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- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 4 days ago:
I’ve thought about this a bunch. The christian god being omnipotent and benevolent is contradictory to the bible and also just the state of the world. So what if there actually is some god (or multiple) but these entities are far from omnipotent, really can’t meddle all that much and maybe don’t really care in the first place.
I don’t think it’s true (even if it seems more plausible than any religion actually being completely right) but it’s just funny to me to imagine that all religions could just be the result of some higher dimensional beings playing with our planet out of boredom, and humans just ascribed far too much power to them.
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 4 days ago:
It is because no one present likely has anything to do with the decision, and even if someone is actively restraining you there’s a reasonable amount of resistance and while that includes mild violence it does not include shooting someone or similar. Unless you really need to be somewhere reacting to that with extreme violence is completely unhinged.
Maybe mild violence is what you meant, but that can easily be read differently.
- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 4 days ago:
The one way gates are standard, the only exit being ticket scan isn’t. The change is supposedly only the one way gates, so they’re half truthing to pretend it’s normal.
- Comment on What 1 week ago:
I do this so much at work with random german words, because we have so many specific names for our features, some of which I didn’t even know in german before working here. Others I’d know how to translate but it would be ambiguous. And our non-german speaking devs also use the software in german, so they understand.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 2 weeks ago:
New right click context menu for files is one example. Not sure about others bc I’ve changed just about everything I can to be like win 10, and in 10 I already changed a lot from the defaults.
- Comment on Abdul 2 weeks ago:
I thought the blob was their hands.
Also the image is very clearly made by mirroring a single image in the center. So at most the original image was AI generated because AI would not mirror that cleanly.
- Comment on Girls 4 weeks ago:
The order thing is very debatable tbh, I generally agree that going in origin culture order is better (easier to keep consistent imo), but there are at least a lot of japanese artists that swap the name order when romanized. (And I don’t think I’d care if someone swapped my name order when speaking chinese).
Missing the “Sau” (no idea if Sau Lan is one name romanized as two words or two names) feels like a product of ignorance and pretty disrespectful though, yea.
- Comment on Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes 4 weeks ago:
Lots of propaganda. Likely their entire lives. And the lived reality of attacks from hamas over the years to lend credibility to it. It’s sadly not surprising. Whoever controls the flow of information controls the people.
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 5 weeks ago:
Well, it’s about maximum profit. So if they could make more, it’s insane that they wouldn’t. But it might be that profit in the short term was higher by not spending as much money on R&D, and if there’s one thing stock markets are great at it’s incentivizing short term profit over long term viability.
- Comment on True staple of the format 5 weeks ago:
I do both. When it’s not something I pull from memory I’ll say how I found it and also provide what I found. Which isn’t about telling people that they shouldn’t ask, but rather to teach them for when they can’t.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That depends on whether the person in charge has any. See rupert murdoch, or the red bull owner basically saying it would be great if he could also be like murdoch.
A company that’s controlled by investors (aka mostly banks trying to get returns) will basically always just chase short term profit though, and that’s most of them.
To pressure these companies into doing the morally right thing, we would have to pressure the banks, but that seems hardly realistic since shifting your money away from one in response to an event like this is anywhere from majorly inconvenient to impossible, plus there’d be a direct monetary tradeoff that a lot of people either can’t or aren’t willing to take.
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 1 month ago:
I think this every time with gaming lootbox regulations as well. Like honestly, yes regulate it but where’s the age check for buying pokemon cards?
- Comment on What even is money at this point 1 month ago:
No, the problem is that having money leads to having more money and having more money also leads to having more power so every system just gets slowly worse for everyone except the rich
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 1 month ago:
The good thing is that all sane instances can just defederate and we won’t have to deal with them. They can use the software all they want, and we can shut them out from our spaces all we want.
- Comment on Without unions, they'd have us working around the clock 2 months ago:
That predates christianity, judaism already had sabbath. I wonder if that was an original feature when judaism first came into existence or if the concept of a regular rest day is even older.
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 2 months ago:
Bucatini and linguine are pretty similar tbf
- Comment on Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day - Kyodo News 2 months ago:
Smartphones aren’t the issue. You can access the internet in other ways. This feels very boomer yelling at clouds.
That said, as a recommendation, sure why not. People do seem a bit too glued to their phones overall. But I don’t think that’s anything new.
