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- Comment on If you have to throw punches, make sure to punch upwards. 13 hours ago:
No, not metaphorically. What they are saying is that you have to get in there with knees and elbows when dealing with the
lilliputiansnormal people. There are so many more of them than us they will overwhelm you if you don’t take them down hard and quick. - Comment on You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question? 17 hours ago:
And that’s how we found Trump’s Lemmy account.
- Comment on Rent is theft 4 days ago:
The part where you call any and all profit theft. Also the part where you are attacking individuals for trying to improve their lives while the entire mess is caused by corporations and billionaires.
- Comment on "A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means. 4 days ago:
Those school buses can generate a lot of g-forces when doing high speed cornering.
- Comment on Income Tax Is Theft 5 days ago:
But most land owners already pay land taxes every year. And the amount of tax you pay depends upon the value of the land. 20 years ago I bought a little house way out in the fucking middle of nowhere, cuz that’s all I could afford. Now, the area around me has suddenly become a hotspot for development and I am paying 4x what I was originally paying.
The real problem, as others have stated, is the loopholes that give companies special rights and privileges. - Comment on Bears or no bears? 1 week ago:
Are we still talking about poles?
~The answer is yes!~ - Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 1 week ago:
Wow. Just announcing your terrorist plans right out in the open. Bold of you.
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 1 week ago:
Let’s just hope that the politicians never realize the danger of sharpened sticks or they might ban trees and bushes too.
- Comment on FreeCad in docker 1 week ago:
That’s true. I hadn’t realized how little it uses the GPU. I have had other 3d cad apps that I have worked with that were impossible to run on a server without a well above average video card, so that was definitely my first thought.
I guess one thing he could do is try some other opengl apps on his server and in the same docker. I have seen some badly configured servers and docker instances that fell back to rendering everything to bitmap.and then using some antiquated x11 bitmap handling routines to transfer the images. The handling of the images was so slow it was impossible to use. - Comment on FreeCad in docker 1 week ago:
My guess is that the GPU available on the Serv is either really underpowered for 3d rendering, or not being clearly picked up by the docker. If the docker having to completely render in software, it is going to be slow
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 2 weeks ago:
I hear that used to be a really nice neighborhood, but it really seems to be going to shit these days.
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s where I live, man
- Comment on It's not a bubble! 2 weeks ago:
They are just trying to distract us from the fact that it is already doing what it is supposed to do. Which is enable companies to fire even people and deliver even less on their promises.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Even if you distilled the purpose of living things down to their most basic mathmatical objective, you would still be wrong. At it’s very core the so called raison d’être of living things is to assist in the long term survival of their species. Even for something like a virus which doesn’t even really meat all the basic criteria to be called “living”, overwhelming and killing the host before the virus has a chance to spread is in every way a failure.
Even better is that this argument, the “most fundamental purpose”, when applied to humanity actually means that the “aberrations” that fundamentalists hate most are actually an integral part of the system. LGBTQ+ and the neurodiverse (ADHD, autism, ect) all benefit the growth of the species. Having members that contribute to the strength of the species, who can fight, gather, and assist with the offspring of others without creating their own competitive offspring is a massive advantage when resources are limited. The fact that those same noncompetitive (offspring wise) members can breed if something disastrous happens to the rest of the breeding stock is such a brilliant design that it makes a lot more sense to use that as an argument for “intelligent design” rather than the other shit that is usually dragged out. As for the neurodivergent, having members that think differently and are driven to try things that would be considered outside of normal range is really the only option for growth once the “normal” resources reach capacity.
So, if your argument at this point is that humanity should have all transitioned to be LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent, then maybe you aren’t doing it completely wrong, but I am still not sure that is really the answer either.
- Comment on You could convince evangelicals that AI is bad by saying it's converting children to satanism or making them gay 3 weeks ago:
Me reading this while watching Paw Patrol with my youngest child: Uhmm, hey, why don’t we watch some Octonauts for a while?
- Comment on Most people who help others are doing it as a performance 4 weeks ago:
You are kind of right but your focus is way too narrow and short-sighted. The better off people around me are, the better off I am. Society is what brings me the comforts and freedoms I have today. Without society I would likely be some peasant living in a hut and trying to farm some desolate piece of land until I died at a very early age.
By donating to medical research, I am able to improve medical care for all, and that includes myself. By donating to the arts I get to see art that I would have never been able to see otherwise. By donating to the poor and things like education, I reduce crime and violence where I live.
So yeah, basically everything you do is self-serving, just try not to be such a basic bitch about the scope of your actions. - Comment on Media zombies would be largely harmless if they lacked teeth and claws. 5 weeks ago:
I remember back in school how they told us that jumping from the Golden Gate bridge would definitely kill you. In all that time since, I have not died from jumping off the bridge. I have never jumped off the bridge, but I have also never died from jumping off the bridge. So, now I think I was being lied to.
