Aceticon

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stiff upper lip, perhaps?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They sure are loudly “supportive” of “Charity”.

  You know, like people who do it to benefit socially projecting an image of being “a good person” towards others rather than people who genuinelly care about others (who are not in fact loud about it, because being seen as charitable is not the point of their actions).

  I lived for a decade in Britain and that society is all about “keeping up apperances” at any cost (maybe why their Performing Arts are some of, if not THE, best in the World) and not at all about empathy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stiff upper lip, perhaps?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I lived in Britain for a decade.

  Amazingly, in my experience not a single one of those things is true in practice.

  • Britain has First Fast The Post, and unelected second house of Parliament and Head Of State. The current government has a parliamentary ABSOLUTE majority (in a country with no written Constitution, so the pretty much can enact whatever laws they want with it) when they only got 33.7% of votes cast.
  • To see Britain’s “Rule of Law” just look at how the one group of demonstrators against the Genocide in Gaza were deemed Terrorists because of nothing more than throwing paint at an airplane used for surveillance in Gaza.
  • Harder to explain: culturally Brits - especially middle class and above - see people as having a moral obligation to fit in, which is how you end up with things like demonstrators being arrested for “Disturbing the Public Order”.
  • Just read how Muslims are described in British newspapers. Also talk to any friend of yours in Britain who has an ethnicity other than white-Briton.

  British values are almost all of them related with “keeping up appearences” (hence the whole “stiff upper lip” thing), the inherent superiority of Britain and Britons and how “people should know their place”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Everywhere there are good people doing good things with the best of intentions.

  They’re just not in power in the US and, IMHO, don’t add up to anywhere close to being the majority of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My kind of Doctor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s for putting down patients that die and turn into zombies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Massive Arian Master Race vibes on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So it uses up way more hardware and power whilst not improving the part of the game were the fun is: gameplay.

  What’s next NVidia, an AI driver that play the game for you?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  DLSS 7: You don’t even need gamers to play the game. AI will play the game for you.

  (Wasn’t that a Microsoft patent?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconventional strategy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why won’t somebody think about the poor land-thieving child-murdering Israelis…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, an optimal monitor configuration!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the side of the space for monitors isn’t an integer multiple of the monitor side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kinky taxonomy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because “pantanal” means “from the swamp” in at least Portuguese and, probably also Spanish, and these cats are probably native to swampy areas in South America?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know. Somehow, I've always known.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Luke was a late bloomer whilst Anakin was a child genious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name this Paper⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess that’s one way to measure the calories of a cracker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current events dictate that I post this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember boys and girls, if the bomb falls from the sky either from a plane or ridding the nosecone of a missile or is shot from the barrel of a tank it’s not Terrorism, it’s only Terrorism if it’s otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fr🤮nch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, to be fair, not having a proper appreciation for terroir is just barbaric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨he forgor⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Access to entry level positions is pretty fucked up in this because whilst experts will recognized expertise, for anything but smaller companies candidates get filtered out by HR and those people have no fucking clue what expertise outside their domain looks like, so they use proxies for it such as “stamp of approval from higher education institution” so in big companies the candidates without such stamps of approval (or a pre-existing insider contact) never actually get to be evaluated by the domain experts who can recognize that expertise.

  That said, if a candidate don’t have at least some domain expertise (so, neither formal study nor having done anything in that area in their free time), sorry but somebody who has actually had the discipline to attend a learning institution and enough capability and domain knowledge to actually passed their exams and graduated is way more likely to be at least decent at it (no guarantee, but the odds are much better) than a random person who never did either. It’s only fair that if you haven’t invested in learning it in some way or other (not necessarily college) you’re not going be seen at the same level as somebody who has actually invested in learning that domain.

  It’s only naturally that some kind of expertise validation system for candidates emerges for any kind of domain were some level of expertise is required and as things stand now in most such domains at the entry level that’s colleges (which, IMHO, are better than cronyism-heavy “know somebody who knows somebody” systems), though in many domains something lighter and cheaper (some kind of cheaper test-only option) would probably be better (or, alternativelly, do as it’s done in civilized countries and have higher education be Public, so cheaper or even free).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨he forgor⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also having attended college and actually successfully passed its knowledge tests and graduated proves that you have both the discipline and mental capability for certain jobs.

  I’m in software development and have been part of the process of hiring people and from the point of view of an employer, for a candidate to an entry level position that college diploma is an indicator that the person in question has the knowledge and capabilities to do that kind of job.

  Mind you, in my area fortunatelly there are other ways to indicate that - for example, having participated in Open Source projects or, even better, having your own Open Source project with actual users that you’ve had to support (which in my view can put somebody above somebody else who merelly has a college diploma) - though that’s generally only for smaller companies since large ones will have HR filter candidates before the ever reach the actual domain experts and HR can’t judge skill like that and instead will go for “big formal stamp of approval” shit.

  That said, the college diploma stops being important after junior level, unless it’s one from a handful of very prestigious institutions and even then it won’t work on domain experts, only non-expert manager types.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here.

  The whole things has a massive “grift” vibe, especially given that they’re double dipping since supporters of their “Game preservation efforts” still have to pay for those games.

