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- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 12 hours ago:
That feeds back into what I was saying, it’s the same thing.
The first couple times you dick someone over for money, you’re gonna feel bad.
But everyone at the company is going to pat you on the back and say you’re a genius cuz numbers went up.
Anyone who says it wasn’t worth the numbers going up, gets fired.
The wealthy live in a bubble where the only people they interact with only care about money
Our whole capitalist society is a giant feedback loop that concentrates wealth and strips the wealthy of their humanity.
It’s not like there’s some problem where something is broken, this is the natural and logical result of how we’ve spent the last couple generations
Unregulated capitalism always ends in an oligarchy with most people penniless
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 15 hours ago:
But then again, maybe he is just another CEO asshole and has always been lol.
When you fire everyone that disagrees with you, it doesn’t take long to loose the ability to handle criticism.
Like, there’s a very good chance this guy has had absolutely nothing but praise while “working” on this game. So now that people whose job doesn’t depend on making him feel like a genius are giving feedback, it literally breaks his brain.
He most likely genuinely believes the game is perfect and all the criticism is from “trolls and haters” who are just lying because their jealous of his genius.
There’s a reason this attitude is so pervasive among the wealthy.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 day ago:
Apparently the graphics are basically the same as 3, but performance is dog shit on even the best hardware and crashes are unavoidable.
When people complained, he said they need to use AI fake frame and upscale from 720. Which still wasn’t good performance.
It might get fixed later in updates. But this guy is handling so badly he might legitimately be mentally unwell. It’s at the point it’s weird he still has a job
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 day ago:
Americans graduate from 12th at 17/18
So I think I’d have been 12, and it was a public generic school
And if that sounds too early, hunting season started like a week earlier than the class and another 12 year old in my class already had his license (lots did) but that kid climbed a fence with a loaded shotgun while hunting and blew off a couple of his toes.
So like, it’s hard to argue it was “too early” because the kids were already running around unsupervised with guns.
Before Columbine people would go hunting before school and if they didn’t get anything they’d come straight to school with their gun in the back window of their truck. After they just stopped leaving them clearly visible.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 days ago:
since kids aren’t usually allowed to train with guns
What?
I went to a rural school, and everyone had a “hunters education” class in like 7th grade. We never touched a gun but we could legally go hunting.
A shit ton of kids hunt, and most ranges are fine with kids if an adult is with them too.
Like, it varies state to state, but in lots of areas it’s weird for someone to graduate highschool before shooting a gun.
But besides all that, guns aren’t difficult.
so can any person with no expirience technically just pick up a gun and start shooting people?
So yeah, pretty much.
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- Comment on What are some franchises with characters that personify countries? 1 week ago:
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 1 week ago:
They can literally not do it…
Cops have an insane amount of power because they can just not do their job whenever they feel like it
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I understand why so many people keep telling you specifically not to go to college now at least
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What?
, just go into the trades instead.” This view seems increasingly common, and it’s worrying. There’s a trend of glorifying blue-collar work while demeaning white-collar paths, as if pursuing higher education is somehow less valid. Young people should be encouraged to reach for higher education and intellectual growth, not steered toward careers that can wreck their bodies with manual labor.
It sounds like you’re upset that some people are saying you should go to school for something that will have available jobs…
By all means, if you want to be an unemployed coder, go into coding.
- Comment on Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered. 2 weeks ago:
They’re not “triggered” they’re pissed their doctor is offloading work to a chatbot and violating HIPAA because the chatbot retains everything you type into it for future training.
If shrinks are using chat it’s to do their work and not disclosing to patients and getting their consent…
That’s a huge liability in multiple legal aspects
- Comment on Do I fit into any subculture? (I'm from the UK if that helps) 2 weeks ago:
They just want a label they can claim.
They’re not asking for a subculture, they’re asking for a descriptor to feel unique.
Typical teenager stuff
- Comment on Is this Lemmy thread full of bots/ Fake comments? 2 weeks ago:
How would they not be aware when they clearly banned them already?
And how did you not realize it’s one automated bot that made thousands of comments in one thread?
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. But the moles still get whacked…
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
I mean, kind of…
That means individual server owners have to decide for themselves if they believe an age verification component is a necessary addition.
The laws are written for capitalism. Not an open source code base that lets literally anyone create an instance of their own.
So “Mastodon” might have lawyers and shit, but a tiny instance with 100 people would just get shut down, or maybe even charges.
It sounded great at first, till I got to the part they were just passing the buck to smaller instances.
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 3 weeks ago:
As a neurodivergent
Fucking everyone is “neurodivergent” because there’s thousands of places to diverge in hundreds of different ways
Is someone was “typical” in every single aspect, just smack dab in the middle average, they would be the most statistically unique person on the planet.
“typical” isn’t even always best, it’s literally just the range of average most people fall into.
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 3 weeks ago:
And if i could i would select the physically attractive ones so that all people can have a girlfriend.
No wonder you said this goes sideways every time you try to talk about it…
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 3 weeks ago:
Because it’s almost always just done on a racial bias and not something voluntary targeted at eliminating genetic diseases.
Even then, a lot of that stuff has a racial lean. Things like Sickle cell may be a huge advantage in places with malaria, but a negative everywhere else.
There’s 100% some generic issues with no positive tradeoffs, but any system that would incentives them from not reproducing and passing on those genes would just be too open to corruption.
The risk/reward just isn’t worth it
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If everyone stopped walking on pavement, we’d have no greenery, just mud.
It’s an incredibly self centered world view to advocate for this being widespread, even just doing it yourself.
- Comment on More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play - EuroGamer 4 weeks ago:
The author picked a clan that’s all about brute force…
Then complains the game was about brute force except for the parts where you play a vampire from another clan.
