tinkeringidiot

@tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re making a solid point, but I think the basic problem is a fundamental lack of the willingness to listen and digest someone else’s point of view. Sources of information are important to a debate, but they’re ultimately irrelevant if either side isn’t willing to even consider the possibility that there’s more to learn than what they already know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Lemmy has exactly one political opinion, and woe betide any poor soul of another persuasion.

  Otherwise the community is pretty great. Lots of good conversation with intelligent commenters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do some people really dislike google??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can be absolutely sure they’re selling it to every company and national government that will pay for it.

  If you’re part of a marginalized group that some government would like to commit a human rights violation against in the last decade, chances are Google was a gleeful enabler on the government side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when my oldest sister bought her first AR-15 at the hardware store, for cash. They didn’t so much as ask for ID. It wasn’t locked up or anything, just take it off the shelf and go check out, no big deal.

  This was in 1991.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is there a useful way for tech workers to express interest in a union?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  NLRB is going to have to convince a court (probably several) that their stance is the correct one before that ruling becomes at all real, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SAG-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, and there are people who go see movies specifically because of whom appears in them. But I’d hesitate to call that the majority, especially in gaming. The set of people that play games and the set of people who follow the industry are certainly overlapping, but are far from identical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SAG-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sad to say, but the union probably won’t get many meaningful concessions from this one. The technologies to fully generate model movement (motion capture) and emotive voice (voice acting) are already reasonably mature and constantly improving.

  The artists will (rightfully) get strong control over their own likenesses, but if they think they’re going to stop mass adoption of AI in video games they’re dreaming.