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- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 4 days ago:
Fascinating! Thank you for this article. It exactly describes what’s happening: “oh, you think you’re better than us? I’ll have another steak!”
As a vegetarian, I’m so sick of it. I don’t want to explain myself. Just let me be
- Comment on Does Instagram or YouTube Shorts get you? 1 week ago:
Define too long. I like videos of up to 15 minutes. That’s long to some people. Occasionally I’ll enjoy longer videos but almost always I think to myself “you could have said the same in a much shorter video”. And I won’t even start the 4 hours bullshit rambling videos. Do people actually watch that or is it just on in the background?
- Comment on Does Instagram or YouTube Shorts get you? 1 week ago:
I hate it because I watch it but don’t enjoy it at all. It just wastes my time. It’s addictive but not in the good way like a video game that draws you in, but in the “help I can’t control myself” kind of way. FUCK THE ALGORITHM
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 2 weeks ago:
Autonomous my ass. Is a person remote controlling it from a low wage county?
- Comment on Good time 5 weeks ago:
I bought one (1) CD in my entire life. It was The Prodigy’s Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. Put it in my computer… It didn’t work. No files. I was one of the victims to Sony’s shitty DRM crap. Returned the CD and never stopped pirating since.
- Comment on Norwegian Cruise captain refused to let eight passengers who were late reboard ship 5 weeks ago:
So?
- Comment on Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO’s private jet in 2023 5 weeks ago:
And when they can’t find the next investor, they’ll go bankrupt. Oops! Now everybody loses their jobs because management wanted to play at the high rollers table with borrowed money
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on literally me 1 month ago:
I think Tenet is amazing. Yes, it’s confusing but you’ll manage. If you get the main points, you can enjoy this movie even if you don’t get every detail
- Comment on Just doing my part 🤡 2 months ago:
They should offer reusable metal straws
- Comment on Just doing my part 🤡 2 months ago:
If your whole statement is we shouldn’t try to solve global warming because some people are rich
I don’t think that’s what they’re saying at all. Any solution to climate change is incomplete if it doesn’t also address inequality and overconsumption
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
I hope that’s a joke or else I’m gonna be so mad
- Comment on 4,000 antisemitic incidents in a year in 'explosion' of hatred against Jews after Hamas attacks 2 months ago:
I hate this trope. “Conflating Israel with all Jews, is antisemitic”. This is exactly what Israel does all the fucking time and Jews internationally hardly push back against it. Criticism of Israel is widely regarded as antisemitic, isn’t that also conflating the two? Or when they call the October 7th attacks antisemitic? Someone doesn’t get to call us antisemitic for criticizing Israel but also say Israel does not represent them.
- Comment on 4,000 antisemitic incidents in a year in 'explosion' of hatred against Jews after Hamas attacks 2 months ago:
That’s exactly where the graffiti should be.
- Comment on It was in self-defence 🙃 2 months ago:
The Empire has a right to defend itself
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 3 months ago:
What do you mean? GDPR allowed for the “unless the visitor agrees” stuff so that’s why we see cookie banners everywhere.
I would say it should either be allowed or not, depending on the use case. A navigation app should be able to track your location for the service they provide but not for ads or selling to other companies. Your calculator app has no business even asking. Profile based advertising (rather than content based) should be banned wholesale. That sort of stuff
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 3 months ago:
Exactly. Identify what uses are legitimate and what uses aren’t, and legislate directly. None of this consumer consent crap because it’s meaningless to consumers. No consumer benefits from their browsing habits being under surveillance.
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 3 months ago:
You’re right to be angry.
I don’t think people are misinformed or unaware. We have a collective action problem. People think they can’t do anything about the problem, it’s to big for us, we can’t do those drastic things because greater society isn’t transitioning. My personal solution is to do what I can that helps, but don’t expect anything to change. It’s like voting: Your vote counts, but you can’t decide the outcome.
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 3 months ago:
I don’t know the details, but I’m pretty sure greenhouse effect has something to do with it.
But it doesn’t matter, it’s beside the point. This person was saying we could make the planet much hotter than we want, inhabitably hot like Venus. Not that we are literally Venus
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 3 months ago:
Understandable to think this. Maybe we did come really close to some of those disasters, such as nuclear war. It’s just survivors bias to think that it wasn’t civilization ending danger we were in back then.
I hope we learn from that and steer clear of the danger next time, rather than think it’ll be alright because nobody happened to actually press the red button back then so I guess we worried about nothing
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 3 months ago:
I remember this is exactly what it felt like. Yes there were some things to solve, but in the end it will all work out. Read Fukuyama if you want a taste of what it was like. We beat communism, famine will be solved, no more wars, everything will be fine because of economic and political stability and technological progress forever. Any crisis is just a bump on the road, never a regression
That was the thinking in the 90’s
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 3 months ago:
It will be civilization ending. I never said it would kill every single person. There may still be people but 100 years from now, everyone’s fucked. Further ahead, 200 years, 500 years, definitely no future there
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 3 months ago:
You’re wrong. Scientific consensus is that this will be catastrophic. We’re still emitting more greenhouse gases year over year, and the rate at which global warming is happening is still increasing year over year. Anyone who says this will stop at 1.5 degrees, 2 degrees, 3 degrees, whatever, they’re all wrong because no slowdown is happening at all. It’s wishful thinking. Climate predictions are being broken all the time, never in a good way. And that’s not taking into account any tipping points that suddenly speed up climate change, such as melting ice releasing trapped methane.
There is no reason to say it won’t be that bad. It will
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 3 months ago:
How about awareness that climate change will ruin us all.
It checks out that the peak of optimism in your graph is around the 80’s and 90’s. We weren’t just “optimistic” in the 90’s. We were delusional. We were ignoring problems instead of solving them
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 3 months ago:
Such as what? I’ve always found Keychron to be cheaper
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 4 months ago:
That one is actually useful and I use it every day.
Can we also talk about stupid keyboard manufacturers putting media functions and whatnot on the F keys, but then requiring me to hold Fn to use it as a regular F key? Nobody wants to go Fn+Alt+F4 to close a window. What the hell?
- Comment on Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With 'Verify' Watermark Tech 4 months ago:
Profitability, not user interest, is the deciding factor
- Comment on Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With 'Verify' Watermark Tech 4 months ago:
You could implement it like that but I’m not convinced that’s the way this will go. The only way this will have mass adoption, I’m afraid, is if the tech giants can fleece us one way or another.
- Comment on Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With 'Verify' Watermark Tech 4 months ago:
Great, DRM on my personal photos. Next they’re going to charge a subscription to view my own goddamn vacation pictures
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 4 months ago:
Exactly. This wasn’t a protest as far as I’m concerned. They shut me out. So I no longer visit reddit or moderate any of my subreddits. It’s that simple