TheFogan
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- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 days ago:
basically all arosol’s do that as well, same for pam and just about every other spray, and yeah it’s shady as hell, it’s much like tictac’s are technically sugar free… in spite of being 90% sugar, because their serving size is 1 piece.
- Comment on How come when paying cash for gas, it is not like a coke machine where you can insert your money? And when it hits that limit it clicks off? 1 week ago:
I imagine it’s just the added difficulty that the dollar dispensers are finicky and break down enough when dealing with small amounts of money. There’s a reason why coke machines themselves are shifting more to card payments now that everythings over a few dollars. Plus being outdoors overnight is kind of a security nightmare as they don’t want people taking crowbars to them. hoping for cash (even when there’s no cash in them)
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
yeah I saw that on another post… and did look it up myself, in the US they can be sold, but legally they cannot include the word cigarette anywhere in the labeling or packaging, on amazon they do indeed put it in the title of the listing, which is against the law, but not particularly well enforced, the packages themselves though you can also see clearly they don’t use the word cigarette for exactly that reason.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
Oh, like candy cigarettes and big league chew.
Yeah… Which was also a bad idea… of which most of the world won’t accept in the modern age.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_cigarette#Sales_laws
Big league chew, I guess was a bit more on the fence because it’s less obvious and it avoids any words that directly link it to chewing tobacco.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s amazing the amount of things we’ve never observed before suddenly having endless videos now that AI sludge is clogging up the world.
Remember the old meme of “paranormal/bigfoot sightings” per year timeline… with a point where there’s an enormous drop at “camera invented”, and then bounces back with “photoshop invented”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I do believe I used to watch a documentary about a Coyote in the desert, and quite a bit of that involved it on a paved road as well. I do believe it understood more complicated things than just pressing crosswalk buttons, if I recall it flat out knew how to place orders from an Acme Catalog an assemble quite a few fairly complex machines.
- Comment on Roblox loses $70 billion in value as company blames lack of viral games 2 weeks ago:
Stupid child developers… why aren’t they coming up with new good ideas!
Also totally nothing to do with people getting terrified of letting their kids on there as, they do more to get in the way of police stings arresting child predators, and do nothing to combat them themselves.
- Comment on A Linux Version of Windows 11 2 weeks ago:
Yeah something like Wine, but running natively in the Linux OS.
I think here’s where you are a bit off in understanding…
Linux is not an OS. It’s a kernel. Long story short, technically “Linux” has no graphic interface, cannot even run commands without a shell attached etc…
Obviously when most people say “linux”, they mean a linux distribution, which is the linux kernel, with a bunch of software bundled and installed on top of it when you install. WINE is no different than “x” or “wayland”. which are by definition, software running on a linux kernel, that is necessary to run a program designed to be graphical.
- Comment on Will Hollywood's remake of Parasite really succeed? 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure the Hollywood version will not be good, but it won’t be because of those cultural factors. It’s not hard to find equivalents to certain cultural artifacts, and rearrange plot points to fit a different setting. What the American film will fail to do is to be as biting in its satire of class differences, because Hollywood executives think it won’t sell well.
I agree there, I don’t think it’s impossible or even difficult to make the movie that hits the same themes the same way, there’s absolutely zero thought in my head that it’s not possible to make something purely with American culture, systems, housing and foods that conveys 100% of the same message, in some ways possibly even better
However, there is a very high chance that somewhere in the production line decisions are made by someone who either determines that the things that made the movie popular, aren’t compatible with American audiences, and will intentionally dumb them down or change the actual themes.
- Comment on Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States? 3 weeks ago:
Sadly that does tend to be how most biggotry works. they quickly conclude that most the people they actually meet and spend time with are “the good ones”. Kind of the way it usually works, the ones that don’t fall into their expectations must be the exceptions… so that the rule can stay in place.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 3 weeks ago:
Very much not a lawyer but in the US from what I understand you don’t have to consent to a field sobreity test at all (IE the breathalyzer), but the cops can require you to come to the station for, the tests that they refused to give you.
As far as Miranda rights, that’s kind of misunderstood, in short if you weren’t formerly brought into an interogation room. or put in jail, it’s not a strong requirement for them to read it.
I don’t have the full picture but if you aren’t in jail, then you’ve basically got a BS ticket. They might be able to hit you for reckless driving or something if you were swerving or something in your driving lead to the actual suspicion and they have it on dash cam, but the DWI itself, should fall apart instantly without evidence.
