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- Comment on A Linux Version of Windows 11 1 hour ago:
No, such an OS would necessarily not be Linux.
You can have a different OS that can run windows natively–like React OS, but it’s very much not Linux.
- Comment on I didn't realize masala, was spicy 1 day ago:
Masala is fundamentally a blend of spices–though it doesn’t necessarily have to be “spicy” as in hot.
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- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 4 days ago:
You may be interested in the 4 part series “Everything is a remix” by Kirby Ferguson.
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 4 days ago:
Copyright (and IP laws in general) is a means to capture parts of the market and is antithetical to producing a rich and vibrant culture. It artificially sequesters ideas away preventing a communal refinement and growth of those ideas. It’s commodifying nature corrupts creativity in pursuit of fiat.
I don’t like AI as a tool. It’s got a lot of problems, including it’s extortion of society’s creatives in pursuit of a diluted simulation of creativity–one which, as of yet, cannot produce something intrinsically new.
The solution to both of these is to remove the capitalist incentive and reprioritize society’s interests in the needs of the people. When creatives don’t have to rely on artificial limits of the market in order to stay alive and we can move to a system where creatives are free to create, not merely eek out moments of creativity between employ then they will be free to actually create–all of them, not just the lucky few. When the machines are decoupled from their own need to make money and are turned away from the simulacra factory toward covering essential, but boring tasks (and we’ve addressed the ecological disadvantages) then people will be further empowered to pursue creative interests.
Creativity should be bountiful and belong to society as a whole. It should not be a job–in part because we should build a future where jobs are optional. It should not be siloed into one mind for life plus 4 generations or trapped in an organization only to be checked out temporarily to boost profits.
- Comment on Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company 5 days ago:
The ball’s still in their court. They are welcome to change their mind, but they should conclude the immediate interaction. A “we have filled the position at this time. We’ll be in touch if anything changes.” message would be sufficient and easy to automate. They just don’t for … reasons.
- Comment on Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company 5 days ago:
Not remotely true. Having a job does not remove you from the job market. If I accept an offer for my 5th most desired position and a month later receive an offer for my 1st, I am well within my rights, means, and desire to just switch again.
- Comment on Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company 5 days ago:
Well then I’m still waiting for them to carryout their side of the bargain. I submitted an application and/or attended an interview and am waiting for them to make a decision. Obviously that ball’s not in my cart otherwise I’d just tell them “I’m working here now!”
- Comment on Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company 5 days ago:
When I get a job, I do notify those that gave me an offer. If a company has already rejected me then of course I’m not emailing them back to say “yeah, well in rejecting you!”
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 6 days ago:
The printing money wouldn’t be enough. You’d also have to legislate what people are mor allowed to do after the money printing begins (like rent hikes equal to the average household size * the ubi check).
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 2 weeks ago:
Aware of social injustices and a desire for them to be removed.
- Comment on The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry With It? 2 weeks ago:
God (expletive), I hope so. Then we might finally be allowed to buy cheaper small cars.
Who am I kidding though, they’ll just ban all foreign cars and the only available option in the “land of the free” will be lifted Ford F250-child killer editions.
- Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US? 2 weeks ago:
My mom would say it’s from the fall of man and America turning away from God. Your mom seems smarter than mine.
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 2 weeks ago:
We are charging 1/5th the cost of everything through the straight, eh? That just seems like yet another illegal tariff just to appease the mal formed ego of our worst president.
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 2 weeks ago:
Appears I’d downloaded a genericized meme template.
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 2 weeks ago:
Murder is specially extra-legal, and as states define their own laws so long as their militaries abide by the laws of their host country and international regulations for warfare it isn’t murder.
They are both killing, however.
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 2 weeks ago:
They can call it whatever they like, but if there’s only a small handful the best the international community will grant is a “guerrilla” attack.
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 2 weeks ago:
It’s what the government wants to tell its citizens.
Any government can enact terrorist attacks or military strikes. However, random people can only conduct terrorist attacks (as they don’t have a military). The lines get blurred when you are talking about insurgent factions and occupied peoples. But it’s essentially a semantic choice depending on the propaganda you want to promulgate.
- Comment on In this thread: GIFs you've been waiting to post but the occasion never arises 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on "Guess what's in my ass!" 3 weeks ago:
Democrat Representative Jared Moskowitz for Florida’s 23rd district.
- Comment on "Guess what's in my ass!" 3 weeks ago:
Can’t tell if exclusively shock reference or also a play on the guys name (Jared).
- Comment on Amen 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on This has gotten out of hand and I demand satisfaction. 4 weeks ago:
Left just got a meat burrito, right actually asked for stuff?
- Comment on The Tale of Pangram Jeeves 4 weeks ago:
A BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!
- Comment on Don't let your mind be a jar 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on This week on Windows... 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t written code in 8 months. My family member who works at Microsoft
But your family member hasn’t written code in 8 months! Mom on trying to understand why I don’t like AI
This shit The obvious outcome of forcing devs to not use their brain
- Comment on [politics] ya but, at least Juneteenth still lives! herp-a-derp! 5 weeks ago:
We have two summer holidays and one “based on race” because the one “based on race” recognizes the time Union soldiers arrived on the Texan shores and forcibly freed a group of people subjugated based on their race–it just didn’t happen to fall on July 4th.
The two holidays recognize two completely different things it doesn’t matter when in the damn year it occurred.
- Comment on U.S. Allies Are Wondering Whether Supporting the American War Machine Is Worth It 5 weeks ago:
Well, you could look at the collateral damage in the host countries of US bases near Iran. That should tell you all you need to know.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 5 weeks ago:
The company wants a way to rapidly reject applicants to slim the pool of viable candidates to a level manageable by humans.
If a software engineer job posting is made that requires java and got 10,000 applicants having a computer automatically reject any that don’t have “java” in the application reduces the human load.
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you are proposing or how it’s relevant to what I said.
