Washedupcynic
@Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca
- Comment on AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money 1 day ago:
It’s time to start demanding we be paid our wages in gold fucking nuggets.
- Comment on owo 3 days ago:
🤣
- Comment on owo 3 days ago:
V = IR
- Comment on Bean virus 4 days ago:
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
I came here to make this exact quote. Good job bro!
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
It’s estimated that mice have 70 million to 100 million neurons in their brains. They are capable of feeling pain and have social hierarchy. They also experience emotions like fear, pleasure, and anxiety. (We use them in pharmacology models of many mental illnesses.)
Have you ever heard the phrase, “the neurons that fire together, wire together” ? Our neurons are in a constant feedback loop with the environment we experience. Our experiences shape how our neurons make interconnected networks, which then impacts how we behave upon the environment.
If those neurons connected to the computer chip only ever experience playing the game “DOOM,” how would they know about anything else? How could they know about pain without having limbs to innervate and experience the pain with? How could they have a social hierarchy without others to interact with? We may as well be god to those neurons on the PC chip, because we are controlling the entire world they have access to.
What I find sad is that our society is ok with hooking living cells up to a computer to make smarter computers, but has a problem with ethically harvesting stem cells to be used to treat diseases.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
It has to be a full fetus with a heartbeat to have rights. /s In all seriousness, the human brain is estimated to have 86 billion neurons.
- Comment on $1,000 car loan payments are on the rise, stressing household budgets 1 week ago:
In 2020 I bought a brand new bike, spent $1400 on it and had it for 23 years until it was stolen. At the time, when I bought it, I was making 26K a year. I paid cash; that was what was within my means to own something without having to pay extra for it through a loan. In 2023 I bought a new (electric) bike, paid $1000 cash, no loan. I make 55K now. That’s what was within my means to own something outright, without having to pay a middle man for the privilege of borrowing money. No car loan hanging over my head, no worries about gas prices, or paying insurance and registration for the privilege to drive. You are 100% right about people living above their means. If the weather is really bad, I take public transit. The most I spend on transit is $65 a month during 1 month in the winter. Other months is usually $13-26 when I am mostly riding the bike everywhere. Me being a cheap bastard about transit affords me the ability to live 3 miles from my job, (higher rent,) and affords me the opportunity to travel and take a small vacation on yearly basis.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 week ago:
I don’t view this meme in the context of the most recent election, or current administration; I view it with 40 years of political policy and context I’ve lived through. Over decades, I find this meme to be mostly accurate. I was born at the tail end of Carter’s admin, for context.
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Reagan gave us trickle down economics and destabilization of south America and the Middle East with the Nicaragua contra scandal to funnel weapons to Iraq and Iran. Our tax dollars being used to kill brown people. During the 1980s, the United States aided Saddam Hussein’s regime primarily to counter Iran, providing billions in economic aid, dual-use technology, and crucial battlefield intelligence, particularly during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988). The U.S. supported Iraq’s military efforts, ensuring Baghdad did not lose to Iran, despite knowledge of chemical weapons usage. (Didn’t we eventually fight a war to get rid of Dadsam? Oops 😬)
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The first Bush was also involved in the contra scandal. Just before leaving office, President Bush pardoned six Reagan administration officials, including former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who were charged with crimes related to the Iran-Contra affair.
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Clinton, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999: Repealed the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, allowing commercial banks, securities firms, and insurance companies to consolidate. This removed controls on banks that allowed them to over speculate, and allowed consolidation of industries to be too big to fail. (This set is up for the supprime mortgage disaster that left tax payers holding the bag. Oops.) Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000: Exempted over-the-counter derivatives—including credit default swaps—from regulation. Telecommunications Act of 1996: Significantly deregulated the broadcasting and telecommunications markets. (The deregulation stipulation was that these companies would be rolling out broadband in exchange for deregulation and tax breaks. We still have communities in the USA that don’t have broadband. The telecoms laughed all the way to the bank, and jacked their prices way up. Oops.) President Bill Clinton’s administration (1993–2001) was involved in several military conflicts and interventions, primarily focused on peacekeeping in the Balkans, stopping ethnic cleansing, and responding to terrorism. Key actions included NATO bombing campaigns in Bosnia (1995) and Kosovo (1999), the failed mission in Somalia (1993), the occupation of Haiti (1994), and cruise missile strikes against Iraq and terrorist sites in Afghanistan/Sudan.
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Bush the second coming, Iraq War (2003–2011): Launched based on assertions that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and threatened peace. The invasion swiftly removed Saddam, but sparked a long insurgency and sectarian violence. There were no weapons of mass destruction. It was bullshit that helped his buddies in haliburton get rich on the tax payers dime bombing brown people. Oh, remember Guantanamo and the torture? How about the slow response to hurricane Katrina that devastated new Orleans? Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury in a case involving the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity. (Oops we sabotaged our ability to gather intelligence.) Dismissal of U.S. Attorneys in 2006, the Department of Justice fired eight U.S. attorneys, raising allegations of political manipulation within the Department of Justice.
