ExLisper
@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
- Comment on Games you played inside video games. 34 minutes ago:
In GTA (the first one) we would come up with challenged like “steal a firetruck and ram 10 cars until they explode” and the other person had to do it with one life.
- Comment on ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted 2 hours ago:
No shit.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 23 hours ago:
Oh, I see what’s going on here.
I live in Europe so I’m looking at this from European perspective. While I think I don’t live in a completely just society I think it’s pretty good, it can be improved and I would like for it to survive. So I think Europe should have weapons and we should have best engineers possible working on them. While their weapons are sometimes used for immoral things I don’t blame the engineers for it.
You’re looking at this from American perspective. You think your society is evil and it should be destroyed. You don’t think it should be able to defend itself at all and all engineers helping to preserve it are morally corrupt.
You’re looking at this from a perspective or a Nazi engineer in 1938 while I’m looking at it from a perspective or a Polish engineer in 1938.
So you’re taking the most extreme case and applying it to all arms companies while I treat as… well… extreme case.
I have a friend in Poland that works for a company providing components for weapon manufacturers. Some components they make were found in Gaza. Do I think he’s immoral and should quit? No, I think those components are necessary to protect Poland from Russia and I don’t think Poland should be destroyed. He can’t decide were those components will end up. Would I say the same about Israeli engineer? No.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 day ago:
It’s really not that complicated. We have two “issues”.
- Engineers making weapons
- Weapons being used to kill innocent people.
There is an easy solution to both: don’t make weapons. That’s a stupid solution because if your country doesn’t have any weapons it will be invaded by other country and innocent people will die.
You know this easy solution is stupid so you say we should only “reduce” the number of weapons. But this doesn’t solve any issues. Engineers still make weapons and those weapons can still be used to kill innocent people. You just saved some money which is completely different topic entirely.
So now you’re stuck in a loop claiming that your stupid solution will solve issue 2 (which it won’t) while ignoring issue 1 entirely.
The real “solution” is to not use weapons to kill innocent people. “Issue” 1 is not an issue at all. Engineers making weapons are necessary. “Issue” 2 has to be solved by the entire country by electing better politicians. Engineers don’t have more power here than farmers or doctors.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 day ago:
Obviously.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 day ago:
I have literally no idea what kind of point you think you’re making.
I can see that. Let me explain that in even simpler way.
You say:
Me: Making guns.
You: “Engineers making guns bad! Make less guns!”
Me: Make 1 gun instead of 3.
US Army: Take 1 gun and kill brown children.
You: “Engineers making guns bad!”
I say:
Me: Making guns.
US Army: Takes guns and kills brown people.
Me: Army bad!
P.S. I don’t work for arms company. I was just making a point.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 day ago:
You do realize that if you “reduce” spending you will still have arms companies making weapons and engineers will work for them? I don’t think it’s that complicated…
You spend a lot on weapons. If you reduce it you will spend less on weapons but you will buy some weapons.
Like imagine you’re spending $100 a week on alcohol. You decide it’s bad for you and you reduce it. Now you’re only spending $30 on alcohol. You’re still buying alcohol. You spend less but you still buy it so someone will still make it.
Hope that helps.
- Comment on Hershey highway 1 day ago:
10/10 burn.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 day ago:
Great, so let’s disarm unilaterally. I’m sure Russia and China will do the same.
Such a childish take…
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 day ago:
Where did you get my desire for blood from? All I’m saying is that the same arms companies make weapons that fall in Gaza and that protect Europe. You can’t have one but not the other. It’s up to politicians to decide how to use those weapons, not engineers.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 day ago:
There will still be people working for arms companies. All of them will deserve hell?
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 day ago:
The good guys. Define them as you like.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 day ago:
Here’s a great idea: let’s not produce any weapons and disarm unilaterally. What could go wrong?
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 1 week ago:
We even have robots that assemble them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qCw5r0SqwQ
- Comment on Good job! 1 week ago:
It’s informal ‘yes’, pretty much like ‘yep’.
- Comment on Good job! 1 week ago:
In Polish this would mean “Yep, Anna”.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 1 week ago:
MAGA for sure will have a whiplash today but Trump’s change of mind is consistent with my theory that he only cares about two things:
- making money
- getting the Nobel Peace Prize
Everything else is just a distraction. Trump doesn’t give a shit who’s the mayor of NYC. He will post couple of truths about it but now the important thing is to get back to making billions on crypto and getting shitloads of bribes.
- Comment on Wearing a helmet and a hat while biking 1 week ago:
But if you don’t have a helmet hair how will people know you rode a bike?
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 week ago:
Actually the scam was that the machine was able to do it from a pinprick blood sample. The idea was that you would take the blood sample yourself, directly at the pharmacy. No doctor appointment and nurse needed. That’s why the idea was valued at billions.
And she looks funny in this picture so I 100% stand behind this meme.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 week ago:
The one and only female Steve Jobs of course. Elizabeth Holmes.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 1 week ago:
This research is specifically NOT about genetic testing. It’s about molecular profiles.
- Comment on Ahead of her time 2 weeks ago:
They don’t name the exact study but this research is related: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52310-9
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- Comment on good architecture 2 weeks ago:
I don’t!
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 2 weeks ago:
They are not showing ads for fun. They are showing them to sell stuff. People save $5 on Netflix and then spend $1000 on stupid shit they saw in the ads. Paying more for content without ads lets you escape the consumerist mindset and save money long term. Of course majority of people don’t want that. They are hooked on quick dopamine from buying another toy on Amazon and ads help them find new shit to buy. Other people simply can’t afford to avoid ads and are constantly brainwashed by then into buying one brand over another. Yes, I guess they do get cheap content in exchange but I still find it sad. The entire industry could die tomorrow and we would loose nothing of value.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 2 weeks ago:
The crazy thing is that most people don’t care. They will calmly close all the popup ads, obediently sit through YT ads and happily click on sponsored links on reddit. I know one guy who will close and re-open YT app to skip an add. Sometimes he has to do it 10 times in a row before the ad skips but he still thinks it’s justifies using YT app. People are weird.
- Comment on I will never not be angry that we are made to believe these types of comments are genuine discourse. Why is it defeatism is always the top comment even when your talking about a pedophile president? 3 weeks ago:
Delusional people expect everyone to be delusional with them. “3 days after SNAP is cut there will be revolution in the USA!”. Yeah, for sure buddy.
- Comment on Milk 3 weeks ago:
The question is not what ‘cereal with milk’ is together but what milk is to the cereal. It’s a beverage. It was a beverage before it was poured over the cereal and it is still beverage after it was poured. It’s exactly the same as water on a sloppy stake.
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t know that but it’s nice to know I was 100% right.
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 3 weeks ago:
What if we make self hosting super easy? Like select the services you want to host, choose a domain, pay and bam, you’ve got your self hosted instance of lemmy/mastodon/pixelfed and so on?
