Th4tGuyII
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- Comment on *landbastard intensifies at the right of replacing a 2 dollar light switch". 2 days ago:
Gotta be ragebait.
I sympathise with having "nightmare tenants" who trash the place, but fuck any Landlord who says you can't work from home because god forbid you use your home that you pay them for because you'd cause a bit more wear and tear than they would like.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 5 days ago:
C. The moving portal platform breaks the black platform and the whole thing goes through the portal.
Jokes aside, B.
Devoid of any other external forces, in the cube's reference frame there's functionally no difference between it moving towards the portal or the portal moving towards it at a constant acceleration.
Ergo the cube should be pushed out the other side at the same momentum that the system had prior to the collision, and not be simply plopped out as in answer A.
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 1 week ago:
AI tools are some of the most powerful and destructive things humans have ever created. And they are being effectively tested by the public in real time in the real world. When the Manhattan Project was trying to work out the power of their atomic tech, they did not do so by sending everyone the specs each morning and seeing which houses blew up.
Honestly, this. In their desperate attempt to break even, AI companies are throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks, without any due regard as to its effects on society at large...
Which unfortunately have proven time and time again to be horribly corrosive towards human culture.
- Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed? 1 week ago:
- Comment on This one's for the gardeners ;) 2 weeks ago:
Was about to say exactly this. Wild seedlings are no less vulnerable than indoor seedlings.
But you tend to succeed more often when you have 1000s of chances rather than one. - Comment on Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its CEO and a 26% rise to its finance director 2 weeks ago:
Oh I agree. They've should've been renationalised years ago, but I'd equally take today since they've decided to abuse Government bailout money.
- Comment on I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan 2 weeks ago:
Burnham has a break clause and every reason to use it. He should not waste the chance.
Even if most people who know of Palantir are against its use; even if Palantir's whole platform is statistically proving to be cost-ineffective and bad at its job; even if multiple senior public office leaders call for the break clause to be enacted; even then, I still have my doubts anything will be done about it as long as the contracts proves lucrative enough for the cronies.
After a decade if Tory bullshit, I was happy for a non-Tory to finally get into office, and more than happy to give Starmer benefit of doubt - after all he had a decade of Tory bullshit to clear up - but he has proved himself to be much of the same.
I genuinely would like for Burnham surprise me, but I'm not expecting much different.
I think we'd need a new party, not red or blue ties, in to see any real change - ideally that'd be the greens, but I guess we'll see what happens. - Comment on Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its CEO and a 26% rise to its finance director 2 weeks ago:
Aren't Thames Water in such high debt that they just had a Government bailout?
If they've got the money to give these incompetent idiots such high raises, the Government ought to ask for its money back, cause they clearly don't need it.
- Comment on bro got neutered 3 weeks ago:
For those without golden parachutes at least, the golden rule of trading is never to invest more than you can afford to lose.
You may not win big, but at least you won't lose everything like OOP - Comment on Health yeating 3 weeks ago:
What do you think are the chance that they cooked these insects first?
- Comment on Sony 3 weeks ago:
Is a bit wild how they remembered to put down vinyls and even cassettes, but forgot DVDs and VHS tapes which are very arguably bigger household names than Blu-ray.
Also, literally all millenials were born before 2000. And many of them (myself included) grew up with VHS and DVD.
- Comment on Sony 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. I absolutely agree with OP that robbing people of the choice to own physical media sucks...
But when not paired with shitty-ass DRM, digital format media can be an absolute boon for games preservation. Easy to backup, takes up barely any physical space, and doesn't require physical hardware to play it that will become increasingly sparce and expensive over time.
If the industry doesn't want to provide legal pathways towards games preservation, then it looks like the pirates are going to start wearing archavist hats too.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
In the same week they're in the spotlight again for removing purchased content from people's libraries?
Born too late to explore the world, too early to explore space - but just in time to watch the rise and enshitification of the internet and gaming.
- Comment on Overrated GTA hype 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. Stealing from the employees they say, while pushing said employees out of the window
- Comment on Overrated GTA hype 4 weeks ago:
Even if piracy was the entire reason for not releasing on PC - it's a downright idiotic excuse considering most of the consoles it'll be releasing on have exploits/jailbreaks that also allow for piracy/dumping.
If that's the excuse, might as well just not release the game at all... which seems to be the current strategy anyways
- Comment on I can feel my horny level rising to 30% 4 weeks ago:
If someone actually managed to get turned on reading this, I'd be concerned for their mental well-being
- Comment on The real deal 4 weeks ago:
This is the type of person to pick up fruit and vegetables without checking their conditions, then be shocked when they're bruised and damaged
- Comment on Skeletor laying down, out and about FYI 5 weeks ago:
Enough Scoville's and your ass will be burning brighter than the sun in the middle of July
- Comment on Skeletor laying down, out and about FYI 5 weeks ago:
Good point. Does a TAS (Tool Assisted Shit) plasma shit count?
