to do what they do faster/better, waited until google was a forgotten name and then enshittified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Public trading… it’s capitalism. By law you have to try and extort every penny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donating canned goods to food pantries is like donating needles and syringes to a cancer research organization⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I guess a food bank would have food already as well… They are both one time use consumable supplies so, whether they have them or not, they are going to have to resupply at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donating canned goods to food pantries is like donating needles and syringes to a cancer research organization⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Umm… is this post edited or something. I’m seeing

  Donating canned goods to food pantries is like donating needles and syringes to a cancer research organization

  I don’t see the word “used” in it. So, it sounds like he’s saying donating medical supplies to an organization that does medical research?

  To which I’d say yes both seem helpful to an organization that helps people in need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If cannabis gets rescheduled to III, how can it ever get the state - federal differences resolved when it comes to the recreational market?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Point is it’s a stroke of a pen to change the priority… One president or one DEA switch away. The supreme court upheld Roe V Wade which was why it wasn’t important to codify it into law… until it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice needed, son wants to learn how to program⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO set him up with some of the modern engines and tutorials… Godot 4, Unreal etc…

  actually if you are looking for some stuff to have ready for him.

  humblebundle.com/…/game-programming-with-c-unreal…

  If he has access to youtube there’s also lots of really good tutorials etc… out there. Heartbeast has some awesome ones for godot etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just realized there is absolutely no way to say 'i always lie'.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone’s been studying the 2 guardians puzzle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching TV shows or movies that display Russia as a military superpower is almost surreal nowadays.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, russia has proven themselves more dangerous, and more laughable at the same time. Their ability to underhandedly destroy us from within is far stronger than we ever were allowed to believe. Their ability to mount an actual attack, is far more laughable than we thought.

  Though I do suppose the real scary part of it is. The potential death throws kind of attack. Putin’s immaturity, narcissism etc… is far scarier than we have ever understood. Russia quite frankly is the superpower that I could easily see hit the point of “If I can’t run the world, I’ll destroy it so you can’t have it”, and quite simply we’ve never seen or understood the potential of Nuke vs Anti-Nuke warfare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d assume same reason most politicians are. In a capitalist society, those that pool the most money will tend to gain the most power and influence. So the churches that talk to the rich man and say “of course god is blessing you because you are such a good person” get more money, and thus more influence, than the churches that pay attention to the “It’s harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven”. “Succesful” religious leaders become the ones to teach the next generation of religious leaders. Causing more drift into the same idea.

  Then of course the pro-corporate candidates also do really good virtue signaling. Because when the religious leaders do not want to focus on the Rich, they still need a bad guy to rally against, and since nobody needs the church to tell them murderers and thieves are bad… the church takes a more strong stand against things that are accepted by society that they can consider against their faith. (abortion, LGBT etc…)