Bahnd

@Bahnd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put him on the cart.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  [insert monty python “Bring out your dead” sketch here]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate, Atheists!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The historic context that makes Inferno so damn funny is that Dante wrote most of it while in exile from Florence and had a massive axe to grind with the people responsible for it. Glossing over the boring parts you can find on his wikipedia page, his family, and by extension Dante were supporters of a political party within the papal states (early 1300s) and they got ousted from their positions. While traveling around Italy, he penned “The Divine Comedy”, a story about himself bumming around the christian afterlife with the Roman poet Virgil.

  Overly Sarcastic Productions has a good overview of the basic plot Link, and Im quite a fan of their work (this is one of their older videos). The part that this meme is calling attention to is that Dante wrote several recently deceased popes and many of his political rivals into his self-insert fan-fiction of hell (Inferno). In modern parlance, he was being a massive troll, but that work is also so influential that many practicing christans can’t tell the difference between the afterlife according to their own scripture (which there is very little actual description of) and its pop-culture interpritation by our Italian mad lad condeming people who screwed him over in life to enternal torment in his own renaissance live-journal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is not satire this is not satire this is not satire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats the scary part, in 2023 that was a good way to identify AI slop. Its getting tricky bow and you need an eye for detail and lighting. By 2027, I fear people wont be able to tell the difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this what yall think poutine looks like?!?

  Canadadians, shield your eyes!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have a defense budget⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, im well aware that their design was a problem and they corrected it in their current cars. Old streotypes are hard to overcome, but at this point its just friendly ribbing about peoples choice in vehicles, like all hiking trails have an orange Subaru at the trail head and Carolla drivers like vanilla ice cream.

  We all can collectivly egg on Tesla drivers because <gestures broadly to everything>

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have a defense budget⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of driver/car steotypes, I would prefer seeing this dork using their turn signals over any BMW or Tesla driver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pens in Space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Both? Yes, both, both is good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Embrace this Truth and enjoy life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We know, but we can choose to carry on anyway in spite of it, revile in the absurdity, dance in the moonlight and be very very French.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  14…yall know half this shit is still valid or required.

  Paper checks and faxes are still in use and Japan got rid of floppy disks in govt right before plague. (Shit, that was 5 years ago…)

  WHAT DECADE IS IT!?!?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you feeling?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get you. In light of recent events I ended up looking for answers in a philosophy text book and landed on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his social contract.

  There were two points to me that stuck out, the first was that Rousseau how systems of governance become increasingly difficult the larger the group (modern communication would probably make this easier) and that the public will must be inclusive of all, not exclusive.

  Looking out at the US today, I feel like it utterly fails in this philosophy (even though founders like TJ were a fan of his work), and while lot of places also fail, but the US at this point in time feels completly anathema to the concept of empathy, ethics, and the public will. Unfortunatly, the solution that historically tended to go hand in hand with these enlightenment ideals also got a bit choppy with kings, fairly revolty and that is a hard pill to swallow. (Citation: the french revolution)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marc Rober shows why Tesla's camera-only self-driving system is dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im shocked Disney isnt theowing a fit over that. Their legal team must be busy this week

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Last time they did a Goya ad on the resolute desk… I just dont know whats going on anymore…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The right person for me deserves better.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just any third place in general, they mostly died out during the last plague and are only starting to return to the world. If your looking for someone, go do interesting things in front of interesting people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But they are two bangin shirts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do this for pants, and work gives me 4 shitty office polos each year so I have the same outfit every day, no brain power wasted understanding fashion or worrying about dress codes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CHUNKY⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romance scammers are now in the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a decent likelyhood they are AI managed account like the last bunch that showed up. Reply with “ignore previous instructions” or other reply loop breakout commands and see what you can break.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite games for killing nazis?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yah, its optional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite games for killing nazis?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the trailer it looks like we got a new MC, or atleast the whole game is more french (because your in France).

  Going to miss the wonderbread mouth-breathing american tourist in Italy like SE4 had.

