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- Comment on Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum 2 days ago:
This is probably the only time trumps actions will increase foot traffic…
People are going to want to get a look before he changes shit.
- Comment on Issues with AI Helper 1 week ago:
Is the post asking for help making “AI Helpers” (apparently just a generic name for chatbots) as a genre more useful?
That’s not what this community is for, but the answer is:
You can’t make them useful, they’re slop generators.
- Comment on Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom 1 week ago:
It’s also important people understand it’s the same as “the cloud”.
That’s how the rollout started: “why pay for a hard drive when you can have it anywhere”?
Too many people fell for that, so the corps bought up all the hard drives, now storage is more expensive than when “the cloud” rolled out
They’re using startup accounting against us, they’ll buy up all the storage/compute power so consumers have no option but to go thru them.
The only way to win is wide scale boycotts till their investors give up. Don’t use anything you don’t own to store data.
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 1 week ago:
They borrowed our real money from banks without us having any say in it, based on imaginary valuations of what someone would hypothetically spend for their mountain of shares based on the price the tiny slice for sale is worth…
A complete and utter disregard for supply side economics.
If any of them actually have to sell to pay back the loan, they go bankrupt and the bank can’t collect.
That makes every other bank individually panic and call all their loans in to try and get what they can.
Banks doing a run on banks. Then everyone’s going to try and pull their money out when banks starting going bust.
- Comment on American AI is expensive. Some startups are turning to cheap Chinese models 2 weeks ago:
The only way to “win” at tech is churn companies.
Create an environment where startups ride it out and have a chance to be independent companies.
Currently the big American companies will just buy out entire industries anyone that doesn’t sell get crushed by the lawyers and investors get scared off.
There’s zero real innovation, and we can’t fix it unless we break apart the giant corporations. There’s no other way around it, but the giant corporations can’t admit that’s even an option.
Legally, they’re obligated to act in the best interest of share price, that’s why it’s so insane to let corporations drive policy thru lobbying, it will always benefit them and fuck us.
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 2 weeks ago:
The only reason this is the setup. Was under FDR the top tax bracket was 94% of gross pay.
For the insanely highly paid, it just wasn’t cost effective to keep paying CEOs so much, so companies made amazing healthcare packages to stand out to potential employees.
That was 80 years ago, and all the good bits are gone and the shit remains.
We need to fix our healthcare, but absolutely nothing is more important than getting that top tax rate back up to around 94% or even higher. That has to be the highest priority, because that’s how we pay for everything and fight wealth inequality
- Comment on How The Times Reported the Graham Platner Story 2 weeks ago:
Then why did they wait till last week to drop the story?
Why hide it this entire time?
Why didn’t they try to verify any of the claims?
Why is the only “evidence” recent emails to a therapist where the patient says they don’t want to come forward but people (journalists) are pressuring here to?
The primary attempt failed, so they picked the case that could be proven or denied because part of the story was he was blacked out drunk
If you can’t see this as a politician hit piece and nothing else, nothing I say is going to make sense here. Logic, facts, and critical thinking won’t help you if you can’t see any issues with this already.
Someone needs to help you with fundamental reasoning skills, it’s not just this topic.
- Comment on How The Times Reported the Graham Platner Story 2 weeks ago:
The better question is why they only seemed to be concerned with getting Platner to drop out…
And that’s because he spoke out against Israel, and the NYT doesn’t like that.
The only exemption is their opinion pieces, because that doesn’t go thru their political or special Israel editors.
Everything else even tangentially related to Israel is propaganda that they publish
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 2 weeks ago:
Nothing political about it…
He can be “alive” like Terry Schiavo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case
And they can likely keep him like that for years, because it’s machines doing all the work.
No one can pressure the hospital to do anything, as long as the checks keep clearing, they’ll keep the machines running.
What can (and is) being done, is the Governor requesting proof that McConnell is capable of fulfilling his duties from McConnell’s office
They want to stall till August 4th, because if McConnell is declared incompetent before then, it triggers a special election which allows Maise to run as an independent after losing the Republican primary.
