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- Comment on welcome to the flavor quadrant 1 hour ago:
I’ve suddenly just realized Neelix is alien Guy Fieri. Same hair, same clothes, same attitude, same job (basically)…
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 day ago:
Net neutrality is just Common Carrier rules as applied to the Internet. It’s frankly a no-brainer.
Your proposal should definitely also have been done – allowing telecoms to also produce content at all is a massive conflict of interest and should never have been allowed in the first place – but it doesn’t obviate to also regulate the pure telecoms even after the breakup.
- Comment on Chemicals in car interiors may cause cancer — and they’re required by US law: 1 day ago:
You mean, in the 70s and 80s it became a big issue because that’s when we started making clothing out of plastic instead of natural fibers.
- Comment on Chemicals in car interiors may cause cancer — and they’re required by US law: 1 day ago:
Not sure exactly why you’re getting downvoted
Because everybody else has been exposed to the same chemicals too.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 2 days ago:
My beef with the placement of that item is that it isn’t even further down the “actually a good idea” axis. Penicillin – perhaps the most important medical innovation of the 20^th^ century – rated lower than mere laser eye surgery and fecal transplants?! C’mon, Randall!
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 2 days ago:
Otherwise, I made the connection like OC that conservatism = no change, whether good or bad.
That’s exactly what they want you to think. It’s one of the more prominent ways in which they launder their ideology to make it seem appealing to more people than just sociopaths. (Or at least, used to, until they went full mask-off under Trump.)
- Comment on Rubén Baler, neuroscientist: ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a profitable commodity’ 3 days ago:
Gaming consoles just mean you’ve already bought into their walled garden. They don’t need to use the same tactics the mobile games use; you’re already trapped. Hell, you’re probably already paying a monthly subscription for online play, and then there’s still nothing stopping individual game publishers from further enshittifying on top of that!
No, what you should really be doing is gaming on PC (Linux), ideally with games bought DRM-free (e.g. from GoG) or even by only playing Free Software games. I personally compromise enough to accept Steam, but that really is at the absolute limits of acceptability (and only then because of factoring goodwill from all their work on Linux compatibility for games).
- Comment on Are we the baddies? 3 days ago:
Von Braun and the rocket scientists were the most famous part, but not all 1,600 were involved in aerospace specifically.
Here are some relevant snippets from the Wikipedia article on it:
Scientists taken were often involved in the Nazi rocket program, aviation, and chemical and biological warfare.
The operation was not solely focused on rocketry; efforts were directed toward synthetic fuels, medicine, and other fields of research.
Operation Paperclip was part of a broader strategy by the US to harness German scientific talent in the face of emerging Cold War tensions, ensuring this expertise did not fall into the hands of the Soviet Union or other nations.
Anyway, I don’t know that any of them ended up doing fucked-up stuff for the CIA, and was making a joke. But like many jokes, the kernel of plausibility is part of what makes it funny.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 3 days ago:
just being a communist isn’t good enough anymore.
Especially since they love Russia now (because it’s fascist), but the distinction between the communist USSR and the fascist Russian Federation confuses a lot of their base.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 3 days ago:
That’s a popular misconception. The philosophy behind conservatism is to perpetuate hierarchy. The ideology was developed by literal monarchists, and when the “divine right” excuse became untenable they moved on to others like racism and capitalism, but the goal remained the same. It only seems like they want to maintain the status quo because the historical status quo was hierarchical, but rest assured: if society were magically egalitarian instead, conservatives would vigorously try to make sweeping, wholesale changes to create a hierarchy from scratch.
- Comment on Are we the baddies? 3 days ago:
Literal NAZIs (i.e., Operation Paperclip). It even says so right there in the screed, about 3/4 of the way down.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 5 days ago:
SEO is only feasible in the first place because we have one dominant search engine instead of a bunch of equally-prominent ones with different algorithms that would need to be optimized for differently (and maybe even mutually-exclusively).
- Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. 6 days ago:
Absolutely! (Same as playing a regular game on a Game Gear.)
I had both an AC adapter and a 12VDC car adapter for mine. Without those (considering the sorry state of rechargeables back then), the cost of batteries would’ve made actually using the damn thing untenable.
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 6 days ago:
Sony is customer-hostile shit too, though. I’ve been boycotting them for literally decades now.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 6 days ago:
Adam Smith is less right-wing than the cargo-cultists think.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 6 days ago:
inteletually bankdupt
Sounds about right, misspellings and all.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 6 days ago:
If I recall from the Alt-Right Playbook’s Origins of Conservatism video, some of the early founders of conservative thought you might want to read include:
- Edmund Burke
- Thomas Hobbes
- Joseph DeMaistre
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 6 days ago:
And they also try to prove why the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union and every lesser species of it undermines liberty.
Proving totalitarianism undermines liberty seems pretty trivial to me. An attempt to prove that communism must necessarily be totalitarian would be much more interesting.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 days ago:
No it’s not. Your Honda has several different computers in it, only on of which is likely to be running Android.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 week ago:
(I’m speaking generally, not criticizing you personally.)
It’s amazing the great effort to which people will go to try to compensate for Microsoft’s abusive behavior, often while simultaneously claiming that switching OSs is too much effort.
Projects like Tiny11 are the computer equivalent of “oh, this black eye? I got it falling down the stairs and definitely not because my partner hit me.”
Folks get mad about Linux evangelism, but it’s really no different than friends saying “leave his ass; you’re too good for him!”
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on I lost mine 1 week ago:
LOL, no I’m not. I’m just bad at getting rid of stuff.
- Comment on I diagnose you with dystopia 1 week ago:
Sony… and they are one of the few megacorps I still buy from.
Dear God, why? Between the continuous pushing of proprietary formats and the fucking rootkit they inflicted on people via music CDs almost two decades ago, they were one of the first megacorps I started boycotting!
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 1 week ago:
I count that under “build my own.”
- Comment on histories mysteries 1 week ago:
those bottles with pointed bottoms the Romans had, don’t remember the name.
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 1 week ago:
My ebike odometer ticked over 1000 miles a couple weeks ago.
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 1 week ago:
I’ve already resolved to not buy cars newer than the ones I already have (from the '90s and 2000s).
- Comment on Mola the Fucktress 1 week ago:
Your comment reads like an Oglaf comic.
- Comment on Mola the Fucktress 1 week ago:
The thing says the graffiti was written inside a brothel. I think it’s safe to assume a “fucktress” in a brothel is probably at work.
- Comment on How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status 1 week ago:
That is a good question. I feel like I probably asked that during my site design class in college, but I don’t remember getting a clear/satisfactory answer. I think it might just come down to which design happens to work better on the particular site, or the preferences of the client (for example, it seems like Publix prefers their parking lots to have angled parking, while Kroger’s parking more often tends to be straight).