- Comment on Media zombies would be largely harmless if they lacked teeth and claws. 5 weeks ago:
Over 7 million deaths confirmed to be directly caused by covid. And that’s with states and entire countries lying about the number of covid deaths. It’s actually between 19 and 36 million if we analyze the actual total number of excess deaths.
And that was with most countries attempting to minimize people’s exposure.
I don’t really want to know what you would call a catastrophe if somewhere between 7,000,000 and 36,000,000 dead humans doesn’t qualify. - Comment on I love science 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, it’s not just Kursgesagt Hentai.
It only Kursgesagt and Rick and Morty Hentai.
~Actually, curiosity got the better of me and after taking a brief look, there is Kursgesagt Hentai. I just really don’t want to interact with it anymore than I already have.~
- Comment on The penalty for disagreeing with government policy on Palestine is 14 Years in prison 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Santa rounds up migrants for ICE in Trump administration’s Christmas-themed AI video 1 month ago:
And yet he still just barely won. The election was rigged in so many ways, and 1/3 of the voting population were stupid/hateful enough to vote against their own interests for a candidate who was straight up promoting fascism and Nazi ideals. Even with all that, he won by less than the number of idiots that got talked into either not voting or into “teaching the Democrats a lesson”.
It’s almost like all those people preaching nihilism and righteous indignation were actually Trump supporters/operatives all along.
- Comment on That's interesting 1 month ago:
At first I was 100% behind your argument, but then I thought about the current GOP… And now I am thinking maybe being raised by machines would not be bad.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 months ago:
Wait, you think the Saudis buying EA have anything to do with profit? EAs profits and earnings are meaningless to them.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 months ago:
As if CO~2~ wasn’t bad enough already? Now I have to deal with it making snarky comments about what I wore to work today?
- Comment on Do people who have bad relationship with their parents care about "insults" like "I fucked your mom last night"? Or do you just not care? 2 months ago:
I like to act like they just reminded me that she asked me to talk to them about it and then start talking about some really bizarre fetish stuff that she can’t deal with anymore.
One of my favorite ones actually got gagging noises from other people in the room. "Look, she asked me to talk to you about the diaper thing. Hold on. Don’t get too upset - Comment on In light of recent events, I'm really starting to wonder about Reddit, /u/MaxwellHill, and Aaron... 2 months ago:
Oh, I don’t doubt you are correct about that. I’m not trying to say that there isn’t any coordination. The GOP is definitely and completely overrun with extremists that openly work together to implement plans like project 2025. But we are also at the terminal stages of this disease and the patient is on life support.
Project 2025 is a perfect example of what I am talking about. It was supposed to be a secret agenda that flopped right out into the open almost as soon as they are done writing it. In a healthy society it would have been attacked and overwhelmed from multiple directions in the same uncoordinated way that a virus or bacteria would be dealt with. But instead, the infection has reached a point where 1/3 of the nation decided that it wasn’t their problem, and another 1/3 was actively helping the infection. We are at that point in the covid infection where the body is now harming itself. - Comment on In light of recent events, I'm really starting to wonder about Reddit, /u/MaxwellHill, and Aaron... 2 months ago:
I don’t think you need some big coordinated Illuminati-type group to explain what’s going on. It’s way more realistic to see bad actors as behaving like bacteria or viruses. They don’t sit in secret meetings plotting everything. They just act independently in ways that benefit themselves, and the harmful effects add up on their own. Bacteria don’t plan. They find weaknesses, take advantage of them, multiply, and adapt when something stops them. They’re not masterminds. They’re just opportunistic. One person finds a loophole, another copies it, someone else builds on it, and suddenly you have a whole system bending in a bad direction without anyone actually coordinating it.
And this is where billionaires fit in. Realistically the traits that get you to billionaire status are usually closer to aggressive mutations in an ecosystem. Not kindness or wisdom, more like: ruthlessness, willingness to exploit gaps, willingness to push harm outward while collecting gains.
Once someone becomes a billionaire, their resources act like a multiplier. A normal bad actor is one germ. A billionaire is the same germ with unlimited food, a weakened immune system around them, and the ability to reshape the environment to favor their own growth.
And then you get a feedback loop. The more safeguards and regulations get weakened, the easier it is for aggressive “strains” like this to emerge. Those new billionaires then use their wealth to weaken safeguards even more. Each round speeds up the next. It’s basically the same dynamic as a compromised immune system getting overwhelmed by infections that would normally be manageable.
But most of all, there’s no way you’re going to get that many extreme narcissists to work together nicely and follow some long term plan.
- Comment on Orca Slicer sometimes doesn't Z-Hop 2 months ago:
So Prusa does zhop, but orca doesn’t? That’s interesting…
Does it act any different between classic and arachne?
Are Prusa and Orca orienting the object on the plate exactly the same? Like maybe one is turned 30° more than the other… - Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 2 months ago:
But what if I hated Elon before he was involved in politics?
- Comment on Crappy filament? 2 months ago:
I wonder if the end of the spool got annealed somehow? Maybe while being spooled? Or if it was at the end of a run it could have spent too much time in the extruder?
