BurningRiver

@BurningRiver@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donuts are good for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna say that my mutt rescue puppy disproves this theory 100%, since he can flip his head straight up and chomp on my arm in like half a second flat. Fuckface murdermouth has a three axis neck.

  But god damn he’s a good looking dog and I really like him most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's December, what are your favorite Christmas movies?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Scrooged
  • Bad Santa
  • A Christmas Story
  • Elf
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  will eventually

  You’re looking for “may eventually”. We’re not anywhere near this so using it as a current argument is rather silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough Shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  your bowel is wider than your asshole

  imagining a nurse using the word “asshole” to explain it to a regular person is just hilarious to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mobin' Time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You kind of have to accept it, the teachers write the tests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s got about 3-4 billion years left in the tank, if I remember reading correctly. It won’t be humanity’s problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a transaction cost to processing the sale, hosting the giant download and then issuing the refund. If people organized and manipulated the system and this became a financial burden, then the policy would almost certainly change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  About it being completely arbitrary and anti-consumer? It 100% is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sony has a horrific track record of data breaches. They’re collecting and selling data about you for profit. I place that bar higher than this.

  For my own personal amusement, what else would they have to do to meet the level your personal anti-consumer bar is set at?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually a fantastic idea. How long will it take Valve to threaten account bans for doing it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I scrolled down specifically looking for a KSP comment, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the secret recipe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m usually that person as well. BG3 was the first game in probably 8 years that hooked me on the story. If I sprinted through it, I would have probably saved like 80% of the time I spent playing it, but I enjoyed it. Maybe I’m simple, but to me it felt like the decisions mattered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously the way to combat this is to organize dozens or more people who just walk around, load up shopping carts, then leave the store without buying anything. They can pay people to put everything back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immigrants Are Becoming U.S. Citizens at Fastest Clip in Years: The government has reduced a backlog of applications that built up during the Trump administration. New citizens look forward to voting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s great to destroy societies to win an election, is there enough housing, jobs, etc?

  You start with a bad faith argument, and anyone is supposed to take you seriously?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “The government made 25% of my district unemployed, why didn’t I get reelected?”

  Ask it from that side and you have your answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"My maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today," former Bungie employee says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That whole mindset is weird to me. I’m in my mid 40s and just got hired on as a team lead for a bunch of kids who are fresh out of college. They’re exactly where I am when I started and I’m excited to share my 20 years of experience and mentor them.

  They wanted to hire me on as their supervisor but I made it clear that the extra couple grand a year for that headache didn’t interest me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Compost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll bring the magnet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you trust whatever AI you use, implicitly? I already know the answer, but I really want to hear people say it. These AI hype men are seriously promising us capabilities that may appear down the road, without actually demonstrating use cases that are relevant today. “Some day it will do this, or that”. Enough already, it’s bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  recall taking screenshots periodically

  Seriously, you didn’t get through the first paragraph?

  the notion of a tool that silently takes a screenshot of your desktop every five seconds”

  Saying “periodically” is a pretty trivial way of putting it.

  Microsoft and Adobe fighting each other over who gets enshittification of the decade award. Sam Altman is probably crafting a victory speech about what chatGPT 12 might possibly be able to do, someday. The sooner all this snake oil hype crashes and burns, the better off we’ll all be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humanity making progress like it always does⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know where all of you live, but my windshield is still an aria of death in the spring of 2024.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting stuck in the bush: Or how I learned not to be an idiot or trust google maps.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As an American reading this, “yank tank” is one of the funniest and most spot on things I’ve ever read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t solving any problem, this is yet another mask to push content advertisements in front of people.

  That looks better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do words just not fucking mean anything anymore? What exactly does “maven” have to do with any of this? Is everyone treated like an expert at everything? Is that how it works?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  However, what if it were possible to hail a small electric vehicle right when you needed it – via a taxi- or Uber-style app

  Uber style app. Seriously, fuck no. Send trains or don’t, fuck Uber and their business model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So…mercilessly incinerated to a pile of ashes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghostbusters Needs To Go Away, Maybe Forever | Giant Freaking Robot⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It feels like the lesson Hollywood does not want to accept is that just because a movie is iconic does not mean there needs to be more of it.

  The first time I directly learned this lesson was when I watched Godfather 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s ad blocker problems are just an AdBlock Plus bug⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t swearing at anyone. Was my reply wrong? The only way tech companies tech take notice is if people don’t use their services when they’re unhappy with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s ad blocker problems are just an AdBlock Plus bug⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just stay off YouTube for a fucking month. Of even a week. If the traffic plummets, then we win. Why’s it so hard to understand this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz 180: Rental giant to sell 20,000 EVs and replace them with gas-powered vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, watt are they even doing?