ragepaw

@ragepaw@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has acquired Moltbook. I am starting to doubt myself.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the thing that made him rich started as a way for him and people he let in to perv on women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It also says to drink tea, tea is not addictive.

  Some tea contains caffeine, caffeine is addictive, so some teas is addictive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Starbucks can eat a giant bag of dicks.

  But you can buy “just coffee” there and even though it tastes like it was filtered through my ass crack, it’s no different than other coffee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "dark humor" generally acceptable or is it just my parents/culture more sensitive towards jokes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t say where you’re from, but I know in some countries and cultures, you have deep rooted superstitions about attracting bad luck to yourself.

  On both sides, my grandparents would put money in a wallet given as a gift. You were never allowed to keep a door open in case a robin flew in. Never put new shows on the table. If you go on a trip. never go back for something you forgot. Leave through a different door than you entered the house.

  These were all things they thought bring bad luck. It’s possible your parents have some cultural superstition they never passed on. My grandmother would throw salt over her left shoulder until the day she died, even though she said it was a dumb superstition. My great grandmother told me fairies like to play “pranks” based on irony. I could see the joke you made being taken the same way by my great grandmother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the (Cristian) Bible came after the Talmud, which came after the Tamakh, which came after the Torah, and so on and so on…

  Most religions borrow heavily from the ones that came before. Noah’s flood echoes the story of the flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

  Islam actually takes an interesting approach to other religious figures. They don’t necessarily deny them, they more absorb them. If someone was truly holy, the must have been a prophet. In the Quran, many figures from the Jewish and Christian bibles are called out as prophets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It didn’t happen to me, my car doesn’t have TPMS sensors, but a buddy of mine had the cap on his valve stem corrode. The corrosion borked the entire valve stem, and he didn’t find out until he went to get his summer tires put on. It didn’t leak, but the place charged him some $ because it was a pain to remove and replace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also a huge fan of, “I don’t understand enough to refute you, so you must be arguing in bad faith.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Much less when you live in a cold climate, or they get corroded from road salt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another factually incorrect statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a 2019, which I stated multiple times.

  Not all cars come with them. Maybe it’s law where you live, but not where I live.

  If you don’t think calling me stupid is an insult then I have “assessed your intellectual capabilities” and decided you’re actually a moron.

  The I’m rubber and you’re glue argument. Good job. You really showed me. Do you need a pat on the head?

  I didn’t say it was free. I said it was included and not a choice you have to make. Someone who’s not a moron would have understood that.

  It wasn’t included in my car. It was not even offered on my car. The fact that you are 100% convinced of something that is just not true and keep arguing that it is, is what makes me think you’re not very smart.

  LOL what? Who told you that!?

  Fuck me. You really are dense. You know the batteries don’t last forever.

  It monitors your tire pressure. That’s important for safety, as I’ve outlined several times now.

  Just because you say something more than once, doesn’t make you right. You asserted something, I provided statistical evidence from GIDAS proving you wrong, and you just “nuh-uhed” and repeated the same point. It’s effect on safety is statistically insignificant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or both

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t come with my car. My car does not have a TPMS sensor. Your “every car comes with them” statement is blatantly false.

  And, I am not insulting you, if anything I am sad for you. I made what I believe is an honest assessment of your intellectual capabilities based on your lack of understanding with how parts inside an automobile are priced and the nonsensical responses you have given to cogent points.

  It doesn’t matter if it’s mandated for inclusion where you live, that doesn’t mean it’s free. You are paying for it. In fact, you are paying for sensors ti replaced multiple times over the life of the vehicle, another thing which most people won’t do. So, every 3 to 8 years (depending on various factors), you have to replace the TPMS sensors, pay another $300 to $500 for something which does sweet fuck all for your safety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I apologize. I didn’t realize you aren’t very smart, because nothing “comes with the car”. You pay for every component.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I was bored

  GIDAS data

  www.ircobi.org/wordpress/downloads/…/2_3.pdf

  It concludes that even if you increased grip, which includes tire pressure variance, by 15%, it would only represent a reduction of 2% of road related fatalities, which is actually within the margin of error.

  While 2% sounds like a lot, GIDAS also shows that tire failures account for less than 1% of road accidents causing death.

  So you’re spending $300 to $500 on a new car for a TPMS which reduces the probability of accidental death by 0.02%.

