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- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 20 hours ago:
There was a candidate against it. If you'd had paid attention at the time, you would have noticed that. Also, voting against something is actually the opposite of voting for it.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 day ago:
I will not, as I voted against it, which is more than the Democrats can say
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 day ago:
I always read it as "It's not a big deal, as long as it's my team doing it". See also: Sending immigrants to torture prisons, rape, caring about corporations more than people, suppressing the working class, war, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Advertisements are an attack to manipulate me and change my behaviour. I don't tolerate them at all. They also ruin the product, because it eventually becomes more important to cater to the advertisers than the users.
If Youtube went back to how it was originally (no ads, downloadable videos, creator-controlled, etc), I, and many others, would happily pay them even if we could get the content for free (see Patreon, or GoFundMe, or PornHub, or Imgur, or Reddit, or many other sites as examples).
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 day ago:
You mean the genocide that Harris said that she was going to support?
It's always amazing to me that Democrats get mad at people who couldn't stomach voting for genocide, instead of getting mad at the people who ran a pro-genocide campaign.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 2 days ago:
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 2 days ago:
No, it's when every example is of liberals doing that same thing that makes it an example of liberalism
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 2 days ago:
They are run by self-declared liberal democrats. These benches were put in place under their administration.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 3 days ago:
Every "liberal" city that I've lived in has had these, or a variant. So I'd have to say yes, it is liberalism in action
- Comment on Priorities 4 days ago:
In the Bobiverse books, a guy uploads his brain into a computer. He then spends years flying accross space, because it takes years to get anywhere. I've often dreamed of having a few decades just to work on my fun personal projects, uninterrupted.
- Comment on Streaming overtakes cable and broadcast as the most-watched form of TV 4 days ago:
I'd guess that the stats were thrown off every small business that has an annoying TV blaring in the background
- Comment on Real af 5 days ago:
- Comment on Picture of hardwood 1 week ago:
Schaeffers Deck Sealant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6c4Nupnup0
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 2 weeks ago:
If anyone tells you that your teenage years are the best years of your life: Smile, nod, and slowly back away. Then never talk to that person again.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
awesome, I'll check that out
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
Chris Crawford was talking about this problem in 1992 and we still haven't learned anything
The Dragon Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074
I couldn't find a transcription, and it covers a lot more than education, but it's a good speech. The relevant part starts at ~12:45
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 4 weeks ago:
I forget where I heard the quote, but:
SO is a great place to find answers. So is a terrible place to ask questions.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 5 weeks ago:
Patient gamers represent! The older I get, the less I care about FOMO. The less I care about FOMO, the happier I am. It's a beautiful cycle.
/me goes back to playing snes games on an emulator
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 1 month ago:
I use LUKS and backup to a usb-drive that I have at home. I rsync those backups to my work once a week. Not everyone can backup to their office, but as others have said, backing up to a friend/family member's house is doable. The nice thing about rsync is that you can limit the bandwidth, so that even though it takes longer, it doesn't saturate their internet connection.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As someone who grew up fundamentalist-religious and right-wing, but then got out of it, it's becuase of a few things:
You'd have to restructure a lot of your world-view, and that is very hard. You have to take a fundamental part of how you see the world, discard it, and watch a bunch of other values and beliefs come crashing down. Rebuilding from that is scary and hard.
You have a lot of social investment as being part of the "in-crowd" of your community. A lot of your friends/family/colleagues/social-circle all keep reinforcing your beliefs. This makes it hard to step away from those beliefs, because you feel like you are betraying that community. Many communities will indeed abandon you, especially if you go to the "other side". You suddenly have to become the enemy that you've been rallying against.
Sunk-Cost fallacy: You've already spent so much time and effort in this belief, that youre really hoping something will happen, and your faith in the person or system will be justified. Eventually it'll pay off if you wait just a little longer. Of course, "wait a little longer" ends up being years and years, and at that point you have more compounded mistakes that you have to admit to. This makes you feel like a bigger idiot than if you had just admitted your mistakes up front.
tl;dr: It's a cult!
- Comment on Are AAA Games too bloated? 1 month ago:
Yup, look at things like Tetris. No story, no dialogue, no cut-scenes. Just a solid Core Gameplay Loop. Sure, I like a lot of the additional stuff, but if you make the Core Gameplay Loop fun, everything else is just window-dressing
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 month ago:
*Some furries are a sexual kink. Many of them just like the look of animals.