Photuris
@Photuris@lemmy.ml
- Comment on The UN demands censorship of the Internet, "we need to take global action" 3 days ago:
I’m 100% with you.
- Comment on Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public. 1 week ago:
I’m ok with using novel techniques to work on climate change, but right now in the immediate moment the only technology I’m really interested in testing and perfecting is guillotines.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Hot take: killing the internet is a good thing. Once the internet is dead, we go back to physical media and physical interactions. We become free.
- Comment on mensa 1 week ago:
Ok, so there is a pattern to this, and it has nothing to do with IQ per se.
It has everything to do with political alignment. And it’s a multi-variant association (1. booty v. boobs, and 2. race / ethnicity / religion).
I’ll use US-centric political terminology here.
Hear me out:
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Men who prefer big healthy asses tend to lean left/Democrat/liberal/progressive. Men who prefer big boobs tend to lean right/Republican/conservative/fash.
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Men who are willing to date outside their own race / ethnicity tend to be more progressive than those who prefer to stay within their own race / ethnicity (although progressives can happily find partners within their own ethnic group, too; whereas conservative almost always look within their own ethnicity first).
So, an appreciation for big booty Latinas signifies a. someone who leans left (booty), and b. a progressive willing to date outside their own race (assuming he’s not also Latino).
A progressive / Democrat / liberal / lefty can also date PAWGs, big booty Black women, etc. and be perfectly happy.
A Republican will only date someone within their ethnicity 95%+ of the time (some exceptions exist, but it’s relatively rare), and they ALWAYS prefer big mommy milkers, caring very little, or naught at all, for booties.
So there you go. This is 100% anecdote, but one day, I guarantee, the research and science will back me up on this, as soon as someone conducts it.
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- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 1 week ago:
Great game, but I could never play it for more than ten minutes at a time before getting woozy and nauseous.
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 1 week ago:
The party of Small Government and Free Speech at work.
- Comment on Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service 1 week ago:
GOOD
- Comment on Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales 3 weeks ago:
The solution to guns is to ensure that only the state can ever have guns.
Why? Because the state will never be taken over by bad actors who seek to destroy democracy and institute autocracy.
The well-meaning liberal-minded and just people in power today will be in power tomorrow and forever, so we can always trust them to have all guns, hold the cryptography backdoors for all consumer electronics, hold the reins on banking, have sophisticated mass surveillance capabilities, curtail free speech and open protest, intimidate rumblings of labor unionization, clamp down on people advocating for Palestinian people, disproportionately imprison brown people and immigrants for infractions that white people walk away from consequence-free, and so on.
Why? Because terrorism must not win, and we’ll never ever change what the poorly-defined word “terrorism” means on a whim based on current perceived political enemies or anything.
- Comment on Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales 3 weeks ago:
It’s good to practice, because one day you may need to shoot fascists.
- Comment on Fear of 'being cringe' blamed for lack of dancing on nightclub dance floors 3 weeks ago:
Everyone has a fucking camera in their pocket.
- Comment on Just.....why? 4 weeks ago:
IoT has gotten way out of hand
- Comment on TikTok Is Reportedly Making a U.S. Version of the App 4 weeks ago:
Rednote 小红书 is much better than TikTok anyway, obvious propaganda and all.
- Comment on Call Of Duty: WW2 pulled offline amid hacking claims after it starts messing with PCs and citing random lawyers 4 weeks ago:
And now I’m officially 100% done with gaming, since that’s the last game I’d continued playing from time to time (when I have a spare few minutes and a whim to fire it up, that is).
Oh well, part of getting older. I think I also have Halo and a Modern Warfare on that XBox, but, meh. WWII was the best CoD (the most fun, at least to me).
- Comment on Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes 4 weeks ago:
Productivity will go up, wages will remain the same, and no additional time off will be given to employees. They’ll merely be required to produce 4x as much and compensation will not increase to match.
It seems the point of all these machines and automation isn’t to make our individual lives easier and more prosperous, but instead to increase and maximize shareholder value.
- Comment on Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees 4 weeks ago:
You think they guy who writes code to make Xbox games work, or the woman who does data analytics in R and Excel to optimize cloud hosting traffic shaping rules (or whatever), is the same as ICE and the SS?!
Jesus Christ. Climb out from under your rock and go meet some real people doing real things, and do some real things of value yourself. Maybe learn how to make something with tech. Maybe learn a little bit of code, I don’t know.
I work in tech. I am not rounding up my Hispanic neighbors for ICE, nor am I building spyware infrastructure for Palantir. I write code to help doctors and nurses do their jobs more effectively and efficiently. But fuck me I guess for trying to earn a living by providing some value. And fuck Microsoft employees for writing code to allow people to play video games or whatever.
