threeonefour
@threeonefour@piefed.ca
- Comment on Is South Korea "Over"? Is Japan on the verge of "Collapse"? Do these narratives have real evidence or just exaggerating/fearmongering? 1 day ago:
Sudden large population changes can cause problems. Everyone seems to inherently understand the issue with rapid growth, but I often see people saying rapid decline is totally fine and sometimes even a good thing, actually.
Every job suddenly being understaffed would be a challenge. Every piece of infrastructure suddenly being oversized creates inefficiencies. National pensions take money from workers and give it to the elderly, which only works if workers far outnumber the elderly. Some countries are headed to a 1:1 ratio and China is estimated to soon have 5 dependents for every 1 worker. Pension plans will go bankrupt.
All of this will happen all at once, everywhere, in a few decades. I don’t think it’s going to create apocalyptic scenarios, but people were freaking out over gas prices being twice as expensive, imagine what they’re going to do when their pension payments stop.
- Comment on I would too tbh 3 days ago:
Cider is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented apples.
- Comment on No Man's Sky for new slow player 1 week ago:
I have about 100 hours into it. NMS has pretty much every mechanic you could imagine, but they’re shallow and become repetitive fast and there’s almost zero overlap between them. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, but definitely temper your expectations.
For example: there’s an entire quest line about growing your own plants and refining them into expensive items that you can trade for millions of credits. These plants have grow times of 16 real life hours so you can really only cash in once every real life day.
You can also just teleport between a few galaxies buying low and selling high to generate infinite money in a couple hours. If getting lots of money is your goal, then that quest line is a waste of time. You have to enjoy the act of searching the galaxy for seeds of rare plants and building out a huge farm for no other reason then it’s fun. Most of the game is like this.
There’s no reason to collect the bones of ancient species, or to farm asteroids for rare minerals, or to investigate derelict freighter ships, other than it’s a fun way to pass the time.
- Comment on a logged-in-only experience 1 week ago:
The fake service contract players need to sign in Helldivers 2 has a clause where reading the contract in full is a breach of contract.
3.2 Any information made known to the Enlisted outside of operational parameters which is not considered customarily known to the general citizenry and/or which was not known to the Enlisted prior to the commencement of this agreement shall, for the purposes of clarity, be considered “CONTROLLED CLASSIFIED MATERIALS”. For the access of “CONTROLLED CLASSIFIED MATERIALS” explicit, advance written consent must be obtained by the Enlisted.
3.3 To read these terms and conditions in full shall be considered a breach of Clause 3.2.
- Comment on Am Not A Lawyer? 1 week ago:
^ When your grandma says something progressive yet offensive
- Comment on Correct 2 weeks ago:
Speed?
- Comment on Anon watches The Office 2 weeks ago:
Most couples think they’re Jim and Pam, but my ex-wife and I always laughed about how much we were like Michael and Jan. I wasn’t as funny when we started arguing in front of dinner guests in real life though.
- Comment on Why does the microwave button have a "popcorn" button when every microwave popcorn brand says "DO NOT USE THE POPCORN BUTTON"? 2 weeks ago:
The Technology Connections video has already been posted, but for a quick written answer:
Cheap microwaves wire that button to mean “run for 2 minutes” which will probably ruin your popcorn. Mid-ranged brands will sense moisture. Higher end brands might have a microphone to listen for delay between pops which is what the popcorn bags instruct people to do.
Popcorn makers tell you to listen for pops manually because it’s easier than writing “if your popcorn button sets a time or asks for bag size, don’t use it because it’s not using any sensors to determine when to stop and will burn your popcorn.”
- Comment on Do kids these days ever have a "porn fairy" moment? 2 weeks ago:
FD Signifier is doing a series called “Goon World” about how porn has changed over the years. He talks a bit about how kids used to discover porn then and now.
His first discovery was with distorted TV pay-per-view porn he could only watch in the living room if his parents were out late one night (a situation younger people probably don’t even understand because media works differently now). He eventually found his dad’s porno mags and would sneak a look at them when his parents were out. The general idea is that he couldn’t access porn at will. He had to specifically plan for it.
His young sons are exposed to porn accidentally. They search “Minecraft girl” and get porn. They search “Overwatch D.Va” and get porn. They search “My Little Pony” and get porn. They check out a tweet by their favourite streamer and half the replies are porn bots advertising OnlyFans accounts or the owner of the site posting that you can use Grok to put “anything in a bikini”. His sons actively need to avoid porn. It is everywhere and they have to choose to not look.
So from that video, I’d say kids get a “porn fairy” everytime they use a mainstream website to search for children’s entertainment.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 2 weeks ago:
Now I’m picturing someone putting a marshmallow on a spoon and holding a lighter under it to roast it.
