TheFogan
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- Comment on Will Hollywood's remake of Parasite really succeed? 5 hours 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? 1 day 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? 6 days 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? 1 week 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 2 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 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 3 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 ? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 ? 1 month 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? 1 month 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.
- Comment on Do you think that these CBS employees should unionize and go on strike? 2 months ago:
I never blame the workers and my annoyance is halved.
I disagree, the annoyance should be doubled, but directed to those in charge of the workers who treated them bad enough to want to strike.
- Comment on Anyone else think this news story is a bit fishy? 2 months ago:
The death note and how to use it:
If you don’t specify a cause of death, the person will die via drowning in a canal.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m not going to post photos of my friends here for their own privacy. Duh.
Just a note here lol, this is lemmy, generally speaking, Putting something AI, automatically puts everyone into a dislike position.
Second I’d say the agreed concept here… it being AI… means it’s only your interpretation of their style, what to you is normal may or may not stand out massively to your parents, maybe not. If there actually is a detail that you think is normal, but is a huge red flag to your parents we wouldn’t have access to that. So in short, the pic is useless no matter what, you may as well have just given a vague description of it to us. (Hell just whatever prompt you gave to AI would probably have been just as good),
anyway as far as that goes, it doesn’t really matter I guess, maybe your parents have a weird bias against a certain dress style, or maybe some prejudice. Or maybe there’s a swastika tattoo on each of your friends foreheads that you’ve just never noticed.
- Comment on Does changing your last name make sense when you’re not that name? 2 months ago:
I’m missing the concept that you are worried about. Are you worried someone from the Carrington family would get offended when he finds out that you don’t decend from Carringtons? For the most part last names are so common that it’s fairly common to find someone with the same last name, but effectively no relation, and no one governs who’s part of the ___ family.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 2 months ago:
It’s quintuple ironic because like the first season was basically so good at setting up a “this isn’t like other series’s, no one is safe”, keeps that tone up through the red wedding. Then after
spoiler
John snow is fake killed
It becomes obvious that if a good guy has lived up to this point, they are probably fine for a while.
- Comment on What character is the king of plot armor? 2 months ago:
Yeah, for those who don’t know, in the last season (spoiler ahead)
spoiler
Basically god reveals basically all universes were basically attempts at crafting a winchester story, God basically turns off their plot armor and their car breaks down, Dean gets sick from eating stupidly unhealthy crap, their car breaks down, their infinite money credit card stops working, dean needs a dentist.
- Comment on Is it just me or is Lemmy less active than reddit? 2 months ago:
To go more specific
lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Lemmy has about a million and a half registered users total. close to 35k active per month.
Reddit can be estimated as over 400k active weekly users. In short a semi popular subreddit would be expected to have more total active users than lemmy as a whole
- Comment on On the show Mr. Robot, just started watching I'm on episode 9, are all the hacks or whatever actually possible in real life? 2 months ago:
Trying to remember a bit more of it, but wasn’t the usb stick a rubber ducky? I mean it could possibly trigger some alarms, but to note that I don’t think it would register as a flash drive. In short you can program them and make them appear to the computer however you want. (IE it could appear as a keyboard, and rather than copying a file from storage, and rather than copying a script off of itself, it could say open cmd or powershell and effectively run the commands itself (as if they are being typed really fast, rather than actually a script). Companies typically don’t log keyboards being plugged in.