PolarKraken
@PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on The greatest subtitle in history 17 hours ago:
Invincible had one that made us laugh and still gets used around the house -
[slumps wetly] - Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 20 hours ago:
It sounds like we do essentially agree, I have nothing to disagree about in this last comment and feel basically the same way.
The initial phrasing sounded, to me, like carrying water for their own disinformation efforts. It sounded like “nah it’s probably this other thing and besides, none of it can be real, they’d never let us access it if it were”. I realize you didn’t concretely state those things.
And I acknowledge I’m sensitive about the topic, too, but knowing the severity of the crimes (even without including the most lurid reports) and the way this administration behaves, I think that’s the right stance and wouldn’t really conduct myself differently here.
But I’m glad to know what you think and that it isn’t what it sounded like to me.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 22 hours ago:
Okay, here’s the counterargument. Your “hypothesis” does a less good job of explaining our observations than the much simpler explanation (that things instead are exactly as they seem…) and it also conveniently points blame away from the exact people who are doing everything they fucking can to dodge ANY amount of blame for any of this.
So your “hypothesis” helps the worst fucking people alive, and hinders our ability to understand by introducing utter nonsense and saying “maybe it’s this instead”.
That’s more rebuttal than it deserves, and I already basically said those things above. Do you want me to keep going? I can make it even more clear how foolish and harmful it is to be out here “just asking questions, man”. We’ve seen this shit you’re doing before.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 day ago:
“I’m not sure parts of this are credible” is a pretty reasonable stance. I share it.
“Here’s what I think instead…” (followed by, frankly, a lot of dumb shit) is much less so.
And some of your “my idea instead” sounds so dumb, that it sounds intended to distract. Sus.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 day ago:
They’ve been doing everything they can to avoid it, while being (at least minimally) bound by the very obvious optics around that.
Where do you think such awful pics come from anyway? Why NOT these people, why is it MORE plausible to come from not-them?
Tread carefully, you sound sus.
- Comment on When you get older you lose the ability to do things quietly, such as fart, or let young people live their lives. 4 days ago:
Did some IT contracting once for an ancient miser-lich geezer. 3-piece suit in the house type fella, prolly some baron of a technology we’ve forgotten how to pronounce or some shit, lol, dude was comically old.
Blew ass just constantly and had no idea. Smiling and exchanging pleasantries? Imagine a few notes on a keyboard, an amateur noodling around - textbook, permanently fungible farts. No acknowledgement or apology.
Turning and walking across the room? A growing crescendo, with budding themes that begin to hint at the grace and mastery of the performance to come.
Reaching and lowering to a position of rest - ah, the virtuoso has now begun. May we listen, and weep.
It was a surreal experience. Like a deaf, grinning, be-suited Mongolian throat singer, if one of the otherworldly tones came from his butt.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 1 week ago:
Quite the charmed life you apparently lead. If you manage to peer outside your own economic bubble someday you’ll see what I mean. Doesn’t sound like you’ll be doing that though.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 1 week ago:
Yeah man, you’re on top of it.
It’s just lazy parents, right? Like they’re not even trying, huh?
Couldn’t really have anything to do with - I dunno, NO parents except the born-rich, being able to parent properly, on account of having to make the dollars keep adding up.
Probably also NOT the wildly, disgustingly sophisticated Big Fucking Tech doing everything they can to pull our children into their hilariously successful maze of dissatisfaction.
If only the parents would just use the obviously available parental controls! Duh.
Fuck you, for real.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 1 week ago:
You are exactly right. We’re all in this ugly, trapped situation, together, like it or not.
As a parent, do you remove the obviously ruinous toxins from the kiddo’s environment, entirely? Seems like the only sensible choice.
But then again…for the kid, few things could feel worse. An entire childhood spent alienated from their peers? Permanently out of the loop, to where that becomes the personality trait noticed and remembered by others?
What a horrible bargain, I completely hate it.
“Well, a little hideous poison for you, routinely, I guess. I wouldn’t want you to end up weird, after all…”
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 1 week ago:
An embarrassing new low, even with the bars they’ve already set. And fitting, for this being the (egregiously multiply-) branded button to launch the shit show. Christ, this has been a fucking carnival lmao.
Microslop has now regressed to implementing “features” very closely resembling - in sophistication and effect - my own bumbling, desperate, ignorant attempts at similar (“making a button behave like a macro”), using AutoHotKey, somewhere between 15-20 years ago.
And do I understand that they both shipped that, on hardware, AND it’s broken so badly it can’t be easily remedied?
I don’t know what to say. It’s like all the geniuses of comedy who died too young are doing this, all of it.
(No shade whatsoever to AHK, it was, probably still is, awesome at its job!)
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 1 week ago:
On the most shallow and vague level, me too. I wouldn’t say it looks inviting, but maybe compelling somehow. I also unironically like brutalist architecture, so this feels like it’s cousin.
I am reasonably certain any yearning would fade mid-way through my first bite, tho, as gigantic armies of raw onion just route and slay whatever other piddling forces of flavor they can find. Cheese? Bread? Erased, never heard of em.
Not for you?!
