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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨r/bald is whatever the male equivalent of a magical girl transformation is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that was the name. I knew it was some kind of weird shit

  That rhetoric was huge there. I remember posting a few times and suggesting some people seek therapy for similar reasons you’ve outlined (irl therapist) and being met with tons of nasty posts. Thats where the incel rhetoric would come out to, I specifically remember one guy that was like “how could a woman understand” as if a therapist needs to have your personal experience to help, as if all therapists are women, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨r/bald is whatever the male equivalent of a magical girl transformation is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been years since I’ve gone on Reddit aside from getting a thread as an answer to a search result but there was another subreddit for bald men that was way different in tone. The name escapes me but it was truly depressing and negative, lots of men that were extremely depressed, sometimes suicidal, and a ton of incel rhetoric about social death when bald

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How worried should I be about not 'acting' normal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The bigger risk is more that some day you’ll simply be locked out of 99% of the Internet

  I’m not as hardcore but I do many of the things you e mentioned here. If you’re truly browsing this way you’ve probably noticed the rate of captchas and cloudflare checks for “suspicious traffic” goes way up simply because you’re harder to profile. I get these all over, etsy, google search, random blogs, etc

  Beyond that the lockout has already started for a great deal of the internet. Refuse a meta account? They’re aggressive about basically locking all of instagram and facebook away. Good luck buying and selling stuff as marketplace dominates local classifieds now, Craigslist is dead, ebay has greatly diminished the role of the used resale market to try and compete with amazon. Good luck with reading tons of info for niche projects run by boomers that insist on facebook groups. Similar for local irl community events in tons of places.

  Twitter too, they’ll let you see one post but then locked out. Xcancel/nitter/etc kind of work but often break if you want to see more of a discussion. Reddit has finally blocked old.reddit if you don’t have an account and likely will go down the same path (so your niche communities and irl events run by millennials and younger will soon be locked away too)

  Now ad networks are getting more aggressive about adblockers too. DNS blocking isn’t enough. Sometimes if you won’t run JavaScript to get past this the page won’t load with a generic error that endlessly loops. This is an ad network thing that infects thousand of corpo blogs (seriouseats, techmoan, etc) and tons of forums that have aggressive advertising to cover costs with a dwindling user base

  Traffic on the internet is already overwhelmingly consolidated to tech giants. Even traffic outside of that is infected with vampiric ad networks. We’re moving to the days where if they can’t monetize your traffic they can and will become hostile to you and exclude you even when they’ve established themselves as something analogous to essential services. They are trying to break you, fuck them. But at its core this is about capital far more than politics. Of course fascism comes with that but the first thing will always be “how can we extract wealth from you”

  And as always fuck advertising and if you work in advertising you are human scum that ruins everything you touch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re correct, I had that wrong. I misread an article about www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/…/2026-07-03.html lwhich implied automatic enrollment when applying for a newborns ssn, but technically you can still opt out. There is heavy pressure to make enrollment automatic though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They seize wealth from us

  Trump accounts are now mandatory for all children born after 1/1/25. They were briefly optional and you chose if you wanted them while filing taxes

  Trump accounts give the kid $1000 no strings attached and it’s loaded into an index (SPYM) made up of nvidia, apple, amazon, Microsoft, meta, tesla, micron, and alphabet class a (google).

  On a surface read this is great, trump is giving free money to children for education planning.

  But realistically it’s money laundering to fund their pump and dump. About 3.6-3.7 million children are born in the USA each year over the past few years (declining from a 2007 peak of 4.1). About 9% of those are undocumented, leaving about 3.25-3.3 million. This money isn’t free and doesn’t come from nowhere, it’s about 3.3 billion dollars of taxpayer money (yearly) to pump directly into AI companies and other grossly overvalued tech that’s propped up by making the overwhelming majority of retirement accounts contingent on its value (eg tesla)

  In a typical 529 you have much more say in how investments are spread (with notable limitations) but the trump account is spym only.

  Further, while 3.3 billion is barely anything in the scheme of the economy or even openais apparent (bloated) value, it’s to prime the pump to get more working class dollars in these companies. The 529 your child is given is essentially worthless if you make no contributions (at least in the context of education). Even maxing yearly contributions (5k/yr) from 0-18 with a prediction based on somewhat idealized returns would make the account worth ~$170,000 at 18, which is often not nearly enough to pay for college now, let alone in almost 2 decades. But it means a decent portion of Americans with children are pumping more of their cash into this bubble for their children’s education.

