Aceticon
@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on porch of geese 1 day ago:
Yeah, you’re right on that one. I’ve corrected it now.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 day ago:
And to the East, unless you’re a Flat Earther.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 day ago:
I know it’s a shitpost, but here’s an interesting piece of History:
- Back in the late 15th century, before Christopher Colombus officially discovered the Americas (more on that later), the Portuguese and the Spanish made a Treaty - the Treaty of Tordesillas - where they divided the World in half, each one getting one half of it.
- Whilst making the Treaty, the original proposal was that the dividing line (remember, this was before the first trip around the World) would be a North-South line, located 20 nautical miles East of the Cape Verde Islands (which are just East of the coast of Africa). With the Portuguese side being to the East of that line and the Spanish side to the West.
- The Portuguese refused that location and instead wanted that line 20,000 nautical miles East of the Cape Verder islands, which was what ended up in that Treaty.
- Where is now Brazil is to the East of that line, on the Portuguese side, and the rest of South America is to the West of that line, on the Spanish side
This is why the Portuguese and the Brazilians speak the same language, whilst the rest of South America speaks the same language as the Spanish.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 day ago:
Am Portuguese, can confirm.
- Comment on Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history 2 days ago:
Gotta find the $300 billion to pay reparations to Iran for Trump’s war from somewhere …
- Comment on bone 2 days ago:
Having a bone is perfectly normal for around half of humans.
Having two bones is not normal. Also for 3 bones, 4 bones and so on.
At around 206 bones it’s normal again.
- Comment on Pink Ranger 4 days ago:
Though luck in not popping out from the “right” vagina.
- Comment on Pink Ranger 4 days ago:
“My, oh my, what a husky deep voice you have Pink Ranger”
- Comment on Data centers get tax breaks. Not you though. 1 week ago:
If you’re a “company” you get to offset money coming in with expenses and even in the most honest of systems only pay tax on the difference.
If you’re an “individual” you pay taxes on any money coming in and cannot offset it with expenses.
So even at the structural level the system is designed to be incredibly unfair. That shit you describe is really just some extra crap on top of a structure made of crap.
- Comment on Data centers get tax breaks. Not you though. 1 week ago:
It’s Corruption all the way up.
- Comment on AI Is Slowing Down 1 week ago:
Not “Western countries”, rather the “United States”.
If for example Europe was doing this, US Tech companies would have almost no market presence over here.
- Comment on AI Is Slowing Down 1 week ago:
The individual people leading those companies will be much better afterwards than when they started this shit, no matter how hard the whole thing blows up.
Who wouldn’t be willing to go through the years of founding and building, say, OpenAI, if after a decade or so you’ll at worst “just” end up a multi-millionaire, and if the Tech actually works or even if you just manage to swindle enough suckers before it all collapse, you’ll end up a billionaire.
If you consider those people as sociopath “what’s in it for me” grifters, the entire thing is totally logic because even the “market cataclysm” scenario still leaves them personally far better off than if they hadn’t done any of this.
- Comment on Simple solution to avoid paying those outrageous Apple prices for charging cords 2 weeks ago:
Well, strictly speaking it would solve the problem of not having a charging cord for yuor iPhone.
- Comment on Simple solution to avoid paying those outrageous Apple prices for charging cords 2 weeks ago:
That like saying that a shot to the head is a cure for cancer - technically true but the side effects are worse than the cure.
- Comment on heater 3 weeks ago:
Alternativelly, having been bitten by a radioactive animal early that day, they’re now an animal themed superhero.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 weeks ago:
I got an N100 for about €130 last year but they same one is now about €240.
Still way more affordable than the usual game machine with a dedicated graphics card and perfectly fine for many Indie games which are fun and have tons of replayability.
Now, if one want to play the latest God Of War on it, forget about it, though myself I genuinely find something like Rimworld more fun.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 weeks ago:
Fun gaming machine 2027: N100 Mini-PC with integrated graphics and Linux for playing games like Rimworld.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 weeks ago:
The main argument against the idea that the steep price increases in PC consumer hardware will lead to a Future of “everything runs in the cloud” is that the makers of software that can’t run on the cloud and remain decent (most notably game makers, as proven by the totally failure of things like Stadia) will just target their software the the hardware that’s expected that people will have in 2 - 5 times, which as far as we can tell is “the same hardware as people have now” because only a small fraction of gamers can afford to upgrade.
I would even say that the trend towards that predates this shit - in the last decade or so it’s pretty much only AAA games who have been pushing the envelope in terms of hardware whilst increasingly Indie games are targetting lower end hardware.
- Comment on Shutting down a piracy site 3 weeks ago:
Well, we can’t really download Hookers or Blow via the Internet, so instead we had to settle for Porn and Digital Piracy.
- Comment on Shutting down a piracy site 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel 3 weeks ago:
It’s literally less than a cent (euro or dollar) for a whole bottle of tap water.
Out of curiosity I checked the price I pay for tap water in Portugal and 1 m³ (1000 l) costs around €0.5, so a 2l bottle of tap water costs all of 0.01 cents.
- Comment on Moving to the USA could be the Most Expensive Mistake of your Life 4 weeks ago:
Well, at least the American taxman accepted Euros.
