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- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 2 days ago:
Want higher birthrates? Just convince people that tomorrow will be better than today.
That’s how you see a spike in birth rates.
To maintain a steady birthrate, just convince potential parents that the world will not be any worse for their children than it is today.
See, easy.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 days ago:
See my first sentence.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 days ago:
If that embyo goop isn’t your property, it should be.
And if you’ve broken into the fertility clinic, that’s definitely a crime.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 5 days ago:
The gameplay loop was solid, but not completely original.
But the lore of the world was interesting and was dolled out fairly well. Neat little chunks of lore that felt like a reward when you get them.
Add in great art and music, and you have a game that you can build a fan base on.
Add in the free expansions and fan friendly developer, and you get a robust fan base.
Which leads to expectations for the sequel.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 6 days ago:
Depending on how far along the prep work on the gourd was, it may have decomposed.
- Comment on The march of time 6 days ago:
You can say that was mostly the Romans. If you needed a calendar fucked up, they were the ones to do it.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data 1 week ago:
I live dangerously with my fully up to date Arch box.
But I also have an LTS Ubuntu box that’s been humming away in the background for about the last five-ish years? Just a quiet little file server, doing its job and being ignored.
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 week ago:
If he was a coward he would never have hired Joel Kaplan.
Joel Kaplan was a Bush toady who participated in the Brooks Brothers riot.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
SpongeBob isn’t wearing a jacket and Light isn’t wearing shorts.
So based on that logic, Obama’s Tan Suit is the same outfit.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
That’s a fairly new development. And it might not last, depending on how the cheating goes next year.
So a more risk averse company might not test the waters just yet.
- Comment on Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ 2 weeks ago:
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Comment on Musk’s X must face claim of negligence over child abuse images, judge rules 3 weeks ago:
He specifically fired the group whose job it was to search for and report that shit.
So yeah, “negligence”.
- Comment on When everything is fake and we continue to believe it 5 weeks ago:
That was the same timeframe where ol Vincent was testifying in front of Congress that wrestling was completely fake and didn’t need to be regulated like an actual sport, no need for drug testing or safety equipment because it’s all fake right?
And the Congress critters are it all up. Never acknowledging that while the ending is predetermined, the path to get there is still incredibly physically demanding and a mistake could result in actual injury or death.
- Comment on When everything is fake and we continue to believe it 5 weeks ago:
Being boring didn’t make them any less harmful to those not of the chosen few.
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 1 month ago:
Part of that is high frequency trading. Computers that blindly trade with other computers. It has a stabilizing effect on the market because it’s divorced from reality.
But there’s the risk. It’s divorced from reality.
So far, when things go bad the Fed has stepped in to halt trading for the day.
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 1 month ago:
I so want a sequel to the sing along blog.
Dr Horrible has become obsessed with reviving Penny by turning back time. He doesn’t care how many people need to die, because he believes he can “fix” things. But the risk of time travel is the destruction of the universe…
Captain Hammer, now knowing what pain is, has two choices, grow and overcome the pain, or continue to hide away…
And Penny. The multiple zombies, and clones, and computer simulations of Penny that were never “right”. Well, she too has her parts to play.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
Almost any is fine, but if you want a distro optimized for gaming, Garuda has been treating me quite well.
- Comment on Pass me to your interior designer 1 month ago:
You still need screen to keep the bugs out. And the squirrels can fit through the holes and get at the screen.
So yeah, this design is kinda bad. At least in areas with squirrels.
- Comment on Self starter 1 month ago:
If by vibe for the rest of the time you mean constantly watch for various forms of life threatening danger. Then sure.
Still a better time than constantly watching out for Manager Mark.
- Comment on As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause. 1 month ago:
There should be a state monopoly on violence, and that violence should be heavily regulated.
Sadly, neither of those statements are currently true.
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 1 month ago:
Turns out that anti-cracking tech is widely applicable, if a bit expensive.
- Comment on To thy own self be true 2 months ago:
A rare food based example of Carcinisation
- Comment on Basically 2 months ago:
There were free black people in Washington’s day. But yes, the first several presidents were all slave owners.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 2 months ago:
Mark Rober already did that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Fun fact, Condorcet is the inventor of RCV, and threw it out because it almost never produces the Condorcet winner.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m an opponent of RCV for none of those reasons.
No, I hate it because it’s deeply flawed and provides zero of the benefits that proponents claim it does.
Rather than help third parties, it actually hurts them.
The inventor of the system, created it as an example of a bad voting system. This was in 1790.
There’s far more ballot spoilage when compared to any other system.
It doesn’t eliminate the spoiler effect, just kicks it down the ballot a bit,
It’s confusing to count, which has led to the wrong candidate being sworn in.
It requires centralized counting, which is a single point of failure or attack.
And finally there are better, simpler systems that actually do the things that RCV proponents claim RCV
- Comment on They're unstoppable 3 months ago:
Vegeta killed Yamcha once, and Buu killed him a second time.
Technically it wasn’t even Vegeta, it was just the little green men that Vegeta and Nappa had seeds for.
Krillian was actually alive to see that death.
As for the death by Buu, that was being turned to chocolate and then being eaten.
Krillian still has him beat on number of deaths, picking up an extra death on planet Namak.
- Comment on A shapeshifter standing in front of a mirror for hours making subtle adjustments to their disguises like a gamer in the character creator. 3 months ago:
Chameleons don’t actually change color the way people think they do.
First off, the natural state of a chameleon is green, which blends in to the forest fairly well. Their color change is a mating tactic, and so favors bright and vibrant colors.
A chameleon changing colors isn’t hiding, they’re horny.
Or angry. Or scared, or well, any strong emotion. Basically a chameleon is a living mood ring.
Now, if you want true instant camouflage, that’s an octopus. They can not only change colors, but their own surface texture. In their case, they get the info about what to look like from their numerous suckers alone their legs.
- Comment on Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers' 3 months ago:
You’re completely ignoring the fact that the British followed through on their promises of Zionism.
Or deflecting from it.
As soon as the British took over, in the first two years, more Jewish settlers arrived in Palestine than had in the previous two decades. And those two years were instantly eclipsed by the next two.
This was a deliberate colonization effort, complete with laws that blatantly favored Jewish settlers over the Palestinian natives.
A Jewish settlers could go to the British and simply say that they wanted Palestinian land, and the British would help evict the natives. (Okay, they had to be slightly more creative than that, usually lying about land deals, but everyone knew there was no deal or real land dispute)
Is it any wonder that the Palestinians started fighting back?
- Comment on Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers' 3 months ago:
Persecuted people, who instantly started killing the natives. 1929 was 9 years into the Zionist colonization. 12 or 13 if you want to speak about Mr Balfour or Mr Sykes. Which just goes to show that you don’t have to be Jewish to be a Zionist piece of shit.