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Obama gave us the affordable care act, and capitulated to the insurance industries by not pushing harder for single payer care. Authorized air strikes in Libya (2011) and later against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. The Dems had full control at the start of his presidency and wasted it trying to placate Republicans in the interests of bipartisanship. He was the tamest president in the past half century.
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We all know what utter trash the 1st trump presidency was, so I won’t rehash it here.
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Biden. His entire platform was, we aren’t trump. He honestly wasn’t that bad in terms of initiating military actions.
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House and Senate during the second coming of trump. They threw away the leverage they had during the shit down for the promise that repubs would revisit tax subsidies that made the affordable care plans affordable for Americans. The Republican administration let the tax credits expire. How about all of the Dems that voted yes on trumps cabinet pics?
Have Dems been better? Yes, but not consistently. Lately there is not much difference between the parties.
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- Comment on commitment 1 week ago:
Are you my brother from another mother?
- Comment on Grim Dawn celebrates its 10th anniversary 2 weeks ago:
I have briefly tried path of exile.
What I find really strange about PoE is that active skills you cast are tied to putting gems in your gear. As I continued to play, I found it frustrating. I might find a piece of gear that has good stats for my character, but the gem sockets are the wrong color for my gems that contain my skills. This necessitated grinding materials to re-roll the gem sockets, which was RNG. I found this to be a clunky way to change your skills too.
In grim dawn, you acquire active skills and stats as you level up and put points in your mastery. So if you want a skill, you base mastery must be raised high enough to unlock it, then you put a point in the skill. Putting additional points in the skill makes it stronger.
In terms of leveling up and making your character stronger, the system for spending points was pretty daunting in PoE. Resetting your points gets more and more expensive as your character levels up in PoE. This juxtaposed with the gem system for active skills just felt super clunky.
In grim dawn, leveling up your mastery gives you stats like physique, cunning, and spirit. If you are putting points into a base mastery for an arcanist, those base mastery points will overall give you more spirit per level; which means more energy regen for casting, and more magic damage. If you’re putting points into base mastery for a night blade, over time that gives you more cunning, for weapons based attacks, crit, and bleed. Putting points into base mastery for the soilder gives you more physique overtime, which gives you health regen, and the ability to avoid attacks. What I’m getting at here is the mastery system gives you the correct balance of stats. (Remember, you get to pick a second class/mastery at level 10.) As you level, you also get points to put into your characters base physique, cunning, or spirit which can help make you more well rounded, or boost a stat your are lacking due to the class choices you make. (Like a soldier + nightblade give you way more physique and cunning, and you might be running out of energy because you’re lacking spirit, you have a way to put points into spirit only to rectify this.) Reclaiming mastery points has a fixed cost and isn’t expensive the way it is in PoE.
The complexity of PoE eventually caused me to put it down. Grim dawn has the right balance of being more complex than Diablo 3, and simpler than PoE.
- Comment on Grim Dawn celebrates its 10th anniversary 2 weeks ago:
Grim dawn is an amazing game - 2,156 played and counting. I can’t wait for the new expansion.
Here is a link to my review, with a copy paste below.
What happens when diablo, torchlight, and titan quest gang bang a video game developer and you’re not quite sure who the father is? Grim Dawn.
This game, hands down gets a 10/10. Absolutely worth purchasing at full price. Here’s why.
- The class system is amazing. You can select a single class, or you can pick up a secondary class which allows for hybrid builds. The class system is similar to titan quest, in fact the game uses the TQ engine. (I own TQ, I haven’t play much, but now I am curios to pick it back up because Grim Dawn is so awesome.) The class system creates so much depth with varied playstyles.
Added for copy/paste; here is the full list of classes/masteries. Arcanist, Demolitionist, Nightblade, Occultist, Shaman, Soldier, Inquisitor, Necromancer, Oathkeeper, Berserker.
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SO MUCH LORE. Really! I loved reading all the little notes you find scattered about the world. Many of the NPCs you interact with are pretty memorable, and add depth to the story.
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Amazing art and music really help create the gritty and desperate world that is Grim Dawn. Boss battles feel intense. Dungeons and secret lairs feel creepy.
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3 different difficulties if you like achievement hunting. Crucible mode if you want to do a little PVP, or co-op crucible. 3 different crucible difficulties.
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Despite how RNG the gear system drops can be, you have the ability to buy back talent and devotion points to adjust for gear drops. Skill bonuses on gear work well with the class/talent system. (Aside from the class/mastery system, there are a series of constelations you can also earn points for. Some constelations can be linked with your skills from your mastery class giving it additional effects.)
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Gear is tradable. If you haven’t been blessed by RNGesus, you can trade stored gear with total strangers in multiplayer crucible. I love this. I love being able to give gear to someone that might be able to use it instead of letting it collect dust in my chest. Likewise, I have been freely given some pretty nice pieces too.
