DicJacobus
@DicJacobus@lemmy.world
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 3 hours ago:
If it didnt happen last time, and a close yet unsuccessful attempt was made this time. My money is on, Trump lives to start harping about a third term in 2028.
If it happens, its going to be a gavrillo princip type of deal, the more planning that goes into it, the more likely the conspirators get caught simply for the amount of surveilence that goes on in this world.
if anyone is going to merk a world leader. its going to be something spur of the moment, wrong turn, wrong person, wrong time.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 3 hours ago:
Its looking more and more like the end result is just going to be millions of Americans will have to do without,
and no doubt at the same time their oligarch fantasy-wealthy overlords will preach to them about Spartan values or something.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 3 hours ago:
its snowing in my part of canada, it snowed last night, it snowed 2 days last week. time of posting, its april
my boss said “we’re kidding ourselves if we think this isnt normal”
he’s been right on that for the last 2 decades almost
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 3 hours ago:
I dont mean to turn this into one of those arguments where fight over whether they are a millienial or gen-xer… But I do recall recentley seeing someone in that age range, posting a message
“Born just in time to see the end of the fuck around days, and just in time to live the rest of my life in the find out time”
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 2 days ago:
Yeah Okay Grant Cardone…
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 5 days ago:
When I imagine a future with AI ruining the world, I always thought it was going to be some Skynet/CABAL/HAL9000 type of thing
Not this sad, boring, depressing type shit
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 1 week ago:
Vigilantism is on the rise regardless, Either because the police are incompetent / carefree about the complaints. or because individuals are overzealous, dont undrestand or agree with the law, and decide to cosplay as the punisher.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 2 weeks ago:
I dont see any on here I would swear by.
I have taken a liking to the Pilot B2Ps, they are made of recycled water bottles, I liked them simply for the fact that they’re the one type of pen we have in abundance at the office that no one else bothers to steal for some reason.
I like the Staples TRU RED series too.
what the hell is wrong with me, a year ago I’d be obsessing over some video game or hobby and now im discussing my pen model preferences, I think I’ve crossed the proto-boomer threshold
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My answer is going to include a short story as a pretext.
In Canada in the 90s, we used to have these commercials from an organization called “Concerned Childrens Advetisers” the commercials were about a variety of things, some being positive reinforcement about self esteem, others were more on the nose like not eating glue…
there was one important one that would come on a lot called “The North American House Hippo”. And for about 60 seconds it would tell kids about tiny hippopotamus that come out in your kitchen at night, eat crumbs of dropped food, and make beds under your fridge or in the pantry or something… At the end of the commercial, the narrator says something to the effect of “That was an interesting story, but Its not real, not everything you read in a book or see on the TV is real.” the internet wasn’t mentioned because it wasn’t widespread enough yet… but it had a simple lesson. Not everything you see in media is real.
that lesson hasn’t been transfered over to the majority of people, or more likely, most people are not responsible enough to be trusted with the internet because they dont know how to filter, they dont know how to think critically when presented with information online, and its even worse now in the age of deepfakes and AI, that even the smart ones get fooled now.
Collectively we’re dumber because people have allowed their public facebook comment section keyboard warrior persona, to take over their real lives. Who people are in person and who people are online, are two different individuals, but the online persona is the one who is in charge. When we are in public, we usually revert to our social norms, respect each other. But when you’re a keyboard warrior, your impotent rage and urge to yell the N word and other slurs is unchecked because there isnt anyone present to break your nose for saying or doing something antisocial or arrogant.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 weeks ago:
You dont want 90% of the shitheads on reddit.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 weeks ago:
They’ve been dissapearing for a long time, if they were an animal, they’d be somewhere between Endangered, and Critically Endangered…
The eye-opener now has been that Reddit has turned into corpo/authortiarian boot licking trash, and Discord is planning on going publicly traded. (Read More Corpo bootlicking trash)
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
so long as bibi, trump, and the puppet master putin and all of their respective ghouls are in charge, Im afraid every man woman and child in gaza is living on spent time.
- Comment on Which game is it? 2 weeks ago:
I dunno your demographic, but the pervailing sentiment is that SL was cool when people were ignorant and impressionable teens and young adults, but as we aged and grew up, it stopped being cool, and most people moved on to other things.
