WoodScientist
@WoodScientist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Youngest actor ever 2 hours ago:
It’s still being produced. They’ve made over 13,000 episodes of it.
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 4 days ago:
Capitalism.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
He’s going to end up running a consultancy where he charges absurd sums to give talks to corporate leaders on how to prevent this sort of attack. 😁
- Comment on 6 days ago:
The difference is, the rich and powerful do their crimes with lawyers. A contractor could actually write something into their contract that allowed them to install such a kill switch. And it would be perfectly legal. No different than if you stop paying for a software license and the program stops working. But regular employees don’t have the leverage to demand such a kill switch. Maybe more programmers should form unions. Write it into the contract that if the contract ever expires before a new one is signed, the union has the right to remotely activate a kill switch, shutting down crucial operations within the company. As long as this was all disclosed and signed to, it would be perfectly legal.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Is it even possible to do this in a way that can’t be tracked back to you? Unless you’re a Hollywood hacker that will rig something up to literally burn down the building the server the malicious code is contained on, there will always be some fingerprints left behind in the software. And there will almost always be a relatively short list of possible suspects. Even at large companies, there won’t ever be more than a handful of people with the skills, motive, and access needed to pull something like this off. Oh, the company’s entire database suddenly and mysteriously deleted itself? I wonder who caused that, maybe the disgruntled sysadmin we just fired? There really aren’t that many suspects in situations like this. And once you’re a suspect, they can get a warrant, seize all your computers, and scour them to dig up even more evidence against you. Hell, even just documentation of ill will against your old employer would be evidence in court. You better hope you really left no trace, otherwise you will be found out very quickly.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 6 days ago:
I’m not in that community myself, but from what I hear a high quality for suit can cost $10-20k. Not sure what differences in construction may exist between those and what you made. But some artists definitely make decent livings making them.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 1 week ago:
I’m just imagining the scene in a sci fi comedy.
“I thought you said we were getting mechanical tails? Why the Hell is this attached to my front?”
“Experiments determined that this was actually the more effective and cheaper option. Don’t worry, a front tail works just fine for balance!”
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 1 week ago:
Won’t someone think of the poor working class furries? A fur suit can already cost 10 or 20 grand. Now they’re going to have to add cyborg body parts to the mix as well? Talk about gentrification!
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 1 week ago:
Improve it by covering it in fake skin, the same used on limb prosthesis! /s
- Comment on 248 Legally Deceased "Patients" are In These Dewars Awaiting Future Revival - Cryonics 1 week ago:
The idea is you have investments running that return enough to keep the place running indefinitely.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is Not Selling 1 week ago:
The Cybertruck is the first Tesla vehicle that was designed completely under the direction of Musk. The other models had all been part of the original Tesla founders’ long term plans. They had a series of vehicles they wanted to produce, and they laid the groundwork for them years in advance. The Cybertruck was the first after Musk had gained complete control. It represents what is truly in his heart. He is a machine man. An unnatural man. With a machine mind and a machine heart.
- Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 1 week ago:
I’m going to right now start the conspiracy theory that the actual US president, Donald Trump, has not worn pants or underwear in decades. He’s somehow just hypnotized us all into not noticing.
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 1 week ago:
After all, Cain only ever killed one man…
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on My kind of bar 2 weeks ago:
I mean, if the bar was mostly regulars, and they’re all used to one of them bringing their dog in, and letting them sit at the bar? I imagine that would become mundane quite quickly. Humans can get used to damn near anything.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 2 weeks ago:
I hate this kind of artificial limitations but in this case I’m totally fine.
