supersquirrel
@supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Decentralization Scoring System (v1.3) 1 day ago:
This is amazing!
- Comment on This Concentrating Solar Power Plant Makes Fuel From Sunlight 1 day ago:
…all jet fuel is made from the sun?
What do people think all the fossils were doing back then? Harnessing energy from magic?
- Comment on Bluesky is adding blue checks for ‘authentic and notable’ accounts 2 days ago:
yawn
- Comment on China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport. 3 days ago:
I have gotten to the point that when a scifi world is made futuristic by having… traffic jams in the sky, and futuristic cities have to have magic sky cars in their skyline with ZERO thought towards futuristic mass transit I just shut it off.
We already have flying cars that people use as their primary vehicle, it is called living in the middle nowhere Alaska and owning a bush plane. The thing is, that is actually the only kind of situation where everyone owning a flying car makes sense, extreme isolation, huge empty distances and no roads.
The whole point of a city is NOT to need something like a flying car.
- Comment on Uncovered emails showed how Meta struggled to keep Facebook culturally relevant 3 days ago:
“One potentially crazy idea is to consider wiping everyone’s graphs and having them start again.
Pleasse try this in a panic without testing it first Mark and also btw the reason people hate facebook has nothing to do with you and your rich friends I promise.
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 4 days ago:
Came here to ask the same question, any SAM would do really :)
- Comment on Was ChatGPT the Worst Thing to Happen to OpenAI? 5 days ago:
Post-based social networks feel like such an aged-out technology. I’d almost respect it more if they said, We’re building a TikTok competitor and we have engineered the savviest content algorithm of all time.
This kind of thinking is why I still think U.S. tech companies and Silicon Valley in general has still not found the bottom. How pathetic do you have to be to look at Social Media and decide that after For Profit Businesses tried to monetize the idea of digital community spaces and it failed spectarlularly to the point that kids don’t even think it is cool anymore… that there must be no other way and “post-based social networks” are on there way out?
Literally the only thing we have tried is structuring social networks so that they must make a massive profit for investors and are all universally owned by insane billionaires.
You know how you know someone is full of shit? They point to things other people are doing and say “why are they doing that, that isn’t the trend?” when the question at its heart wasn’t about following a trend or not it was about a vision for the future.
- Comment on Human Intelligence Sharply Declining 1 week ago:
This is what catastrophically losing a class war with the rich and weirdly refusing to talk about it looks like.
Your intelligence is fine, you are beaten down is the problem.
- Comment on I'm full of preservatives and micro-plastics. I should live until I'm at least 1000 y/o. 1 week ago:
As everyone knows that plastic is still copyrighted and owned by corporations so technically you should be paying rent.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ 1 week ago:
All Elon Musk has ever done to earn a living is charge people rent and own valuable things and you and are telling me I should believe Elon is against the idea of charging people rent for digital things?
lol
- Comment on US consumer sentiment plummets to second-lowest level on records going back to 1952 1 week ago:
bro like seriously, you would think we would get tired of winning but we just can’t stop winning, it is all winning
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 1 week ago:
Look it isn’t that I won’t consider not supporting genocide, it is that your tone and the manner that you bring up the fact that I support the genocide pisses me off so out of spite I will continue to support the genocide, and now how do you feel?
This is all your fault.
- Comment on The platforms cash in their chips with Trump: From Meta to Nvidia, tech CEOs are paying the president to get the outcomes they want — and it's working. 1 week ago:
Imagine being one of the richest people in the world and still being a coward.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 week ago:
That is exactly why I also buy things on Good Old Games and I also play open source games like Beyond All Reason, Xonotic, Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, Luanti and other games like Vintage Story that I can purchase from itch or directly from the developer and install directly to my Steam Deck.
Do you understand the Steam Deck is a just a linux computer?
Yeah, do I like Valve better than other companies? Yes. but I NEVER would have bought a steam deck if I couldn’t just install games and other software and use it as I wish.
Because I can do that, I am totally fine with buying some of my games on steam shrugs.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 1 week ago:
Look you aren’t going to stop this bad thing going on, so why not just support the bad thing going on and stop complaining? Personally I have made a lot of money off this bad thing so I am struggling to see what is bad about it?
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 1 week ago:
I can’t keep getting this whiplash where I lose all faith in humanity and then humanity goes and does something awesome and hilarious like this.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 week ago:
Sportsbooks and betting on random shit like this doesn’t indicate anything other than that society is eroding at such a rapid rate that the rise of sports betting and the incredible destruction it is has brought upon places like the U.S. has gone relatively unnoticed amid all the other dumpster fires.
There is no intelligence to this, it is just another casino.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 week ago:
Not likely enough
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 week ago:
If you want a good open world racing game, well Motor Town isn’t strictly a racing game… nor technically primarily one but it is an open world driving job simulator and you there are lots of sports cars and you can do lots of jobs where you are racing.
There is also multiplayer and a custom race system (as well as actual race tracks interspersed in the world).
The reason I really recommend it though is the driving feels better then just about any other game I have ever played, especially tire grip modelling.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 week ago:
You are joking, but I am 100% serious, I don’t see the contradiction in this.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 2 weeks ago:
Yes, this is basically every large US tech company right now
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 2 weeks ago:
Kodak went from being a major player in the photography industry to being completely blindsided by digital photography.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 2 weeks ago:
Fuck you Microsoft, if I wasn’t already done with you for completely enshittifying your operating system, I would DEFINITELY be done with you for this.
Fuck off and continue to become a Kodak or Yahoo or other still existing washout company that totally lost the plot.
- Comment on I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself 2 weeks ago:
yeah, I am glad egg game exists, but Xonotic is just too fucking cool I am sorry. I don’t want to go back to not having the xonotic rocket launcher, it is just too fun
- Comment on I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself 2 weeks ago:
Fuck that shit, play Xonotic
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
I feel like this conversation is slipping into equating “makes fediverse grow faster” to “good”.
Maybe most people need to have an initial experience where they get pushback for behaving the way they did somewhere else?
That is of course a dangerous rationalization to apply, as it can be used for any kind of shitty treatment of people, but there is also a similar danger to assuming that whatever will bring people in the fastest is best.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
I mean, there is kind of already 4chan like spaces on the fediverse, they are just mostly off in their own corner because nobody else wants to deal with childishly incomplete visions of how moderation should work in a community to keep the most vulnerable people safe.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for commenting! I agree too, it is conversation that makes a place a place, not headlines and articles handed down to silent readers.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
Confirmed, it appears Operation Two Legs has launched and is currently still undetected by humans
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
Improvisational Comedy/Theater is the study of how comedy and theater can be produced out of thin air by putting people on stage who are good at active listening to each other. It is shockingly beautiful to behold when you see it click live.
