SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on got this ad and uh 3 days ago:
Sure but the Palestinian flag appears on the usernames of people spouting a lot of antisemitism. And there’s a lot of people claiming the confederate flag isn’t about white supremicism. So there’s a high probability of an AI scanning conversations and coming to the conclusion that these flags have the same meaning.
Maybe instead of looking the other way on antisemitism in the Free Palestine movement, people that are a part of that movement should be calling it out? But as always it’s easier to look the other way and make rationalizations about how it’s ok for your allies in a movement to be racists assholes.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 4 days ago:
Easy to understand why an AI scanning discussions of these groups would guess they’re associated with each other. Both say pretty much the same things about Jews controlling the government, Jews controlling the media, etc.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 4 days ago:
The key is “with human supervision”. Calling it Full Self Driving with “Supervised” in parentheses aftwards while putting out videos where they say the only reason there’s some behind the wheel is because of regulations (those annoying “regulations” amirite?) leads people to think they don’t really need to supervise the driving of the car.
Couple that with the fact that there are actual full self driving cars (Waymo) there’s even greater confusion.
People have been killed because of the misconceptions about Telsa cars actually being full self driving. Which they aren’t, they cheap out on the hardware needed for that to be possible, let alone the software.
- Comment on Only you can prevent forest fires 4 days ago:
Surprised Smokey hasn’t already been shot by Kirsti Noem .
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 4 days ago:
Not too far off…
The Bibles are put into hotels by the Gideons, which was founded by travelling salesmen that wanted to make sure other salesmen would have access to a Bible while traveling.
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 4 days ago:
Yeah it’s the Gideons that put the Bibles in hotels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gideons_International
It’s an international organization, but based in the US so they obviously focus more on the US.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 5 days ago:
Yeah but the cartridges that come with a new printer are usually only 1/3 full. As another guy said, get a printer that uses toner. They’re more expensive (because you’re actually paying for the printer) but you don’t have to worry about ink drying out because it’s toner, it’s supposed to be dry.
Inkjet printers are basically a scam, if you don’t print all that often, the ink will probably be dried up when you go to use it, and if you print frequently, it’ll be cheaper to have a laser printer that uses toner in terms of per page cost.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 5 days ago:
If this AI stuff weren’t a bubble and the companies dumping billions into it were capable of any long term planning they’d call up wikipedia and say “how much do you need? we’ll write you a cheque”
They’re trying to figure out nefarious ways of getting data from people and wikipedia literally has people doing work to try to create high quality data for a relatively small amount of money that’s very valuable to these AI companies.
But nah, they’ll just shove AI into everything blow the equivalent of Wikipedia’s annual budget in a week on just electricity to shove unwanted AI slop into people’s faces.
- Comment on Inspirational 5 days ago:
The optimal launch angle would only be 45 in a vacuum. It’ll be lower if you’re on Earth where there’s air resistance.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 5 days ago:
The term “late stage capitalism” is not a call to action, it’s a call to apathy. It’s promoted by online influencers to make it permissible to participate in capitalistic endeavors (it doesn’t matter the collapse is inevitable) so they can entice people to buy their merch so they can be rich. It’s a sign that leftism has been successfully captured by capitalism.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 1 week ago:
Incitatus was more competent than most of Trump’s cabinet.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 1 week ago:
I think it’s one of those perfect is the enemy of good kinds of situations. Go further is more complicated and requires more consideration and more analysis of consequences, etc. and that can take some time. But this is kinda no-brainer kind of legislation so pass this now while making the considerations on some more robust legislation to pass later.
- Comment on For the third day running, Israel violates Gaza 'ceasefire' to maim and murder Palestinians 1 week ago:
Nah you’re callous towards the lives of people because winning points against political enemies is more important to you. You have the same mentality of MAGA. The fact that you find some happiness when you see people dying proves this.
Personally I’m hoping Trump’s peace plan works. Hell give him the Nobel Peace Prize he covets too if it means people stop dying.
- Comment on It's true... 1 week ago:
Even better: I’m going to write my PhD thesis on this one!
- Comment on Batman probably checks for the bat signal the way we check our screens for notifications. 1 week ago:
“Hey Batman, I have Bruce Wayne on the other line, he’s got some information, you should talk to him.”
Yes, this is a scene that actually did happen in the Adam West Batman show.
- Comment on Batman probably checks for the bat signal the way we check our screens for notifications. 1 week ago:
In the movie The Dark Knight, Gordon says Batman often doesn’t show up when the bat signal is on, he mostly turns it on to to remind criminals that Batman is out there.
