UnderpantsWeevil
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- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 33 minutes ago:
Well this is s stupid argument.
Also, routinely untrue. Exceedingly common for Business School teachers to have side hustles. Hell, teaching often IS the side hustle.
nfl and nba coaches built like a pound cake with multiple championships
It’s weird to think knowing how to train and lead a team requires someone to be at peak physical fitness, especially when they’ve been doing it for upwards of 40 years.
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 35 minutes ago:
You just mixed being strong with being fat.
How much do you think a 300 lb person can lift? I guarantee it’s at least 300 lbs.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Generally speaking, I don’t check the age/gross karma on an account unless I’m suspicious. And by then… plenty of older accounts with lots of karma are HailCorporate to the gills. Nevermind the mods.
I just can’t take anything on that site seriously
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
“At least” is doing some heavy lifting
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 1 day ago:
if a computer was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn’t be constantly shoved (in) your face by every product. People would just use it.”
People did just use it. But because they were so comically expensive and complicated, most people couldn’t afford one until the mid-90s.
Computers were rapidly adopted for business, initially. But they quickly became a popular tool for entertainment as well.
AI serves little in the way of either purpose
- Comment on Pow-- 2 days ago:
When Batman beats goons to a pulp because they supposedly deserve it, he’s approaching criminality as a moral choice. There’s an obvious correlation between social inequality and criminality, and it’s simplistic and dangerous to say some people are just “bad.” Still, when Batman goes out at night breaking bones, he ignores the core issues of Gotham City’s economy and simply flexes his millionaire’s muscles. By the way, this is the main argument used to defend the idea that Batman is fascist.
This is, incidentally, the rationale du jour of Red Scare Era KKK. Lynching black labor activists for agitating against the local government. Batman quite literally hangs people from lampposts, in a manner highly reminiscent of the “strange fruit” Billie Holiday sings about. They also popularized “policing” neighborhoods through night raids against black businesses that were deemed “criminal” purely through their relative success. Again, this goes to the manner in which Batman routinely roughs up members of the “legitimate” side of (what the author has decided are) criminal businesses.
Bruce Wayne’s vast financial resources only complicates the Batman character. The idea of a millionaire spending thousands of dollars on gadgets he uses to beat down poor criminals is problematic, to say the least.
It should be noted how many members of the Klan were, themselves, landlords and politicians and industrial millionaires of the era. They used their superior resources and their political connections with the police to engage in violent vigilantism against “criminals” like Emmett Till and Joe Spinner Johnson. And they organized within the Klan to promote racist policies at the public level, in the same way that Wayne Enterprises influences politics in Gotham City.
Let’s take Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns timeline, for instance. That Batman is unquestionably a fascist.
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Batman puts himself above the law and brainwashes an army of lost souls to enact his will, crushing everyone he defines as an enemy. Instead of acting on a moral gray area, Miller’s take on Batman extrapolates some of the Dark Knight’s tendencies to show how the vigilante’s crusade against crime could turn him into a full-blown fascist.
Probably the most naked example.
Obviously, this varies by writer. And you can always find more liberal/leftist authors who have re-positioned Batman as explicitly anti-slavery, anti-apartheid, and pro-union labor. But these are very novel interpretations, relative to the character as originally portrayed.
- Comment on Pow-- 2 days ago:
I treat people the way they treat other people.
No you don’t. You treat people the way you can get away with.
If an ICE agent bumped into you on the street tomorrow, you’d tip your fucking hat and keep your eyes down, because you were terrified of what he’d do to you if you didn’t.
- Comment on Pow-- 2 days ago:
There are only nine meals between mankind and
anarchyfascism.You cannot discount how many modern American fascists are pulled from the ranks of the unemployable post-industrial underclass. How many people are signing up for ICE strictly for a paycheck? How many signed up for the National Guard or enlisted in our imperial wars overseas for the GI benefits? How many people could have been EMS or construction workers or ag workers with a paycheck that covered cost of living or white collar schlubs doing email jobs, but are instead getting handed tasers and zip ties and an unlimited license to do violence to their neighbors?
