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- Comment on The design is very human 2 days ago:
What about the ‘Snoke’?
Just impale a steel rod laterally through the pelvis, like a foos ball player.
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 3 days ago:
To be able to quit a job if they wanted you to do something that would contribute to making someone else’s life worth is a place of privilege, most people are living paycheck to paycheck
But uh, that shouldn’t apply anywhere near as significantly to a software dev for YouTube, as compared to a person making shit tier wages at all call center or McDonalds or something.
The software dev is getting paid a whole lot more, has a whole lot more pre-existing wealth, has a resume that would enable pursuing other, similarly though perhaps slightly less lucrative jobs in the same line of work, that don’t feed the beast as malevolently.
The beast that disproportionately feeds upon the objectively less well off and more victimized lower wage workers.
I used to work for MSFT. Large Intl. Import Export Firm.
Then I realized I could not stomach the guilt.
Took a voluntary paycut and worked a similar job for a Non Profit helping the homeless.
(Software Engineer, DB Admin, Data Analyst, Root Cause Analyst, BI Reporter/Analyst, blah blah blah.)
I am not holding software devs with huge salaries to any higher moral standard than I hold myself to.
Of course many, many people are basically stuck in a position where they have no realistic alternatives.
I very well understand the economic and societal factors that play into why people stay at jobs they hate, why people will not typically voluntarily risk their job for a moral stance.
It would be very stupid and shortsighted to say that everyone working paycheck to paycheck ahould commit noble economic seppuku out of protest.
But this thread is about Software Devs for one of the largest and best paying Software companies in the world.
They could protest. They could quit. They could afford that.
MSFT just fired a bunch of people who didn’t want to work on projects or for a company which is directly aiding and abetting the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The truth is most of these well off software devs do not have the moral backbone to do anything other than develop a self loathing complex, if they even care about anyone other than themselves at all.
Most of the people that I knew, the corpos, they took their high incomes and immediately became AirBNB or traditional landlords or house flippers.
They only cared about their net worth, all while basically pantomiming, Patrick Bateman style, concern and sympathy for all those affected by the problems they know they are excacerbating.
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 3 days ago:
Yep, the classic dilemma of software devs with YouTube on their resume:
Keep working for YouTube, or never work at any other software company or any other kind of job and just starve to death.
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 3 days ago:
Yes sacrifice your livelihood so that someone else can implement the feature anyway.
Yes, that’s called having a backbone, aligning your actions with your own moral code.
This is the same logic as ‘well if I had quit my executioner job, someone else would have done it, therefore I am a morally blameless and non hypocritical executioner who is against the death penalty.’
Just use an ad blocker.
Obviously this is the easy solution for yourself personally. Costs you nothing, benefits yourself, allows the systemic bad practice to continue.
The actually accurate analogue would be to contribute toward actually creating or maintaining a free and widely usable adblocker, an alternate platform, to do something that helps other people overcome the problem.
- Comment on True horsepower 3 days ago:
Failed joke attempt.
I am stealing this image though, its great =P
- Comment on True horsepower 3 days ago:
I was attempting to riff on the above joke by making another joke based on an equally absurd linguistic misunderstanding which would also lead toward the same punchline of car-involved sex acts.
Guess my delivery wasn’t so great.
- Comment on True horsepower 4 days ago:
Are you looking for the autoerotic asphyxiation community?
You know, the one where people pipe their car exhaust into their car and jerk off inside said car?
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 4 days ago:
If your bad UI makes money by profiting off of the mass distribution of advertisement for political propoganda and politicians and social movements that want to create a totalitarian fascist society…
It’s just genocide with extra steps.
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 4 days ago:
I’ve worked a number of tech jobs and quit all of the ones that involved me directly contributing to or outright directly performing an immoral act.
I have no respect… pity, sure, but no respect for anyone that knowingly contributes to making the world worse for other people.
You are trying to form a union, that is commendable, an actual step toward positive change.
Most people?
They knowingly contribute to systems that make the vast majority of people worse off, and then bitch about other people doing the same thing in another field.
Or they don’t know or care about any harm their work causes, but still bitch about everyone else doing the same thing.
First, do no harm is apparently too difficult to apply to one’s own life.
If we all keep acting as cogs in the machine that makes everything worse… everything will obviously get worse.
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 4 days ago:
In the long run, its not that different.
We’ve already seen how the mass proliferation of targeted advertisements on corporate social media platforms promulgates mis/disinformation, radicalizes and stupifies and enrages society … to the point that all they understand is pathos, and then they vote for a fascist.
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 4 days ago:
I was just following orders, I can’t be held responsible!
- Comment on Anon misses a hint 4 days ago:
If you cut off the last two or three lines, you can see this as a screenplay for an extremely gruff, overworked guy who is intentionally dismissive.
If you cast the guy as more attractive than the girl, then the rest of the scene plays out with anon as a chad who just does not care.
If he maybe cares, he can further ‘chad’ by looking at his watch, saying “Well, if you need help looking for em, I’ll be here tomorrow” and then him leaving.