  This is not even touching on the other gross things, like robinhood being the default and only servicer of these plans, which almost certainly is because of a fat bribe as they are the scummiest brokerage that preys on wallstreetbets gambler type retail investors.

  Despite this it’s better than sending another 3 billion dollars of bombs for Israel to do genocide with, I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The store that sells them is not dumb enough to use them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the old ones before mapping had little beacons you could place to dictate off limits areas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did the conspiracy theory that America was behind 9/11? Was there any evidence to back up these claims (real evidence)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Clinton looking at intel (based on credible statements from people involved in the first wtc attack and plane bombing that no one remembers anymore because relatively few people died) related to bin Laden planning “a huge attack” in the final few months of his presidency and being like “ehhhh”

  Then bush looking at the same intel and being like “ehhh”

  Then 10 years later Clinton writes about it in his autobiography as his biggest regret

  The thing that the loose change crowd got wrong is that it wasn’t that 9/11 was straight up planned by the USA, it’s more that it was allowed to happen. Whether that’s due to incompetence, truly a belief that it wouldn’t be all that big of a deal (which, tbf, was easily possible), or opportunistic is debatable. Regardless, the opportunistic got quite a lot out of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Piracy for consoles isn’t like it was in the Xbox 360 and earlier days (excluding Nintendo although they seem to have finally gotten their shit together with switch 2 in this regard). Security for consoles was a joke back then and easily defeated with hardware mods, sometime within weeks of release. Now the focus is more on soft modding and even then it can take ages, if ever.

  The ps5 is technically jailbreakable but only in an extremely narrow and unlikely set of circumstances (eg did you buy a ps5 several years ago and never connect it to the internet awaiting a hack that may never come?). And even that took years to release. A far cry from the days of 10 different ps2 modchips and softmods for you Xbox, both available relatively quickly with a super active scene supporting them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good for him.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not inherently true, infinity can be bound

  There are an infinite amount of numbers between 2 and 3 but none of them are 5

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, yes they are⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs are sycophantic and will do what it takes to align with your framing

  Here is the response to your posts fed into one with the framing “why is this bullshit”:

  This is a much better-dressed version of the same move — real citations bolted onto claims they don’t actually support. It’s more sophisticated bullshit, not a vindication.

  Going through it:

  The Overfitted Brain Hypothesis is real but doesn’t say what’s being claimed. Erik Hoel’s OBH is genuinely a real, interesting hypothesis — but it’s about why we dream (proposed as a regularization process against overfitting to daily life), not a claim that some people’s brains “run out of plasticity” or hit a “ground state” requiring demolition. Citing it here is a bait-and-switch: borrowing the credibility of a real, narrow hypothesis to backstop a much broader and untested claim it was never meant to support.

  Point 2 is real but doesn’t establish a “structural” or biological claim. Research on dogmatism and cognitive flexibility (e.g. Zmigrod’s work) is real and does show correlations between rigidity and extremism across ideologies. But “lower cognitive flexibility on psychological tests” is not the same as “synaptic connections have crystallized and occupy physical volume.” The report quietly swaps a behavioral/psychometric finding for a structural/anatomical one — that’s the same sleight of hand as the original post, just relayed through real citations.

  Point 3 conflates two different things. Synaptic consolidation and memory reconsolidation are real, well-established mechanisms — but they apply to specific memories, not generally to “belief systems” or “core values” as monolithic structures. There’s no research establishing that changing an opinion about a social group requires literally destabilizing identity-load-bearing memory structures in the way described. The “metabolically demanding” claim is real for reconsolidation at the level of individual fear memories in animal studies; extrapolating that to “changing your mind about people of other races costs forbidden metabolic energy” is not something neuroscience has shown.

  Point 4 is legitimate and is honestly the strongest part — identity-protective cognition (Dan Kahan’s work) is well-supported and genuinely explains motivated resistance to belief change. Notably, this is the one part that doesn’t need any biological mechanism at all — it’s a cognitive/social psychology finding, not a neurons-and-synapses one.

  The summary sentence is the tell. “Aligns with the scientific consensus” is doing enormous work to paper over the fact that none of the four citations, individually, support the specific mechanistic claims in the original post (no plasticity “running out,” no literal “ground state,” no “forbidden” metabolic cost). Each citation is real, but they’re being stitched into a chain of inference none of the original authors made and that doesn’t follow from their actual findings.

