I_Has_A_Hat
@I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
- Comment on I might actually be a respectable member of society 1 day ago:
The trip doesn’t fully end until you go to sleep.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 days ago:
Dude… Just no. They have not thrown the kitchen sink at us. Tear gas, unconstitutional arrests, even shooting people in isolated incidents is not even fucking close to how bad it could get. Short of sending an M1 Abrams? How about just unloading full auto rifles into a crowd? How about taking out targets with predator drones? FFS, they only just started deploying LRAD.
Things can, and very well may, get so, so, SO much worse even before tanks start rolling in the streets.
- Comment on 99% of the time when I get exposed to content that sucks, it's because of other people creating content about the content they also think sucks. 1 week ago:
“Everything I know about the Kardashians I have learned against my will”
- Comment on That'll be $300. 1 week ago:
If you rotate your tires, don’t forget to get your wheels rebalanced at the same time! So many places, usually quick oil change places, will offer a tire rotation service but WONT rebalance them and then you’ll drive off and wonder why your car is so shaky.
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 1 week ago:
AMD is also in Israel. As is Intel.
- Comment on how could this happen😔 1 week ago:
All of them are. You want a sex scene? Go watch porn. Has no business being in any other media except as a distraction. It’s practically never used to move the plot, it’s all just pandering to gooners who can’t seem to function or pay attention to anything without their hands on their dicks.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
I like giving it impossible tasks, like spell OPERATION with only 4 letters, and arguing with it as it refuses to admit that I’m wrong and have requested something impossible, or when it tries to cut corners. “No, I don’t want an abbreviation, or a word that means the same thing, I want you to spell the full word OPERATION with only 4 letters. Why can’t you get this right?”
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Sure; if you’re too simple minded to do anything except follow the animalistic urge to fuck and shit out another unwilling life into this already overpopulated world. Logically, there is no reason to have kids right now. Those who believe it’s the only thing that matters in life are basically biological puppets, unable or unwilling to recognize they are being driven by base level instincts. Basically one step removed from monkeys fucking in trees and throwing poop at each other.
- Comment on Outstanding in her field: cow recorded using tool for first time 2 weeks ago:
So this brings up an interesting question, what qualifies as “tool use”? Google’s answer seems vague and too broad. Are hermit crabs tool users? What about those crabs that carry around sea anemones to use as weapons? What about lacewing larva, also known as trash bugs? They carry a lot of debris on their back to use as camouflage.
What about beavers? They build dams. What about birds? Yea, crows and parrots obviously, but almost all birds build nests.
- Comment on Credit to u/donner1701 on Reddit 2 weeks ago:
I don’t care what identity the characters have, I just want them to be mentally sound. That was my biggest problem with Discovery. I loved all the representation, but holy shit could we have officers that actually act like officers instead of a bunch of high-schoolers in a cheap drama? Every fucking week it was some new identity crisis. How the hell did such a miserable collection of neurotic babies become a Star Trek crew?
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 3 weeks ago:
People got mad at me for pointing out this is the case when people die because they listen to an AI chatbot, but it’s true. AI 100% needs more regulation, but introduce any new tool to everyone all at once, and some idiots will use it to remove themselves from the gene pool. If you sent everyone in the world a thin, 2in rod of inert iron, there would be a handful of people who would figure out a way to kill themselves with it.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if people are just not recognizing the metric fuckton of nuance with this situation, or they’re being willfully ignorant. Either way, not my monkeys, not my circus.
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 3 weeks ago:
A lot of people don’t seem to remember Alex Jones getting banned from YouTube in 2018. While rightwing, ultra-MAGA’s were already a thing, they were relatively small compared today. Alex Jones was the first high profile ban from social media and it was like tossing gasoline onto a small bush fire.
You have to remember that Trump did not win the first time because he had an army of fanatics. A lot of other factors were at play; from people still upset about the DNC’s snubbing of Bernie, to people who weren’t fully paying attention (remember, politics used to be boring), to people who voted for Trump simply “for the lols” (don’t discount this last group, any historical account that doesn’t factor in how important internet memes were to getting that man elected is being willfully ignorant) . Die-hard MAGA’s were relatively rare, and usually a source of ridicule.
Until their spokespeople started getting banned from places. It seems so small by today’s standards. People get banned and deplatformed all the time. But Alex Jones was the first real incident, and people saw it as a massive attack on free speech. To his small number of followers, the man has his free speech right violated by the left-wing news cabal for daring to speak the TRUTH™. Suddenly. All their bullshit was justified.
I’ve always been pretty far-left but I got a deep chill when that happened. I remember remarking to my friends that banning political speech, no matter how full of shit, would only cause problems in the long run, and so it has. Precedent was broken, and the right took it as a declaration of war. I truly believe things would not have gotten nearly as insane as they are had Google not decided to ban him. He deserved it, but they opened a door that couldn’t be shut again; and following this was a couple years of high-profile bans of rightwing figureheads and safe-spaces, all cumulating to the shut down of /r/theDonald in 2020. And the infection, which had been contained to a few small corners of the internet, suddenly exploded.
