Not_mikey
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- Comment on I'm sure this would work out fine 1 day ago:
That won’t work, there sick child seeking missiles will just hit this instead.
- Comment on It's utterly hypocritical that the "defence" industry/sector is not called what it really is, the war industry. 3 days ago:
WWII was the war to end all wars, so we couldn’t have a department of war anymore. Still “needed” and army , navy, marines and all the weapons for them though so we created the department of defense.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 days ago:
I think I know what happened here. Curtis decided to sing “fucking problem” by A$AP rocky at karaoke because he can say
I’m the ngga, the ngga n*gga …
Like an edgy 15 year old. Then he heard A$AP rockies bar:
they say money make a ngga act nggerish, at least a ngga ngga rich
Got mad at the idea of black people having money and cultural clout and then posted this.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 days ago:
N*gga rich is a term used by rappers, and some racists like Curtis, to mean getting a small fortune and spending it on flashy ostentatious things.
- Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike 1 week ago:
It does look like a clone, but fuck IP law. Sony winning this will only hurt games because any publisher with a genre creating / defining game could gatekeep any competitors from coming in *cough Nintendo.
The original horizon came out 8 years ago, that’s plenty of time for them to cash in on the monopoly they get for all the creativity that went into creating the genre / style.
Its not like they’re marketing it with a similar name or main character or any other identifier that could trick someone into buying it instead either.
- Comment on OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis 1 week ago:
Ah, I was hoping this meant chatgpt would give canned responses, ie. “Seek help”, whenever it detected it was being used for mental health issues, which it should. But no it’s just open air flipping off anyone who asks why there chatbot pushed a person to suicide.
- Comment on Google AI strikes again 1 week ago:
Human here, and didn’t know what the post was about. Had the same thought process as the ai and couldn’t understand the gotcha.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
Self proclaimed “5 star man” Dennis Reynolds is the top suspect
- Comment on Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks 1 week ago:
This study isn’t about total clicks, or a drop in traffic to Google caused by people not liking the ai overview. It’s about for each Google search that was executed, how often did someone click on a link. Without ai it was 15% and with ai it is 8%. So if anything its proving the customers like the ai overviews and are getting enough from them to answer their query.
Sure there are probably a couple people who see the overview at the top and hate ai so much they leave Google without clicking anything, but those people will probably only do that once or twice before they stop using Google entirely or disable the feature, and thus wouldn’t count much in the data about ai overview searches.
- Comment on In China, delivery robots now ride the subway to restock 7-Eleven stores 2 weeks ago:
Same here in the US with AI, but instead of the government giving subsidies its venture capitalists.
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 1 month ago:
Could someone explain why binding arbitration clauses are horrible? My understanding is that it keeps costs low on both sides as taking things to actual court can get expensive.
- Comment on Is it a prison break if the prisoners have been unjustly detained? Who decides when it is a hostage rescuse situation? 1 month ago:
The difference between a hostage and a prisoner is why you are detaining them. If you are detaining them for some crime or to prevent them from doing some crime or harm to “society”(the powerful) then they are a prisoner. If you are detaining them to try and trade or gain concessions from another party then they are a hostage.
The difference between lawful and illegal escape attempts isn’t between hostages and prisoners, false imprisonment is a crime and if you escape or help someone escape that’s legal. Taking hostages can also be legal, Putin will often make some trumped up charge for an American so he can use them as a pawn in a prisoner exchange, nominally the intent is to lock them up for committing a crime, but in reality they are hostages in putins game. The difference is whether the state is detaining the person or a non state actor.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 month ago:
The vast majority of coding isn’t making something new, it’s using existing patterns and tools and arranging them to fit a specific use case.
Llms may not be able to create a new framework or design pattern, but neither will most coders in there day to day.
- Comment on The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs 1 month ago:
It’s not that borrowing money is free, zero interest rates means the government pays zero interest for its loans, not companies. It does put downward pressure on interest rates companies pay but they’re still going to have to pay a couple percent apy.
The reason zero interest rates are good for tech is because it forces capital to seek more long-term and risky investments. If I have a lot of money and can get 6% apy from loaning it to the US government, the safest bet on the market, why would I invest in something else? If i can’t get any money from loaning to the government (zero interest rates), and i cant get much from loaning it to other institutions because of that downward pressure, then maybe I’ll buy some more risky tech stocks because it’s possible for that company to grow more then the 1-2% id get from just lending my money.
- Comment on 'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds 2 months ago:
Housing as an investment leads to real estate speculation which pushes up prices. It creates a class of people who stand to gain when property values, and downstream of that rent, go up.
This class of people are very wealthy and tend to oppose any action that will decrease there property value. That includes things like building dense affordable housing, especially close to them, as that increases the supply of housing and thus decreases there property value.
This is true especially for land lords, even small “mom and pop” landlords. There goal is to raise rent and the value of there investment. Anything that will lower rent or even stabilize it like rent control they will oppose, no matter their scale.
Tl;dr: housing speculation creates a wealthy class of people opposed to housing affordability.
