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- Comment on Have you ever realized just how broken you are? 2 months ago:
Discouraging and shitting on a repressed person is definitely the way to go. Good job! You’re nothing like OPs dad!
- Comment on Let them know what they are missing! 3 months ago:
I don’t care if this is a joke or 100% serious. I’m nauseous either way.
- Comment on Quick Chat 3 months ago:
This sounds fascinating. I would totally invite them in.
It also reminds me of a horror story I read that had been written before heavier-than-air flight became possible, but seemed within reach. The story had been written just a few years before the Wright brothers success at Kitty Hawk.
The author imagined ferocious jellyfish-like creatures that lived in the upper atmosphere, and kept themselves aloft with gas-filled bodies. Interesting idea.
- Comment on Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' . 3 months ago:
This is hilarious.
Should every company, regardless of whether they’ve advertised on Twitter before, be federally mandated to spend a certain percentage of their advertising budget on Musk’s little shitshow?
What, exactly, is the solution he has in mind?
- Comment on Bryony Page 3 months ago:
Ah. Demonstrate understanding. Thank you. That makes sense! I wasn’t trying to be obstinate. I just didn’t get it.
- Comment on Can someone explain why so many people here are FOR blocking Threads.net on a server level? 3 months ago:
I simply don’t trust Meta. That’s all.
- Comment on Bryony Page 3 months ago:
I sorta get it, but stuff like that can only tell you so much. It’s an awful lot of hypothesizing and guesswork - so much that I’m surprised you can make a dissertation out of it.
Then again, I’ve never had to write a dissertation, so I don’t know what’s involved.
- Comment on Bryony Page 3 months ago:
How do you write a dissertation on acoustic signaling for creatures that have been extinct for millions of years? It’s all untested theory on top of untested theory.
- Comment on USA | Police Are Increasingly Encrypting Their Radios to Block Scrutiny by Journalists 3 months ago:
Frankly, I’m surprised that encryption isn’t much more common, if not completely standard, by now. Note: this is most definitely NOT an endorsement of the idea.
- Comment on I grew up in the era of Photoshop and people would post fake nudes. Why is it now a big deal that AI is doing it? Kinda like the Taylor Swift thing on twitter. 3 months ago:
If it’s a game of whack-your-hog, however, deepfakes aren’t futile at all.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) The Sims 4 just got surprise incest, and it's not even the first time 3 months ago:
…now you shouldn’t get any more bombshell texts from extended family, in the game at least.
lol
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
My sympathies. Ignorance, especially willful ignorance, can be absolutely exhausting to deal with.
Don’t focus on that. Just remember that Friday is probably the last time you’ll see him alive. Try to steer the conversation towards pleasant memories. Make the conversation about his life, not current events. Ask him about his childhood, his first car, how he met your grandmother; stuff like that. People like to talk about themselves. Plus, it’ll keep the conversation away from politics.You might even learn some interesting family history!
- Comment on Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal 3 months ago:
I don’t want reddit links showing up in my searches. I’m fine with this.
- Comment on The fight does not go well, Enterprise 3 months ago:
That doesn’t seem to be the issue
- Comment on The fight does not go well, Enterprise 3 months ago:
Nope. I scrolled down the Risa page back until stuff that was posted three months ago. The problem didn’t show up anywhere else.
- Comment on The fight does not go well, Enterprise 3 months ago:
No image, no text, and the title is not a link.
- Comment on Could President Biden fully legalize cannabis before he leaves office? 3 months ago:
Well, you have to take into account that Biden has been looking to be re-elected for a second term. It’ll be interesting to see how he handles things now that he doesn’t have that concern. I’m looking forward to it, actually.
- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 3 months ago:
Working full-time for free is impossible without another source of income (like a trust fund, or exceptionally generous parents) that most of us don’t have access to. It irritates me that the article doesn’t even mention that.
- Comment on Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers 3 months ago:
So… was Google just fucking with advertisers, basically saying “you’re so dependent on us, we can choose to make you freak out about a technology change that never happens?” That would be pretty diabolical, which means I wouldn’t put it past them.
- Comment on The fight does not go well, Enterprise 3 months ago:
Why can’t I see anything?
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of X ad boycott perpetrators 4 months ago:
Businesses will just redirect some of their existing advertising budget, which we’re already paying for anyway. The net cost to the consumer will remain the same.
- Comment on Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer 4 months ago:
I hope the name “dystopia sphere” catches on.
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of X ad boycott perpetrators 4 months ago:
Looked at from another angle, Musk wants courts/government telling businesses that they’re required to spend their money to support other businesses - regardless of how those businesses are run, or the beliefs touted by their outspoken executives.
This sounds like an absolute nightmare for republicans and libertarians. I almost hope it succeeds. It’s not like I’ve got a horse in this race.
- Comment on How do I get rid of my dead name in iPadOS settings? 4 months ago:
lol that works, too!
- Comment on McDonald’s Gives Up On ‘AI’ After Comedy Of Errors, Including Putting Bacon On Ice Cream 4 months ago:
They can whine about unscrupulous pitchmen all they want, but at some point, unethical behavior goes so far above and beyond that it becomes impressive.
I hope that whoever convinced McDonald’s to agree to this crap back in 2019 got an award and an obscenely gigantic commission.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 4 months ago:
The analogy is exaggerated to the point where it implies a false sense of urgency. A peanut allergy can be deadly. The method used to edit an image cannot.
Someone is trivializing death just so they can make a point on the internet. That’s the part that irritates me. It’s like dragging politics into it Just let people have a serious discussion without taking things to a ridiculous extreme.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 4 months ago:
That person who makes the peanut analogy needs a slap in the head.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 4 months ago:
If I recall correctly, some states even had laws against black people raising animals like cows (and maybe pigs too?), so chickens were their only option.
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 4 months ago:
Yeah, I know, but a man can dream.
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 4 months ago:
"I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department," he admitted.
A basic statement of human fallibility is an absolute revelation to this guy. I can’t WAIT for him to just shut up and go away.