jmcs
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- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 3 days ago:
2 and 5 are also fine at best. Good cutlery needs to have a proper “thick” handles, these all look cheap and unergonomic.
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 5 days ago:
Given they don’t actually need farms to produce wine, the federation might see Chateau Picard as personal (as opposed to private) property that supports Jean Luc’s little hobby and preservation of traditional knowledge.
- Comment on The Oblivion remaster is real: Doubters in shambles as developer Virtuos accidentally leaves the door open to trailer screenshots and assets 1 week ago:
Going by the screenshots Skyblivion is looking better by the day.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 week ago:
Putin is in the year 3 of a 3 day invasion, and became a vassal of China in the process.
Trump singlehandedly destroyed American hegemony, removing the tool he would need the most to deliver what the donor class wanted and he keeps losing games of chicken with basically the entire world. And I’m pretty sure Biden would’ve done lots of things differently if he could travel back in time even a few hours.
If they have time machines they are the most incompetent people on the planet.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 week ago:
Does our world sound like a world where any President of the US and/or Russia had access to time travel?
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 2 weeks ago:
That sounds a very reactionary way to see Vulcan/Ni’Var on DIS.
Vulcan changed it wasn’t destroyed. And it’s implied that this change was what saved the outward facing outlook of their civilization - the romulan component of population becomes the more pro-federation side of Ni’Var.
There are some interesting things to explore their, since on one hand you have T’rina who acknowledges her emotions and moderates them with logic, and on the other there’s Duvin who is clearly more conservative.
I don’t know if there’s an actual plan on the timeline of these cultural changes or if it’s accidental but there’s already some evidence of this cultural shift in Prodigy and Lower Decks with Maj’el and T’Lin. Even before that there’s Saavik but at least non-canon novels assume she’s half Romulan.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 3 weeks ago:
The closest, at least outside of China, would be Dailymotion.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 4 weeks ago:
As a native Portuguese speaker I found it very useful when I started to learn English. And even nowadays having some form of “visual map” between English and Portuguese at least for more erudite words - which tend to be the ones that are shared between more languages - helps me write English better.
The similarities between English and German also ended up helping me learn German.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 4 weeks ago:
Going by how ortography changes have gone in other languages, I doubt it.
Besides English, if English fix its ortography it’s going to become much harder to learn for speakers of other European languages - as confusing the pronunciation rules and exceptions are, they are caused by writing things similarly to other European languages while mangling the original pronunciation.
- Comment on Government said they are b-a-a-d 4 weeks ago:
That’s very 2024. Now they are arresting German and Northern European immigrants too. They are also moving past “illegal” because US visas don’t actually mean a thing now - the US border control has arrested several people with valid visas already. And when people get used to this, they’ll be able to disappear anyone and claim they weren’t American citizens.
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 5 weeks ago:
Pre-industrial societies still expected children to work from young ages. And they would often switch to adult labour in their early teens.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 1 month ago:
No European country has unrestricted jus soli for nationality. Ireland was the last one to restrict nationality by-soil to children of long term legal residents, which is the same as Germany.
- Comment on South Carolina conducts first US firing squad execution in 15 years: ‘Barbaric’ 1 month ago:
But think of the
barbariansnice people that get off on seeing other people dying. - Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 1 month ago:
You’ll still need to buy the games to get the assets legally. EA is just checking if they can offload the modernization of old games they don’t want to remake to the community to keep the revenue stream going without having to invest on it.
It’s a win-win situation if it works.
- Comment on WWJD 1 month ago:
It’s called parody. It’s very hard to do when talking about people that are the embodiment (and origin) of Poe’s Law, so I appreciate everyone’s effort.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 2 months ago:
LLMs can’t do software engineering. They can do some basic coding tasks if given very precise instructions by someone that did the actual engineering work.
It’s like having a mediocre junior developer that just happens to know the syntax and standard library of every major programming language as a service.
- Comment on Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age 2 months ago:
But they already did that to target ads. Someone found a way to repackage an existing feature for their performance review?
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 2 months ago:
You can consent to a federation interface without consenting to having a bot crawl all your endpoints.
Just because something is available on the internet it doesn’t mean all uses are legitimate - this is effectively the same problem as AI training with stolen content.
- Comment on FediDB has stoped crawling until they get robots.txt support 2 months ago:
It’s not about the impact it’s about consent.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
Do you think Flohmarkt is worse than Volkswagen?
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
That’s not an issue for brands. German and Chinese brands are just doing fine everywhere with the possible exception of the two countries in the world where people are not exposed to other languages.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
And why should we name things for the exclusive convenience of monolingual English speakers to the detriment of everyone else?
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
Got it, let’s name it in mandarin then
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
At least most speakers of European languages will pronounce it close enough to German - though most will not do make the r in markt as hard as Germans do.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
Why would English be objectively better than German?
- Comment on Meta warns that it will fire leakers in leaked memo 2 months ago:
Irony is dead and buried several layers deep.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 2 months ago:
AI in general yes. LLMs in particular, I very much doubt it.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 2 months ago:
In the same way that if you start digging a hole in northwestern Spain you are heading towards New Zealand.
- Comment on The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie 2 months ago:
There’s a very clear line between having a military and intelligence services and having a MKULTRA-era-CIA-in-space.
- Comment on The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie 2 months ago:
“The people in the Federation exist in a bubble of safety and happiness, but there are outsiders to that sphere of the Federation—surrounded by the Dominion, the Founders, the Klingons [of this era], the [Romulan secret police] Tal Shiar, that don’t have the same moral relativity that we do. They would see [the Federation] destroyed to fit their moral relativism,” Kazinsky argued. “People need to understand why people don’t like the idea [of Section 31], but it hasn’t changed the idea.”
This kind of logic implies that stooping down to barbarism is OK as long as you are hypocritical about it.