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- Comment on North Korea Stole Your Job 2 months ago:
another of these clearly illegal things
They seem to be actually doing work. Yeah it’s illegal to work without authorization but by the same logic an undocumented migrant working is illegal. Sure but I wouldn’t argue it’s immoral or would make them a rogue state.
There’s plenty of other horrible shit that north Korea is doing, but I wouldn’t put this in that bucket, this is probably the most honest work they can do considering they’re sanctioned by nearly every country.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In the u.s. a bidet refers to a type of toilet or an attachment for a toilet that shoots water at your asshole while your still on the toilet after you shit. The separate sink as a bidet is unheard of here.
- Comment on Tesla profits plummet 71% amid backlash to Musk's role with Trump administration 3 months ago:
And there stocks price went up 7% today …
If anyone still needs proof that financial speculation and stock valuations are as real as fairies, here you go.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 months ago:
Robots don’t get drunk, or distracted, or text, or speed…
Anecdotally, I think the Waymos are more courteous than human drivers. Though waymo seems to be the best ones out so far, idk about the other services.
- Comment on Netanyahu Promises the “Final Stage” of Gaza Genocide Will Lead to Implementation of “Trump’s Plan" 4 months ago:
And you can’t give a good answer to my question, because the answer to both questions is she wouldn’t, she wouldn’t have been better or worse. Here I’ll even edit my original post, does that make it better?
- Comment on Netanyahu Promises the “Final Stage” of Gaza Genocide Will Lead to Implementation of “Trump’s Plan" 4 months ago:
The op asked a question, even gave a please asking for a response, and the only responses were from hexbear accounts.
Do you actually want answers for these questions, or do you just want facetious bad faith questions and have an echo chamber respond back that the other guys are idiots?
- Comment on Netanyahu Promises the “Final Stage” of Gaza Genocide Will Lead to Implementation of “Trump’s Plan" 4 months ago:
For all the people who are defederated from the hexbear people, the question is how would she be better. The only thing that would stop Israel from committing the final solution here is stopping military aid to israel and Harris repeatedly said she would not put any requirements/ provisions on military aid.
She may complainant bit more about how horrible this is, but words don’t mean shit if your still sending them bombs to level gaza.
- Comment on Sen. Schumer: 'My Job is to Keep the Left Pro-Israel' 4 months ago:
Is demanding a ceasefire and putting an arms embargo on Israel until it does make you an anti-semetic bot in favor of hamas? Because those are the people Schumer thinks are the enemies of Israel.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 4 months ago:
Microsofts too lazy to make new IP so they’re trying to reboot any game that wasn’t a complete flop.
- Comment on Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them. 4 months ago:
I guess that’s one advantage of stack overflow, sometimes you need a guy to tell you the entire basis of your question is dumb and wrong.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 4 months ago:
The actual survey result:
Asked whether “scaling up” current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human cognition, an overwhelming 76 percent of respondents said it was “unlikely” or “very unlikely” to succeed.
So they’re not saying the entire industry is a dead end, or even that the newest phase is. They’re just saying they don’t think this current technology will make AGI when scaled. I think most people agree, including the investors pouring billions into this. They arent betting this will turn to agi, they’re betting that they have some application for the current ai. Are some of those applications dead ends, most definitely, are some of them revolutionary, maybe
Thus would be like asking a researcher in the 90s that if they scaled up the bandwidth and computing power of the average internet user would we see a vastly connected media sharing network, they’d probably say no. It took more than a decade of software, cultural and societal development to discover the applications for the internet.
- Comment on Tea time 4 months ago:
The fbi is always monitoring far left spaces. There’s an old joke that half the people at any given communist party usa meeting are cops/fbi.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 months ago:
Going to steel man this since theres obviously no one on here answering this question seriously. Not a republican and don’t agree with all this, just imagining what my republican dad would say about this:
For ukraine and Europe, we have no interest in protecting them besides sentimental attachments. Ukraine is not our problem, it’s Europe’s and if they want to dump money into a lost cause by all means go ahead, but leave the u.s. out of it unless your going to compensate us for it. The u.s. isn’t threatened by Russia, we have an ocean, the world’s largest navy and nukes to protect us. The larger threat is China and we should be focusing on them, not russia which can barely invade it’s neighbor, much less march across Europe and the atlantic. Europe can handle its own problems.
For Canada and Mexico and tarriffs in general. We need to bring manufacturing back to America and revitalize the rust belt. We can’t do that if companies find it more profitable to go over seas and pay people pennies when they’d have to pay Americans mich more. The only way to get them to come back is to make it too expensive to import things.
This is all about putting America first. For decades America has been spending billions to protect Europe and has been sending billions of dollars over seas to build factories overseas while factory after factory closes. We need to stop all of that and spend our money in America for Americans.
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 5 months ago:
A park with very limited capacity and that almost always requires the destruction of the natural landscape.
Golf is elitist by nature as the courses require a ton of maintenance to keep them from going to there natural state, which costs money, and that cost is split among a small amount of people that can occupy the course at any given time without causing traffic. Combine that with the equipment costs and that filters out most lower income people.
If courses were turned into parks and left to nature far more people could enjoy them as they wouldn’t have to pay or worry about getting hit with a ball because they set there picnic up in the wrong meadow.
