DarkCloud
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- Comment on Star Trek: Legacy Series Fans Want Most Is “Never Gonna Happen,” Says TNG’s Marina Sirtis 2 days ago:
Assuming convention people= everyone… Nah, I didn’t even watch Picard… I have Zero desire for a reunion show.
- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 2 days ago:
Don’t Teslas have the highest crash fatality stats on the road or something? Terrible company.
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 2 days ago:
It’s great that the world forces young people to learn technical skills to get what they want! Kudos to her and her friends.
- Comment on Confidence is important 5 days ago:
Tax evasion is illegal… Tax avoidance is legal.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 1 week ago:
Nah, it’s just imperialist billiards, big vs little.
It’s all part of “the great game” the west has been playing against Russia there for over a century… The middle east is where America does it’s proxy wars.
World wars are only a risk of a white European country is attacked.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 1 week ago:
…and we’ll all suffer as climate change increases. Seriously, none of this shit is worth frying for.
- Comment on Microslop 🤮 2 weeks ago:
Windows 12 is to be a mixed AI and Subscription model service.
- Comment on How to incite revolution in a late-stage capitalistic society: 2 weeks ago:
Depends which leads to power vacuum.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 2 weeks ago:
Great, we’re at a point where “researchers” are helping tech bros hurt the public interest. Could they just NOT publish this shit? Stop giving helpful tips to tyrannical oligarchs!
Academics can be stupid idiots sometimes.
- Comment on "It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." - Specialist Syme 2 weeks ago:
I’m not really into TOS related stuff.
- Comment on "It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." - Specialist Syme 2 weeks ago:
Stewart.
- Comment on "It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." - Specialist Syme 2 weeks ago:
DS9 was bright and clearly shot compared to modern DISCO, and DS9 had an in-world explanation (being on a Cardassian space station).
- Comment on "It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." - Specialist Syme 2 weeks ago:
Nah, new star trek doesn’t feel classic enough because it’s too netflixed out. Meaning it doesn’t fit comfortable aesthetics, doesn’t feel self-contained (stand alone episodes). Doesn’t feel in-world, and isn’t set in a likeable section of time in Star Trek lore.
Most people who don’t like New Star Trek want a TNG, VOY, or DS9 era timeline, featuring a strong actress or actor as the Captain, that’s episodic in nature, and operates as a philosophical defense/testing/statement about the best parts of western progressive/liberal democracy using sci fi as a metaphor or container.
Star Trek isn’t a place for dark gritty season long arcs that feel like movies that aren’t going anywhere. No, we want philosophical premises, in well let carpeted spaces, about interesting technology, aliens, and psychology… That years later we realise were subtle commentaries (or even hopeful suggestions) about real world problems.
Lower Decks is currently the vest fit for this.
- Comment on In the Green Zone 2 weeks ago:
The war on the Iranian regime is way more justified (being for a trade corridor likely to bring enemies together on the same side, than the war in Iraq (which was about resources for America and the Bush family lineage).
- Comment on women 3 weeks ago:
…and yet, of we just had more women doing revenge killings for the thongs men did to them, we’d be well on our way!
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness' 3 weeks ago:
As soon as AI Psychosis makes it into the diagnostic and statistical manual we all need to get it, get AI to be supportive of killing your bosses… Then kill some bosses.
- Comment on We All Know This Guy 3 weeks ago:
Stage name. Feel like it’s not hos real name.
- Comment on Fashion is just someone popular telling you that you should wear the clothes that they like. 3 weeks ago:
Commercial Fashion and people who follow it yeah sure… But there’s also DIY fashion, and people not following what’s popular.
So it’s like saying “Music is just listening to popular people telling you what tacks to listen to”.
…on one level yes, on most others no.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 3 weeks ago:
…also, it has to do with attention on photos rather than real world going home experiences.
- Comment on I am untethered, and my rage knows no bounds 3 weeks ago:
“Hey man, what are you listening to?”
- Comment on MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process 3 weeks ago:
Poorly written though, saying there’s 4 extruders then only listing 3 is the kind of statement an LLM would make.
A professional would go ask the obvious question, does it have ab extruder for metal (rather than metal embedded filament, which would limit current flow).
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 4 weeks ago:
Similar to what happened in Hong Kong a few years back when the CCP introduced metal telephone poles chock full of monitoring equipment and cameras.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 4 weeks ago:
They have a machine their raging against, Social Justice and respecting minorities.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 4 weeks ago:
“Fuck you not gonna respect black people”
- Comment on YSK: There are hundreds of monuments around the world to people who abetted or took part in the murder of Jews and others during the Holocaust 4 weeks ago:
I knew what and where my towns one was before I opened the article… And I was right.
- Comment on California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies 4 weeks ago:
What democracy?
- Comment on Scary stuff and it wasn't that long ago 4 weeks ago:
Quarantined to mostly one party, but never cured.
- Comment on xkcd #3207: Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination 5 weeks ago:
Magnetic north is variable, and curved. It’s not even accross continents and changes over time. So the map is distorted so that up on the 2D plane of the drawing is magnetic north… Meaning all the countries and shapes are distorted so that magnetic north at those locations matches up in the drawing.
They’re drawn so that magnetic north is the top border of the image.
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 5 weeks ago:
New rule, if you order one - fail to close the doors properly.
- Comment on Is ironing clothes significantly less common now? 5 weeks ago:
There plenty of house paint and tire dust left over for everyone. We’ll all still die of cancer!