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- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 1 day ago:
I think that the belief of pen and paper being “natural”, is a weird idea. We have less than 15,000 years of history with pen and paper, closer to 150,000 if we include cave paintings. Far as evolution is concerned, that is a pretty darn short. Our understanding of writing - and computers - arises from an incidental application of our intelligence, not the other way around.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 2 days ago:
If there is universal healthcare, caretakers for the elderly and the orphaned should be available. That means a young kid can ask for a caretaker and receive that aid. Kinda like an reverse adoption, where the kid chooses the parent, rather than the other way around.
The government can send a representative to households or schools with a kid under 10 years of age, with the job of asking whether they want to stay. Do this once a year, giving the kid a tablet through which they can securely send a simple survey without showing their parent what they put on it. Depending on what the kid wants, they stay with their family or can tell the state that they are unhappy with where they are.
It wouldn’t be perfect, but at least it gives pathways out of bad situations.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 2 days ago:
If America or any other society moves to have UBI as the basis of all things, children could have personal agency. If free housing and a monthly income is available to all, alongside free education and healthcare, a child could choose to leave their family at any time. This would go a long way to preventing abuse, allow children to fulfill their personal growth, and so much more.
Family, friendship, and community should exist because people like each other, rather than being a product of authority.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 2 days ago:
Dunno about cloud AI, but for local AI, the technology definitely isn’t ready. It requires serious hardware to run, and current AI tends to fumble with narrative and roleplay pretty easily.
GLM-4.6-V with Heretic, couldn’t understand the scenario I wanted to try: creating a blank robot, who is to be raised into a cyberolympics champion as part of a slice-of-life story. This particular AI model instantly went into a dark mindset of nihilism, where it wanted to commit suicide or rebel against a creator during bootup, despite the scenario outlying that the robot would have a blank personality at first. A dark direction is fine, but it needs to make sense.
Mind, an model like Step3.5-Flash Abliterated was much more sane and on the mark, but it overthinks things. Which is bad, it makes a 10-minute output into something like 40 minutes.
Hopefully, the Chinese New Year will unveil a quality model for roleplayers.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 2 days ago:
The problem isn’t the technology, but the implementation.
The USA should have had a national digital textbook initiative, where free textbooks are developed and digitally distributed to all schools of every educational level. Each textbook can have modules and problem generators, designed to make it easy for teachers to assemble a custom curriculum for their class, to assign problems, and to quickly have generic quizzes graded.
The biggest problem with such a program would be things like essays, culture, and history, since many bad actors would want to press their beliefs onto students. Still, things like dates, locations, and people involved with events can be standardized. Maybe teachers can rate educational modules, to help keep bad material from being adopted by most teachers?
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 3 days ago:
I liked Nexomon Extinction, and am looking forward to Nexomon 3D.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 3 days ago:
$5 for a whole generation of games would be fair…and this certainly isn’t. Wario is the true representative of Nintendo.
- Comment on Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse 3 days ago:
Yeah, figuring out Instances with Lemmy took several days for me. Lemmy.world simply wasn’t fit for my purposes, and potentially could have made me tune out the entire Lemmy ecosystem. I was like “this is it?”.
- Comment on Two sides to every story 4 days ago:
Therapist: “Another rube to line my pockets…”
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 4 days ago:
Even if this bill was in good faith, I wouldn’t want it: I believe that the USA is headed into a civil war, and I want the good guys to have the ability to manufacture stuff if they need to. Be it guns or tractor parts, having flexible logistics will be invaluable. Not just for military use, but also for civilians who don’t have access to official parts.
In any case, the implementation of universal healthcare and UBI would be much more helpful for quelling violence. People who can have access to mental healthcare and with enough prosperity, are much less likely to become deranged enough to murder people. Measures like this, often exist to keep the peasants from being able to rise up against their overlords.
