zikzak025
@zikzak025@lemmy.world
- Comment on Give the people what they really need 12 hours ago:
It’s just water water, really. Water is already an acid.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Is this supposed to be your idea of a witty comeback because you took criticism of a billionaire personally, and now just want to belittle others to feel better about yourself?
- Comment on 4 days ago:
It’s not about whether or not he has other philanthropic activities.
It’s about the fact that he thinks it’s okay to spend a billion dollars on just boats.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
He also has the financial means to solve a lot of serious problems in the world that could save many lives.
But, you know, why spend that money on humanitarian causes when you can just buy a 6th environment-killing superyacht, because the first 5 weren’t enough?
There is no such thing as a good billionaire. Gabe Newell is no exception, even if he’s less overtly evil than others.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Google has a search monopoly, that is not in question.
justice.gov/…/department-justice-wins-significant…
The only thing is, had the case been decided under any other DoJ, Google would not have gotten off as lightly as they did. But even Pam-fucking-Dow-over-50,000-Bondi agreed that Google was a monopoly.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Steam has convinced the gaming industry that you can own nothing and be happy with it, just by virtue of being less shitty than everyone else.
Lemmy hates billionaires but never hesitates to kneel at the altar of Gaben.
- Comment on 🎵 Put it in, put it in, put it...iiiiiinnn!! 🤤 4 days ago:
- Comment on Jesus take the accelerator 5 days ago:
Just to expand the explanation, blue and green were both just “ao” in Japanese until relatively recently (relatively still being a fairly long time), when “midori” started becoming more popular to refer to green.
As for why the traffic light is still called “blue” despite being green, one need only ask why there is a very popular rhyme scheme in English that goes “roses are red, violets are blue…” when violets are violet.
- Comment on Disney may be interested in acquiring Epic Games at some point, it’s claimed 5 days ago:
The worst thing that can come from this is that Disney gets bored with owning a video game company
If I had to guess, they actually want Epic because they use Unreal for their TV series and movies. I think they couldn’t care less about the video game business.
But all of the set backgrounds for e.g. The Mandalorian are rendered in Unreal on their fancy 360° production stage so that they can have real-time photography and lighting based on camera position.
- Comment on Most people have no idea how the "name" of this position came about and how it is still used today 6 days ago:
That’s what you get for going to a church run by someone with three legs and a clubbed hand.
- Comment on Impress Me 6 days ago:
- Comment on Impress Me 6 days ago:
Gotta break it down into stages for the clown meme. It’s supposed to get progressively more clown-like with each stage.
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Buying clothes that I like.
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Buying clothes that I think I look good in.
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Buying clothes that others think I look good in.
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Buying clothes that others think I look good out of.
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- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 6 days ago:
To my knowledge, Gearbox has never managed to fully shake the allegations that they took Sega’s money for Alien: Colonial Marines and diverted most of it to Borderlands 2.
They also outsourced most of the development to another studio, and covered up that fact before release. After release, they happily pointed the blame away from themselves and onto the other studio, which promptly closed. The whole thing was basically set up to fail.
- Comment on The 5 stages 1 week ago:
Maybe you remove “Very Hot” entirely, being the median, and then take 50% away from either side left and right. Hot is downgraded to Mild and then we get half a Nut.
Mild, Mild, Half Nut, Vegetable.
- Comment on I demand a return to the Old Ways 1 week ago:
Aww what a cutie
- Comment on Woke 1 week ago:
I’d argue there’s nothing normal about being a well-adjusted person in a terminally ill society.
- Comment on petition to change name of "Lemmy Shitpost" to "Lemmy Hornypost" 1 week ago:
Have you had too many hornyposts not tagged NSFW cause furious masturbation incidents on public transit?
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
On the other hand, the nurse has potential for a returning customer base. The husband does not. She can keep getting paid the longer her customers live, so it’s more a question of short term profits over long term sustainability.
Oh who am I kidding? This is capitalism we’re talking about, they’ll always choose short term profits.
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
Curious to know your opinion on whether or not purple is a color.
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
So many people think that it’s some big gotcha that “black and white aren’t colors” but that’s not how language works. Color often refers to black or white. Try sticking to this gotcha at the paint store and see how much it’s appreciated.
This. Color is subjective perception anyways. They are labels we give to things to describe what our eyes see in normal lit conditions. There are no absolutes about it unless you are measuring pigment makeup or light wavelength, which are not colors in and of themselves, but factors that cause color. Color is in the mind.
Someone with trianopia seeing a green leaf as blue doesn’t make the leaf not green to others, nor does the fact that it is green by consensus make it green to them. And this is all outside of the linguistic aspect of it, e.g. how long it even took a lot of languages to start differentiating blue and green as separate colors, which itself affects perception.
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
Got me there.
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
But it didn’t say anything about not responding to things that are not questions. If it was phrased as “Answer only the questions”, that might be something.
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
It’s a discussion, did I not discuss?
- Comment on You're cured! 1 week ago:
It sounds more like you didn’t see what the US would consider a “chiropractor”, but rather an orthopedics/sports medicine specialist. Maybe he was just advertising as a chiropractor to attract clients or maybe your buddy was confused about his credentialing?
Chiropractors don’t need to be licensed or registered with anything in the US. It’s all pseudoscience mumbo-jumbo.
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
Yeah, additive vs subtractive color. Our eyes see light but light is reflected by pigment.
Pigment determines which colors are subtracted from light, so combining all pigments gives you black (little to no light reflected). But combining different colors of light gives you white, if nothing is being absorbed.
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
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Color TV implies “full color”, black and white are only two colors of many.
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Towels collect skin cells and get wet when used, which can enable the growth of mold if not dried quickly enough.
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Depends on how many of the nurse’s clients become the husband’s clients.
I used the calculator to write “5318008” so it looks like it says “BOOBIES” upside-down.
Do I pass?
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- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
I’m not inclined to believe the accuracy of the survey, especially since it’s just voluntary data from randomly chosen people.
Sales data shows that the Steam Deck alone has numbers just shy of total 50 series GPUs. Not all of those GPUs are going to be used for gaming, but I’d hazard just about all of those Steam Decks are. So logically the Steam Deck’s integrated GPU should be the most popular option on paper.
Gaming and consumer “AI PCs” account for $16 billion of Nvidia’s revenue from last year, compared to $190 billion made on AI data centers.
Consumer GPUs are an afterthought for them at this point, not even 10% of their business.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
Nvidia is killing it because they are the backbone of AI outside of gaming, too, which is where most of the interest is.
Their GPUs seem to be available and affordable to everyone but gamers these days. Fewer people are buying them to play games, and that audience has enough money to price out regular consumers with demand.
- Comment on Zone rule 2 weeks ago:
This is where I used to get my news:
- Comment on Ope 2 weeks ago:
Maybe if you’re white and want to move to one of those countries that has very lenient blood citizenship.
There are millions of other people trying to move to Europe right now who have both money and degrees, and if you’re not in that venn diagram then you’re likely SOL.
