Capricorn_Geriatric
@Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sage advice? 3 days ago:
Mine has usage, at the very least.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 3 days ago:
literacy crash course…
I love how today literacy isn’t even a thing. No one talks aboit teaching things (in the EU, at least). It’s all about financial literacy, digital literacy, social media literacy, hell, even (and bear with me here) AI literacy. Yes, really. There’s prpbably 800 of these literacies floating around.
Whoever thought of this is an idiot. The word literacy means one thing: the ability to read and write (and understand what you read/wrote). Nothing more, nothing less.
It isn’t just stupid, it’s also malicious. Kids all over the globe are suffering from poor literacy, and instead of fixing the problem you quite literally shift the goalposts.
- Comment on you spin me right round baby right round... 3 days ago:
The fuck is RT FOOT PN and why the hell is it not RT FT PN
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 4 days ago:
“A phone’s schematics are publically available, like those of a gun”
Now tell me where I’ve said that.
- Comment on YSK you can cancel subscriptions by removing them from your credit card/payment processor, or call the bank and ask someone to remove them. 4 days ago:
The only action taken against your account in case of the charge failing (so not a chargeback) is tou losing access to paid stuff, whatever it may be.
If there’s a free tier, you should be reverted to that. If there isn’t , the account obviously gets suspended entirely.
Cancelling a paid account shouldn’t result in you losing access to otherwise free-tier services.
A chargeback (taking back money after you’ve used a paid service) is a whole different can of wirms, though. Which doesn’t mean you should lose free-tier access in all situations, mind you.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 4 days ago:
“Ownership” totally does mean it’s yours and you can do whatever you want with it.
That means you can do it, not that you should, nor that what you do won’t have consequences.
It just means your phone won’t stop you from downloading an unapproved app just like a gun won’t stop you from loading an unapproved bullet.
It means your gun has a safety mechanism you can unlock to shoot, as does your phone to download “unverified” apps.
It means you can sell either freely to someone else without it becoming bricked or the new owner losing any rights (lookin’ at you, Tesla cars).
It means defaulting on the loan will require the physical reposession of your phone or gun, and that neither will magically lock you out of using it using telemetry.
It means anyone with the right knowledge and tools can fix your phone and it’ll work, just like your gun.
It means your phone works for you, and not for someone else - just like your gun.
Your phone is a tool. Just like your gun. It can be used for good - and for bad.
What you do with it is up to you, and not up to it or its manufacturer.
It means you can shoot people with your gun, just as you can extort and blackmail people with your phone. Nothing, other than your own morality, the morals of society and therule of law are preventing you from doing bad things. Certainly not the will of the manufacturer.
Any forensic inquiry into a phone on a crime scene would be like that of a gun.
Any taking of your phone from your home or person would require a warrant - like with a gun.
Any inquiry into your phone’s contents and qualities should require outside tools - like a similar inquiry into your gun.
Your phone won’t have a special police-only history of what you’ve used it for - like your gun.
Your phone won’t report what you’ve been doing with it to 3rd parties without your consent - like won’t your gun.
And so on.
- Comment on Light. Not Even Once. 1 week ago:
If “Life” is “Evolutionary”, then yes.
- Comment on Lead 1 week ago:
Will nobody mention the wrong placement of the checks notes stigmata?
- Comment on Trapeze artists 1 week ago:
Well, here’s me hoping the victims suing for damages get them paid from the one responsible for making the poor (wo)man work, and not from them directly.
- Comment on Cable placement a little weird, but the ergonomics are excellent. 2 weeks ago:
Have you heard of grue?
In any case, the same applies to animals. They may not be linguistucally differentiated in the same way across language boundaries.
- Comment on N. 5 2 weeks ago:
Number one is pee, number two is poo, and number three is barf.
What are four and five, then?
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
Sure. It’s just that the user doesn’t install Unity (or any other engine) themselves when installing a game. They install the game and “it just works”.
For a mod, you have to either have the game, or go get it before you can play a mod.
I know what a game engine is. A court clerk or judge most likely - doesn’t.
And it’s in Nintendo’s interests to paint mods as something lesser - that’s why they take this strawman angle to mods. They couldn’t care less about “games” or “mods”. They care about protecting their IP with any groin punches and baby mario noises they can get their divorced-from-reality hands on.
- Comment on Good shot indeed 2 weeks ago:
Trump is clearly dishonoring prescious Charlie. How dare he!
But more importantly, why isn’t he getting
cancelled“cosequenced” for it? - Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
It’s basically a non-sequitur.
A mod isn’t a standalone game, sure. It requires the base game to have meaning. Unitl it gets spinned off and becomes a “real” (standalone) game.
However, that has no connection with the original problem: Did anyone who isn’t Nintendo ever animate a cartoony person throwing a ball that does something, before Nintendo filed for a patent?