- Comment on Which game is it? 2 weeks ago:
the technology has improved tenfold, the game looks and runs so different now that its virtually unrecognizable, but the communities are shit, the user count is at best half as many as it was in the late 00s to early 10s. and most of the people online are either just parked in a shitty club, usually AFK, hiding in their private land, innnocuously buying stuff for their house or character, lagging the place up with scripted farms and such… a very small number of worthwhile game / activity and roleplay communities (RP is still basically a game…) … and most everyone else is probably e-banging…
- Comment on Which game is it? 2 weeks ago:
when you say server, I think you’re talking about regions (colloquially called “sims or simulators” in game) while its true they do run on servers, usually 4-16 regions packed onto a single server… its easier to think of them as islands of virtual real estate, some are separate individual tiny islands of 256x256 meters, whereas others are joined to others of the same size. all of course, seperate from the continents which are owned by the company but land can be rented and such
privately owned land people can do whatever they want on it provided it isnt breaking law or TOS, and theres some weird shit that falls through the cracks.
the concept of SL is fascisnating, how it all works in the concept of a digital world, its been doing the metaverse 20 years before Mark Zuckerberg got the idea. the problem is, people are fucking freaks. and the metaverse is as freaky as they are.
- Comment on Which game is it? 3 weeks ago:
Second Life. If you could call it a game.
I started “playing” it in 2006. Went through long periods of not playing it… but I always come back… and it’s always worse
- Comment on FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies 3 weeks ago:
Corpos own the regulatory bodies.
Russian Mafia owns the white house.Regulatory Captured States of America
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
I dont go on 4chan though, the only exposure I have to it is occasionally reading greentext vids/stories on other sites.
I was just on a random rabbit hole that Briefly involved templeOS and somehow ended up on the “hit CIA with your car they arent humans” video
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
It’s fucking weird that not 3 or 4 days ago… I was literally reading about Davis. And the glowing CIA ranting that he was doing. Total coincidence
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 4 weeks ago:
reddit permabans you for vague interpretations of things they consider “threatening”
its already a thought crime zone.
- Comment on Israeli speaker of parliament calls for bombing food stocks in Gaza now that Israel has cut off their food and water. 5 weeks ago:
there hasn’t been a litmus test of the military yet. thankfully.
- Comment on "Peace" 5 weeks ago:
MAGA doesnt want peace. they just want to stop hearing about war and genocide on the news. so they can get back to hearing about all the winning.
The US gov is in the process of checking out and backing out. fair enough, Their opinions are officially worthless from hereon out. the Adults will handle it from here, If America isn’t interested in being the leader of the free world, and having the morals to fight genocidal , corrupt tyranny. Then someone else will take the torch, and for the time being, it looks like it will be the Europeans.
America can go obsess over bathroom door signs and continue fellating the Russian Mafia that’s taking ownership of their nation.
- Comment on Israeli speaker of parliament calls for bombing food stocks in Gaza now that Israel has cut off their food and water. 5 weeks ago:
Im starting to think this brazen activity is all because the powers that be, are trying to goad the public into a reaction that will justify their permanent seizure of power, martial law
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 5 weeks ago:
still susceptible to disc rot
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 5 weeks ago:
someone else here suggested that the source code for TS/RA2 was lost. which wouldnt surprise me.
These are games that were made when and before the Zoomers were being born. they are ancient by most people’s standards.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 5 weeks ago:
its odd that they open sourced Generals and the first CNC and Red Alert, but nothing in between.
CNC3 was my favorite, and I’ll die on that hill . but RA2 was obivously the fan favorite, and Tiberian Sun had probably the best atmosphere
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 1 month ago:
I will not be the least bit surprised if there’s a future in 5 years where Ukraine no longer exists as a state, and Bitter Ukrainian refugees commit terrorism attacks against the United States.
There is a reason Treachery is the lowest circle of hell in dante’s inferno.
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 1 month ago:
This isn’t a peace deal, this is a conspiracy.
Ukraine better get ready for more war. Russia has no intention of stopping and they might as well tell MAGA to go fuck themselves, and Europe better get ready to join.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 month ago:
No, but V’s apartment did have advertisements on the windows and a vending machine in the living room
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 month ago:
Toyota Sales here Boy do I have some BMW Heated seat subscription crap to sell you
(Its not quite as bad as BMW. But one thing that really irks customers is the remote starter is restricted to a subscription service. unless you’re one of the lucky ones who got a vehicle that installed the wrong part/fuses. in which case you can still remote start your car with the fob. its still very finnicky)