pjwestin
@pjwestin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 59 minutes ago:
I mean, I feel like that one has some cascading effects that really fucked things up for pretty much everyone on the planet, so if you ever find yourself hurled back in time, you might consider it.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 5 hours ago:
None of you said, “prevent 9/11.” For shame.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 1 week ago:
OK, so it sounds like they died out in the 70s?
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 1 week ago:
I’m pushing 40 and I’ve only ever seen these in movies. I feel like they haven’t been in use since the 60s.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m not happy about the Switch 2, but the amount of cope is unbelievable. I’ve seen multiple people claiming, “the Wii U sold out a launch too,” even though the Wii U sold worse than the Wii on opening weekend. The sales might still fall off a cliff in a month, but breaking the PS4’s record for launch sales is not a great sign.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
Mine were always hooked up to our PC. A lot of Age of Empires 2 played through those things.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 weeks ago:
Ah, shit, I had those speakers.
- Comment on >:)> 4 weeks ago:
I mean, it it has pupils like that, it has a wide field of vision. That’s the whole point of rectangular pupils. I would assume that having front-facing eyes would also give it depth perception, but maybe it needed that for making difficult jumps or something?
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 5 weeks ago:
Not sure, though, how this ploy would work out for our fine fellows in South America and Canada, the ones currently belabored with being the closest neighbours…
Fuck Mexico, I guess.
- Comment on Love this 5 weeks ago:
If you’re able to live on your own over the age of 90, you’re killing it.
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 1 month ago:
Relatable.
- Comment on The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color 1 month ago:
There’s a Lovecraft story about this exact thing. It doesn’t end well.
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 1 month ago:
Same.
- Comment on It really is just reddit <3 1 month ago:
I think mods should remove misinformation, but to my mind, for something to rise to the level of, “misinformation,” it needs to be egregiously false and harmful, like vaccine skepticism or election denial. Removing a comment, which is effectively true but debatably incorrect from a wonkish perspective, and labeling it misinformation? That’s bullshit.
If they wanted to remove comment where he says, “blue Maga,” whatever. Not the way I would run a community, but whatever. If they want to ban him for posting screenshots from the automod, OK, I guess he was poking the bear at that point. But the only reason to pull that other comment is because it contradicted their worldview. That’s bad in most communities, but in a news community, it’s unacceptable.
- Comment on It really is just reddit <3 1 month ago:
Yeah, I checked the modlogs, and it was exactly the mod I thought it was. There are two mods on News and Political Memes that don’t like criticism of Democrats. Someone picked a fight with me on Political Memes, calling me a, “fucking moron,” and telling me I didn’t understand something. I showed him polling that disproved him, and he tried to prove that the Pew Research Center didn’t know how to conduct a survey. We were rude back and forth to each other for a while, but the kid who instigated the fight caught a 1 day ban for, “rudeness,” while I got a perma-ban for, “trolling.” They even left up separate comments on the same thread where told another user they were, “too stupid,” and to, “shut the fuck up.” It’s best to just block the communities they mod.
For the record, it’s a disgrace that they pulled that one comment for, “misinformation.” The only thing I would dispute is the claim that, “Biden [sold] more protected land than any other president,” and, “[approved] more drilling for fraking than any other.” Oil production did boom under him, and he expanded drilling on federal lands after promising not to, but I think the rate of sale and approval was about the same a Trump. Either way, that’s not misinformation, it’s just nuance.
- Comment on Choose one 1 month ago:
No matter who you are, no matter where you work, the facilities team is really in charge.
- Comment on Choose one 1 month ago:
Wait, is that really it? Because that’s fucking awesome.
