calliope
@calliope@retrolemmy.com
- Comment on Scientists have confirmed that a 26ft tall, tree-trunk-shaped organism, first discovered in Scotland in 1843, isn't a fungus or plant, but an entirely distinct evolutionary branch of life 3 days ago:
This has absolutely blown my mind!
This looks exactly like the kind of whose ancestors would, over millions of years, eventually mutate to become a tree.
The polished fossil in the Wikipedia article looks a shocking amount like wood!
- Comment on I am excited to start running through my backlog! Finally figured out a solid way to handle saves in retroarch! 1 week ago:
I share your excitement for rclone! Such an incredibly valuable piece of software.
- Comment on ICE Agent Who Fatally Shot Renee Good Suffered Internal Bleeding After Encounter, Officials Claim 2 weeks ago:
CBS News reported, citing two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition.
They don’t even cite believable sources.
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 2 weeks ago:
There it is, there’s another cliche! Keep em coming.
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 2 weeks ago:
Genuinely your arrogance is astounding.
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 2 weeks ago:
I don’t care at all. You’ve made your point.
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 2 weeks ago:
I know this is an unpopular opinion and I expect downvotes, but you aren’t that much better.
Brexit was such a success, right? Johnson was the right choice, and you totally didn’t have a big fucking racist rally in September? Those were all from the U.S.?
This isn’t just a U.S. problem but it’s nice that the narrative makes you feel better!
- Comment on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani defends tenant official facing backlash for 'white supremacy' posts 2 weeks ago:
A tweet sent in 2017 described homeownership as “a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building public policy.’”
This is the “white supremacy” related quote.
- Comment on X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 2 weeks ago:
To put it into perspective, if he managed to sell all of his ownerships of companies for the most optimistic idea of his current net worth*, he could still buy less than 19% of Apple.
He’d need several friends to chip in to even get to 50%. A trillion is a lot until inflation gets out of hand.
* $717 billion; probably $100 million too high at least
- Comment on ICE blasts Hilton after emails allegedly show hotel refusing rooms to immigration agents 3 weeks ago:
So you’re saying everyone else should stay at Hiltons, got it
- Comment on AI’s Imperial Agenda 3 weeks ago:
The speed at which they’re constructing the infrastructure for training and deploying their AI models” is what shocks Hao the most, as “this infrastructure is actually not technically necessary, and … somehow the companies have effectively convinced the public and governments that it is. And therefore there’s been a lot of complicity in allowing these companies to continue building these projects.”
Very well said.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Reform’s deputy leader, Richard Tice, said on Thursday that all of those who had made the claims were liars.
Oh totally, all 28 of them.
- Comment on Billionaires plot to flee California over proposed super wealth tax 4 weeks ago:
They all look so fucking weird
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Again! For most of the world, the US is a now malign actor again.
This is the second time I can personally remember, the first being George W. Bush’s presidency.
Before then was Reagan. Before then was Nixon.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I appreciate that this article from July in the San Francisco Standard tells me everything I need to know.
Nikita Bier is a serial entrepreneur with the heart of a troll
Imagine joining X in June of 2025 and thinking you “made it.” Gross.
- Comment on Google’s AI model is getting really good at spoofing phone photos 1 month ago:
Seems like a thinly-veiled ad for a new version of google’s ai image generation.
- Comment on US adults social media usage by platform 1 month ago:
You’re right, I was misreading pages 41 and 42 of the data.
I appreciate the correction!
- Comment on US adults social media usage by platform 1 month ago:
This is such embarrassing reporting from The Verge. Leave it to the AI reporter to fail to understand a very basic survey I guess.
Far from a relic, Facebook remains a fixture for more than 70% of Americans.
This is literally not what the study says. The study says that 70% of people who used some type of social media used Facebook. Not 70% of Americans.
Here’s the gist of the question they asked:
% of U.S. adults who say they ever use …
People who didn’t answer weren’t included.
And, if someone used Facebook for a buy/sell/trade transaction, it’s counted as “social media” usage.
No wonder YouTube is at the top. Yikes.
- Comment on [PDF] HP to lay off up to 6,000 workers as it goes all-in on AI and automation 2 months ago:
drive customer satisfaction
HP?? I doubt it
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 2 months ago:
Came here to make sure someone said OpenTTD! I got the original when I was about 12 in 1994 and I’ve been playing it on and off since then.
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 2 months ago:
The Burnout games are underrated!
I just downloaded Burnout Paradise again and it holds up pretty well.
- Comment on Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar 2 months ago:
“This is all about us wanting to make sure that every user can get the superpowers of AI,” says Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows experiences, in an interview with The Verge.
Wtf are you talking about?
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 2 months ago:
Literally the entire purpose of this community.
It’s been fun to see a lot of the major Lemmy posters show up in this thread. It’s been really eye-opening.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 2 months ago:
My pleasure
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 2 months ago:
In a rant community?! No way!
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 2 months ago:
It’s honestly driving me crazy that people are complaining about the wording.
You posted it here consciously, it’s a “rant” community.
This is the right place for something like this! The way you worded it wasn’t really problematic. It may have been if it was in a different community, but people are expecting lot from a rant.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 2 months ago:
Man it’s crazy how many people have no ability to self-reflect here
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 2 months ago:
Ok, that’s fair. I really appreciated this explanation!
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 2 months ago:
Because it’s my way of making a point.
Gross!
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 2 months ago:
Another valuable contribution