This is an environmental disaster. We’re building cars with equipment that will never be used. It costs more materials, time, and energy to manufacture a 300 HP engine than a 200 HP engine. VW might make all models with a 300 HP engine and then require a subscription to increase the power from 200 to 300 HP. Yet, what if you don’t want to use that extra power? You’re still stuck with the weight of the heavier engine! You’re hauling around a uselessly heavy engine, and you’ll be doing so from the moment you buy the car until the end of its life. Even if you don’t want to pay for the subscription-only equipment, you’re still paying for the higher gas costs to haul all this redundant crap around with you. And the environment takes an unnecessary hit for us to manufacture equipment that will never be used. This is an environmental disaster.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 weeks ago:
China values actual technical skills and knowledge. The US values talentless hacks who exploit the labor of those that actually have technical skills and knowledge.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 weeks ago:
The solution is to just spam solar panels. Solar power is getting so comically cheap, that this is the solution we’ll likely use. Have enough storage for overnight. Then spam so many solar panels that your grid can meet demand even on a cloudy day in winter. You have enough to meet demand at the lowest productivity point in the year. Then the rest of the year we have cheap hyper-abundant power.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Cop guns really are like “the call of the void” aren’t they? All I know is if I’m ever trapped in a Groundhog Day time loop, one of the first things I’m doing is grabbing a cop’s gun. I don’t want to grab it and shoot anyone with it. I just want to grab it and run off into the distance, cackling with glee like a madman.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 3 weeks ago:
In some cases, arson is morally perfectly justifiable.
- Comment on Enlightenment 3 weeks ago:
Oma Desala approves.
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 3 weeks ago:
Classic copypasta.
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 3 weeks ago:
Probably a good thing JKR didn’t include any Latin American wizards in the series. They probably would have ended up practicing a form of magic that was basically just Aztec blood sacrifice. No way it wouldn’t be racist as fuck.
- Comment on In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on It would get old fast 4 weeks ago:
That really would be the bomb!
- Comment on Did you ever use your Toe to turn one of these on or off? 4 weeks ago:
What makes you think I don’t do that on my current computer?
- Comment on Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately this isn’t saving us from climate-induced civilizational suicide. We are not capable of saving ourselves. Conservative governments are science-denying fascists, and liberal governments can’t see any solution that doesn’t involve the free market. They’re both slaves to capitalism, and capitalism is destroying our world. Every societal collapse is driven primarily by a delusional elite powered by high levels of wealth inequality, and our story will be no different than countless societies that have collapsed before us, crushed under the weight of their own dysfunctional political systems.
Renewables are not replacing fossil fuels. Fossil fuel use hasn’t declined at all. Emissions have never been higher. Rather, what should have been obvious is happening. Capitalism is very good at exploiting any available and useful resource, and there is no more useful resource than energy. The market is more than happy to gobble up the output of any number of solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries. A use for all that energy can be found. No matter how many solar panels we produce, their output is used to increase the total amount of energy consumed, rather than using them to replace fossil fuels. Meanwhile, fossil fuels are still very useful energy, and the market continues to find a use for them as well. To a capitalist system, the answer to the question “how much energy should we produce?” Is always “yes.”
Solving this problem will require actions that no liberal government is capable of. If you worship the free market as a religion, then you won’t be capable of making the changes that are needed to save our species from extinction. Conservatives know only delusions, and liberals know only subsidies. Both are equally useless at solving the problems we face.
What do we need to do? We need to be using non-market solutions. We need to be phasing out fossil fuels entirely. We need to be limiting the total amount extracted, and we need to lower that cap rapidly over time. Then we need to make it illegal to extract fossil fuels. We need to make it a capital offense to dig an oil well. Anyone caught drilling a well should be buried alive inside that well. Then we need to go to war against any nation that refuses to do the same. Eventually we need to waging outright military campaigns against fossil fuel infrastructure, regardless of what country the infrastructure belongs to. We need to be willing to risk nuclear war, as that is the level of crisis we are facing.
Note, your skin probably crawled when you read those last few sentences. If it did, you’re likely not psychologically capable of truly addressing the crisis we find ourselves in. You’re so conditioned to capitalist realism that those actions seem violent and absurd, rather than acts of rational self-defense of a species against its own annihilation.
- Comment on It would get old fast 4 weeks ago:
Your home can look like this. No HOA needed!
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 5 months ago:
My preferred mode of play is what I call “Iron Kerbal.” Career mode. No reloads. No respawning. No reverting flights. I can manage everything except an Eve landing and return without reloads. Or, late game, I can manage an Eve landing and recovery if I have enough resources to just keep throwing crews at the planet.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 5 months ago:
My top two are Kerbal Space Program, at 2007 hours, and Satisfactory at 1,787 hours. And yeah, Satisfactory has its time exaggerated, as often you just got to let the factory run.
My play time on Kerbal Space Program 2? 17 minutes.