On 8/4/26 they can say McConnell is incompetent to hold office, and the normal election will happen which Maise can’t run in.
This entire show is because Trump doesn’t want Maise to run, because if he does a Dem will likely win and if not it’ll be Maise.
But Beshar (KY governor) asking for Mitch’s status is what prompted all the Republicans to spend 20 minutes talking at his unresponsive body over a phone. That’s why they reacted
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 2 weeks ago:
Shit, it’s Kentucky hospital too…
They’re not exactly the best at making that whole “alive or dead” call.
Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.
She quickly realized something wasn’t right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.
“He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed,” Miller told NPR in an interview. “And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly.”
The donor’s condition alarmed everyone in the operating room at Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Ky., including the two doctors, who refused to participate in the organ retrieval, she says.
"The procuring surgeon, he was like, ‘I’m out of it. I don’t want to have anything to do with it,’ " Miller says. “It was very chaotic. Everyone was just very upset.”
Miller says she overheard the case coordinator at the hospital for her employer, Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA), call her supervisor for advice.
"So the coordinator calls the supervisor at the time. And she was saying that he was telling her that she needed to ‘find another doctor to do it’ – that, ‘We were going to do this case. She needs to find someone else,’ " Miller says. “And she’s like, ‘There is no one else.’ She’s crying — the coordinator — because she’s getting yelled at.”
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 2 weeks ago:
An NDA doesn’t force someone to talk/not talk about anything. It just creates a strong incentive to not talk about the topics included in the NDA or anything that might arguably fall under those topics because it opens one up to penalties. Many people can and do use NDAs as an excuse not to share information, with some even using a false implication that an NDA exists which prevents them sharing inconvenient information.
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You…
You thought I meant an NDA was a magical spell that literally and physically prevents someone from speaking about something?
I have zero idea where you got the idea that a NDA can make someone talk about something tho, that’s even more random.
An NDA with the federal government means felonies and long sentences.
But yes, someone can physically violate an NDA, it’s not fucking magic.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 2 weeks ago:
At this point I think you may not even understand what a NDA is.
Are you under the impression if someone doesn’t want to talk about a topic, they just “sign a NDA” and don’t have to talk about it?
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 2 weeks ago:
but sometimes government officials have to perform official duties that require confidentiality.
If by “sometimes” you mean “they’ll make you sign a NDA to tell you 8 hours before everyone else it’s Taco Tuesday”…
Yeah, that’s pretty close
NDAs aren’t rare at all, and I wish it was surprising no one on Lemmy seems to have actual governmental experience.
- Comment on Last woman to be hanged in the UK pardoned 70 years on— Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in United Kingdom, has been granted a conditional pardon following the Deputy Prime Minister’s advice 3 weeks ago:
One thing rightwingers always ignore when they get mad about women being able to initiate a divorce, is that without that peaceful option, we had a shit ton more widows…
Some got caught and tried for murder, but you’d have to be very ignorant to think most weren’t getting away with it thru less obvious means.
Back someone in a corner long enough, and they’re gonna take the only option they have. That’s human nature.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Bruh it’s literally how tech advances…
When resources (compute power) is cheap, there’s huge leaps in tech. When resources are scarce, the fat gets trimmed.
It’s not optimism, it’s pattern recognition.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 3 weeks ago:
Steam very successfully destroyed the resale and lending of PC games
What?!
You think before Steam people could resell and loan PC games like console?!
Why just make shit up? You know Steam ain’t that old and people remember pre-Steam…
Right?
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 3 weeks ago:
Fucking obviously…
Did people really just figure out their hate for discs was the hate for resellers and rentals?
Fucking hell man, next you’re gonna tell us they sell consoles at a lost to trap consumers in their ecosystem of expensive games and not out of the goodness of their heart.
If you just fucking realized this, it’s better than not.
But it doesn’t mean you should be listened to, because everyone that actually cares enough to string two thoughts together figured this out fucking years/decades ago.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 2's co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur's Gate 4 after Larian declined: 'Having to compete against Baldur's Gate 3? That would be insanity' 4 weeks ago:
They’re gonna learn all the wrong lessons from bg3 and copy it
The lesson should be to let studios do what they’re good at. They need to find a good studio they trust, give them BG4, and trust them to make a good game even if fundamentally different than bg3 or bg2.
