Jiral
@Jiral@lemmy.world
- Comment on Petition to rename the French Horn to American Horn 4 hours ago:
Neither. Vienna Horns rule anyway.
- Comment on How do I move out of the USA with little to no money? 1 day ago:
If you plan for mid to long term, have a look at the job market, if you can work for a foreign company with presence near you in the US. If you have a qualified enough job there, it may be possible to relocate to another company location. If a company wants you there, it can resolve many of the biggest hurdles and also enable you to go towards permanent residency permits. The readiness to relocate abroad might be even a bonus in a job interview.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 2 days ago:
Indeed, it does exist. I find it curious when neutral facts get downvoted. I find that product curious and many design decisions completely out of touch with trucker reality. It will have a hard time in Europe because of it. There are plenty of offers on the European market, that have 600-900kWh capacity, already for a while, without the weird dysfunctional design.
- Comment on When did humans stop creating wonders? 1 week ago:
Blasphemy.
- Comment on Oof 1 week ago:
I think what people miss here is that this is Americanisation that is the norm in most US movies. While the original movies were distributed by Warner Brothers, the producers were largely British, so where many other important people in the making of that movie. So they apparently stayed their ground in staying closer to the British source material.
In the remake those safeguards are gone. People just realise it because they see the contrast to the original. But look at other US movies, so much of it has fantasy scenarios that are still very “USified”, to not confuse the US audience too much. This is the most obvious when Hollywood takes up a successful foreign movie and makes a complete US “remake”.
- Comment on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin 2 weeks ago:
Clearly not in their mass murdering so far but while the Nazis were masters of propaganda that were bathing in blood, some of them at least resented the commercial exploitation of something they considered a crucial and very serious pillar of their ideology. Not sure what to make of that but it is what it is.
- Comment on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin 2 weeks ago:
Interestingly, that game was never sanctioned by the Nazis and leading figures actually disliked it for trivialising their serious goal of … genocide. It was a money grab product by a company that wanted to caah in on the jew hate.
- Comment on Hot Ones trying to sneak in the package protection 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t that illegal in the EU?
- Comment on Flawless Victory 3 weeks ago:
Mr Kaufmann the same skin tone as the baby.
- Comment on It's never been about helping people 3 weeks ago:
Cool, state run slavery.
- Comment on Have you know? 4 weeks ago:
Fair points, even though I am not sure how a “control” is supposed to look like in this context. Got something better on the impact of LLM usage on the users brain, especially in regards to learning?
- Comment on Have you know? 4 weeks ago:
Luckily we don’t have Wendys around here …
- Comment on Have you know? 4 weeks ago:
Let me guess, the shitpost about that is that this image is fully LLM generated with zero source, isn’t it?
I’ll be bold here and post an actual source, just to show that LLMs do indeed negatively effect its users: collimateur.uqam.ca/…/2506.08872v1_comp.pdf
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
As clear as day that Trump plans to be dictator for life. At least there is a certain biological limit. Bad news is that those behind the regime, can build upon the destroyed rule of law and institutions to maintain the regime beyond Trump.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 month ago:
Not only 0% alcohol, also 0% taste and 0% beer. There are great alcohol free beers out there btw. This ain’t it.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Chauvinism has been one of the best selling exports though. No self respecting nationalist who isn’t also a chauvinist.
- Comment on AOC vs Graham on Social Security. 1 month ago:
I endors the message but I hate the use of AI to produce political memes.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 1 month ago:
(likely) face identification and other surveillance of regular customers, if any data at all is created by that and analyzed or stored by anything that is a grave GDPR violation. Surveillance cameras for larger areas can be allowed but only to record for cases of legitimate control, no automated analysis nor data transfer to god knows where.
Personalised pricing is illegal as well in a supermarket. Digital price tags are allowed (and common) but there are clear rules how often prices are allowed to change. I’d have to research it myself but I think not more than once a day.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 1 month ago:
They actually tried it in the EU but failed hard.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 1 month ago:
Thoroughly illegal in the EU. Luckily Walmart doesn’t operate there.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 2 months ago:
The car share can be replaced with self driving cars, however if you make self driving cars more attractive than cars now, you’ll shift the balance and are heading towards more car centric and therefore more hostile and less attractive places again.
It is a nice fairy tale hat self driving cars are more space efficient. Real service patterns have shown that they fill up road infrastructure more than regular cars as they will do either fill up trips or need to drive everything twice. Also, making use of these fancy advantages (higher speeds, shorter breaking distance, dynamic crissings without traffic lights) make roads much more pedstrian hostile, more highway like.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 2 months ago:
And self driving cars will do nothing to change anything. I you push for them, more than for cars currently, cities in the Netherlands will be much worse places and traffic will get much worse as well.
Cars are of course part of the mobility equation, especially in rural regions with small settlements. 1 hour connections can still be perfectly fine for commuting but it can only be a supporting service there. The story is completely different one as soon as you get anywhere close to any major city. In the Netherlands, most people live in such locations.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 2 months ago:
A city built for cars (no matter if “self driving” or not) has to be built much more spread out. Distances for everything multiply. At the same time that spread out infrastructure leads to heavily mono-directional traffic, making rush hour load much worse.
That is why people in car only cities aren’t any faster than cities well designed for public transit.
- Comment on OG Console wars 2 months ago:
joke aside, the Hippodrome was your common low key football game, with betting and people going crazy. The Colloseum on the other side was a special occasion where you better looked your best and behaved. Hollywood never got the memo.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 2 months ago:
I thought it was pretty much general knowledge that Belgium was one of the most terrible colinial powers in europe?
I do see the lack of relevance of that for that football game though. It is like talking about the genocide(s) the US was built upon, just because of a football game.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 2 months ago:
This has absolutely nothing to do with wind power in France. The US pays a French company a lot of money to not build wind power in the US. Not France’s or Europe’s strategic problem.
France has massively increased renewable sources and is also in good position regarding EV transition.
No matter how you turn it, there is no reason to make oneself dependent on gas or oil from an openly hostile dictatorship in Moscow.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 2 months ago:
You should readjust your irony detector.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 2 months ago:
Personal traffic is currently shifted to electricity, so is home heating. Heavy rood traffic is currently the implementation of vehicles that can cover everything up to mid range. China is already getting into transition in that market too. Europe would be irresponsible not to follow.
What is left is rather small in volume. Making oneself reliant on an openly hostile Russian dictatorship which won’t waste a second to use that dependency as a weapon against France or Europe, is not necessay than anymore.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 2 months ago:
That’s exactly Russian propaganda. France doesn’t need “cheap energy” ftom Russia. It needs a sovereign reliable energy supply, one that pnly renewable energy (and possibly nuclear under certain conditions) can enable. France is working on this.
“Cheap energy” from Russia is also a lie. Putin’s vassal Orban didn’t get cheap energy either. Hungary did have higher energy prices abd much higher inflation than other EU member states.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 2 months ago:
His views go beyond dislike. He wants the EU functionally dismantled and that is why Putin doesn’t care if he or Le Pen make it to power.