- Comment on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
keep debtors and investors from ripping apart a company and then transferring the debt to the ones running it
So instead we get “vulture capitalism” as an entire ecosystem of companies, doing this but more diffuse, by spreading out the bag holders far and wide (but always among the powerless). Fits like a glove with the general “privatize profits, socialize losses” general strategy of wealth extraction we like so much.
Corporate person-hood is a stain on humanity and the world. We should never have shifted culpability and direct experience of negative consequences away from human beings, ever.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 5 weeks ago:
Exactly right.
As such, any bleating about markets being driven by “consumer choice” is either hopelessly out of date / embarrassingly naive - or malicious.
Just as consumer sales are a rounding error, so is consumer choice - it’s a direct relationship.
This extends a lot farther than the AI bubble, we have allowed corporations to merge and monopolize, and “investors” to gamble on it all, to where they completely invert the relationship.
They shape our experience by constraining choice, dictating only options with profit margins and heinous licensing terms that work exclusively and overwhelmingly in their favor.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 5 weeks ago:
Weren’t you listening trend?! The AI is going in the nostrils
- Comment on Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much. 5 weeks ago:
Always loved that Futurama scene, for the way it’s perfectly in line with Fry’s character and his amazingly broken reasoning facilities, while also just directly pointing out the bitter hatred of self, as a class, this kind of thinking always entails.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
Should be easy to test, but I have to acknowledge the only evidence on the subject I use comes exclusively from the show “Mythbusters” lol
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 1 month ago:
I feel like what sounds personally insane to us (and is, don’t get the wrong idea), to the people making such decisions the situation is more like -
“Emerging market with unknown upside thanks to new and evolving capabilities, exploration and competitive advantage shaped and constrained, globally, by hardware capability. Not my money I’m betting, ‘risk’ is extreme opportunity for me, negative consequences borne by others. Let’s go”
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 1 month ago:
That’s really beautiful.
- Comment on Careful, he's a hero 1 month ago:
Easy enough, guy was tryna line up the good stuff, it fell through, and he was like “well I’m not just gonna sit here and experience reality - cough syrup it is”.
Then later the acid came through after all, and he was like “well, it’s important to follow through on commitments”.
Could happen to anybody, really.
- Comment on Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging 2 months ago:
What a great way to frame it, I love this! I typically spend something like 60-80% of time available for a given task thinking through approaches and trade-offs, etc. Usually there comes a point when the way forward becomes clear, even obvious.
After that? Bliss. I’m assembling a LEGO set I designed, composed of pieces I picked, and luxuriating in how it all feels, when put together.
- Comment on Banana 3 months ago:
Haunted, made ravenous, beastly, low - by knowledge of a flavor too pure for this world. Left lurching, bereft, cursed to sin against kith and kin, searching desperately, urgently, for a satisfaction that can never be born.
The heavens weep!
- Comment on Banana 3 months ago:
Hate to tell ya but I had the same inverted experience. “How come this gross artificial banana tastes nothing like bananas?! Ohhhh…”.
It does kinda drive me nuts though, not knowing what the real deal tastes like. Can only imagine, for you!
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 3 months ago:
What a petty “haul” for completely fucking someone’s life up. We should express things in “$ per harm” more often if we can.
Just yet more evidence, these folks are monsters.
“You get ejected into a bad and worsening job market with no warning or recourse, throwing your (and your family’s?) life into a suddenly scary future.
In return, I get a used car, shitty enough it can’t pass emissions tests. I like this deal so much I want to do it thousands of times!”
- Comment on wax on 4 months ago:
Just out here rubbing bug goo on plant corpses, guess we’re weirder than the bees
- Comment on Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History 4 months ago:
Honestly, with some tweaks, sounds like not a bad way to start getting your random corporate social media enjoyers to care about privacy.
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 5 months ago:
I’m still waiting for my pheromone-overlord 😞
- Comment on We keep the entomologists in the basement. 5 months ago:
Some species of termite can effectively molt backwards, meaning they can physically return their bodies to a juvenile stage, AND THEN re-mature from that juvenile stage into a different adult body plan!
So adult worker (medium sized head and mandibles, etc.) -> juvenile morphology -> adult soldier (huge head and mandibles). And other forms I don’t remember, think they can go back and then become something with wings, etc. - big bug changes!
And what’s crazier is this is done in response to pheromones secreted by the mound’s queen. Termite Queen up in the mound playing Sid Meier’s Civ lol, controlling her city through different stinks! Too few soldiers after the latest bird incursion? Got a buncha workers with nothing to do? No problem, stink-compel em to go back to goo and come back as what the mound needs!
I got all this from a fairly goofy podcast a buncha years ago - be kind, anonymous grumpy expert, if this is way wrong lol
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 5 months ago:
Oh I was offering that as supporting evidence for your point lol. There’s roughly nothing (besides reason and compassion) these folks can shit out of their mouths that will surprise me anymore.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 5 months ago:
RFK Jr., noted brainworm host and multi talented repeater and innovator of quackery, said that shit within the last 24 hours lol
- Comment on 5 months ago:
It gets dumber…there was a school shooting today, 3 kids dead, 1 state over from this.