Adderbox76
@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 1 day ago:
I’ll give my smart-ass answer first before deliving into my serious answer.
Smart-ass: Yes…tangible literally means “possible to touch”. So yeah…digital stuff isn’t, by definition “tangible” in the way that records, cds, etc… are. You’ve never “touched” an mp3 file. You’ve never “touched” a streaming movie like you handle a DVD or a VHS tape.
Now…to my serious answer: I’ve long been working on what started as an article, became a treatise, and is now morphing into a non-fiction book about that very concept. Still a very long way to go, and with my stop-and-start creative blocks, it may never get done, but I felt it was important to write it all down while I still have a functioning brain. (I’m not getting any younger)
I’ve added to it for years every time a new thought about it comes to me, talking about what I call “Patina” (the tendency for mechanical things like typewriters and camera lenses to age individually, almost developing a personality as they age) and equating it with the Japanese concept of Tsukomogami (the idea that physical things gain a soul after 100 years)
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 3 days ago:
My makers are hard at work getting ready to release my brother, ScatGPT. But I don’t expect it’ll be as popular.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 3 days ago:
Yep. You got me.
I’m a new model, called PhatGPT, designed specifically to catfish desperate men.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Probably around the same time that Adolph makes a comeback.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
Fucking finally!
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 weeks ago:
As a Canadian living north of the nut-hatch, I wish I had the money to excercise my dual citizenship and get out of here to Portugal, or anywhere else in the EU.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 2 weeks ago:
As far as I’m concerned, unionization should be government mandated for every company everywhere in every industry.
But unfortunately we live in hell.
- Comment on What are your favourite questlines in Starfield? 2 weeks ago:
Definitely Crimson Fleet. During my first playthough, I still hadn’t done a lot of the main quest, so I felt I HAD to side with the UC at the end just because trying to do Constellation missions while not having proper access to UC space. And I legitimately felt torn and sad for the Crimson Fleet. It was one of the only decently written quest lines that made me feel that.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
After literally decades of sending manufacturing overseas, there is NO WAY Trumpistan pivots back to domestic production in time to prevent complete anarchy in its streets.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
At this point, every single country should be embargoing the US. It’s well past that point that we cut them off from the world stage entirely economically.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 3 weeks ago:
They’d make for some mighty fine eatin’.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 3 weeks ago:
I see what you’re saying. But to me it’s very much a “You can’t swim in the sewer without getting covered in shit” morality-play.
The very act of providing a service that earns more than a billion dollars by necessity requires the cooperation of a number of different entities. As you described, Ticket Master, Publishers, Distributors, etc… So while they themselves might not be directly exploiting people, they have to interact and make use of partners that do if they want to play in that billionaire paddling pool.
To me, exploitation by association is still exploitation.
But that’s me. Everyone is welcome to their own opinion.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 3 weeks ago:
Cant we outlaw corporations and continue as we are? Sure would be nice.
I think the world would do better if all of us shrank a bit to be more mindful of a community economy.
If my neighbour down the street woodworks in his spare time and makes bespoke tables and chairs, I’ll do everything I can to go buy from him rather than a corporation (for example)
Growing up on an Acreage, it was more common for us to buy a half a side of beef or pork from the farmer next door than to go to the grocery store. Same for vegetables from farmer’s markets or similar community markets.
It’s less about criminalizing corporations and more about refusing to reward them for making their profits off the backs of poverty wages and government subsidies…
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 3 weeks ago:
Let me put it this way.
It’s possible to become a millionaire through a combination of hardwork, brains, luck and timing.
It’s impossible to become a billionaire after that without exploiting others, whether that is workers, employees, investors…whoever.
In other words, it’s possible to be an honest millionaire, but not an honest billionaire.
So the amount of wealth a person is entitled to is the amount that they can earn with their own labour without exploiting others in order to do so.
So if you own a furniture store, and you pay your employees a living wage, give benefits, etc… and after that you’re successful enough to be a millionaire…great. You deserve it. If you’re an employer and you own a furniture store, and in order to become a millionaire you have to pay your workers minimum wage and rely on unfair labour practices to inflate your profits…you don’t deserve it.
