Chetzemoka
@Chetzemoka@kbin.social
- Comment on 'Oppenheimer' Surpasses 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Becomes Highest-Grossing Biopic of All-Time 1 year ago:
Agreed wholeheartedly. That said, Oppenheimer is officially the only biopic I've ever watched twice. Which makes it my favorite biopic, for whatever that is worth about a genre that I loathe.
- Comment on Unity issue an apology on Twitter for "confusion and angst" over the runtime fee policy. 1 year ago:
They're game devs, not an acquisition and mergers team. "We signed contract to do business with xyz terms" should be plenty reliable enough for conducting business. Not "Lol, whut? You didn't read the fine print? Psyche! We're changing everything."
Unity deserve to get sued into oblivion for this
- Comment on Engadget | The future of decentralized social media 1 year ago:
Maybe let's try focusing on content and not personal characteristics of the presenters:
- Comment on USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix 1 year ago:
"The truth is you love censorship, and so does everyone else. The only question is whether you’re ready to admit it."
- Comment on Red Cross announces national blood shortage 1 year ago:
Unfortunately we have to use large bore needles for blood. Smaller needles will damage red blood cells :/
(I'm a nurse. It's a problem when giving blood transfusions to smaller people also.)
- Comment on YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead 1 year ago:
Their content promotion algorithms are not protected by section 230. Those algorithms are the real problem, pushing more and more radical content onto vulnerable minds. (The alt-right YouTube pipeline is pretty well documented. Reddit, I think, less so. But they still promote "similar content")
- Comment on Lab-grown Meat is not a Climate Change Solution 1 year ago:
It's a rather bizarre argument, essentially saying "it's not the whole solution so it's not a solution at all"
Lawdamercy, can you please say it louder for the people in the back whinging that they refuse to vote for Biden because his Climate Bill wasn't perfectly everything all at once? In the face of the Republican denialist obstructionism, it's pretty fucking miraculous. The ultimate solution to climate change is going to be a patchwork quilt of a million different tiny solutions
- Comment on It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore 1 year ago:
You're a good teacher, working around the things they find important in their lives. Thank you
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
All economic bubbles do that
https://freakonomics.com/2007/06/the-benefits-of-a-bubble-even-when-burst/
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
Fully admits to being a literal child at the time. Still talking like they have something to contribute about the situation they fully admit to knowing nothing about. Gets snarky with the people who were actually impacted by it.
Fucking why do people like you feel the compulsive need to open their mouths about every god damned thing? Maybe your opinion, I dunno, isn't relevant.
I would like to introduce you to a different possibility. It's called keeping your mouth shut and listening. Crazy idea, I know, but it's often followed by this thing called learning.
Give it a try sometime.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
Well there are two of us right here in the comment section. I had a great job at a startup online retailer. They had a good business model, it was a great place to work.
We had been beating our sales projections and were only a couple months away from being profitable when the Sept 11 attacks happened. Within two weeks, our VC funding stopped and we were all out of jobs because the company owners had to choose between paying rent and paying us. They chose to pay us all severance, bless them for that.
Thankfully I was young, didn't own a house, didn't have kids. But a lot of my colleagues did.
- Comment on It is broken. Can you make it go? 1 year ago:
Literally my life for six hours yesterday. Finally got the guy through the generic scripted responses so he could escalate to someone who could actually fix the problem...
- Comment on California just opened the floodgates for self-driving cars 1 year ago:
Well, we're not. There's a reason you don't see New York City jumping to adopt this tech, and it's because they bothered to invest in a public transit system that makes cars obsolete for a lot of people. If we got decent public transit in more cities combined with an actually functional high speed rail system in this country, you'd see cars become obsolete for a whole lot more people.
This "lifestyle/culture" developed out of sheer necessity given the geographic size of this country and the complete failure to invest in mass transit. It can and must be changed, if we want our future to be viable at all.
- Comment on The Galaxy Class Starship 1 year ago:
Thank you for reminding me that I would love to own a copy of the TNG Tech Manual for display in my house
- Comment on 'Barbie' dominates cinemas: Movie tops $1 billion globally in first for solo woman director 1 year ago:
I'm the same. If I'm home, I'm gonna pause to...do whatever. So I actually prefer seeing movies I want to pay attention to in the theater.
Plus I just love the experience of a theater. I understand why someone who wasn't into that would prefer streaming. But I've always loved it and I don't expect that's going to change. So I'mma hold onto this AMC A-list membership for now
- Comment on Sun Burn 1 year ago:
Hahaha, yeah. The black kids at the summer camp I volunteer for always think it's funny when I'm chasing them with sunscreen in my hand too. Luke seriously though, y'all, have you ever burnt the tops of your ears?? Trust me, don't find out.
- Comment on Sun Burn 1 year ago:
It works the same way it works for anyone else who is in direct sunlight for too long. Black people can get melanoma too.
"All skin tones are susceptible to sun damage. Sunburn will cause darker skin tones to go darker, and the skin will feel hot and painful to touch. While darker skin tones are less likely to burn, almost anyone can get sunburnt or develop skin cancer."