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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firearm Advice⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a new image/meme for me and I like it. The hand gesture gives it a little bit of a “witches vs patriarchy” vibe too. I don’t know if that means more or less coming from a random old cishet dude, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firearm Advice⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang, were they actually going into an artery there, or was it just a large opening or you were also on blood thinners or something?

  I get an IV every month and they always use a vein, and any bleeding is just a tiny ooze. But I’m holed up for a matter of hours, not days+ as with a hospital stay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fully Modded Skyrim VR in Samsung Galaxy XR is Something Else⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My main original Skyrim play through on desktop was 100 hours.

  My Skyrim VR play through was 200 hours. I think in 2019. So fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah now it’s “will it speedrun DOOM?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP Bozo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Each one of those F-22s cost as much as a Level 1 trauma center hospital, and it’s specialty is filling up entire hospitals in the other side of the world!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No u 🫵⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But, the Null Hypothesis generally IS that X does not exist until you receive evidence otherwise.

  That’s pretty much how we all work, we just have very different sources and standards when it comes to which evidence is taken seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eww, friends I know it’s ok to say fuck on the internet, but some words are just yucky to read, you feel me?

  lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current events dictate that I post this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how “I fucked your mom” is just too straight and real for Lemmy.

  I might be an old straight guy, but I can appreciate keeping it fake & gay around here. 🫡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current events dictate that I post this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only poors can do terrorism, silly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While it may be true that capitalism messes with all of them to some extent, I think there’s still a pretty wide chasm between a Firefox fork like LibreWolf or WaterFox versus just using a default install of Chrome or Edge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Attitudes like that are not how we got a trillion dollars in spare data center infrastructure to find a use for!

  Those consumers will be happy owning nothing THIS time!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point we would be lucky to have somebody like president Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho who actually seems to govern in good faith.

  What would the current government do if presented with a super-intelligent advisor? Fix our problems? Lol to that. They would be lucky to be kept alive because somebody that smart is clearly a threat to those who already got theirs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always Goat Simulator 3 if you can be happy with gaming culture satire and way fewer guns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lmao⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That seems like one of the more reasonable scenarios to expect “AI” to thrive, actually.

  You have dozens to thousands of people doing the actual work, then you have one CEO or owner that asks the AI to summarize what all the workers have been doing and communicating. It then presents them with a list of suggested decisions with some metrics tied to them like chance of success and Net Present Value (NPV).

  The AI wouldn’t even have to do a good job! It would just have to get things wrong or make up bullshit whole cloth as much as human middle managers, or maybe even less!

  I think this is a possiblity not because the AI will do a good job, but because the ONE thing that LLMs seem to be good at is mimicking what a random human might type, including humans who are often ignorant or wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better be a sex offender registry on those damn space ships⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be a humongous world-changing announcement in a sane timeline. Half the people in our stupid culture wouldn’t even register it as a blip though.

  In situations like this I like to think of the history students a thousand years from now, assuming the earth is still habitable, etc.

  “So humanity’s first public recognition of extraterrestrial life only happened when it did to distract from the fact that the Big Country at the time had reelected the planet’s worst person AGAIN and they needed to delay justice until they died for… let me double check the text… they needed to delay getting in trouble for being at the top of a global human trafficking and rape operation?

  And I am supposed to believe these people had running water, airplanes, internet, and space programs? They lied about every other damn thing!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAS Syndrome⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn it, I was just getting ready to sanitize my light year of lead and now I cannot find that damn thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and you start AND end the game riding with other goats through the farm on a replica of the Skyrim prisoner cart from the meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it is a really good looking and really thoughtfully made game. If you have been a gamer for decades there are tons of references and jokes you will appreciate. I appreciate the Sweden references too. I’m an American but I’ve gotten to visit the real-world equivalent of Goatenburg.

  It is really good to play with a group that includes non-gamers or kids, because you can’t really die but you can use overpowered abilities and items on each other and NPCs. It is damn funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see the Postal series has gotten some mentions, but where is my Carmageddon Crew?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Goat Simulator 3 has up to 4p split screen co-op, and it’s a big GTA-style sandbox game just loaded with hilarious stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a PC gamer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I think about it, between emulators and various icon collections I have enough games to last me for the rest of my life. And that’s a feeling of being free, not trapped.

  I also have to do a shout-out for analog enjoyments. Interacting with the natural world and exercising all of your senses are just straight-up good for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lelz⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my anecdotal experience, the more Trumpy conservative somebody is, the more they are already miserable and complaining about everything all the time. If things get objectively worse for them then they might not act any differently day-to-day. The only question is how far things have to go before they will blame the correct people, if that is even possible for many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is awesome, and it sounds like something I would totally do.

  …if I didn’t already have enough pets of my own that scare birds out of the yard, lol. Fortunately I have pets that will eat worms. I have been thinking of building a nice bird feeder just outside the fence though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a cool rock⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have two optimism-filled counterpoints to this.

  1. Happy childhood memories are often much nicer than actually existing as a child. Much more concentrated. You already have the good stuff.

  2. The only person stopping you from walking through the woods and finding cool rocks is you!

  (insert caveats here about how adult life sucks for so many people right now and they don’t have free time to wander in the woods. I know. It sucks. I can only encourage you to consider it a metaphor and find something realistic and rewarding that fits your life)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dogs welcome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We love dogs too in my household. I have four dogs, in addition to numerous other terrestrial and aquatic pets.

  But unfortunately, much like other people can be the worst, other people’s dogs can be the worst!

  And for that matter I am the rare Lemmy user that also loves kids. I am the fun dad and uncle. other people’s kids can also be the worst, lol.

  People just need to pay attention to the world around them and how they affect others. That would be nice. (good luck, amirite?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What color are they now, what color are they now?

  A fine pink mist, oh a fine pink mist!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still alive?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  normal people realizing he was never killed

  Or normal people realizing the connection to Mossad and/or other state actors.

  (I saw the account was faked, but I still think this would be much more significant than him being alive)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the third panel really captures the essence “I am angry about everything and you’ve shown me something I don’t like, which I guess can exist as long as it hides in the shadows away from my righteous gaze, therefore you are SHOVING it down my THROAT and I am morally justified in attacking those people until they go away”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My son was the prime age for Baby Shark when it blew up a few years ago.

  I remember we were on a ride at a little local amusement park and some girls started singing Baby Shark.

  I was the dad that stepped in right on the beat and bellowed out “DAAAAAADDY SHARK DOOT DOOT…” with as much bass in my voice as I could manage.

  I grew up in a conservative household. Fuck that whole universe of attitudes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re putting it off you might be frustrated afterwards once you see how easy and fast it was, lol. If you make a bootable USB drive, which you should, you can boot to a live desktop and see linux running on your hardware before you install anything to a hard drive.

  I have recently converted from Mint, including a brief stint with LMDE, to good old Debian + KDE Plasma and I absolutely love it. But I am also enough of an enthusiast that the few extra setup steps were fine.