bryndos

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Lemmy/Piefed users seem to have a consensus of like "green mario" is the solution to this and that, but simultaneously oppose death penalty?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All the rich have to do avoid death , in this scenario, is share their stuff around a bit more. Doesn't sound that hard to me.
  Biggest problem with death penalty, in my opinion, is the fallibility and corruptability of the justice system.

  Its not that hard to see when people have accumulated excess wealth - at least in terms of physical stuff like land. I'd love to guillotine away all excess concentrations of power, but that's not as easy to observe, so start with land, and see if they get the message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does neuro divergent only mean Autistic and ADHD?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So long as you've paid them enough to make you "well adjusted" ( to an inhumane society) . . . then good for you. Don't blame you.

  But, I don't like that these headshrinkers that never seem diagnose society as being any part of people's problems, even though it is clearly very different from the one that generations of evolution came up through, and has far less place for (and tolerance of) our natural diversity as a species. Not to mention their brethren who pro-actively support the destruction of civil society, seek to empower the ruling classes and basically invented advertising and mass manipulation. I'd find it very hard to put any trust in those fuckers, i'd much rather talk to a homeless person about our problems and give them a tenner for booze.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨¿How communism actually work in practice?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The original communes are not "stateless" or "businessless", they're just outside that, more like a monestery. But they can easily interact with states and businesses - those'd just be outside the commune.

  Lots of communes work quite well in small scale.

  Many family or tribal groups are basically communes (not all though), some companies or workplaces work kindof like that too. They're using (cheap) trust and fair shares within the bounds of the commune, instead of (expensive) lawyers, ownership and micro-contracting. Though of course you can have personal property within a commune.

  But scale up beyond easy observability, and beyond the effectiveness of tit-fot-tat justice (and the power of things like shame) and you get similar problems to all larger scale human societies. The situation diminishes from a repeated "prisoners dilemma" with observability, to a one-shot "game".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  idchoppers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can one of the math addicts of lemmy.world calculate how much it would cost to give every adult in the US 5k for voting Republican? Also who is going to pay for it? My guess taxpayers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How'd they propose to verify it anyway?
  Do you take a photo of your ballot and send it in - or is voting not anonymous in USA?!

  I guess they could pay every resident of a county that ends up R or whatever.

  Realistically I'd think all the Rs have to do is say they're going to do it anyway - some dumbfucks may believe, vote and forget for next time that it was an empty promise. Seems like a decent strategy for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would another program like Roosevelt's WPA turn America around quickly from the shitty place we are in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not - but at least it might get some useful stuff done.

  Bank regulation and directed credit is what you really need.
  Even if someone tried pump priming, govt doesn’t actually have control of currency anymore, so any such efforts would be "crowded out" by rampant unrestrained bank (+ interlinked FI) credit creation.

  The banks deserve to be in the situation they were in in the '30s, but they aren't due to a generation or two that has let them do what they want and bailing them out after they fail us multiple times. If anything their power has increased. Moronic governments pushing pro-cyclical policies and pumping bubbles is fucking insanity. Well probably just corruption - but democracy seems very weak at controlling it these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a scanner where i can put a handful of photos in and it will scan one by one without messing up the pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could ask at a local copy/print shop, they might offer a photo scanning service.
  If you just have the occasional batch, or one off job. it might be cheaper just to pay them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With Reverse-Engineer-Everything, has Software become basically worthless?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the tools might become cheaper. But if someone can put them to useful work, then the tool has worth in combination with the labour , skills and other factors of production.

  Lots of things with no market price are worthy, air is a classic example.

  Will anyone develop an improved tool if they can't sell it?' Yes, craftspeople have always butted up against limitations in tooling, and the true masters of their craft will learn, improve and develop their tools so as to improve output, quality, efficiency of their own work. That'll still happen, though it might change in scale, scope and speed.

  I think craftspeople would benefit from not outsourcing their mastery to adobe - but more generally they'd benefit from deeper ownership and understanding of their tools - and always more independence and choice on inputs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is suicide considered selfish? If your like 80 or something and rely on your family for care. Would it not be a burden off of them?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might depend how many parasites vs how many symbiotic relationships you have. Parasites are quite easy to acquire and harder to shake off, and often have powerful institutions on their side like courts and police or gangs or economic power.
  Conversely it's quite easy to accidentally fuck up a symbiotic relationship. Or for a relationship to degenerate due to any wavering trust level.

  If someone suddenly stopped talking to me because I was being a dick I’d at least hope i have enough self-awareness to put the blame on myself. People don’t have to put up with unreasonable levels of dick-ish behaviour. They should have a way out. The pity for the suicide ones is that they couldn't find a better way out.

  I'm highly sceptical of those calling it selfish; were they really in a give and take relationship, or were they taking more than they gave - only they know that of course. Though I suspect people often lie to themselves about such things.

