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- Comment on Little treat 1 month ago:
Shane Gillis was unfunny and racist in his opening monologue this weekend, but this skit was pretty good.
- Trumpty Dumpty Episode 2: "The Torys, or the Tiger King" Starring Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Annette Bening & Alan Aldayoutu.be ↗Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 0 comments
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 1 month ago:
I feel like most of the objections could be satisfied by having non-essential holodeck stuff in rooms only.
So you have a bed and lighting and core furnishings without it. But you get to use the holodeck to adjust all that to your taste, decorate the room, and othewise make the space yours. Maybe you get a virtual companion if you are lonely.
OTOH, I think replicators are already capable of doing most of what would be done by the in-room holodeck in that case.
To me the energy needs don’t really matter since energy consumption only matters in emergencies in Star Trek usually. If the first things you lose when there are power issues are your decorations and your virtual companion, I think that’s OK…
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 1 month ago:
I, for one, welcome our AI overlords.
- Video looped for ~5 min throughout Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began todaybsky.app ↗Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 7 comments
- Trumpty Dumpty Cycle Episode 1: "Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown" Starring John Lithgow - (20**20**)www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 0 comments
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 1 month ago:
Not anymore!
Oh I gotta fire up TF2! These sorts of shenanigans are the main reason I drifted away years ago.
- Comment on Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away... 1 month ago:
Um
- Comment on Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away... 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 1 month ago:
I wasn’t being a dick, I was giving a straightforward answer. I don’t have a concern that the photo is shopped, I find it entirely believable, and so of course I’m not going to take the time to go looking for more pics. Even if there are none yet, it wouldn’t prove this was shopped.
Now the right hand side of this on the other hand:
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 1 month ago:
I don’t share your concerns and am not going to take the time to hunt down another one.
Regardless of the banner, the push is real, here’s one article today and another from yesterday.
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 1 month ago:
I think you are bold to assume their plan involved repealing vs ignoring.
- Comment on Oh look, more concentration camps! 1 month ago:
All good, my vehemence wasn’t directed at you. You make good points, an apologies if it seemed otherwise!
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 1 month ago:
Once they force three terms onto Trump they can use whatever flimsy justification they have found to allow three terms for Vance or whoever they get to replace trump.
- Comment on Oh look, more concentration camps! 1 month ago:
The reason why news is hesitant to use it is because of the association with Nazi death camps. In my experience that’s what people usually think of when they hear concentration camp.
That’s what they should be thinking of. If folks wait until they become extermination camps then it’s even more too late to start caring than it already is.
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Meta approves plan for bigger executives bonuses following 5% layoffs 2 months ago:
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- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 months ago:
I can’t say for sure. I think in at least some cases the blackouts are to support local cable tv, which we no longer subscribe to. I don’t think there tend to be games that can be watched only in person, but it’s possible I just don’t know.
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 months ago:
Nothing gets you guaranteed hero worship and respect like being able to throw or kick a ball or similar in the US. The economics around it are unsurprisingly huge and complex, as everyone tries to be sure they get their piece.
Wait until you hear about how you cannot pay to watch all the NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL games in your market on a streaming service. Unless something has very recently changed, there’s no method of legitimately paying where you won’t still experience blackouts.
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- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 2 months ago:
My biggest frustration is not that Trump won, it’s that as best i can tell these things are not even penetrating into the infosphere of maga. They are not only gleefully celebrating what they think he’s doing, they are also seemingly completely ignorant of what they surely must not realize he’s doing.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 2 months ago:
Because it follows the same path he did with the last tax breaks: More money for the rich, less for the rest.
Not a single maga ever believed me when I told them that, and they won’t believe it now either.
Their heads are so far up Trump’s ass they know what he has for dinner.
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- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 2 months ago:
This is it for the curious:
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 2 months ago:
Nobody claims that WW2 was because of voters
Maybe if folks had been shamed into not supporting the Nazis and their hollow, superficial, hateful “solutions” we wouldn’t even have an example with such obvious and clear parallels to draw upon.
The people leading the propaganda are blamed
Nobody should be (or seems to have) fucking absolved them for handing their nation to fascists, either.
mirror.co.uk/…/german-civilians-forced-see-real-1…
www.pritzkermilitary.org/…/germans-dig-graves
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 2 months ago:
Little reminder: Those people you are alienating, those as per your and Lemmy judgement “Nazi, racists, uneducated, homophobic, traitors, fascists, unethical, uncompassionate and misogynistic” are voters with as much rights as you have to decide the course of the nation
Yep. They sure do. And I’m judging them for the direction they have chosen.
How is it whenever anyone makes a post like this, it’s “ZOMG don’t alienate the magas.” Do you suppose there are folks who care enough about unity to tell the magas maybe they shouldn’t alienate all the non-magas in their lives? Do you tell magas that? I have multiple neighbors who had signs in their yard for YEARS proclaiming Biden voters or Democrats as traitors, morons, etc as they adjusted the mix of their handwritten signs every so often.
Seems to me they have spent the past several years alienating me. Seems to me they have voted for policies and politicians that are explicitly intending to harm anyone who isn’t a white cisthet man. That includes quite a lot of groups that neither me nor anyone near me is a member of, but also includes groups that my children, my wife, and for that matter, a great many Trump voters themselves.
And it seems to me that, just like when there was a bully in school as a kid, it’s somehow the victim always asked to be the bigger person, not the bully. That was horseshit then, and it’s horseshit now.
I mean in the sense that these are the standard blue collar, hard workers of the country. Those plumbers, electricians, waste disposal, street sweepers, truck drivers, and so on
Ask me about my background. (no don’t, but also don’t assume I’ve never been one of these people and can’t identify with where they are coming from)
Somehow the party with the worst record towards unions and labor has convinced all the folks with Union jobs that they will save them, and that they’ll do so with a bsuinessman at the head of the country with a reputation for not paying his bills. And I should sympathize with that?
I reject your scolding and premise at the most fundamental possible level.
These people have spent more than the past 8 years being the loudest, rudest, most hateful group in any venue. On a personal level, we have avoided family gatherings to not have to listen to their shit, though somehow we eventually end up hearing it anyway. The policies they support obviously and openly hurt anyone not like them, and a very large percentage of the time they hurt themselves also. They are currently loudly cheering as our nation and government are being actively dismantled by the man they voted for.
I have nothing left for these people but to keep anyone and anything I care about as far out of their path and notice as possible, and hope that 5 years from now we can be arguing about this and not decaying in a mass grave someplace after they work their way down the “First they came for” ladder until finally they find something my family needs to be sent to a camp for.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 2 months ago:
