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- Comment on Hundreds of elective surgeries cancelled as 50,000 nurses and midwives walk off job in NSW 4 days ago:
It is quite odd. Also odd that they would agree to so much while still negotiating on so many other fronts. Would have made more sense for government to agree to all at the same time, benchmarked against each other.
- Comment on Oopsies 5 days ago:
Yes, you can choose to lay out your wishes. Many do, just like opt in or opt out organ donation. However, if you don’t lay out your wishes, you will still end up buried or cremated or something similar without consent.
I’m not saying that’s wrong. We can’t just leave dead bodies where they lie. It also provides comfort to families to practice burial rites. My point is that technically you are still making decisions about what to do with some odors body parts without consent, as they can no longer consent. Is there really a difference? If they care that much, will they just opt out?
I know some countries, they used to let you specify which organs, but then people opted out of eyes. So they removed the option and it was just donor or not. People still consented, without opting out of eyes. Is that better, or is that manipulating consent?
- Comment on Oopsies 5 days ago:
We don’t get their consent to be buried or cremated or whatever else people do with the remaining bodies of their loved ones. It’s just opt out. Why should organ donation, which provides a societal and personal benefit be different?
- Comment on Israeli attacks kill 31 people in Gaza while four children injured in drone strike at polio vaccination centre 1 week ago:
James is a terrorist organisation, but they are also the government.
It is no different to Nelson Mandela being in prison as a terrorist and later the leader of South Africa.
That is not to justify Hamas actions, but the health ministry is the one saving people, not killing people.
- Comment on '28 Years Later' - Ralph Fiennes reveals plot details for Danny Boyle's sequel 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but knowing that, subverting it is not a bad idea. Misdirection can go both ways.
- Comment on Netflix Wiped Most of Its “Palestinian Stories” Collection — and Erased the Whole Thing in Israel 3 weeks ago:
If they were due to expire, all together, that would be odd, but not necessarily an issue. The article points to them not advertising the expiration, like they do for other films. Surely the filmmakers can comment on that if its odd.
It would be quite disappointing from Netflix to do so after they were ambivalent about other controversial topics like comedy specials with bigoted views that were offensive to many. They claimed to make no judgement on content but make it available for people to decide.
- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 3 weeks ago:
Damn right, let’s throw it at Farage.
- Comment on Which great actor is overdue for a career defining role? 5 weeks ago:
Cillian Murphy
He’s been great in lots of stuff. From Oppenheimer to praky blinders, but none have been career defining.
Ryan Gosling is similar. Lots of praise, lots of great roles but none career defining.
Gary oldman is almost rhw opposite. Every role is career defining. It just seems like a different actor in each role. He’s a veritable chameleon.
- Comment on ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Makes $7M In Thursday Night Previews, Receives 36% Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score – Box Office 1 month ago:
Yes but joker made moneybas it was pretty good and was different to expectations.
This sounds like it wasnt. Although, it does sound a little different to what I expected.
- Comment on Anon enjoys time with his father 1 month ago:
No, its gay. Oedicoc
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 1 month ago:
Oh, certainly LLMs are here to stay. Hopefully, they become conmoditised very quickly. But also, hopefully, the bubble bursts quickly too. Shoehorning AI into everything is dogshit. Actually using it for select reasons, where it is successful, should be great.
Already we have things like customer support phone trees that try to get rid of user interaction with scripts. AI here could be great to improve them. What’s more likely is as the tech improves, more companies use AI rather than peioke for customer support, lol. Its dystopian.
The difference, of course, is the belt sander is not purporting to be able to screw fasten. Nor will it with a future update or subscription.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 1 month ago:
Yes, but for the average user, if it confidently gives misinformation, then its worse than a search engine. It is removing the verification step of reading the source, seospam aside. The whole business model is on using it more, not selectively.
One thing the article leaves out is the costs of processing should go down over time. Hopefully, as power transitions,.it also becomes more sustainable. However, it starts to become a bit like uber and self driving cars. How long can they burn through other peoples money to undercut competitions until the actual plan becomes profitable.
- Comment on Total Film (UK Magazine) to close. 1 month ago:
True, but. Of really surprising. I used to biy magazines. Then I used to buy magazines only when travellong or on holidays. Now I do neither.
Its not a viable business model in the digital age to have month old news at a premium price.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 1 month ago:
But if any research source cannot be used without verification, is it really useful? I agree, we should verfiy crucial information but when its wrong often, but confidently so, using natural language is a barrier not a benefit.
- Comment on Indie movies are having a surprising comeback in a bleak time for Hollywood 1 month ago:
You do know they will do both, right? They will flog the dead horse into the ground. Then stop when its not making money. Nthen reboot it once enough time has passed.