I know my ex got out of a DWI that she was very guilty of, simply by police incompetence (cops lost the test results),
- Comment on Once lunar colonies are established, would they attempt to break away? What would independent lunar republics look like? 4 weeks ago:
To me honestly the idea of non earth colonies are an amazing potential, IE I feel like most of the good in the initial US founding came from basically being able to start later in the game with knowledge others didn’t have, and thus make a better government than currently existed faster, thanks to not having the centuries of red tape and “tradition” to deal with. Of course after that head start I think they set themselves up in a way that made them progress slower than the rest of the world.
Now it feels like the actual true start needs to be another form of that, and best part of a non earth civilization is, it would be perhaps the first recorded history of expanding into an area, that we aren’t actually just killing off and replacing an existing civilization. So true governance from zero is actually on the table.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Personally my favorite tattoo of an idea to play with the viewers ignorance. I want a tattoo that is just “Leviticus 19:28”
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It’s expensive, a lot of pain and time… so it’s usually a safe assumption that it has a meaning to them. But obviously like everything it’s not universal… clearly there is a (hopefully small) percentage of people who get a tattoo because of a random drunkin whim, or to impress someone etc…
- Comment on Before Wolverine got his adamantium body, could he grow back his bone claws do to his healing factor? Or is it just for skin muscile and organs? 5 weeks ago:
well yeah why I used the word “more evil” rather than just evil.
- Comment on Before Wolverine got his adamantium body, could he grow back his bone claws do to his healing factor? Or is it just for skin muscile and organs? 5 weeks ago:
I believe with both deadpool and wolverine they kind of rule that the portion with the dominant part of the brain gets the body and the other portion is supposed to waste away.
Though I do know there was a deadpool comic in which a doctor basically gradually took pieces of deadpool including portions of his head, and freezing them, Deadpool took them out of the freezer and put them in a garbage bag, and they merged into a more evil franken-deadpool.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t recall ever seeing someone in modern times defend Nixon
I do from about 12 days ago.
- Comment on Why don't people afraid of AI instead use it while they can to make decent money? 1 month ago:
because it takes luck and a certain kind of unethicalness to do so. IE you can go in there and have chatgpt write you 20 romance novels etc… and publish them on amazon. but more likely than not they will all be buried and all you are really doing is making it less likely for a real up and coming artist to be discovered. Point is most of the AI slop requires some kinds of connections or something to make it actually make money… 99% of it is just trashing the environment and making long shot legitimate creations even less likely to be discovered.
In short most of us aren’t looking to make the internet and the world worse, for what effectively amounts to a .01% chance to make money… most of those who actually manage to string it out and make big profits before the bubble pops are ones who already have a lot of resources and connections to do evil and unethical things already.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Sanders is a Senator. Are we defining Senators as local, now?
Why wouldn’t we, in a country with a population of about 230 million people, about half a million are qualified to actually run for office there, because you have to live in Vermont.
This is the problem. Why isn’t there?
Why aren’t there 2 in every state is the real question. I’d say among the issues is, 1. again senator isn’t entry level, So people who Bernie reached in his 2016 presidential bid, are still getting their feet in the door, pushing through the beurocracy and the pacs trying to keep them from getting elected to lower offices etc…
and yeah a lot of it is to be blamed on us the voters, that there’s not enough of us showing up for the primaries. and just not enough people that want to do good, that are taking the swim into politics.
Really that’s probably the key problem on the whole. Politics as a whole is a really tough career field to get into, and it’s very analogous to starting a business. You need to spend a ton of money and survive with 100% of your time being devoted to trying to start, with only a possible chance of eventually making money IF you can somehow stay afloat for a year with no income. Which sadly is why it creates this world where 99% of people making it through politics are nepo babies and people who have already sold their loyalty to big money.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think the key is he’s in a local position. Point is no matter what, his “replacement” has to run and win. Point is, he helps good people win wherever they happen to be. For the most part senator isn’t an entry level job. Right now I’d say it’s fair to say Bernie is to my knowledge the best currently sitting senator, if I’m missing something blatant he’s at minimum top 5.
Senate isn’t exactly a position where you can pick an heir apparent, and for the most part people can only win with experience winning a mayorship, governor or house of representatives seat first.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Bernie Sanders is well loved, but also extremely old, and doesn’t seem to have passed the torch to the next generation of like minded politicians.
I mean what would you call AOC, and Mandami, there’s no torch, Bernie is 1 of 100 senators. He’s never tried to sell himself as some special perfect person. Isn’t any time he endorses someone that passing the torch. He doesn’t have to step down to have an air apparent. I’m sure if someone with good ideas went to run in vermont he’d probably step down for it. but right now the game is national, and he’s playing it on a national level.
