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- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 1 day ago:
I don’t agree with a total ban, but the writers of the article downplaying the harmful content on YouTube I think have forgotten the multiple times YouTube has gotten in trouble with advertisers for shit like “elsagate” where they were showing mutilation etc. of Disney characters targeted at children.
There needed to be some kind of regulation, but an outright ban is a bit much.
This feels like they’re trying to drive a tack with a sledgehammer.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 6 days ago:
I don’t think that’s accurate because they asked Dlsite before them to restrict their content based on American Law. They tried to remove access to content from outside Japan that Visa was complaining about and Visa still told them to remove the content (I guess cause people were using VPNs) so they had to remove the ability to pay with visa and Mastercard entirely.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 6 days ago:
“Unlawful” based on what? American law?
These are global payment companies, they can’t just have a “we don’t allow payment for illegal content” cause that varies by country (and by state even).
What an absolutely nothing statement.
- Comment on Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says 1 week ago:
Well, Stable Diffusion 3 supposedly purposefully removed all porn from their training and negatively trained the model on porn and it apparently destroyed the model’s ability to generate proper anatomy.
Regardless, image generation models need some porn in training to at least know what porn is so that they know what porn is not.
It’s part of a process called regularization, or preventing any particular computational model from over-fitting.
- Comment on Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development 2 weeks ago:
I was definitely in the same camp of thinking (I mean Hindenburg etc, duh). But there’s been a bunch of studies where, because hydrogen basically immediately dissappates up and away, unless you’re in an extremely cramped area it’s much safer in collisions and unexpected containment breaches.
Even then, it actually poses less of a threat to life because it doesn’t create smoke or burn for awhile like gasoline does.
- Comment on Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development 3 weeks ago:
Hydrogen is more dangerous than gasoline if it leaks
I’d love to see a source on that.
This Report by the US department of energy says otherwise.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 3 weeks ago:
Again, the issue is this is an American company setting American content policy internationally.
Storefronts and brands can set up local branches and sell through those using the local digital payment provider without getting in trouble with their headquarter’d country. They can’t do that with a private entity that’s decided to set their global content policy to align with America’s.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 3 weeks ago:
Wed probably be in a similar place, but the advantage of a private entity being that it can bridge the already existing digital payments, so if a store big enough like steam had the option to, they could integrate with that country’s digital payments directly.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 3 weeks ago:
True to some degree if you’re an American, but this is Visa setting internal policy for American politics, and that reflecting globally.
Not every country has the same laws or politics that the US does.
- Comment on Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development 3 weeks ago:
You didn’t say “most” on your original post. You might want to edit it if that’s what you meant.
- Comment on Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development 3 weeks ago:
? You can get Hydrogen through simple water electrolysis. In fact you can do it at home. That’s like how 4% of all hydrogen is manufactured.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 3 weeks ago:
The reason there’s so few is because people don’t want to have to figure out beforehand whether or not they can use the payment provider they have at the store they want to go to.
I’ve seen this happen multiple times especially in Japan when the barcode payment craze started. There were like 13 competing payment providers and now there are 2. Because people don’t want to have to carry around 13 different types of card or payment typed and have 13 different types of payments. They want one that works everywhere.
It’s why there needs to be sovereign digital payment systems that are legally enforced.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 3 weeks ago:
Visa continues to set the world’s content moderation policies extra-judicially.
Go figure having all electronic payments be through private companies would have eventual consequences.
- Comment on agi graph slop, wtf does goverment collapse have to do with ai? 2 months ago:
“sorry you haven’t paid your monthly driver’s permit fee” Car drops out of the sky
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
All thoughts are formatted in .docx
- Comment on Shats 2 months ago:
A real shitpost
- Comment on Drink deep, my loves. As it ever was and will be, this too shall pass 2 months ago:
Thanks @ryan.gosling.stan
- Comment on Google's new AI video tool floods internet with real-looking clips 2 months ago:
I feel like it’s more likely more and more young people will just retreat from the open internet and only trust content from people they already know don’t post AI clips.
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 2 months ago:
I know right. Let’s put a more realistic “before they’re out of kindergarten” on that.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 3 months ago:
I now have no respect for such people whatsoever, as they’ve demonstrated completely and thoroughly, even to the point where my dumb ass can notice, that the only thing that ever “qualified” them to “run a business” was having money.
It’s always heartwarming when people wake up and realize it’s capital ism and not merit ism
And you realize a lot of the books and media you’ve consumed that explicitly stated that weren’t just making a comment on a goofy side effect of that system but the entire enchilada.
- Comment on The billionaires and politicians did it 4 months ago:
- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 5 months ago:
Why is Ryubing beyond reproach? I don’t see them doing anything differently than Ryujinx.
- Comment on eggs in japan 5 months ago:
Wait till you see our healthcare prices.
Image Orthoepoedist visit and back medicine for two months.
- Comment on eggs in japan 5 months ago:
Just got these from the grocery store and they’re like the size of an apple.
- Comment on eggs in japan 5 months ago:
- Comment on eggs in japan 5 months ago:
This is one of those neat factoids that isn’t entirely true.
Japan does wash and refrigerate its eggs, just not all eggs and brands and groceries (it’s not a law).
Refrigerate and unrefrigerated eggs side-by-side Image
Refrigerated eggs Image
Most of the low salmonella incident rate comes from a higher inspection rate of egg producers and, here’s the fun one, a higher rate of raw egg ingestion, leading to faster report and response times for when there is contamination.
- Comment on eggs in japan 5 months ago:
You really shouldn’t use sites like this for comparison as they’re not really adjusted for average expected living in any certain country.
They’re for if you took your lifestyle from country A and tried to transplant it in country B.
A good example is price per square foot for apartments etc. in Japan doesn’t really say anything about how the average living space is also much lower so you shouldn’t try and buy an American suburban house in Japan anyway.
- Comment on Germany’s four-day work week proves to be a massive hit 6 months ago:
We got rid of our stand-ups in favor of a morning slack check-in in the group channel.
We even have a little bot that lets you input them at any time before the scheduled deadline and reports them all at once so you don’t have to put it in in the morning (many people prefer reporting on their day at the end of the day).
This combined with a robust pull request system means that a lot of work can get done async.
We have occasional meetings but they’re pointed and specific between only the people that need to talk so nobody’s time feels wasted.
It took like 2+ years to develop this culture but it’s worth it.
- Comment on POV: It's January 19th 6 months ago:
The fact that it’s hit #1 on the US Apple app store is wild to me.
Five eyes agents must be pulling their hair out.
- Comment on POV: It's January 19th 6 months ago:
Meanwhile all the TikTok users seem to be moving to a copycat called Red Note
