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- Comment on Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World 2 days ago:
How does one set up such a filter?
- Comment on Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company 1 week ago:
Agreed. Want to add that (in my opinion, at least) Lucas’s Episodes I, II & III didn’t do the series any favors either. :-(
- Comment on My mom's doctor be like 1 week ago:
AI has failed so many times it has joined the junkpile of online personalities that are so bad we can no longer tell the difference between their actual errors and those created as sarcasm.
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- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 1 week ago:
Yup. It’s the same fucked-up psychology corps use for their customers. Like running ads for super discounts for new customers. Existing customers that have never missed a payment? Fuck-em. Instead of giving 1% “thank you” for good customers, corps would rather lose the good customers and pay a premium to find new ones.
So it goes.
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 1 week ago:
And fuck Carly Fiorina for destroying HP.
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 1 week ago:
This happens to anyone rich and/or famous. People flock to them to attempt to ply them with flattery or leach money in some way. Consider how many people say that Trump is a genius.
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 1 month ago:
A good example would be Musk firing his charging org. He apparently did this in reprisal for the manager not firing enough people.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
I’m going to take a somewhat different tack to describing this.
There are many ways to motivate large groups of people. You’ve likely seen this a lot and not really noticed or paid attention to it. Some examples are tribalism (“Hey! They’re not one of us!”), nationalism (“Those dirty foreign people!”), religion (“Do what I say and go to heaven!”), money (“Do this and I’ll give you something valuable”), etc.
One of the best motivators is fear. (“Do this or I/they will do something you really don’t like”).
Political groups need something to motivate large groups of people. When done well, they appeal to the better sides of humanity. When done by the lazy, the dumb and the craven, they go with the simple one: fear.
That’s what Conservatism has been hammering for a while now. They don’t really have a way to appeal to people’s better sides, primarily because their platform isn’t to make humanity better off. They platform is to make a few people better off to the detriment of everyone else. So they try tribalism (“Those brown people are trying to take your money!”), nationalism (“Those foreigners are taking your jobs!”), religion (“Those non-Christians are trying to install sharia law!”), etc. The most effective one is still fear. So getting their followers scared and angry is the best way to motivate them, get them to stop thinking rationally and build moats that will isolate them from people that might talk them down.
This is used to motivate people to vote in certain ways, as well as motivate them to watch advertisements. In other words: money and power.
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 1 month ago:
The goal of every thief is to take something of value from someone else without any repercussions for themselves.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 1 month ago:
He’s right guys. Get off your *sses and pitch a tent in the grassy area of your local university. Show Sony you’re not going to put up with this!
/s
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 month ago:
Who’s going to tell them that “QA” just ran the code through the same AI model and it came back “Looks Good”.
:-)
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 month ago:
- Incredible levels of hype
- Tons of power consumption
- Questionable utility
- Small but very vocal fanbase
s/Crypto/AI/
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 1 month ago:
Just to be clear, Toyota has been making these claims for quite a while now. Until they making examples we can purchase and verify, I’m going to continue filing these claims under “vaporware”.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 month ago:
What’s amazing is that 99% of people are reading this article on a supercomputer. Likely one that fits in their pocket. If the technology trend continues like it has for the past 70 years or so, we’ll probably have Cheyenne-equivalent computers on our desktops, if not our pockets, in 10-20 years.
If you can afford to be patient, you can get Cheyenne a lot cheaper and a lot smaller.
- Comment on How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status 1 month ago:
Just an observation: The “square/right-angle” parking spaces are harder to park in, but do make it easier to pull-out/exit in either direction. The angled spots are easier to enter/exit, but it’s harder to exit in one direction than the other.
This might be desirable in order to influence cars to enter/exit in one direction.
In the common US box store layout, the end of the parking lot nearest the store is often highest in pedestrians. I find it easier/faster/safer to avoid that end of the parking lot. So I try to enter/exit using the side of the parking lot opposite the store. Angled parking slots make this strategy harder.
Undoubtably there are more factors than this involved in parking-lot design.
Source: Not a pro. Just a parking-space user.
- Comment on Your body is completely dark except for the 1 molecule outside layer that light hits. 1 month ago:
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
- Comment on Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All! 2 months ago:
Am I summarizing you correctly by saying societal asymmetry is a social problem, not a technical one?
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
This is a direct result of our Wall Street economy. Wall Street demands that each corporation’s stock price shall increase every quarter. No matter what. If that means the customer is unhappy or that a corporation must consume itself from within. Doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 2 months ago:
PG&E charges me more to deliver power ($0.18/kWh) than it does to generate ($0.12/kWh) that power. That’s f’ed up.
- Comment on The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system. 2 months ago:
corporation that bought out his office was pushing him to take so many patients for such little compensation that it just wasn’t worth it.
Can we all agree that letting Wall St corps enshittify every aspect of our society so they can reap extreme profits at everyone else’s expense needs to end?
- Comment on If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge 2 months ago:
Wow. Another example of Google on the cutting edge. 🙄
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 2 months ago:
Every new business model now is just insinuating themselves into an existing structure so they can grift/leech money out for themselves. They call it “innovation “.