In the comic The Dark Knight Returns, Gordon says there’s about a dozen different ways Gordon could contact Batman, but he uses the Bat Signal for similar reasons.
So it’s mostly just for theatrics, if it were a real emergency Gordon would phone up Batman. But I guess it’s a way to indicate to Batman “let’s talk whenever you’re not busy”.
- Comment on For the third day running, Israel violates Gaza 'ceasefire' to maim and murder Palestinians 1 week ago:
You want people to die so you can “own” the MAGAs. The MAGAs want immigrants to suffer so they can “own the libs”.
You’re the the same kind of person as a MAGAs. Try to be a better person.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s hard to get the mix of space exploration, interesting aliens to meet, and a good overarching story that Starflight (the first of this kind of game) right out of the gate.
And yeah you didn’t scan that planet and check the gravity levels? You’re dead. If you didn’t notice in the report how hostile the animals on the planet are? You’re dead.
But it kind of got it right, there wasn’t a cut scene where the science officer explains that it’s too dangerous to land on the planet, it’s you deciding it’s too dangerous. It had an element where there’s danger but if you get the science right the danger isn’t an issue. Space is scary but science makes it less scary.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 1 week ago:
But they aren’t choosing renewables, they’re choosing coal. People are responsible for the choices they make.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 week ago:
Yeah and the Genesis version had some fun little things added like flying a circle around a planet to go orbit it. Driving the vehicle around on the planet felt a lot more fun too. So yeah a lot of little things added that just made it more fun. A rare case of a console port making significant improvements over a PC game.
Though the original had a big paper map that you could draw wormhole paths on when you discovered them. But since it’ll be hard to print out the map that big, it would probably be more annoying than fun at this point. So yeah, the Genesis version would be the way to go… if you can get.
- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 1 week ago:
Why not blame both?
- Comment on ??? Profit!!! 1 week ago:
Instructions were unclear… now some guy from Spain (or maybe Egypt?) with a Scottish accent is hanging around telling me there can be only one.
- Comment on Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes 1 week ago:
Whoops! Looks like to war may soon be over… because Hamas is going to release the hostages.
- Comment on Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes 1 week ago:
Police brutality is a crime. Do you think it’s ridiculous to protest that?
- Comment on Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes 2 weeks ago:
Well it’s like Chief Wiggum saying “I heard there were some crimes in New York” “Oh you admit there’s crimes in New York? That makes you guilty!”
Crimes happen in every city. Crimes also happen in every war. Recognizing that crimes happen in war time has the same significance as recognizing the fact that crimes happen in cities. Feeling like you “got 'em!” because of the existence of crime puts you on the same level as Chief Wiggum. It’s really silly.
Also I need to remind you, holding civilians hostage is a war crime. Hamas has committed a continuous war crime since October 7. Do you go out and protest Hamas? Why not?
- Comment on Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes 2 weeks ago:
I know for a fact war crimes were committed by the allies in WWII.
Also it would be nice to know the exact wording of the question, samples size, margin of error, etc. because that can be relevant. But this looks to be another propaganda site trying to pass itself off as a news site. We can’t expect professional journalism from sites like that.
- Comment on Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes 2 weeks ago:
There’s been anti-war protests in Tel Aviv every weekend for over a year. You’re not going to hear about that on your alternative media that’s working to dehumanize Israelis.
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 2 weeks ago:
Spotlight above the north pole that spins around and lights up different parts of the world at different times, obviously. Why doesn’t the Sun appear from a northern angle when it’s pointed at you in the daytime? Shut up round earth shill, nananana I can’t hear you!
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 2 weeks ago:
I can find some flights from Australia to Columbia with a stopover in Hawaii, but it looks like a non-optimal route. But yeah there’s not much there between Australia and South America other than New Zealand… and Antarctica if you’re a round Earth shill ;)
Weird how there’s a direct flight between Melbourne and Santiago, Chile… two places that are in in the southern parts of their respective continents.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 3 weeks ago:
It’s very easy mix in radioactive materials with conventional explosives to make a dirty bomb… provided you have access to radioactive materials. You put nuclear reactors in cargo ships, anyone that can board and commandeer a cargo ship now has access to radioactive materials and therefore the capability building a dirty bomb.
There’s an R^2 drop off as you travel away from the sun. Sure if you’re going to Saturn, solar isn’t going to work well. We already use nuclear batteries for those missions, but it’s some butt clenching with that because if the rocket goes boom instead of getting to space (which happens sometimes) it would spread some radioactive material around.
But it’s going to be a long time before we’re building space stations beyond Mars (it’ll be a long time before we go beyond the Moon the way things are going) so it’s going to be solar power for most space things other than the odd probe we send to the outer planets.