  Happy to keep on buying games from them in preference to from Steam, some even from the “Good old game” bucket, just not willing to assume a monthly monetary commitment to some black-box “trust us” which feels a lot like the “Charity as a business” shit from the most sleazy “charities” out there (you know the kind: the ones with CEOs paid massive salaries and were only a small fraction of contributions actually ends up in the charitable objective).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumerism ahhhhh moment⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also later in time one is making a choice for a kind of product one doesn’t usually buy, one might have forgotten their dislike for a brand due to their excessive use of advertising and yet their subconscious is still giving them a feeling of familiarity when they see that brand’s name on a product which makes it more likely that they’ll chose it over other options that don’t feel as familiar.

  Most advertising nowadays is meant to affect subconscious impulses which will do their thing with no cognitive effort, whilst the position the OP holds (and which I myself try to) is conscious and requires cognitive effort to maintain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People can be idiots for forming a firm belief that something can be bad for them when all evidence and expert opinion contradicts it, even whilst due to the nocebo effect that firm belief leads to them trully feeling bad.

  There isn’t idiocy in feeling actual effects due to nothing else than a placebo or nocebo effect from than a strongly held belief, whilst there can be idiocy in the way one gains a belief so strong was that it actually triggers one of those effects.

  So the example given by the previous poster does seem to fit a situation of people who are indeed idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spending⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One word: Cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live in the future!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surelly it’s at minimum a post about shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think in all countries with universal Education, at highschool level and even earlier there are classes for native speaking kids covering readind and writting in and later knowledge of things like formal grammatical structure and such for the local language, so it makes sense to distinguish classes aimed at foreigners to learn the local language from the ground up from classes aimed at local kids who already know how instinctivelly how to speak it.

  So “<Local-Language> as a Second Language” is a valid name, if a bit presumptuous sounding (it makes it sound as if that’s the second most important language one speaks). In other countries I’ve more often seen “<Local-Language> for Non-Native Speakers” or similar, never calling it a second language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, a USB standard that can provide the data AND power requirements of a city.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “The massive ceramic connector and 10 inch thick cable immediatelly make obvious that the USB-D connector has been designed from the ground up to be able to power the latest generation of Graphics Card”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Worry not, some of what’s perfectly fine nowadays will eventually be forbidden because how harmful it is for people, from micro-plastics that are being found even in men’s gonads to the excessive amounts of nitrous oxides emitted by diesel engine that kill over ten thousand people per year in Europe alone.

  We probably still breathe and eat a lot of highly carcinogenic shit, just different shit from back in the days when asbestos was considered a great fire-proof substance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IMHO, the almost idolatry of the Constitution in the US meant that a what’s essentially a Prototype of Modern Democracy kept getting used without a systemic update for too long and was essentially relying on everybody being a gentleman to work.

  Personally the whole part were the Political Pillar being in charge of nominating the top of the Judicial Pillar - the Supreme Court Judges - even though in Democracy those Pillars are supposed to be independent, always felt like a major weakness in the face of Authoritarian encroaching, as did the First Past The Post voting system.

  That’s the point I’m trying to make: the flaws in the American system are systemic, making it more easy from autoritarians (not just Trump’s Fascists but also the Oligarchy that stands behind both the Republicans and the Democrats) to control it.

  The main difference with the Fascists is how brazen then are in doing so, which the other bunch would be far more discrete (hence which the Prison population in the US was already so large under the “other” political party of the US Duopoly system).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  suppress wages in prison workshops, and exempt them from minimum wage

  And how is that in any way form or shape a good thing?

  That shit is just Indentured Servitude with extra steps.

  It seems to me (not at American) that the intention to exploit people who have no other choice was there from the start. Create a structure were you can get cheap/free labor of people who have been deemed by others to be LABEL (in this case, a felon) and deprived of their freedom and you always end up with more and more people being given LABEL and deprived of their freedom so that the can be used as cheap/free labor.

  The United States has long been the nation in the World with the highest percentage of people in prison.

  The well was poisoned from the very start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This crap predates MAGA by a long long time - after all, as somebody else pointed out, the 13th Ammendment of the US constitution explicitly allows slavery for those convicted of crimes.

  Obviously MAGA is going to abuse the shit out of this, but this kind of infrastructure for Fascism has long been in place and was already used even before MAGA was a twinkling in the eyes of whatever Koch Brother’s Funded Think Tank employee who came up with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All it takes is a water pipe painted black zigzagging inside a box which is black inside and has the sun facing side replaced by glass.

  You can get hot water from something like that even in Winter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mate, I have a Masters in Electronics Engineering and a partial degree in Physics.

  You’re either confusing some other application with what I was talking about - the emitters used in LED light bulbs - or you mentally over-generalized something you heard to a domain where it doesn’t apply or used it out of context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, even cheap microcontrollers nowadays with support for clock functionality have an ultra low power mode were the only thing running is the clock crystal and the clock functionality which uses so little power that it can run for years from such a button battery.

  The thing could do the same as my stupidly cheap alarm clock that has some batteries as power backup and just keep on counting time without displaying whilst mains power is down so that when mains power comes back up it still has the right time.

  The extra $1 for the hardware needed for it is hardly going to matter next to the overal cost of anything but a stupidly cheap microwave.