Cethin
@Cethin@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 2 days ago:
They’re holding more dirt, but taking more losses while they’re economy is not doing so great. If that’s what winning looks like then I wouldn’t want to be a winner.
- Comment on French video game developers stage first industry-wide strike 4 days ago:
To support the strike fund I assume, which is the point of the whole post?
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 4 days ago:
Yeah, as political compasses, in order to have some reasonableness, have left-right and authoritarian-libertarian, this needs another axis for bias. You can be a leftist organization that still reports on reality without bias. Being in favor of the status-quo is it’s own form of bias.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
For sure. It’s just that this isn’t the part that matter. This is part of the enabling. If you’re paying attention here you don’t see the other thing over there. It’s slight of hand. You only have so much attention, and it’s better spent where it actually has an effect. This will be reversed with the next president.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
Everyone needs to get used to ignoring this bullshit. The Gulf of America thing isn’t important. It doesn’t effect anyone, and there’s far too many posts about it when there are real things to pay attention to. This is purely a distraction. Stop giving it attention.
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 1 week ago:
To be fair, US companies also are included in this. Literally anyone who goes against Trump gets threatened.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 2 weeks ago:
I suspect a large part has to do with a selection bias. The people most likely to turn into a bad cokehead are also the people with the most access to it. Most people will never come into contact with cocaine, but they will come into contact with alcohol and likely consume it. The average person is more likely to become an alcoholic, while only certain segments are likely to even have the potential to become a coke addict and I’d bet on those segments being more likely to be harmful.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 2 weeks ago:
Probably it being illegal creates a selection bias. Most people will never use it or have it easily accessible. Most people will have easy access to alcohol and nicotine, and will likely try at least alcohol.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 1 month ago:
IIRC some American citizens participated in that, but the Canadian portion was largely a Canadian thing. It was influenced by Americans doing the same thing, but the Canadians weren’t forced to follow along. It’s just easier for people to say it’s someone else’s fault than to accept that it’s a much more nuanced issue than that. Reactionary mentality has been spreading around the world, and it isn’t the fault of the US, but it does play a part.
- Comment on Not federated Lemmy instances? 1 month ago:
Ah, that explains why their custom emojis don’t render correctly anywhere else. I wish that piece of code would get merged into the main version so it’d be less annoying.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 2 months ago:
Law enforcement is done on a case by case basis. The laws already exist. Congress doesn’t matter for this right now. The courts (and DOJ) have to go through each case individually and see how the law applies. It can’t all be done at once, as a matter of fact.
Since we can’t do it all at once, the comment above’s opinion seems to be we should do nothing because the oil industry needs enforcement first. Someone else will point to another thing.
It’s good it’s happening at all. The past few years I’ve seen more anti-monopoly rulings than the rest of my life combined. It’s been great. It’s all about to end though.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 2 months ago:
There’s a lot of reasons to own it, one potential profit source being selling what the default search engine is. Just because Google doesn’t own it doesn’t mean they won’t pay to be the default search. They pay a lot for this on Firefox. (Yes, this is being looked into to and may stop, but they can still sell being an option for the default search engine, or other things.)
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 2 months ago:
Why do we always have comments defending these mega-corps. There’s always the “what about…” people saying that something else needing regulating means this mega-corp shouldn’t be regulated. How about any of it being regulated is good. We can hopefully get around to the other things eventually, but we can’t do it all at the same time. (That, and Trump’s adm. probably is going to put a stop to any of it, so just be happy that we’ve seen anything happen.)
- Comment on it's just a suggestion 2 months ago:
It would change things if it becomes systemic. If they learn to be scared of being a billionaire, maybe they’d be less likely to want to become one.
- Comment on Bombs Awat 2 months ago:
The 70s was a wild time.
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 2 months ago:
Absolutely not true. All the console creators, sure, but not all developers. There are so many good developers, especially indie.
There’s issues with purchasing anything in capitalism. We have to deal with that as long as that’s the case though. It doesn’t mean Nestlé isn’t significantly worse than other campanies though, for example. There are different degrees of bad, and Nintendo is basically the top for gaming.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, I didn’t mind to imply it would. Just another activitypub platform.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 months ago:
It’s not too hard to understand. Some people just like to pretend it’s complicated. It’s literally the same system email uses, and almost everyone has figured out how to use that. There’s no marketing for it though. It’s only word-of-mouth, and let’s be honest, us fediverse users often aren’t the best at communicating simply.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 months ago:
There’s this weird one I’ve heard some crazy people use called Lemmy or something. I don’t know. They’re too niche for me to consider thinking about.
- Comment on Why? 2 months ago:
It doesn’t have to be AGI, though it’d certainly help. It could be a Machine Learning algorithm (the stuff we call AI in marketing today). It just needs a lot of data to train on to recognize what we want to bring and what we don’t. It’s actually a particularly good application for ML.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 months ago:
Personally, I think 1 holds up better. 2 isn’t bad by any means, but it was one of the first games with physics and the physics puzzles get old fast. It was amazing at the time, but now it’s not as interesting because we’ve seen it a million times.
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 3 months ago:
So say we all!
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 3 months ago:
I’m hoping something similar to what The Colbert Report used to be.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 3 months ago:
One of the few good uses for generative AI I’ve seen.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 months ago:
Mid-terms are in 2 years!
NHTSA is part of the executive, so he would still have control over it, but we can at least hopefully place restrictions on his power (or impeach) in 2, assuming the election still happens and the results are accepted.
- Comment on As a word of caution for those buying physical used games on Bluray, check the disc for holes. 3 months ago:
That’s perfectly legal. Sharing them isn’t.
- Comment on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump 'see eye to eye' on Iran 3 months ago:
I saw a chart about a poll on this. Supposedly, if the data was correct, almost every swing state would have gone for Harris if people who said they didn’t vote because of this issue had voted. Pretty much every poll this cycle was not accurate, so I don’t put that much faith in that one either.
- Comment on aerodynamics 3 months ago:
At the speed cars move at, air behaves much like water. They’re both fluids. The faster you move the more resistance it has, but also the more dense the fluid is the more resistance it has. Moving quickly through the air is similar to moving slowly through water.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 3 months ago:
Well, they’ve sold the same product for about the same price since 1970, so it makes sense. I have no idea how schools can require a specific device from a specific manufacturer. It’s just straight up market control by a public entity.
- Comment on Mushrooms 3 months ago:
They can save your current progress without pausing. Isn’t that easy to understand?