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- Comment on Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company 1 week ago:
Agreed. Want to add that (in my opinion, at least) Lucas’s Episodes I, II & III didn’t do the series any favors either. :-(
- Comment on My mom's doctor be like 1 week ago:
AI has failed so many times it has joined the junkpile of online personalities that are so bad we can no longer tell the difference between their actual errors and those created as sarcasm.
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- Comment on Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs? 3 weeks ago:
Love this feature. Wish they did this on more cars. Hot, sunny days that heat tue cabin are perfect for driving the solar-powered fan that helps cool the cabin.
- Comment on The dream of a quiet life 3 weeks ago:
I suspect it has something to do with all the neck biting.
- Comment on Private Equity Firm Bought My Employer 4 weeks ago:
Private equity = Fisher Company = Fish
The company is going to be gutted and filleted.
- Comment on viruses 4 weeks ago:
That’s how I interpreted @moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ’s “extraalive” phrasing. If you want to know exactly what they meant, I recommend asking them.
- Comment on viruses 4 weeks ago:
Some have features of both plants and animals, so they’re kinda hard to fit into rigid categories.
- Comment on Big Tech Is Faking AI 1 month ago:
Lest anyone think this is a new scam:
- Comment on Innovation 1 month ago:
The movie industry version of Return To Office.
In order to continue using Netflix, you have to watch 3 movies a week in the theater.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
I’m going to take a somewhat different tack to describing this.
There are many ways to motivate large groups of people. You’ve likely seen this a lot and not really noticed or paid attention to it. Some examples are tribalism (“Hey! They’re not one of us!”), nationalism (“Those dirty foreign people!”), religion (“Do what I say and go to heaven!”), money (“Do this and I’ll give you something valuable”), etc.
One of the best motivators is fear. (“Do this or I/they will do something you really don’t like”).
Political groups need something to motivate large groups of people. When done well, they appeal to the better sides of humanity. When done by the lazy, the dumb and the craven, they go with the simple one: fear.
That’s what Conservatism has been hammering for a while now. They don’t really have a way to appeal to people’s better sides, primarily because their platform isn’t to make humanity better off. They platform is to make a few people better off to the detriment of everyone else. So they try tribalism (“Those brown people are trying to take your money!”), nationalism (“Those foreigners are taking your jobs!”), religion (“Those non-Christians are trying to install sharia law!”), etc. The most effective one is still fear. So getting their followers scared and angry is the best way to motivate them, get them to stop thinking rationally and build moats that will isolate them from people that might talk them down.
This is used to motivate people to vote in certain ways, as well as motivate them to watch advertisements. In other words: money and power.
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 month ago:
Heh. Years ago during an interview I was explaining how important it is to verify a system before putting it into orbit. If one found problems in orbit, you usually can’t fix it. My interviewer said, “Why not just send up the space shuttle to fix it?”
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 month ago:
all of these new platforms are proprietary, walled off, and in some cases don’t make controlling the data easy if you’re not hosting it
You’ve just discovered their business case. Almost all new business es these days specialize in insinuating themselves into an existing process in order to co-opt it and charge rents.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 1 month ago:
He’s right guys. Get off your *sses and pitch a tent in the grassy area of your local university. Show Sony you’re not going to put up with this!
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- Comment on Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All! 2 months ago:
Am I summarizing you correctly by saying societal asymmetry is a social problem, not a technical one?
- Comment on Americans’ New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat. 2 months ago:
Just a matter of time before they start to heavily limit our ability to cancel.