swordgeek
@swordgeek@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Thinking About Adopting a Dog? Here’s What You Need to Know 1 day ago:
Wrong group.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 1 day ago:
I work with a number of developers who don’t know how to find and edit a file on their computer.
Literally.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
Yeah, good luck with that.
We don’t want your “authority and influence” any more. The US has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they cannot be trusted with the power they’ve got.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
Yes.
The amount of harm already done to your country by Trump and Musk is immeasurable, and will take a generation or more to recover from.
The amount of harm done to your standing in the world is equally bad. The world was skeptical after Trump’s first term fucked over the rest of the world, but we were hopeful that maybe the US had learned their lesson?
Nope. They elected a fascist. They RE-elected a known fascist, felon, rapist, idiot-child, psychopath. Worse, they bolstered Musk to get into a seat of unauthorized and unimaginable power.
When Trump announced his idiotic tarrifs, Canada collectively said “that’s it - we’re divorcing.” When he pulled back on the idea for 30 days, Canada said “don’t care, still divorcing.”
Trump is following the exact model of HItler, and it’s only a matter of time until he actually invades either Greenland or Canada if he’s not stopped. The USA has to collapse into ruin and rebuild from scratch before anyone is going to trust them again.
- Comment on Why isn't free stuff (public domain/noncommercial) discussed as much as paid stuff? 1 week ago:
On review sites in particular, there are kickbacks involved - and free/OSS products can’t pay as much as for-profits.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 1 week ago:
Well for one thing, you’ll find out how many Canadians are willing to use a gun in defence of their country, despite very few being invested in the American gun culture.
Also, it would likely be the beginning of WWIII.
- Comment on Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails 1 week ago:
The ad company that fucked developers over a few months ago?
So long losers!
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 1 week ago:
“What MAGA all agree” is a fool’s errand, like most universal consensus questions.
But here are a few high points:
- Some genuinely believe the rhetoric about how Trans/brown/non-Christian/etc. people are destroying the American way of life, jobs, safety, sports, the economy, and whatever they get pointed to at any given moment.
- Some are outright racists, bullies, and fascists, and absolutely love what Trump is doing right now.
- Many are just frustrated with their lot in life, and are willing to try anything (except personal action) to improve things.
- Many more feel like they’re just a few paycheques or a small windfall away from living the rich life like Musk et al. As about 90% of lottery winners can attest, winning $10M or so doesn’t make you obscenely wealthy, and it’s still pretty easy to piss it all away. They have no concept of the difference between “rich enough to not work” and “rich enough to own multiple superyachts.”
Most importantly, a large subset of this last group overlaps with the others, and believe that they only way for them to get ahead is by climbing over the bodies of others.
- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 1 week ago:
Don’t drink quite so much.
Seriously, hangovers are a sign of excessive drinking. Last memorable one I had was 16 years ago.
- Comment on It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users 2 weeks ago:
Not good ennough. Doxxing should carry criminal charges.
- Comment on Why do many lame or incorrect comments get so much more attention than some witty or funny ones? 4 weeks ago:
- Short attention span.
- Outrage farming.
- Comment on Why did trump go after the Gulf of Mexico rather than New Mexico? 4 weeks ago:
New Mexico is already part of the US. It’s not really the name, it’s the expansionist intention.
He’s going to annex as much territory as he can without weapons before declaring war.
- Comment on Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute? 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter.
It REALLY doesn’t matter.
If he was doing a Nazi salute, the consequences are obvious. If he was doing something “like” a Nazi salute but can plausibly deny it, the result is exactly the same; and that means that the intent is the same, even if it is proven (magically!) that it wasn’t a Nazi salute.
This is the result:
The Nazis of the world all saw it, and took it as a sign of unity. Nothing else matters.
Now Musk may or not may be autistic, but I know several autistic people (plus one with Tourette Syndrome, long ago) and you know what? Not a single one of them has done anything like a Nazi salute.