  Conversely if some of the worlds major parasites suddenly committed suicide then I might call that a rare moment of selflessness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually believe this "rogue AI" nonsense?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you like to play a game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, seems faster than I'd have though to pick up that much of an accent.
  Then again if they were students they'd traditionally be expected to watch a lot of 'Eastenders'.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd pick Czech overall, for no real reason - they just remind me a bit of one Czech person i know who has spent a long time here. Not strong evidence.

  Otherwise I might have gone for Poland or Baltics somewhere, Swedish/Finnish/Estonian did cross my mind as possible.

  I just don't know enough people from enough countries - especially smaller ones to have 'd imagine pany confidence.
  I think you'd have to be quite familiar with the native language to really be sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No way are they English.

  The first two may have spent several years in south east England or spent a long time there - but they're not native speakers. I wonder at what age they stopped being "raised" though as I'd think at least a few formative years spent there to pick up that much of an accent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberattack destroys food at hundreds of French grocery stores⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But, it seems, they "upgraded" from strong to weak!?
  What was wrong with the fridges they had 2/5/10/20 years ago.

  insulated box, compressor, heat exchanger, thermostat. wtfuck else do they need?
  just replace those like for like. Some dafty probably paid for fucking internet crap to be added.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberattack destroys food at hundreds of French grocery stores⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed this seems to be less about the 'weaponisation of food' than the stupidity of fridges/fridge operators.

  Whoever let a modem become "essential to the preservation of fresh products", they need to be sacked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno - Wing Comander III and IV with Mark Hammill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies - that's a top (bottom?) tier trash sci-fi cast.

  I preferred them to the movie even just as a movie - well the story was probably worse, but at least you got to fly space ships in the gaps, and that was the first time I'd seen erm ... "heavyset" middle-aged luke skywalker

  These two were how i revised for my school exams - without those, i dunno, I might have had to revise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you refer to a traffic light as a "stop" light then you can interpret red as "do not stop".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with using phonetic symbols here on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Grin and bare it; Its good to be more tolerant's.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm sure this has been done before. stupid web clicker city builder or whatever that if you watch advert you et more in game credits.
  It might not be exactly the same but surely not novel enough to be patentable, prior art. Or in this case prior twat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[The Matrix (movie, 1999)] What does agent Brown's line mean?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What perplexes me is why the piece of software disconnects itself in order to interrogate morphus and confess his feelings.
  It's really agent smith that is 'the one', undergoing the epiphany, a bit of software that has become sentient (or at least homo) enough to have shame and anger, and seek independence. Which is, of course, impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That'll be $100k per credit hour, please.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In UK.
  I have to do 4-5 mandatory online training courses on stuff like this every year.
  There is harassment/bullying/ not being a dick, health and safety, data protection, money laundering, diversity, maybe more.

  Similar for several jobs over the last 10-15 years. Ever since they could develop online courses to do it cheaply.

  They still pay me for my time, so what do i care. And I have seen an external consultant get more or less banned from working with us site due to bullying our staff once. It was awesome.

  If i was a student/customer I might object to some of that, but all institutions have rules and codes of conduct. Better to know about them up front, rather than find out later and get expelled. It should be offered pre-enrolment though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an easy to use video slicer? I want to just have the final battle out of Avengers Endgame.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you saw the ffmpeg answer by Toes below.
  Annoyingly it has fewer upvotes so is lower down (at least for however my viewer works).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is ASHDOL a good company for an external cd/dvd drive?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've had a few - different brands - all trash.

  Back when they were used by companies, in the mid 2000s I remember some decent (CD) ones at work.

  If i wanted one now i'd get an internal full size one and put it in a caddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is people's attention on their surroundings terrible today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, but yes I.'d think (hope) each bus death. or injury changes the driver and bus operating organisation, and municipality in some way. Even if it was the pedestrians 'fault', the bus can probably do things to reduce the risk.

  This research should ideally start with a random/representative sample of people exposed to a measurable level of bus death risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you an AI? It sounds live you live in a binary world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also they've that a large amount of the bottom 90% are paying the top 10% to do it.

  Also the difference between create and consume is important. even if shell only had 1 employee and 1 shareholder, that person would have many customers paying. you can measure both of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would people like a "X posts per Y" rate limit for this community?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  3 per 12h.

  Anyone spamming more than that can create their own, "spam stupid questions" community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck Sales Reportedly Plunge 80% After Price Hikes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don't worry, your pension fund or bank can.
  They will gladly use your savings to print money to give to people (not-you) to bid up the price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does "Woke" mean to you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not being asleep any more.
  Like Bill and Ted after they meet Woke-rates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd have to guess they have a better distribution of good guy with gun vs bad guy with gun?

  Or just fewer bad guys? or less-bad guys?