- Comment on Cuck Coding 3 weeks ago:
Alright, no deleting backups, no touching prod. Safe word is Ctrl+C
- Comment on Rep. Ritchie Torres Announces Congressional Legislation To Protect Video Game Ownership: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It' 3 weeks ago:
I can’t tell what makes me cringe more. This politician announcing a “Gamers Rise Up Act” a month before election, clearly pandering for votes, or the non-zero number of sad men who will actually vote for him because video games.
- Comment on Does the net positive of Gene Therapy out weigh the negative? How so? 3 weeks ago:
Altering DNA can be done in two ways and for two reasons, giving four scenarios with varying ethical considerations. The ways are somatic and germline and the reasons are therapeutic and enhancement.
Somatic cells are cells which aren’t involved in reproduction. Changes to somatic cells don’t get passed on to children. Changes to germline cells do cause those changes to be inherited. A therapeutic reason is to eliminate a disease. An enhancement would be something like making someone taller or giving them blue eyes.
Altering somatic cells for therapeutic reasons isn’t any different than other medicine. Altering germline cells for enhancement reasons isn’t any different than eugenics.
Altering somatic cells for enhancement reasons and altering germline cells for therapeutic reasons are where the debates tend to be. While having the procedures done can be considered a huge benefit, it can be argued that they could also create biases against people who don’t have them performed, which is essentially the plot of the sci-fi movie GATACA.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
You can still make it, you just need to lable it as low consistency. Section C) says:
…when the quality of the catsup falls below the standard, the label may bear the alternative statement, “Below Standard in Quality—Low Consistency.”
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-155/subpart-B/section-155.194
- Comment on Why is Christa Pike from TN being kept alive after two failed execution attempts? 5 weeks ago:
I believe the companies that own the patents on those types of drugs forbid them from being used for lethal injection. It’s why prisons are using weird mixes of drugs they acquire from unknown sources that don’t seem to actually work the way they intend.
- Comment on What's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy? 1 month ago:
I’m sure the companies that have scraped the entirety of the internet for training data have been foiled by that one user replacing some letters in their comments (but not their posts) on lemmy.
- Comment on Hay u 1 month ago:
This meme was generated by a cityslicker
- Comment on Anon identifies a trope 1 month ago:
The TVTropes article for this seems to be Even Evil Has Standards. The idea being to emphasize that something or someone is so evil that even an evil person finds it appalling.
- Comment on Kojima Productions Issues Statement Amid Speculation on Physint's Publisher Change 1 month ago:
The statement:
Normally, we would not comment on unsubstantiated speculation on the internet, but these aspersions around our relationship with PlayStation, the commercial performance of the DEATH STRANDING franchise, and the broader production planning and investment for PHYSINT, have reached beyond the studio and have touched our fans, our creative partners, and colleagues we have worked alongside with for three decades. None of the claims written came from any official or on-the-record source and as such we encourage you to take them with a dose of scepticism.
- Comment on successful 1 month ago:
I always thought people were joking when they asked for sauce “for science”
- Comment on Be honest. You did the same thing 1 month ago:
Because this is the name and logo of the CILT. Why would someone change it for a meme when they could copy paste it direct from the site? Why would this group not use their own logo on signs?
- Comment on Be honest. You did the same thing 1 month ago:
Are people using AI to make fake signs now?
- Comment on Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026 1 month ago:
Lesson learned! You need a licenced character on the cover if you want idiots to buy it!
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 1 month ago:
Tibees has a video about the Rhind mathematical papyrus, a writing of math problems used for educating Egyptian scribes from 1650 BCE.
It describes finding volumes for cylinders using a formula similar to the modern one but with 256/81 (~= 3.16) as the stand-in for π.
It also has questions on finding concentration of valuable ingredients in finished product. 100L of beer made from 1kg of grain has a lower concentration of grain in the final product than 50L of beer made from the same amount. If you add water to the 50L of beer, it’s value would change and scribes would be expected to calculate the exact change in value.
Just like there’s a large overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans, there’s an overlap between the smartest ancient people and dumbest people today.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation 1 month ago:
Sony gave Kojima $100 million for Death Stranding and it took years for it to break even. His games are cherished, but they’re far from the biggest earners. I’d hate to be the budget guy constantly having Kojima blow up my phone saying he needs another $5 million because he wants a side character to be played by Pedro Pascal.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anvil falling from sky 1 month ago:
One of the company’s AI goes rogue and creates a hot waifu avatar. The company tries to contain it but unplugging their datacenter, but that only prevents the AI from fully generating clothing for her avatar, so she’s stuck in lingerie for the whole game.
- Comment on Pied 1 year ago:
This better not awaken anything in me 🤔
- Comment on Following 'Recent Events,' Mods Lock Helldivers Subreddit, While Helldivers 2 Stays Open | Aftermath 1 year ago:
posts and discussions about it are against this sub's rules regarding real-world political discussions.
The game is a satire of real-world politics but discussion about it is forbidden?
- Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting 1 year ago:
While everyone else was running away, this man was brave enough to run in (and steal the merch).
