SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 15 hours ago:
We’re not too far off given how many apps on my phone by default send notifications like “do you want to do this thing now?”
And so many interfaces that have been enshittified with pop ups wanting me to check out their new AI features.
A toaster constantly asking if I want toast is probably less annoying than a lot of technology now.
- Comment on "The trolley made me fear for my life" 21 hours ago:
Well he was, but then he walked around the car and then was in the path of the vehicle again (because he feared for his life?) and continued around the vehicle and was mostly out the way of the vehicle when he pulled out his gun.
So he was directly in front of the vehicle two separate times. A vehicle that was being driven by someone alleged to be a terrorist intent on using her vehicle as a weapon had two opportunities to kill him with her vehicle before he drew his weapon.
So the story is that a “terrorist” had two opportunities to kill the guy with her car but didn’t so so until after he had drawn his weapon and was no longer directly in front of the vehicle. Because I guess a “terrorist” wanted it to be a fair fight?
Sorry just pointing out the fact that he was indeed directly in the path of the vehicle (twice!) since it’s really relevant in proving that it was not at all Renee’s intent to kill him… which is a story the government is pushing. Cops are generally trained to not be in front of a vehicle, especially not a vehicle with someone dangerous behind the wheel.
The fact that he was directly in front of the vehicle proves he didn’t consider her a threat and was not fearing for his life. Killing a person that you do not consider to be a danger to yourself and others is murder.
- Comment on A complete tier list for our solar system 1 day ago:
WTF did Pluto ever do to you? We finally get a decent photo and it’s got a big heart on it. Pluto is trying to make things work and you go on about how it’s not special.
I think you’re just racist against dwarf planets.
- Comment on (TW) Phishing mail in 2026 1 day ago:
Are you saying normal people wouldn’t want to opt out of having “I support ICE” on all of their emails?
This email is targeting people that are angry at ICE. The people that support ICE presumably wouldn’t click the button to opt out.
- Comment on Hurry pls it's urgent 1 day ago:
I’ve donated money to lemmy instances before. If someone posts nazi shit on lemmy, do you consider me to be someone that financially supports Nazis?
Also the claim is that someone associated with a project has said some far right shit, not specifically a Nazi. I got a racist uncle, does that make me a Nazi to you?
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 day ago:
Yeah it’s kind of a thing where the switch benefited from the failure of the Wii U while the Switch 2 is being hurt by the success of the Switch.
BOTW was available on the Wii U, but since so few people had one of those, it made sense to get a Switch to play it.
With the Switch 2 I feel like “Meh, I already have a Switch it doesn’t seem like it’s offering much more than what I already have”. Also it’s larger and when I want to use the Swtich hand held (mostly just when I’m on a plane) seems like that might be a pain in the ass. Also with the Switch 1 they eventually came out with a better OLED model, so I’ll just keep playing the Switch 1 until they come out with something a little more compact and maybe with a better screen or whatever. Stick drift has been an issue for me so also want something with more reliable sticks.
Seems like I might be asking a lot, but for the price they’re asking if I’m not getting what I want, then I’ll stick with the Switch 1. It’s fine.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 6 days ago:
Kinda like how the US, UK, and the Soviet Union were not aligned before the 1940s?
Alignments can change when there’s a common enemy. Sure those alignment changes may be temporary but they can last long enough to see a country bombed flat and the leaders dead in a bunker.
You’re obsessed over ideology but that’s mostly irrelevant in geopolitics. If it’s in the best interests of a bunch of countries to work together to destroy the US economy, those countries will work together regardless of ideology or internal politics. In WWII the UK had a government of national unity with both the Labour and Conservative in a coalition. Perhaps the US is incapable of having political parties working together for the common good of the country, but not every country has the same weaknesses the US has.
And countries can always go back to being adversaries for bullshit ideological reasons after the enemy is destroyed like the US and Soviet Union did after WWII. So animosity between countries can be put aside temporarily.
If Trump thinks he can be an existential threat to a large number of countries in the world, it’s a FAFO situation.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 6 days ago:
People can get arrogant enough to think that they won’t get caught.
Emmanuel Clase was a Major League pitcher making ~$5M per year. He got caught intentionally flubbing pitches for $5000. 5M a year gone now to get a few thousand dollars. Why would someone be that stupid?
Because they don’t think they’ll get caught.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 6 days ago:
It’s why things have to happen in a certain order. You can’t do the more aggressive economic actions against the US until after certain conditions are in place. First you need to cut dependency on the US for anything essential. Food and strategic resources like aluminum, steel, and energy. You also need a strong enough military to make any US military action costly for the US.
Once those conditions are met you can take further action. Hitting the US tech sector is more of a middle option. Manipulating the US bond market is the nuclear option.
Currently these options aren’t on the table since the US can kick out the legs of that table if you tried to play those cards. But many things are quietly changing around the world while Americans are obsessing over Epstein files, Trump playing battleship, and Hegseth and Rubio fucking around with tinpot South American dictators.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 6 days ago:
Something not often discussed is the possibility that the UK and France might not have been capable of stopping Hitler through military force at that time.
I mean even later even after building up a bit more, France got curb stomped and the UK barely got out of Dunkirk. And that happened while Germany was occupying Czechoslovakia and part of Poland which took significant military resources from fighting the UK and France. There’s a very real possibility that standing up to Hitler over Czechoslovakia would have gone even worse than standing up to Hitler over Poland. Sure the Soviets might have helped at that time, but their military wasn’t even capable of taking on Finland at that point.
