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- Comment on Happy 3.14 Day 10 hours ago:
You need to evolve wheat from primordial soup.
- Comment on That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship 19 hours ago:
I’m not a fan of Neelix, but I don’t think what was wrong with him was necessarily Ethan Phillips’ fault.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 23 hours ago:
That wasn’t dressing for jazzercise; this was dressing for jazzercise!
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 23 hours ago:
Being overweight is in an entirely different category than the other attributes you mentioned because it’s a choice, and more importantly because physical fitness is directly relevant to a soldier or sailor’s ability to perform their duty. In fact, the show itself addresses this: there are scenes that show Tilly jogging around the ship so that she can get a “physical endurance commendation” and be more likely to get into the Command Training Program.
If she were a civilian character, sure: no judgement, no problem. But having an overweight military officer (especially if they hadn’t acknowledged and addressed it the way they did) would be problematic in a legitimate, non-judgemental, suspension-of-disbelief-defying way.
(That said, I don’t think Tilly was anywhere near big enough for fan complaints to actually be legitimate. I’m just saying that, in principle, that category of complaint could be legitimate for that type of character, in contrast to complaints about race/sex/hair that are never valid.)
- Comment on Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot? 1 day ago:
It’s mainly that I just don’t bother marking things read, so that’s like two and a half years of replies.
- Comment on Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot? 1 day ago:
I regretted not cropping that as soon as I posted it because I knew someone would comment on it, but I couldn’t figure out how to crop after-the-fact on my phone and re-upload. The screenshot utility can do it, but the image viewer can’t.
- Comment on Study: AI autocomplete suggestions can nudge people's opinions - and they don't notice 1 day ago:
There’s more you can do than that! It’s not as if we live in some sort of laissez-faire hellhole where corporations can do whatever they want; we could lobby the government to regulate it.
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 1 day ago:
Ah, I see how we differ now. I think the key isn’t just that they’re stupid, but more importantly that they’re incurious, mean-spirited, cowardly, and duped by propaganda. And that the leadership is malicious and corrupt, not merely incompetent. As such, I think just about every other dystopia is a better fit than Idiocracy is. 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Star Wars: Andor – take your pick!
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 1 day ago:
I suddenly realize you may have thought I was criticizing you, individually. Just so you know, that’s not what I intended: I meant it as a general reaction to seeing that comparison made over and over again, and your instance of it just happened to be the one I attached it to.
Sorry about that.
- Comment on Study: AI autocomplete suggestions can nudge people's opinions - and they don't notice 1 day ago:
And also, at least with reading an article you understand that it’s a human with a point of view, rather than a tool that’s assumed to be neutral.
- Comment on Study: AI autocomplete suggestions can nudge people's opinions - and they don't notice 1 day ago:
I don’t know if being blasé about an AI influencing everybody else’s opinion (including, for example, their politics) is just shortsighted, or downright stupid.
- Comment on Adobe to pay $75 million to resolve U.S. lawsuit over fees, subscription cancellations 1 day ago:
That’s still just compensatory damages. They need punitive damages on top of that!
- Comment on Microsoft's AI wants to be your medical middleman, but is a "Secure by Design" promise really enough for Copilot? 1 day ago:
Literally adjacent in my feed:
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 1 day ago:
Let’s not forget about this part:
On Christmas Eve, five days after the interview with Fargo police, the case was dismissed, and she was released from jail.
But, Lipps was now stranded in Fargo.
“I had my summer clothes on, no coat, it was so cold outside, snow on the ground, scared, I wanted out but I didn’t know what I was going to do, how I was going to get home,” Lipps said.
Fargo police did not cover Angela’s expenses to get home after her release from jail. Local defense attorneys gave her money to pay for a hotel room and food on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
This shit was barely one step up from a “starlight tour,” and only because she didn’t actually die of exposure.
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 1 day ago:
For the umpteenth fucking time, this is not “Idiocracy!”
In Idiocracy, the people were stupid, but honest. This is not that. This is malicious, which is worse.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
You’re the one trying to sell me your argument; I’m not trying to buy it. Why would I pay to help you prove your own point?
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
I wasn’t asking for a citation that their methods aren’t altruistic; I was asking for a citation that they aren’t enshittifying the product with ads or subscriptions or whatever and then gouging you for full price anyway.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
Many smart TVs are cheaper than an equivalent dumb TV
How TF do you know? There aren’t any ‘equivalent dumb TVs’ left to compare to!
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
[Citation needed]
There is zero fucking evidence whatsoever that the alleged “savings” from the ad “subsidy” are getting passed to the consumer.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
and lobby to get the behavior outlawed.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
You used to be able to still buy ‘dumb’ TVs from Sceptre up until a year or so ago, but even they’ve stopped selling them now. (I’m kicking myself for not buying one when I had the chance…)
But the important part of my comment was this:
and lobby to get the behavior outlawed.
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 2 days ago:
There’s no more reason to doubt the existence of a Jewish carpenter who pissed off the government and got nailed up for it than there is to doubt the existence of the Roman official who ordered the nailing.
The supernatural stuff is a different matter.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Look, I didn’t want to shove that all into clarifying square brackets within a quote, OK?
- Comment on Exclusive: U.S. dismissed Ukraine deal for anti-Iran drone tech last year 2 days ago:
It’s as if the Trump regime is trying to inflict maximum harm on the US on purpose.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 days ago:
At this point I consume most media literally on my computer or my phone, but I still want there to be a good solution for a big living room TV (50"+ range). I have yet to see any reasonable ‘computer monitor’ option for that.
The other problem with using a monitor as a TV, BTW, is that they often don’t have built-in speakers.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 days ago:
Buying the TV and then not connecting it still rewards the bad behavior.
We have to boycott these fucks and lobby to get the behavior outlawed.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 days ago:
This is why, for years, I’ve been trying to point out that “if you don’t like it, just don’t buy it” isn’t good enough. Boycotts aren’t enough; we have to force the law to change to prohibit the abusive corporate behavior.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 days ago:
I used to recommend Sceptre, but even they appear to have stopped making dumb TVs now too.
- Comment on Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead 3 days ago:
That’s a good point: it’s not just that LLMs fail to give you an optimal password, it’s that they’re inherently designed to give you a pessimal one.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I mean, I LOL’d at the “this data is internally valid in the sense that I am precisely average in all respects, in relation to all the other [zero] people I know of the same sex” part.
