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- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 8 hours ago:
My siblings were debating issues with it and about how willing they were to just deal with it.
I’m just shocked at how addicted everyone is to it that it could probably say “Trump is watching all users’ front cameras while the app is open” and kids would still be like "hmmm what are the odds he watches me though?
But everybody’s a zombie.
I mean I downloaded it, back really early, to take a peek. After 15 minutes, I decided I hated the short format, and peaced out.
It seems to largely be a generational thing. Millennials are (in my perception) mostly on it just to make money, zoomers just want that crack IV drip.
Obviously this is just a trend, and there are counter examples everywhere, but that seems to be more true than not. At least from the outside looking in.
And given it’s totally obnoxious censorship rules, now I have to deal with hearing about people getting “unalived”, or “adult fun time”, and “p 3 dee oh” from creators that multistream. Even without being there, I’m forced to experience the cancer secondhand.
That’s my main problem with it. None of the other problems affect me directly much since I’ve always avoided it, but that is smeared all over my shit.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 8 hours ago:
Not sure if this is parody-ing a certain orangie’s math fail, or genuinely confused.
- Comment on The holy journey 4 days ago:
I haven’t either for a few years since I started having medical issues and didn’t even live by myself anymore.
Going to free myself this year though. I don’t have much access to it, but I believe I know someone with an old stash waiting for a good opportunity.
I never knew about testing them before my last trip though, so I was playing with fire by accident, but at least I didn’t get burned.
No idea how strong it week mine were, but from at least 3 different sources they seemed consistent strength-wise.
I’ve never done more than 3. And I only did that once. It was absolutely amazing, except for the very end. But the last few hours were horrifying. I’m not sure if it was being alone at the end or if the amount itself was just too much for me.
If I got regular chances to have some again, I might try 3 again, if I have overnight plans to hang with whoever I’m dropping with.
But otherwise it’ll just be 2 for me.
My best memory was playing some video games while waiting for it to kick in and having to stop because I couldn’t make it what I was seeing, the screen was just rainbow colors.
I was thinking to myself “I think it’s working now lol”.
- Comment on The holy journey 5 days ago:
Would depend on the strength of them. “1 tab” is not an amount.
For me, once I got used to it, I’ve never wanted to take it more than once every other month or so. Feels like I need that much time to put everything back together.
- Comment on How much RAM is in your average EV car, and is it DDR5? 5 days ago:
OP is hunting at stalking it.
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 6 days ago:
Fuck. I bought this forever ago, either for my Droid 2 or my Galaxy S3. Skipped it on my first Pixel and came back on the Pixel 7.
Haven’t really heard any talk about it, didn’t know about the owner/dev drama until seeing some comments here.
Haven’t noticed any ads myself yet, but maybe that’s a “coming soon” thing.
Time to go launcher shopping again. This thread mentioned Lawnchair and Niagara, so I’ll check those out first.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
“abolish” is far, faaaar too kind.
I probably can’t even say what I want to about it, but I will say “abolish” would be preferred by them compared to what I want.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 week ago:
As much as anybody “wins” at war, I absolutely hope we lose. I’m glad Germany lost, so I want us to lose.
I honestly have no idea how split people were in Germany at the time, but given that the Nazis are back for a sequel, then I hope they lose and lose BAD. Like bad to the point that they do some “political cleansing” of the entire government. I don’t think there’s a benefit of having any conservatives in power at all. Just straight up murder should still be wrong, but if any get good for the paddles come out. Bring conservative and holding power greater than student body president shouldn’t happen anywhere, ever, for any reason.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 week ago:
Even having a conversation about that will take a while to happen because most people think that AI literally means something like ChatGPT.
I don’t know enough about the other kinds to say much definitively, but I do completely invalidate generative AI being of any possible use as I understand it. Other than as a tech demo. Seeing what Sora could do was interesting as a matter of curiosity about what it was possible to get to happen with it current tech.
But I don’t think it should ever be used as literally anything other than a demo of what is literally possible.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 1 week ago:
What you get up to in the kitchen ain’t our business.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 week ago:
There would be, if it was any less black and white. Show something worth discussing and people would jump at that conversation.
Given that they’re doesn’t seen to be much coming up in that vein, there’s no room. Room would be made of there was something to make room for.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 week ago:
Looks like you’re the one without understanding.
Even if I grant that there’s a few super helpful uses that are good for humanity (and I don’t grant that at all), it’s still actively harmful to the other 99.3% of us.
Unless you’re saying it can end cancer, keep us young forever, provide literally limitless energy, and instantaneous networking, all while giving us potential to explore the universe, then it’s still not worth what it’s costing us RIGHT NOW.