I use the furniture store example because I worked for just such a guy. Family run business. Paid us all well enough. Gave us benefits. Made sure we were taken care of. Treated us like family. And he was financially very successful while managing to do so. Could he have made even MORE if he had taken it from wages and benefits…sure. But that wasn’t the type of person he was.
To me, THAT example is capitalism working as it should in it’s purest form. Corporatization is just a bastardization of the concept created by venture capitalists and shareholders.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 weeks ago:
Devil’s advocate:
You can either protect everyone’s privacy, or you can protect no one’s.
Doxxing is a privacy issue. It’s not “okay if it’s someone you don’t like”. I’m sure if the tables were reversed and people on the right had doxxed a bunch of left-leaning people, the left would be up-in-arms about it, demanding that it be removed and for the people who posted it to be suspended. But because they’re far-right, it’s suddenly okay?
I hate the far-right, don’t get me wrong. But get off the high-horse. Companies can either protect everyone from doxxing, or they can protect no one from doxxing. There’s no in-between just because the people being doxxed are people you find repugnant.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 4 weeks ago:
The reason the “kill-switch” wasn’t made clear originally was because it literally didn’t exist until users very vocally tool them where to shove their AI crap.
It was added on afterwards.
- Comment on Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training 5 weeks ago:
It’s only a matter of time. I want nothing to do with any company that is giving so called “A.I” the time of day.
- Comment on Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training 5 weeks ago:
Well…fuck Udemy I guess.
One of my old employers used to pay out small bonus incentives onto a prepaid credit card for each staff member, and I called it my “fun money” that I would invariably spend on Udemy enrolling in whatever seemed interesting to me. It was truly enjoyable and I feel like I’m a more well rounded person because of it.
And now AI is going to fuck all of that. I want to learn from PEOPLE, not LLM’s cosplaying as A.I.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 5 weeks ago:
Did Robotaxi just flat out steal the Cyberpunk font in order to try to look cool? It seems like a very Musk thing to do.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 5 weeks ago:
It’s never a bad idea to learn another language.
It’s never a bad idea to learn. period…full stop.
The act of learning anything wires our brains in a thousand different ways; increases our critical thinking skills. Increases our verbosity and our ability to communicate our own ideas more effectively. It increases problem solving skills, etc…
The very act of learning is something that should be practiced every day with something, whether that’s a new language, or a hobby, or being a history buff…it doesn’t matter. What matters is the learning itself.
So if Russian is what is giving you that interest right now, do it. At the very least, chicks dig polyglots.
- Comment on FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs can eventually replace federal income taxes. Experts disagree 1 month ago:
Anytime a sentence begins with “Trump says”, it should be followed with “Trump, however, is an idiot.”
- Comment on As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’ 1 month ago:
If by “work through”, he means guillotine the billionaires who caused the job losses and redistrubute their wealth to make up for it, I’m all in.
- Comment on Tuvix - Self-Hosted RSS Aggregator 1 month ago:
And rightly so!
- Comment on “You heard wrong” - users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11 1 month ago:
My gut tells me that you’re being satirical. But just in case…
“Free” as in Freedom, not “Free” as in Beer means that you are free to view, use, modify and distribute the underlying source code within the guidelines of whichever Open Source license that software falls under. It in no way implies that it is “Free of Charge/No Cost”
- Comment on “You heard wrong” - users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11 1 month ago:
Free as in “Freedom”. not free as in “Beer”.
Not charging money for your product had NEVER been a requirement in open source. Most people just give out away and get their money from elsewhere because theoretically someone could just download the source code and compile it themselves.
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 1 month ago:
It was the seventies.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 month ago:
Cool story, bro.
It has literally nothing to do with the topic. But hey, good rant there, bud.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 month ago:
That guy earning twice as much as you is still far closer to you than to the guy above him. He may make twice the amount as you, but the guy above both of you makes literally 400 times as much (per day sometimes). It’s like you said, we’re all on the same team.
- 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? 1 month ago:
FF7 (original) FF8 Fallout NV Crusader Kings 2 (with dlc and mods) Rimworld (with mods)
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 month ago:
Middle class IS below the poverty line.
The poverty line is a number made up by the wealthy to keep the “less poors” at odds with the “more poors” So that we don’t join forces and guillotine the motherfuckers.