Jack_Burton
@Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Finally, taxpayer dollars put to a good use 4 days ago:
I guess snow and ice leaves a lasting emotional scar like mustard does. Sandwiches and snowballs scar you for life.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Kagi has a fediverse filter
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 6 days ago:
Unfortunately, the answer is to move to a country that’s not a shit hole and has universal healthcare. The next best is to do what you can to survive while you try to convince people to vote with you for a gov’t that will give you universal healthcare.
Right now? I can’t imagine what you’re going through and I really am sorry I can’t help directly. Your system is broken. Your gov’t has failed you. I really, truly and honestly, wish you the best and hope you find the help you need.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 week ago:
Have you never seen a movie set in space? Evrytime someone gets sucked into space they freeze. You saying every movie got it wrong?? Space is cold. Duh.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 1 week ago:
Soon enough social apps will use your selfie cam to track your eyes. Ads will only play when your eyes are engaged and pause if you’re not looking at the screen. Oh boy.
Same with TVs, the built in camera will see who’s watching, and Netflix, etc, will stop streaming when it sees 5 people watching when your account is only set for 4. Either one person leaves the room or you upgrade to continue watching.
- Comment on Tim Cook Warned by CIA That China Could Move on Taiwan by 2027 2 weeks ago:
The US is showing the future the 1% are pushing for humanity. Governments will no longer be elected politicians, but corporate CEOs.
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, the language suggests to me it can be worked around. It states age verification to make the OS account. Linux doesn’t require accounts. This seems to target Microsoft and Apple account creation (since you won’t be able to use the OS without one) and of course Google will implement account requirements on Android
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
That seems really odd to me. Generally people do at least a bit of research about a vehicle purchase, especially that expensive. I’m not even referring to Musk shit, just vehicle buying in general. Anyone looking up anything about the cost/value of a cybertruck would pretty quickly get an abundance of info about it being a bad buy without getting into any of the Musk stuff.
I guess if your boss’ husband just has the money and liked the look/what it said it’d do, then fair enough. Just seems strange to knowingly buy a lemon.
- 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 weeks ago:
Google got exactly what they wanted out of it though. Get 'em young using and feeling comfortable with Google hardware and software, and trapped in the walled garden early. Most are not likely to change to another brand/OS later in life.
- Comment on Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level, I just thought it wouldn't be me. 3 weeks ago:
I keep thinking about the first ep of Battlestar Galactica (2004) where everything in the ship is hard wired and closed-circuit and realizing that that’s more like what my personal sci-fi future is going to look like.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
Know what’s better than learning something? Learning a second way to do it. Learning cursive has more benefits than simply being able to read/write it.
Kid’s brains are sponges and multiple studies over the years all show a direct correlation with learning more/varied things at an early age drastically increases the ability to keep learning later in life.
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 4 weeks ago:
He also recently mentioned about his new Netflix movie that Netflix said “it wouldn’t be terrible if you reiterated the plot three or four times in the dialogue because people are on their phones while they’re watching.”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
So it’s more of a circle jerk for people who can’t provide anything useful and have to pretend they have value. Seems like it’s just putting more effort into not working than just doing the work itself.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Haha yep, my exact train of thought while typing
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
So it’s just a grift. Makes sense, they always use grift-style buzzwords. I was about to comment on the ridiculousness of building a business solely on manipulation, but then I thought about it a bit more haha. Thanks for the explanation.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the point of this. Like, you figure out how to increase traffic on certain posts/comments and there’s somehow a push for this? Do they get money somehow? These people always use terminology and ceo buzzwords as if it’s some big business level that people are aspiring to reach, but what’s the actual point? Why would I care if my post/comment exploded? Was I just using Reddit wrong?
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 5 weeks ago:
“If I had taken the GPUs that just came online in Q1 and Q2 in terms of GPUs and allocated them all to Azure, the KPI would have been over 40,” she said.
“If I had bet on black instead of red I would have won”
- Comment on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
“Profits”. It’s all just Three-card Monte but “legal” since the laws don’t apply to the rich.