- Comment on Marine Scientists 5 days ago:
This will sound like a joke, or out of the Red Alert series, but the US does literally train dolphins and other sea mammals to patrol Naval bases, search for naval mines, attach torpedo homing beacons to enemy ships, aid in search/rescue and equipment recovery…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_marine_mammal
I do not know of a recorded instance of an actual man on man underwater fight… it would likely be absurdly classified by at least one, if not both sides.
Frogmen usually do things like sabotage of underwater assets like infrastructure (internet trunk lines, oil and gas pipelines) or plant or remove sonar beacons… or infiltrate into enemy territory to then later sabotage something just under the water line, or a bit inland.
The aggressor would not want to admit they wee there, and the defender would almost certainly not want to admit their security perimeter had been breached.
Most aquatic guard units would be attacking an underwater commando from the surface, using some kind of non human detection method to search for and locate underwater aggressors.
AFAIK nobody really maintains like a 24/7 underwater patrol of human divers to patrol sensitive areas. But I could be wrong.
I guess uh, email Jesse Ventura rofl, maybe he knows more?
- Comment on Marine Scientists 5 days ago:
I know the joke is that guns are pointless in the hadal zone because cthulu lives there, but…
A gun being wet or immersed in water rarely makes it torally incapable of firing at least once.
Many modern firearms will fire a projectile at lethal (to a human) velocities while underwater, though range and accuracy will be greatly reduced.
Getting a gun wet does not make it ineoperable.
The primer and gunpowder combust and deflagrate without the need for external atmospheric oxygen, they contain their own oxidizers.
The main problem is that if the gun’s barrel is full of water, this provides significantly more resistance than a barrel full of only air.
The cartridge will fire, but the bullet’s velocity through water will be much lower, the weapon might not cycle its action properly (meaning you may have to manually do so)…
… and the overpressure will cause significant damage to the weapon, possibly leading to it explosively dissambling itself after sustained overpressure usage.
Which is actually comparable to running a bunch of overpressure, magnum + rounds through a firearm above water.
There exist firearms and specialized cartidges (flechettes or otherwise) that are designed differently to operate consistently while underwater, as well as ‘amphibious’ firearms that work decently well submerged and not submerged.
- Comment on Concord is going offline beginning September 6th 1 week ago:
Well there you go haha.
I got that part wrong.
Thanks for the update =)
- Comment on May he? 1 week ago:
Wow, only semi intelligble word after line 2 is ‘migraine’ misspelled.
This might be an actual anuerysm in progress.
- Comment on Was the first too coincidentally 1 week ago:
Unless I am missing something, I don’t think thats a charger.
For every reference pic of every model year in the last 20 years… the grill and the headlights do not connect, as they do with this image.
There’s always some kind of gap seperating the headlight and grill, it becomes more pronounced over time.
uh also more fun random trivia:
roadandtrack.com/…/dodge-charger-and-challenger-p…
There will be no more chargers.
The next ones will be EVs, I am sure very much enrgaging a whole lot of people.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
I mean we literally saw the same kind of thing play out with Ukraine.
The West spent a long time giving them weaponry that could either only or mainly be used defensively, and then slowly over time gave them more and more potent weapons.
Its not like this is some revolutionary new idea.
The US could have started doing this after like month two or three of Israel carpet bombing Gaza, shooting up UN food/aid convoys…
But nope.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 2 weeks ago:
Ahhaha, good joke.
No the future is everything is more expensive and worse quality.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 2 weeks ago:
Its a pretty strategically and economically impactful piece of legislation pushed by, and then signed into law, by Biden, in 2022.
It basically sets up a bunch of tax incentives and funds to go toward building out domestic computer hardware research and manufacturing.
Its the kind of thing that would lay the foundation for the US building a lot more of its own computer hardware, instead of importing it.
So when the Trump tariff apocalypse hits… assuming the CHIPS Act does not get repealed, it will be the only saving grace in terms of possibly lowering computer hardware costs.
Trump and Republicans are likely to try and take credit for this, if domestic chip fabs start coming online before 2028, pretending it is something they came up with.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 2 weeks ago:
CHIPS Act? Never heard of it.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 2 weeks ago:
I just said they would freak out.
Who they end up blaming is between them and their god emperor, I guess.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 2 weeks ago:
It will at least be extremely funny to watch all the gamer bro chuds freak the fuck out when an immediate consequence of their actions will be that gaming pc components instantly inflate 50% in price.
Glad I already got my Steam Deck, fuck.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 2 weeks ago:
So how could she have broken with Biden as the current VP?
If elected, I vow to cease all offensive arms and munitions shipments and funding for such to the State of Israel on day one.
What Hamas did on Oct 7th was an outrageous act of terrorism committed against a civilian population, but the response from the Netanyahu administration has caused orders of magnitude more death and destruction against innocent residents of Gaza, and this over zealous military response has enflamed tensions in the region and risks escalation into a much broader conflict.
