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- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 weeks ago:
The 70s was a wild time.
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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' 2 weeks ago:
So say we all!
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 weeks 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’ 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
They can save your current progress without pausing. Isn’t that easy to understand?
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 5 weeks ago:
Two things can be bad.
I hate the “this thing is worse so let’s not talk about that” mentality, as if you’ve never held two opinions at the same time.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 5 weeks ago:
Well, this is talking about food waste, not pollution. Even if it rots and doesn’t do anything, worst case it’s a pile of bio-matter. The land, and everything involved in growing them could be used for actual food though, which could decrease food prices potentially.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 5 weeks ago:
What makes you think that. Is there something odd that people aren’t commenting on or something? Maybe calling the inside guts? That’s the only weird thing I recall seeing.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 5 weeks ago:
If it went to court at all, it’s not clearly legal. You saying “the courts” as a singular entity is misrepresenting the facts. Courts frequently come to different conclusions. Can you argue it’s legal? Sure. You can also argue it isn’t. A single court case is not consensus, it’s precedence (on the issues in that case specifically).
AG Garland, in a lawsuit by the US DOJ has this to say:
[“Monopolies like Apple’s threaten the free and fair markets upon which our economy is based. They stifle innovation. They hurt producers and workers and increase cost for consumers,” Garland said Thursday.
“If left unchallenged, Apple will only continue to strengthen its smartphone monopoly. But there’s a law for that,” he added. ](www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/tech/…/index.html)
Clearly the AG believes them to be a monopoly. I assume he knows more about that law than both of us combined.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 5 weeks ago:
It could absolutely be argued Apple is definitely doing illegal stuff too. Just because you don’t think so doesn’t mean that’s true. Apple is doing a lot of things to lock consumers onto their platform and not allowing competition.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 5 weeks ago:
Ah, OK. I don’t think I ever heard about that resolving, or if I did I didn’t care. That’s good that they were forced to allow that. It should probably go further still, like this Google case.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 5 weeks ago:
IIRC they are doing things like requiring payments to go through them, and all kinds of other monopolistic stuff. Yeah, they aren’t doing all the same things, but they’re doing a lot of it, and it’s more restricted by default so it’s even more pervasive.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 5 weeks ago:
Who’s boot? Linus’s or Putin’s? I’m assuming you’re on Russia’s side by your instance. It’s weird how constituent you people are. Literally anything, you’re defending Russia. If the US was invading a sovereign nation to take it under its influence, I’m sure you’d be against that. As would I, because I’m morally consistent. You somehow justify Russia’s actions yet are against the west expanding and exerting their influence. Care to enlighten me to the difference?
And before you answer: no, Ukraine is not part of Russia and did not start the invasion. Even under the USSR it wasn’t part of Russia. It was a member state of a union of states, as the name implies. Russia does not have any right to it.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 weeks ago:
Also, the half life is when half of it decays. Some of it is constantly decaying. We don’t need to wait for the half life to see any of it. The ratios would be totally off if there was enough of it to get the amount of lead we have right now, but some would exist. When the math is that complex, it’s not going to change anyone’s mind who believes what a magic book (written by regular humans) says. Nothing will, be if you want a chance it has to be something simple and obvious.
- Comment on Honey 1 month ago:
Yeah, for sure I agree the quantities aren’t there to be a replacement, and it seems like we agree that harm is the thing to consider, not really the source.