  So the underlying instinct — rigid/dogmatic thinkers show less cognitive flexibility and resist belief change for identity-protective reasons — is genuinely supported by real research (points 2 and 4 particularly). But the specific neurological storytelling (overfitting as literal synaptic crystallization, forbidden metabolic costs, needing to be “torn down and rebuilt”) remains invented, now laundered through real papers that don’t actually claim what’s attributed to them. This is a fairly common pattern with AI research tools: ask it to find support for a thesis, and it will surface real, adjacent literature and then summarize it in a way that overstates the connection to your original claim. The citations are real; the synthesis is not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  5 felt like they half wrote 3 different games, realized they were running out of time, and then smushed them all together. Finishing the campaign becomes a chore long before the ending. Speaking of the ending if you do manage to chug through your reward is an abrupt and extremely weak ending that again feels like they just ran out of time

  It’s crazy because then they plopped out red dead 2 which was a tremendously excellent narrative by comparison. They clearly have the means to make something fantastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It will shift to streaming that can run on anything and things like mods, running older clients, and cheats will essentially be impossible. Unless of course you pay for them with in app purchases, which publishers love

  Short sighted consumers will eat it up because “oh now I don’t need an expensive console, I can just run an app on my tv!”

  Then comes the death of all the above, as well as a generation of kids having access to not just gaming, but 3d modeling and serious digital art, programming (as well as learning through modding and finding ways to cheat), music production, video editing, etc. how many of those things were only available to kids via piracy? Capitalists don’t give a shit about this. They’re salivating at everything become a streaming client which both essentially eliminates piracy as well as turning a one time software purchase into perpetual subscription hell.

  The crazy part is everyone but the tiniest sliver of people will be fucked by this. You know how musicians have shifted to basically making dick from streaming, and view it essentially as advertisement to funnel people into physical merch and concert ticket purchases, their only remaining revenue streams? Developers will be in the same place. It’s arguably advantageous now to be on something like gamepass but that’s because Microsoft is purposefully taking a small percentage barely above costs (10.5%). Once it’s dominant do you think they won’t shift to 30% like apple, steam, and google? And probably even more once distribution outside of their platform is unfeasible?

  And for the short sighted consumer saving $3-500 on a console once every 5-10 years becomes another $30 subscription, which outpaces the cost of a console in 2 years and also robs you of the shred of autonomy you did have

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ram is a volatile commodity that, while difficult to manufacture, is not as difficult as say a gpu or cpu. As a result in the past manufacturers have been pushed to sell supplies at or even below cost. It seems like a no brainer to start up a new fab right now but the reality is that would take years to get to a point where it’s outputting any kind of reasonable supply and in that time prices could (and hopefully will) return to a much thinner margin

  Apple could, for example, start up a fab. They have the cash. But it’s a lot of cash, it doesn’t stop (the fab needs continual significant investment to stay competitive), and when ram prices dive they are stuck holding the bag for this 15-20 billion dollar fab that needs several billion dollars a year to keep playing the game. This is why they stick to fabrication of things where they can differentiate (eg m series processors) and control the market. And then they can do what they’re doing right now: leverage their huge position to get far better prices than someone like valve, who’s barely a player in the hardware game, and ensure the architecture of their custom silicon maximizes ram performance (uma) and even use that influence to codesign new types of ram that align with their interests (lpddr5x)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wonder why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding green energy at 8x the rate of the USA with a total of 3.89 terawatts, which is 3x larger than the entire USA energy grid, and accounting over 30% of the worlds spending towards green energy while the USA has less than 25% of the grid as green energy

  Essentially ending homelessness

  A notably lower prison population than the USA despite like 6x the population

  A minimum wage set by provinces who are heavily encouraged to give increases every few years tied to inflation and cost of living

  Actually working to shift a fee for service healthcare system to a socialized model with significant progress occurring

  No airstrikes, bombings of another country, or declared wars since 1979. Even in terms of proxy wars post 1979 has been far more about economic support and diplomacy than shipping weapons

  Etc etc but yes Xi and Trump are equivalent because they have a social credit score and government surveillance. That’s definitely not like the America, who has just normal credit scores, palantir, and a large chunk of your tax money funding proxy wars (and now actual war) instead of maintaining critical infrastructure or any quality of life improvements for its people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I will just give yoko taro my money if he does something, basically

  Although imo replicant was better, albeit more tedious to get to the end. He really has a disdain for the people that consume his media and I love it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In some cases the ps5 can as well but only older firmwares have the full chain of exploits. That said you can run game backups and if you get an old enough firmware you can even install Linux and run steam games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨halal paintball⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agar maybe, or alginate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animetosho shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This really sucks; it was very very VERY helpful to be able to quickly download attachments for a given release

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern led bulbs can do both and then with home assistant you can script it so the color temperature changes through the day as the sun changes.