I also don’t know anything about japanese laws, so I have no idea if this is a concern, but anything potentially enforcable that cuts into people’s freedom arbitrarily makes alarm bells go off in my head.
- Comment on Always have a good password 2 months ago:
I have seen at least two different “BND Überwachungswagen 00x” here in germany as well. The BND is our national intelligence agency (and Überwachungswagen just means surveillance van).
Always a fan
- Comment on I hate Wireless devices. 2 months ago:
Mine say that and then last 2-4 more hours, depending on whether you disable ANC. It helps that the battery lasts around 20 hours in total though. So I do actually think it’s useful.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
100%, furries get way too much hate. Especially considering how chill they’re usually are.
Though honestly unless your pfp betrays some insane political affiliation it shouldn’t have relevance on how you see someones reply. I know this is a shitpost but people do that for real. I think my favorite are the xitter boomers dismissing people because their avatar isn’t a selfie and they don’t using their real names.
- Comment on Perfect revenge 2 months ago:
I don’t even get why. The person that did this for real has been posted about plenty, and there are pictures, so why not just use the real one? The AI generated one is also so much less funny than the real one bc it’s not just a painting of exactly what’s behind the fence
- Comment on What a shocker! 2 months ago:
It’s not trash talk at all though. And even ignoring the language itself, trash talk is towards your opponents (where still most people don’t get how to do it in a non-obnoxious way, i.e. someone spamming ez after they win a game isn’t trash talk it’s being annoying). Most of the really bad flame happens towards teammates because everyone needs to blame someone else.
Irl sports get by just fine without people constantly being pieces of shit, I dunno why it’s so hard to apply that to online games.
- Comment on What a shocker! 2 months ago:
That and it’s easier to make genuine connections with regulars. Nowadays for that you have to go out of your way to join a community discord or similar because nearly all multiplayer games are built to play with your existing friends.
- Comment on Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button 3 months ago:
But conservatives reacting to the word “pronouns” isn’t at all about systemic oppression? It’s about the immediate brain off that follows to instantly rant about “woke” or whatever, even if e.g. someone mentioned pronouns in a grammar context. It’s a stupid reaction born from opposition to a perceived “woke mind virus” (or equivalent).
Similarly, some people read “AI” and immediately think whatever follows is worthless garbage. Which, even ignoring that not everything labeled AI is always ML, is a stupid reaction born from opposition to the LLM (and general genAI) hype.
Sure, the “woke mind virus” is pure delusion, and I, too, want to throw up from the genAI hype every time someone mentions “AI” or “ChatGPT”, but AI isn’t even well defined and even ML has plenty of useful applications.
It’s the same anti-intellectual “I hate the things I associate with this word so anyone not hating on the word is stupid” while disregarding what the word actually means in the given context.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 months ago:
I guess the closest we might be getting anytime soon then is the digital euro. Which is supposed to end its preparation phase soon, and, in spite of being government issued, promises to be private (not like ccs are remotely private anyway, so nothing lost at least).
As always there’s some risk of it getting changed to allow tracking later down the line, but if done correctly it could still be a big improvement over the current situation for EU citizens. If it’s successful, maybe other governments will look into similar programs.
I feel like ideally the digital euro project would work with GNU Taler since the goals seem to align, with the main difference being that the digital euro would be government backed. I don’t have high hopes since governments always fuck this up somehow, but I guess in the best timeline the EU is that champion.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 months ago:
Someone above linked GNU Taler which seems to go in the right direction, but I’m not sure how mature it is yet. It specifically claims to not be a new currency, so hopefully the speculation part won’t be an issue.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 3 months ago:
According to the statement someone else linked now, they will ask devs about whether they comply with the payment processors’ terms, and it sounds like those processors will otherwise be unavailable. They just had to blanket remove like this for now because they don’t actually have sufficient knowledge about all the games’ content.
We’ll see what will happen, and if it turns out devs are getting screwed in the long run, someone will fill the new market niche anyway.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 3 months ago:
Youtube has the video ID as a query parameter, to use the most obvious example…
- Comment on egg 3 months ago:
Dunno, the joke becomes obvious if you check the link, and the link being “diaphragm (birth control)” is effectively the joke indicator. The comment works as a joke all on its own, it’s not a setup.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 3 months ago:
More like an ok conductor, but yea that’s what I meant with the blood (and whatever other ways water exists in our body). Though even pure water is more conductive than air by orders or magnitude.