UnspecificGravity
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- Comment on TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion 11 months ago:
Yeah well, one can be anti-oppression and anti-apartheid as well as anti-terror, anti-killing-civilians, anti-bombing-hospitals, anti-using-civilians-as-shields, anti-hostage-taking and anti-warcrimes.
Sure, and if you are those things its going to be hard to get enthusiastic about voting for Biden.
- Comment on AI will change the way we do everything. All jobs will be replaced. 1 year ago:
Especially with the built in biases that the companies that use it build in. Try searching for anything that can even tangentially be defined as a product for sale and that is ALL your results are going to show.
- Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. 1 year ago:
The light truck category is incredibly broad (everything from zero to 14,000 lbs. My point is that the current crop of light trucks are verging closer to the top of that category than they historically had been even within that category apart from its increasing presence in the mix of consumer cars.
- Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. 1 year ago:
Especially since they aren’t even light any more. Compare a Ford Ranger from the 1990s or early 2000s to the current generation and it looks like a toy. The current generation of light trucks and SUVs are bigger than full sized trucks and SUVs from 20 years ago.
- Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. 1 year ago:
Plus its honestly getting kind of hard to NOT buy an SUV. The smallest car at an American Honda dealership is an SUV (HRV) now and its fucking massive compared to their smallest car from just a few years ago (Honda Fit). If you wanted an actual compact car you aren’t getting one there. That is the same story at a lot of dealers. EVERYTHING is big. Hell, even historic compacts like the Civic and Corolla are massive next to their previous generations. I have a 2000 civic that looks like a toy next to a 2023 civic.
- Comment on Even the Tesla Cybertruck's Brake Lights Don't Make Sense 1 year ago:
It looks like something RIGHT out of Robocop, which is funny because the stupid fucking cars was actually a point of satire in that movie.
- Comment on Even the Tesla Cybertruck's Brake Lights Don't Make Sense 1 year ago:
Older ones do this too, its just this weird range of years where people tried to get clever with their turn signals.
- Comment on Even the Tesla Cybertruck's Brake Lights Don't Make Sense 1 year ago:
Im not even sure its legal in the US.
- Comment on Even the Tesla Cybertruck's Brake Lights Don't Make Sense 1 year ago:
I know! Lets make the “brake lights” just be the normal tail lights turning off. It’ll look way cooler that way!
- Comment on Even the Tesla Cybertruck's Brake Lights Don't Make Sense 1 year ago:
That is insane. The “brake lights” are effectively just the regular tail lights turning OFF and being replaced with smaller less bright lights. That is assinine.
- Comment on Apple will honor California's 'right to repair' rules nationwide 1 year ago:
In this case, they managed to delay the bill long enough that they now have a bunch of programs in place to actually profit from third-party repairs of their devices. This gives them an advantage over their competitors, so they are now in support of this bill.
- Comment on Apple will honor California's 'right to repair' rules nationwide 1 year ago:
They had the choice of not doing business in California, which is what they had threatened to do with previous right-to-repair and other consumer protection laws. In this case, they found a way to make money off it if so they are supportive of this bill now since they have successfully delayed it long enough to have an advantage over their competitors.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake 1 year ago:
I don’t think there is all that much money in handsets, which is why every phone company does their own weird version of Android to try to get advertising revenue on the back end.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake 1 year ago:
It is funny to me that they gave up on the Windows phone right when it was starting to actually kinda work and gain some market traction.
- Comment on Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome 1 year ago:
Well, in the case of Linux, also free. Many years ago I built an HTPC to run a media center at home and I got it all done and I realized that I didn’t actually HAVE install media (or a spare license) for windows and it kinda irritated me that a legitimate license was going to cost me like $100 for a computer that wouldn’t ever do anything but stream media from my own server. I had heard of linux before and I really wanted to make sure that my hardware worked without having to figure out how to actually buy windows and wound up installing ubuntu to test it out. I was surprised to discover that once installed it wasn’t really all that different from Windows and decided then and there that this would be perfectly adequate for my HTPC and wound up using linux on various machines ever since. (I always have an old thinkpad running some flavor of linux for most of my general computing).
Like a lot of folks, I think the only thing I use windows for is working remotely and gaming (although, that is less and less the case since I got a steam deck and linux support for gaming has gotten SO much better over the last ten years).
- Comment on AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices 1 year ago:
I can do every single one of those things in my pixel (or just about any Android phone) if these things actually mattered you would have switched ages ago.
- Comment on ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google 1 year ago:
YouTube is perfectly happy if people who block ads go away. Do you really think your traffic is beneficial to them if you don’t watch ads?
I mean, I hate it too, but it’s obviously not a bad business decision.
- Comment on Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. 1 year ago:
I bet they got a lot of grants and other funding. They aren’t disclosing their costs so you can assume it’s less that you imagine.