HalfSalesman
@HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
I don’t have access to this account during weekends.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 4 hours ago:
Fuck, I don’t have the money to replace my phone. I probably wont by September either. Too many expenses.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m not doing that.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 1 week ago:
I think he’s vocally self delusional. He does actually believe it, but he’s incentivized to delude himself into that belief. And incentivized to say it publicly.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 1 week ago:
I was a massive proponent of UBI all the way back in like 2010. Got on to invite-only on dedicated debate spaces specifically because of my advocacy.
I’d feel vindicated if I also wasn’t so depressed about where we’re at today as a country.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 2 weeks ago:
Silicon Valley people who wanted Trump are so fucking stupid its absurd.
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I’ve interacted with someone with active anti-semitic beliefs in a dedicated debate space who eventually changed his views too “Well, its not the Jews fault that they got into finance. They just kind of got funneled into that.” So absolutely people with shitty views can evolve in the right direction. I respect that a million times more than someone who is morally lucky and never budges.
And example of the opposite would be someone who adopts “progressive” stances of their time and never evolved from there or have selective self serving progressive blinders. “LGB w/o the T”, rainbow capitalists, Red-brown alliance types, etc.
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 3 weeks ago:
The only good people are people who are brave enough to actively test their beliefs and earnestly question their own ideology (accept that they even have one).
Almost no one does this. People often even say they “don’t have an ideology”. Its convenient, if you have no belief system there is nothing to question.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 3 weeks ago:
While no doubt it may be that most users of DuckDuckGo are anti-AI given the nature of the service and who it attracts, the 90% metric makes me believe that the people who ambivalently use DuckDuckGo’s AI (and are not pro or anti) did not vote in this at all and may find themselves using DuckDuckGo less if they see the surface-level convenience randomly disappear from the service.
So I assume they’ll get rid of the AI and they’ll see a drop in users overtime as a percentage of minimum effort types get confused or annoyed. And then they’ll bring it back as they see a drop in users, annoy the users that hate AI and they’ll leave as well. And neither group will end up ever returning.
This whole poll was a terrible idea.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 4 weeks ago:
The savings will also lead to the corporation’s profits to decline in the mid term, and then the savings will actually go to private equity and hedge funds, not the shareholders.
- Comment on What a great idea 5 weeks ago:
If we’re talking about people blocking lanes with their cart. I agree fuck that shit. I want to grab my 6 pack or whatever and leave.
That said, I’m barely cognizant of my surroundings other than the one thing I’m there to buy usually so I’m almost certainly not a champion of spacial awareness. But I’m quick.
- Comment on Introverts Rock 2 months ago:
Ehhh, I wouldn’t place it at the same level as astrology. I do think people do the self fulfilling prophecy shit with it though.
I thought I was an introvert for a long time so I kind of became an insular hermit for like 5 years of my life after college and then I realized I was horribly miserable at the end of it.
And then when I forced myself to socialize I realized I actually fucking loved it and my introversion was from bad early social experiences due to autism and living in a backwards rural hellhole.
- Comment on True 2 months ago:
“I can’t come in, I’ve been shot in the head and I’m told I’ll be dead soon.”
“I feel like you aren’t considering how this will impact the team.”
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
That’s because half of the country is some combination of evil and/or retarded.
- Comment on Forever young 2 months ago:
I’m solidly middle aged and the last shooter I played regularly was a Battlefield game. Despite my age and there being a lot of players in any given match I got good enough at the game to move the needle on matches consistently and virtually always stayed on top of my team’s scoreboard.
Reaction time and aim is important but overrated. Understanding the game’s mechanics at an in depth level is far more important. This was true even back when I was a kid playing Halo PC and CoD4.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 3 months ago:
I feel like one of the covenant prophets would have been more fitting what with how racist they are.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 4 months ago:
The problem is that by its very existence and prevalence you have to contend with religion’s bullshit effecting your life.
So honestly you should be against people being religious and try and discourage it. Though yeah its not super helpful to look at individual religious people and hate them openly. That’s a good way to just harden them right back against you.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 4 months ago:
This kind of thing is coming for Android as well once Google has converted it to it’s own walled garden bullshit.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 4 months ago:
I did not choose to be here and I resent that there are expectations put upon me when I wasn’t the reason I am here now.
I also resent that I was born just to die one day.
It is also fundamentally horrifying that so many people are born into painful awful experiences and then die, with that being more or less mostly all they knew while alive. And that some people live happy lives on its own doesn’t justify the horror in my eyes at all.
That said, I wish I could be drunk right now but I’m at work.
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 4 months ago:
Battlefield 6 is fucked.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 4 months ago:
What I really don’t understand is bringing more people into temporarily existing without the ability to get their consent and calling it a “gift” that now they get to face the lovecraftian horror of future non-existence.
Pre-birth is not like post death. The arrow of time doesn’t reverse.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Our nation has failed itself by letting Trump fucking win.
This assassination just makes it more likely I get dragged into violent civil conflict. One that could have been avoided had every anti-trump individual had fucking voted against him winning and they didn’t.
Kirk was a piece of shit but I wont be the accelerationist’s pawn. This all could have been avoided and I deeply resent that it wasn’t.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Not have Trump as president right now is a small first step.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
I don’t give a shit about Charlie Kirk, rest in piss, but my celebration is mildly stunted by the fact that this is a dangerous thing to normalize and this is a massive notch in that direction given how huge of a public figure he was and the nature of his assassination being so public.
Of course, the right is largely responsible for that normalization, and Charlie Kirk’s death is actually on people like Charlie Kirk’s very hands. However, for me its just the consequences and the dark future that this seems to push us further into.
Hopefully the right fails to capitalize on his death effectively and we move onto largely forgetting about the piece of shit.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 5 months ago:
Yes, stuff still happened, but it was all mostly local scale in consequences or temporary blips. Conflicts, economic downturns, weather events can all be huge tragedies, but an entire super power cratered in on itself in '91 and splintered into smaller countries massively rewriting the political landscape. And in 2001, 9-11 happened and its arguably a starting point for a domino effect of terrible unhinged shit that followed that also had massive global political ramifications, arguably to this very day.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 5 months ago:
Its actually that between 1991 and 2001 that we merely had a full decade of relative stability in world events. Crazy shit stopped happening for a while and we have collectively imparted that things used to be “normal” on people born after 2001 but they’ve interpreted their own childhoods as the normal years.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 5 months ago:
Yo, I’m on my brother’s premium. I told myself if my brother stopped wanting to pay for it I’d pay for it myself because I hate ads that much.
On the other hand, if Youtube itself takes it away from me I’m going to just stop watching Youtube.
- Comment on Sad to hear it 5 months ago:
Pooh would be just as sad to have caused such a problem.
But yeah we need a new 3D Rayman but Ubisoft would ruin it anyway.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 5 months ago:
Yeah we’re going into flu season soon. And covid vaccines actually should be updated even more often than flu.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 5 months ago:
Just got my second HPV vax and my understanding is I have to wait at least a month before I can have a different vaccine.
That said, I intend to get the Covid and Flu vax once its been a full month. They’ve never told me I can’t do both of those at the same time.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 5 months ago:
And while none of those things are wrong per se, the general vibe of asking about all of those things was very weird and pervy.
Unshackle your mind. Reject the puritanism bonk and embrace the horniness tentacles.