HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a large amount of state propaganda using the conflict as justification for the state’s existence. I would imagine whether people believe to be true or not to be on a spectrum line other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but the DPRK government is on its third generation hereditary leader with a senior leadership consisting of children of previous senior leadership. It is functionally an absolute monarchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  CB Radio was big in the 70’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon, like a lot of other tech companies, has also been cutting product lines as increased interest rates has put a cost to money and a push to profitability.

  That said, there is likely some use to AI, even if it is error prone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hear he's homeless too. ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue with kicking someone out of the royal house completely is that they are highly incentivized to trade their fame for money. This can include sponsorships and tell all books.

  By providing some economic support, it keeps a leash on Andrew formerly known as Prince.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me or the food shows like Man v Food or Everything on The Menu or hot dog eating contests annoy anyone else knowing the fact people are starving in the states and world wide?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see the shows contributing to world hunger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird to simultaneously feel love and hatred towards parents?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What will the next age of innovative art culture create?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I’ve seen as a new hotness in high art is that the themed experience is crossing the threshold from low art to high art. What would have been considered a theme park ride is now bring presented as an interactive experience worthy of being in a museum. Of course, you will have to exit through the gift shop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What will the next age of innovative art culture create?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think, as a general direction of art, we are in the middle of a synthesism of ideas instead of the deconstructionism of the early and mid 20th century.

  I don’t know what we’re building, but we are building something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aware that the Selective Service exists in case a draft is needed, but the US military has changed itself to make sure that a draft has a very low chance of occurring.

  The USA fought two occupations at the same time and didn’t use a draft to fill personnel needs. A major reason why the USA didn’t was because it would make the occupations far more unpopular than they were. There were political decisions all the way up the chain of command to prevent a draft, even when Afghanistan was portrayed in the media as a defensive war.

  Sure, no drafts in the future isn’t guaranteed, but it is a solution that the DOW will only pursue if there are no other options available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The military also doesn’t want to go back to a draft army. Discipline and morale suck with a draft army and there is severe political blowback to casualties from drafted personnel.

  A lot of reforms post Vietnam were made to make sure that the US military didn’t need to draft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t just a failure in education or misunderstanding.

  For the most part, “OK Boomer” gets used when someone is expressing something as fact which may have used to be true, but no longer is. Maybe the use of the term has shifted over time, but that was the crux of that use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can a US state block porn?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t a ban so much as being able to legally go after people who evade the ban.

  If you are a reputable company in the right jurisdiction, you can be sued by the state for operating illegally. That is likely enough to get companies to block the state’s IP addresses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know. I look at it as a lot of people on Lemmy complain about how “normal” people force them to act in a certain way and, just in the choice of using a depreciated letter of the alphabet, they are getting hated on for not acting in the conformist manner on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. I remember a time on the Internet where L33T SP34k was a thing. I look at the thorn as something similar.

  It is a stylistic choice that, even if it doesn’t poison AI inputs, is acceptable in Internet forums like Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#environmentalist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to be ass burgers, but they redefined the ass spectrum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This man is suffering⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  His wife has parental controls on the home computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but to be honest, Lemmy is small enough to notice individuals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If everyone used the thorn at scale, it would be incorporated into the English language. However, if only a few people use it, I can see it poisoning their inputs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known?

  Rich people buy expensive stolen artifacts all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of cops have various forms of less than lethal force, but lethal force in the USA is generally allowed if the victim is considered an immediate danger to others. A rubber bullet isn’t necessarily going to get someone to immediately stop doing something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good clothes used to be expensive and a signifier of wealth. Someone who could wear a suit likely had money and someone who had a fashionable suit likely had more money. Over the past generation, as clothing became cheaper and large parts of the richer segments have up on dressing well, the value of wearing a suit dropped.

  Wearing a suit is still valuable in some circumstances, but nowhere near as much as before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty horrific.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but you also put together an argument that addressed the key issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with breakfast in bed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  do people just wake up and start consuming food/drink without brushing their teeth & washing their face?

  Yes. I also generally eat breakfast before showering or brushing my teeth.

  what’s the appeal? I get liking someone else making your breakfast, but why is having it in bed fun?

  It is an extremely lazy way to get breakfast. You don’t even have to move out of bed to eat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, it has gotten worse. Thanks for providing the appropriate evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I described a shift over time and your rebuttal was arguing over a single point in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel more like we’re in a golden age where people can express their stupidity with a larger microphone they were ever given before.

  And as much as people complain about the stupidity of people, the population is probably the most literate and productive in human history. We’re just seeing people use a new tool poorly when that use would not have been recorded previously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Richest American to FAFO?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t fully understand JFK’s assassin, but it is likely not due to Vietnam as Vietnam wasn’t a major issue at the time of Kennedy’s death.

  Lincoln’s assassination could be seen as a defense of slavery and other Southern “rights”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lately? I find it comes and goes.