I_Has_A_Hat
@I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 23 hours ago:
For people who think they’re winning by fucking with scammers, unless you are tying up hours of their time, you are doing the opposite by engaging with them. And even if you tie up hours, they aren’t really losing.
Obviously, falling for the scam is their ideal outcome, but ANY engagement beyond silence, a generic VM, or a disconnected/fax line marks your number as ‘active’ which can then be sold to other scammers.
So they still get a profit, and your number winds up on more scamming lists.
We are also getting close to the point where it won’t even be an actual human you’re talking to, it’ll just be some AI, making engagement even more useless.
If you get a call from an unknown number and you don’t have call screening, answer and SAY NOTHING! Not hello, not “may I ask whose calling”, mute your phone so they don’t even get background noise. The only numbers they can’t get anything out of are the ones that are brick walls.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 4 days ago:
Gotta wonder where Binding of Isaac falls on the list since it’s been out so long and it’s players tend to be the ones that put hundreds, if not thousands, of hours into it.
- Comment on Am I a joke to you? 4 days ago:
Yea! What gives? People will eat a wonderfully cooked and prepared steak but turn their nose up at an unseasoned chunk of raw beef. They also prefer soft bread over raw flour. Gosh, it sure is a mystery why people have these preferences!
- Comment on Name it 1 week ago:
Chiming in to say Sea of Stars. Absolutely gorgeous pixel graphics and music, and a true love letter to old school JRPGs. It gave me nostalgia for something I didn’t even know I lost.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 1 week ago:
A goal to work toward. A hope that if we keep fighting, there will eventually be a future where people don’t have to fight. That there is a path toward humanity reaching it’s peak, rather than an endless sisyphian struggle until our extinction.
It’s not “things could be fine without struggle or setbacks”, Star Trek makes it VERY clear that it was not a smooth and easy path toward fully automated gay space communism. It’s history of humanity is riddled with wars and uprisings and cultural slides backwards. But there is the idea that there could be a better future someday. Where greed and inequality are almost foreign concepts in society. Where science and reason finally win out against superstition and ignorance.
It may be a fantasy, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to hold onto a belief that things will not always just continue to be shitty forever. Never forget the words that can make a happy man’s joy turn to ash, or a sad man’s misery into hope:
This too shall pass.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 1 week ago:
It just feels wrong. It’s like having superman act like homelander. Even if the message is “things shouldn’t be this way”, you are tarnishing a symbol of hope and optimism. People like Star Trek, especially these days, because it gives them hope of a better future, beyond the struggles and corruption of modern society; where justice isn’t just an abstract concept that has to be fought for every day. Where competence and intelligence is rewarded, and corruption and prejudice is not tolerated.
To take that and twist it by going “actually the future is shitty and still full of fascism and it will always be an uphill battle” is just soul crushing.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
There is a type of ant that smells like rotten coconut when squished. Is that what they’re talking about?
- Comment on Important Announcement 1 week ago:
I mean, except for you, the creator and poster of this misleading image that will only add fuel to the baseless accusations from Mossad. Even if you created this as an edgy joke, it won’t be used that way.
Let me ask you something: Why make shit up at all? Even as a joke? There are plenty of respectable people who have made anti-ICE statements. Hell, even Ms. Rachel as made actual statements. Why put words into someone’s mouth that they didn’t say? What good comes of that?
- Comment on Florida GOP votes up bill to allow “opportunity” to earn subminimum wage 1 week ago:
One of the Epstein files is an email from a CEO where he says they no longer have to worry about revolt because the people are too obsessed with buying consumer products. Lots of people posted it and criticized him, but very few people were honest enough to admit the truth: he was right.
Bread and circus. That’s all the people want. You give them just enough bread and an overwhelming amount of circus and the people won’t rise up for anything. Beyond the traditional definition, consumer products these days also include social media, streaming services, and video games.
- Comment on I might actually be a respectable member of society 2 weeks ago:
The trip doesn’t fully end until you go to sleep.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 2 weeks ago:
Dude… Just no. They have not thrown the kitchen sink at us. Tear gas, unconstitutional arrests, even shooting people in isolated incidents is not even fucking close to how bad it could get. Short of sending an M1 Abrams? How about just unloading full auto rifles into a crowd? How about taking out targets with predator drones? FFS, they only just started deploying LRAD.
Things can, and very well may, get so, so, SO much worse even before tanks start rolling in the streets.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 3 weeks ago:
Any civilization capable of sending missiles across the galaxy should be more than capable of simply sending a tight beam of gamma radiation to sterilize the planet. No need for earth shattering explosions. Just a flood of radiation engulfing the planet for a minute or two and everything not buried a mile underground will be dead.
And that’s if they don’t bother to just blow up the sun.
- Comment on That'll be $300. 3 weeks ago:
If you rotate your tires, don’t forget to get your wheels rebalanced at the same time! So many places, usually quick oil change places, will offer a tire rotation service but WONT rebalance them and then you’ll drive off and wonder why your car is so shaky.