“Heil Hitler” as a phrase and a salute is fairly unique: It is something that is absolutely burned into the memory of most of humanity, regardless of language, culture, or society. Nobody with Musk’s worldly knowledge and experience would accidentally do something that close to a Nazi salute. Hell, an eight year old from Latvia wouldn’t accidentally do something like that. The knowledge and the taboo are absolutely burned into our collective consciousness.
There is absolutely zero chance whatsoever that Musk didn’t know what he was doing.
And even if that’s true, it honestly doesn’t matter.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Laws are there for the riff raff, not the elite.
This has been true for a very long time, but those in power generally didn’t abuse that fact too much. Until recently.
- Comment on Transmen who have had bottom surgery, have you ever sat on your scrotum by accident? 4 weeks ago:
You are obsessed with this being the norm. I’m not at all convinced it is.
- Comment on Transmen who have had bottom surgery, have you ever sat on your scrotum by accident? 4 weeks ago:
I’m a cis dude in my mid-50s. Don’t think this has ever hapoened to me.
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t go back to it (Win 3.1 games are a PITA to get running), but I really wish someone would remake Millennium Auction. It was a very clever version of the old board game Masterpiece.
- Comment on How rare is it for people to live without anger? 5 weeks ago:
I lived without anger for almost 15 minutes today.
That’s almost a record.
- Comment on What is going on with Facebook's (Meta) new community guidelines? 5 weeks ago:
Remember, Facebook started out as a non-consensual ‘hot or not’ site, to rate women at Zuck’s college.
As they grew, they became loudly pious about their ‘strong content guidelines’ (i.e. you could get banned for a mastectomy picture), but still didn’t care about hate speech. Only a month ago, FB refused to take down an explicit call for the lynching of PM Justin Trudeau, and another saying trans kids need to be “raken to the train station.” Neither of these violated FB’s content regulations.
So framing this as Zuck bending to Trump is misleading. It’s much more him taking off his mask of civility, finally.
Like Trump, like Musk, like Poilievre, the man is a weasel and a Nazi.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 1 month ago:
What’s the endgame for them if their current path takes them to a point where their assets are more or less worthless?
Get too rich, too powerful, burn the earth, and die happy before the consequences of their behavior catch up with them.
- Comment on Could every monarchy and authoritarian/tyrannical societies have been the result of child abuse? 1 month ago:
As soon as you say “every,” the answer will be no.
Humanity is too varied and unique. Shitty behaviour can erupt spontaneously at any time.
- Comment on How can I use an LLM to generate a 10k word long coherent story? 1 month ago:
Don’t.
Develop real AI, don’t rely on bullshit LLMs.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 1 month ago:
If you want to learn drums well, skip the gimmicks and toys, and get a solid practice pad (Remo, Vic Firth, etc.). You can learn a lot - and can practice fundamentals endlessly with that.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 1 month ago:
Drums are more fun. Music is more fun, and will last you a lifetime.
But absolutely make sure you factor in the cost of lessons.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 1 month ago:
Yes.
Really and truly, yes.
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 1 month ago:
Welcome!
You’ll find that the volume here is much (much much MUCH!!!) lower than reddit. As frustrating as this can be, the only solution is to stand and create more content. More worthwhile posts, more comments, more interaction. At its height, that was exactly what made reddit successful.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 1 month ago:
System Shock, the remake by Nightdive.
I’m old enough that I bought and played the original SS back in the day, and it was transformative.
- Comment on Is there any way to search through all the games on Steam for titles that don't use the word "dystopian" anywhere in the description? 1 month ago:
Just search for Slime Rancher.
- Comment on Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+ 1 month ago:
Hmm. Let’s see here…
Steam: 147
GOG: 174
Epic: 286I’ve paid for about 2/3 of the Steam games, probably a quarter of the GOG ones, and maybe two or three of the Epic ones.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 1 month ago:
No idea what Steam has to say, but I’ve played more games for longer than Steam has been around, so here’s a guess of mine in no particular order:
- Skyrim
- Morrowind
- Fallout (3, NV, 4, London combined)
- Ultima II
- Doom II
- Grim Fandango