- Comment on Skeletor laying down, out and about FYI 5 weeks ago:
If your ass can shit out Plasma or a Bose-Einstein Condensate, you ought to go to hospital
- Comment on my current daddy fling born in the 1970s 1 month ago:
Did you mean "we didn't"?
I'd say you got me on that one, but my hone's internet connection was so shite I basically didn't have it until the 2000s.
Besides you guys had ARPAnet, I'm sure you could make do with that haha
(Now we just need a Centennial to come in here and say we're both young for having had computers full stop)
- Comment on my current daddy fling born in the 1970s 1 month ago:
Alright, calm down fossil. There's less time between you and us, than there us between us and today - ergo we're all getting older here.
- Comment on We Put A Man On The Moon. We Did It. 1 month ago:
Is Rubio genuinely comparing the moon landings, which is one of humanity's highest achievements, to UFC fighting?
Did he hit his head on something?
- Comment on I hate obscure tech issues! 1 month ago:
Certainly makes you considerate. Past you saved future you a lot of work
- Comment on I hate obscure tech issues! 1 month ago:
- Comment on Ready go! (or don't) 1 month ago:
I think the more dangerous game would be who can poop the fastest
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 1 month ago:
You're putting words in my mouth here. I'm not advocating for a strict binary of male or female.
I'm aware that intersex people and sex-related disorders occupy a spectrum between.We ought to do better to educate people on those that lie in the spectrum - but that is entirely different to advocating for the idea that biological sex is a lie because it doesn't fit your world view.
Even if you use the most generous estimate of those who exist in that spectrum, per the Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) Consortium, that number is still <2% of the population.
Modelling clinical outcomes based on categories that apply to >49/50 people is not wildly inaccurate as you seem to be claiming. Of course we should do Our best to ensure that those in spectrum are covered as well, but a "model" that covers 100% of people is just a list of everyone on Earth - which is not only a privacy nightmare, but also has zero predictive utility.
Yes, but those categories are all traits associated with either XX or XY chromosome development.
Having a penis is a Y-linked trait, having a womb is an X-linked trait.
That isn't me trying to deny anyone's chosen identity, but it is a biological fact that (with current technology) cannot be changed.
And that is true even for intersex individuals.I'm not bothered to sit here and argue with someone who's attitude is that of science denialism. If I wanted that I could go argue with a Flat Earther, so I'm going to let you have the last word on this one. Peace
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 1 month ago:
That's a great story to be sure, but even ancient people knew about intersex people - that's where the original (and now often discriminatory) term "hermaphrodite" came from.
The reason people keep bringing genetics and chromosomes into this is because they're the literal blueprints for our bodies.
If its not encoded into the blueprints, our bodies cannot make it happen - and as far as humans go, there's only two basal sex templates, male and female. That's it.Anything between those two states is fair game (as we see from intersexuality), but unlike with gender it is biologically impossible to not be on that spectrum somewhere.
Thats not a "world view", it is an empirical fact backed by decades of genetic research.If you had the resources to go find and examine every human on the planet, I guarantee you that out of the 10 billion humans that exist on Earth, not a single one would fall outside that spectra. I'd bet my life on it a million times over.
Additionally, you really could not be more wrong about sex being a useless category.
Your sex is one of the most medically significant traits you can have - at times even more important than your ethnicity in determining clinical outcomes.I'm an open minded person, but I go where the evidence points to - and with all due respect, its not towards what you're cooking.
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 1 month ago:
You're calling it a concept, but biological sex isn't a concept in the same way as gender is. We didn't just make sexes up.
There are very real physiological differences between those with XX chromosomes and XY.
And while I do agree with you that we should be teaching a more spectral view of sex that acknowledges those who don't fit into the normal XX and XY model...
I simply cannot agree with the notion that our model of sex is medically useless because it doesn't perfectly cover <1% of the population without caveats.
And then calling biological sex a lie because you disagree on how we model it is plain anti-intellectual.
- Comment on Xbox pulls Gears video featuring a PS5 logo, 24 hours after announcing it as an exclusive 1 month ago:
Exactly. When the process takes 6 years, throwing it all out a month before release is essentially last minute - and that's assuming you take them at their word, which I really don't.
Its just a shame to know the devs will have poured so much time into the PS5 version just to have the finished product sit on a drive somewhere unreleased (assuming it hasn't been destroyed instead to prevent it ever being leaked).