BeardededSquidward
@BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on If only 14 hours ago:
Not false flag but they did let it happen as a convenient excuse to invade the middle east, especially as a pretext for Iraq, for their resources.
- Comment on If only 14 hours ago:
Oh god no, not that time again, no, NOOOO!
- Comment on I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair) 15 hours ago:
I think the second point was to recoup the costs at least would make them too expensive for people to buy older hardware.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 2 days ago:
Its world building and such is visual story telling.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 4 days ago:
Yes, though also some are in such economically depressed areas that you can barely get a job.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 5 days ago:
The Dem establishment have not beaten the paid opposition argument at all.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 week ago:
Purposely obtuse mechanics for the sake of “difficulty.”
- Comment on Who care about book 2 weeks ago:
Might also be a troll review, but Poe’s Law is in full effect now a days and there’s people who legitimately think like this.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I feel a lot of the boomer generation has a hoarding problem despite so many not being in a situation to need to. I would have taken it to a thrift store though regardless. Even if they don’t sell it someone of the staff may make use of it. That said, good on getting rid of a burden on your life mentally.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 2 weeks ago:
Yup, and if having no use for one still means you don’t need one.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 weeks ago:
It changed but is still used to affect people who used to be redlined before that was made illegal. As for the laws passed in the 70s, yeah, everybody obeys those all the time don’t they?
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 weeks ago:
Makes sense when you learn and realize that this is the new way of red lining people. Particularly POC who are less likely to be able to build credit because of poverty.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
You’re talking to me like I haven’t been through decades of disappointment and in other areas. Me cutting things off is the last straw and thing I can readily do. Be it someone who says “welfare queens should die” to AI used for media. I know you cannot rightfully get away from supporting Amazon or that you have a choice of a soulless, big box store to buy at anymore. Just because I have to do so to maintain my ability to live doesn’t mean I won’t try to inform others about it and get them on my side. I’m just less patient with supreme levels of bullshit anymore.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think the typical person knows how destructive AI is to many things much less effects on local communities where they put data centers.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
We’ve seen this before with horse armor and gambling in video games. If you allow a little they are going to take a mile with it. That point I don’t consider it art anymore. AI is not art.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
If that’s the case I’ll find another hobby. I’m tired of compromising myself because well they get away with it. AI Bros can blow me.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 4 weeks ago:
No AI in video games, period. We’ve learned when we draw the line the major players push at it until they get what they want. AI benefits the wealthy, no one else. AI data centers are a blight on communities.
- Comment on Roundup of Roundup 5 weeks ago:
It’s part of a larger issue of science and research being funded and backed by big companies that benefit from it not saying their product as bad. There are defunct research articles that state smoking is healthy for you from long ago. A lot of those researchers and doctors were later found to have gotten kick backs from companies that benefited from the positive research. This is just a modern example of money meddling in research for their benefit despite knowing the opposite.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 5 weeks ago:
True enough. It’s your typical Democrat work, make a half measure that doesn’t readily improve the situation but looks like it can.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked? 5 weeks ago:
You can blame the USA government for setting standards for light bulbs that planned obsolescence became a thing. They recommended to make light bulbs with filament that burns after a certain time of use to prompt more purchases of light bulbs. And that’s where everyone else got the brilliant idea to make things not last as long. As well people didn’t have the funds to buy new appliances all the time, they were still a relative luxury so if you made something that broke in a year and cost $300 back then you might have a mob with shotguns at your door.
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t want any sort of device or appliance in my home that requires an internet connection that doesn’t get a long time of security updates. My old printer died and they’re so bad now I just don’t have one. I’m going back to a dumb flip phone because this one’s battery s dying. I use everything I can without spending money because I’ve never had a lot to spend to try and maintain my privacy. I keep spam email for the random site that wants you to enter one. The IoT is cancerous, it creates huge security holes because these appliance manufacturers don’t care about security one iota. I have worked in IT for 15 years professionally with over that personal experience. I hate what the internet has become, I want something more akin to the 2000s back or at least the scrubbing of corporate mandates cut out. It’s actually more dangerous to be on it because of advertisements. I would still have internet and gaming PCs regardless, but I want tech that’s basic and functional.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 5 weeks ago:
You’re expecting people who are worth a minimum of 7 figures to consider the plight of people who struggle to maintain 5 figures. Companies were already lowering time employees worked to begin with regardless.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 5 weeks ago:
They were keeping people below full time hours to begin with, it just got lowered to squeeze that extra penny from their buttholes.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 5 weeks ago:
Don’t blame the ACA, those companies always had people working part time and just lowered the hours further.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 5 weeks ago:
For LGBT+ and PoC it’s been a violent, fascist state against them for a long time. Just now it’s affecting the white people to a point they’re uncomfortable with but make no mistake, they’ll just let it happen again in a few more years.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 5 weeks ago:
People talk of Imgur being a leftist echo chamber. I have had more than enough neoliberal types on there argue about the benefits of capitalism to me or that we shouldn’t have worker solidarity. I feel when these events happen, it’s part legitimately pissed of users but a lot of people just riding the up vote wagon.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 5 weeks ago:
I just gave up imgur myself for voicing an opinion of civil disobedience and then told why don’t I go there myself with a gun and start shooting. Nuance seems to be dead everywhere.