skisnow
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- Comment on english snaccs 2 days ago:
I have just learned that Smirnoff is (now) British, which I didn’t expect
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 3 days ago:
The dimensions of the pink paper look just very slightly shorter than either A4 or US Letter. Sure, it could have been trimmed, but why would you go to the effort of trimming such a tiny amount on an otherwise low effort poster?
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 3 days ago:
Yeah I thought the same, can’t pinpoint it exactly, but even if it’s not AI it’s definitely fake as fuck regardless.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 days ago:
A good one I’ve discovered while researching the architecture is to occasionally use words that are close to other words in semantic vector space, but are the wrong word exceed the context it’s used in. Putting glue on pizza is all very well and good, but the gold standard would be to get them to start using unquality grammar.
- Comment on english snaccs 4 days ago:
It saddens me how many British classics are now owned by American companies or Nestle.
“Valeo Foods” who own most of the traditional brands like Barratt’s, Fox’s mints, Barker & Dobson, Mojo, Poppets, McCowan’s and a ton of others, is actually owned by US Republican Mitt Romney’s company Bain Capital (which isn’t even a publicly traded company).
Mondelez’ acquisition of Cadbury’s everyone knows about already, and Mars was American to begin with even though all their best items originated in the UK.
Terry’s also got bought by Kraft/Mondelez but they’ve since been sold to a French company, which I guess is better than most of the alternatives.
As far as I can tell, Tunnocks are pretty much the only British chocolate left.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
What’s weird is that recently I only ever see it used inappropriately. The thing being highlighted in this meme wasn’t particularly objectionable or weird, so pulling a “Nobody:” on it just makes it look like OP is desperately trying to crowbar their observation into a meme.
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 4 days ago:
The horrible thing about it all is that saying you should always punch Nazis was an uncontroversial statement even as recently as three years ago.
The only reason it’s now considered a terroristic threat is because powerful figures have started openly identifying with fascism.
We need to be saying it more, not less.
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 4 days ago:
Wait are you saying that Hitler is good?
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 5 days ago:
I never watched his series, but there was a photo of Cain as Superman accompanying the article and he certainly seemed to be the most smug self-satisfied Superman out there.
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 5 days ago:
Yeah, Dean Fucking Cain did.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 1 week ago:
A lot of people in this thread are falling for the classic weasel headline reporting trick of using the word “after” to imply a connection, when there’s zero evidence in the article body to suggest it means anything other than two different events happened a day apart.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Clearly murdering a farmer is also wrong, if there were easy answers then we wouldn’t be where we are now.
But, I think the Judge had it right when she said “find another tomato”, and the scriptwriters allowed the main characters to handwave it away as “no that’s too hard” without being challenged any further on it.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
perfect is the enemy of good.
I wish vegans and vegetarians would be a bit more willing to promote this viewpoint. It’s insane how many otherwise normal people will refuse a single vegetarian meal for no reason other than identity politics.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Then kg is a poor choice of metric. They should’ve gone with dietary calories.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
That show pissed me off so much. They actually straight up concluded that there is no ethical consumerism under capitalism, and then… just rewrote the universe’s metaphysics so that you get a pass for that, and American consumerism becomes standard religious doctrine
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 1 week ago:
AI seems to really love that extreme high contrast side-lighting on everything. Then the text itself is irregular in a very non-human kind of way, like there’s no natural processes that would result in an ‘E’ like the one in ‘BECAUSE’.
Then you’ve got the person’s face, which if it were drawn by an artist of the skill level we’d expect from the rest of the piece, one would imagine they’d do a better job of conveying some sort of personality or emotion.
AI Art is fundamentally antisocial because it’s the Art equivalent of the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle; it took less effort for OP to create that than it did to pick apart exactly why it feels so unsatisfying and unsettling in all the wrong ways. Always downvote AI Art.
- Comment on Made Ya Look... 1 week ago:
Yeah. The problem with capitalism is that if you’re not willing to fuck things up for short-to-medium term benefit before moving onto the next thing, you’ll go out of business to someone who is.
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 1 week ago:
wtf is going on with his feet
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 1 week ago:
The best thing about all these organisations moving away from Microsoft is it incentivizes further development and QA. Or at least I hope all these governments switching to OSS are also funding people to keep a close eye on all the PRs coming in from state-sponsored hackers…
- Comment on Viewers like you 1 week ago:
What would you have us use instead then? They were going after “empathy” last month. No matter what word you choose, Nazis are gonna Nazi.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 week ago:
“curtail developer choice” is such a weak argument because you could equally apply it to literally every piece of regulation ever passed. Of course it curtails choice, that’s almost the dictionary definition of an industry regulation.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 1 week ago:
Absolutely. Every indicator available suggests Enshittification will hit the subscription models within the next few years.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Pretty much, I mean that’s why we have judges, to look at all the facts of the case and make a decision on whether this is functionally the same group of people doing the same things as they were under another name. Legal loopholes aren’t as easy as some people think.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
I mean ok but the drafters of the Terrorism Act did think of that already, changing your name doesn’t get you out of anything. Both the IRA and National Front were forever peeling off into splinter groups with new names back in the 20th century.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 week ago:
The big you’ve skimmed over is that it happened under Corbyn, who was hugely popular with Labour members for being actually Left Wing, and hugely unpopular amongst the entire rest of the political and media establishments (including Labour MPs) for exactly the same reason. Pretty much everyone on all sides who’d never given a toss about antisemitism before were suddenly pearl-clutching over the tiniest statement made by a backbencher’s assistant’s brother’s gibbon because it was a handy way to bring Corbyn down without having to give any airtime to debating his (very popular) policies.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 week ago:
Yeah, they lost an election over an antisemitism row a few years ago and have chosen the worst possible moment in history to start overcompensating for it.
- Comment on They are so clueless they don't realize that this just pisses everyone off. Shove your banana 1 week ago:
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 2 weeks ago:
The people who complain the loudest about disrespecting the flag are the same people who ruined it in the first place.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
Do you work for Microsoft or something? This reads exactly like their sales FUD playbook
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
Not entirely sure what you mean; Linux’s user management, access control, security etc has always been ahead of Windows’ for its whole existence.