I will still supply the Israelis with defensive funds for their Iron Dome, we will send them Patriot missile intercept systems, but we will no longer send artillery shells, bombs, ammunition, anything that can be used to further their wildly mismanaged offensive operations.
Further, I will actually commit to setting up and operating a temporary harbor for food and medical supplies to enter Gaza.
… Something like that, blah blah blah, make it clear that all sides in this have some level of culpability for wrong actions and that she will do what she can to minimize the harm the US is culpable for.
Let’s say she does that. Do you think with the numbers that DJT turned out that she’d have gained so much more than she would have lost that it would have made a difference?
IMEU polls in July and August showed roughly that 30% to 40% of likely Dem and Indp voters in multiple swing states would be more likely to vote for a Dem candidate if they did what they could to halt the Gaza genocide.
Would this turn off likely Republicans voters from her? Basically no more than they already were turned off from her. But she would have gained a whole bunch of Dem voters who specifically could being themselves to vote for a candidate complicit with genocide.
Let’s further say that she did, and it was, and she won the election. She’s now thrown a long-term, strategic ally under the bus on the world stage. Not only that, she’ll have to forcibly disarm them, potentially feeding them to the wolves in the Middle East.
Nope. You can stop enabling offensive action by ceasing to supply offensive systems and munitions, and still maintain your commitment to Israel’s defense by giving them defensive supplies.
You don’t need to totally disarm the IDF. That would involve going into a ground invasion war against our ally which is obviously insane.
This would not be throwing an ally under the bus. It would be stomping your foot down and reigning in an ally that’s gone on a mad rampage with bombs you have given them.
- Comment on Why Amazon's latest AI is named after a dog 2 weeks ago:
Ding ding ding!
Winner winner, idiot dog barfing up your chicken dinner.
- Comment on Is it okay to continue to work for a (non-defense) federal government agency under an administration hostile to my own moral and ethical beliefs? 2 weeks ago:
Unless they just rewrite those rules/regulations to avoid that.
Which is their whole plan.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 2 weeks ago:
If you are talking about deontology and utilitarianism from two to three hundred years ago…
Maybe your characterizations are accurate.
But uh, in more modern ethical theory…
Both camps have realized that pure adherence to the older forms of these ideas leads to absurdities and moral prescriptions which do not broadly match actual empirical responses to hypothetical scenarios.
As a result, most modern ethical theories are some kind of a hybrid of deontologic and utilitarian principles.
Anyway, let me try to illustrate this with a 'hypothetical' ethical question:
You have 300 dollars. This is your food budget for for 30 days. Say you only eat one meal a day, and if you do not eat at least one meal every 3 days, you will starve to death. An ethical meal, produced by well compensated and treated laborers, costs $40 dollars. A non ethical meal, produced by unpaid slave laborers in a far away land, who often die of exhaustion and exposure, costs $10 dollars. Both meals have equal nutritional value and tastiness. Does the deontologist decide that any level of harm to people they don’t know is permissible and eat 30 $10 dollar meals? Or do they decide no level of harm is permissible to others and buy only 7 $40 dollar meals and then starve? Or do they purchase some combination of $10 and $40 dollar meals so as to minimize permissible harm to themselves and others according to some kind of calculation? Is the deontologist in this third scenario not employing some kind of utilitarian calculation?
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 2 weeks ago:
Doctor!
This new study show that there is a 30% chance the patient will die if you ignore this allergic reaction they may have if you keep pursuing your current treatment plan!
Doctor scoffs
It can’t be that big a deal, if this was serious, the patient’s family would have let me know by mailing me that study with appended handwritten notes from my favorite peer reviewers from JAMA, and a gold star sticker!
But Doctor! It’s not the job of the family to know how to practice medicine, that’s your job! And anyway, I have a copy of the study right here!
Pff, no appended notes, no gold star, ignored.
Patient dies.
Huh, damn, things might have been different if the family had told me how to do my job in the exact, precise manner in which I accept advice. Oh well! Maybe the next patient’s family will figure out the correct way to tell me how to do my job next time.
- Comment on Why Amazon's latest AI is named after a dog 2 weeks ago:
So uh, skipping a bunch of meaningless lore:
“Dogs are one of the most beloved pets in the world. They are loyal, friendly and make great companions. Despite their differences, all dogs share a few key traits – they are affectionate, protective of their owners, and eager to please. Dogs require proper care, including regular exercise, grooming, and veterinary checkups. In return, they provide unconditional love and can even improve their owner’s physical and mental health. Whether as a family pet or a working animal, dogs have been an integral part of human society for thousands of years.”
The chat bot is named after a dog because a dog-named chatbot is more likely to make users treat it with patience, kindness, and understand that it does silly things sometimes, but it means well.
Its marketing. PR.
- Comment on Is it okay to continue to work for a (non-defense) federal government agency under an administration hostile to my own moral and ethical beliefs? 2 weeks ago:
Hopefully they are financially stable and have good enough job prospects to just be able to find a new job of equal pay in their area fairly quickly on a timetable of ‘i have no idea when i am going to be blacklisted’.