TheFriar
@TheFriar@lemm.ee
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 13 hours ago:
In my experience, plenty of local shops delivered. And when Uber eats came about, they had to fire their own delivery people because so many would check Uber eats first. Not to mention the restaurants get less on the food, when small, locally owned restaurants are already surviving on razor thin margins.
So the idea for these services is basically “I don’t want to go to my local restaurant to pick up food, so I’m going to financially hurt them so a middleman can profit by forcing them to deliver to me (which plenty were doing already).”
My point is it’s such a uniquely stupid, uniquely American concept that hurts everyone involved, and makes a ton of money for one large company—who completely inserted themselves into it unnecessarily.
If the argument is whether or not there should be a moral dilemma when ordering from them, I say yes. We can’t absolve ourselves of our laziness on this one, I don’t think.
And the likening it to insurance companies was strictly for the purpose of a meaningless middleman who changed the structure of the system they exist in, in order to profit unnecessarily. I tried to make it clear the likeness stopped there, but maybe I wasn’t.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 14 hours ago:
I a, bothered by the ratio of what I pay extra for third party services as compared to what the delivery person receives. You can’t possibly drive the price up further
The solution already existed. It’s called restaurants delivering their own food. But Ubereats shoehorned their way into the equation to be an unnecessary middleman in order to profit.
I absolutely share the moral dilemma with the concept of third party delivery. They’re just as useless as health insurance companies, so if you see the problem with the latter, you can def see the problem with the former. (Not to say they’re on the same scale or have similar histories or have equal amounts of blood on their hands, just that they’re similar in structure in a system that work(s)/(ed) fine without them.)
- Comment on Motorized rotating plant stand? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, why waste electricity for something you can do, like, in half a second once/month?
- Comment on Bro 😭😭 1 month ago:
Calling into question the things he liked? lol I dunno I was more really just hijacking the first comment I saw sorry
- Comment on Bro 😭😭 1 month ago:
Well wasn’t he dating Alanis Morisette when he was 30 and she was 17
- Comment on For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value. 1 month ago:
Ah, see, I love the game. I’ve been replaying it, actually. I think the endings, yeah, they’re all pretty sad. Even the one ending where
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You actually get the cure, it’s a massive, massive bummer. Life moves on without V, and they are stuck. They try to go back to their life, and they realized it’s all gone when they got what they were trying for the whole time. Every ending but one is genuinely sad.
And that’s super duper rare, it feels like. I truly appreciate that everything was a gut punch. I really like my V, and when I’ve replayed it I make them the same way (looks-wise, I have made different builds). The male voice actor was not for me. I think he sounded like a douchebag and I couldn’t root for my own character. And that first play through I was honestly a little disappointed with the game. But when I found “my” V, I was much more invested.
I love the difficult choices they saddle you with. It was a big part of the game for me because they really made you feel like there were no right options, or two right options, and you weren’t just choosing black or white, you were choosing moral grayness or moral grayness. And you had to sit with those choices and, as OP pointed out, watch the consequences unfold for the—I feel, very well-written and acted—NPCs.
I really love the game. It and RDR2 are my favorites. I was never a gamer growing up. In my thirties I started playing games, but I am a huge story person—books, movies, tv shows—and I think the stories and the characters made it. So when I found games that let me really get a sense of these characters, even if there is a lot of dialogue, it’s like I’m playing a really long movie. That’s ideal for me. I could see how some people who game heavily wouldn’t like it though. But I fuckin love that game and its spiritual twin (IMO), RDR2. Both maybe “limited” for true gamers, but for some filthy cazh like me, fuckin excellent and highly enjoyable.
- Comment on In the American class warfare, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters. 1 month ago:
No, but it’s a shower thought. If it were a quote, I wouldn’t have said anything.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 1 month ago:
Wow can you imagine the inane conversations that happen sitting at a table with this assholes? That literallly sounds like torture.
