theneverfox

@theneverfox@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It speaks to me in brain rot’: Theorising ‘brain rot’ as a genre of participation among teenagers⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Are teenagers animals we don’t understand to be studied?

  Genuinely, yes. They’re the stage where humans stretch boundaries and react to the society they’ve been raised in

  Teenagers want autonomy and support, but beyond that? To understand them you have to study constantly emerging culture, constantly changing language, endless subcultures and remixes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Shoes Blues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess that’s fair, I’m not into shoes but I could spot running shoes at a glance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Shoes Blues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Come now, there are legitimately shoe designs that can give you 15+% speed increase.

  It’s not all intuitive, there’s some pretty wild physics going on in some shoes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts to believe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OMG… Are you saying nature has better solutions than chemical companies?

  Blasphemy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of platforms both quietly and openly tweaking the algorithm to boost Nazi content

  This isn’t just normal algorithm stuff, this is something darker. It goes hand in hand with censorship, the Internet is being shaped into a tool of control right in front of our eyes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about elephants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, he was always a weird psycho and certified idiot. But musk before and meeting Trump in the Whitehouse is night and day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No duh. I don’t care if a few people got slammed into the ceiling

  I care that two planes almost collided and killed everyone

  Why even consider the seat belts? They’re not the real issue here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you get what I’m saying.

  If you build your house in a flood zone… Well, I feel for you. That sucks, but I’m not going to lose sleep over it

  If the state is cutting taxes to incentize building in a flood plain (which is a thing that has happened), in going to be very upset

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At any time, you can expect at least 2-6 people out of their seats if the fasten seatbelts sign isn’t on. But I don’t really care about that part, shit happens

  Planes shouldn’t be dodging each other in the first place… That’s the actual problem here. I don’t blame the pilot either, they avoided a collision, so as far as I’m concerned they did what they had to do

  The situation itself never should have happened

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It applies to everyone - you’ve had an event this year too. I should have said our governments

  Air traffic control is just not an individual thing. Not even an individual country thing.

  And I’m aware of unexpected turbulence…I just don’t see getting banged about that big a deal. Shit happens. Wrong place, wrong time… Sure, put on your seatbelt when you’re sitting down, but even if you don’t you’re probably not going to die from it

  But planes nearly colliding? Actually colliding? That should never happen… It’s a 3D arena, the sky is huge. Planes should neither fall apart nor be anywhere near each other without coordination

  We made air travel very safe with old technology, for a long time too. This is a very recent problem, and totally unacceptable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, but it has gotten very noticably worse based on Trump’s deregulation catching up on the aircrafts and the latest round of forcing out air traffic control

  Also, I didn’t know you could just say “all pronouns”. I like that a lot, I’m really uncomfortable putting myself in boxes and that describes my preferences very succinctly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’ll keep you from getting slammed on the ceiling…in a situation that should never, ever happen. Which I’d over a midair collision, in which case you’re just screwed no matter what you do

  I don’t blame the pilot either, they did their job properly. It was the military that failed to coordinate with the civilian air control tower, which also could have been avoided if the civilian tower had radar

  What should you do? Demand better. Not think “I would have been fine, they must’ve been stupid”

  You can’t protect against every freak event, what you can do is be one drop in the wave that demands competence from our government

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And airplanes shouldn’t be in each other’s airspace

  I don’t know what you’re trying to say, the airplanes nearly running into each other is the clear problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which time? In January or in Trump’s last term?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but people are still going to be using the bathrooms and such, even if you assume everyone actually obeys the rules

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about elephants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He was doing really well before he met Trump in the white house for the first time. He was still an idiot, and apparently a Nazi, but he was very quiet about being a Nazi, and he was good at getting people excited for electric cars and space travel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do they hate money now for some reason??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do they care? They’re in the debt game, and they get 2% of like half of all purchases too

  They won capitalism, they’ve stacked the barriers to entry up high and taken economy activity hostage.

  Now a group is pressuring them to reach further with that power… Why not normalize overreaching when they’re being invited to? They’re probably giggling at the opportunity, if it goes badly they can reverse course and blame collective shout

  Hell, if this keeps happening they might as well open up a protection racket

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bad board games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only countries where the local rich or the government bought up enough that when the real capitol arrived, they said “not for sale”

  Oh yeah, and also had a military strong enough to make it too risky to send in the private armies that companies used to have

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American former tech executive explains how to make users more addicted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but here there’s no real algorithm. That’s a huge difference, even if you jump into their platform, you just have to jump back before they serve up the next thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you can just use two classification systems in the same sentence. It should probably be illegal or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American former tech executive explains how to make users more addicted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is better. No one profits off us per eyeball hour (at least not on my instance)

  It’s all about incentives

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure you get the problem here

  You can talk to an llm at any moment of any day. They will engage with you endlessly. They’re becoming the front end for search, and at some point might become the primary interface for your device

  It’s a huge problem if they manage to make it a propoganda tool, and that’s the goal here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You thought it would change your life and you would be so happy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Amateur. My dream job was just to exist in nature without a job, just creating to create, and instead I’m constantly tempted with employment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok got a Nazi patch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s this neat thing called lying

  There’s no Holocaust order because that’s not what they called it and that’s not how things work, but they had plenty of work orders and ‘final solution’ progress reports

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wake up fam, two new genders just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You get hit by a baseball. Then you’re cursed with an overwhelming fear of getting hit by baseballs

  This compels you to get protective equipment and hide behind a guy (who’s entire job is to catch the ball if it makes it past the batter)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you take a short term job(1-2 months) over a local longer term that makes nearly 8months worth of salary??⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you like where you work, and does it pay enough for you to live comfortably? I think that’s the most important question

  Next is how long do you think it would take to get a new job if the contractor life isn’t for you?

  Other than that, I’d lean towards going for it. You can make a lot more money as a contractor or you can work a whole lot less. Finding work can be difficult, but if you make relationships work tends to lead to more work

  Granted, finding work can be challenging and stressful sometimes, so it’s not for everyone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You first. We’re not on board with any of this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Abstraction is a trade off. You don’t want to build interface layers between everything… It’s a pain in the ass, and if there’s a 1-1 relationship between parts of a system then you’re basically putting in a minimum cost to modify that area in any way. So if you do it, it’ll probably be once you’ve locked down the design pretty well

  Game development is pretty different than normal development too. You have a lot of one off and lose ends based on creative decisions… You aren’t building up on top of your system, you’re building out

  And frankly, it leads to a mix of mind blowingly good code and a lot of terrible code

  So no, I don’t think it’s that easy. I think it’s also a bullshit argument, and they should release the “proprietary” code when they finish supporting the game, or put in the time to make the interfaces

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  China hasn’t said shit. They’re very busy trying to avoid interrupting Trump

  All China has to do is not collapse for a few years, and they get to be the global superpower. And the trade war has helped unify them while also making stronger ties to US allies

  They’ve been handed everything they want on a silver platter, they’re not giving up the Chinese century for Iran

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon ups his fibre intake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s too many beans stories and search sucks these days… I just went on a tangent and read my daily limit of green texts

  It is fun to know there’s a story out there I’ve yet to come across though, I’m sure I’ll stumble upon it someday