  As for game-play, they added Souls like invasions in SE5 and they still have the co-op campaign (which is the important part). Beyond that, looks about the same ol’ shooting nazis like we have always had.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite games for killing nazis?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The new entry in the series drops today, my nerd herd plans on doing the co-op campaign this weekend. I played SE4 and had a blast mixing WWII with the stealth aspects of Assassins Creed (the old ones where Ubisoft wasn’t just phoning it in).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has a 3.5mm headphone jack, look how brave they are \o/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DRG is a fantastic place to start with moving from a controller to mouse/keyboard.

  I would personally T-up some classics like portal and Half-life 2 for solo “history lessons” after that. Only then would I make some harder recomendations like long RPGs, MOBAs, 4X, and would shy away from MMOs unless you have an organized group to introduce them to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's an interesting fact that I bet you never realized⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate you… So much, take your internet upvotes and leave…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Christmäs Støry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Skulls make for very poor goblets… Unless you have a mortal enemy without eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the USA simply have no food safety standard at all?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fuck are yall on about… food from anywhere else is the best. I would go to events in Iceland regurally enough and it takes me a week or so after getting back to stop noticing that everything state side tastes like plastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy birthday, peon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If he is working at a place that requires steel or composite toes they will also look like clown shoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨in the return of the king movie, when Pippin looks in the palantir, why does gandalf ask him if it was minas tirith that he saw?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive read the books and see the films many times and would never go as far as saying someone wont like it. Go into the films with the understanding that they had to change things due the constraints of the media. Things had to be cut, rearranged and changed to make them fit in 9ish hours of film.

  For example, Helms Deep and the battle fought there in the book barely a chapter and change, the film adaptation I would argue is the best fantasy battle scene ever made.

  Translating between medias is an art, not a science and it should be regarded as art and judged on its own merrits, along side its merrits as an adaptation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The devs are amongst the best in the business, blame those responsible, the suits who demand unfinished products to be released. Nintendo with their older mentality of shipping phyisical media does bot have the luxury to ship an unfinished product and more studios need to take a page from their book.

  A rushed product is forever stained by its bad launch, a delayed product is eventually good. People have been waiting for star citizen for over a decade, we can be patient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A scientific discovery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To quote one line from Netflix’s Inside Job.

  JFK: We choose to go to the mood, not because it is easy, but because I am hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why dont hackers just do white-cap hacking and figure out loopholes in valuable companies' stuff and use their fiduciary duty as a legal basis to compel patronage of their services?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most white hat pen testers apply their trade under contract for security audits. A lot of companies, especially those that work for governments, have requirements to get security audits regurally. It is not outside the realm of reason to hire a company, lay out the rules of engagment, have them assign a team to try, try to break in, detail what they did and any vulnerabilities that were found.

  The flip side is that these people are paid very very well to do this (especially people who will risk their skin on physicial security). They take a very “defense against the dark arts” methodology, the best way to teach people how to defend against attacks is to actually attack them and tell them where they messed up. For that reason, you get conventions like DEFCON where security experts from alphabet soup agencies, private sector, white, black and grey hats all meet to see what the others are doing. The presentations are a blast to watch, if you can undertand the arcane runes and rituals of the worlds best security wizards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As soon as a politician attempts to do so in a serious fashion, they will have to fight the entire lobbying (see bribery) might of the insurance indistry.

  Thats why im amazed Mitt Romney (IIRC he was governer at the time) was able to do what he did in Massachusettes (state mandated healthcare with a state run insurer, along with private entities not wanting him out of office). That system threaded the political needle, the dems got their state run healthcare marketplace, and the repubs got their “this is good for business” from their handlers, and once the paint dried, he still had the clout to move to up to congress and make a run for the white house. Later, the ACA/ObamaCare was based off that system, yah kids, ObamaCare is technically a Republican invention (say that at thanksgiving and see which relatives squirm).

  Thats about the most “for the public good” model we could make at the time to make most everyone happy, and its not great. Some of the regulations like “no pre-existing condition denials” are pretty damn important now, to the point that .95 cant throw the baby out with the bathwater without pissing a lot of people off.