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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every action has a reaction⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re all (as political blocs) guilty of taking away people’s livelihoods for unacceptable speech. I don’t even mean dangerous speech, like vaccine disinfo, but people just being cunts and bigots. Pretending that we’re free speech paragons in the face of the Kirk nonsense is silly and just gives those cretins all the impetus they need to carry on with it.

  Also, burn in hell Charlie Kirk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the origin of the whole "X destroys and humilates Y" genre of debate videos?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure who came up with it first or why humans are wired this way, but the magic combination of anger, outrage, and the vicarious bullying satisfaction of seeing someone dunked on and made to look stupid/humiliated, is all grist for the mill that is the attention economy. The longer you watch, the better it is for the YouTubes and Twitters of the world. And nothing glues people to their screens quite like their own masochism. It’s like when you have a sore tooth and can’t help but prod it with your tongue. Makes no sense, but it’s what we do. The fact that this stuff is so effective is why the algorithms force it down our throats and why cunts like Ben Shapiro have made careers off of it. Society is being torn apart at the seams by this shit. That pent-up hateful energy gets co-opted by state actors and bot farms, and then we get Brexit and two terms of Donald fucking Trump.

  I’ve been making a conscious effort to avoid any videos that have titles like that (and by extension, the creators of those videos), and my life and mental health has improved immeasurably as a result. I have literally no idea how to convince anyone else to do the same. It would probably be easier to get people to exercise and eat healthily (something I don’t fucking do either). People get as much of this content as they can consume for free and at any time and any place, thanks to the inherent portability of cellphones. If you’re into this shit, there is no time of day or room in your house where you won’t have it calling to you like a pocket version of the wee devil that sits on a cartoon character’s shoulder whispering evil commands into its ear. And in this scenario, there is no angel on the other shoulder, because that would cause people to maybe spend a bit less time on these platforms, which is no bueno to Silicon Valley sociopaths.

  Debates are almost entirely pointless. Very few people in the audience are actually open to being swayed. It’s just verbal UFC, and the winner isn’t the one with the best ideas, but the one with the best tongue jiu-jitsu.

  As for Plato et al., I think having something to fill one’s attention in those days was probably a good way to stop people from fucking their livestock. So debates were necessary to prevent sheepman monstrosities from polluting the gene pool with their woolly nutsacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's date is 3²/4²/5²⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  math hurts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is he like this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can't make this shit up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking hell… 🤢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The actors, along with people like artists and musicians, tend to be exempted from gamer rage when a game sucks or launches in a sucky state. Was that not the case with MindsEye?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He should not have been shot. The shooter was, like virtually all such people, a narcissistic main character sociopath who only cared about his own fame and notoriety, and was likely spending too much time in the damp and mushroomy corners of the internet instead of developing an actual personality in the real world. He’s less an anti-fascist soldier and more a Travis Bickle wannabe wanker.

  But Charlie Kirk was a humongous piece of shit and I am glad he’s dead. One fewer humongous pieces of shit to have to listen to. I would never advocate the murder of a man like him, and like I said, I think the shooter was a colossal cunt who unleashed way more danger and harm to marginalised groups than Kirk was capable of provoking on his own. But thank fuck he’s gone. Silver linings n’all that 🤷‍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good evening.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Me when my keys tumbled out of my breast pocket into a fire I was poking and I instinctively snatched them back out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel bad that his children had to witness that, and even if they hadn’t been there (which they were) they’d undoubtedly have the video clip shoved in their faces eventually. That’s a hell of a way to lose a parent.

  The fact that he died while in the middle of talking about trans mass shooters being a huge problem certainly makes it feel like cosmic karma at work. I struggle to give a shit about the man himself being shot dead. But I do worry about political violence… it’s a very rare occasion when murdering someone sitting in a chair talking is a good idea. Not a single person in his right-wing sphere of repugnance is going to do any self-reflection and change their ways, they’ll just become even more rabidly anti-everything left of Hitler. Shit like this doesn’t go unanswered too often. Violence is a contagion with no cure except time, and the clock gets set back another decade every time someone retaliates. I’m sure we could chain all of these assassinations together into a causal sequence. But even if they’re all independent events, the narrative-makers will be hard at work making it sound like a grand battle of the ages, so the result is the same either way.

