SapphironZA

@SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a pebble

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree, he is not taking a principled stance. He is playing the “I am being oppressed because of my race” card, despite his extensive privilege.

  One correction, it’s not the state that officially takes ownership, it’s politically connected private individuals who get the ownership. The public gets zero benefit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you that he is being a racist asshole about it. He is emphasizing the race part of the legislation over the bribe part of it, because that is more politically useful to him.

  It does not make the legislation less problematic. The ANC is begging the world to invest in the country, but not because that is what the country needs, but because it feeds the state mandated corruption.

  Both parties are in the wrong here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You never learned about the robber Barons of the 1880’s in school did you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only net neutrality and a ban on exclusivity agreements are required. Otherwise you get the US internet hellscape of local monopolies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a bit of South African context. In South Africa, in order to get a telcoms licence, you have to comply with BBBEE (Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment requirements. Basically, you have to sell 30% (soon to be 51%) of your company to a local black owner. This is in addition to DEI requirements.

  For most businesses, these requirements are not mandatory to exist and operator, but gives you a bidding advantage for government contracts. For example, Microsoft, amazon and Temu can operate here, because they dont need any special licences.

  It can be argued that such legislation was necessary to incentivise business to diversify their employment and ownership to those previously excluded.

  BUT, the way it is implemented, there is a huge emphasis on black ownership for various sectors. What will basically happen is a business needs to acquire a license from a government department. These licenses would only be granted if you give ownership of your company to the “appropriate” investor. Invariably someone connected to the government. They determine the price and basically get gifted portions of companies.

  So what has basically happened is that this legislation only effective portion these days, is to enrich the politically connected.

  So basically Elon is not wanting to pay the bribes necessary to get the required license to operate.

  I Hate the buffoon, but on this he is correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have an Island for people like him. It’s small, windswept, covered in bird and penguin poop. Civilization and freedom is close enough to see and swim for, but it is surrounded by great white sharks.

  But we stopped sending people to Robben Island, instead of sending the right types of people there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨duality of human⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  1 hrs and 0.1hrs played.

  Best to ignore both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House Faith Office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would think that farmers were experienced and smart enough to know which crops would hybridize and which don’t. They would not need the clergy to tell them that.

  We don’t see farmers today getting farming advice from the church. They get it from other farmers. I don’t see any reason for it to be different back then.

  I do see however that the church wanted to sound important and wise. So they wrote things down, but without having a full understanding, so a lot of the advice they wrote down is too simplistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House Faith Office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or some priest or political leader took revenge against a pig farmer who slept with his daughter.

  And the mixed crops this was more likely to make sure farmers are not self sufficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House Faith Office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree 100%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House Faith Office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Money has been the point of religion for a very long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any game recommendations for the Steam RTS Fest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look into the FAF community for supreme commander. Dramatically improves the game with an active multiplayer community

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold, the peak of Twitter (formerly renamed to X)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first one is a blue checkmark. They get a free n word and unlimited personal attacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Negotiations over AI are still holding up video game development - Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale explains why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea is not to have a subscription for having the content. As you say, it’s just files.

  The licence, should be for the ability to create new files based on the actors voice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Negotiations over AI are still holding up video game development - Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale explains why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the idea, but the voice should be licenced like a patent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Negotiations over AI are still holding up video game development - Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale explains why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Game developers should have to purchase a subscription licence in order to use a voice actors voice in AI generated content.

  If they don’t renew it, they cannot use it for any new content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hurry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You need to accept yourself⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just meme-ing by quoting space king that the picture is from. The character with the blue head is a worshiper of hate.

  Space king 1 and 2 on YouTube, look it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You need to accept yourself⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But what of hate?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET REKT⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Supportive Emu noises

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And black gloves of course⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on if you plan to encounter any CEOs when you go for a walk outside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stat of the day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So far…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uno what really happened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Life denied due to preexisting case of terminal Affuenza

  • stolen from another lemmy
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For some people, this is a problem. For others, this is a solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poo science⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s in your brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FAQ: Yes We Suppirt Kinect⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why you should always give your developer “free dev time” where they work on what they feel like, or what they think is important outside of the approved scope.

  They have fun and will likely fix something your players will be asking for.

  Someone is going to stream that 0.1% run on twitch and market the hell out of your game. Just look at Luality that completed dark souls with a DDR dancepad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨risky abbreviations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Correction, he should absolutely call it that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gender⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  404, sense of humor not found?