- Comment on This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry 1 month ago:
There’s always LineageOS for now
- Comment on ICE arrested a Navajo man and dismissed all the proof he presented of his identity, claiming he faked it and that they'd "get his family next". 1 month ago:
Miller wasn’t only talking about Greenland when he said “To control a territory, you have to be able to defend a territory".
- Comment on ICE arrested a Navajo man and dismissed all the proof he presented of his identity, claiming he faked it and that they'd "get his family next". 1 month ago:
And that’s why Trump is pushing for civil unrest/war to use the insurrection act. He desperately needs the military. Not only is ICE not big enough, but it’s full of untrained cowards. As soon as the first bullet flies, some will fight, but the vast majority will either go flight or fawn. This existence is so stupid.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 1 month ago:
Comix Zone
Memory unlocked haha. I could literally smell the static on my old crt monitor when I read that!
- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 1 month ago:
I’m sure that’ll be a tiered pay option soon enough. $10 a month gets you an ai that’s just an acquaintance. Doesn’t “care”, forgets your name sometimes, doesn’t remember that thing you talked about last week. $50 a month gets you your ai best friend. It “cares”, remembers everything about you, makes suggestions based on what it knows about you, even goes out of it’s way to prompt you first and ask you how your dentist appt went.
In my opinion ai is in the “drug dealer wandering around the club giving a free bump” phase. Once people get addicted and sew it into the fabric of every day life, thes3 companies will up the price, make the cheaper tiers too frustrating to use, and charge up the ass. “Oh, you’ve got an ai boyfriend? Let’s see how much you’ll pay to keep it or have it lobotomized.”
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 months ago:
Damn. It’s American. I’ll be keeping an eye on how well it does though, it’s a great idea.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 3 months ago:
Is that a thing? I’m in Canada and I’ve never seen a duplex sell as a single house. If you could find it that would be a pretty sweet deal
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 3 months ago:
Or buying a duplex and renting half of it
That’s just buying two houses to rent one though
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 3 months ago:
It blew my mind when he announced it. Brand recognition is one of the most important things companies hope for, and Twitter was in it’s own, very select brand recognition club at the top. Tweeting became part of everyday vernacular, in the same way that googling something became synonomous with searching online. It’s a company’s wet dream. No one says “gramming”, “threading”, “facebooking”, etc. Maybe Snapchat has snapping, I’m out of the loop but even I’ve used tweeting/ed in every day conversations.
That recognition is the stupidest thing to just throw away, especially to replace it with something that can’t replace it from a language perspective. Xing makes no sense in context.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 4 months ago:
This entire conversation is based on what the op asked. Would the 99% take what the 1% has. You suggested they couldn’t take it, I suggested they wouldn’t have to they could just cut them off. The entire premise is based on the 99% standing up and uniting. It was an interesting question dude, no need to be insulting.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 4 months ago:
Wen you’re accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression. And that’s just for us regular folk. These people love a life of luxury we’ll never understand, and they never get told ‘no’. So yeah, as dumb as it sounds, when you’ve lived a life getting everything you ever want finding out you can’t have that smoothie can have an effect.
I’m not saying that first smoothie would be the trigger point, but the idea is lack of access. Cut off the new sewage drainage from billionaire island. Cut off deliveries of any kind. They’re used to lobster and caviar at the snap of a finger. Kraft Dinner will be unacceptable. Lock them in their utopias and see how long they last.
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 4 months ago:
I don’t know where you got your definition of capitalism “results in economic singularities and infinite wealth for everyone”, but it’s wrong. The West is currently in late-stage capitalism, which is always the outcome of a capitalist system: wealth and power gets consolidated into the hands of the few, while the many suffer.
The term “leftist” can best be described politically, as supporting the political left. The problem with that term currently is that it’s used to define non-political ideology as well, like social aspects such as empathy/sympathy. I’m unsure where you stand when you call yourself “leftist” so it’s hard to say if your definition can mix with capitalism.
Fundamentally, in my opinion no, enjoying capitalsim is supporting a system that inherently causes inequality, wealth gaps, and the concept of profits over people, which are the opposite of a standard definition of “leftist” beliefs no matter how you define it.
My question to you is, would you still blindly support capitalism if you were one of the many who didn’t benefit from it?