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@ech@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Paid Time Off Hypocrisy 2 days ago:
Oh yeah, this is the user that went into every thread about the campaign attack in Ohio saying she deserved it. I doubt any appeals to reason will land with this person.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 1 week ago:
Because being less clear is better?
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 1 week ago:
At the expense of immigrants that aren’t obscenely wealthy? How does that make anything better? There are endless other ways to call out this garbage. Pick one that doesn’t needlessly harm those that are already hurting.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 1 week ago:
It’s not ironic, it’s basic math. Based on just the amount the post said he gained, the campaign funding is 1% of what he’d be paying in the tax, even less because that’s not his entire net worth.
That’s the math you have to consider with all of these counter-campaigns - the money they’re spending will always be less than what they expect to pay, otherwise they’d just pay the tax. That’s always the driving force, regardless of what their smear campaigns say.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 2 weeks ago:
Children are pretty calorie dense.
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
Steve Mould has a great video digging into why things look white: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gug67f1_8jM
Probably not strictly translatable to all other colors, but a helpful illustration of how color is how objects intact with light, not inherent properties of the object itself.
- Comment on That's just science 2 weeks ago:
Whinging about a fact being wrong without providing a correction is worse than the one being wrong.
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 3 weeks ago:
Better to use the udm14 for a custom search engine than to route your traffic through a separate party.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%25s&udm=14, depending in the formatting of your browser. - Comment on Day 760 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
I love the combat. It reminds me of Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, which I had a blast playing back in the day.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 3 weeks ago:
Literal birthplace of the Oxford Comma and they still don’t use it. Smh my head.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 4 weeks ago:
Can’t even bother to make propaganda without sloppifying it. This is a real low point for humanity.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 4 weeks ago:
I have a parent who will only drink “lite” beer. I do not understand it. It takes like shitty water.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 4 weeks ago:
The style of the text is a big giveaway to me. Generated text has gotten a lot better (ie usually legible), but it’s pretty much always that same block letters that aren’t quite perfect enough to be a typeface, but also not designed well enough to be made by hand.
The general format of this one is also fits closely to a lot of other generated posters I’ve seen (some examples: lemmy.ca/…/2d35f3bf-bc05-4971-8c8d-9e69fe857bde.p…). It’s hard to describe, but hopefully you can see what we’re talking about.
- Comment on 'This Is Unbelievably Scummy' - GTA 6 Fans Are Annoyed By Netflix's Paywalled Extended Look at the Game 4 weeks ago:
“I can’t see yet another ad before other people do! Boooo!” Wtf is wrong with people?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
We made sourdough. Newton defined the foundations of math and science.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 1 month ago:
Same house still.
That’s a hotel room. In New York.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 1 month ago:
- The interior shots were a fabricated sound stage 2) The last shot isn’t even the same movie 3) This is most likely slop, considering the large discrepancies in dimensions.
F-, -1/10
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 1 month ago:
It does justice to the source material
Funny joke.
- Comment on Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous? 1 month ago:
Elijah Wood in Back to the Future 2 as that little brat on the arcade cabinet.
- Comment on Bethesda Announces New ‘Fallout’ Roadmap Following Xbox Reset 1 month ago:
I would love for a big franchise or studio to just drop their next big hit some day with zero leadup. HL3 would be perfect for it - just pop it up on the steam homepage and see what happens.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 1 month ago:
Adding context, the nearly-perfect-marks midterm was a take-home exam. Not that chatbots aren’t a big problem in schools right now, but this same thing would’ve happened 15 years ago.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 2 months ago:
I haven’t bought a console in over a decade, but I was under the impression the most/all “physical” copies these days were little more then digital download codes on discs. How many actually hold the whole game, enough to qualify as “owning” it?
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations 2 months ago:
Worth noting that’s not the date you should check back, more of a “by this date” suggestion. Reservations are still being served regularly, so keep an eye out for that email.
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations 2 months ago:
A queue system really undercuts any scalper that would consider the controller a good target. There will of course be people without patience that could payout, but the larger market will just wait until their turn to order comes up. Seems like a bad investment for someone that relies on FOMO to profit.
- Comment on https://kotaku.com/xbox-shuttering-south-of-midnight-peabody-award-compulsion-games-2000706065 2 months ago:
Same for all Indies bought up by larger companies. At best they seem to get broken up and dispersed in the company. Most just seem to be ballast used to pad stock value, then tossed when it’s the least bit beneficial to their owners.
- Comment on I wonder who discovered it 3 months ago:
Sperm
Oh god…
Whale vomit
Somehow better, but still horrifying.
- Comment on Intellectual Freedom 3 months ago:
Downvoted because nothing in the comic supports either comment.
- Comment on Intellectual Freedom 3 months ago:
Disregarding the tasteless “joke”, every person is different, so why would we presume the corpse is any of them?
- Comment on Intellectual Freedom 3 months ago:
And she also never died!
- Comment on The disaster of Brexit is a warning against simple solutions to hard problems 3 months ago:
More like “blatantly outright wrong ‘solutions’”.