It’s like Fiona Apple said about sitting in a private theater doing coke with Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson was a catalyst to never do coke again, this would be a catalyst to never breathing or living on this earth again.
- Comment on In the American class warfare, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters. 1 month ago:
Why use that description of race? It’s the word used back then, but not today.
- Comment on It was rigged? 1 month ago:
Well I think it’s pretty fair to say a lot of people were tuning in to see him get his ass beat. He’s made a career out of being a piece of shit that people want to see get knocked out. So he wins by us all hating him because if we’re hating him we’re paying attention to him.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 month ago:
The second half if most important. It doesn’t produce enough electricity. Renewables are getting cheaper and cheaper and are taking up the mantle to take over majority of power production in some nations. But it is harder to monetize and can be democratized and made pretty easily. It’s like weed. It can be taken away from bigger producers and therefore there is significant push back/lobbying against it.
- Comment on The Best Use of AI Ever: A 'Grandma' Built To Waste Telescammers’ Time - Decrypt 1 month ago:
It’s been reported widely that it’s already happening. They use phone banks to scam, they use AI to scam. If it’s out there, it’s being used to scam.
- Comment on Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law 1 month ago:
It’s “the advisory board of religious affairs.” You think that group of people can’t be religious nuts?
Also, it’s 100% about religion because their entire excuse is that it runs contrary to religious law. I mean, to your credit, you’re kinda right because this does have nothing to truly do with religion and is about control. But they’re using religion to do it.
“Using a VPN goes against our religious beliefs?” Come the fuck on.
- Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions 1 month ago:
Yeah this is like people who think they’re “saving money” when they go shopping because there’s a sale. You didn’t save money. You spent it. You just might’ve spent more (depending on the store because a lot of them mark things up just to mark them back to full price)
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 1 month ago:
But Twitter has been bleeding users. And since the election there has been a very public exodus by bigger names. So this isn’t about “go where the viewers are.” This is “spend money to stay on the good side of someone who might be even more inordinately powerful with an incredibly powerful and vengeful sidekick.”
- Comment on somebody has to do it! 1 month ago:
See, sometimes the best scientist needs to ask the simplest questions no one thought to ask.
Here is your Nobel Prize
- Comment on AI Elections 1 month ago:
Well I voted the Wicconana party. That’s like putting the women from The Craft in office, right?
- Comment on Day 105 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
I’m very excited for you
- Comment on Day 105 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
Oh man. If you haven’t played the DLC and if you haven’t played since the big update, you def need to.
- Comment on The Worst Apology Video on the Planet 2 months ago:
No, it’s a commentary video about the apology itself
- Comment on The Worst Apology Video on the Planet 2 months ago:
So…what exactly did he do wrong? Because after watching the video I subscribed, wouldn’t mind seeing some similar videos in the future. But then I read this. But…I don’t know if it’s worth unsubscribing. So…care to share or nah
- Comment on Day 105 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
Dude AW2 is fuckin excellent. I will admit to getting stuck on (what I imagine is) the final stand for Agent (can’t remember her name) by the lake. I went back to playing cyberpunk again because I’ve been playing it way too much.
- Comment on ChatGPT-4o Guardrail Jailbreak: Hex Encoding for Writing CVE Exploits. 2 months ago:
Why does that thumbnail bring to mind some kind of white supremacist ceremony
- Comment on The Worst Apology Video on the Planet 2 months ago:
What? Why? What did he do?
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 2 months ago:
But I haven’t even escaped the original matrix. Or the matrix reloaded.
- Comment on Protect Yourself Against Location Tracking Abuses. 2 months ago:
And not even just a cookie banner. One that says “we use them, now we told you. You can’t turn them off.”
Fuck that site
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 2 months ago:
I’m sure it’s almost happened a few times just on pure instinct
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 months ago:
Or the next one
- Comment on An increasing number of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, BofA says 2 months ago:
I’ll bone yer arse, mate
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 2 months ago:
Gross I don’t want ‘em