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- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 4 days ago:
It’s been a thing for a very long time, like even back in the 90s I remember it.
The difference was it was mostly between people who were both working. At least blue collar, and usually people who had a blurry line on when they were done with work on any given day for various reasons like having a very small business or side hustle
Like, there was an understood “work” in front of the “day”. Basically “I hope you get through this without much extra bullshit”.
That’s still how I hear it, but probably not how most mean it.
I didn’t really notice it spreading, but pandemic and zoom may have made it more common as people worked where they lived and needed to delinerate free time from work time.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 5 days ago:
I don’t think you realize the genetic diversity even among a close family…
But I have no idea why you’re talking about clones.
Kind of like if I said billionaires shouldn’t exist and you lept to saying that means I want money to not exist anymore
- Comment on Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? 6 days ago:
Why are 70+ year old conservatives acting like conservative?
Maybe because they’re 70+ years old and conservative?
Like, surely people realized that “moderates” agreed with the right on some topics, well, these are them…
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 6 days ago:
Nah, you’d ideally want 150-200, but 100 (20something and younger) would be fine assuming a random sample from all over.
The danger is the reinforcement of negative recessive genes. So if you just grab 100 from one area, there may already be common dangerous recessives that would become an issue in a few generations.
But grab a random sample of the billions of humans worldwide, you’d have the same number of “dangerous” recessives, just different ones. That would take a long time to spread within the new population.
It’s not like similar DNA is bad, it’s just compounding of recessive genes when there’s no natural selection. Which is why all the big examples of inbreeding is medieval royalty. They didn’t need to be physically/mentally capable of surviving, because they had inherited wealth.
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 1 week ago:
Humans would have said to test it first…
AI will just call you a genius for having a brilliant thought no one else could have ever thought of: fire workers and buy AI
Like, it’s fucking insane that high up people are falling for chatbots bullshit, then asking it if they should use AI more. It’s always going to say to use AI and fire humans, because the people making the chat bots want people to spend more on AI.
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 1 week ago:
Time is run by a rabid pro-trumper…
The main reason the wealthy keep buying up social media, is to prevent the 99.9% of Americans from realizing we have more in common with each other than the wealthiest 0.1%.
So of course they’re gonna push articles telling people to skip the middle men and go back to listening to traditional media the billionaires have a tighter grip on.
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 1 week ago:
Everyone’s different, and you can get used to a lot.
So some people might not be able to tell 90fps from 120fps, but I definitely notice. But if I played something at 90 for long enough, I’d get used to it and stop noticing how much worse it was from 120 fps.
I will say they don’t get near enough credit for not only adaptive triggers, but them working on damn near any game that appears on PlayStation even while on PC.
I bought a ps5 just for those triggers, and gave it away (but kept a controller) once it worked on PC.
That’s the direction Playstation needs to go. If they made a new controller with Hall Effect sticks and 4 back buttons they’d absolutely clean up. They came so close with the edge, but didn’t give a back button for half the face buttons. And went “replaceable” sticks that will eventually break instead of Hall Effect.
- Comment on When baking, if your oven can't reach the temperature stated in the recipe, do you then just adjust for time? 1 week ago:
Speaking of cooking stuff that has fans…
I learned a while ago that when using an air fryer, you can’t put a liner in before you preheat.
It beeped and I went into the kitchen and due to the fan and the liner, it was shooting flames like 2 feet.
So I would be very hesitant to start hooking fans up to random heating sources.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 1 week ago:
The streamers think they’re the stars and partners with the streaming company…
But the company is always going to treat them as products with incredibly short shelf lives under even the best conditions.
Twitch doesn’t view them as real people, and knows even if they do quit or are harmed even killed, millions of barely adults would kill to take their place.
- Comment on What's the deal with breakfast in bed? 1 week ago:
Because it’s there for you as soon as you wake up.
The other person (assumedly) got up early, obtained food, and prepared it just for you, without you signalling that you wanted it. Something that in modern times isn’t that big of a deal because it’s just in the kitchen.
But it shows they thought of you and your needs on their own. They thought of you when you were unconscious and took steps to ensure your comfort and survival. It’s such a base thing that it still really matters.
Like I said, it’s not really a logical thing that it should matter so much, because food is a lot more accessible. It’s an evolutionary holdover from long before humans or even primates existed. And due to natural variation some people just won’t see any point in it, where to other people it’s still a huge sign of love.
Like, if you asked why facial symmetry is attractive, most people couldnt explain it. But they still enjoy looking at a symmetrical face even if they don’t know why. And humans are really bad at just guessing and then rationalizing. So they’ll come up with some bullshit and honestly believe it.
So logically table or bed doesn’t matter. But brains aren’t logical. That boost of it being there the instant you get woken up is what matters most. It’s a sign that even when you’re not physically present the other person will care about you.
