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- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 6 days ago:
I’d you’re talking about cloud computing for gaming specifically (as you can of course use cloud computing for, well, everything), then maybe it’s not good enough in the US, I don’t know enough about that area to say, but networking is definitively more than sufficient in Europe.
- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 1 week ago:
This was done by an archival group, primarily for the purposes of preservation. Don’t know if it helps make you feel better, but at least personally I think complete archives of human cultural output, if possible, are important. So much has already been lost over the course of history
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
I wonder, have you ever made a game yourself? I have
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 1 week ago:
I know you meant “companies”, but at this point, it might as well be on the scale of a country
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 2 weeks ago:
I think commercialized gambling should be illegal too
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it wasn’t though…
It’s clear you haven’t actually watched any of arc gameplay though, because it’s so far from what you’ve said it’s kinda laughable
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It is life, but it’s not a multicellular life. Aka, it’s no more advanced than a single bacteria
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 3 weeks ago:
Should people… Not be critical? There’s always been so much glazing of the US throughout history
- Comment on It's nothing 3 weeks ago:
Sums up a surprising amount of our biology
Yeah, our bodies sometimes have weird random issues, who would have guessed a flesh robot built by trial and error is fucky wucky
- Comment on I dunno 4 weeks ago:
I mean, arithmetic order is just convention, not a mathematical truth. But that convention works in the way we know, yes, because that’s what’s… well… convention
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 4 weeks ago:
Humans have a natural tendency to develop slang. Even in the internet age new slang and in-group languages/dialects are constantly formed
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 4 weeks ago:
It’s definitively something along the lines of “knows just enough to be dangerous”
Like, sure, I’ve also broken my Linux system, but I’m deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader.
If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 4 weeks ago:
Thet tell on themselves so bad
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
Oh jesus christ, sure, go ahead, keep doing just like you’re doing, I’m sure it will keep working out for you
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
And so, okay, instead of discussing like this, or rather arguing, I want us to take a step back and ask, “what is it that we’re actually trying to achieve here?”
Is the goal to “win” the argument? Is the goal to look at a different perspective? This isn’t a debate club, there is nothing to gain here, except our personal knowledge or understanding of something
And so, on that note, you said how this is exactly how leftists shoot themselves in the foot with arguments like this, but like, who is trying to argue here? And for whom? As far as I can tell, you are the one trying to win some argument, I’m just trying to have a discussion about terms in a, presumably, left-leaning environment where we’re all already roughly on the same page. From an external point of view, what people see is you mostly going off on others
When you say I’m chastising you, that’s literally your imagination, it’s not what I’m trying to do at all. So please don’t put words in my mouth, okay?
The point others were trying to make, is that it’s useful to talk about the working vs the owning class. And I further tried to get across that it’s useful to have this sort of knowledge, and that using terms loosely isn’t helpful for one’s understanding of a topic. This is something that I speak from personal experience. It’s basically just an argument for political literacy
But if I didn’t get that across properly, then I apologize. I could have spent a bit more time explaining myself
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
Fine, let’s play your game
A mayor from almost 100 years ago is irrelevant to this discussion. I don’t know about you, but I was talking about contemporary times here
Is this really how you wanna discuss?
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
I ignored it because I’m not American and I had no idea what you were referencing, sorry. I got my own qualms with American terminologies but that’s a different discussion
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
But that’s the issue, I disagree that “we manage to get the point across”. A lot of the times we simply don’t
Do you think Nazi Germany was ‘Socialist’ because of National Socialism
And you bring up a great point here, about why it matters to have proper understanding of terms. Otherwise you’d be likely to lump in Nazism in with socialist ideologies. And that has happened a lot. People have used this exact line of reasoning to demonize socialism
This website might not be a college essay, but it is a forum, where ideally you go to to see different perspectives and learn something about something. So I think this discussion perfectly fits here, why should you limit gaining knowledge to an essay or legal writ? There’s no rush to get your point across
As for the rest, no you do not need to know the specific differences between AC or DC… but you better know there is a difference, lest you’ll blow a device up if you try to do anything non-standard (like, say, plugging a computer up to a backup power supply. You need to make sure it’s an UPS that outputs a proper sine wave, lest things will go wrong with your PC’s PSU expecting one, but getting a DC input instead). And you might not need to know every single detail of you candidate… but I hope you do actually know what their positions are, yes
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
If you don’t use proper nomenclature or explain what is meant in detail you have no hope of truly being understood. People’s ignorance of what things actually mean is used as a weapon against further understanding, like the good old fashioned “socialism is when the government does stuff and is also evil and any hint of it will introduce satan” or whatever
Being hostile towards proper understanding of a subject is not going to help you actually comprehend it
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 month ago:
Mind elaborating? Are they actually atrocious, or is it just a genre you dont yourself enjoy?
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 month ago:
I’m sorry, I know that’s probably not what you intend, but this really just reads as nothing but ragebait
- Comment on Trump's Big Beautiful Bill 1 month ago:
Good to know even powerful disgusting people abuse ticketing priority systems
Ah, who am I kidding, they’re probably the ones most likely to do so
- Comment on turing completeness 1 month ago:
And this has always been the obvious logical conclusion for a for profit dating app
And also similarly applies to other for profit software. It’s the whole idea behind enshittification
Which is why FOSS is king and should be supported as much as possible in as many areas as possible
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 1 month ago:
Capitalism is truly the most efficient system. Needing whole teams to control the owner just because he’s the one that owns the workplace due to having money
- Comment on green salad fingers 1 month ago:
I suppose when you make a ring out of natural rust it will break in not too long
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 1 month ago:
But it should be kilowatts. There’s no reason not to use the standard metric for power, it’s unnecessary fragmentation of figures
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 1 month ago:
What are you on about
- Comment on If you can’t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one 1 month ago:
Trans women truly do be making fire documentaries. I have absolutely no bias of any kind what so ever :3
- Comment on If you can’t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one 1 month ago:
I feel like our modern life, due to cultural and economic factors, is just slowly… then rapidly, heading towards being composed almost entirely of a simulacrum.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 2 months ago:
You joke but I’m being dead serious when I say that I’d enjoy it if someone sent something like that to me
…I’d probably feel slightly lesser due to me struggling with coming up with something as creative as that