Quexotic
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- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 9 hours ago:
I mean, more like does and has been, but I guess that’s just semantics. Evil gon be evil.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 days ago:
I’m not sure that makes sense to me.
- Comment on There exist people who will go through the effort of leaving their home, traveling to a movie theatre, paying for a ticket, and sitting for 2-3 hours for a movie they claim "nobody wants to see" 4 days ago:
Don’t forget the "paying $80-$100 to cover the cost of the whole family for this event.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 4 days ago:
Point taken.
Fucking hate this timeline.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 4 days ago:
Had a buddy that couldn’t take the pain anymore and he had enough drink and anxiety meds one night and he just never woke up.
He made sure to turn on his music extra loud so it’d bother his neighbors so his cat would be okay and would be rehomed.
He was a good guy.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 4 days ago:
I would think not if you’re a good engineer.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 4 days ago:
Good lord I feel ya. Volt typhoon has positioned itself to take out US critical infrastructure as soon as we push back on Taiwan. As one article put it, “the gun is loaded”…
I am Ralph wiggims on the bus and “I’m in danger”
- Comment on Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not) 4 days ago:
Yeah, I haven’t found any work opportunities overseas that would really make this possible.
Then there are all the ties I’d have to break and people I’d leave behind. I’d feel guilty. That’d be hard.
- Comment on Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not) 4 days ago:
This is correct. Ithought I could almost afford it, but I would need to save up an amount of money that is not really possible to save up in my situation and besides that I don’t know if I could psychologically manage actually getting everything lined up and working properly in a whole other country. I’ve looked into it in depth, and it is incredibly taxing and difficult.
I don’t know if it’s something I could ever really manage, even in some of the countries that are “easier” to immigrate to.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 4 days ago:
Watch out for the android TV boxes. They are being used by China to backdoor into US critical infrastructure. Seriously.
This just barely covers the depth and scope of the issue. bleepingcomputer.com/…/fbi-badbox-20-android-malw…
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 6 days ago:
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 1 week ago:
It wasn’t just their willingness to educate their own people but also Apple’s willingness to offload all of their production there and basically revolutionize their Tech industry by developing all of their hardware there
- Comment on Don't run from it. Embrace it 1 week ago:
A London meme. I’ll allow it.
- Comment on Hershey highway 2 weeks ago:
That’s a flashback I didn’t need.
- Comment on fish meal 2 weeks ago:
For reasons not entirely known to me that reminds me of this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DtEde18_f4
- Comment on Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. Because psychopathy exists.
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 3 weeks ago:
Pederast in the grass?
- Comment on In light of recent events, I'm really starting to wonder about Reddit, /u/MaxwellHill, and Aaron... 4 weeks ago:
Tell ya what. Go listen to the extremely American podcast start to finish, and then tell me how uncoordinated extremest groups, the christo-fascists, and the Republicans are.
The podcast makes the argument much better than I ever could.
- Comment on Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants 4 weeks ago:
Interesting. Thanks, and I definitely take your point, though I don’t know much about Russia or Russians aside from a “history of Russia and China” class in college.
Also TIL prosody 😁.
We’re talking about different things.
You’re talking about social dynamics, and what I’m talking about is more general than that.
There’s a certain range of emotions and certain root emotions that are common to everyone but there’s also a great deal of variation between people that speak different languages.
The language you grow up with shapes how you think at a very low level. How you process information, how you see the world.
For example, I read about a study, presumably about Mandarin, that explained an interesting difference between how Chinese people and English speaking people themselves in the future.
In Mandarin, the language sort of forces you to see your future self as self-same to your current self and this causes Chinese people to be much much better about saving money for the future. On the other hand the English language causes one to think of the future self as a different person and it makes it more difficult to identify that future self as truly you.
I tried to find the article for you but couldn’t. The concept is called self-continuity.
Another place I’ve seen this present is in software design, oddly. I used a tool at a previous job that was largely developed by people that didn’t have English as a first language. It had a very clear logic to it and made sense, but everything was put together in ways that were initially counterintuitive.
Anyway, I was more or less “squirreling”.
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 4 weeks ago:
A while ago I signed into x using a Gmail account. Mostly I was being hasty and careless. Never really used the account even. Forgot about it.
Recently I went and deleted the account, but when I log in, the first thing I see is a ridiculous antisemitic conspiracy theory.
That’s the default algorithm.
I think I understand it just fine.
- Comment on Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants 4 weeks ago:
I actually didn’t get very far at all into it. It made me too anxious and depressed. What you’re saying is totally valid though. People that speak different languages literally have different sets of emotions and different emotional expressions for emotions of the same name.
Eg., I’ve never experienced saudade (Portuguese, I think), It doesn’t really exist in English speaking countries.
- Comment on Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants 4 weeks ago:
Nice reference.
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Vacations don't fix your life because your brain treats time off like a free trial of being the person you want to be 5 weeks ago:
I wish I had the spoons for that.
Maybe some day…
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 5 weeks ago:
Looking at you, Mark Cuban
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I handle it by aggressively treating my depression and suicidal ideation so that I can be there for my kids next year.
- Comment on When the half-asleep brain thinks the power-tool running next door is singing "holy holy holy" or maybe "horny horny horny" 👼😈 5 weeks ago:
I have actually done this.
I used to have sleep problems.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 month ago:
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 month ago:
Total recall gives me instant flashbacks to the mutant scene, the cool part and the creepy part.
