figjam
@figjam@midwest.social
- Comment on does anyone else have this impression of gruyere? 1 week ago:
As is tradition.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 2 weeks ago:
I remember seeing a story about a bombing in Lisbon (Portugal) and being concerned because I had an Aunt in Lisbon (Ohio)
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 2 weeks ago:
Its Facebook engagement bait.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 weeks ago:
- You may not think about politics but it is still impacting you.
- You are entitled to your opinion.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 weeks ago:
yes, thank you. Fixed
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve loved them for a while. Good folks
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 weeks ago:
Here are 5 current day punk bands that I like. All are available on bandcamp.
The Upfucks False Flag Generacion Suicida Total Massacre Hans Gruber and the Die Hards.
- Comment on Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs in response to pandemic overhiring 2 weeks ago:
Just a week after that outage too. Huh.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 5 weeks ago:
There has to be a way to make one that is powerful enough to blind the cameras but not damage eyes.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 month ago:
his new game is failing. He must keep it in the zeitgeist for as long as possible. This is just some guy trying to be relevant
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 2 months ago:
Learn to keep secrets better. China isn’t exactly a vigorous enforcer of us patents anyway.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 2 months ago:
I’ve been trying to get my MIL’s printer working forever.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Understanding the bounds of tech makes it easier for people to gage its utility. The only people who desire ignorance are those that profit from it.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 months ago:
sic semper tyrannis
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 months ago:
still 3+ months of surprise left. So tired, so very tired
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 months ago:
Yes, civil wars (or really any war) usually involves that sort of struggle. And also yes, vaccines save lives and are settled science.
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 months ago:
I did not have “Civil War over vaccines” on my apocalypse bingo card.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 months ago:
How? All the tools I looked up don’t work anymore
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
Are you a lung doctor or are you someone who vapes and wants to be able to maintain the illusion that it isn’t harmful?
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
pulmonologists hate vapes
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
and anything vaugly shaped like a butt plug but is not a butt plug.
- Comment on Infinite Backlog | A Video Game Collection Tracker 2 months ago:
I have no desire to catalog all of the games I don’t play. “Here is my pile of shame”
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 months ago:
I think it has to do with the death of 3rd spaces which used to be an outlet for socialization. But as a man, I’m also not lonely. I have friends and acquaintances and I get to go outside sometimes.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 2 months ago:
Got it do there is nothing resembling context. Thx.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t it make sense for an ai to provide a confidence level though?
I’ve got 3 million bits of info on this topic but only 4 of them lead to this solution. Confidence level =1.5%
- Comment on Why don't these AI data centers build by the ocean? 2 months ago:
No. Nononononononono.
- Comment on Florida ounces 3 months ago:
Libs
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 3 months ago:
get that AI bubble a-poppin
- Comment on Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst? 3 months ago:
you are arrested and spend the rest of your life as a guinea pig in some lab.