Greddan
@Greddan@feddit.org
- Comment on Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman 1 week ago:
To be fair, that’s how they became billionaires in the first place.
- Comment on Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent 1 week ago:
Cultists have no place in governments.
- Comment on iCarly was a streamer before streaming was even really a thing. 1 week ago:
Someone who was actually alive in 2007 here. Live streaming was definitely a thing in 2007. In fact, that was around the time it stared getting big with the launch of Justin.tv (later Twitch.tv and acquired by Amazon). You forget that the internet at the time wasn’t as centralised as today. So many creators simply had their own website where they could post videos and stream.
PayPal was more popular than it is today among other options at the time (like you know, using your card and making regular ass bank payments). Buying merch to support your favourite creators was common.
The word “influncer” did exist and there were tons of them on the “blogosphere” in the 00’s. Today largely replaced by Instagram.
- Comment on Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy 2 weeks ago:
Capitalism is about ownership more than anything else. Capitalism states that the means of production is private property and to be used for the purpose of obtaining profit. As long as there is profit, supply and demand can go fuck itself along with the workers (those who produce). It really is a stupid system that can never be fully implemented (every economy is a mixed economy for a reason) since it naturally creates perverse incentive.
- Comment on Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy 2 weeks ago:
I found Cortana to be actually useful and way better than it’s contemporaries, so of course they killed it instantly 🤣
- Comment on Hulk gonna smash 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s neat. It has tons guides and plugins to do pretty much anything. Other solutions can be lacking in documentation. One big plus is the way you can just throw in whatever drives you’ve got laying around and not have to worry about them matching or anything. Is it the best performing? Probably not but it doesn’t need to be. For me it just hosts files and a bunch of fairly lightweight services.
- Comment on Australian unis rob staff, splash on Big 4 consultants, hoard billions - Michael West 2 weeks ago:
Well yes. If profit is the motive, nothing else matters. Not even laws. Corporations are not people. They cannot read laws, they cannot care about laws. It’s like expecting an LLM to not produce slop because you really hoped it wouldn’t.
- Comment on Even more Blizzard workers have voted to unionise, this time around 100 devs who work on Hearthstone 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t know Hearthstone was still a thing, but good for them!
- Comment on Doom modders fall into civil war as devs launch new engine in protest at GZDoom creator's leadership and use of ChatGPT 3 weeks ago:
And that’s why open source is superior. Some cunt can’t squat on the software.
- Comment on North Korea shows off 'most powerful' missile at military parade 4 weeks ago:
Fucking clowns
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 4 weeks ago:
You completely misunderstood my whole argument and instead of thinking about it for a minute, you reacted like many MAGA-cultists would. I’m not surprised since this how you have been conditioned to react, probably since childhood. Maybe one day it will click with you. Until then, I’m really very happy you are no longer working as a teacher.
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 4 weeks ago:
With you already being in a cult, you should be able to empathise with these people. They believe what they believe because they’ve been told to. Questioning that comes with consequences from the rest of the cult.
When someone calls you a fucking idiot for worshiping some old storm god from a long dead bronze age religion who has had more “prophets” than most people have had pimples, you know how they feel when you question their delusions.
- Comment on An eggy smell is horrible if it comes unexpectedly, but arguably pleasant if you're eating an egg mayo sandwich 4 weeks ago:
I prefer a smoked roe spread in my egg sandwiches. Gives them a tasty saltyness that matches very well with the eggs. Not sure what mayonnaise would add flavour wise. Wouldn’t it be mostly egg with egg?
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 4 weeks ago:
My pet theory after observing friends and acquaintances growing up into adults (and hearing them speak on the subject) is that such behaviour can coincide with seriously considering suicide, but not going through with it (or failing). This can give a huge rush and sense of renewal, a new life where you don’t have to care about others anymore and are no longer bound by morals. Similar to how I’ve heard incel acquaintances describe being “black pilled”.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 4 weeks ago:
Saints Row Co-op over systemlink with a monitor each up on the sofa table (also a bong each on the sofa table).
Star Wars Galaxies before the horrible updates and Jedi inflation.
- Comment on It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat. 4 weeks ago:
And that most of these appliances are pretty much irrelevant in the modern world, just staying around because people think they need them. A convection oven with an induction stove on top replaces microwave, kettle, toaster etc.
- Comment on Palestinian held without charge dies in Israeli custody 4 weeks ago:
Well yes. Those are torture prisons operated by an insane ethno-cult.
- Comment on soda 4 weeks ago:
That drinking vessel would likely be called a “glass” or tumbler.
I doubt the boys plastic basket(?) would even meet the definition of a drinking vessel.
- Comment on Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper 4 weeks ago:
Yes? This is what a profit driven organisation is supposed to do.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 4 weeks ago:
What a horribly shitty place to live.
- Comment on Cops have now arrested over 2,000 peaceful Defend Our Juries protesters 4 weeks ago:
Many members of the Christan sect in the cult of Yahweh have this deranged belief that when all Jews are in Israel, the apocalypse will happen and they can go to heaven. They don’t like to admit this to non cult members however, as even they know it makes them sound extra crispy crazy.
- Comment on Israel Condemned as Sumud Flotilla Organizers Report 'Harsh Treatment' in Detention 4 weeks ago:
The rogue terrorist state of Israel whose leadership are wanted internationally for crimes against humanity kidnapped them on international waters and are now torturing them.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 weeks ago:
I pay for Tidal (afaik the best music streaming service) and keep a tidy vinyl collection. Vinyl because it’s the coziest way to listen to music and my girlfriend likes reading the lyrics from the inserts. CD unfortunately had to go with the last move.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 5 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, people are using this shit all the time without incident.
Oh I’ve met these people. They’re often just too stupid to understand when they’re being fed bullshit. That’s why they have no issues.
- Comment on Farage will roll back gun laws and turn Britain into Trump’s America, Ed Davey claims 1 month ago:
It’s about arming the “right people” to do the dirty work for him. Mussolini had his Blackshirts, Hitler his Brownshirts and Trump has ICE etc.
- Comment on Witness me brøther 1 month ago:
Swede (not the vegetable) here. People with a victim complex will often take any reference to themselves that aren’t universal praise, as an attack/insult. Goes double for weird ethnocults.
- Comment on N. 5 1 month ago:
Not really, unless you’re severely overeating spicy things to the point that it damages your stomach lining. The more common scenario is eating rancid meat, that’s been camouflaged with excessive seasoning to hide the taste.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 month ago:
They’re using a poorly made graphics engine and got scammed into implementing malware into their game.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 month ago:
I never pre-ordered anything. I saw a YouTube video of people having fun in a space game, and then I bought said space game, and played it.
I swear you guys are more obsessed with Star Citizen than the people who play it.