leftytighty
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- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 3 days ago:
A fair point. I hope we do.
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 3 days ago:
what about if the world had tackled the threat of Hitler sooner? do you think MORE caving in and capitulation was the lesson we should have learned?
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 3 days ago:
Sadly the problem isn’t going to solve itself like that. We need to channel that anger into action.
- Comment on Trump tariffed Columbia in response to not letting a plane of deported illegals in. 3 days ago:
I’m not advocating for it to continue, it’s just too bad we’ll have to try to survive the collapse of the American empire.
There were ways to end it that won’t result in so much suffering but we’re doing it the hard way. The United States will never recover from this, hopefully its people can
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 3 days ago:
no you see “not USA” is this amorphous “other” where you get to pick and choose parts from different countries and jerk yourself off about how great USA is.
Frankly I’m impressed this guy knew so many countries.
- Comment on Trump tariffed Columbia in response to not letting a plane of deported illegals in. 3 days ago:
imagine looking at US hegemony and control over the world’s economies and thinking you’re doing everyone a favor. I guarantee you most nations would be happier if the US stayed the fuck out.
Typical ignorant conservative seeing the world at face value. I’m glad to see some sense from your peers in this thread.
- Comment on RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users 1 week ago:
Am I the only one seeing the irony here? Is paying lip service to democracy enough? Legal gerrymandering, electoral college, voter suppression…
- Comment on Syria's leader says elections could take 4 years: Al Arabiya interview 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if you know how most constitutions including your own (likely) were written
- Comment on italy flag emoji 1 month ago:
she’s gonna be so relieved
- Comment on 'Democrat propaganda': Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR 2 months ago:
How can I trust my own eyes when they have a liberal bias
- Comment on 'Democrat propaganda': Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR 2 months ago:
If one party says 2+2=5 then are math teachers making a political statement by saying otherwise?
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 2 months ago:
what a damaged human being
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 months ago:
I am doubting myself now after not being able to quickly find a verified source but I’ve worked with lots of smart TVs and seem to recall Samsung or LG models using this simulated effect. It would have had to have been simulated since there was no signal coming in, and I recall the pattern being noticably pseudo random.
As for why: I have no idea! Maybe just for user familiarity reasons, since a lot of people grew up with that kind of analog feedback that the antenna wasn’t getting a signal.
Take what I said with a grain of salt, though, since like I said I wasn’t able to quickly verify it. It’s a vivid but ambiguous memory, though, since I also thought it was strange
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 months ago:
Depending on the TV it’s likely simulated noise at this point
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 2 months ago:
What important living beings go in the back anyway? It’s usually just babies, pets, and children.
- Comment on Rogue Point is a new tactical shooter from Half-Life remake Black Mesa developer Crowbar Collective 2 months ago:
Fair enough, I felt it important to clarify (and check) so these developers and Team 17 aren’t unfairly punished by the general state of the industry.
It doesn’t seem like you need to worry here.
- Comment on Rogue Point is a new tactical shooter from Half-Life remake Black Mesa developer Crowbar Collective 2 months ago:
It’s a coop game and what they’re describing sounds more like “progression” than microtransactions. Unlocking new things is a core gameplay mechanic going back to before the Internet. Did I miss where it implies anything about microtransactions or pay to win (again: coop game)
- Comment on Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible” 2 months ago:
focus on profits rather than human well-being, period, is destroying the world
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 months ago:
Putting these valid points aside we’re also all just taking for granted that the software would have properly identified a human under the same circumstances…
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 months ago:
Being a run of the mill fascist (rather than those in power) is actually an incredibly submissive position, they just want strong daddies to take care of them and make the bad people go away. It takes courage to be a “snowflake liberal” by comparison
- Comment on ... 3 months ago:
This is a fair point. It becomes a matter of which questions we’re asking as a society, though. Of course we are not at a stage where capital is the only driving force for science (thank goodness for public funding) but it’s not far fetched that we might be, and a world where questions are only asked in the context of profit generation (and unsatisfying answers are suppressed) is a dystopian world indeed.
It’s fair to say capitalism is having a negative impact on science (e.g. journals) but it’s not as dire as what’s suggested
- Comment on ... 3 months ago:
Capitalism isn’t just about “things need funding” the point of the meme is that capitalists determine what gets funding. A socialist state might put economic force behind other scientific endeavors, ones driven by capital are intended to create profit. The profit motive drives innovation instead of the pure ideological pursuit of truth or any other driver.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 3 months ago:
Too bad about the order of operations
- Comment on FFT-based ocean-wave rendering, implemented in Godot 3 months ago:
The link goes into discussion of complexity and parallelism advantages of this approach. That implies that it could be faster
- Comment on Calif. Governor vetoes bill requiring opt-out signals for sale of user data 4 months ago:
I mean yeah we’ve been talking about the issues with capitalism for over 100 years, it excels at keeping things just tolerable enough for the working class that we don’t take heads
- Comment on stop 4 months ago:
it’s possible we’re facing a future in which meat is not sustainable and we won’t want to spare any for cats, it’s something worth studying
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 4 months ago:
NVIDIA uses of AI technology aren’t going to pop, things like DLSS are here to stay. The value of the company and their sales are inflated by the bubble, but the core technology of NVIDIA is applicable way beyond the chat bot hype.
Bubbles don’t mean there’s no underlying value. The dot com bubble didn’t take down the internet.