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- Comment on Fuck you in particular 1 day ago:
For what it’s worth, Vantablack isn’t a pigment, it’s a process for applying carbon nanotubes that absorb light. They don’t sell the “paint” part by itself because it requires special equipment and it finicky. They don’t sell it because then a bunch of social media influencers would try to spray their bathrooms with the stuff and make a bunch of videos about how it doesn’t live up to the hype.
The owner might be a douche who uses the licensing to make himself feel powerful, but there is a justifiable explanation for why the licensing exists in the first place.
- Comment on Every time I make biscuits from a can 2 days ago:
Isn’t that how you’re supposed to do it?
- Comment on Is a gooner the same thing as a wanker? 3 days ago:
Isn’t that a simp?
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 4 days ago:
Patriotism. Democracy. Representational Government. Freedom. Liberty. Take your pick.
- Comment on We are helping 6 days ago:
The water wars will probably kill us off before we run out of oil.
- Comment on We are helping 6 days ago:
No, I’m sorry, the answe is “profit.” The US has a lot of natural gas, and the people who force it out of the ground bought enough politicians to build pipelines everywherr so we could sell gas to more people. Electric and heat pumps are far more efficient, but the cost per btu of heat is so cheap for natural gas that it doesn’t make sense to switch to electric even when the energy costs are low, and the cost to install a heatpump or geothermal might reduce monthly costs, but it would be decades before it pays for itself. Most people don’t expect to live in a house long enough to reap the benefits of more efficient investments.
- Comment on We are helping 6 days ago:
“Effective” is a relative term. Going meatless won’t fix the underlying problems that allowed factory farming to destroy the world. Why aren’t electric cars mandated? Why do we pipe natural gas into homes? The same shortsighted, profit-motivated decision processes will still exist even if we make better personal choices.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Poe’s law, my dude. There are definitely dipshits who make the argument that milk doesn’t need to be pasteurized because breast milk isn’t pasteurized.
- Comment on Drink your stoats 1 week ago:
Wait, is it milk made by stoats, like goat milk, or milk made from stoats, like oat milk? Which ilk of milk is in the same boat? Do you bilk the stoat out of it’s milk? Or is there a moat of smote stoat passed through silk on a float?
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Yes, the vaccines are… Are you feeding that baby unpasteurized milk?!? What the fuck, guys?
- Comment on Anon is anti drugs 1 week ago:
What a fun comment to get in your inbox on an old comment thread. I got to play a little rendition of “How many awful things have I said?” while I waited for the link to open.
I am surprised to find this particular rant. I thought the take was relatively benign if you actually absorb what I’m saying. At first glance, though, maybe you think I’m promoting drugs?
- Comment on Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Says President’s L.A. Troop Deployment Was Illegal 1 week ago:
The stack of impeachable offenses would be tall enough for Trump to rent offices to Russian spies inside it.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheat codes and guide books? They were the best part of gaming they just kind of dropped of the earth is there a rhyme or reason for this? 2 weeks ago:
Christmas presents for the gamer who has everything. I got my son a Breath of the Wild encyclopedia, and he spent hours reading about different enemies and collectibles. It even had a map of korok seeds that he could scratch off (although he gave up when he learned what the reward would be).
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheat codes and guide books? They were the best part of gaming they just kind of dropped of the earth is there a rhyme or reason for this? 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, a lot of games introduced cheats as easter eggs. NBA Jam set the standard for a lot of cheat variables.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheat codes and guide books? They were the best part of gaming they just kind of dropped of the earth is there a rhyme or reason for this? 2 weeks ago:
Three things have changed.
First, GameFaqs put all of it online for free. Why would you buy a book? It’s now a relic of the old web, but it’s still there, filled with cheat codes and guides for all your games. Strategies evolve as players learn new things, so forums have replaced prescriptive guidebooks to accommodate new ideas.
Second, game development has changed. Cheat codes were originally tools for developers to function test. To test a particular level or feature, devs would have to play the actual game. Modern games are not as linear, and modern developers can throw together a test environment on the fly. Game components are more like isolated microservices, so modifying the game to test features does not need to be baked into the code.
The third thing is that everything has an online multiplayer now. Cheats are fun when it’s just you against the machine, but online competitive play is ruined when your opponent has infinite health. Online cheaters still exist, ruining multiplayer for entire communities, but their aimbots and shit cannot be officially sanctioned or promoted in a guidebook.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I don’t. It’s part of the call and response of the meme.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
*serfs but yeah
- Comment on James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, has died 3 weeks ago:
Piece of shit lived a life of privilege and luxury and died thinking he was morally righteous. The world is better off with him gone, but that’s only because he made the world much worse by simply being shitty to everyone. There is no justice except what we take.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 3 weeks ago:
Ugh that drives me crazy. The human eye is a perfect example of observable evolution. Organisms exist with every stage of eye development, from a photosensitive spot to a more advanced convergent evolution of our eye. And the human eye is poorly designed for it’s current use, resulting in a significant percentage of people requiring corrective lenses.
- Comment on advertisement 3 weeks ago:
Ugh, fine, I’ll eat the poop I guess.
- Comment on advertisement 3 weeks ago:
Ok, but like… Couldn’t they isolate and identify the bacteria strains and then make them fresh? Maybe 2 or 3 generations removed from direct poop? And like wash your hands between handling the poop and making the pill? Or does that defeat the purpose?
- Comment on healthy nutrition 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t this just binge eating? I assumed I had a disorder.
- Comment on UK Withdraws Apple iCloud Backdoor Demand Following US Diplomatic Push 3 weeks ago:
Three things seem likely.
First, Apple said absolutely not. British people would need to import their own Apple products, and the UK isn’t a big enough market by itself to force the change.
Second, the US intelligence probably shared that we have access already and they can have it too. Even if that’s not true, that’s what it looks like if you read between the lines, and a wink is as good as a nod to a conservative who gets their news from social media. So Apple doesn’t have to compromise their customer privacy, and the UK gets some political cover from the implication that Apple can’t actually protect their customers’ privacy.
Third, Apple may have simply conceded but won’t admit it publicly. The US administration, in exchange for gold baubles, negotiated a compromise where Apple gives the UK the back door, but the UK does not admit that they have access.
I don’t know which one happened, but all three seem plausible. It could be a mix of any of them, or maybe something else entirely. I dunno, I haven’t had coffee yet today.
- Comment on Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations 4 weeks ago:
That’s probably part of it, and all of this is pretty silly.
But maybe an upside is that if people stop being shitty to chatbots, maybe we can normalize live customer service agents ending interactions when they become abusive. Maybe Claude is monitoring live agent conversations, making and documenting the decision to terminate the call. Humans have a higher threshold for abuse, and will often tolerate shitty behavior because they err on the side of customer service. If it’s an automated process, that protects the agent.
Of course, all of this is wishful thinking on my part. It would be nice if new tech wasn’t used for evil, but evil is profitable.
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 4 weeks ago:
This reminds me of a movie or a tv show where people were sneaking into a compound and disabled the security cameras with a laser pointer.
- Comment on Hell is short staffed atm 4 weeks ago:
The torture department has been outsourced and will be delivered via zoom. Please make sure your laptop is plugged in and your camera is working prior to the next millennium.
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 4 weeks ago:
Wait… How do we know that someone didn’t just buy some and stuck them in the ground to make us think that this is how they grow?
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
Kellogg’s abandoned the promotion with half the camel undiscovered, after a child choked on a metatarsal bone.
- Comment on They don't make 'em like they used to 5 weeks ago:
Literally cannot imagine the word “bunghole” except in his voice.