I don’t even know much about WoD, but I know he picked the most boring clan and then complained it was boring action.
The reactions to what clan you pick is where the RPG parts seem to come in from other reviews I’ve read.
It’s not like it’ll be a perfect game, but I feel like whoever wrote the review didn’t really get the game.
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 4 weeks ago:
It’s kind of a shitty job, so lots of people sign up, do it a very short time, and quit
Sometimes they sell the account, sometimes it gets hacked.
But it’s a way for people who shouldn’t be able to deliver for whatever reason, are able to deliver.
- Comment on Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned 4 weeks ago:
It got it’s initial funding from people like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel…
Of course it’s run by pieces of shit
- Comment on What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? 5 weeks ago:
They’re operating under the long outdated assumption that all you need to simulate a brain is match the number of neurons…
That’s not how any of this works, but they’ve been saying “we’ll be there soon” for so long now that we’re almost able to do it, their gonna lose their main excuse and main reason for fundraising.
They’ll have to tell investors the timeline just changed from years to maybe decades if we’re lucky
And it’s gonna divebomb our whole economy because fucking every fund manager is dumping insane levels of money into it.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 5 weeks ago:
If you were nicer, people would stick around longer and try to help you underthings…
You get that?
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 5 weeks ago:
An Ontario film distributor has alleged that the shootings are linked to an intimidation campaign by other film distributors to prevent popular South Indian movies from appearing in large chains.
Guy who distributes Indian movies claims attacks on random movie theaters are to prevent his movies from being watched…
I didn’t search very hard, but I can’t find a single other source for that being a thing.
Even if it was, that’s basically the opposite of a protection racket. You get that right?
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah.
If you pay protection, it’s because the payment is less than random thefts would be.
The gang you pay, is supposed to be scary enough that random crime doesn’t happen in “their” areas.
So you getting robbed, is an insult to their reputation. And to regain that rep, they find the idiots who robbed a store under their protection.
Now, whether or not you see any of that money back isn’t really for sure. Because what matter is the reputation among the criminal underground.
But the whole process is outdated, I’d be surprised if it’s still happening large scale. Most likely only for businesses who are already breaking the law, this couldn’t contact cops anyways.
Like a methlab.
You can’t call the cops even if you know who robbed the methlab. So if you don’t have muscle. You pay for protection
- Comment on Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes 5 weeks ago:
A neurotypical human mind, acting rationally, is able to remember the chain of thought that lead to a decision, understand why they reached that decision, find the mistake in their reasoning, and start over from that point to reach the “correct” decision.
No.
What we learned from those experiments was that if we don’t know a reason for why we did something, we’d invent and whole heartedly believe the first plausible explanation we come up with.
I didn’t read any further because you had a fundamental misunderstanding about what those studies actually proved
- Comment on Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes 5 weeks ago:
Why would an AI system provide such confidently incorrect information about its own capabilities or mistakes? The answer lies in understanding what AI models actually are—and what they aren’t.
What’s ironic is this is one of the most human things about AI…
when an object is presented in the right visual field, the patient responds correctly verbally and with his/her right hand. However, when an object is presented in the left visual field the patient verbally states that he/she saw nothing, and identifies the object accurately with the left hand only (Gazzaniga et al., 1962; Gazzaniga, 1967; Sperry, 1968, 1984; Wolman, 2012). This is concordant with the human anatomy; the right hemisphere receives visual input from the left visual field and controls the left hand, and vice versa (Penfield and Boldrey, 1937; Cowey, 1979; Sakata and Taira, 1994). Moreover, the left hemisphere is generally the site of language processing (Ojemann et al., 1989; Cantalupo and Hopkins, 2001; Vigneau et al., 2006). Thus, severing the corpus callosum seems to cause each hemisphere to gain its own consciousness (Sperry, 1984). The left hemisphere is only aware of the right visual half-field and expresses this through its control of the right hand and verbal capacities, while the right hemisphere is only aware of the left visual field, which it expresses through its control of the left hand.
academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/5/…/2951052?lo…
Tldr:
They split people’s brains in half, and only the right side of the body could speak.
So if you showed the left hand a text that said “draw a circle” the left hand would draw a circle.
Ask the patient why, and they’d invent a reason and 100% believe it’s true.
It’s why it seems like people are just doing shit and rationalizing it later…
That’s kind of how we’re wired to work, and why humans can rationalize almost anything.
- Comment on UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems' 5 weeks ago:
This is plastic straws all over again:
As some onlookers have noted, the recommendation rings a little hollow when juxtaposed next to the UK government’s commitment to turbocharge growth using AI. Perhaps more pertinently, the advice rings hollow because it’s likely not very sensible. While it’s true that data centers do consume large amounts of water through evaporative cooling (where it’s used), the vast majority of this power draw comes from CPU and GPU computation, not the storage of pictures and emails. Once the data is stored, the storage devices generate very little heat and are often spun down (placed into low- or no-power states) and called upon only when needed.
The impact of an individual deleting emails and old photos on data center water usage is likely to be so infinitesimal as to be considered futile. In fact, rooting out old emails and photos and deleting them from your online archives might well use more energy and water than storing them in the first place, making this a counterproductive exercise.
Corporations are the real problem, but they bribe the government into doing something that won’t help but will make some people against the entire cause and will reflexively start saying there is no problem and nothing should be fixed.
They need to be called out repeatedly and loudly before that mentality sets in again.
- Comment on Was there a Cold War conflict where the Soviets funded the right-wingers and the Americans funded the communists? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not like they backed factions based on ideology…
In virtually everyone of those proxy governments it was a dictator who agreed to back one side or the other