rayquetzalcoatl
@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is Miss England's AI round dangerous or progressive? 18 hours ago:
God I’m so fucking sick of hearing about AI. There is simply no way to interact with the internet without having to hear some absolute dross about AI.
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 2 days ago:
Unregistered HyperCam 2
- Comment on Reeves ‘plots tax raid on landlords’ to help plug £40bn Budget black hole 4 days ago:
Awesome, just in time for my renewal. I wonder how my landlord will phrase the increase this time… “Hi, your tenancy renewal is due. Unfortunately I need to increase the rent a little bit” I reckon.
- Comment on Prince William and Kate to move into new eight-bedroom home worth £16m - This will be their 6th 'Forever home' 1 week ago:
Well I mean, seriously, have you seen him? Yes, I know it’s a bit of a harsh statement but it really does make me think twice about incest if my sibling-kids might look like him when they get older!
- Comment on It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material. 2 weeks ago:
Wait, was it? :o I played that for a few hours and don’t remember experiencing any lag! It was a few years ago mind 😂
- Comment on It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material. 2 weeks ago:
I love this sort of thing! I experienced the reverse lately; I downloaded Diablo 4, closed the blinds, and got drawn into the intro cinematic. Genuinely awesome, moody, atmospheric. I was IN, so ready to play some dark and brooding spooky shit! The cinematic ends…
DLC! BUY OUR COSMETICS! HERE’S A BAJILLION DIABLO CREDIT$$! totally killed the mood. Turns out the game is always-online, even when playing solo, and I was experiencing laggy movement so I just uninstalled. Left a huge bad taste in my mouth.
- Comment on Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2 2 weeks ago:
No.
- Comment on Prince William and Kate to move into new eight-bedroom home worth £16m - This will be their 6th 'Forever home' 2 weeks ago:
Holy SHIT I haven’t seen him in ages. Jesus Christ those genes are really starting to catch up to him, really puts me off the idea of incest if that’s what happens to the kids. He looks fucked up. Anyway, you’re welcome for the home Our Royal Scroungers – enjoy! 🫡
- Comment on Have you ever noticed no one ever looks at a penis and then says, "wow, he must have big feet." 2 weeks ago:
I hope the hangover isn’t too bad 🫡
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 2 weeks ago:
Suffering isn’t good. The growth that can be achieved through suffering can be good. There is a very big difference. Suffering doesn’t guarantee growth. Experience gained through suffering might not always be good (we may become jaded or cynical, or worn down).
Putting that aside for now, hurting others is bad. Inflicting suffering on others is not good, and doing so to try and force “personal growth” in a direction you desire is absolutely not good. That’s strange, cruel, controlling behaviour. That’s sort of like playing god.
When people say that suffering builds character, or reference bible passages like Romans 5:3 (And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience;) (apologies, I don’t know similar teachings from other faiths although I’m sure most faiths have a similar concept to this somewhere in them), they are typically talking about a sort of impersonal “suffering”. The death of a parent, sickness, poverty, that kind of thing – and crucially this idea is often separated from “blame” and is instead a sort of “faceless” suffering. It could be set up like this so that people can focus inwards or on something spiritually, rather than getting stuck in a cycle of blame or revenge, but other times the suffering in question is literally blameless, such as a parent dying of old age.
Either way, the key part in your question is that experiencing suffering is an unfortunate but inevitable rite of passage, and hopefully a person will learn and grow as a result, but that intentionally causing suffering is a choice to hurt another human and is bad. It’s sort of two separate things, really.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 2 weeks ago:
As opposed to the road, because nobody has ever dealt in or from their car.
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 3 weeks ago:
We just did a project involving translating a website for multiple regions for a big company. We used a translation service that doesn’t use humans. The Belgian, Dutch, German, French, and Italian team complained that the translation was extremely weird and they had to manually overwrite the automated translations for the majority of the site (at least dozens of thousands of words) before launch.
We’re still a ways off, judging by that anecdote.
- Comment on Elon Musk seeks to sell power to UK households within months 3 weeks ago:
British Gas is a mess, although we’d still have to deal with that regardless of what Tesla does; they have no plans to offer gas at the moment, just electricity.