  Source: History, memory…

  P.S. Any bets that the shooter was a MAGA nut? Seems to be the trend 👀

• How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just ate a little bag of popcorn without getting any bits stuck in my teeth/throat. ask me anything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you forget to microwave it first?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I gift a riverboat to the otter people in exchange for splashy kisses on my cheeks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idk if that's what's really happening in that image 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an ancient astronaut working the levers on his Stormtrooper speeder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychoanalysts hate those blotchy black & white images of my mother’s pussy giving birth to my father who is wielding a knife with my name written along the hilt. “Stop bringing these fucking drawings in here!” she yells. God forbid a man have hobbies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any non-cunts in the EV manufacturing space? Or is that a prerequisite?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The nihilist school shooters of the world are way more litigious than I thought possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bmw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so terminally carless and unautomobile pilled that I have literally no clue what this is about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That pretty much sums it up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have it on good authority that love is

  spoiler

  baby don’t hurt me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New article says #StarCitizen will release in 2027-2028, we contacted the author to ask for clarification on the source and he quoted Chris Roberts himself as saying "1 or 2 Y probably after S42"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would make little sense for them to release a final version of this game, given that they’ve made Saudi prince money from a perpetual alpha and in-game assets you have to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for. They’d never tie-off the areola on this big fat milker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a legendary family story from my childhood in the early '80s where my dad rented a direct-to-video Snow White sequel for me and my brothers (aged 1 - 10), but it turned out he had absentmindedly picked up a porno parody, shoved it in the VCR and immediately left the room to attend to other things. He didn’t realise until we were a good 10 minutes in and were laughing hysterically at the willies and boobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it even partially alleviates loneliness, and if it encourages the person to become more open and confident when communicating with humans, then it’s a great thing.

  /cope

  ~We’re so fucking fucked.~

• If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras?
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• C'mon lads, we've all done it, right?lemmy.world ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who would win Kernel level anti-cheat or middle age man with a Raspberry Pi?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s awesome 🤣 definitely PED-like cheating though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An entire thread of people missing the point 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally no one on this green earth asked for this shit. In fact, we’ve been pretty direct about how much we don’t want it.

  It’s exhausting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be funny if the Wikimedia Foundation developed an AI that is trained on all the major AI models, and uses that to detect AI slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto Games 'At Risk' From Being Pulled From Sale Ahead Of GTA 6⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the only times I’ve ever been grateful that Rockstar Games - a litigious and thoroughly despicable crew of money-grubbing cunts - are being pressed in their most sensitive and tender area: their bank account.

  Now John Indiegame doesn’t need to worry about the Collective Shout campaign. The scumbags with the army of lawyers and endless rivers of money will take care of things.

  /cope

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When life gives ya lemons.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A VPN is a must if you wanna go down this route

  Soulseek (and I recommend the Nicotine+ client over the official one) is a fantastic source for all music in all formats, and particularly obscure off-label shit you won’t get anywhere else. You’ll even have some success finding audiobooks there, although this is very hit-and-miss. I wish audiobook pirates would use it more heavily. It’s P2P, like Napster used to be. You’ll have to share something or you’ll get auto-ignored by most users.

  RuTracker is a great non-private/non-ratio-monitoring torrent site for music (does require a free account though). I’ve never had a single torrent from there that wasn’t seemingly seeded by a Godzilla’s dick. Obviously it’s in Russian, but there’s really no difficulty navigating around. The only thing you might struggle with is signing up for an account, but just have your favourite translation tool open in another tab 👍

  If you don’t mind slow download speeds (from the likes of RapidGator), I enjoy Exystence. It’s a blog that shares link to the latest albums and offers both lossy and lossless versions. Nice RSS subscription to have.

  If you do find yourself using RapidGator a lot, don’t waste money buying a sub directly from them, it’s insanely pricey. Instead, get a reseller like Real Debrid, which costs like 10% as much and also covers you for about two-dozen other file hosters. I highly recommend putting as much distance between your credit card and the company as possible, just for safety reasons. Using PaySafeCard is fine, as Real Debrid will never see your details in that case. I don’t have any specific reason to be weary of them, I just don’t trust random/small/hitherto unheard of companies as a rule.