FaceDeer
@FaceDeer@fedia.io
Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 day ago:
I'd consider that a "lose" condition.
It's possible for everyone to lose a war.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 day ago:
Most Fediverse clients (probably including whichever app you're using) have a block feature, you can use that on me if you prefer not to see my comments.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 1 day ago:
I'm not "minimizing" nukes. I'm describing them as they are. I provided sources.
You may not be aware, but many people survived Hiroshima and the city is populated to this day.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 2 days ago:
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 2 days ago:
This is ridiculously binary thinking. I'm saying it's not as bad as the person I was responding to thinks it would be, and you're interpreting that as "it's fine, there's no downside"?
Being punched in the face is less bad than being shot. Would you interpret that as "it's fine to be punched in the face"?
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 2 days ago:
If they're well programmed there's no way to know at this point. AI is able to pass the Turing Test without even needing particularly hefty resources, I've been doing a bunch of fiddling with local LLMs and I could probably write something up that could do it. I don't personally see a point because I comment here for my own enjoyment rather than to push an agenda, but if I was trying to push an agenda it'd be reasonably straightforward to whip up a population of AI characters who agreed with it in various ways.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 2 days ago:
Wouldn't be the first time in history that a major power started a war and then promptly proceeded to decisively lose it.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 2 days ago:
Currently there are 12,331. These weapons are divided up among many nations, and only a fraction of them are actually "ready to launch" at any given time. If launched most of them will be targeted at military targets, which are often located in remote places - silos in the middle of nowhere, carrier groups out in the ocean, forward military bases or stockpiles, and so forth. They wouldn't be fired with intent to "wipe out" humanity. There would be entire continents that nobody bothers firing at - why waste precious nukes on countries that are uninvolved in the conflict?
Nuclear winter is no longer thought to be as bad as the most extreme predictions from back in the 1960s. And even with those extreme predictions it still wouldn't lead to human extinction. Humans are an incredibly robust species. We don't need infrastructure to survive in harsh conditions. Inuit survived in the arctic for thousands of years without anything fancy, and you're not going to see conditions that harsh everywhere on Earth regardless.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 2 days ago:
By some standards WWIII is already in progress. And no, America isn't winning. Its power and influence are contracting rapidly.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 2 days ago:
I assume you're worried about nuclear war? It'll be bad, but there simply aren't enough nukes in existence to pose a threat to humanity as a species.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 5 days ago:
Because America is a democracy and enough of the voters wanted this.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 1 week ago:
Carney didn't "clap for the attack on Venezuela." He called for international law to be followed, which should be an obvious rebuke to anyone who isn't at a Trump level of understanding of how diplomacy is done.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
And now I expect we'll see another League of Nations fiasco soon, Trump has already denied visas to world leaders that he doesn't like so that they theoretically can't come to the UN. The treaty the US signed regarding the UN means they don't need visas for that, but we all know how Trump loves to follow agreements.
Maybe the UN can survive in some form by relocating, IIRC they do have a secondary office in Geneva already.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
And unfortunately due to the prevalence of American media it "leaks" into other cultures as well. I'm Canadian and it's not uncommon to hear about people being arrested or whatever and claiming that their "first amendment" rights were being violated, or "taking the fifth" (ie, the fifth amendment's right to remain silent). We actually do have somewhat analogous laws for those things but of course they only know about the American ones and often get the details wrong as a result.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes. I was still awake after midnight on the 2nd when I saw the news, so it went down on that date in my mind.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, we see it, you can stop demonstrating the annoying behaviour now.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
They did the shooting in Venezuela that day.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
Alright, here's another one. Americans bragging about their democracy until all of a sudden it's more convenient to blame the politicians for bad behaviour rather than the electorate that put them in power.
Take some responsibility for your government, does it represent you or not?
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
Alright then, the fake friendliness that their employers require. Especially in customer service.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
We're not talking to you in this thread, we're talking about you. You don't need to jump in with "but that's not annoying!" After people answer the question OP posed, that's not useful.
This is ironically another annoying behaviour.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
The assumption that the American legal, political, and cultural context is the "default." They say "X is illegal" without specifying jurisdiction. They assume a "right wing" or "left wing" party must be like their Republicans or Democrats. And so forth.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
There are multiple mass shootings per day in the United States. This page keeps track as they come in.
- Comment on [Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art? 2 weeks ago:
"Is it art?" Is a question that's been asked over and over throughout history.
It changes from person to person and from time to time. Cubism, photography, found art, aleatoricism, algorithmic art, interpretive dance, it's all gone through "it's not art" at some point. A banana taped to a wall. An "invisible" sculpture. A tin of the artist's poop. Jackson Pollock's dribbles.
The answer doesn't really matter. It's right, it's wrong, who cares?
- Comment on Good point 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately not before he did the bear and the peacock.
Or rather before he named the bear and the peacock. Need to be careful with words when that guy's involved.
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 3 weeks ago:
Trump, personally?
He has never been loved. He desperately wants to be loved. But he has absolutely no idea what that means, and so nothing he does is working or can ever work. He thinks adulation from adoring fans is love. He thinks money is love. He thinks being powerful means people will love him, and that hurting other people makes him powerful. The "there are only winners and losers in life and to be a winner you need to make other people losers" thing he learned from his terrible father.
But since none of that is true he's got a gaping black hole inside him that never gets filled no matter how much he tries to cram these things into it.
If he were younger I'd have some vague slight hope that he might someday be able to recover from this. But it's far too late now, he's a broken husk of a human being that does nothing but hurt everyone around him. I hope he dies immediately, if not sooner.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Ethereum's got a market cap of $350 billion and it's where all the new development is going on, according to the Electric Capital Developer it has by far the most developers working on and with it. Approximately 65% of all new code written in the entire crypto industry is written for Ethereum or its Layer 2 scaling solutions (like Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base).
It's spelled "Dogecoin," by the way.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I said no major cryptocurrency. Monero's got a market cap of $8 billion, it's small fry.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
No major cryptocurrency has used GPUs for mining for many years. Bitcoin uses completely custom ASICs and Ethereum switched away from proof of work entirely.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 4 weeks ago:
It's important to say the "20" prefix so that viewers will know that we're set in "the future."
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 4 weeks ago:
I don't know how you're measuring efficiency, but a heat pump with greater than 100% efficiency lets you build a perpetual motion machine. That's not possible.