- Comment on After is a new dating app that tries to tackle ghosting 1 month ago:
Because when ghosted, some people catastrophise. If it happens a lot they start to worry about what might be wrong with them. Our brains aren’t wired for it.
So, yes, sometimes a polite lie is better than nothing. Sometimes a polite lie is better than the truth. Its not you, its me.
- Comment on After is a new dating app that tries to tackle ghosting 1 month ago:
Closure. People lie in real life too, not just on the internet.
- Comment on Rules 1 month ago:
Yep, as an Irish jaywalker, I was shocked to find not only is jaywalking not allowed, but you actually get fined. For crossing the road with no traffic.
Or even just being denied entry to a pub for racism or sexism. Its an offrnce not to leave immediately.
On the bright side, peopke clean their shit upnin parks and beaches for the most part.
- Comment on Can it get any more obvious 1 month ago:
And about how judging someone in that way isn’t fair or healthy for either of you.
The line was a juxtaposition of interests to easily characterize them. Its also very catchy as this meme would show.
- Comment on Google Chrome testing predatory BNPL loan integration 1 month ago:
Which makes them even less of an authority.
- Comment on What are the scariest games you've played? 1 month ago:
I think some have said the start of resident evil village is quite scary on vr, but I havnt played it. Probably less so if you’ve already played it. There are a bunch of junonscare games but they interest me less.
- Comment on What are the scariest games you've played? 1 month ago:
I found the batman vr game on psvr scariest. It wasnt that scary a premise, but because of the immersion, it was extra. You knew joker was in a cell and you had to Kean in to see. Although you knew he would get you, you had no choice. You had to physically force yourself to be attacked bybsteppibg forwards.
Similarly, the jumping off a cliff to commit suicide in suoerhot vr was quite confronting and scary. I think they edited it out.
- Comment on A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks 2 months ago:
It would likely lead to a lot of issues. The games companies would need licences like a bank. They would need to keep it secure and have funds availabke to offset a run. It would likely also mean that players would be able to refund unused cash.
If they change the value in game, it might lead to gains which are taxable or losses which are possible to offset.
- Comment on An Ubisoft investor wants to dethrone Ubisoft's founders so Ubisoft can lay more developers off 2 months ago:
Also, a grammar lesson for you too! When you dont put ‘an’ between quotation marks, your sentence doesn’t read well either. Next debate should be which quotation marks to use, but that varies by country.
However, your post enlightened me to my mispronunciation of Ubisoft, despite knowing they were French. I’m not sure that I’ll change though. I don’t thibknthe French would anglicise a word with widespread French pronunciation to appease non-French speakers, so I’m sure they are (ironically not) fine with it.
I also agree with you, that in English, most people pronounce it as Yubi, so “a” would have been appropriate and 'an" reads poorly.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 is coming in 2025 2 months ago:
I wonder if the movie flopping massively will be damaging for the brand. It seems the movie sparked some increases in gaming, though. If so, could we see companies take more care with their IP, as games sales are at risk.
Who am i kidding. A cash grab is a cash grab.
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 2 months ago:
Its not that it can’t happen now. Its that it will happen all the time with digital tags.
- Comment on What is this plug on my wall for? 2 months ago:
Fuse box for one line. Fuses weren’t put in as standard when electricity was introduced. Many old houses just had live wires coming in with no breaker like today. For expensive electrical items added when there was no fuse, an electrician with install it with a dedicated fuse. If the electrical system has been updated where it enters the house, it may no longer be needed. However, if it is on a different circuit, it may be. Old fuse boxes were a bunch of replaceable physical fuses. Nowadays they are breaker switches for easy resetting and less waste.
Anyway, if whatever is connected to this gets a power surge, the fuse could trip and you would need to replace it. However it is not a plug, to add a different device or appliance, but just a safety pass through for the wire coming out the other end.
- Comment on From Baldur's Gate to Rogue Trader, the latest RPG-themed Humble Bundle is a horrifying assault on your time 2 months ago:
Humble games is humble bundle. They started doing good deals and some went to charity. They got a good name. They were bought out. A large corporation fired all the staff and kept the branding. No Kore commitments to charity. Just a regular shop, trading on the good name others made. That’s scammy and scummy.
- Comment on From Baldur's Gate to Rogue Trader, the latest RPG-themed Humble Bundle is a horrifying assault on your time 2 months ago:
Aren’t all the humble bundle staff fired and they just use the brand now? So really its a multi pack sale from a corpo. I won’t be purchasing from them again.
- Comment on UK economy continues recovery with 0.6% growth 2 months ago:
Wage rises in excess of cpi, generally. Gdp increases can be meaningless on an individual basis. For instance, Australia has had years of gdp rises, which are just due to increased population size. The average person has less money as population rising faster than gdp. It’s a per capita recession, but not a technical recession.