- Comment on The only science fiction in 1984 by Orwell is that there is a drug that could make you "Happy" 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t reddit, you can edit titles.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 4 weeks ago:
(I mean unless trump got crazy and started ordering nuke strikes to end the world)
H-ok, so, here’s de Earth…
- Comment on Who care about book 4 weeks ago:
A lot fucking less than the internet would have you believe. Take a second and examine all your evidence for believing “there are people who actually hold this opinion”. Does it all come from the internet? Almost entirely from no-context screenshots or clips that seem suspiciously scripted? Do you think maybe those aren’t the best sources?
That’s the problem every time these fake as shit posts are created. There are always folks in the comments that rush to defend it by going “well it might be fake THIS time, but it sounds like something that COULD happen, so I’m gonna still file it away as evidence that it does.”
Like, I’m sure SOME people exist like that. There are 8.3 billion people in this world, that’s enough that you can always find a handful that believe anything. There is a non-zero number of people that enjoy eating literal shit, but that doesn’t mean they are everywhere.
And before you say it (because this is always the reply), if your evidence for their existence is the results of elections, that is faulty logic. There is an ocean of separation between people who are simply idiots, and those that actually hold opinions like “Libraries are a waste cuz they’re full of books. Why book when internet?”
- Comment on Who care about book 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'm there! 4 weeks ago:
Fuuuuck that. I’m not some breeder with an animalistic urge to spread my seed and bring a life into this shitty world that’s already dealing with overpopulation. How incredibly selfish and irresponsible do you have to be?
- Comment on Rushmore 5 weeks ago:
I honestly can’t even think of what slur someone would think I’m avoiding? Like, what would even fit?
- Comment on Rushmore 5 weeks ago:
And the Lakota Sioux took it from the Cheyenne tribe by arrow point only 100 years prior to that. So yea, the Sioux had the land stolen from them by force, but they stole it by force themselves before that. And by this point, the US has controlled the land longer than the Sioux ever did.
- Comment on I mean honestly im shocked 5 weeks ago:
Am I understanding that article right? Not only is the female a parasite on a different crustacean and loses all its libs and organs until it is just a sac with tendrils snaking through its host; but the male also attaches to the female and loses all its limbs and organs until it is just a set of gonads? That’s the weirdest fucking lifecycle I’ve ever heard of.
- Comment on Every decision led him to this point 5 weeks ago:
It’s not even an actual twitter link. It’s a relink site specifically for people that don’t want to use twitter. Maybe dial it down a bit there, chicken little?
- Comment on YSK that one New York best museum desperately needs help 5 weeks ago:
Lol. He already deleted his comment
- Comment on Every decision led him to this point 5 weeks ago:
You can go ahead and delete the first link and the quotes from the article.
No one; and I mean NO ONE wants to read an article about a 10 second video rather than just watching the video themselves. Completely fucking worthless.
- Comment on No regerts 5 weeks ago:
Go to bakery, give them a flash drive, ask them to make a cake with a picture of the flashdrive.
“Umm… You mean use a picture on the flashdrive?”
“No, I want you to take a picture of the flashdrive itself and put it on the cake… It’s for a joke…”
“Ok, whatever, you’re the customer!”
Post picture of the cake you specifically requested “Omg! LoOk whAt thE BaKery diD!!!1”
- Comment on No contest 5 weeks ago:
The millennium falcon is essentially an old Cessna plane crammed full of equipment from a military jet, held together by duct tape, spit, and good vibes. It is constantly breaking down because everything from its armor, to its engines, to its power core was never designed for a ship that size. But when it does work, it punches WAY above its class.
- Comment on No contest 5 weeks ago:
The only unshielded ships are TIE fighters because it was cheaper to mass-produce them without them. Pretty much all other ships have shields.
- Comment on No contest 5 weeks ago:
Do you mean Starkiller base? Because the only planet completely destroyed by the Death Star was Alderaan, and it was in orbit around the planet at the time. Hardly light-years away.
- Comment on No contest 5 weeks ago:
Something, something, midi-chlorians.
There’s a lot of hand waving involved, but I feel like they’re at least fleshed out more than the wormhole aliens or the Caretakers.
- Comment on No contest 5 weeks ago:
The millennium falcon has a fuck ton of modifications made to it that actually make it a good ship. The issue is that it’s all slapped together redneck style so it’s very unreliable. Han’s claim that it’s the fastest ship in the galaxy is not actually that far off. It has a Class 0.5 Hyperdrive, which is the fastest hyperdrive in both canon and legends (with a few very obscure and circumstance-dependant exceptions, like the Jabitha and Aing-tii).
