PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 2 weeks ago:
This is vital context. They didn't disable his truck because he talked trash about it. He loves his Cybertruck. They disabled it because he's black and dances around like a black person while he's talking about it, and that means he's not welcome at the party. If he was Tim Pool making a song about how much he loves his Cybertruck they'd have invited him to the next event to put it on stage.
- Comment on Anon thinks about life 3 weeks ago:
It is rare for me to read something on the internet that literally knocks me back in my chair a little
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It is hard to get account-banned from Reddit. Like mad hard. I mean, I'm not up on current events over there, maybe things have changed and they brand you as "antisemitic" and ban your account sometimes, but I feel like much more likely is that this is a you issue.
No, everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. Certainly not everyone deserves a fourth chance, on the same platform.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I'm 100% on Team Steam as far as this screenshot, for the record. I just thought the story was interesting. Her shirt has a big hole for her boobs to come 80% of the way out through, and the game has sex bots in it, among other issues. I feel like this is a likely-successful attempt to garner more publicity for the game.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 4 comments
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 3 weeks ago:
I mean the private equity people get rich. It works for them. Sure, the hospitals / software companies / investors / employees / customers all suffer, but fuck 'em.
- Killer Whales Hunt Fish in Highly Coordinated Pairs and Perfect Their Movements With Practice, Drone Videos Revealwww.smithsonianmag.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to [deleted] | 4 comments
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 4 weeks ago:
"Now that we threw all the supplies overboard, we're going a lot faster now."
- Comment on Flame Light Fighter 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I mean it's fine, I wasn't saying it was cheating or anything. I was just curious if there had been some development I didn't know about.
- Comment on Flame Light Fighter 4 weeks ago:
Got it, that makes more sense. I thought this was the model output, and I was confused.
- Comment on Flame Light Fighter 4 weeks ago:
Dude... how does it have a perfect pixel grid? I didn't know generative models could work that way. Or is it a pixel art model that's just always trained on an 8-pixel grid or something?
- Comment on Anon makes decisions 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, probably so. I am 100% serious when I say that I think 4chan getting behind Trump early on and making him the meme candidate had a huge amount to do with his eventual success.
- Comment on Anon makes decisions 4 weeks ago:
Seriously. This is the kind of thing that made 4chan great.
"If you can't say 'fuck,' then you can't say 'fuck the government.'" - Lenny Bruce
"If you can't say 'Keep punching her as hard as I can / Gets to a point where her face is a pool of blood' then you can't say 'Let's go after Scientology, what a bunch of dickheads'" - old 4chan
IDK what new 4chan is even doing.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on How to make a Lemmy user look like an asshole, in three easy steps 4 weeks ago:
motivates a lot of shitty behavior
Indeed
You are pretty much completely correct, though. It is (or should be) only mildly infuriating.
- Comment on How to make a Lemmy user look like an asshole, in three easy steps 4 weeks ago:
It's not just trolling and drama though. I just don't feel like ceding the narrative space to whoever can pull off the most clever ruse. Like, the truth is important. I know hoping for the internet to be reasonable and trusted is hopeless, but it just bugs me to see people deliberately spinning up this (very effective) total alternate reality about something that matters, on purpose, and having other people buy into it. To this very slight extent, I'm infuriated by it.
- Comment on How to make a Lemmy user look like an asshole, in three easy steps 4 weeks ago:
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. "It's just one simple job," they said...
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Video of migrant worker tied to forklift sparks outrage in South Korea 4 weeks ago:
Is it cruelty, though?
I have no idea without seeing the context or knowing a hell of a lot more than seeing just this video. For all I know you are right, and this is "boys will be boys" type of thing that should get dealt with as the crime that it is, alongside fraternity hazing and date rape.
All I was saying is that, right or wrong, this looks super common to me in US factory-worker culture and I was trying to sort out how that related to it being treated as a unique and un-heard of crisis in the OP article, that's all.
- Comment on Video of migrant worker tied to forklift sparks outrage in South Korea 4 weeks ago:
I mean if he got ass-stapled he also probably would have experienced trauma also. I'm not trying to paint it as necessarily light hearted or okay... honestly, it's just too hard for me to say much of anything without knowing anything other than this video. I'm just saying that my first read filtering the video through my US lens is "yeah they're fucking around."
- Comment on Video of migrant worker tied to forklift sparks outrage in South Korea 4 weeks ago:
I don't know cross-cultural things and I'm really not trying to be insensitive, but in the US this is just a construction worker / factory worker type thing. It is irrespective of nationality (more likely to happen if they generally like the person being hazed or joked around with) and no hatred is intended.
A friend of mine worked with a guy that would sneak up behind new guys and hit them in the ass with a folding-out staple gun so they would get stapled. It's not right, my friend heard of this and went to the guy and told him that if he attempted it they were definitely going to get in a fistfight. I'm not saying it is right. But I'm saying it is "normal" at least in US working person culture.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 4 comments
- Comment on Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames? 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, I read it as kind of similar to Putin's "outlandish lying on purpose to show dominance" strategy.
If you can, to someone's face, tell them that they're so dumb that they think living wages aren't as important as being able to buy a new game system and play their stupid games while they shovel burgers into their fat working-class faces. It's negging as a way of emphasizing that they'll never be capable or organized enough to play at the big people's table, so go play your games, loser.
That's how I read it. Maybe they think the people seeing this poster are dumb enough that they'll think "You know, he's right, I do want a new game system." But I feel like it's a deliberate insult to remind the underlings of their place. That's how I read it.
- Comment on Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames? 5 weeks ago:
"In the amount of time it takes to vote, you could play three games of pool. Three! Now dat's fresh."
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 5 weeks ago:
He actually did have a backup, because the company is only normal-stupid and not deliberate-stupid, they had a DB checkpoint he could roll back to.
The LLM, of course, went with the path of least resistance once it started down the "oh no I fucked up" completion prompt, and claimed they had no such checkpoint.
Don't use LLM for fact things, kids.
- Comment on Anon is rude at work 5 weeks ago:
Yeah bo
I know my share of history
How hard it is to be free
From wearing masks that turn to skin
Hiding what you could have been - Comment on Anon is rude at work 5 weeks ago:
Man... it's so weird.
They want to have Friday beers in the office. They want to go to the game together. They want to organize little events after work that I'm semi-obligated to go to. I went to one, reluctantly, and one of the executives more or less made it clear to me that he had been against hiring me in the first place (for understandable reasons).
No I don't like you people, you're pod people, why the fuck do you do this with your lives
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 12 comments
- Comment on oh no 5 weeks ago:
*Sweet Home
- Comment on When someone asks for help/asks what something is on Reddit and the top comments are just stupid jokes that don't answer OP's question 5 weeks ago:
It also got people thinking in a different direction than "I agree with this" and "I disagree with this" as the main meaning of the vote.
At this point, I think most mainstream social media is corrupted enough by the dopamine loop that it's fairly predictable that most of the comments would be taken over by it as well. Reddit comments used to be more informative than the article a lot of the time.