Zorque
@Zorque@lemmy.world
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 3 days ago:
And maybe cotton candy will shoot out of my butt and feed all the starving orphans.
The frog jumps out when it’s uncomfortable no matter how slow you heat the water, despite what the meme tells you. The issue is that there’s plenty of people more than willing to provide yet another pot of water to boil for the frog to jump into, because the frog just wants out, it doesn’t care where it goes.
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 3 days ago:
It’s not really a die toss because the people with power maintain that power and have the most influence in what comes out of that shit-pool. It needs a functional shakeup at the deepest level, and not superficial changes at the surface level to make an effective difference. Otherwise things will just continue to repeat until we destroy ourselves. The problem is that kind of shakeup requires that people remain vigilant and involved for their entire lives, which isn’t going to happen if their only concern is that their own lives are getting disrupted and they want it to go back to par, which is our current standoff.
- Comment on Trump suggests lower China tariff, says 80% 'seems right!' 4 days ago:
Sounds like you need to go on a training montage, then! Start playing Eye of the Tiger and shooting BBs at a side of beef and all that. If it’s what you really want, of course.
- Comment on Trump suggests lower China tariff, says 80% 'seems right!' 4 days ago:
After you, buddy.
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Eyeing 'Super Sensing' Tech for Smart Glasses 4 days ago:
What does dystopia mean to you? This is akin to having sticky notes to remember things, just in a more compact convenient application. Having social lubricant is also not really a bad thing. If anything it can help people keep from isolating themselves from others.
It can be abused… but then again so can sticky notes. The problem isn’t the technology, it’s the application. Keeping track of friends and colleagues and having simple prompts to encourage interaction is good, keeping databases of dissenters and subjugation tools not so good.
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 1 week ago:
I mean, it’s kind of a prerequisite.
- Comment on "A watched pot never boils" is actually advice for keeping your pot from boiling. Because a soup boiled is a soup spoiled. 1 week ago:
Global warming: Hold my CO2…
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 2 weeks ago:
Technically my shit is edible, technically.
- Comment on People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it" 2 weeks ago:
But your “fair and balanced” puts all the onus of clean up on the next person. Kind of like how parking far to one side of a parking spot puts all onus of creating enough space for people to get out of their car on the next person.
It’s passing the buck because you can’t be bothered to clean up after yourself.
- Comment on People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it" 2 weeks ago:
You’re the kind of person who parks all the way on the passenger side of a parking spot, aren’t you?
- Comment on People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it" 2 weeks ago:
As someone who used to take care of office supplies (I was in accounting, btw) because everyone in the office is lazy and doesn’t wanna deal with complex things like grounds and filters.
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 3 weeks ago:
The problem is it’s not the last resort, far from it. We still have some semblance of democracy, no matter how often people are screaming that it’s all lost already (like yourself). We still have options, just because so many people choose not to consider them doesn’t mean they don’t exist, it just means it takes more effort than lighting a bottle of alcohol with a rag in it on fire and tossing it at the people you blame for all your inconveniences.
Yes, we have a problem at the federal level, and yes it’s going to be hard to fix it. But it’s not the only thing that matters, and treating it like it is is how we’ve lost so much ground already. People gave up long ago because everyone keeps telling them their thoughts don’t matter, that everything is already broken and there’s no way to fix it. Not because it’s true, because it’s the easiest way to get people to stop resisting effectively.
You want people to do something meaningful? Stop backing them into a corner by telling them they have no options left. Cause as we’ve seen already it just means they give up.
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 3 weeks ago:
That we think in absolutes, and either are hyper violent or apathetic, both of which lead to no real resolution? Yeah, definitely a real problem.
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 3 weeks ago:
If you organize that many people you can get what you want without resorting to a form of violence that will really only create a power vacuum, not a better future.
Violence is just cheap and easy, as long as you don’t have to think about the consequences of your actions.
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 3 weeks ago:
Some people also wear a label as a badge of honor, or as an excuse for their malign actions. Elon has little to lose with his claims, and so much to excuse.
- Comment on Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 4 weeks ago:
TNG, Devil’s Due
- Comment on Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 4 weeks ago:
There was that one episode where they tried to save a planet from Satan. I dont think the planet was technically pre-warp, though, especially since there were federation scientists/engineers on the planet working with the population.
- Comment on Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 4 weeks ago:
Weren’t they working against the prime directive? Otherwise they wouldn’t have beamed them back down after beaming them up. They had to trick the ferengi into leaving of their own accord… well the accord of the mob burning them in a pyre, but still.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
The odds are 1000:0 that they won’t, and I still wouldn’t take that bet.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 4 weeks ago:
a lot of industries will no longer have the incentive to be innovative or creative as using other’s ideas is much cheaper
That’s already what they do, it’s just those people are on their payroll. Industries don’t create, they absorb and proliferate.
- Comment on Australian comedian ditches US trip due to concern she could be denied entry over Trump jokes 4 weeks ago:
That reminds me, has anyone seen Kathy Griffin recently?
- Comment on The name "edgar" has really fallen off as of recently. 4 weeks ago:
Egger suits are expensive these days.
- Comment on Crypto is now as stable as the US economy! 4 weeks ago:
“Working on” implies pre-production, at least to my understanding.
Then again if game companies can do Early Access, why not banks?
- Comment on The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards. 5 weeks ago:
So we should make one with human intelligence, you’re saying?
- Comment on The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards. 5 weeks ago:
Okay, but hear me out, what if we make one that isn’t dumb?
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 5 weeks ago:
And if you get rid of the board, the shareholders will appointment a new one. If you somehow get rid of all the shareholders, like-minded people will slot themselves into those positions.
The problems are systemic, not individual.
- Comment on BAFTA Crowns Shenmue "The Most Influential Video Game Of All Time" In Surprise Result | Time Extension 5 weeks ago:
Any poll that asks the general public to pick something is inevitably going to turn into a popularity contest, irrespective of its original intent.
- Comment on Bring Trek into everything 5 weeks ago:
Winngrainvowel?
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 1 month ago:
I was looking up bike lanes in a city I was thinking of buying a house in and the map had property lines on it, with the registered owners names plastered in every space.
- Comment on Skill issue 1 month ago:
Master Chief Collection came out in late 2014.