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- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 1 day ago:
I think refering to people on piefed as feds without context would be hilarious.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 3 days ago:
Your large paragraph has so many fallacies I genuinely don't think you're being serious.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 3 days ago:
I still can't believe ancaps are real lmao. It's the most obviously flawed ideology o have ever seen.
Just look outside and see that this but worse is a terrible idea.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 3 days ago:
I appreciate people like you. Makes finding people to block so much easier when all I have to do is scroll to verify instead of engage in a conversation then find out that they are not worth talking to half way through.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 3 days ago:
If anyone is reading this scroll through their comments they have no real opinions and get off on making people mad. Not even worth the thought power to prove them wrong block and move on like I'm doing after sending this.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 3 days ago:
Maybe not to someone who's a genocide denier but I don't think your opinions matter much to most people.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 3 days ago:
The cap on HoR seats is possibly one of the worst things that have ever happened in american democracy.
- Comment on AI Killed My Job: Translators 5 days ago:
I think the AI bubble is really close to poping. If they can't make a profit on it in the next 2 years (maybe sooner with how badly the economy is about to start doing) VC money will dry up and then they will have to up prices dramatically.
There's a lot of factors I could get into but it seems like they are going to have to start pricing AI use at the very least cost soon.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 1 week ago:
They can even scrape likes/dislikes and make profiles for people that don't comment.
- Comment on El Salvador plans 600 mass trials for suspected gang members 2 weeks ago:
I don't agree with a lot of the things the founding fathers did or said but the quote "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" rings true even at this stage.
Because lets be honest here everyone knows that they will be sentencing innocent people with this.
- Comment on Wean yourself off of Windows with Linuxfx — I've tried many Linux distros designed to look and feel like Windows, and this is the best one yet 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit its wubuntu again. Can't these people just go away lol.
- Comment on India and China work to improve ties amid Trump's unpredictability 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how many people understand how big of a deal that is. Like I imagine a lot of people on Lemmy do but in the general public I have to imagine most people have no idea how deep the hate runs between them.
- Comment on Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED tech 2 weeks ago:
Fucking source‽ Yes companies do scummy shit with IP all the time but no companies are not reprinting books without paying authors unless there is some crazy contract bullshit.
- Comment on Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED tech 2 weeks ago:
So what should be done so that authors and investors are fairly compensated under our current economic system? I am not in support of capitalism to be clear but we are stuck with it for the foreseeable future and I don't want small authors to have large companies just steal their books and reprint them.
- Comment on Canada’s cannabis industry contributes more than $76 billion to Canada’s GDP, generates nearly 100,000 jobs annually 2 weeks ago:
can you explain your reason.
(also 760k CAD is about 470k Euro just so you are aware.)
- Comment on Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED tech 2 weeks ago:
IP is important in the current capitalist world. In an ideal world I absolutely think IP would be abolished but without it there would be no way for a small company to make something and not have it stolen out from under them by a mega corp.
I do not think current IP law is perfect or even very good now but under capitalism it is something that is necessary. Even in open source it matters because without it all the licenses in the world would not matter.
- Comment on OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models 2 weeks ago:
So more energy use for what they people that are into AI are calling a worse model. Is someone going to get fired for this?
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 2 weeks ago:
Can we all agree that the UK is a literal police state now? It can't get more on the nose than this.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 2 weeks ago:
You're still ignoring the core problem in that children can't do any of those things by themselves anymore and all of them cost some amount of money with the exception of playgrounds and parks. Growing up the closest one to me was about a 30 minute drive so I would never be able to get myself there.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 2 weeks ago:
Do you realize how hostile the outside is to non-adults? Like genuinely I've seen people call the cops because there was a kid riding a bike unsuprivized in a suburban neighborhood. Malls are dying and there's nothing to replace them as a meeting spot.
This isn't even getting into the seeming requirement to spend what feels like 100$ to see a movie now or any of the other stereotypical hang outs. Or how many people have parents that simply do not have time to drive them places.
I'm genuinely interested in your response because I genuinely think the world has become actively hostile to kids being kids.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 weeks ago:
Yes. I'm unsure of where I heard it so take with a grain of salt but I've heard they make about the same number of calls to Google servers as a stock android phone.
- Comment on Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London 3 weeks ago:
The UK will always be a really interesting mirror to the US because it's better in some ways than the US but I feel like they are a few steps ahead of the US in terms of government control.
- Comment on China's solar giants quietly shed a third of their workforces last year 3 weeks ago:
Looks like there are just too many companies in general. In my non-expert opinion seems like it it was because the country was a little too gungho about making more solar so they said it would be one of the big groth areas leading to a bunch if new developments. Then because there were so many of them they started competing with eachother and driving the pices down until they were unable to continue.
I would recommend reading the article tbh seems like good if dry information.