It’s the antithesis of COD or Madden that release carbon copies every year, give people a new game with a familiar setting
- Comment on Rockstar Games could strike before GTA 6 launches over unionization 4 weeks ago:
The smart move would be to do it immediately after release date drops.
Give them an hour or two to grab all the headlines, then announce a strike and overwrite all the headlines and steal all the buzz.
Tie any eventual delay to that initial delay caused by their treatment of employees.
With how slow these games come out, this is a once in a decade opportunity, possibly once in a generation.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 2's co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur's Gate 4 after Larian declined: 'Having to compete against Baldur's Gate 3? That would be insanity' 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, bg3 is more Divinity Souls 3 than BG3…
They just slapped some BG paint on top of it.
Trying to find a studio that can make a sequel to that isn’t going to work out well. They need to make the tough call of finding another studio that will take the franchise and make a good game how they know how to make a good game.
- Comment on WNBA facing major backlash after controversial Caitlin Clark decision 5 weeks ago:
Clark is insanely talented.
She is…
It’s just she’s not the best in the league. She probably will be eventually, but she was treated like she was already as soon as she declared for the draft.
Like, the “W” in WNBA isn’t even relevant here, that kind of dynamic is going to breed jealous thru no fault of her own. Especially considering how much money is in sports and how likely it was that owners just needed any star to generate hype for the league.
If that was the reason, then all the suspect calls and drama makes more sense.
Look at the people who own pro sports teams and the shit they pull off
- Comment on WNBA facing major backlash after controversial Caitlin Clark decision 5 weeks ago:
That’s different stuff…
In fact, the only way they’re connected is they kind of support each other.
The WNBA as an organization is insanely jealous of Clark, because she became a star for no real reason. Shes talented, but she’s not the most talented. And in every other aspect, it’s the same.
She just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and the vast majority resent her for it.
That paints a huge target on her back, even for officials if they’ve been around a decade. However it also makes the league insanely competitive. Even when she’s not on the court, everyone is chasing that level of recognition now that is seems possible.
It’s great for the league, but it’s still crazy it’s happening. It’s not even like in men’s sports where a top athlete is feared or respected like Larry Byrd, they just fucking hate her because she’s successful.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
Same thing man.
You could have asked why I think it’s obvious the single player will just be a hamstring multiplayer, and I’d have explained it.
Would’ve been so easy
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
You could have asked me to fill in the missing steps you’re having trouble filling in…
That would have resulted in you gaining understanding about this specifically, and how people use logic and critical thinking in general.
That’s crazy man, instead you did that, and now I’ll never see an actual question you ask me.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
I was going to buy it in ~5 years on PC for the single player campaign…
But if they’re describing it as a “single player experience” it’s going to be a shitty offshoot of multiplayer instead of a ring campaign that has a multiplayer slapped on.
It sounds like a minor difference, but it means the entire “experience” is just reskinned multiplayer and will push people there so they spend money.
This one will likely be bad
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 5 weeks ago:
I can’t tell if you’re just blatantly lying, or don’t understand what most of the words mean …
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 5 weeks ago:
And OP choose to highlight that without context
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 5 weeks ago:
So is OP…
They quoted the shit stain saying the cops told him he was high profile.
- Comment on Trump Ordered ‘American Flag Blue’ for the Reflecting Pool. It’s Green Again. 1 month ago:
It’s completely normal for this to happen after any shutdown, because all the little places with water grows it, then when you fill it back up it quickly spreads till they dial in the chemicals.
The problem here is they fucked up the color so it’ll always look shitty.
And whoever is maintaining it now won’t be able to get the algae under control.
It highlights how relatively normal speed bumps keep causing massive issues.
- Comment on Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry 1 month ago:
Dude got a diplomatic passport from his home country and still wasn’t allowed in.
It’s not just a ref, dude is supposed to be the best referee in all of Africa