brucethemoose
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- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 days ago:
I had to look it up. The full context is:
So the new communications strategy for Democrats, now that their polling advantage is collapsing in every single state… collapsing in Ohio. It’s collapsing even in Arizona. It is now a race where Blake Masters is in striking distance. Kari Lake is doing very, very well. The new communications strategy is not to do what Bill Clinton used to do, where he would say, “I feel your pain.” Instead, it is to say, “You’re actually not in pain.” So let’s just, little, very short clip. Bill Clinton in the 1990s. It was all about empathy and sympathy. I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage. But, it is very effective when it comes to politics. Sympathy, I prefer more than empathy. That’s a separate topic for a different time.
Later on Twitter:
The same people who lecture you about ‘empathy’ have none for the soldiers discharged for the jab, the children mutilated by Big Medicine, or the lives devastated by fentanyl pouring over the border. Spare me your fake outrage, your fake science, and your fake moral superiority.
www.snopes.com/…/charlie-kirk-empathy-quote/
It’s not as bad as the out-of-context quote, but it’s still pretty bad.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 4 days ago:
And any divergence from that is “ruining games” or “being woke” to the point that we don’t even GET those games outside of the rare case of a game nobody cared about becoming popular
I would argue the origin is sales. E.G. the publisher wants the sex appeal to sell, so that’s what they put in the game. Early ‘bro’ devs may be a part of this, but the directive from up top is the crux of it.
And that got so normalized, it became what gamers expect. And now they whine like toddlers when anyone tries to change it, but that just happens to be an existing problem conservative movements jumped on after the fact.
TL;DR the root cause is billionares.
Like aways.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 5 days ago:
What’s interesting is they file this in the US.
Is there a reason they don’t file patents in Japan instead?
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 5 days ago:
Original source:
gamesfray.com/last-week-nintendo-and-the-pokemon-…
I hate to be nitpicky, but try to link the original, and post where you found it (GameRant) in the description instead.
- Comment on Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference 5 days ago:
Jamba (hybrid transformers/space state) is a killer model folks are sleeping on. It’s actually coherent at long context, fast, has good world knowledge, even/grounded, and is good at RAG Its like a straight up better Cohere model IMO, and a no brainer to try for many long context calls.
TBH I didn’t try Falcon H1 much when it seemed to break at long context for me. I think most folks (at least publicly) are sleeping on hybrid SSMs because support in llama.cpp is not great. For instance, context caching does not work.
…Not sure about many others, toy models aside. There really aren’t too many to try.
- Comment on Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference 6 days ago:
Doubling down on flash attention (my interpretation of this) is quite risky, as there are more efficient attention mechanisms seeping into bigger and bigger models.
Deepseek’s MLA is a start. Jamba is already doing hybrid GQA/Mamba attention, and a Qwen3 update is rumored to be using something exotic as well.
In English, this seems like they’re selling the idea of the software architecture not changing much, when that doesn’t seem to be the case.
- Comment on Mercedes and BMW, eternal rivals on a race once again - this time to the bottom. 6 days ago:
I see it! It’s low volume it seems, but still cool.
I wish Ford could get back in, if it weren’t for the tariffs and all. I know they made some noise about and Escort tribute, but they mind as well go full crazy and make a high volume RS200-looking EV:
Stubby, no space wasted over the front axel, but they could make it a proper hatchback without the engine bay. It’s perfect!
- Comment on Mercedes and BMW, eternal rivals on a race once again - this time to the bottom. 1 week ago:
Renault 4 and 5
Those look good!
It’d be awesome if they make a Renault 5 rally-inspired version, with a little more suspension travel.
Peugot should be next with the 205:
- Comment on Mercedes and BMW, eternal rivals on a race once again - this time to the bottom. 1 week ago:
That makes sense, but is weird to me, as their smallest sedan was really good. And cheap, compared to BMW and Mercedes! The others were too.
It feels like a reputation/trendiness problem. And that doesn’t exactly bode well for the outrageously expensive car market.
- Comment on Mercedes and BMW, eternal rivals on a race once again - this time to the bottom. 1 week ago:
They can massage them to fit modern aerodynamic and pedestrian safety standards, though.
- Comment on Mercedes and BMW, eternal rivals on a race once again - this time to the bottom. 1 week ago:
That’s literally Jaguar’s business approach now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzGlTULmheI
I’m not sure other’s are necessarily doing that on purpose yet, but you are not a conspiracist here, lool.
- Comment on Mercedes and BMW, eternal rivals on a race once again - this time to the bottom. 1 week ago:
I’m sorry Europeans, but sitting on your vast catalog of drop dead gorgeous classic cars is a crime.
I mean, people remake them and sell them for a fortune why can’t they just massage the old bodies and put them over there.
- Comment on Drink your stoats 1 week ago:
This is a shitpost community.
