TheFriar
@TheFriar@lemm.ee
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 16 hours ago:
“Google is making it easier for Google to pry into your personal data.”
“Water is making it easier for water to make you wet.”
- Comment on ‘Martyrdom or Bust:’ Texas Man Caught Plotting Terror Attack Through Roblox Chats 1 day ago:
The list of previous searches on his iPhone included “Which month is april in islam,” “Festivals happening near me,” “are suicide attacks haram in islam,” “ginger isis member,” “lone wolf terrorists isis,” and “can tou kill a woman who foesnt[sic] wear hijab.”
lol of course he’s a fucking idiot
- Comment on 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community 2 days ago:
You mean three weeks into summer? We started our summer with a massive heatwave where I am.
- Comment on Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand 1 week ago:
The word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 1 week ago:
I’m in one of the bluest. Our police and FBI are not “blue.” American spy forces and “committee on anti-American activities”-ass motherfuckers are not kind or just, no matter the voting tendencies of the populace.
How many decades have we seen far right terror groups overlooked for anti-capitalist leftists? The left threatens the status quo, the right fortifies it. The blue and red dichotomy is the status quo. The democrats support the genocide in Palestine. Going against that status quo makes you not safe from government crackdowns, the party in power is completely irrelevant.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 week ago:
You guys can’t think there are seriously paid bots on lemmy. There are like 10,000 users. It’s basically a niche message board. Reddit is a valuable target because it has millions of users. Facebook, instagram, Twitter. These places are being astroturfed. But lemmy? I honestly don’t believe it. It doesn’t even have a core of users in any particular country. The small user base is spread all over the world. It just isn’t a target of these campaigns.
- Comment on Tesla customers in France sue over brand becoming 'extreme right' 2 weeks ago:
I feel like we all very, very clearly knew it already.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, well there are a ton of people literally falling into psychosis, led by LLMs. So it’s unfortunately not that many people that already knew it.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event 2 weeks ago:
When neo Nazi terror cells are actively training for acts of violence and making open calls for new members, the dystopia is no longer “boring.” It’s actively murderous and hateful.
- Comment on Silent Hill f Release Date Revealed 2 weeks ago:
I’ve only played SH2. What was the problem with ascension?
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
I’m dating this person and we were watching YT and she didn’t have any ad blocker up and I was fucking blown away
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
Road rage 5000 initiate
- Comment on Could You Prove You’re a US Citizen? 3 weeks ago:
“Would?” This is what’s happening.
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 3 weeks ago:
I mean, at least the chat bots are always nonviolent and are restricted from encouraging people to do any harm. Doesn’t mean these people can’t (un)reason around it. People read the Bible and think it’s telling them to bomb clinics and hate their neighbors somehow.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 3 weeks ago:
Oof. I weep for people who actually talk and think like that lol all good
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 3 weeks ago:
lol tough room
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 3 weeks ago:
Not if you study the blade. Like me.
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 3 weeks ago:
Oh, sorry, you misread. I said “other angle.”
Because…yeah. I want it plastered all over. He looks so fucking stupid and is so goddamn inept that I’d like to be able to display the richest man in the world’s undeniable Nazi salutes. Because…we should. Don’t you agree?
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but I just meant that when he turns around, the second one looks less doofy and contorted. I thought someone behind him would’ve been filming on their phones, I’m just surprised there were no phone videos from anyone over there. I wanted to see someone’s from that other angle. It’s weird there was only one video of it, I figured those assclowns would be relishing in having such a “le epic” moment recorded.
You can just tell that he was thinking “I’m gonna do it! It’s gonna be such a master troll!” So he overthought the first one and it’s almost so lacquered in false confidence while the second one he just kinda doesn’t overcommit, if that makes sense.
I fully agree, it was 100% a Nazi salute. Both of them. I just wanted to see another angle on that second one.
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 3 weeks ago:
Because there were people in the crowd behind him
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 3 weeks ago:
I meant from the other angle, facing the camera
- Comment on You Can’t Make an Omelette without Exploding Several Billion Dollars’ Worth of Eggs 3 weeks ago:
Why are there no videos of the second Nazi salute he did when he did the two Nazi salutes? He turns his back after the first Nazi salute and Nazi salutes the flag behind him and I want a better video of that Nazi salute the Nazi did.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 4 weeks ago:
How was the second one “so bad?” It had incredible narrative, more in depth gameplay, challenging and coherent themes, depth of storytelling, it took risks that a lot of people didn’t like, but you can’t say they were done poorly. They were just challenging for people. And that’s good. The same stories told with the same character arcs following the same hero’s journey is boring. TLOU2 challenged you with the characters making choices you wouldn’t, it challenged you with co placated character arcs that saw well-loved characters turn into the villains, while the villain of the story became the one to end the cycle of violence…it was incredible. That worldbuilding, the design, the voice acting, the mocap acting, the more varied fighting styles, the expansive world…I mean, shit, I really do want to know what you thought actually classified as “bad” about that game. It pissed people off. But that does not make it a bad game by any stretch of the imagination.
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 4 weeks ago:
Wait a second:
it’s hard for apple to manufacture devices in a country with robust labor rights.
Robust labor rights? The US?
We have child labor making a comeback here. It’s not that far fetched to imagine children working in hypothetical US factories if things keep going the way they’re going.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 4 weeks ago:
Has seriously no one mentioned The Last of Us? That’s crazy.
I think the second should be included.
As well as red dead redemption 2.
The storytelling is just top tier. Better than literally almost all media made today.
- Comment on Apple’s Smart Glasses Expected to Hit the Market by Late Next Year! 4 weeks ago:
lol what does that even mean? Four people downvoted it
- Comment on YSK: Two oil brothers, Charles Koch and David Koch, attempted to purchase the entire United States Congress 4 weeks ago:
The kochs have been the actual boogeymen of American politics for a long time. They’re basically what the right always fear soros is, but for racist, imperialist, corporatist shit. They basically responsible for citizens united.
- Comment on 53% of Israeli public opposes aid entering Gaza, new poll shows 4 weeks ago:
…no. They already got that. It was called the holocaust. They just seem to have forgotten the lessons they should have learned.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 4 weeks ago:
Because no matter the business, the game is capitalism. Who has the cutthroat, borderline personality to “make the tough calls” (read: weigh the cost benefit analysis of screwing the next group of people).
It doesn’t matter what the business is. Because it’s just about cost and benefit to these people. If they can cut costs, they will. If the benefits are lacking in that people will be outraged enough to stop buying, or the lawsuits will cost more than the profit increase percentage (factored into the actual viability of the claims and the affected group’s buying power for legal representation), then they don’t do it.
Nowhere does “but is it right” factor in. It’s only “will people find out, and if they do can we weather the storm.”
Capitalism should die.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 4 weeks ago:
Or babel. Anything but Duolingo at this point seems like the best bet