- Comment on Pow-- 2 days ago:
The best part about the entirety of this comic is that Nazis are the exception to Batman’s “No Killing” rule.
It’s curious, because Batman’s always been tinged with reactionary politics. You’ve got your Eco-Terrorist in Poison Ivy, your Unfuckable Migrant Gangster in Penguin, your Smug Ivory Tower Elitist in Riddler, your corrupt hedonist politician in Two Face, and your Psycho Carny/Gypsie/Vagrant in The Joker. The Feds are all useless or complicit. The Arkham Asylum is all Hugs for Thugs (when they’re not doing Clockwork Orange shit to turn supervillains into weapons of the state). The only person you can trust is a billionaire vigilante working with the silent consent of a handful of “Good Cops” who turn a blind eye to his paramilitary crusade.
Writing Batman as “Anti-KKK” really loses track of the origins of the character. This guy basically IS the KKK, or at least some Disney-fied crime-fighting John Galt.
- Comment on NOW! 2 days ago:
anyone dumb enough to participate in the Black Friday madness is definitely too dumb to know why 1gb non-expandable storage is next to fucking worthless
It’s easy to call people “dumb enough” when you’ve flooded their ears with propaganda year after year after year.
More difficult to navigate the minefield of crap that floods retail stores and online sites or to pick out the “honest” review site from the army of influencer sales and marketing shills or to fully grasp why two seemingly identical products would have radically different sticker prices.
The opposite end of the “If it’s too good to be true…” moniker is the Velben Good. Companies are just as happy to sell you a 500x marked-up widget by spending an equivalent in native ads and other subliminal marketing. For every $40 1gb tablet in the clearance aisle there’s a $400 1gb tablet with gold leaf and a Disney celebrity’s face on the box and a dozen YouTubers/Facebookers screaming “Best In Value!” from the top of the website’s Recommended Videos page.
And none of that deals with the volume of products that straight up lie about what’s in the box. In the end, failing to step on a consumerist punji stick is as much the result of good luck as good sense.
Black Friday is such a cheap illusion.
It is the biggest sales day of the year, because its a day enormous numbers of people have off that’s in close proximity to the Christmas season. Because businesses know they’re going to see high sales volume, they have an incentive to maximize units sold at a lower average markup to their competitors.
There’s a real rational marketing logic to discounting goods (and then saturating the airwaves with marketing material) in the weeks leading up to it. But over time, the math has changed from “maximize volume of sales to generate optimal profit” into “maximize volume of advertisements to generate maximal per-unit profit margins”.
- Comment on NOW! 2 days ago:
You can always compare the price via other websites.
Black Friday Brief: ‘Derivative’ TVs a Smoking Deal or a Sham?
“If you see an amazing deal on a set, it could be because it’s been cranked out in a limited run just for Black Friday,” said Benjamin Glaser, features editor at DealNews.com. “They can artificially inflate the price and exaggerate the discount because there’s technically no price history for that product, since it’s brand new.”
These limited edition models are called “derivative” products. Sometimes the manufacturer simply gives an existing product a new model number. In other cases, they make changes to the current model in order to hit a lower price point. For example, a TV could have one less HDMI input or use lower quality parts.
“It’s a strategy devised by manufactures in conjunction with retailers that makes it harder for shoppers to do direct price comparisons because you’re not going to see that exact same model anywhere else,” explained Jim Willcox, senior electronics editor at Consumer Reports. “It also helps retailers as they’ve stepped-up their price-matching guarantees. Almost all of these price-match offers are limited to the exact same model. If you can’t compare that exact same model, they don’t have to match the price.”
- Comment on NOW! 2 days ago:
Some of the stores did run valid sales – limited-time price reductions on the selected merchandise. But Brasler said Sears, Kohl’s and Macy’s offered what he called “fake” sale prices.
“It’s shameful what they’re doing,” Brasler told NBC News. “They’re making it appear that this is a special low price, when in fact, it’s always their price. And often, it’s not even a low price, if you took the time to compare.”
