stevedice
@stevedice@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on LPT 4 Summer BBQs 2 weeks ago:
Do you want more wasps? Because that’s how you get more wasps?
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 4 weeks ago:
Less than a year since I upgraded from my RX580 and I only did it because I got an amazingly stupid deal on a RX7600 ($175 about 3 months after launch). Otherwise, the card is fine and is, in fact, still being used on my cousin’s PC.
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 4 weeks ago:
Studies have also shown that doctors using AI don’t do better than just doctors but AI on its own does. Although, that one is attributed to the doctors not knowing how to use chatgpt.
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 4 weeks ago:
Hasn’t it been demonstrated that AI is better than doctors at medical diagnostics and we don’t use it only because hospitals would have to take the blame if AI fucks up but they can just fire a doctor that fucks up?
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 4 weeks ago:
Mexican here. You are absolutely correct.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
Do you unlock your bags before pushing them through the scanner? I only do it if they ask me to and that only happens directly in front of me. But sure, let’s assume bags were fully unlocked and unattended, it’s still a case of representatives of a government organization (aka the good guys) with full access to a backdoor showing that they’re not to be trusted, which is the entire point I’m trying to make.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
How do you think they open the bags?
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 5 weeks ago:
Is it recently, though? As far as I can remember, specifically England has been the US of Europe. Or you mean the UK as a whole?
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
Oh, I didn’t see they were different users. Live and learn.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
The little red locks on luggage have a backdoor for the TSA, so yes, they literally used a backdoor to find out what people had and steal it. The reason I brought it up is because people sometimes have a hard time realizing the severity of something unless it’s grounded in the real physical world.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
The literal first comment.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
Wow. Seems like you missed an entire comment.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
I’m telling someone who says that a want for uncompromising privacy is a US thing that it’s not, and that these compromises they speak of would be akin to telescreens if applied to a non-digital situation.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
Nope. You’re the one refusing to admit being wrong.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
No, I don’t agree that a want of privacy is an American thing.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
Nope. I didn’t and I don’t.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t agree with you.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
Spending significant resources to prevent it is exactly what encryption is. What the government wants is to completely eliminate online private communication. Continuing with the analogy: you want telescreens.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
I can invite someone over to my house and talk about anything I want with no risk of government meddling. Why should it be any different in online communication regardless of the country?
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
TSA officers steal from passengers
This may seem unrelated but it gives a real life physical example on exactly why backdoors shouldn’t exist.
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 1 month ago:
Literally made up in one of those “how to get get rich” garbage books.
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 1 month ago:
Either reboot it or let it die. If I wanted to make the effort to dive into such an convoluted world, I’d get into LotR. I will never understand everybody’s fascination with decades old franchises with impenetrable lore. Nothing against Star Trek specifically, I’m just tired of seeing media and thinking “Oh, that looks interesting, I’d like to get into that” just to find out there’s a backlog of 47 years of world building I have to catch up on before I get to enjoy it. This is why I never got into Dr. Who, Star Trek, LotR, Warhammer or WoW.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I am 31. I will make sure to go to the local high school to find girls who just turned 18 and woo them with cheap gifts. No imbalance of power or manipulation happening between consenting adults, amirite?
- Comment on uninvited 1 month ago:
Well, friend. That’s because you have a functional family.
- Comment on i'm your god now. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Eat that ramen 1 month ago:
I never was. As a precaution.
- Comment on Eat that ramen 1 month ago:
I spent my 20s doing drugs and banging everything that glanced in my general direction.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 2 months ago:
A couple of figures of speech from Mexico that I find equally nonsensical:
Simón: Means yes.
Nelson: Means no.
Mátala(o) (kill it): to finish a drink or a snack.
Jalar (pull): To go somewhere or agree to a plan. You may also hear its long form “¿jalas o te pandeas?” (do you pull or do you bend?) meaning “are you coming or not?”.
¿Se va hacer o no se va a hacer la carnita asada? (Are we doing or not the carne asada?): It means “Is the plan still on?”
Chapulinear: There’s no literal translation for this one but I guess it would be like “grasshopper-ing”. It means seducing a friend’s partner.
Tirando el perro (throwing the dog): Flirting.
Arma la vaca (build the cow): To make a small fundraise.
Here’s a modern one:
Quesadilla: Means “that’s so sad” because it sounds like *Qué sad (illa)*tal
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
Troubleshooting Simulator. Hopefully, Far Cry 3 a couple of hours from now.