  And fun fact, most tire related accidents are actually from tread depth, not low pressure, and TPMS will do fuck all to tell you your tread depth is low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I am not a complete fucking idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a shockingly wrong take. TPMS is a convenience, not a safety measure, have properly inflated tires is. And, anyone who properly maintains their car, doesn’t need it

  And, it’s not legally mandated everywhere, even if it is for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I managed to drive cars for 30 years without a TPMS sensor and the only time I ever had a to check the pressure on a tire, was when I knew i had a leak and didn’t have time to fix it. I can also tell by the way my car drives if a tire is soft. I also had an air pump in my car powered by a cigarette lighter adapter that I could fill my tires.

  My current car, from 2019 doesn’t have one. I’ve managed to own it 7 years (this week) without needing to check the pressure 2500 times.

  The assertion you need to check your pressure everyday without a TPMS system is ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on Kanar⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maple syrup, or honey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Report him to immigration authorities for being in my country illegally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did everyone forget he drove around with a dead animal, and dumped it into a park?

  No one should listen to this insane lunatics ramblings. But the addiction is a symptom, not the problem. He likely became an addict because he was mentally ill. Or, the addiction (and brain worm, and eating random dead things) made him mentally ill.

  Either way, someone with delusions shouldn’t be in charge of anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Limited to paying subscribers. So the only thing stopping people from creating CSAM, and fake sex pics of famous people is $8 a month?

  Yeah… that’ll show them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s never been about the children, but if you enact something “in the name of child safety” they can shout down any opposition by screaming child predator at anyone who does.

  After all, anyone who opposes a child safety bill, must be a predator right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨19 'mass extinctions' had CO2 levels we're now veering toward, study warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the shitty thing is, the people causing it will be the ones with the means to survive it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still on usenet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  19/20. Only because I refused to use AOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a 24 hour ban for saying Danielle Smith should stand on her head so the blood will rush to get brain and she could have a coherent thought. “Promoting Violence”

  I got a 72 hour ban for responding to someone who said Vance will never be US President. I said he would when Trump had the inevitable coronary from eating too many cheeseburgers. “Promoting violence”

  Perma-ban for responding to a story about Kristi Noem telling Canada how to run border security with saying she should keep her cunt ass on her side of the border. “Inciting violence”.

  Reddit WANTS to be a right wing echo chamber and looks for excuses to ban people who don’t agree with that world view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used an AI to analyze a piece of writing I did years ago, long before AI was a thing. It determined that there was some huge margin of my work was likely written by AI, and when I asked why, it stated by use of sentence structure, words spelt using British spellings, oxford commas, and emdashes indicated I was AI — which I am not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So many things wrong with this.

  I am not a programmer by trade, and even though I learned programming in school, it’s not a thing I want to spend a lot of time doing, so I do use AI when I need to generate code.

  But I have a few HARD rules.

  1. I execute all code and commands. Nothing gets to run on my system without me.

  2. Anything which can be even remotely destructive, must be flagged and not even shown to me, until I agree to the risk.

  3. All information and commands must be verifiable by sourcing documentary links, or providing context links that I can peruse. If documentary evidence is not available, it must provide a rationale why I should execute what it generates.

  4. Every command must be accompanied by a description of what the command will do, what each flag means, and what the expected outcome is.

  5. I am the final authority on all matters. It is allowed to make suggestions, but never changes without my approval.

  Without these constraints, I won’t trust it. Even then, I read all of the code it generates and verify it myself, so in the end, if it blows something up, I bear sole responsibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is entirely a shit at managing memory problem.

  If you have 1 MB of RAM left, firstly, your OS has not properly managed it’s resources. It should have reserved system RAM. Secondly, a good memory manager will have swapped out unused, or low priority pages.

  And that’s not just a system issue. A well developed piece of software will unload (or never load) parts of the software that are not needed at runtime.

  I’m going to give you a great example I just read about today, about bad programming practices. The install of Helldivers 2 has been reduced from 154GB to 23 GB. That’s a reduction of 85%. This was driven by de-duplication of code. So, while this is a storay about storage space, ask how many modules and functions were duplicated, and how many of those were loaded independently into RAM.

  Bad programming in one area, means bad programming in all areas.

  With your 1 MB example, I would ask if all of the devs who created all of the other programs on the system had written better and more efficient code, would you still need more RAM? The answer is no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it wasn’t. After SP1, and moreso after SP2 it was perfectly fine.