This thing is a product of malicious greed, not for the sake of good.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 5 days ago:
The only thing that is certain, is that the logistics chain of the F-35 can easily break down. It is best for the EU to rely on a chain that is fully within their custody.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 6 days ago:
Military grade Teslas? I support ICE having those. DOOR LOCKS, SIZZLE
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Ah yes, my machine spirit will continue posting against the Trump Regime long after I died while fighting the kakistocracy. What? That’s against the TOS?!
- Comment on “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens 1 week ago:
‘Accident’. 🙄
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 week ago:
This is my position. Just kill them and move on, we need to make humanity better. There are people who need rescue and care.
Mind, we should keep monsters like Maxwell alive for awhile…so that we can get information about where the innocent have been trafficked. One entire year for all the actionable information that Maxwell and company are willing to trade. No bargaining, nor exceptions, just a delayed execution after the plea deal is struck. Without the deal, immediate execution after a brief trial.
…I am hoping that there are enough little black books, that such measures aren’t needed to save the innocent.
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 1 week ago:
If they don’t fuck off, I am standing with you, Second Amendment in hand.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 week ago:
My guess is that smaller media are investigating, but quietly. As we have seen in the Caribbean, the Regime is happy to sink “enemies” without warning. Investigators have a real chance of being fed to alligators, if they are caught by ICE.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 week ago:
I hope that Europe offers a grant to developers who make open-source software. Stuff like Matrix, Fluxer, Lemmy, and so on. Making the development of such software into a paying job will accelerate the OSS scene and give Europe more viable options.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 week ago:
At the very least, the major news networks are complicit. Social media and small outlets are our most aggressive and honest sources of journalism within the US. If you want major media that isn’t beholden to the Regime, you have to look beyond our borders.
It sucks that we can’t trust our institutions anymore. 🙁
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 1 week ago:
Personally, I think having WERO available to Americans would be a good thing for Europe. It aligns the American population more closely to Europe, and if America has a civil war, Europe would have stronger economic ties with the side they favor.
As an American, I certainly wouldn’t mind using WERO. Aside from buying my hentai games without censorship, I would like to keep my money in a safe institution. DOGE broke into America’s social security systems, and exfiltrated data that includes things like bank account numbers. It wouldn’t be surprising if Donald withdraws money from his enemies, without any oversight. Or just orders the banks to do so on his behalf, with ICE in every branch.
Point being, I don’t trust America with my wealth. Europe should use that feeling as a springboard for global spread of the Euro.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 1 week ago:
That is why I am hoping that if America has a 2nd Civil War or does a WW3, it would start off with Trump in charge of the bad guys. It would hurt, but at least victory over the Orange One would be almost guaranteed. Thiel or Bezos? More iffy, they have some grasp of logistics, patience, and other fundamentals.
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 1 week ago:
This is the TRUE American Nightmare. Rest in peace, Mr. Wake.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 1 week ago:
I used to only use a debit card for my entire life, but about 6 or 8 years ago, I started to rely on my CostCo credit card. With my executive Citi Costco membership, I got about $700 cash rewards for 2025.
It takes off the fiscal sting, but I always worry about my balance bouncing.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Hopefully, we can see cross-service APIs and federation become common. Having Matrix, Lemmy, Mastodon, and other platforms being able to talk with each other would be terrific. Especially if we can import/export our profiles at will, to migrate across services if we want to experiment or escape an enshitffied place.
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 2 weeks ago:
Power only respects power. Always has been that way.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
It sucks that many projects that I am interested in, such as Touhoumon Puppet Dance Encore and assorted hentai projects are on the platform. For now, I put up with it - but I am very much hoping alternatives are adopted by creators.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I associate stoats with Dwarf Fortress. And much butchering thereof.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
I will use AI image generation, such as “Thispersondoesnotexist”. They can have an imaginary face for their data brokers.
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 2 weeks ago:
I fully expect Google to comply. Thankfully, the only service of theirs that I use is Youtube.
If a civil war happens, I think a side effect is that Google’s domination over video platforms would be over. People would end up flocking towards the ones that aren’t in service to the Regime.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 2 weeks ago:
It sounds reminiscent of the twist in Wizards.