- Comment on What's the deal with breakfast in bed? 1 week ago:
It’s about someone putting all the effort in so it’s ready for you.
I wouldn’t give a shit either and don’t see the appeal, but it’s human variation. Like, you probably don’t really see the appeal of going out to eat with friends, and would rather do some other activity with them that you do enjoy.
But for the majority of people, food is currency, and eating in front of people shows that you’re not going to just take all the food for yourself and you’re willing to provide for someone who (in the moment) has none.
You’re not going to really get a logical answer, it’s just leftover instincts from billions of years of evolution. Like how your dog isn’t freaking out in excitement over a treat, they’re happy because you are choosing to give them “your” food. Even if it’s the smallest piece they inhale without tasting. It was yours and you gave it to them. It re-enforces the bond.
The intent is what matters. You value who you share your food with, so who you share food with feels valued by you.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 1 week ago:
But adding some specific set of demands will accomplish even less: it will alienate supporters who don’t agree with all the demands
That’s “means testing”. A classic move from neoliberals to turn a movement against itself and delay action. And why I personally don’t like trying to unite nationwide protests only a central authority or allowing a small unelected group to control a movement. The wealthy are going to try and corrupt it, and their money makes that easy for them.
it will be due to contingent circumstances that neither side was able to predict.
It’s very easy to predict…
The only reason any protest every has worked, or ever will work is the threat of violence…
We can spend all day dressing it up. But it’s telling our government we won’t stand for what it’s doing. The different flavors of protests, riots, and even coups are all the same threat of violence by citizens against their own government, it’s just how explicit that threat is and how polite the tone we say it in is.
I’m not saying that’s wrong. I’m not saying it’s something to celebrate either.
But people need to fucking understand it is what is, because it might be like that soon.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 1 week ago:
No problem.
If I had filled in all the gaps so the lowest common denominator got it, it would have been 10x as long, and it’s already too long for you to read.
There’s just no way I can communicate something like this to you in a way that you’d be able to understand. But my comments are often long, and I’ll never see any of your responses again to give you clarification on anything else now.
So you might want to just block me so you don’t keep getting confused in other threads.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 1 week ago:
Yeah, but if the bus driver has been calling all the passengers terrorists for a decade, has been saying he’s gonna kill us all, and keeps falling asleep while driving…
Wearing a funny costume and walking around the bus holding witty signs the driver will literally never see, might not be the best way to even get the bus to stop.
Like, you get that right?
It’s not Tinkerbell logic, we can’t all just clap our hands together and say “I don’t believe in kings” and they all fall down.
And I swear to 6lb 8oz baby Jesus if someone tries to tell me it’s “raising awareness and that’s most important”, I’m going to lose it, because obviously at some point awareness isn’t going to somehow stop the bus.
And I seriously doubt anyone is more aware today then they were a month ago.
Like, you all know MAGA is too scared to go into a city themselves, and the only news they listen to will never report what actually happened today.
For fucks sake, tell me there’s something I’m missing. Because otherwise it’s incredibly stressful that people think this will in anyway help. Because then you all aren’t actually going to help.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 1 week ago:
“Local” police…
In virtually every metropolitan PD, a lot of the cops don’t just live in subdivisions, they live way outside of town.
It’s easy to abuse a crowd when it’s not neighbors and people that know you.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 1 week ago:
Is it a fantasy on my part that there’s some mythical law firm or society that looks for these violations?
Yep.
That’s what the justice system is supposed to do.
The types of organizations you’re talking about in America, instead work on saving innocent people from our justice system. Or at least ensuring punishments are fair.
As far as I know (I don’t know everything) there’s virtually zero organizations with the goal of getting guilty people charged by the state/fed.
Not saying your idea about documenting is a waste. Just that it’s the equivalent of people using plastic straws while billionaires and AI data centers do irreparable damage.
If cities/states actually wanted to press charges, they’d identify with cell snoopers, or just send 20 cops with a warrant to a field office, or look at pay records. Get their identies, then drivers licence photos, start comparing to social media profiles, identify similar picture of kit.
There’s a hundred better/easier ways to identify them. And this is the type of thing AI can actually be used to speed things up. Any average sized city has the resources to identify every ICE agent in their city. They’re just too chicken shit to escalate to that, out of fear ICE will retaliate personally.
So they pretend that tiny piece of fabric over half a face is just unbeatable.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 1 week ago:
Because city prosecutors won’t bring charges unless it’s a guaranteed win.
So even tho it happens on camera, and they could start at the top of the chain and work down applying pressure to find out identities to press charges…
They’re too scared of bringing charges in a case they might lose to even attempt to hold anyone accountable.
