humanspiral
@humanspiral@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Whimsy 23 hours ago:
Is there a non latin name?
- Comment on Anon disrupts the gaming industry 1 day ago:
OP, like my, math is flawed in that deleting the game does not actually enrich the company, in case “woosh” was necessary.
Piracy, when the alternative was no purchase, still helps the company if it has a good product. Recommendations to others, and “popularity” benefits companies. Free to play games with “pay to win” features benefit from the same general model as “popularity through piracy”, where the F2P only player base justifies more fame for paying to win.
- Comment on Anon disrupts the gaming industry 1 day ago:
If you say something nice about the game to 2 friends where 1 friend pirates and the other buys, the company makes net 0 from the sales, and they tell 2 friends and so on. Then after buying company in bankruptcy, use remote exploit to delete all copies and send shares skyrocketing even more than OP.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 2 days ago:
There is a vibe for caption of “are we the baddies?” to this.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 2 days ago:
There’s 2 possible reasons to have “military” escort. either…
- They must protect the perp from assassination.
- They must prevent mob from liberating him.
- Comment on Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks 3 days ago:
Empty desks is an opportunity to expand, including shared desks from work sharing or WFH some of the week.
Commercial real estate/rental spaces are also an opportunity to downsize and get out of leases at better per square foot rates. If not getting out of lease, then opportunity to sublet desk areas.
- Comment on Zelenskyy: No world leader has the right to negotiate with Putin on behalf of Ukraine 3 days ago:
Headline/quote is partly saying to US/NATO “eat shit and die before deciding for us” while at same time asking “please let us into EU and NATO with firm promises”, with nukes and other unlimited weapons so that “peace” can be “won”.
Obviously game over admission is the subtext.
- Comment on Trump transition team plans sweeping rollback of Biden EV, emissions policies 5 days ago:
Very disturbing. It is a complete lie that the policies are meant to “create a domestic battery industry”. The policies are meant to provide no escape to oil industry extortion power, and Biden tariffs were also done for their benefit and their lobbying/funding of Israel first presidency. Seems the worst of the policies is sabotaging charging infrastructure rollout, and making LA smoggy again.
“National Defense” argument is very weak, and “export development” even weaker. There is no export potential by giving small scale industry domestic monopoly power. Steel is an example of this. Very expensive steel in US means high manufacturing costs, and no exports. BS that China dumps steel is contradicted by China putting export tariff on steel. “US energy dominance” is concentrated in small nuclear bomb radius basins, or simple low travel coverage of small bomb vulnerability.
EVs are still likely to win in US. They are better cars, and big 2 are making cars with lower sticker price than ICE equivalents along with the much lower operating costs.
- Comment on Relevant advertising 🤪 6 days ago:
There was a new regulation a couple of months ago that make that RAM truck illegal (to make in future) because that design will murder people good. As a pedestrian/cyclist you want to roll over hood instead of being pulverized to the ground to be run over afterwards.
- Comment on Motivational, inspiring 6 days ago:
the come it want in my play good. They come in me.
- Comment on Which were the worst movies of 2024? 6 days ago:
red one is not aweful if you are 8, or otherwise set it on a bar of Christmas movies.
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 1 week ago:
Not American. Ghandi’s mission was to give “untouchables” caste some human equality. Technically, women’s/lgbtq movements were peaceful. Unlike US/Israel first oligarchy, there is complete/absolute media loyalty for it, in a way that the British Empire is harder to defend as benevolent to Indians. The support for oligarchy’s wars and supremacy is unconditional. If we don’t give them everything we have then China, Russia and Iran will win, and you all nod along.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 1 week ago:
No. Failing to praise all US empire efforts to diminish China is “letting China win”. There cannot be a “some good some bad” view on China. “all bad only” is allowed.
- Comment on Companionship 1 week ago:
Fuck all of you parasites criticizing the extortion power of my patent protection.
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 1 week ago:
Yes!!! Usually its police departments protecting them, but being a henchman is Bernie’s job guarantee program.
