Chozo
@Chozo@fedia.io
Hail Satan.
Using Mbin as a backup to my main Kbin account due to tech issues on Kbin.social. May either switch to this one permanently or abandon it, depending on how Kbin's development goes. All my active fedi accounts are linked.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 week ago:
It's easy to look back at history and say "what a bunch of idiots", but it's important to remember that there was once a time when having plastic bags all around your home wasn't such a ubiquitous thing like it is today. The things that seem obvious to us now were still new and untested at one time. The rise in plastic film suffocation started around the rise of dry-cleaning; until that point, there wasn't much disposable plastic film in people's lives, at all. Society had no prior experience to learn from, in this sense.
What we're seeing here isn't too dissimilar in this regard. Up until fairly recently, the concept of a globally-connected, unmoderated network that was accessible by children and predators alike just didn't exist. That network existing in literally everybody's pockets 24 hours a day is an even newer idea. And it's not even just one network, it's in almost every facet of kids' lives these days.
We can all sit around and say "wow what a bunch of bad parents for allowing this to happen", but many of those parents didn't grow up in a world where this was a reality. While many of them grew up in a time where online predators existed, they didn't grow up in a time when those predators could interact with children directly at any time and any location. They grew up in a time when you had a PC in your room, which you didn't take with you, and that your parents could physically access; kids these days take their phone everywhere at all times, parental controls today are more useless than when we were kids, and it's trivially easy for kids to hide their online presence from their parents now. Today's parents, by and large, just simply do not have the experience needed to address this on a large scale.
The morbid reality is that the only reason it seems obvious not to let children play with plastic bags is because nearly every single plastic bag you've ever seen in your entire life says "this bag is not a toy". You grew up in a world where that problem had already been solved, and at the cost of dozens of dead children.
This is not yet a solved problem. - Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 week ago:
I mean, child mortality from plastic bag suffocation dropped after they started printing those warnings so I'm not sure why that'd be something to fear.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for telling me what I believe in spite of me laying it out in plain English for you. I was confused for a minute there.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 2 weeks ago:
I'm also largely against opt-out in other uses, too. The fact that this is AI only makes it that much worse.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 2 weeks ago:
... and it was turned on by default and had misleading language as to what the button actually does, yes.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I hope Elon has to spend a few billion to rebrand xAI now.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 2 weeks ago:
If it's not an opt-IN feature, then it's malicious, anti-consumer design. Full stop.
The lengths people will go to defend Mozilla are astounding. If Chrome did this, you'd be throwing a fit.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 2 weeks ago:
The fact that they announced that instead of an "AI ON switch" tells you where Mozilla's interests lie these days.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 2 weeks ago:
What exactly is this disabling? Firefox's built-in AI tools? Or is it disabling AI tools on websites you visit? Because "blocking" seems like a very misleading term to be using if it's an internal presence being turned off. We typically only "block" things we know to be harmful to our experience.
This is honestly some selfawarewolves shit at this point, Mozilla.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Drinks at Nazi bar, is surprised by Nazi patrons.
Stop fucking using Twitter to announce anything. "We go where the people are" is no longer an acceptable excuse for your business keeping any presence on Twitter.
- Comment on Finally 4 weeks ago:
Don't give me hope.
- Comment on He's right, you know 4 weeks ago:
But what can you do at zombocom?
- Comment on I remember 5 weeks ago:
Mushroom MUSHROOM
- Comment on Is the Ocarina of Time remake going to have Master Quest? 5 weeks ago:
Knowing Nintendo, it'll be a $50 DLC a year from now.
- Comment on Anvil falling from sky 5 weeks ago:
Nanomachines?!
- Comment on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games 1 month ago:
Pretty sure GOG has similar terms, too. The difference is that they're effectively unenforceable with the lack of DRM. But the "you're only buying a licence to use the software" verbiage is pretty universal, and old at this point. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've got NES games somewhere with nearly identical phrasing in their manuals.
- Comment on Here comes some more holes in the drywall 1 month ago:
The AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport) is the name of the giant walker-type vehicles in Star Wars, shown in @MrNobody's picture. OP's picture says "yelled at at work", which made our smooth brains go "heehee str war"
- Comment on Here comes some more holes in the drywall 1 month ago:
Oh good, I'm not the only one this brain-rotted to make the same connection.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 2 months ago:
Brother, your every comment in this thread has been a deflection, you haven't provided a straight answer to anything. Nearly every response from you has been "but what about...", shut the hell up lmao
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
What a wildly suspicious response to being asked for an update on somebody's wellbeing. I think that just about confirms that Bitch McConnell is dead, and likely has been for quite some time.
- Comment on Battle.net's discord permissions 2 months ago:
Doesn't rich presence already cover most of that without needing to handover this amount of perms to a third-party?
- Comment on [drugs] what does LSD feel like? 2 months ago:
Yup! I have aphantasia (inability to mentally visualize things), so I had hoped that LSD would give me some really fun, trippy visuals that I was otherwise unable to come up with in my own head. Unfortunately, I didn't get that, BUT instead what I experienced was seeing the colors of everything around me start to breathe. I don't know how else to describe it than that; the objects themselves weren't breathing, but the colors the objects were made of, were. It was like the colors would glow vibrantly and hold that glow for a moment, and then "exhale" with the colors fading out and around until the object was a dull, muted color. Then it would slowly brighten back up until it glowed again. Everything I looked at had its own unique rate of "breathing", nothing was in sync.
Nobody else in my group had anything like that. They all talked about seeing geometric patterns, shape-shifting, heightened empathy, etc. My experience was way more mild compared to everybody else.
Also, while I didn't have an intense visual experience, I did have a hard time focusing my eyes on anything, and everything was very blurry for a few hours. That made me feel very nauseous, so also be prepared for the possibility of throwing up, OP.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 2 months ago:
Why don't you go ask 'em and find out? Instead of just using black people as an argumentative scapegoat, that is.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 2 months ago:
Grieving one's death, and acknowledging that they have a horrible disease that will almost certainly lead them to a slow and painful death at their advanced age, are not the same thing.
The thing about cancer, is that it doesn't care if you're a good guy or a bad guy. Cancer is random. Cancer is nature's Thanos-snap. One's actions leading up to a diagnosis are largely irrelevant.
Cancer isn't a punishment. Though the people in this thread who seem to think it is, or perhaps want it to be, are failing a basic empathy test as spectacularly as Trump just did.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 2 months ago:
"both sides"
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 2 months ago:
Life must be simple without nuance.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 2 months ago:
Basic respect for the life of your fellow human is intrinsic. Nobody should have to earn the right to live, jackass.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 2 months ago:
Yeah and the other guy rapes children. What's the point of comparison in this scenario?
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 2 months ago:
I can't wait until the pedophile nazi king dies.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 2 months ago:
Yeah, I'm not so sure that ignorance is the best option when dealing with fascists.