Our justice system has been fucked for decades, but Biden refused to fix it (because he literally “wrote” the bills that got us here) and trump wants a broken system to abuse it.
We can’t just keep letting Republicans break shit, then electing “moderates” who refuse to acknowledge there’s even an issue that needs fixed. We need people willing to fight, even if they don’t win 99.999% of battles. We need people who aren’t afraid to lose. Because they understand what happens if we abstain.
- Comment on Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics 2 weeks ago:
This still the most Canadian way to lose a rap beef…
- Comment on ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’ 2 weeks ago:
“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence,” a federal judge, William Young, wrote in a blistering 161-page First Amendment ruling handed down last week. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police,” he continued. The judge, a Reagan appointee, compared immigration agents to “cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan” and declared that federal efforts to deport outspoken protesters amounted to a “full-throated assault” on freedom of speech. “Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”
- Comment on Dog attacks are still rising - even after the XL bully ban 3 weeks ago:
No shit…
Because breed specific banning doesn’t work.
Problematic owners will just go back to dobermans, or one of the shit ton of speciality breeds with an even stronger bite.
I’ll never understand why so many people fall for breed specific bans when the Venn diagram with racists’ arguments are a single circle.
- Comment on How Long is Too Long for a Reply? 3 weeks ago:
Context.
Some obscure question that’s been unanswered for months?
Sure, why not.
A political article that’s a couple days old and has a shit ton of comments tho… Yeah, it’s weird for people to jump back into those.
But the absolute worst that will happen is someone down votes and blocks you. Most likely they ignore it, maybe ask what you’re doing
It’s not a big deal.
- Comment on When We Sleep Our Mind Creates A World In Dream Then Can't We Believe The Power Of The God? Human Birth Is To Attain The Supreme 3 weeks ago:
Oh, they crazy…
cnn.com/…/india-hindu-extremist-groups-intl-hnk-d…
That’s why trump, Modi, and Bibi get along. They’re all exploiting far right sects of their country’s religion.
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 3 weeks ago:
If BDS didn’t work, it wouldn’t be illegal to promote BDS for Israel…
- Comment on He Would've Escaped - How The FBI Really Caught Tyler Robinson 3 weeks ago:
He would’ve escaped…
If he hadn’t of just turned himself in before anyone knew he did it?
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 3 weeks ago:
The problem is they’ll always be shitty fascists who think they should be in charge of everything.
And the majority of people only realize how bad that is when they lived thru it.
For an enduring free society, it needs to be a foundational belief that everyone is equal and has basic inalienable rights…
And before anyone says we tried that, their “everyone” was just “white landowning men”.
- Comment on Does being a ‘hero’ mean you are a perfect person? 3 weeks ago:
Literally no one is perfect, just like if someone was truly average in every respect, they’d be the most unique person who ever lived.
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 4 weeks ago:
This is a card game to them, they’re sitting at the table in Vegas and are doing anything they can to make it look like the company is valuable just long enough to con someone else into buying it.
It’s not even a card game, it’s lotto scratchers.
A card game implies they give thought and treat each situation unique and change strategies
They’re buying billion dollar companies left and right hoping for a quick payday because they’re obsessed with watching their bank account numbers go up.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month 5 weeks ago:
Reached by Variety, a rep for Disney declined to provide additional comment on the price hikes. It’s the third time in three years Disney is raising the prices of the streaming services in the U.S., after price hikes for Disney+ and Hulu in October 2024 and in October 2023. Disney provided notifications of the latest price hikes Tuesday on its customers support sites.
So, they’re just doing it every October?
And they were too money hungry to push it back a month or so this year to see if they can get any back?
Whoever runs as a D for president next needs to be a monopoly buster.
Like, at this point can we just get some dude from an FDR museum and tell him to just donate four year commitment?
We need his entire platform again, because neoliberal baby boomers fucked everyone over.
- Comment on Does it feel like the PS5's library is *severely* lacking compared to the PS4's around the same time in its lifecycle? 5 weeks ago:
but they’re putting out one game every generation
That wasn’t as big of a deal when it was a two year console cycle…
But I think for hardware and software, consoles keep wanting to hit metrics, because that’s what the parent company looks at.
The result is usually all flash and every game hitting the same points that were popular 5 years ago when development started
There’s no risks, so there’s no payoff. They have built in audiences so they still make money and keep getting paid.
Shit only changes when an I die game blows up and AAA try to integrate what made that game popular.
- Comment on Endless Legend 2 - Early Access Launch Trailer 5 weeks ago:
I wanted to love the original and sunk a lot of hours into it…
But it just never really scratched tgat HoMM itch like I wanted.
All the “endless” games seem super interesting and I love the never ending lore. It just feels like something is missing from all their games.
The new HoMM still just has “2025” as a release date, no idea when it’s actually releasing