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The community is AMAZING.
In summary, I love Grim Dawn. Grim Dawn, please marry me and let me have your babies.
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 2 weeks ago:
Refusing to release titles to the PC isn’t going to make me run out and purchase a console. There are tons of games on PC. My backlog is long enough that I can live happily without whatever kind of bullshit Nintendo, Sony, and Xbox are trying to peddle. Assuming I did care about a specific title, and it’s being gate locked by console exclusivity, I’ll fucking pirate it. Sony, Microslop, and Nintendo can all get fucked.
- Comment on Tulsa police pepper sprayed children for walking out/protesting 2 weeks ago:
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I slice a fresh cucumber and put it into the leftover brine overnight. MOAR pickles.
- Comment on I'm in! 3 weeks ago:
You should cross post this to a political meme sub.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 3 weeks ago:
Ok. I’m going to do a better job wiping the names and repost. BRB.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 3 weeks ago:
Many states are right to work, meaning that you can quit anytime. Unless you have stuff in a contract requiring notice, quitting without notice does not have legal repercussions. If you’re rage quitting a job, no sane person would use them as a reference. Finally, the bridges we burn light the path forward.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 3 weeks ago:
Here’s my rage quit story. I worked for a Fidelis Care. We got bought out by a large conglomerate, they fired half the staff and forced the extra work load on the rest of us. I took a call from someone that threatened suicide, and not a single manager in the company would help me connect to the crisis line. The caller hung up, and I still couldn’t get a manager to help me. I called local EMS and requested they do a wellness check. The suicidal caller called back to complain and I got written up. Then they started refusing to let me use vacation time and dangling carrots without putting anything in writing.
They were doing other things like denying free covid testing and HIV testing, which was against state law. I spent lots of my time helping people file external appeals and complaints to the state attorney general after Fidelis denied the internal appeal, against state law. The final straw happened during covid. Right before covid hit, a gentleman was approved for pain injections, but couldn’t get into the office before his authorization ran out, because anything non emergent was closed. Once the doctor’s office was open, the doctor submitted a new request, with the same clinical information, and it was denied. I put an appeal together for this man, painstakingly pulling the clinical records from the first authorization, the second authorization, EVERY PAID CLAIM related to his condition, AND EVERY RX CLAIM FOR PAIN MEDS the company paid for to demonstrate medical necessity. 4 hours of work. The appeals team denied it in 15 minutes later, it was absolutely not reviewed.
I logged of the phone, and prepared the most epic out of office message ever.
I emailed my boss, “I quit effective immediately.” I helped the man file an external appeal through the state department of finances. The state ruled in favor of that customer. Then I helped that man file a complaint against the insurance carrier with the NYS attorney general, (Leticia James.) The happiest day of 2026 so far was learning that our attorney general, Leticia James, raked them over the fucking coals.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 weeks ago:
Did you watch the debates between Biden and Trump. Biden was far more articulate and sane than trump, and it still wasn’t enough.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 weeks ago:
This. Democrats had no primary for presidential choice.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 weeks ago:
I voted for Kamala, but I was pissed we didn’t have a fucking primary. If we had a primary, we might have gotten Bernie on the ballot, or Elizabeth Warren, or Butegig, or anyone else. But instead Biden claimed to be running, then dropped out at the last minute so opps no time for primaries. I’m salty as hell that democrats didn’t get a choice. It felt deliberate and coordinated.
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- Comment on Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet 4 weeks ago:
I spent about 1 year selling plasma; I already had a full time job, and other gig work on the side. It fucking sucked. You’d wait an hour to have a nurse take your vitals to determine if you were healthy enough to donate. Then you’d wait an hour just to get hooked up to a machine. For me, once I was hooked up, it took 50 minutes to fill the bottle.
Those bottles of Plasma retailed for over $1000. I got paid $60 a bottle. I could donate twice a week. Every moment of it sucked and it left scars in my arms.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I don’t find it awkward at all. If someone’s not into me, they are not into me. I’ll respect their wishes, keep any further conversation with them brief and at acquaintance level, and move on with my life. We all have preferences, and I’m not interested in being fixated on someone that turns me down. There are plenty of other people in the world. My life peaceful and I am ok with being alone and doing my own thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I feel like if a guy wants to know if a woman is interested explicit relations, he should just come out and ask, and if the answer is no, he should accept it. Why can’t clear and direct communication be a thing?
- Comment on This "March for Billionaires" event in SF happening today 4 weeks ago:
SAN FRANCISCO — As California struggles with homelessness and healthcare cuts, some activists are taking on an unexpected cause: fighting for billionaires.
About a dozen people took part in the “March for Billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich. Although some assumed the event was satire, organizer Derik Kauffman said it was a sincere protest against a potential new tax on the state’s wealthiest residents.
And 10-20 to people showed up to actually protest.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 4 weeks ago:
I did this too and I was still blocked. I ended up creating an account and was able to view content logged into an account. I really didn’t want a reddit account though.
