squirrel
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
formerly /u/squirrelrampage on Reddit
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 2 months ago:
Additionally to what has already been mentioned: People are susceptible to politics that confirm their prejudices. Right-wing political thought is largely based on confirming that whatever prejudices people hold, they are morally good and justified. Thus elevating an in-group above out-groups. That is a powerful lure.
- Comment on Only the free speech he agrees with is allowed. 3 months ago:
“Free speech” has always been a right-wing dog whistle for about a decade now. It has nothing to do with anyone’s legal right, it’s a means to claim victimhood and justify attacking others as “defense”.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
My ‘I’m No Fucking Predator Or Pedophile’ T-shirt is raising question already answered by my ‘I’m No Fucking Predator Or Pedophile’ T-shirt.
- Comment on Controversy and Censorship 6 months ago:
How often does it need to be said? Do not preorder games based on what they looked like in the trailers!
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 6 months ago:
Seems like Elon thinks he can use Teslas as compute resources without the cars being charged…
- Comment on is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia? 8 months ago:
It’s a cult. Altman is one of the TESCREAL devotees. He truly believes that he can build the electronic messiah.
- Comment on Facing reality, whether it's about Apple or the EU, is a core requirement for good management 8 months ago:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
In that regard, you cannot make a manager understand a thing that may detrimental to the profits of the company. Because the profits decide upon the size of the manager’s bonus - even if the profits are entirely fictional, only exist as a plan, a power point presentation or are pure hype for investors. So managers have a vested interest in insisting that they can circumvent regulations/disregard laws/lobby for exemptions/… in order to make more money, no matter what reality looks like.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 9 months ago:
Yeah, I am in the same boat: I really don’t understand what the outrage is all about. First off, because Mastodon is built on open standards which are 100% intended to be interoperable. Second because everyone can read a Mastodon feed that isn’t private and the same goes for BlueSky accounts. Hell, BlueSky supports RSS for its feeds, so people with an RSS reader can follow BlueSky accounts without the user knowing about it.
Personally I do not trust the people behind BlueSky, but neither do I trust all the admins of Mastodon servers. There are a ton of questionable Mastodon servers out there, operated by people with very dubious motives, if not outright malicious intent.
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 9 months ago:
This is incredibly funny for people who followed this. Everybody and their grandma told the European Commission that there was no way that breaking end-to-end encryption was compatible with the law. Yet they constantly pushed for it anyway and now look at this mess.
I am almost certain that the European Commission will claim that there are still ways to break end-to-end encryption, only to defeated in court yet again. Like they tried with data preservation for law enforcement purposes. They just can’t stop themselves.
- Comment on TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out 9 months ago:
The enshittification continues, until
moraleprofit improves. - Comment on X removes support for NFT profile pictures 10 months ago:
Now Elon has lost the crucial support of NFT bros. All five of them!
- Comment on Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000 10 months ago:
Because there are lots of people in this thread who paint whales as “rich schmucks” who can afford to spend $48k without thinking twic. This is a myth that lots of the gaming industry itself loves to perpetuate, because it absolves them of taking responsibility for ruining lives.
Research has shown repeatedly that whales are much more likely to be people with mental health problems and/or gambling addicts. That Star Citizen isn’t a freemium game with loot boxes makes it marginally better than - let’s say - Genshin Impact, but offers like the bundle in the article is still predatory.
- Submitted 10 months ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 30 comments
- Comment on Oh, no, you didn’t eat *those* brownies, did you? 10 months ago:
I find the thought of facing Kai Winn while being high utterly terrifying. Talking about a bad trip…
- Comment on Free Coffee 11 months ago:
Damn autocorrect!
doesn’t have autocorrect
- Submitted 11 months ago to risa@startrek.website | 8 comments
- Comment on Nominees for Game of The Year at TGA 2023 1 year ago:
Maryland authorities are looking for a man, aged 53, goes by the name of “Todd” who went missing this afternoon.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda Live-Action Movie Announced by Nintendo 1 year ago:
Depends, really. Producers do decide who will work on a movie in the first place. And sometimes they pick the wrong people.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda Live-Action Movie Announced by Nintendo 1 year ago:
Avi Arad’s track record is a very mixed bag IMO. His films include the “Spider-Verse” films on one hand, on the other there is stuff like “Morbius” and the live-action “Ghost in the Shell”.
There is no doubt that Arad knows how to get the budget and bring the people together, but it certainly isn’t always working out as intended.
- Comment on Xbox plans for using AI to create scripts, dialogue trees, quest lines 1 year ago:
I don’t think you appreciate how much creativity the C-suite invested in developing Open World Microtransaction Generator 3000. /s
- Comment on Report: Unity's Runtime Fee quietly gave exemptions in launch rush 1 year ago:
Despite all that’s happened, at least one source told the outlet they don’t think Unity’s moves were made out of complete malice. “They need to do something to make more money. Sadly, it wasn’t delivered well, but the need to make more money is still there.”
And that’s why every dev (who can) should run as far away from Unity as possible, because Unity will try to screw them some other way.
- Comment on You probably haven't seen this episode yet, but you will. 1 year ago:
I really liked the finale of that one.
- Submitted 1 year ago to risa@startrek.website | 2 comments
- Comment on Turns out That Bitch is an effective anti-depressant 1 year ago:
“My child”
- Comment on Leave it to the Australians 1 year ago:
Louise Fletcher was such an outstanding actress. Nobody could play a character that you love-to-hate quite like her. Just thinking of her saying “My child!” and I feel primordial rage rising.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Yes, please assimilate me. I need a nap and some snacks so bad.