- Comment on Elon Musk seeks to sell power to UK households within months 3 weeks ago:
It seems like Tesla has already been doing some work in the UK with Octopus. I’m also curious as to what the subterfuge is, but I won’t touch anything Musk is involved in with a ten-foot bargepole if I can help it. I’m not naïve enough to believe there’s no subterfuge going on, and a man who openly supports Tommy Robinson (AKA Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon) has absolutely no business being anywhere near any important infrastructure, in my opinion.
- Comment on Hmm which one I guess? 3 weeks ago:
I think the double bonus will vary based on how “keto-ish” you go; you will still need to enter and maintain ketosis!
I “tried” keto for ages but kept giving myself little treats (and vodka) which kept me out of ketosis… Still lost weight, but it wasn’t really keto 😂
- Comment on Elon Musk seeks to sell power to UK households within months 3 weeks ago:
Yeah just like how he planned to go to mars within his lifetime or planned to get that hyperloop scam working within the decade, or self driving cars, or whatever other obvious and blatant lie to get taxpayer money funneled to him because he is a leech
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Very strange post.
- Comment on The Most Popular Baby Names From the Past Year Have Officially Been Announced 3 weeks ago:
Hahaha that’s totally jogged a memory for me - there’s this right wing guy on YouTube called Tim Pool, and he went on a weird little rant like a year or two ago about how he saw this AI video of a room with a glass wall, overlooking a village in Christmas time. It’s snowing outside, but it’s cosy inside the room, with a TV playing old cartoons, something like that – he’s going on and on about how nostalgic that is and then he’s like:
“…and that’s all going away. Because people keep calling their kids Mohammed.”
Absolutely laughed my arse off, you honestly couldn’t write a character like that 😂
- Comment on Barclays Joins Wall Street-Led Exodus From Net-Zero Alliance 3 weeks ago:
Shartclays
- Comment on Barclays Joins Wall Street-Led Exodus From Net-Zero Alliance 3 weeks ago:
You will have neither
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
Haha, awesome. Have a good day ✌️
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 4 weeks ago:
Is that your opinion, in the same way that it might be the author’s opinion that Disco Elysium is the greatest RPG ever?
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 4 weeks ago:
Why did this incite anger in you?
- Comment on BBC investigates alleged cocaine use by two Strictly Come Dancing stars 4 weeks ago:
…well, yeah
- Comment on Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm 4 weeks ago:
It’s really hard to not feel disheartened by the naked and blatant corruption that rich people can just get away with.
It’s very difficult not to feel as though there are no legal routes to any sort of justice for the way some people take advantage of others.
I know I should grow up, but it still makes me sad to see how happy some people are to screw over others.
Our water is being poisoned for money.
Our world is burning for money.
It’s just a very miserable day.
- Comment on Was I born as a singularity built need and desperation? 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, I really do enjoy seeing this kind of stuff. It’s much more interesting than the usual fare lol
- Comment on Was I born as a singularity built need and desperation? 4 weeks ago:
Oh hey it’s you! Did you end up growing wings in the end or no?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Not reading that, since nobody wrote it.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 5 weeks ago:
Ah! I forgot about the bigger fool of it all, true. I guess it’s all just bluster and marketing then. God, what a nightmare.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 5 weeks ago:
I legitimately don’t understand money at this scale. Especially not in this context particularly, the context being “rich men investing in parlour-trick technology that most sane people recognise as off-putting and largely useless and yet somehow, presumably, keeps giving them a return on their investment”.
Where does the return come from? Where does the money go? Who has this much money? Who needs more when they have so much? Why aren’t they just enjoying a thoroughly lavish midlife crisis instead?? Haven’t they got hair plugs to pay for?? Why can’t they invest in something cool, if they simply must invest?? Were the men who are investing in this nonsense ever children with human hearts and heads full of dreams? Do they not have passions that they’d like to share with the world? Are they simply joyless bean-counters that continue to live day after day just for the sake of knowing that they’re gaining more uncountable digital money?
Sorry, I think I got off-track there. This whole thing is distasteful.