- Comment on Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees 4 weeks ago:
Oh, fuck you.
People need an income, and they work hard to provide for their families.
Tech employees are people, too. And many of them spent years perfecting a very difficult set of skills that the market is quickly deciding isn’t as valuable as it once was, because their corporate employers regard them merely as resources to be exploited and then discarded at the first opportunity. That sucks.
It sucks whomever it happens to, be it warehouse workers, truck drivers, call center employees, retail and customer service employees, or office knowledge workers. Just because a person had made a pretty good salary doesn’t mean they haven’t still be exchanging their precious time for dollars like the rest of us, grinding away their life at a job rather than spending quality time with their loved ones and persuing their own hobbies and interests.
Seriously, fuck you dude.
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 4 weeks ago:
Nobody told me all this when I signed up. I was simply instructed to pick an instance, and I did.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 4 weeks ago:
I’ve always wanted to sail.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 4 weeks ago:
I feel guilty saying it, because I know I was in a privileged position, with a job that could be done remotely and living close to nature, but I fucking loved COVID lockdown. I can’t remember being so happy since childhood. Everything just slowed down, and I spent more time with my family.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 4 weeks ago:
I was on a work call the other day, listening to my peers complain about European work culture - “They just leave at 5:00 sharp, even if the project isn’t done! They’ll say ‘we’ll just pick it up in the morning and finish it then’ as if that’s good enough!” “You can’t contact them on weekends or vacations at all! They don’t even read and answer email!” “They take such long vacations! And just disappear! It’s so frustrating!”
I wanted to scream.
- Comment on Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data 5 weeks ago:
Regional accents I guess.
- Comment on Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data 5 weeks ago:
Ðð = voiced “th” (“this,” “thus,” “weather”) Þþ = unvoiced “th” (“thing,” “thong,” “with”)
IIRC, these (ðese) letters come from Old English and Old Norse, and were later dropped in favor of “th” for both the voices and unvoiced consonants.
But I’m not an expert. That’s the gist anyway.
Some folks want to bring these letters back. I get it, and I actually like them. But it ain’t gonna happen.
Anyway, “ðey” missed one.
- Comment on Radio transmissions 1 month ago:
I unironically love Latinisation (and Greekification).
“Crabification” would have worked just fine to express this idea, but “carcinisation” sounds so scientific and erudite.
People dog on English, but I think it’s really cool how we have other ancient source languages to pull from to coin “smart” words when needed. And when you dig into the etymology of the “fancy” word, it adds texture, layers, history, and extra context to the whole thing.
Ok, that was a tangent. Carry on.
- Comment on Played (and finished) Call of Duty WWII Single Player. I have mixed feelings. 1 month ago:
Fair. I am old though.
- Comment on Played (and finished) Call of Duty WWII Single Player. I have mixed feelings. 1 month ago:
COD WWII is my favorite multiplayer ever.
It’s easy to hop on to. The scoreboard is legible and relatively simple. The players in the lobbies have always been a little bit on the older side compared to other Call of Duty games, and they’re just there to have fun. When they use their mics, they’re riffing and teasing without taking it too seriously, or getting too nasty.
The lobbies are far less crowded nowadays, but they’re still active.
I don’t want to play any other multiplayer game anymore. This is the one. I’m locked in.
Yes I’m old.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 1 month ago:
There are also external AI tools that do this just fine.
But imagine these tools generating summaries of summaries.
- Comment on There should be a universal standard indicator for whether a comment chain should be read top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top 1 month ago:
Microsoft Outlook started this stupid shit.
Before then, emails (and Usenet posts) were always appended to the bottom, and good netiquette required one to intentionally quote the specific germane lines from the previous message and respond to them inline, point-by-point, for brevity, conciseness, and context, just as God intended.
- Comment on Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report 1 month ago:
Automation is going to chew up jobs faster than new ones are created, too.
Reduce the value of white collar labor, and white collar workers will flood to the blue collar trades, drastically reducing pay there as well.
Not a suitable environment for growing large families.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
Dude, a guy named Constantine literally started this modern Christiandom train rolling with his “Hey guys, I just met Jesus, and he told me I should be in charge now. So, I’m king, ordained by heaven, and we’ll enforce this new order with lots of violence.”
And he and his successors then proceeded to conquer territory, and then mint coins depicting a soldier holding a cross and smashing the head of his enemy under his boot. In hoc signo vinces.
And thus Christian imperialism, conquest, subjugation, and terror has marched along ever since. Lest ye forget the Crusades and the Inquisistion, for example.
Yes, there’s beauty and kindness in the Christian tradition as well. But let’s not pretend that it was all huggy-bunches-of-love until Calvinism showed up.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 2 months ago:
Land of the Free.