- Sears had what Checkbook called “the most egregious always-on-sale practices.” Eight out of nine items tracked, were almost or always on sale. Two were on sale 44 out of 44 weeks.
- Kohl’s had eight of the nine items checked on sale more than half the time during the 44-week survey period. Four were always or almost always offered at sale prices.
- Macy’s had one item almost always on sale and four that were on sale 70 percent or more of the time. Two items Checkbook monitored never went on sale.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 3 days ago:
Words do not compute. Issuing a $1T IPO to Sam Altman.
- Comment on PC Master Race 3 days ago:
Only a tiny minority of PC gamers pay monthly for anything.
That’s simply not true.
- Comment on PC Master Race 3 days ago:
I’m going to say it did, based on the fuzziest of memories from twenty years ago
- Comment on PC Master Race 3 days ago:
PS5
500 non-gaming PC
Come on, dude. Firstly, you can get a non-gaming PC for under $200 easy. Hell, if you know where to look, you can get it for free.
500 ps5 650 ps5 pro 4 years in
Why not just… not upgrade the PS5? Save yourself $650. If you want to “balance” things, the PC guy can save $200 on their own upgrade.
Wait for the PS6, which will be out in '27/'28 and just enjoy the OG console that was released in '20 for the life of the platform.
Like, this is obviously not an apple to apple comparison. And that’s spotting you a generous $800 PC build out of the gate. You’re simply not building a PS5 quality rig in 2020 for $800.
720 for PlayStation online basic at 10 per month
Do I get to charge the PC owner the release price of every PSO title released for free? Because that’s going to come out far higher than $720 over six years.
Are you playing any MMOs on that PC? Should we be charging you the base rate for those as well?
I’m not even a PS5 guy. I tapped out at 4 and game on my PC happily. But I’m not going to pretend console gamers are doing 3x my spend just because it’s possible to do so.
- Comment on PC Master Race 3 days ago:
I will say, way back in college I had a friend get two $600 graphics cards so he could play Morrowind: Oblivion at max settings. And I was just kinda dumbfounded, cause the upscaling simply wasn’t that good.
- Comment on Azure is having issues 4 days ago:
@Grok What happened?
- Comment on Azure is having issues 4 days ago:
Critical support to the brave mujahideen fighters hosting Lemmy from an independent web server setup.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 4 days ago:
Old, Broke, 2015: “Just needed to let you know that I do, in fact, have a very blurry penis”
New Hotness in 2025: “Here’s half an inch of skin in thigh stripped thigh-highs”
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 5 days ago:
But building oracles and such is gross.
You’re talking about a religion whose entire foundation is built on saints and prophets. The whole Jesus story is a big deal because it is fulfillment of prophecy.
The who AI pope question was insane.
It’s certainly heretical to the Catholic Church. But fits comfortably in a bunch of New Age and Technocratic Futurist Protestant understands of their faith.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 5 days ago:
Ah. Hence the age old adage: “Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got”.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 5 days ago:
Nonsense. Grok’s been a confused, masochistic mess since at least June.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 5 days ago:
Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made
You are about 1700 years late to this argument. Christians reconciled with iconography some time in the Byzantium Era.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 5 days ago:
illegal use of copyrighted materials
It’s quite literally the least bad thing they’ve done across two terms in office.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 5 days ago:
- Comment on Ok, boomer 5 days ago:
They are Marxists, they are anarchists, they are agitators, they are looters, and they are people who, in many instances, have absolutely no clue what they are doing.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 5 days ago:
I think some of you younger folks really don’t know what the Internet was like 20 years ago.Shit was up and down all the time.
I worked on a project back in 2008 where I had to physically haul hardware from Houston to Dallas just to keep a second rate version of a website running until we got power back at the original office. Latency at the new location was so bad that we were scrambling to reinvent the website in real time to try and improve performance. We ended up losing the client. They ended up going bankrupt. An absolute nightmare.
Getting screamed at by clients. Working 14 hour days in a cramped server room on something way outside my scope.
Would have absolutely killed for something as clean and reliable as AWS. Not like it didn’t even exist back then. But we self-hosted because it was cheaper.
A baseless and malicious claim