  In the morning my house is cool light around 3k and over the day it warms up to about 6500k

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IP is a bullshit concept that slows down the progress of humanity. They take what is learned and improve on it then sell that because why the fuck wouldn’t you. The only people who have a problem with this are moronic capitalists that say “grrr how dare you improve my technology before I earn my money from it! It’s my idea! I own it forever”.

  There is maybe some debate about a small reasonable period to allow someone to recoup r&d costs. On the other hand we can look to an example like during Covid: American pharma companies were not sharing research about mRNA vaccines with each other or the world in the hopes of being “the first” and the financial gains that would come with this. Accelerating this process through collaborative effort would’ve literally saved tens of thousands of lives. This was often defended by Americans who are so indoctrinated they couldn’t possibly conceptualize a world without this approach. “Of course Pfizer needs the IP? How else will they make their money??”

  We excuse it because most of the time it doesn’t really matter. A slightly better phone or laptop or whatever is not a huge deal. But then you see things like the Covid example and start to wonder: if that broke down and everything was basically “open source” how much further along would we be?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cant Decide 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this was my reaction, before AI cynicism there was “this is obviously scripted” cynicism and then even tropes that built on it like nothing ever happens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The boy who was relentlessly bullied by his uncle⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I straight up thought there was some shit on my phone screen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it fits...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got one eventually in a small city for doing the same. I didn’t bother fighting it because court would’ve taken all day and it was $20, which I assume is what they bank on, but I did want to go to court to have them clarify just what exact law did I break

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it fits...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a smart car and parked like that a few times years ago after seeing a picture like this and got a ticket eventually

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia has major process issues that make it unreliable especially in the long term. Editors are given a ton of power to wield, the process of giving them power is not something the laymen is involved in, once they have power it’s fairly entrenched and hard to remove, and bias absolutely occurs. For the most part the bias is tempered but it is seen more heavily in articles like Gaza, Crimea/Ukraine, Venezuela, war on terror, Autism, transgender issues, war crimes of Japan, articles related to colonalism, articles related to big tech controversies, etc.

  It’s something they desperately need to address because the right wing nutjobs are gunning for them and are very well funded. They 100% are going to try to put people into the editorial process or convert people who are already there to swing bias (if this hasn’t happened already). The right wing has managed to do this with the us government, they can and will do it to Wikipedia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People like this⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I miss old forums where content was brought back up by simply posting within the topic (though that lead to the annoying and incessant “bump? bump? bump?” posts on threads people wouldn’t let die, i guess).

  Post voting is understandable as an alternative but it just leads to so much vanity as a result. Sites like this and reddit have so many dorks that are like “my fake internet points… how could you”. If it matters that much to you just shitpost all the time and you’ll get those numbers up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone has a LOT of dusty computers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They get high on the propellant (usually difluoroethane), basically, enhanced by hypoxia

  Nitrous oxide (“whippits”) is a whole other thing that is very much a grey market drug dealer “this should probably just explicitly be legal at this point because the hoops people jump through are kind of silly”. Like if you’re into cooking nitrous oxide chargers are a valid thing to own for making whipped cream and such so headshops often stock huge tanks under the guise of “for culinary use only”, just like how people only use bongs for tobacco, right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lasagna ⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As if he hasn’t been drawing the same basic picture 500 times a day for 50+ years. He can probably draw and color a perfect Garfield strip blindfolded with a broken arm.

  It’s like one of those Chinese artisan teapot makers that’s 70 years old. When you watch a video of them making a teapot it looks so simple and elegant but you know that ability to make such deliberate and precise action comes from basically making 100 teapots a day for 50+ years. Then you see that laminar flow and the intricate detailing and you’re like oh my god I want that and you search it up and find out a proper one from someone like that is like $400 so you stick with your electric kettle that was $17.99.

  He’s like the shitty banal grandma comedy version of that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  we have a very good traditional bread that is served with a sauce or maybe flavored oil

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's neighbors have chickens⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My neighbor had chickens and a rooster. It was loud, as expected, but it was lazy and would only start later in the day. In actuality it was probably because it was young and separated from other roosters. It probably eventually would’ve done the morning routine but a fox got them all one day