CarbonIceDragon

@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the reasoning is something like this: these companies employ such call center employees for a reason, either they legally have to for one reason or another or they’ve determined that in some way, it is more profitable to have the capacity for people to call them than not. If the call centers are swamped, then they still cost the company money, but their benefit to the company is reduced, because the “real” calls can’t get through in a timely fashion. As such, it’s in the company’s interest to avoid having people spam them, and if the policy those people want changed won’t really cost the company anything to change, then just doing that might be the most profitable option for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨chained⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a little funny how many conservatives out there will hate on furries and then unironically make memes calling themselves “lions” or “wolves”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would the universe being a black hole invalidate religion, any more than, for example, the universe being really big already does? Don’t most religions focus more on some entity or entities they think made or govern the universe more than what physical processes are “used” to do that, or what the ultimate shape of the universe is? Even when a contradiction is found, it’s easy enough for a religion to just say “well, that was metaphorical”, or “just the limited understanding given by (insert deity here) to our ancestors” or something along those lines to make it fit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the easiest way to get your own wikipedia page without committing a crime?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The one person I’ve met IRL to have a Wikipedia page (as far as I know anyway) got one from writing books and arguing with people (as in like formal debate type ones), so maybe becoming an author? It’s not exactly easy but it’s not unattainable for the typical person either I wouldn’t think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3116: Echo Chamber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive done it before by mistake tbf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was more like hyperbole on my part, I was using as a catch all for whatever kinds of things a business could abuse it’s position by doing. I didn’t want to just say “be able to do businesses or not do business with whoever they want”, because I wanted to say something more broad than just applying to payment processors, even if choosing not to do business with someone and thereby shutting them out of much of the economy is the way a payment processor would do this .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that businesses, not being individuals, should actually have the same rights as individuals I guess. I don’t really agree with the idea that a corporation should be able to do whatever it likes by default, simply because I think corporations in general have too much power to be trusted with such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, when your service is fundamental enough to the economy, and centralized enough to make just going to an alternative a major hassle, if an alternative without a similar policy even exists, then why should they get that say? The power to effectively ban the sale of certain types of thing, or force media platforms to censor certain types of content, is the sort of power we generally reserve for governments, not private entities that can do whatever they want. Honestly they’re important enough these days that they should basically be treated like some sort of public utility in my view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waffles shaped like genitals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stigma or Glory Hole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming the picture isn’t edited or generated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No? Im saying those factors should be understandable, they just need to do the relevant testing to figure it out before building something the public could visit. Hence mentioning due diligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get yourself a real man.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Between the pink color, two arms and rounded face, I guess it does kinda look like one of human-descended “All Tomorrows” creatures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring them back!!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve long found the notion that the lesson of Jurassic Park, if a fictional story like that must be taken to have one, should be something like “science/genetic engineering is bad” or “you can’t control nature” to be a bit silly, given that, well, it’s a zoo. With pretty big animals, to be sure, but dinosaurs were animals still, not kaiju or dragons or whatever other fantasy monster, and some genetically modified to be somewhat bigger and lack feathers would still be such. It’s a story about some people building a zoo badly because they didn’t do their due diligence about the animals they had and cheaped out on staff and the systems they had for containing the animals, and somehow people get the take away that “these animals are special and can’t be safely contained” rather than “letting rich people cheap out on safety is a bad idea”.

  Were one to write a broadly similar story where someone cheaps out on a park containing elephants and tigers, and they get out and maul some people, it’d be obvious, but give the tigers scales and make them born in a lab and suddenly it’s a monster movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mouth suffers for the noms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I’m the reverse, I used to find salt and vinegar a decent flavor if not the best, but can no longer stand it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please let it be that the FBI agent surveilling me was on break and he did not just see me get into a fight with the coat rack.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The implication I rarely see explored of the meme that “everyone (presumably excluding the FBI agents) has an FBI agent watching specifically them (and not just a whole group of people, which would presumably mean they were watching someone else most of the time) at all times”, is that half the population would have to be FBI agents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 publishers Krafton accuse ousted bosses of abandoning duties, and now those ex-leads are suing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly this whole situation seems fishy to me (no pun intended) on all sides.

