PiraHxCx
@PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Your prudery and moralism bores the hell out of me …neocities.org/rant04-2024-07-18
- Comment on 15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees. 1 day ago:
minimum and maximum body temperature (we are measuring humans, not environment)
- Comment on 15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees. 1 day ago:
I should have specified minimum and maximum body temperature. Doesn’t matter where you are from, if your body temperature is like 15ºC or 45ºC you will hardly survive
- Comment on 15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees. 1 day ago:
Celsius was designed for water, we should have a scale where 100 = maximum temperature human is expected to be alive and 0 = minimum temperature human is expected to be alive (and 50 normal human temperature). That’s a humane scale.
- Comment on Americans rarely refer to the US as America 2 days ago:
But have you ever seen someone who is not far left using the term estadounidense/estadunidense?
- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 2 days ago:
I don’t even see wrongs, just one being childish and the other petty… but hey, if Archive guy decides to burn down his Library of Alexandria I believe we fully deserve losing all that information forever.
- Comment on Americans rarely refer to the US as America 2 days ago:
When they aren’t USA bootlickers.
ps: This is Portuguese. US is Estados Unidos.
- Comment on Americans rarely refer to the US as America 2 days ago:
In my country you can know someone’s politics just by knowing if they call people from the USA americanos or estadounidenses.
- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 2 days ago:
I mean, wikipedia is all maintained by unpaid volunteers, and from the 184 million dollars they got from donation last year alone only about 2% were spent on running the service, and they can’t do what one guy on his garage does for free for the whole world and now they want to play the high horse? Fuck them.
The guy is being targeted by very big actors, they all reference a single blog, and check if the people associated with The Pirate Bay or Wikileaks had any good time when they were targeted by those actors… yeah, surprise surprise the guy is big antisocial and acted antisocial, giving a 404 to the media links wouldn’t change what is already out there, and using his resources to target the blog bandwidth to try to force it offline after having his requests denied was… questionable… Streisand effect blah blah blah, I think the choice is very clear: Siding with one guy that has been doing fantastic preservation work for the whole world for free for more than a decade VS Siding with random blogger that tried to uncover his identity and, after having his article used to harass the previous guy, still decided to not take it down.
- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 2 days ago:
This is hilarious haha And turns out a lot of dedicated tech genius doing very important work for public good aren’t very well in the head, and that’s ok
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 5 days ago:
Yep, hate when I want to follow some project and they link you to X, Reddit and Discord lol
- Comment on The last thing people want is to stop wanting 1 week ago:
There is a whole religion based on wanting to stop wanting.
- Comment on Can't Unsubscribe from Newsletter, anyone else? 1 week ago:
Oh, I got the Alone in the Dark trilogy the other day yeah and I don’t think I ever got a free game on GOG before. But I’m pretty sure I unsubscribed from their newsletter when they sent the email this Thursday. I did it again, I hope it works this time, else gonna have to contact support.
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- Comment on In a few years, the western liberals who claim to want a world led by countries outside the west are gonna get what they wished for, and realise that means western liberal values lose 1 week ago:
I have read it here: washingtonblade.com/…/two-chinese-men-detained-ov…
at least three similar incidents have occurred in Chengdu recently, all involving netizens posting on social media linking Chengdu with homosexuality, resulting in legal repercussions. This isn’t just about giant pandas. I think the local police’s reaction was somewhat excessive,” said Renn Hao, a Chinese queer activist. “The content was actually praising Chengdu’s inclusivity, and there was no need to punish them with regulations like ‘maliciously spreading false information.’”
“This situation reflects the strict censorship of LGBT related content in the area,” they added. “This censorship makes LGBT-related content increasingly invisible, and people are even more afraid to post or mention it. This not only impacts the LGBTQ+ community in China but also hinders public understanding and awareness of this group.”
more context I’ve read from: washingtonpost.com/…/china-gay-panda-chengdu/
Wang Xuetang, a lawyer with J. Tongue Law Office in Shenzhen, says the suspects in the “gay pandas” case were penalized not for rumormongering, but for the AI-modified news photo they produced.
