HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is the Ultra HD Blu-ray. The problem is that not enough people are buying it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t an endgame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t mourn the loss of blacksmiths who put time and skill into creating a pan or pot. We don’t care about the glass blowers who are no longer hired to blow drinking glasses. We don’t miss the portrait artists who painted not just for art, but to create an historical record.

  History is filled with jobs performed by skilled labor that were made redundant with technology. AI is just a point in a long line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it is a gendered thing, but there are societal expectations regarding men versus women that can complicate the issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atari Is Starting 2025 By Announcing Their Own Portable Handheld⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The name IP has been sold off between various companies. The company that made Quake ended up buying the rights and renaming itself Atari.

  It is similar to how Cingular Wireless bought the name AT&T and remained itself to AT&T.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For vehicles carrying humans, driverless cars.

  We have the technology for both, but I feel like the greater destructive edge cases for flying will keep it from being deployed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't trust them with anything :/⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the Constitution wasn’t a gift from God but group of smartish guys coming together to rewrite an even worse document while having little in practical experience in how to design a republic with a democratic base.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Housebuilding in the UK Held Back by Pollution from Factory Farms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but the current polluters don’t have a vested interest in fixing their problem to allow for new housing.

  A mandate to require new development to meet a standard on sewage would be more productive than an outright ban.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Housebuilding in the UK Held Back by Pollution from Factory Farms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Factory farming is causing issues and the solution is to ban building homes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nicaragua OKs reform to boost powers of president, wife⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF?

  Also, co-president to an unelected position?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's record-high college graduates face economic uncertainty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not surprised. The fallout from the property collapse is still going through China and the national government has planned out a next phase for development to focus on fewer industries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky, decentralisation, and the distribution of⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Bluesky decentralized in any meaningful way? If the company dies, could the service live on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Agriculture is dying': French farmers protest EU-Mercosur deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not that surprised. French farmers hate competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There would be no merit at all.

  I’m sure Zelenskyy would be more than happy to host NATO troops in Ukraine; it is a decision of NATO nations to not deploy to Ukraine.

  If NATO troops were not invited, that would likely trigger a wider war. It would also mean that the Ukrainian government becomes a NATO problem; NATO isn’t as interested in nation building since Afghanistan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. That’s a lot of words to try to seem superior to other people. Did you use ChatGPT to help you write it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know The Simpsons sends the grunt work to East Asia, but I thought that South Park is so simple that a US team can bang out production with the writing staff within a week.

• How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t one person that people go onto a micro blogging service for, but a variety of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody has a case of the Mondays...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bradward Boimler is actually a deceased USS Pegasus Ensign. Prove me wrong!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  William Boimler got sent back in time by Riker to ensure the Pegasus Incident occurred according to schedule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any reason to use the "new" sorting option on Lemmy, except to filter spam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, not really. In the future, I expect subscribed new to be more important as content becomes more abundant and there might be a point where you could miss out on posts that didn’t see the kind of engagement to make it on your stream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But do you need to slow it down all the way? Can’t you just slow it down enough to get the ball in an elliptical orbit where the trash ball gets very close to the ball of plasma?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But does it matter what speed the garbage is going at when it hits the sun?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of American municipalities have banned a lot of the cheap and small apartments that could house working people. Offer it as an option; it seems better than sleeping on the streets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Distribution⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m saying boo-urns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only state this would be viable in is California. As the state won’t invest in desalinization to provide water for coastal areas, I doubt it will desalinate and pump the water up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two types of early voting.

  For in person voting, the local election board opens up fewer voting locations before the election. If approved, you can vote there and then instead. A lot of states eliminated any requirements to early voting after Covid.

  For mail-in voting, the ballot gets mailed through USPS to voters. The ballots are usually supplied with an envelope with a way to verify identity, usually with signature. From there, the voter has the option to either mail the ballot back or directly deliver it to specific drop boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is my reaction weird?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Natural reaction, but also it is good that you weren’t trying to be a creep in that situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wagon Train to the Stars⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is the reason a lot of Stargate was shot in various temperate rain forests.