explodicle
@explodicle@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What a great idea 3 days ago:
Nor were all illiterate people.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 days ago:
Racism isn’t just when a person thinks their race has superior ability. It’s also when we design systems that statistically harm brown people. In my country a lot of racism is thinly veiled as dealing with illegal immigrants. We used to require that you know how to read in order to vote.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 days ago:
Then I wouldn’t need as much buffer time in the first place. The sitting and waiting is because I didn’t know how long the delays would be.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 days ago:
I’m a big fan of saying excuse me and apologizing profusely with nice cheap words while smashing right through other inconsiderate people. Whoops sorry!
- Comment on What a great idea 3 days ago:
Could traffic cones help or do the passers-by just kick them?
- Comment on What a great idea 3 days ago:
It’s a little easier to see it that way as a survivor, especially if you didn’t lose anyone close to you.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 days ago:
I appreciate these, they keep the freaks out of Ralph’s.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 days ago:
Because the person in question might be an immigrant from a country where our supermarkets aren’t normal, or have a neurological disease you can’t see.
- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 3 days ago:
Rockstar doesn’t make games for you anymore; it makes what the wealthy elite want you to play.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 4 days ago:
I showed Erowid to my daughter and it felt both insane and responsible at the same time.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 4 days ago:
They’re taking care of that for you. Without ads, they don’t have enough income to stay afloat. With ads, they can’t compete with open source models.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 4 days ago:
Look we’ve only got so many berating gangs to go around, they’re very busy.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 4 days ago:
Can’t get used for slammed because it means nothing.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 5 days ago:
Prediction markets have outperformed CEOs for decades and still haven’t replaced them, for the same reason WfH hasn’t replaced offices. Everything is a monopoly or oligopoly now, with no need to efficiently maximize profits. It’s entirely a matter of control.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 6 days ago:
That would be attacking EU citizens. Bullies don’t like difficult targets.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 6 days ago:
Whoever develops fusion will be in the history books forever. I think that’s what they’re going for.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
I can only imagine. It’s my religious belief to kick the baby in the face.
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
anti-whataboutism
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 1 week ago:
George W Bush went to Yale. That tells you everything you need to know about their standards.
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 1 week ago:
Oliver Clothesoff
- Comment on genius 1 week ago:
Something like this ought to be forged so the grains line up with the expected stress.
- Comment on genius 1 week ago:
I’m one of those people and there’s absolutely no way I could produce a safe copy of this for less than $1590.
- Comment on genius 1 week ago:
How is the machine shop supposed to know it’s an aerospace part? The customer could just give them a reverse-engineered CAD file.
(Academic question, because making this part actually work will cost >$1500 without economies of scale)
- Comment on Meetings 1 week ago:
Yeah. If you prepare a meeting, write it as a email.
Then use that as base. - Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 1 week ago:
By myself? Too poor.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 1 week ago:
When the total amount wagered is large relative to the event, it creates an incentive for people to do things about it.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 week ago:
Perk of being in a big Irish family: when someone dies we all descend like vultures and I get like, a nice hat.
- Comment on T2 butter mold 1 week ago:
Daily reminder to 3D print with food-grade PLA
- Comment on T2 butter mold 1 week ago:
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and make fake images?
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 1 week ago:
Their point is interesting, though. There’s a lot of important stuff in the far future for which accurate odds would help society, but it’s effectively impossible to bet on because of high inflation and rug pulls.
Right now we only have secondary indicators, like homeowners insurance pulling out of Florida.