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- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 11 minutes ago:
Yeah? Kinda the point. Like absolutely nothing was happening in Portland. Nothing at all. But trump sent troops anyway because Portland is such a hellhole. Now there’s protests, but they seem to be far more entertaining and mocking than anything else.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 18 hours ago:
Yes
- Comment on At 1% 22 hours ago:
The micro is probably charge only, no data. So no signal.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 23 hours ago:
The troll farms are disastrous to this country.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 day ago:
Like Tiananmen square, the regime stopped using local troops in an attempt to flex their authority and instead brought in outside military with no attachment to the area so they would have less trouble being ordered to fire on civilians.
These gravy seals from the South are gonna be the tattered flag and trump sticker on a truck types that sit around the desk at the guard base wishing they could punch a liberal.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 1 day ago:
Pretty much a default that religion, given the opportunity, will seek to push its rules and values on others. Doesn’t matter if it’s a medicine man or someone sitting on the local school board. I don’t have a problem with religious people in principle either, the problem is that even if you do meet a decent couple of people who appear to keep their religion to themselves there’s hundreds of thousands in their “club” that are going to fuck with things. Kinda like being in the republican party - even if they’re decent people, aren’t bootlickers, aren’t homophobes, etc… they still vote for, support, and associate with a group that does a lot of shitty things.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 4 days ago:
Because they run out of “create” and they’re slaves to the quarterly report.
A new company that makes/sells a widget that is desirable will grow naturally from the demand for the product. It has to get bigger to manage the demand. They go public to get more money to grow more quickly. Those public investors expect a return on their stock investment purchase.
Now competitors show up. Competition is bad for our big startup (despite being a supposed tenant of the free market that allowed our company to grow quickly in the first place) that is now a major power in the widget industry. You can only make the widget so many ways, can’t really improve it, and the market is becoming saturated. So what happens next? WidgetCo’s stock is flat! Investors are mad! The CEO is in trouble! Now we do acquisitions and enshittification. Buy the competitors and adjacent product makers. Now there’s “growth” again even though nothing new is made, in fact the product gets worse and nobody gets hired as they want attrition to get rid of redundant employees. The hope is that the widget is so engrained in society that it can’t be done without. Now do unbundling. Subscriptions. Sunsetting. Modify the product so that new versions must be bought due to batteries or servers no longer supporting previous versions. If you can’t make new things, make the customer buy new versions of the same old things.
Gotta keep pushing that quarterly report line up to keep the investors happy and the CEO bonuses coming.
- Comment on No excuses 5 days ago:
No problem if you’re not in a hurry at all. Stay right, yield to faster traffic, and everyone’s gonna get along fine.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 5 days ago:
Probably the slice encompassing a large number of countries in Africa as well as most of western Europe. Huge number of people and industries contained in that slice.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 1 week ago:
Ok, so don’t look for an AI response? Sure, Google censoring results is shit, google NOT censoring results about the same query about Biden is even shittier, but you still get search results about the question.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 1 week ago:
How decoupled stocks are from reality or value. It’s bizarre.
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 1 week ago:
Christ, couldn’t they start with something like Sinclair or Google instead?
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 1 week ago:
Plenty of racism in those forums playing out the “black on black” crime trope except it’s African on African crime, their fault for the slave trade, etc.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
They choose… profit.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 week ago:
Aaaand that’s one of the reasons why I got rid of Plex. “Bought” it, then they found some other feature to paywall. Bought that, then another feature. Then it stopped playing files of certain extensions through chromecast. Fuck that. Put together Jellyfin and moved my collection over. Zero trouble since.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 1 week ago:
Could be just a bad habit as you say. Boredom. Might be worth checking to see of some kids have any other issues that might put them on an au/dhd spectrum. One of ours habitually destroyed pencils and erasers no matter what we did. Found out later It was anxiety and stress from undiagnosed neurospicyness.
- Comment on Watch first, then wipe: Some China’s restrooms put toilet paper behind paywall 1 week ago:
You’re kidding, right? Just make the restroom paid…50¢ or whatever the equivalent reasonable price is there. Cash or tap. Not make it impossible to wipe your ass if you have a dead battery, bad connection, no phone, whatever.
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 2 weeks ago:
Coelacanth are still around, so kinda…
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 2 weeks ago:
I dunno about the tax laws here. Seems anything purchased in game with fake game money that stays in game shouldn’t be subject to a sales tax. Buying game currency with real currency? Sure. Buying real things by selling in-game accounts or items for real money? Fine.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, what? I pointed out the absurdity of trying to say what the food is of the region when, particularly in the US, everyone is an immigrant. So your response is everyone eats Paleolithic foods now? Your idea is to take my “absurd” question and double down on it? Why not have a reasonable discussion?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Everyone in the Americas are immigrants other than Natives, all our food is from someone else’s culture, borrowed and mixed. So what’s the answer? You’re only allowed Native American food? Where’s the timeline cutoff for what constitutes foods in these regions?
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 weeks ago:
One number away from the correct one.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 weeks ago:
Dumb? I just bought an IDE PCI card and a 2.5” floppy USB adapter. I have a bunch of old 52x dvd/Bluray drives, some are IDE. Thought about buying one, but the internal 5.25 are well over $100!? Shocking, they used to be $35. Nobody needs them anymore. I only bought the 2.5” adapter to avoid throwing away the drive, I don’t know where my 1.44mb floppies are. So now I have an old PC with IDE optical drives and a 2.5” floppy.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Because most everyone is an immigrant? Where do you draw the line and call something native or not? Otherwise we’re eating nothing but succotash and whatever else the First People had. Is anyone saying you can’t have a hamburger in Thailand?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. However - my exposure to Asian foods has been mostly those foods popular in western culture like sashimi, restaurant Thai or Chinese, etc. There’a a lot of if that I haven’t been exposed to or eaten, and even though I think I’d probably like a lot of the new stuff, there’s plenty I think I could never get used to like still-kinda-living food on my plate, nattō, etc. So I opted for the biggest slice of multicultural food I could get.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
G.
Love Mexican and south American food, Creole, Southern, Cuban…plus the US has stolen foods from around the world, so I guess I get to keep pretty much eating whatever.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 2 weeks ago:
Emotional intelligence?
I think you mean skepticism and critical thought. You mention both, but emotional intelligence isn’t what you’re after. Emotional intelligence is a skill that could be manipulated to get past someone’s skepticism. Emotion, “feels”, get in the way of critical thought.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 2 weeks ago:
I think the difference is that you’re conflating heat and light. Solar panels use photons to create electricity, not converting infrared heat to energy. So the heating really isn’t a factor in the energy created.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages 2 weeks ago:
Got excited when it came out, started playing, and same story. Just couldn’t force myself to finish.
- Comment on Come back to this post in 2030's 2 weeks ago:
When I lived in the NE US in the ‘00s it would snow so much the airports would shut down for a day. Piles of snow would last well into spring. Last time I was there it snowed maybe a total of a foot for the entire winter for a couple years running. All those winter scenes in film, or even Currier and Ives prints from the turn of the last century are the only context that it used to actually snow and stay covered for months at a time.