- Comment on how could this happen😔 3 weeks ago:
All of them are. You want a sex scene? Go watch porn. Has no business being in any other media except as a distraction. It’s practically never used to move the plot, it’s all just pandering to gooners who can’t seem to function or pay attention to anything without their hands on their dicks.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Sure; if you’re too simple minded to do anything except follow the animalistic urge to fuck and shit out another unwilling life into this already overpopulated world. Logically, there is no reason to have kids right now. Those who believe it’s the only thing that matters in life are basically biological puppets, unable or unwilling to recognize they are being driven by base level instincts. Basically one step removed from monkeys fucking in trees and throwing poop at each other.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 5 weeks ago:
“I’ll take people shitting into my mouth over dogs. At least it’s real humans doing it.”
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 5 weeks ago:
Just another flavor of cynicism for me. Before AI, I would look at most “cute” animal videos and just see an animal performing a trained trick under the guide of “Omg, LOOK my dogs love spontaneously hugging each other, isn’t that cute??!!”
People have ALWAYS lied on the internet.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 5 weeks ago:
People got mad at me for pointing out this is the case when people die because they listen to an AI chatbot, but it’s true. AI 100% needs more regulation, but introduce any new tool to everyone all at once, and some idiots will use it to remove themselves from the gene pool. If you sent everyone in the world a thin, 2in rod of inert iron, there would be a handful of people who would figure out a way to kill themselves with it.
- Comment on Trump Administration Live Updates: President Expects Impeachment if G.O.P. Falters in Midterm Elections 1 month ago:
So what? The man has already been impeached twice. Nothing happened. The Senate is the one that convicts and the Dems don’t have a chance in hell of taking back the Senate, so this is all a moot point.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 1 month ago:
(I mean unless trump got crazy and started ordering nuke strikes to end the world)
H-ok, so, here’s de Earth…
- Comment on Who care about book 1 month ago:
A lot fucking less than the internet would have you believe. Take a second and examine all your evidence for believing “there are people who actually hold this opinion”. Does it all come from the internet? Almost entirely from no-context screenshots or clips that seem suspiciously scripted? Do you think maybe those aren’t the best sources?
That’s the problem every time these fake as shit posts are created. There are always folks in the comments that rush to defend it by going “well it might be fake THIS time, but it sounds like something that COULD happen, so I’m gonna still file it away as evidence that it does.”
Like, I’m sure SOME people exist like that. There are 8.3 billion people in this world, that’s enough that you can always find a handful that believe anything. There is a non-zero number of people that enjoy eating literal shit, but that doesn’t mean they are everywhere.
And before you say it (because this is always the reply), if your evidence for their existence is the results of elections, that is faulty logic. There is an ocean of separation between people who are simply idiots, and those that actually hold opinions like “Libraries are a waste cuz they’re full of books. Why book when internet?”
- Comment on Who care about book 1 month ago:
- Comment on The shrinkflation 1 month ago:
…is Steak n Shake considered a proper sit-down meal? Thats still fast food. Most of them have drive-thru’s.
- Comment on Aldo Leopold was right. 1 month ago:
As a child, the ocean fascinated me. I wanted to learn everything I could. As I got older, and the world got worse, the things I learned grew more and more terrifying, until I eventually stopped searching for knowledge.
I don’t know how Marine Biologists and Oceanographers do it. To be surrounded every day with thousands of indicators and unquestionable data that all shows our oceans are fucked. And from hundreds of different ways too; it doesn’t even matter if you somehow fix global warming, there are so many other issues remaining that it’s still all fucked. It’s like if a guy walked into a hospital with every disease. Where the hell do you even start?
- Comment on I'm there! 1 month ago:
Fuuuuck that. I’m not some breeder with an animalistic urge to spread my seed and bring a life into this shitty world that’s already dealing with overpopulation. How incredibly selfish and irresponsible do you have to be?
- Comment on Rushmore 1 month ago:
I honestly can’t even think of what slur someone would think I’m avoiding? Like, what would even fit?
- Comment on Rushmore 1 month ago:
And the Lakota Sioux took it from the Cheyenne tribe by arrow point only 100 years prior to that. So yea, the Sioux had the land stolen from them by force, but they stole it by force themselves before that. And by this point, the US has controlled the land longer than the Sioux ever did.
- Comment on I mean honestly im shocked 1 month ago:
Am I understanding that article right? Not only is the female a parasite on a different crustacean and loses all its libs and organs until it is just a sac with tendrils snaking through its host; but the male also attaches to the female and loses all its limbs and organs until it is just a set of gonads? That’s the weirdest fucking lifecycle I’ve ever heard of.
- Comment on Every decision led him to this point 1 month ago:
It’s not even an actual twitter link. It’s a relink site specifically for people that don’t want to use twitter. Maybe dial it down a bit there, chicken little?
- Comment on Every decision led him to this point 1 month ago:
You can go ahead and delete the first link and the quotes from the article.
No one; and I mean NO ONE wants to read an article about a 10 second video rather than just watching the video themselves. Completely fucking worthless.
