ScoffingLizard
@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 days ago:
It would be more useful to replace CEOs with AI. Or maybe even my dog.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 days ago:
Paper books are the way.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 5 days ago:
Agreed. Not sure what those downvotes are for. I saw this coming 20 years ago. Especially with lobbying as out of control as it has been. If Trump dropped dead now, we’d still have a catastrophe.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 5 days ago:
Bastards. I’m just want the infrastructure first. From what I understand our sewer has hit some kind of capacity too. People just can’t pay more and more and more so some duck can have a yacht. Honestly, I wish this place was a bigger city, but just give us the infrastructure and I’m good.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 1 week ago:
We made a shit tin of those. Many are empty to drive prices up.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 1 week ago:
I was recently a NIMBY. Let me explain. People from California sell their homes for millions and come here and offer way over asking price so we are priced out. Natives cannot afford to live here now. In 2020 they fucked me out of a house I wanted, even after I offered well over asking. Now they want to put 450 homes behind the neighborhood where I finally got a house. The roads are already damn near impassible. The state refuses to allow us to charge the developer an impact fee. We’re running out of water. Our water bills just went up 149%. Real estate has flown through the roof. We do not have enough infrastructure, enough schools, and an ambulance might take 45 min. Traffic is ridiculous. Some person from Cali was in Reddit asking locals for advice, and they attacked her so bad she said never mind, I’m absolutely not moving there.
Honestly, we’re not bad people. We’re just sick if it. For some reason people in high COL places romanticize this area and it’s ruining everything. Like damn, how much more do things have to be to accommodate all these people?
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 1 week ago:
That is not the consequence of enough housing. It’s from wealth hoarding.
- Comment on A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet 1 week ago:
I have this issue. I have also explained that everyone she communicates with didn’t consent to having their communications intercepted by other parties.
- Comment on A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet 1 week ago:
We should emphasize the John Deere tractor thing to reach a broader audience.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 1 week ago:
Go yo the town nearest the data center, and tell everyone to use up as much power as possible. Than have a bot farm maximize the power draw of the servers by doing an almost DDoS attack. Keep the grid constantly under pressure so the UPSs in the data center can’t compensate when the power goes out. Constant surges will destroy their equipment eventually, or just cause so many outages that people stop using the services.
This would cause people’s appliances to shut down too, but if everyone turned off fridges and HVACs or whatever, and then just have heaters blow air outside constantly in high as much as possible, and maybe use ovens on broil at the same time, that might work.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 1 week ago:
That’s obvious. That’s exactly what they are doing.
- Comment on YSK: Ranked: Minimum Wages in 50 U.S. States & 35 Countries 1 week ago:
I guess the page unloads itself after the Google tracker is blocked.
- Comment on Musk says Tesla is moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription 1 week ago:
I was in my friend’s Tesla the other day, and she couldn’t figure out which button to push to get the glove box open. There is no handle. Just a screen with a GUI that has menus with a glove box button.
I was like wtf. I’m so pissed about my old car with too many buttons for the air conditioner. That was the most infuriating looking car I’ve ever seen. Guess she got it before the Nazi salute for tax write off.
- Comment on Musk says Tesla is moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription 1 week ago:
You have got to be a goddamn moron to buy a Tesla.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 1 week ago:
Best we can do is make everything more gas dependent by canceling windmill projects.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Where does this happen? I’ll go take all the free shit.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
Do you need an account to access the link?
- Comment on Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to firewall it or you’ll get a patch anyways
- Comment on YSK that Chris Hughes, one of the founders of Facebook, says the company must be dismantled 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure Facebook has been paid by the gov for some time now.
- Comment on YSK that Chris Hughes, one of the founders of Facebook, says the company must be dismantled 2 weeks ago:
Imagine knowing millions of people hate you. You’d wanna go build a giant hole in the ground to go hide. Oh wait.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 2 weeks ago:
I lost 50% of mine when we were.forced.to used Teams and we started getting notifications every 5 seconds.
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 2 weeks ago:
Black people have every reason to be where I live due to the Tuskegee experiments. Even black doctors have said they have to reason themselves into getting the covid vaccine due to the fears it caused.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 2 weeks ago:
Oh shit. You just gave me an epiphany.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 2 weeks ago:
It’s good to help create education plans for special needs folks IIRC.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 2 weeks ago:
10 is not even functional. Genius is 145+.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad you clearly defined the issue so that I now understand why everyone is so up I’m arms about the intelligence argument. I made a similar one recently to a person who said black folks had lower IQs and explained that the test results would have probably been much different if all participants came from the same socioeconomic backgrounds. But then got called a Nazi in a separate discussion for discussing intelligence and race on Lemmy. So I guess my real problem was not realizing that other people don’t get how education and environment can change the results of IQ tests and intelligence perception. I just kinda thought everyone knew that. So if you speak in terms of race and perceived intelligence, other people have no way of knowing that you have considered all the other environmental factors and just assume a person is a racist.
I guess what I am saying is that it would be better discourse if more people nicely explained what the problem with their language is like you did, but without assuming a person is racist or on board with eugenics. Like, personally, I’m willing to make adjustments so that it’s not offensive to others, but I wasn’t inclined to previously because people just said I was wrong and a Nazi and I had no idea wtf they were talking about until I read your comment just now.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 2 weeks ago:
Here we go with more “you’re a Nazi and I’m not” virtue signaling. This has got to be the most annoying trend I’ve ever seen on the Internet.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 3 weeks ago:
I said the same thing but used the word race and the whole forum bashed me for being a “Nazi.” I swear sometimes I think the bots have already taken over Lemmy.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 3 weeks ago:
You can recognize someone’s ethnic background while still appreciating their culture. Y’all too serious in here.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 3 weeks ago:
What the fuck kind of virtue signaling nonsense is this? English is my first language. If you put kids from Japan in a room with kids the same age from Mississippi, Japan will kick their asses at Math. My country has hard college, Japan has brutal high school. More people in Japan are better educated because most people in my country do not have college education and high school doesn’t go far. What an annoying comment. Using pronouns does not change definitions and make you the bastion of sensitivity for the world.