chonglibloodsport
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- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 1 day ago:
Chinese food with baijiu.
Korean BBQ with soju.
Yakitori with sake.
Pub/bar snacks with beer.
- Comment on Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA 2 days ago:
Seriously! Just buy a used 3DS and hack it to run every game, emulator, etc. You can actually play DOS games and ScummVM games on it!
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 3 days ago:
I don’t have a doorbell of any kind (the button isn’t even hooked up to anything). My neighbours are jerks but they won’t steal packages or anything like that.
We’re living in a low trust society that used to be a high trust society a few decades ago. I believe all of the problems you see in politics ultimately stem from this. Factionalism is tearing western society apart.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 1 week ago:
We’d all be sitting on the back porch, enjoying an ice cold ginger beer at the end of long summer day!
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 1 week ago:
More people ought to learn about the programming language concept of namespaces. Generalize from that and you realize that every domain of discourse has its own namespace of words that have different meanings from those same words outside the domain.
My favourite is math which has loads of wonderfully generic-sounding terms such as rational, irrational, radical, real, imaginary, complex, group, ring, field, category, set, operator, element, and unit which all have radically different meanings from the everyday senses of those words.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 3 weeks ago:
Canadian here. I spent most of July 1 in bed! Was not feeling patriotic! Did not watch any fireworks.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Lots of people drink bottled water, soda, beer, or other drinks not immediately connected to the water supply. Furthermore, poisons are unlikely to remain undetected long enough to kill the entire population. While a strong dose of a deadly poison like cyanide can kill in minutes it’s likely to be detected quickly due to how rapidly its effects begin to show up.
A slower-acting, accumulating poison like dimethylmercury could potentially kill more people because its effects don’t show up immediately. On the other hand, the delayed effects of the poison would provide the victims a chance to retaliate against the poisoners.
Either way, it’s a very crude and unfocused attack against a population which is unlikely to achieve any political aim besides wanton destruction and outrage.
- Comment on In California, plans to move low-income neighborhoods off of gas advance 3 weeks ago:
Everyone says the transmission lines cause devastating wildfires but that’s the proximate cause. It’s like if we went to a gas station and there was an enormous leak with a giant pool of gasoline filling the parking lot and then we blamed a lady wearing a wool sweater for giving off the spark that starts the whole thing ablaze.
The problem with wildfires in California is twofold: 1) not enough controlled burning (due to underfunding and lack of staff) and 2) too many homes built in the highest risk areas.
I think part of this issue is the California government’s boneheaded fight with insurance companies which seeks to prevent them from appropriately pricing the risk for home insurance. One of the most valuable things insurance companies (as hated as they are) do for society is develop highly sophisticated risk models for wildfire and flood damage. When allowed to, they incorporate these models into the premiums they charge for home insurance in different areas. This would ordinarily make it extremely expensive to insure a home in the highest risk areas, creating a market disincentive to build there, but Californians insist on fighting this (shooting the messenger) through the political system.
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 4 weeks ago:
Medieval technology is vastly more complex, broader in scope, etc. compared to the Stone Age stuff on Primitive Technology. It’s actually extremely challenging to go from scratch like he does and then achieve medieval-level ironworking. He can barely make a few little iron pellets which are excessively-hard (too much carbon) and need further processing to become workable. He is a very long way from building a proper medieval smelter capable of producing pig iron or other cast iron products.
- Comment on Is flirting redundant? 4 weeks ago:
Same with any pair activity. Paddling a canoe is no fun if one person doesn’t like water and wants outta there ASAP!
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
So the entire point of my original comment was to give Indiana Jones a bit of vindication from the thinly veiled slander that he was nothing more than a tomb robber working for the colonialist west. How does your correction that Belloq was scamming the Hovitos, not paying them, make any difference to Jones’s character?
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
Scamming them is even worse, no?
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 weeks ago:
He narrowly escapes with his life after having the idol stolen from him by his rival, Belloq, who works for the Nazis and actually hired that Peruvian tribe to be his little private army. Belloq is the one who orders the Peruvians to attack Jones.
- Comment on Putin declares ‘all of Ukraine is ours’ in latest blow to peace talks - and hints at nuclear threat 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s the thing. They may be more violent but are they able to maintain stable control over the country? Might dissolve into chaos anyway.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it is a choice. However one of the biggest problems is that so many of the good choices are gone. I’m talking about the positive social institutions and community organizations people used to belong to. The third spaces.