“This case has been described as a stigmatization of Chengdu, because many netizens joked that homosexuality is so widespread in the city that even pandas there turned gay.
Officials appear to be trying to erase Chengdu’s unofficial queer capital status, he said.
Wang noted that most of the Chengdu cases were defined as “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a vaguely-defined criminal offense that has often been used to control speech and deter dissent.
“There used to be a vibrant gay scene in Chengdu, and LGBTQ people there were highly visible and welcomed,” said Kenneth Cheung, a Hong Kong-based activist who founded the LGBTQ+ rights group Rainbow China. “Now, that culture increasingly faces challenges,” especially following the recent detentions, he said.
- Comment on In a few years, the western liberals who claim to want a world led by countries outside the west are gonna get what they wished for, and realise that means western liberal values lose 1 week ago:
Just yesterday I was reading about those two guys arrested in China for using AI to make images of gay pandas having sex… great prospects for all furries and LGBT fans in China (which also has such wonderful scores on feminism). It also works for the people praising the establishment of more dogmatic conservative religious groups in western countries, but you can’t mention this on Leopards Ate My Face…
- Comment on The data windows collect about you goes to a company founded by someone who is in the epstein files 1 week ago:
if you set up a pi-hole you aren’t sending any data to Microsoft because you are using Linux though… unless you are talking about server in which there are devices running Windows…
- Comment on Information based on lived experience is far less valued than a quick Google answer. 1 week ago:
I get your point, and I was actually kinda playing devil’s advocate here, I really thought I’d be the one getting downvoted lol
- Comment on Information based on lived experience is far less valued than a quick Google answer. 1 week ago:
You mean a record of collective experience painting a bigger picture about a subject may be more valued than a single anecdotal account?
Ask a white middle class boomer how was growing up in the American 50s and he might say it was a great time based on his experience… a black person might give a different perspective… - Comment on Kill Bill and Charlies Angel have the same vibes, almost like Kill Bill is just a Rated R version of the Charlies Angel movie. 2 weeks ago:
As Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Switchblade Sisters, Sex & Fury, gosh, I love those cheap exploitation movies.
- Comment on Kill Bill and Charlies Angel have the same vibes, almost like Kill Bill is just a Rated R version of the Charlies Angel movie. 2 weeks ago:
Charlie’s Angels is just a PG version of The Doll Squad, which is a real Tarantino influence.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
OP looking for that real FPS thrill Image
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 2 weeks ago:
Thanks everyone for the replies. I see there is a lot of features that I have no use for so I never explored (controller stuff, cloudsave, social features, achievements, etc)… I guess auto updates are cool though, but I only play old games anyway :P
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- Comment on Schlip schlop 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, I understand you.
- Comment on Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star 2 weeks ago:
Amelia wasn’t AI-generated, she was literally goverment-generated to a stupid game saying you should mind your own business instead of watching and sharing content online or you can be arrested. In the game the content was anti-immigration stuff and Amelia the girl trying to get the main character (if the player was a boy) to get involved, so some dumbass just gave them a waifu lol
The game however basically tells you have to choose between being a racist or living in Orwell’s 1984, really great government propaganda. - Submitted 3 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Recommend some games for PCem 3 weeks ago:
About games hard to run, back on Win7 I couldn’t get Dark Colony installer to run with any compatibility mode (luckily, you can run the game just by copying the files from the CD). StarCraft had some graphics issue but just on menus (I think on Win10 as well), and I couldn’t play Outwars at all (although GOG version has some fix for modern Windows). A GOG game I bought that I couldn’t run on modern windows was Slave Zero.
- Comment on Recommend some games for PCem 3 weeks ago:
Jagged Alliance, Commandos, Fallout :)
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Did a single conservative outlet consider this unreasonable though?
- Comment on Active Retro Consoles 4 weeks ago:
There were also a lot of collection packs in the middle but I was too lazy to count and exclude them :P
But even if they released just roms instead of physical media, wouldn’t you still be able to play on the actual hardware using Everdrive or something?
