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- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 2 hours ago:
Like, my blunt uncle might make a joke about a boyfriend being ugly and cracking a mirror or something, but he would never, ever, say something like ‘you can do better’ or ‘ew’.
There’s a line between being open and honest about someone’s attractiveness, and being cruel and a bad judge of character.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 3 hours ago:
Yeah, those sound like crappy people that you’re talking to.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 3 hours ago:
Lots of people navigate the world being more open and honest about things the way they are, rather than beating around the bush about everything that could possibly be sensitive.
Being nervous and awkward and avoiding the elephant in the room can draw more attention and self consciousness to it then not.
Being nervous and repressed doesn’t make you the be all arbiter of how to navigate the world.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 3 hours ago:
I mean, did they talk about how he wasnt conventionally attractive or did they care about it?
Are they saying, “old ugly bob is coming by for dinner tonight, make sure to put out an extra setting”, or are they saying “don’t date bob because he’s old and ugly”?
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 3 hours ago:
Or just honest, open ones.
- Comment on 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Starlink Antenna, and Cheaper Than Fiber: Taara Unveils a Laser Internet That Could Shatter the Status Quo 21 hours ago:
Yes, but the article is literally nothing without that information.
The only interesting thing about a new approach to laser internet is if they’ve solved the critical issue holding it back.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 4 days ago:
No doubt.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 4 days ago:
Lol if gamers are bitching about a game not adding a whole new island, you should ignore them because they’re clearly idiots.
If gamers are bitching about your menu system being navigable by someone with less than an a PhD (cough, Risk of Rain 2 on console, cough) then if it takes 6 months to fix thats because you coded your software badly.
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 4 days ago:
It’s not a popular opinion but you’re entirely right.
AI isn’t copying in the way that most people think it is. It truly is transformative in all the tradition copyright ways.
Is it copyright infringements if my company pays an employee to study the internet and that makes them capable of animating a frame from the Simpsons? No, it’s copyright infringement when that company publishes that copyright infringing work.
The reality is that copyright has always been a nonsense system and ‘fair use’ concepts were also nonsense and arbitrary. AI algorithms just let us expose how nonsense they are at scale.
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 5 days ago:
If they pay to power it with sustainable energy then it doesn’t. Simple as that. Energy use is really not a problem.
AI’s biggest problem is that it accelerates the effects of capitalism, including wealth concentration and our societies are not set up to handle or been to adapt particularly quickly.
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 5 days ago:
I worked at a major tech company and their attitude was ‘if this becomes popular enough, and copyright is an issue, we’ll just pay artists to produce training data en masse’.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 week ago:
Sweeney is not lionized as a false saviour.
Newell is.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 week ago:
100%.
Gamers act like Gabe Newell is a god, when he’s just a billionaire that charged them more than he needed to, like all the others.
- Comment on Apple blocks Fortnite's return to iPhone in US 1 week ago:
Apple such a piece of shit company.
- Comment on The emotional support dunkies 2 weeks ago:
Don’t take pics of random people minding their own business and post them on the internet for made up points?
- Comment on The emotional support dunkies 2 weeks ago:
I know what you mean, but I get the impression that you and OP are using hate with different levels of intensity and specificity.
This didn’t feel to me like the ‘oh I hate Joffrey and can’t not see him when I see Jack Gleeson’ type of hate.
- Comment on The emotional support dunkies 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I kind of hate these memes for this reason, let the man just live his life.
- Comment on The emotional support dunkies 2 weeks ago:
If you “hate” a random actor, then that’s kind of a you problem, and you should probably consider therapy, or at the very least, spend less time online.
He’s never done anything to harm you, he’s just lived his life. He may not be a perfect person but no one is.
- Comment on Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Receives Official Mod Support, Fishing Mini-Game Possible 2 weeks ago:
Hot damn I want to see what modders do with this game.
Saber’s really showing itself to be a great studio.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
Alright man, do you, but it sounds like you’re just defeatist and making up excuses rather than just taking direct action to improve your circumstances.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
It was the first time I was in the dominican, and it was a resort, and I was 18 and hungover and thought I was super cool, and then I only barely held in high pitched squeals as I got chased across half the resort by a giant man killing dinosaur, and everyone praised me for how brave and strong I was… iirc.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
Well maybe you live in a hellscape dystopia, but in most places landlords are beholden to laws and are not just each individually Judge Dredd.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
Lol you can’t lose your security deposit for improving your residence by painting and sealing it properly.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have to own a home to use caulking, you just need to own caulking and a caulking gun.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
The real trick to managing pests in your home is to use caulking to seal the entry points between the interior and the walls, and between the walls and the exterior.
- Comment on memes from my biology class #6 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s because I grew up in the north where there are no lizards, but Ive never understood squeamish reactions to them. I get it for insects, and spiders, and snakes, and even fish, but lizards have always just seemed like chill happy bros to me.
Except that one massive iguana that chased me, all the rest of have been chill.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 3 weeks ago:
AAA gaming shows the effects of late term capitalism on gaming.
- Comment on John Lithgow Says He Was Surprised by Backlash Over Joining ‘Harry Potter’ Series 4 weeks ago:
Huh, weird, not sure where you read that, maybe you meant to reply to someone else?
- Comment on John Lithgow Says He Was Surprised by Backlash Over Joining ‘Harry Potter’ Series 4 weeks ago:
I love John Lithgow as an actor but his reasoning here is horse shit.
First of all, the article’s justification for Roald Dahl being an anti-Semite is his family apologizing for his anti-Semitic statements 30 years after he died. Meaning that money from any of Dahl’s work would go to Dahl’s estate / family, the people who apologized for his anti-Semitism, not the man who is claimed to be anti-Semitic.
Secondly, the play that he was in wasn’t even written by Roald Dahl and didn’t benefit his estate, it was in fact, a play written by a Jewish playwright.
Thirdly, that play was written explicitly to address his anti-semitism. It would be like acting in a play about JK Rowling’s anti-trans crusade that in no way financially benefits her, this is clearly not the same thing.
And finally, on top of all that, from everything I can find, the accusation of Roald Dahl being anti-Semitic originally surfaced because of anti-Israel statements that he made in a book review after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. There was one follow up interview where he made some comments that do seem, quite frankly mildly anti-Jewish, but again, this is in the context of a 67 year old world war 2 vet expressing his anger about Israel turning from victims into aggressors. And that was it.
He didn’t campaign against Jews, he didn’t get any anti-Jewish laws passed, he didn’t spread anti-Jewish hysteria, and it was never something he dedicated any actual time to writing about.
The situation between appearing in that Dahl play and appearing in Harry Potter is not remotely comparable.
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 4 weeks ago:
Sort of, when you hang out with people who are less informed, it’s going to get awkward if you’re constantly just explaining stuff. Eventually everyone will pick up on the vibe that you know way more than everyone else.
But I don’t hate it. That stuff can be overcome by working on your self and social ability, often the wittiest people can slyly point out the folly of something someone said with a quick wry joke, and more importantly you can learn to just let stuff go and not always explain everything and instead focus on being a conversationalist that will just keep things flowing in a fun way.
Plus, then when you do hang out with other people who are well informed, you can have interesting deep conversations. And the world is a lot less scary and hard to navigate if you understand how it all works.