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- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 6 days ago:
It’s also just not true, the villain/killer/etc has iPhones in many shows and movies already, including multiple AppleTV shows.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 6 days ago:
So much this. You can fix blatant bugs sometimes and have people whine because it breaks their flow to have it work correctly.
What do you mean you made it so it no longer freezes for 20 seconds after clicking the Q-button?! I count on that pause to ensure my J-Flame comes at the right time! How dare you?!
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 1 week ago:
Somewhat, but not nearly as quickly or to the extent of something like gasoline, acetone or even d-limonene/orange oil (which is what I use to dissolve styrofoam packaging for repurposing, because it smells the best and is less flammable).
This video is someone dissolving polystyrene in kerosene, and as you can see it is a very slow process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1yDdIanTEA
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 weeks ago:
That’s literally what I was saying/implying, so I’m not sure “no” is a particularly valid response.
The comment chain went like this:
- Communism can’t be a dictatorship.
- China disagrees with 1.
- Marx agreed with 1, i.e. Marx agreed communism can’t exist in a dictatorship.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 weeks ago:
However, Marx (and most other communist philosophers) would agree, however.
- Comment on Aeroplane 3 weeks ago:
Do a barrel roll!
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 4 weeks ago:
A significant number of his best investments were based upon fuckery that the rest of us aren’t really able to enact, so “spite buy entire companies” or whatever isn’t really any sort of opinion I’d listen to, either.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 4 weeks ago:
TBF, an investor could make a thousand good investments and I’d still regard their opinion as worthless (here’s lookin’ at you, Buffet.) Being “good” at figuring out which stocks and companies you can exploit the most from the actually productive economy doesn’t make you smart or in anyway good.
- Comment on Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug 5 weeks ago:
Not that I’m aware of, unfortunately. They seem to be trying to pretend they aren’t even doing it, so telling us why they obviously are modifying content doesn’t seem likely until they’re backed in to a corner by popular outrage.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 5 weeks ago:
It’s the ratio of screen size to distance from the screen. But typically you sit further from larger screens, so there’s an optimization problem in there somewhere.
- Comment on Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug 5 weeks ago:
The danger is honestly pretty minimal for people who are aware they have photosensitive epilepsy; those who are prone to it but unaware of it are not likely to heed warnings even where they exist since they won’t typically perceive the risk until after experiencing it.
It takes several minutes from triggering exposure to actual seizure onset, so those who know of their susceptibility have time to stop exposure and make sure they’re in a safe position if a seizure does come. There are many ways of mitigating the seizure risk by stopping exposure, closing one eye and facing away from the light source, keeping screen brightness at the lowest level you can still easily read, etc.
That’s not to say I think warnings aren’t useful, but the intensity of many of the warnings people use is disproportionate to the actual risk and can cause people to be much more worried than necessary IMO. Google et al really need to stop messing with videos and such via AI without any sort of notice or warning for a whole host of reasons, including broader non-epileptic photosensitive since becoming intensely nauseous or getting a migraine over it is still pretty annoying.
tl;dr I think the warnings are a good idea, but maybe a little broader and less “OMG the epileptics are gonna all die”. And fuck companies silently manipulating content they didn’t even produce with AI in general.
- Comment on One photograph. Two daughters. Three Nobel Prizes. 5 weeks ago:
One of them did, though! Irene Joliot-Curie got the 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
- Comment on One photograph. Two daughters. Three Nobel Prizes. 5 weeks ago:
Her father in law lived with them after his wife died shortly after her first daughter was born. He acted as babysitter when Marie was working. They also hired a servant to take care of most housework and cooking.
- Comment on Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug 5 weeks ago:
FWIW, photosensitive epilepsy is typically only triggered at flash rates between 3-30 hertz. The rate of flashing shown is extremely unlikely to cause seizures even in generally susceptible individuals.