Of course they have. That’s prior art, and the patent itself is under serious question - whether the animation was in a “real” game, a “fake” one or in a Blender animation has very little influence on that fact.
- Comment on Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence 2 weeks ago:
‘Petrol’ is british for gasoline. No one will be driving around on Vaseline.
- Comment on Too soon? 3 weeks ago:
They must’ve been… Immaculately concieved.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks ago:
Have you heard of “induced demand” courtesy of the FuckCars community?
Well, the same applies to violence.
If you have police on campus people subconsciously expect violence. It’s a self-fullfilling prophecy. The more security theatre you add, the more actual security you’ll need.
Normalizing shootings by giving them such media attention also doesn’t help, if the prospective shooter craves it. Neither does the fact that it occupies a large part of the US public consciousness.
Some kids do it because others have already, and because school shootings are such a hot media topic.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 4 weeks ago:
Genuinely curious. Mind giving an example?
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 1 month ago:
Oh, he is a threat. He is a huge threat for the fascists.
He’s a threat because he’s not on their side. He’s a (much needed) icon of disunity.
They’re right to be afraid. They need to stop him and anyone like him at all costs. If there’s just one county whose sheriff isn’t wagging his tail to goons like ICE, that’s unacceptable.
And this isn’t about some sheriff election, it’s the mayor of NYC. Y’know, the place where Rudy Giuliani became the greatest mayor in the entire history of the US (until he blew it by siding with Trump). Of course they’re afraid.
If people can find shelter from ICE and the rest in just one county, that’s bad for the fascists. Having it be a huge place like NYC would be a disaster in their eyes.
He won’t affect global policy. But he will affect the populace of US places other than NYC. If he wins, some may look at NYC and think “Why can’t we have this?”. That’s what’s dangerous.
- Comment on monthly challenge 1 month ago:
It’s so wrong it underflowed into somehow being right again.
Unusual? Sure. Mathematically? Right.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 month ago:
Of course. In a month or two he can tell trump Dem statez are stupid and he should force them to do that.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 1 month ago:
You missed the high energy consumption and low reliability. They’re equally as valid issues as stealing jobs.
It literally has no other productive use for society aside from this one thing.
I’d refrain from saying that AI replacing labor is productve to society. Speeding up education, however, might be.
- Comment on Finally a washing machine that understands me 1 month ago:
Max SPIN FART until SLUT: 1200 rpm
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 1 month ago:
500% import duty is way too much.
80% is enough.
High one-time taxes are not a good idea.
Rather dilute them into 8 seperate yearly taxes.
A curb weight tax of 40% sounds reasonable. A fuel inefficiency penalty of 25% also sounds good.
At least a 15% tax on anything shorter than 1 meter being invisible from the cabin is also very warranted.
That’s 3 of 8.
Additionally, whenever a truck is involved in a crash treat it disfavourably. That should drive up insurance premiums.
So with my 80/80 tax mix they’d actually pay 880% tax in the first 10 years of ownership with 3 basic taxes.
- Comment on AI art 1 month ago:
Look, at least it’s not an AI generated cycle of ads. Those fools over at Marketing burnt the planet to a crisp already.
Do you know how much re-prompting it takes to get the little family pics all consistent?
- Comment on Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription 1 month ago:
You forgot this little point.
You own a non-exclusive, intransferable licence to use and operate said car.
Yes, you paid for it. But it’s not really yours. You own its body. Someone else still owns its spirit. And they want a rent for you to be able to touch the spirit.
Why would they do that?
Obviously, becaude that shit flies. Why not do it? Money is money. And companies exist for it. Fuck morality. Fuck common sense. They only care about the little green lines.
Customer satisfaction?
Not even an afterthought.
In a sane world, everyone would think like you. I do, for one.
The problem is everyone else who doesn’t. They’ll put up with it, accept the thinly-veiled excuses, and the company will see "wow, we can do that now? Gee, these people are stoopid. Let’s see how far we can take it.
Honestly, I see where they’re coming from. Not that I support it. But it is a rational decision on their part.
In a sane world, the smart employee who came up with this would be fired promptly, because if the company were to carry this shit out, they’d get so much bad press it’d take over a decade to recover.
But alas, we don’t live in a sane world and clearly enough consumers are either idiots or ignorant for this shit to fly.
- Comment on Life hack 1 month ago:
Don’t have money? Try using ~guns~ nukes instead
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 2 months ago:
I associate them with religious pundites and discrimination of payments. A payment is a payment, for christ’s sake! If it’s illegal, report it to the relevant authorities.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 2 months ago:
It is. Free for Trump to do as he pleases.
- Comment on UK cyber vigilantes generating mock IDs of local MPs to protest Online Safety Act 2 months ago:
Especially a UK one.