MiddleAgesModem
@MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Picture of the Century... Nature defeats Technology 1 day ago:
only 25 years in
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 1 week ago:
if we’re talking one-off transactions, this is no problem. You simply get enough crypto for your purchase and spend it. You don’t invest all of your money in it and you can circumvent the Visa/Mastercard garbage.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 1 week ago:
While that makes sense to logical people, there is a rabid right-wing movement in the US that in intent on defining any acknowledgment of LGBTQ+ is inherently “sexual”.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 1 week ago:
And how is casually referring to heterosexual relationships then not sexual?
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 1 week ago:
I assume it doesn’t say because there are games with LGBTQ+ content that is sexual and ones where it is not.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 1 week ago:
“The internet has no borders. Women and girls everywhere are impacted by male violence against women and misogyny in general which we believed these games perpetuated,” she said.
Yet the fictional violence against men and boys is A-Ok!
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
The shibboleth in question
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
No, it’s not. Free speech protects what you say from the government, not your employer. Your employer ALSO has free speech, meaning they can decide what can and can’t be said on their property.
This is like saying Sesame Street doesn’t show hardcore porn and that’s a violation of free speech.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
Oh so the thing that HASN’T HAPPENED is your counterargument?
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
Name it.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
“Free speech” doesn’t entitle you to dictate policy over privately held companies. We spent four years trying to convince Trumpers of this. Be smarter.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
Why is this downvoted? It correctly point out what “free speech” actually means.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
His free speech was never infringed. He can say what he wants and not be prosecuted for it. Whether or not he has a job isn’t covered by the First Amendment.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
Wrong. It opposed Naziism and Soviet Union misinformation. Since then it’s been a standard journalism outlet that, by law, could not be dictated by US politicians.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
While being the biggest pusher of propaganda in US history.
And VOA was only “propaganda” when you consider objective information to be “propaganda”, like dumbfuck Trumpers do.
Since 1976 the Charter and later the 1994 International Broadcasting Act legally forbid government officials from dictating content. Don’t worry about facts, though.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 2 weeks ago:
Go ahead and use chatGPT and see it list its sources.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 2 weeks ago:
Except their not. Fair use allows them to use freely available sources. Ever hear of “non-fiction”?
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 3 weeks ago:
No, they don’t. No more than automobile companies have blood on their hands for 35,000 Americans that die in car crashes every year.
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, “AI” is a super vague term. Video games have had “AI” for decades.
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 3 weeks ago:
It’s isolated cases that would never be blamed on other technologies.
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 3 weeks ago:
People are caching in on anti-AI hysteria. I’ve seen people claim that the goal of these things is specifically to create new mental illnesses.