Communities have fragmented. Neighbours hate each other. Both of my neighbours hate our family. One is a childless, alcoholic husband and wife who also hate each other (they used to be nice years ago) who also hate us and give us creepy looks all the time. The other is green lawn-obsessed neighbour who hates us for the pine trees we have growing on our property and refuse to cut down (at our own expense) to suit their tastes.
We’re a society of severely mentally ill, isolated, confused, and angry people. Our villages and communities are all gone. We’re all a bunch of islands unto ourselves.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 4 weeks ago:
The manosphere is one symptom of a much larger problem. Look at it in isolation and you’ll miss the big picture. Authoritarianism is on the rise globally. Loneliness is reaching epidemic proportions. Society’s traditional institutions are a distant memory. All we have remaining are loose groups of people shouting at each other as the spectre of war lurks in the background.
- Comment on U.S. residential solar on the brink of collapse 4 weeks ago:
The dirty secret of any home reno tax credit is that the industry gobbles them up with markups. The price ends up being exactly the same as it would be without the tax credit, so it’s a subsidy for uncompetitive installation companies rather than families who want to invest in green energy.
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, of course. Look at Amish communities. Largely self-sufficient and thriving.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Make sure you have a doctor monitor you with regular blood tests. Supplementing vitamin D can lead to dangerous levels of calcium in the blood.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 month ago:
No, though there’s been plenty of marketing where they claim “we know how to build AGI.”
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 month ago:
I was very careful not to use the term AGI for this reason. General intelligence tool isn’t the same thing. It’s a much weaker claim, yet it’s also a far stronger claim than any purpose-built software. The ambiguity is part of their marketing strategy.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 month ago:
If ChatGPT were marketed as a toaster nobody would bat an eye. The reason so many are laughing is because ChatGPT is marketed as a general intelligence tool.
- Comment on The Rogue Prince of Persia 1.0 is coming in August! 1 month ago:
Nothing like Prince of Persia. Has that overwrought modern platformer control scheme (with a zillion different things you can do in the air) that every single other modern platformer has. No thanks!
Anyone know of any modern platformer games without all that nonsense? The idea is to feel more like a human who actually needs to think before jumping. I want to feel the weight of my character, feel a strong sense of momentum, and be fully committed to jumps. Air jumps and mid-air momentum control are not my style.
- Comment on OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $10 billion, up from $5.5 billion in December 2024 1 month ago:
That’s a strange list. OpenAI doesn’t only offer SaaS for end users, it also offers API access which puts it into the infrastructure game with the likes of Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure (which actually offers OpenAI services and pushes them out to Windows users en masse).
- Comment on OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $10 billion, up from $5.5 billion in December 2024 1 month ago:
6 million units at $700 a pop is $4.2 billion in revenue. Much closer to 1/2 of $10 billion than you 1/10.
Apple has never made more money from the App Store than from iPhone hardware sales. When the iPhone launched the App Store didn’t exist yet. Over time, Apple’s revenue from services (including the App Store) has grown dramatically to around $26 billion per quarter today, though that is still less than what they earn in iPhone sales (a bit over $50 billion per quarter in 2024).
- Comment on where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues? 1 month ago:
People feel no social obligation because they no longer feel connected to anything. Membership in civic institutions and community organizations has fallen off a cliff. Urban planning has turned suburbs from walkable mixed-use communities into car-centric ghost towns. Rampant inflation and cost disease have destroyed affordability for many. Homeowners have become some of the worst ladder-pullers with extreme NIMBYism slowing housing construction to a crawl.
- Comment on Difference 1 month ago:
Dunno how you get that. MSG has nothing to do with opium.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 1 month ago:
This is the same mistake everyone makes. They think Donald Trump is just a person. That he actually matters and we just have to get rid of him and everything will be okay.
It doesn’t work that way.
But as fascism didn’t die with Hitler, it’s not going to die with Trump either. All of the problems — all of the rifts in our society — will still be there when he’s gone.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 1 month ago:
So you want Donald Trump in charge of the telecom industry and any other industries that have received some sort of public subsidy?
- Comment on Ross Ulbricht Got a $31 Million Donation From a Dark Web Dealer, Crypto Tracers Suspect 1 month ago:
“To my friends, everything. To my enemies, the law.”
This is the only logic to it.