Until you can make it do any of that without being owned or pushed by CEOs for money, then it will never be worth it.
Sure it could be useful if it didn’t cost anything and did everything, but that’s about as far as I believe it.
It should stay in the research and theory phase until it’s perfect. And it never will be, hence most people attitudes on it. No. 00000001% change of finding a good execution of a use is worth what it is costing us to try out.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 weeks ago:
Right, but again, you have choices in almost every piece of hardware.
Consoles lock you down a lot harder in this respect. You either but their hardware and possibly software, or you miss out on the whole thing.
And a lot of people, like a sibling of mine is just getting to the point of maturity where you figure out the brand you like is the bad guy and you don’t want to give them money anymore, but you sorely miss the product itself.
Given how hard they’re locked in, it’s really hard for them to jump to a new platform. Not quite as bad as switching from Android to or from iPhone, but not super far off.
Personally I jumped out completely before I got invested in a digital console store, so I didn’t have that problem. But the point is that they gotta completely start a new collection and paradigm.
Whereas if you one day have a huge problem with let’s say, Steam, you can just opt to never buy from them again without losing access to your library, no matter what hardware you’re running it on.
You can choose to never buy an Acer monitor, CoolerMaster PSU, or (insert other random examples) while still having a computer.
I mean it’s impossible to really find “good” companies, but you can at least pick your lines in the sand with a lot more granularity than just consoles.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 weeks ago:
I hope they struggle the company underground.
The unwashed console plebs can join the gamers with the Steam Machine/Deck and see what gaming is supposed to be like.
There’s still shitty stuff happening, but you’re a lot less beholden to specific companies over here.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 2 weeks ago:
Now we need a website that we can add to that doxxes them that we can browse like a Nazi Facebook site, but frozen in time.
- Comment on I WON THE LOTTERY! 2 weeks ago:
This thread is the first mention I’ve seen of them.
- Comment on rules of the pirate code 3 weeks ago:
I understood this reference.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 3 weeks ago:
Sure. But I was directly replying to OP originally, and the way it was phrased.
- Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day 3 weeks ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day 3 weeks ago:
I get why people thought it was convenient to have it divisible by so many other numbers, but my opinion is fuck all that.
“Military time” should be standard in our system, the am/pm problem is absofuckinglutely stupid, pointless, and counterproductive.
Beginning of day should be low number. Increase until end of day and reset. There is no good argument for starting over halfway through and if you think there is think again because you’re wrong.
- Comment on wisdom 3 weeks ago:
I just had a different comment this week where the name was accidentally relevant. Now I have one where it’s so backward. xD
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 3 weeks ago:
Literally everybody is missing the point that’s it’s a sex problem, not gender. So many whooshes in here.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 3 weeks ago:
You’re missing the point. It’s a back and forth between sexes, not a gender thing.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 3 weeks ago:
This is not a gender thing.
- Comment on wisdom 3 weeks ago:
I mean I would still wanna do that even if it reduced costs to like $300 for a fully spec’d dream system.
Even if it cost me $300 per hit, if stop turn him into a vegetable. That’d be the best money ever spent.
- Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day 3 weeks ago:
I think metric time would be best, honestly.
This system is fine, but metric makes more sense intrinsically to me, being somewhat of a percentage of day kind of thing.
- Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day 3 weeks ago:
Not sure how this is any more or less arbitrary, or more helpful.
And at least you can plan “I need to be up in 6 hours” when you lay down instead of "I might have 6 and a half or 7 hours, but better plan on 6 just in case.
It’s just as arbitrary, just based on a different, variable, irregular, and unpredictable (unless everyone gets degrees in astronomy). It may be predictable by the math, but no one wants to do any of that math every day.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 4 weeks ago:
Exactly this. If it’s already fun, and especially if the early access price is good, then buying a somewhat janky game that will get better seems fine.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 4 weeks ago:
They can have a minimum wage job.
And hopefully after capping them at the knees (power and influence-wise), we can move to a society that actually has universal health care, even for minimum wage.
I’m not ok with them benefiting from what society at large has been breaking their backs to fund.
At least not outside of an emergency. I don’t wanna actually have them die because of actual medical issues in the mean time.
Unless they make spectacles of themselves complaining about their new station in life. That can effectively qualify them to be cut off. Sunny nobody got a right to whine about not getting to use human sacrifice to their benefit anymore.
- Comment on They can't keep getting away with this 4 weeks ago:
I want a set of good terrorists to quietly just destroy all the breweries and replace them with just farms for chronic.
See how abusive crimes and DUIs settle down.
Yes, you can drive impaired from it too, but you wouldn’t have such a high rate of people losing their judgement and forgetting not to drive, that sorta thing.