At any rate at the present time, the world needs to build up it’s military power before standing up to Trump. We’re saying it’s because we’re fulfilling NATO obligations (like Trump told us to!) or getting ready to fight Russia maybe. But military build up is happening but it’s not going to happen overnight.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 6 days ago:
Just declare any simple script that does a wget on copyrighted information to be “AI”. AI is immune from copyright infringement it seems.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 6 days ago:
It’s possible the US might have some radar systems that can detect incoming nukes and they might even have some submarines in unknown locations capable of hitting back after someone has nuked them.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 6 days ago:
Yup. Sadly the US has handed the 21st century to China without a fight.
I remember what some Hong Kong dude said to me once… “China is the future, and it’s a bleak future”.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 6 days ago:
And so long as the US is the wealthiest nation on Earth, what’s going to deter them?
I think the answer to your question is contained within the question. Americans are greedy people and a coordinated effort by China, Japan, and the UK could sink the US economy.
But I doubt that would even be necessary. Why kill someone intent on suicide? The US economy will likely collapse on it’s own if it continues on the path it’s on. I’m not talking about some recession like in 2008, I’m talking a collapse you’ve never experienced. Something similar to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Also if you were going down the military strike route, an aircraft carrier would be stupid. Trump has broadcast to the entire world what the achilles heal of the US is and it isn’t the aircraft carriers. It’s something that’s dug up from the ground and needs to be processed by refineries.
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 1 week ago:
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
Scared of Chupacabras or something like that is my guess.
Americans are always living in fear of something, so why not that I guess.
- Comment on Vietnam introduces tougher penalties on e-cigarette and heated tobacco use 1 week ago:
I don’t know about them being harmless, but they’re way less harmful than cigarettes.
It’s a perfect is the enemy of good kind of thing. Less people are smoking cigarettes, which is good. But they are using vapes so it isn’t perfect. So let’s make some laws to make things perfect!
Either the law isn’t followed and people still vape, or it is “successful” and people go back to smoking cigarettes. People are going to do things that are bad for them. Better to have them do the lesser of two evils.
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 1 week ago:
Yeah Mutually Assured Destruction is a helluva thing isn’t it?
Antisemitic types that want another holocaust might be butt-hurt over this, but most people understand that all nukes are bad, but Israel’s nukes aren’t somehow worse than those owned by Russia, USA, China, UK, France, North Korea, India, or Pakistan. Every one of those countries would nuke another country if they became an existential threat to them. But why are you upset over Israel having nukes and don’t worry at all about the other eight countries that have them?
Oh right, because they’re Jews.
Feel free to your rationalizations over why your feelings on this aren’t rooted in antisemitism below this comment.
- Comment on Why Katy Perry is using a sexualized version of the Romulan uniform? 3 weeks ago:
Gul Dukat is Cardasian tho.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 3 weeks ago:
They added chromecast to mine this year which has been useful.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 3 weeks ago:
I’ve met many people that have killed people. I didn’t think that was all that unusual. I know for sure two people I’ve met had killed people and there’s a whole bunch more that range from maybe to probably.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 4 weeks ago:
They were not killed for being Israeli, because they weren’t Israeli, they were Australian. They were killed because they were Jews. Obviously.
You’re making excuses for it and desperately trying to blame the victims because that’s what antisemites do.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 5 weeks ago:
A joke in the aviation industry is that planes will someday become so automated there will just be one pilot and a dog in the cockpit. The dog will trained to bite the pilot if they try to touch the controls.
So I maybe windows users will need a virtual dog to bite copilot if it tries to do anything.
- Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’ 1 month ago:
FFS a government makes a policy on phone security which may or may not be a good decision. OK whatever, who cares?
Ah but that government is Israel. So now this is today’s reason for your daily Two Minutes Hate?
Get a grip people.
- Comment on Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West 1 month ago:
You should look up the word “rootless cosmopolitan” and “globalist”. Your little hate group isn’t the first to come up with an alternate term for Jews in an attempt to popularize antisemitism. Nothing you’re doing is new or clever. It’s the same old shit that has happened throughout history again and again. You think hairsplitting over the terminology you’re using is going to make people not see your pattern of behaviour?
- Comment on Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West 1 month ago:
You’re not the first to find alternate way of labeling Jews to make antisemitism palatable. Read a history book FFS, you’re following a pattern.
- Comment on Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West 1 month ago:
You’re pre-supposing what other people think to rationalize your hatred. This is the tactic of a hate group.
- Comment on Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West 1 month ago:
I’ve read history books and I see people saying the same kinds of bullshit antisemitic rationalizations being used today as was used in the past.
If you were willing to learn history you wouldn’t be so prone to repeat the mistakes of the past. Many of us have and we recognize the pattern you’re following.
- Comment on Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West 1 month ago:
You could take 10 seconds to google “origin of the word antisemitism” if you don’t want to look silly.
But methinks you’re afraid to learn anything about the history of antisemitism since you might find out you’re following the exact pattern of racists in the past.
- Comment on Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West 1 month ago:
“Zionist” is a term used by anti-semites in an attempt to make anti-semitsm acceptable in polite circles.
Just as anti-semitism was created by the anti-judaic crowd in the late 19th century to make hating Jews cool back then too.
Antisemites have been playing this game of swapping terminology for a long time. Maybe this guy was fooled by it, and maybe you dear reader, have been fooled by it as well. But don’t expect the rest of society to be fooled by the same anti-semitic bullshit that has been going on for centuries as you have. Trying to force the rest of society to go along with your anti-semitc terminology is not going to go well.
Just because it’s cool in your circles to hate on Jews, and you may think you’re fooling people with your “clever” change in terminology (even if you were fooled by it yourself) it’s just not a good look for you.