- Comment on What's gunna to happen when the American Federal Government starts prosecuting people for owning powerful computer hardware and software? 1 month ago:
What if instead they feed into every bubble to try and render powerful computer hardware outside the price range of anyone but millionares. While gradually encouraging a more, data center based control system so that rather than getting PC hardware ourselves… we’ll instead only be able to afford basic cheap thin clients, made to connect to a more powerful virtual machine that is capable of running games or anything that requires any power.
- Comment on What happened to society that we became afraid of a piece of paper? Like a write up at school or job, or a ticket, or a bill we know we can pay (but won't let us live 1 luxury) lincenses and others? 1 month ago:
I mean, the why are most of your examples not things that hold no sway over you. A powerbill you can’t pay means your electricity is about to cut off, a firing means you can’t show up and get paid, a grade means you can’t get a job etc… It’s not like you can just tear up the papers and live your life as if they never existed without taking some serious hits.
- Comment on Why do people get mad at you for using Wikipedia, but treat Google and AI chatbots like they're gospel? 1 month ago:
Unfortunately the biggest part is, there’s kind of 2 definitions of bias at this point.
There’s the older, what I’d consider should be the truer form where bias is about taking a side or leaning the interpretation of the established facts on things that don’t have a 100% perfect consistant answer. IE Sportsball team A is better than sportsball team B, when obviously every part of that equasion is a dynamic, every player has good and bad days. good and bad weather conditions etc… who they’ve played against and how good they are etc…
Same for political concepts where at the very least it’s worth noting there’s no agreed upon by all of political science good and bad with regards to ideas etc…
Then you’ve got the type B bias where… well one side is outright denying the objective facts. Going to the sportsball analogy, that’s like one side says “Team A won 900 to 0 against team B”, while fans of team B go “look the game’s score is right here… team b won 52-20”. and they call you bias for trusting the sportsball leagues official scores, and the game that aired on national television, over the word of team A’s number one fan.
- Comment on What is the difference between http and HTTPS ? 2 months ago:
Lazy quick explanation targetted at… well someone who would ask this question.
Basically http is unencrypted, meaning it’s transmitted in plain text. Imagine it like mailing a letter, in a clear plastic envelope. Meaning that should they care to, every single postal worker that the letter passes hands to between the destination and source, could read anything they want, and you’d be none the wiser. Hell they even have enough information that if one was actually malicious they could open your letter, change what you wrote, and no one could tell the difference.
HTTPS, basically does 2 very important things. 1. it basically turns it into a language that only the intended person can read, meaning no one between the source and destination has any potential to read what is being transmitted. 2. it allows both sides to prove who sent everything.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Bottom line 18-30% of job postings are “ghost jobs” so obviously putting in work for the wrong job is bad. Then yeah as you mentioned, most applications are going to be reviewed by some form of robot… then if you are lucky then an HR person who knows nothing about the actual work in the environment will look over it, check boxes to see if the right key words they are supposed to look for are there. Bottom line it’s like dating and most other parts of life. No matter what you’ll miss every job you don’t apply for, and 99.99% of the ones you do.
- Comment on Analysts Say Video Game Hardware Isn't Getting Cheaper Anytime Soon 2 months ago:
I mean I love that idea, but doesn’t sound like it’s a solution to this problem. Hardware costs are the issue, and unfortunately even with the source code and plans, we cant compile our own GPUs and Ram
- Comment on On an open source platform, I'm supposed to be able to change my username/display name, right ? 2 months ago:
Where are you getting the idea that github is open source? GitHub CAN host open source software… and git is open source. GitHub is a website that allows people to upload content… and the source code is not open, and controlled by microsoft.
Now as far as whether usernames are changable on actual opensource websites… that’s also not a given. That’s a matter of if the software chooses to allow it. If the website doesn’t, you are welcome to take the source code, edit the source code to make it possible, and host your own copy of it. But nothing in open source inherently means you have any more control of an open source website that’s hosted outside of your machine/servers than a closed source one.
- Comment on Whatever happened to Anonymous? We need them now more than ever. Yes I get the irony. How does one happen to get in touch with one or group? 2 months ago:
Mossad more likely. Epstein basically bolstered a lot on 4chan.
- Comment on Do you think that these CBS employees should unionize and go on strike? 2 months ago:
It was more of a slowdown actually, or I suppose more accurately a direct attempt at the “give the people what they are asking for and show them why they won’t like it”.
In short, the police continued to investigate major crimes. But focus less on trying to catch people in small crimes etc… IE stop and frisk kind of nonsense etc… expecting to come out of it saying “see now look how many major crimes happened because we didn’t nip things in the bud”, and it ended basically with major crime going down, and people being happier with the police.