Rooskie91
@Rooskie91@discuss.online
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 day ago:
Damn I didn’t know portal had a mod community like that. I’ll check it out.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 day ago:
JESUS CHRIST JUST MAKE HALF LIFE 3 AND PORTAL 3 WHAT ARE YOU DOING VALVE?!?!
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 2 weeks ago:
Even if the dude that “killed himself” did do it to himself, he did so because he was harassed by a company for doing his job. Even in the non conspiracy version of the story, the corporation still acted in bad faith and should be held liable for it’s actions. Why is this the hill you want to die on?
- Comment on we love those power laws 2 weeks ago:
Tell that to my uranium sword.
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
There’s a lesson here about the differences between history and a good historical narrative, but that’s the lesson of most history and no one ever listens to it.
- Comment on spite 5 weeks ago:
Something that really trips me up is that the humans that do those incredible, heart warming things often carry the same motivations and beliefs as the monsters. The road to hell, after all, is paved with good intentions.
For instance, I’m seeing a lot of pallells in this story that align with the creation of Africanized honey bees.
- Comment on Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop 1 month ago:
Hey! Guess how they remove all of the content they DON’T want to train AI’s on?
A disturbing portion of the internet’s scams are held up by schemes like this.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The easy answer is it’s both; the hard answer is it’s complicated and here’s a 2 hour long podcast scratching the surface.
- Comment on Radioactive water leak from Fukushima power plant raises risk of ground contamination 3 months ago:
It says 220 x “standard” which I assume just means background. That’s usually 5-10 mrem/hr, so 220 x 10 = 2.2 rem/hr. For reference you get an additional 300 mrem added to your total lifetime dose everytime you take a flight (due to thinner atmosphere, less shielding from cosmic radiation). You’d get the same dose by standing 2.2 inches away from the source of the spill in the article for 1 hour. Without knowing how much water leaked I don’t know how contaminated it was, but that’s not AWFUL. Its not great, but that’s definitely not terrible.
Source: Was a radiation tech. I’ve been out for a bit tho, so my math might be off.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg made $29 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge 3 months ago:
This is my opinion, but I think protest is worthless unless the people protesting show that they are willing to give up somethingsomething important to get what they want. I don’t think we’ll make progress until people are willing to give up the status quo for a better future. The mind hates uncertainty, so even shitty future that’s predictable is more desirable than a possible better, but uncertain future.
The middle class came into existence because people that would never be a part of it were willing to give their lives for it. Many did. If we are not willing to sacrifice our safety and secure future for a better life we may never experience, we will make no progress.
- Comment on OpenAI Eliminates Ban on Use for Warfare and Military Purposes 4 months ago:
Gotta get ready to turn a profit off of World War 3!
- Comment on A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 4 months ago:
On the news tonight, will your uraniuam cellphone give you cancer? The answer might NOT surprise you, it’s yes; it’s uranium.
- Comment on A gel injected into the scrotum could be the next male contraceptive 4 months ago:
Do you think female birth control is 100% safe and comfortable for women? Hydrocele are nothing compared to some of the adverse side affects of female birth control. Hydrocele only form in the thing sheath surrounding the testical, are do to physical irritation (not injected fluid), and usually go away on their own. Also, I’d imagine people smart enough to develop male birth control considered that exceptionally common alement.
- Comment on De-Escalating Social Media 4 months ago:
youtu.be/fuFlMtZmvY0?si=M9hT57qjmTZOkOaY
Kurzgesagt has a video on this topic similar to this article, but it’s more of a why than a how.
- Comment on T-Mobile Will Soon Fine Some Third-Party Messaging Vendors $2,000 If They Send Illegal Spam | Cord Cutters News 4 months ago:
When you replace government regulations with self regulating corporation, this is the best we can hope for I guess.
- Comment on American automakers are losing the race to make more fuel-efficient vehicles 4 months ago:
How can you win when you’re running in the opposite direction?
- Comment on Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds 4 months ago:
For the love of God, look up the importance of maintaining grid frequency and which energy sources are reliable enough to do it.
Because renewables cannot. Our other option is to build insane infrastructure that can transmit DC long distances, which China has done. However, most countrie do not have the wealth or resources to do this.
- Comment on Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds 4 months ago:
Renewables cannot main grid frequency, which is crucial in America. We transmit AC power. You either accept nuclear or accept no electricity. This is fear mongering propaganda to keep us dependent on fossil fuels because that’s the only other way to maintain grid frequency.
This article also specifically says IN AUSTRALIA. So it isn’t even a comprehensive statement. We need nuclear. Get over it.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money 5 months ago:
SpaceX is his only successful project, and that’s because it has a defense contract.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 5 months ago:
I don’t think this is what you meant, but you can charge an EV using a conventional wall outlet.They even have adapters that will allow you to plug it into a 240v outlet (like for a dryer or oven). I’m not saying this makes them more accessible, I still think the upfront cost of owning an EV is too high, but it is possible.,
- Comment on China begins building underwater data center with performance equal to 6 million PCs — aims to save 122 million KWh of electricity and nearly ten soccer fields of land | Data centers find refuge at... 5 months ago:
Bro I got some bad news for you about how ships, submaines, and costal power plants cool themselves.
- Comment on Nuclear power? That's just steam power with extra steps! 5 months ago:
If you don’t like that don’t look up PWRs, they don’t boil water to boil water.
- Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 5 months ago:
Nebula will also sell lifetime subscriptions for $300 occasionally. When you compare it to netflix’s standard price of $15.49/month, it pays for itself in less than 2 years.
- Comment on Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” 5 months ago:
Absolutely not. We need to learn the difference between intelligence and expertise. Is Obama an intelligent person? Of course. Is he allowed to have and voice an opinion? Does that mean that his opinion is informed by expertise and should dictate peoples actions and therefore the direction of an industry? No.
This is the same logic that allows right wing ideologues to become legitimate sources of information. A causal interest in a topic is NOT the same as being an industry expert, and the opinions of industry experts should be weighted far heaver that people who “talk nice” and “sound like they know what they’re talking about”.
- Comment on Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices 6 months ago:
They’re no better than nineteenth century railroad tycoons
It literally the same people or their descendants in most cases.