  On the one hand, I get where the sentiment I’ve seen all over that this is just the publishers attempting to screw the devs over to avoid bonus payouts comes from, and it may even be true, there’s basically no reason to trust a big company and the ones in the entertainment industry are notorious for trying to avoid paying the people that actually make the stuff they sell.

  On the other hand, the 250 million number I see thrown around is a huge amount of money, even if distributed evenly, and if not distributed evenly, would be a huge amount especially for the people at the top (which sound like the people that were fired for the most part?). I could easily see that creating a strong incentive for those in charge of the studio to release something even if it wasn’t ready. And it wouldn’t really surprise me if it isn’t, just given that virtually every major release of late across the industry seems to arrive both after delays and in a seemingly unready state, even the ones releasing in early access. Were that the case, then the move the company made to delay the game and remove people at the top pushing against that would make sense.

  The trouble I have is, both these notions (that the publishing company might be delaying the game without need out of financial motivation, thus screwing over the devs, and that the leadership of the development company might be resisting a necessary delay out of financial motivation, which would presumably screw over the customer) seem self-consistent and plausible to me. The publishers claims are probably a bit more suspect given that from what I hear they have a history with scandal like this, but that isn’t really enough to make me feel confident that they have to be the ones being untruthful here, so jumping on a bandwagon feels premature until we have some information that rules out one of the two sides claims.

  I’d make some statement about how this whole incident demonstrates the pitfalls of combining capitalist profit seeking with art, but between how many times the gaming industry has been burned by that already and how anti-capitalist lemmy tends to be, I suspect everyone here probably would be familiar with that anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know these are generally fake, but they always grind my gears a bit. Literally just screenshot the full message with the “not delivered” part and resend the screenshot until it goes through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The word literally makes me so irrationally angry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That used to be the point of it. Over time the added impact that using it out of place gives to hyperbole has changed that point until it is necessary for enough context to exist to make clear that it is used in it’s original manner.

  It’ll probably happen eventually to anything that replaces the world as well, sort of like how things like swear words and euphemisms lose their impact from overuse and end up getting replaced only to have the same happen again. At some level a quick way of saying “this is actually true” serves as an easy source of exaggeration if used somewhere where it clearly can’t be so, and as soon as someone does that, the meaning starts being dependant on context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Virtually nothing in politics or economics is ever permanent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lost dog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been known to not get humor, I thought the joke was in sharing someone else documenting a stupid decision of theirs unwittingly, and therefore if it was itself fake it wouldn’t have the same impact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lost dog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would a wild (I think coyote?) even let someone wash it? I suspect maybe a tame one that someone used a picture of to make a funny story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mages be like:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens if you put the cursed forbidden knowledge book through a photocopier and just read the copies rather than the original I wonder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mages be like:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also known to more modern, less superstitious cultures as a proctologist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First they’d have to get fusion power to produce net electricity, and then for it to produce it economically compared to other sources. We’ve made progress but it’s been decades in the making and I’d be willing to bet will be a few decades more, even if I do expect it to get there one day.

  But what’s dystopian about fusion? It’s just another energy source. A bit cleaner than some of the older ones, but not really anything fundamentally different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to put your life in perspective⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine how grand and rewarding a task it would be for us to reach out and grab more than a few grains of that desert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bro literally ran out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I’m saying names out of order, and say my last now but will say the beginning or other entries on the list later?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its likely a very large percentage of people would choose to have been born earlier than they were if given the choice.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly, I would not be terribly surprised if some descendant of our species, almost certainly incredibly, unimaginably divergent from what we are now but still someone, literally dies with the universe, however that ends up ending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco changed the bag to plastic!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but a crop merely being bioengineered does not imply that that specific tweak has been made

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco changed the bag to plastic!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? Tweaking the genes of something doesnt magically make it dangerous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its likely a very large percentage of people would choose to have been born earlier than they were if given the choice.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im fairly doubtful of that tbh.