OTOH, if everyone in America is working security or mass deportation/incarceration, then there are fewer people available to make stuff.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
Surely there will be a Yougov poll, and they will listen to the results before continuing investigation. /s
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
Having no economic value does mean only corruption pretends nuclear energy to have economic value. Another dishonest, but bribed by defense instead of utility operator, motive is weapons.
There is an honest exception of a small town in Arizona (lack of water). They admit their power project costs are astronomical for nuclear compared to solar alternative, but the permanent jobs provided by a nuclear plant raise property values and taxes a bit. This too, no matter how honest the motives, is corruption in obtaining other people’s money to finance a project for local jobs and property values.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
Ohio corruption scandal was over nuclear industry bribes. All nuclear projects are publicly funded, and because they are categorically uneconomical, and delay any impact on global warming for 15 years, they are lobbied for by fossil fuel competitors. Boondoggles based on disinformation necessarily require political body to be corrupt and in on it, rather than just stupid.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
100% of nuclear funding is political bribery. It is unbankable and uninsurable. Through bribery, cost+ funding can be obtained. More bribes = more covering of cost and time overruns.
If what you mean by “political resistance” is that bigger bribes are needed to overcome unpopularity, that is a tiny fraction of the bribery amount. Elected officials do blatantly destructive and unpopular acts all the time. The rate of approvals has little to do with project costs once approved.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
there’s no active commercial molten salt reactors.
Experimental ones were all shut down within 5-10 years because corrosion makes them uneconomical to repair.
Fukushima’s case, which is the last significant nuclear incident in past 13 years
Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine has military attacks against it, with intent of fundraising and politically blaming a disaster on the side that weapons providers, and the media they own, love to hate. Our media normalizes civil war as a response to Netanyahu not having his favorite ruler appointed.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
free
The only completed attempt in last 25 years in US (Vogtle), cost over $15/watt.
Turnkey (containers full of batteries) systems in China are under $100/kwh. A possible imported cost of $100/kwh.
5gw of solar and 19gwh batteries would have higher capacity factor than nuclear, use same transmission infrastructure size, and cost $7/watt. Where winter production is not enough to fill batteries, the batteries can still be charged by wind or peaker plants that can run a bit more efficiently for a continuous time over a day instead of in bursts.
- Comment on You best start believing in a cyberpunk dystopia 2 weeks ago:
A city in a country under rather strict tech embagos
Chinese tech is not embargoed and, despite less cool videos, actually widely deployed.
- Comment on You best start believing in a cyberpunk dystopia 2 weeks ago:
Russian military has a pretty cool weapon. Armoured minitank packed with explosives that drives into buildings and then detonates. It is usually accompanied by a small camera air drone that provides visual info, on where to drive the minitank, or at least is there to show off the destruction.
That is a higher level of dystopia. But, self driving food delivery mini vehicle technology will become a tool of the resistance to the genocidal extermination of unneeded labour pool.
- Comment on Subscribe now for more clicks! 3 weeks ago:
I’ve managed to pay under $20 for all I can click mice. They last more than a year typically. Even with tariffs, I’m getting a chinese mouse, and y’all can f the f off.
- Comment on Checkmate 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully its black’s move and I can trade knight for bishop for slight advantage. /s
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 3 weeks ago:
or security costs, including the promised good time of civil war that get’s floated around.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 3 weeks ago:
With Vogtle expansion costing over $15B per gw, that is $6000+ per fed person, before counting the cost of importing uranium from Russia.
- Comment on Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up! 3 weeks ago:
too big for reel fishing.
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact about Christmas. In next 5 years tops, the north pole will completely melt in summer thereby drowning every last motherfucker that works and lives there!
- Comment on don't be a coward 3 weeks ago:
What is this “crabbification” evolution trend you speak of?
Intelligence favours dexterity of making/holding weapons and tools. Claws are not as good. Armour is always a nice to have, but the offense from weapons use from “hands” is better. I do like the idea of 360 rotating “eye arms” to catch backstabbers. Maybe more arms and legs.