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- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
- Comment on The Art of the Deal 2 weeks ago:
Apparently, this has been going on for a while! archive.is/9BNsM
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 2 weeks ago:
I was going to argue that’s not the case, but then I looked at the most popular mods for Darkest Dungeon and it’s more than 50% anime girls with big tits. There are definitely some good mods in general that maintain creative intent, both aesthetic and game design wise, but it sometimes feels like searching for a needle in a haystack.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 2 weeks ago:
It’s like reddit for techbros that gush about the latest fads and startups. Not sure who owns it, but it’s probably the worst venture capitalists. The moderation is very heavy against anyone that becomes even slightly politically aware.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 weeks ago:
Bots spreading double genocide theory? Are we in a 2008 economic crisis again?
Meanwhile, the average victim of communism (considering soviets inflicted 7/10 nazi casualties):
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 2 weeks ago:
JFC, Black Mirror was supposed to be a warning, not an inspiration. How long until they are given weapons?
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 3 weeks ago:
Workers thank capitalists for their “effort”, say their time is over
- Comment on Fixed it. 3 weeks ago:
Now with its own dedicated hardware: the SPU (Slop Processing Unit)
- Comment on Too bad his trans, black girlfriend wasn't able to save his life following his fentanyl overdose. RIP ♥️ 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: this is actually what the IRA told Margaret Thatcher after she survived their bombing attempt.
- Comment on All 6 crew members on a US refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, US military says 3 weeks ago:
Oh no! anyway
- Comment on Trump urges France, UK, China to help open Strait of Hormuz as Iran war enters its third week 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 3 weeks ago:
TBH Atlassian was already such terrible slop, unsupervised AI might even make it better
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 4 weeks ago:
Unsurprisingly, there’s a disconnect between executives/managers and people actually doing the job. The first group has fallen for the 10x productivity boost ads that the AI companies were selling them, while the actual boost for developers has been minimal, if any. That’s why it’s being pushed hard from the top.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 4 weeks ago:
Also note that AWS is more than half of income, with a much higher margin than commerce
- Comment on Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators 4 weeks ago:
Sex while a corporation has access to your footage sounds like a kink for libertarians
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 5 weeks ago:
AI psychosis is a thing:
cases in which AI models have amplified, validated, or even co-created psychotic symptoms with individuals
It’s not very studied since it’s relatively new.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 month ago:
If the advanced aliens had the control over us that we exert over animals then I wouldn’t have a choice. And whether I fight or not isn’t relevant to their choice to farm me. If anything it’s in their best interest to keep me healthy and content until I’m harvested.
You keep avoiding the moral implications here because you know the argument is bs. If some groups of people mass bred and slaughtered monkeys or dogs on an industrial scale would you not care, because they don’t have a choice? It would be the same as your example, without the alien hypotheticals.
A medical procedure could return them to normal function
The disconnect between the logical, robotical analysis in the first case and the childish, optimistic look here really just highlights the compartmentalization you have to go through for a “coherent” position.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 month ago:
If ultra-advanced aliens showed up tomorrow and started domesticating humans for food or some other purpose, I would have the default expectation of them having the same or similar morals. Maybe we’d get access to decent healthcare and good libraries before we went to the slaughterhouse
I can’t believe you said this with a straight face. This is the depths of depravity and mental gymnastics that a non vegan philosophical position leads to. I’m also sure that if this actually happened, you would throw your logic in the trash, where it belongs, and you would fight for the liberation of the slaughtered race.
Do you want to extend the argument to a person who is in a permanent comatose state? By your definition, they are without “higher levels of thought and expression”. Is it cool to eat them?
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 month ago:
Schrodinger’s left: small enough for Dems to ignore, large enough to make Dems lose
- Comment on Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment" 1 month ago:
Palantir’s UK division is headed by Oswald Mosley’s grandson
Some things really never change
- Comment on ESL homework 1 month ago:
English teachers hat this one simple trick!
- Comment on Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store 1 month ago:
Has anyone here actually tried the app? The first (and thankfully last) time I tried it, it was full of nazis and actual CSAM. Maybe too censorship resistant for its own good??
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 1 month ago:
Like a lot of these big, consolidated, years long projects, the real work is maintenance. The rest is just a bunch of people desperately trying to improve obscure KPIs by 1%
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 1 month ago:
I’m sure tech companies will fight really hard to protect their users from a fascist government /s
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 month ago:
This is great news! Discord shooting itself in the foot is a net positive for the whole world.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It’s impressive how Goodreads has been owned by 10+ years by the company with the largest cloud infrastructure and supposedly great engineers, and still it loads like shitty personal blog from the 2000s. It’s pretty obvious it was just bought so they could redirect traffic to Kindle store, just like IMDB redirects to Amazon Prime.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 2 months ago:
Yes, some of them can be launched directly from the exe without the steam client, or with some modifications to the game files.
Here’s a list of DRM free games: pcgamingwiki.com/…/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Stea…
Also it’s kind of silly how people automatically blame Steam for this, even though Valve does not force you to use DRM to publish to Steam. It is the developers themselves that chose to add DRM or tie themselves to the Steam API so that the game can’t run without it.
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 2 months ago:
Don’t forget to 5 star it! This author’s stuff is brilliant: Forbidden Loveseat: A JD Vance & Usha Novel
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 2 months ago:
No, it wasn’t. It just needs content moderation. There’s zero reason for a Palestinian guy to platform white supremacists.