- Comment on Choose one 1 month ago:
I’ve always assumed it was some sort of ornate, ceremonial hammer made of pure gold that they keep in a special chamber, but now that you mentioned it, I really hope it’s just a claw hammer they borrow from the maintenance guy.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 2 months ago:
Not really. QAnon was only on 4Chan for the first year, then it migrated to 8Chan. But the tl;dr is it was probably started as a joke, taken over by bad-faith trolls, and has been under the control of Ron Watkins and his creepy son for a significant amount of time. QAnon Anonymous (now named QAA) is a great Podcast that’s been tracking the Q movement and other right-wing extremists for years.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 months ago:
Maybe, but I imagine the Secret Service has a drone-attack plan. I would guess that most of D.C. is probably a no-fly zone for drones, and they probably lock down the White House it anyone violates it. I think as long as he continues to split his time between Mar-a-Lago and the White House, Trump is relatively safe.
If he starts doing more speaking tours, though, that might make him more vulnerable. There’s also a staggering amount of disorder and incompetence because of his attacks on federal workers and his terrible cabinet appointments, so I guess it’s possible he’s already opened himself up to security risks. Who knows.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 months ago:
It’s probably pretty low. The secret service was already caught with their pants down once when that guy took a shot at Trump over the summer, so they’re probably going to be on high alert for a while. On top of that, Trump is better protected as the President than a candidate, with access to the White House, Air Force One, the Beast (his Limo), etc. There are probably more people who want to take a shot at him than other Presidents, but I doubt it’s gonna happen.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 months ago:
Why would I buy a device that I don’t really own, i.e. the manufacturer can pull the rug from under it at any time and render it completely useless?
Yeah, this is why I’m so fucking pissed about the lack of non-digital games. I understand that games have tons of updates, and that the idea of a physical game has been declining for years, but there was at least still a physical, 1.0 version of a Nintendo game I could buy and play on my Switch. If Nintendo no longer sells that product, they no longer have a product I want.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 months ago:
I actually like Nintendo’s devices, though. Sony and Microsoft produce basically the same product every generation, but Nintendo usually tries something different. But $80 games with no physical option is fucking disgusting. I’m pretty sure they’ve decided that physical media is a threat to their abusive IP practices, and their going to finally destroy game preservation once and for all. This is the final straw for me; I’ll just pirate anything I want going forward.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 2 months ago:
It didn’t even need to take someone’s job. A summary of an article or paper with hallucinated information isn’t replacing anyone, but it’s definitely making search results worse.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 2 months ago:
Maybe if a service isn’t ready to be used by the public you shouldn’t put it in every product you make.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 2 months ago:
Maybe that’s because every time a new AI feature rolls out, the product it’s improving gets substantially worse.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 months ago:
I’m a big Nintendo apologist. I’ve argued in the past that their consoles are the only ones worth buying over a gaming PC (not including Steamdeck there), and while I have never defend their terrible IP practices, I have been willing to overlook them and continue buying their products. This shit is indefensible. The price
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 3 months ago:
- Energy. In TNG, the holodecks burn a lot of energy. Can’t imagine what would happen if you turned every room into one.
- The holodeck isn’t a Tardis. The space inside the holodeck is an illusion created by the room. The room can make the space look infinite, and the floor can function as a hard-light treadmill that let’s you explore that infinite space, but the room still needs to be large enough to accommodate all the real-world things in it. That’s why they’re so large in TNG and Voyager. Holo-quarters would still need to be roughly the size of regular quarters.
- Same problem with the bar. Sure, you could make anyone’s quarters look like Ten Forward, but if your quarters fit 3 people, that’s how many people can drink there.
- The sickbay would still be essential because the problem isn’t medical equipment, it’s staff. Unless you’re going to have the medical staff running all over the ship making house calls, having that staff in a centralized location and having the crew come to them just makes more sense, especially in an emergency. Emergencies are also why that equipment should never be holographic. If the ship is under attack, the last thing you want is sickbay disappearing because of a phaser hit or having to turn off the medical equipment to power the sheilds.
- Comment on Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 4 months ago:
That’s 0.9% more than the last time I checked. I know those are still really low odds, but we can hope…
- Comment on Tough question 4 months ago:
Astrology daughter. NFT son will be bankrupt in your basement, no matter what. Astrology daughter might marry a rich guy.