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- Comment on Oil 3 months ago:
no you see we need to export liquid natural gas (which is worse than burning coal when accounting for methane leakage) and build new infrastructure to to so all while putting 100% tariffs on cheap EVs.
No wonder Canada’s environmental rating is among the worst in the world
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 3 months ago:
It’s funny that “candidates have to support genocide or they can’t win” is motivating you to punch left instead of rioting in the streets against AIPAC
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 3 months ago:
A 160hz refresh rate gives the software a 6ms render budget, do things actually even run at that rate?
- Comment on Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2 3 months ago:
so we’re just going to skip past all of those examples got it
- Comment on Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2 3 months ago:
What’s your criteria for sport? what’s Golf? Darts? Bowling? Curling? Archery?
Is it that you have to break a sweat? I guess talking to girls makes you an athlete then?
- Comment on Steam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trending 4 months ago:
I dunno man you’re like the people that insert politics into every thread, and I say that as one of them.
Sometimes we can talk about a Russian person doing something nice or we can talk about a cat in Istanbul without bringing up genocide.
- Comment on Steam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trending 4 months ago:
You should evaluate why you came to a barely populated thread, and made up a complete straw man to get upset over.
You’re manufacturing outrage for yourself. That’s not healthy.
- Comment on Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons 5 months ago:
limited by being an interactive medium where the average narrative length is dozens of hours.
We need the unlimited story telling freedom enabled by passively watching disjoint chunks of ad-riddled content
- Comment on Why does lemmy.ml use the "ML" country code for Mali? 5 months ago:
Around the first French Revolution there were only a few forms of democracy and all of them (including the French Revolution) reverted to monarchy.
Online edgelords at the time might have thought monarchy is the only system that can work and democracy only works in theory
- Comment on Anon freezes time 5 months ago:
True when will rapists get to come out of the closet. What an insulting comparison.
- Comment on Anon freezes time 5 months ago:
Oh no I upset the fragile boy
- Comment on Anon freezes time 5 months ago:
You’re once again relying on the fact that someone won’t find out in order for you to feel that you’ve gotten away with it. That’s not a moral act, that’s an immoral act that has gone by unnoticed.
Maybe you’re not hurt by me jerking it to you but you’d be hurt by another violation of your identity like me impersonating you to call your mother names and hurt her feelings. Those are both violations of you, and they’re ways of using you as a means to a selfish end.
Philosophical moral frameworks which people tend to follow include the idea that human beings shouldn’t be used as a means to an end.
We can tweak your example to one where the simulation is of someone that doesn’t exist and there’d be even less to call into question, but maybe at that point you feel you wouldn’t get the same thrill… That thrill is a sign that you’re being immoral.
You’re probably young and will hopefully continue to develop mentally and emotionally and will learn empathy, but your views here are problematic.
- Comment on Anon freezes time 5 months ago:
I don’t think any individual is implicitly moral with regards to everything. I’m not suggesting everyone has the same hidden desires but I believe everyone has some instinctive behaviors and thoughts that they need to challenge rationally in some way or another. Philosophical frameworks for morality wouldn’t exist or be debated if it was unusual to need a rational framework for moral behavior.
Unless somehow every harm someone inflicted on another somehow affected themselves in the same way there’ll always be a selfish instinct that has to be overcome. If it was easy it wouldn’t be something to admire and respect as part of one’s character.
- Comment on Anon freezes time 5 months ago:
That’s a very honest and self reflective stance that I think a lot of people would agree with. I don’t think it’s a moral failing, much of morality is putting aside your basic instinct and desire in favor of your rational mind realizing what’s best for you and society at large.
People have empathy to varying degrees and it’s something that needs training just like any other skill. Acknowledging where you have gaps and working rationally around those gaps is how you become a moral person. I don’t think you were necessarily being hard on yourself but others feeling the same way might be so I figured I’d share this perspective.
- Comment on Anon freezes time 5 months ago:
that’s another interesting but debatable position. AI generated deepfakes of teens fall into that category.
- Comment on Anon freezes time 5 months ago:
Yes this is fantasy but what you’re effectively stating here is that if you don’t get caught it’s not wrong. The same argument would justify groping a deep sleeper, do you think that’s not wrong?
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
It’s because Democrats are not “we.” Both parties serve corporate interests.
- Comment on Jon Stewart's Debate Analysis: Trump's Blatant Lies and Biden's Senior Moments | The Daily Show 5 months ago:
Your example works but it’s more like because capitalism concentrates wealth and power and little guys have no chance
- Comment on $843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players 5 months ago:
yes you’re right this is a lawsuit about too much profit and it will directly set a precedent where companies aren’t allowed to have too much profit.
Pretty smart, as a leftist maybe I’ll sue every corporation for being privately owned, this is a whole new avenue for systemic change. You opened my eyes
- Comment on $843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players 6 months ago:
Your point is valid but this kind of lawsuit isn’t really the way to go about the change you’re describing
- Comment on Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit 6 months ago:
This makes no sense. What could possibly be in the office that’s needed AND can’t be purchased in the Philippines? Is your friend working for a government agency building military or spy equipment which can’t be shipped overseas?
- Comment on Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit 6 months ago:
I totally get it and my solution is very similar, see to me going to the office feels like a lot of work but I want to keep my job obviously and so obviously what I intend to do is set fire to the office building so none of us can go back to the office even if we wanted to.
- Comment on VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now 6 months ago:
Think of “it” like a pronoun akin to “he” and “her” and so “its” is like “his” and “hers”
It’s confusing because to say “Rebecca’s” you would use an apostrophe, but you don’t do that for pronouns. “It’s” exists only as a contraction of “it is.”
- Comment on Shrimps 6 months ago:
Boomer humour aside how someone can be an adult and not be tired of this kind of joke just from a repetition POV is beyond me.
- Comment on Anon shares their highschool mascot 7 months ago:
I feel like if an LLM spat this out every time the word “Turk” is mentioned they’d do a few more iterations before launch but in any comment thread on Reddit or Lemmy we get this wonderful reverse Turing test
- Comment on Andor: The Complete First Season (Steelbook) (4K UHD Review) 7 months ago:
My memory is a bit hazy and I don’t know how to use spoiler tags but in vague terms I think one of the characters in the main ensemble (the author) is inspired by Trotsky, and one of the factions in the story represents anarchist leftists in their conflict with the main protagonist faction
- Comment on Andor: The Complete First Season (Steelbook) (4K UHD Review) 7 months ago:
Probably the best modern Star Wars content for someone who isn’t a big fan. Also appreciable as a leftist, with some characters alluding to leftist historical figures.
- Comment on Bethesda Quietly Removes Denuvo DRM from Ghostwire: Tokyo 8 months ago:
Yeah like when we say RoboCop we think of the 2014 movie because it made a lot more at box office, and nobody thinks of the iconic and hugely influential original movie unless you say RoboCop (1987)
- Comment on Lemmy.world be like 9 months ago:
Anarcho-capitalist on the left side