mad_lentil

@mad_lentil@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp appears to have ads now. Good thing I don't really use it anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We used to say the same thing about Messenger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp appears to have ads now. Good thing I don't really use it anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to teach your friends and family that if they’re going to keep playing on the corporate intranet then they need to migrate from time to time to stay ahead of the tide of enshitification.

  Or they could join the free internet that is actually by and for people, but far be it from me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's always about dat math⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what’s up with my fellow millennials in the comments. I do order food once or twice a week.

  How?? I suppose I did this like a decade ago, but ever since I learned to cook / budget, it seems untenable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's always about dat math⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Platform Capitalism.

  You insert yourself as a convenient middle-man then jack up the rents once enough people move on to your platform to trigger network effects.

  Enshittify until basically no one but a few execs and investors are profiting.

  And to any engineers who think they’re on the winning team: look at the gig workers you help exploit. That’s the future of your vocation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OK we’re definitely talking about different things when we say photorealism. I see stylized and photorealistic almost as on a linear spectrum. I realise there are more dimensionz to it than that, but that’s the usage I think the meme is critiquing. That’s how I took it, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh well then there is no conflict at all, yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’re talking about different things, but I see your point.

  By stylized “graphics” I took it to mean like the actual resolution, polygons, draw distance, etc, and then aesthetics goes on top of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  High-fidelity and artfully stylized aren’t, but photorealism is like… a photo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lost count⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right click > safe to Desktop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it really does come down to individuals. Neither approach is going to work for everyone.

  Not to oversimplify, but I think a big component is that extraverts feel more connected in person, whereas introverts will thrive when they can more easily regulate draining social encounters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While this sounds intuitive, I’ve crunched side-by-side with a coworker (literally couch-coop, sshing into pods to solve a production issue), and then having also done the same over Discord with screen sharing, I can confidently say that once you actually embrace remote there is no marked tangible advantage to in person.

  Other than it’s easier to recruit for a union push on company time because people are constantly jawing, rather than doing their job when in person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO It’s still useful to have an actual human in the loop who is up to date on what a bunch of people are doing, to help coordinate as well as deflect ad hocs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  B-b-but I was told big tech companies love disruption!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're so predictable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Team apathy! 🙌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From the outside looking in⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s a mistake to write it off as recklessness. Some very few people will materially benefit from this chaos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it would REALLY mean a thing?

  Yeah we’re on the same page. I might be a little more tolerant of imperfect or half-assed attempts at a solution is all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just for the thun of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, I think something’s got to give if we’re to have any future worth living. Probably very many things should change. I’m a bit of an misanthrope myself, so getting used to more communal arrangements is painful.

  Would you be more likely to champion a less attractive option if it was part of a larger initiative to make a better world?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve got to invest in it before it gets good. You’ve got decades of car centric infrastructure inertia making cars the more convenient choice. All you’ve got to do is invest just enough to make alternatives actually possible.

  I don’t know the challenges of your specific infrastructure, but there are certainly improvements that could be made

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With adequate public transportation, it becomes much more comfortable and convenient.

  My city installed a few additional bike paths, and added some more buses, and the difference is huge.

  I don’t even need a car except when traveling longer distances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree with this take. It’s like yeah electric cars are technically better, but any advantage they have over combustion engines is blown away by things like public transportation, or designing walkable/cyclable cities.

  Our solutions can’t just rely on swapping out for “greener” tech. We need radical changes to how we are currently living in order to ensure a livable future.

  There is no future that is not radical. This gradualist, neolib (let’s make sure all the investors get a chance to divest from dirty tech before switching!) fantasy will fuck us. It’s been fucking us for a hundred years. It’s time to try literally anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teddybears - Punkrocker⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But, Superman is such a good, kind-hearted hero that it’s basically impossible to be a good person and be anti-Superman.

  Right, the main complaint is that he’s so perfect it’s boring.

  And also that he has a pretty Western/USA centric sense of morality, which you think Western chauvinists like conservatives would eat right up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U can make a difference⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AHHHHHHHHHH

  Well done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The stand makes the difference⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen these two together. Now this is cinema.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the wild swings in exchange value instantly preclude its use as a currency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? Like I don’t understand the mindset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Orgies still happen. Open relationships, too.

  If you don’t want to be exclusive then don’t enter into an exclusive relationship.

  I agree we could be less uptight about open relationships, but this is really about a rich filthy person being humiliated at a time when most of us feel powerless to stand up to money in any real capacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this deep or am I just stupid?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is not satisfied⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, he’s shit but if you’re impressionable and self-centred, you can get sucked in by his bit.

  Like I remember watching a couple clips and thinking sounds like he’s just saying common sense reasonable stuff with a side of pop philosophy – I don’t get what people are mad about but I have a good relationship with my parents and was raised to respect myself and others, so he had no to Morty’s Mind Blowers for me. I just moved on.

  Later of course, thanks to others writing about it, I discovered that he has said some legitimately heinous things, and despite being so pathetic is actually an incredibly dangerous individual, meme-wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is not satisfied⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And we wonder why Jordan Peterson telling someone like this to make their bed blows their whole mind.