If this was literally any other meme making tech, like website with those cheap 1-click templates or whatever, that would come of as incredibly patronizing.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Pretty much.
I wish it were more famous, as it’s a far more plausible extrapolation of a few hundred/thousand years into the future than Star Trek or whatever mod people envision.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
But the fact we all got this ultra powerful computer, with a high resolution high framerate self emitting screen, no active cooling, a bunch of sensors, lots of memory and storage and hyper connected to all sorts of networks, all powered by a high capacity high power low wear battery should be mind blowing.
I think it is still mindblowing in the gaming/simulation realm.
This is something that gets a lot of human passion poured in and (to an extent) gets hardware utilized quite efficiently. It’s also a miracle for number-crunching researchers, or those who’s only hope of investigating something is simulation, heh.
But yeah, it feels like other aspects got drowned in eshittification. My phone would be able to host the whole old internet, pretty much! There should be so much collaboration, but manpower is instead poured into reinventing corporate infrastructure like 100,000 times over?
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
- Comment on Paradox issues Bloodlines 2 refunds after backlash over paywalled clans 1 week ago:
It’s not unexpected. Paradox’s business model is basically being DLC happy.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 1 week ago:
From their website: www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/…/the-financials.html
During the term of the franchise, fees paid to McDonald’s for each restaurant, include:
Royalty: 4%-5% of monthly gross sales
Rent: a monthly base rent and/or percentage rent that is a percentage of monthly gross sales.
License Fee: a one time fee of $45,000 is paid for 20-year term.
thefranchiseking.com/how-much-is-a-mcdonalds-fran…
But according to other sites:
www.franchiseba.com/mcdonalds-franchise/
That doesn’t include marketing fees, so its more like 8%+ of gross sales, not profit, which is a lot! On top of tons of other fees.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 1 week ago:
Bingo.
I wonder what McDonald’s profit margin at the individual store level is, these days? I would bet they have to send a pretty outrageous cut back to HQ, whereas even if the BBQ place is a small chain, they’re probably not hand tied like that.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
See the 1947 US Army video: “Don’t be a Sucker”:
archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947
It’s always been a hypocritical ideal. Even the US Army acknowledged our xenophobic tendencies, and the constant struggle against them. That’s the point.
…But I think the radical shift of the “attention economy” is what makes it feel like the ideal is finally collapsing. The population is sucked into doomscrolling Fox News (for example) at such scale that makes this US Army video feel quant. If they did the same thing today, no one would even notice.
- Comment on Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm 1 week ago:
We will see. 'Cause for all Civ 6’s (and every Civ’s) controversy, this feels different… It’s like people have forgotten 7.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 1 week ago:
Worker coops are not socialism though. It’s technically capitalism, and it’s not something you’d see Fox railing about.
They just don’t arise much in the current system of stuff.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 1 week ago:
It’s incredible McDonalds lasted that long.
Even a decade or two ago, I just don’t get why people would choose McD in that situation. Maybe if you’re in a rush, I guess?
- Comment on Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm 1 week ago:
I bet proportionally more DRM-free buyers play 5 and 4 too.
- Comment on Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm 1 week ago:
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
Oh, and there are other graphics makers that could theoretically work on linux, like Imagination’s PowerVR, and some Chinese startups.
The problem is making a desktop-sized GPU has a massive capital cost (over $1,000,000,000 just to ‘tape out’ a single chip, much less a line), and AMD/Nvidia are just so far ahead in terms of architecture. It’s basically uneconomical to catch up without a massive geopolitical motivation like there is in China.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
It’s even better than that:
They all come from TSMC.
There used to be more of a split between many fabs. Then it was TSMC/Global Foundries/Samsung Foundry. Then it was TSMC/Samsung Foundry. Now AFAIK all GPUs are TSMC, with Nvidia’s RTX 3000 series (excluding the A100) being the last Samsung chip.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
Fortunately, Microsoft is too incompetent to pull this off on Windows.
They tried. See the metro app push in Windows 8+. But it’s kind of incredible how much they permanently bungled it.
And if Windows doesn’t do it, hardware makers aren’t really interested in that sort of thing.
Stuff like SteamOS does worry me a tiny bit. It’s obviously fine now, but I can see a future where, say, Valve (or any hardware seller with some kind of successful storefront) starts to not like rising competition on their own stuff.
- Comment on Water Boil Advisory 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, see, that makes sense. A random app and an optional account number are not reliable notification systems. They can’t just assume everyone will have those.
- Comment on Water Boil Advisory 2 weeks ago:
through phone if you have a phone on your water account, through a system no one knew existed
I interpreted this as one system. So its:
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Water website, you’d have to happen to stumble upon
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Obscure opt-in phone system
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Facebook
If that’s the case, the complaint is reasonable, as the water service is basically assuming Facebook (and word of mouth) are the only active notifications folks need.
But yeah, if OP opted out of SMS warnings or something, that’s more on them.
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