- Comment on Ever create an account just to leave a negative review? 4 weeks ago:
In my country we have a saying: “You can’t please both Greeks and Trojans” (which, to be Historically correct, should have been Athenians and Trojans)
Anyways, the point is that there will always be somebody who doesn’t like you or something you do even whilst others will.
No point in trying to please everybody and caring about what everybody things.
- Comment on Ever create an account just to leave a negative review? 4 weeks ago:
Knowing how to spot genuine sexual enjoyment (from body reactions that can’t actually be willed into happening) really spoils most porn, even the “amateur” stuff.
- Comment on Ever create an account just to leave a negative review? 4 weeks ago:
The Moral problem isn’t the Sex, it’s the Work, specifically the being forced to Work within an Economic and Political structure set-up de facto controlled by others, merelly to survive.
We’re born in a World were somebody else already owns all the stuff we need to survive (most notably Land), and unless lucky to have been born in a high net worth family, de facto slaves who have no option but to Work for the owners of everything in order to survive, and for some people that means Sex Work.
In this line of Work like in many others, I bet that if something like a proper Universal Income came along a lot of people, thus having an actual choice, would be doing something else.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
You seem to be running around with some serioulsy lack of life experience and understanding of people plus are probably subconsciously influenced by exposure to American-style hyperreductive politics (i.e. namelly the Red Scare bollocks) so let me tell you a story:
- I’m a member a small leftwing party in my country. Now, this country used to be under a Fascist dictatorship and had a Revolution which overthrew it about 50 years ago. The result of this is that some older people who fought against Fascism and were deeply involved in Politics during the Revolution are pretty hard-core leftwingers in older more traditional ways.
Now this party I’m in isn’t the Communist Party (yeah, my country has one), differing mainly because it’s against autoritarian approaches to improving people’s lives. That said, a number of members there are from the old generation, who grew up under Fascism with one or other variant of Communism as the lighthouse signalling their way to a better world.
Back when Russia invaded Ukraine, I was having a conversation with some “comrades” from the party (yeah, even though not being the Communist Party, the party I’m in has inherited a lot of elements from the anti-Fascism revolutionary origins of its founding members, and that includes that other party members are “comrades”) and one of the older ones immediatelly sided with Russia.
Now, I happen to understand were he’s coming from (and this is what YOU CLEARLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND JUDGING BY YOUR SIMPLETON JUDGEMENTALISM, DO NOT EVEN TRY) - his political birth was under a Fascist dictatorship, were the by far loudest political messaging for change and the main light illuminating the path out was the Soviet Union’s variant of Communism - most people rotting in the Fascist political prisons were Communists - so of course his instinctive reaction was to think “Russia must be doing this for a good reason” and side with them: that’s just tribalist fanboyism talking (and in my experience the one thing Soviet and Mao’s styles of Communism do well is turning people into unthinking tribalist fanboys, something which people like the OP with their blunt adversarial approach actually help).
Guess what: I actually talked with him about it, pointed out this was a very big nation invading the territory of a smaller nation, one which they couldn’t possibly fear because it was so much smaller - a clear aggressor and victim situation - and that I was on the side of the victim and against the aggressor, just like when the US invaded Iraq I was against the US and on the side of Iraq (and that, my older generation comrade shared) due to exactly the same Principle.
THAT got him thinking and him thinking got him to change his mind about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and side with Ukraine instead of Russia.
So, you see, not all tankies are alike and there are a whole lot of reasons why people end up with those beliefs, and doing like the OP did and just poking them like a little child and running back to your friends boasting about having poked them and how angry they got ain’t gonna change the ones who can change.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
It all feels kinda performative…
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
Well, yeah, that’s like going into a German sub and saying how you detest the way of doing things of both Germans and French.
You’re criticizing their way of doing things and just because you’re criticizing somebody else, doesn’t make it any better (in fact, mentioning them like side by side makes it sound you think they’re equivalent, which will piss of a few more people).
Not that think the point you made in that post is incorrect, rather I’m criticizing your “surprise” at the reaction to what you did in the context you did it: I mean if you walked into a Nazi bar and called Hitler a cunt it would be both be true that “You’re correct” and “You set yourself up to be assaulted by Nazis”.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
I had exactly the same experience and I use the Linux machine for gaming.
Replacing Windows with Linux feels equivalent to a CPU and memory upgrade.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
From my own experience I would say that you’re probably not finding a chance to do intermediary upgrades because upfront you bought the top-range everything and maxed out things like memory and storage, and/or did not get a really good hobbyist motherboard (which the one part where you should really splurge).
I don’t get into the muggers’ game of top-range were you pay 2x-3x for just an extra 10% but instead get the stuff at the sweet-spot of price-performance, and then some years latter I can get stuff with what was before top-range performance at normal prices without a premium.
Similarly I don’t max out on things like memory and storage from the very start - I get what I need then and when I see that I need more I get more, by which point normally (not this shit going on right now) Moore’s Law means it’s way cheaper.
For example, the PC I’m using now for gaming recently got an improved CPU which wasn’t even out when I first bought this PC and which was top range back then (as server CPU, even), which would’ve been $200 back then but was only $17 second hand some years later.
Of course, this way of doing things got totally fucked up with this PC parts bubble. Frankly the last PC upgrade I did was replacing Windows with Linux which in terms of how it feels was equivalent to a speed and memory upgrade.
