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- Comment on Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change? 1 day ago:
Yes, but the opposite way you might be thinking since mass death from war and other catastrophe is strongly correlated with very high birth rates. We’re on track for the global population to stabilize around 10 billion right now, but if billions die in a world war we will probably go exponential again for a long time.
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 1 day ago:
I would like that to be true, but I don’t think the numbers really support it, at least for the approval rating:
Last updated on July 2nd 2025
He was 6th lowest approved president ever for his first term, but that was with an approval rating of 34%, which is lower than it is currently. Top 3 are Truman, Nixon, and Bush, with 22,24,25% respectively.
- Comment on "My HOA Sent Me GORE PHOTOS After Complaining About the AirBnbs" [5:39] 1 day ago:
The exact logic behind why in the world they thought this would be a good idea will be a better question answered in court
I sympathize with the guy’s situation but that’s a hell of a bait and switch headline, no explanation of what happened there is offered beyond it
- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 1 week ago:
It’s nuts that our health insurance is tied to employment here in the US.
Even more nuts that they specifically want it to be that way to coerce people into working
- Comment on Dreamsettler, the follow-up to early internet inspired browser game Hypnospace Outlaw, has been cancelled 1 week ago:
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 week ago:
This is a multiplayer freemium game though, I don’t think there are any cracked servers for it, and supposedly there are options for Epic users to retain their accounts with things they’ve bought (the game is also apparently kind of p2w).
- Comment on Bottoms up 1 week ago:
I don’t regularly drink coffee, one time I had a big cup made by someone who drinks a lot of coffee, what happened was my face went all tingly and numb and I felt like I was gonna pass out (I was on the highway and there were no bathroom stops so it was extra bad). People who don’t think of caffeine as a drug are just incorrect.
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 2 weeks ago:
I once had a deal with my landlord to provide wifi to the other tenants. Of course I didn’t snoop, but it’s not like they had any real assurance of that. You’d think there might be some privacy concerns but nobody had a problem except when the internet was down. I think in general people don’t tend to care about that, though if you do there’s the option of using a VPN.
- Comment on Virginia safety activist charged with vandalism after drawing crosswalk at dangerous intersection 3 weeks ago:
Kind of sounds like they are just out to get him because he keeps protesting the lack of crosswalks
He also reportedly wrote an email to Charlottesville’s city manager which read: “There is a marked crosswalk now [at the intersection in question] in spite of you … It’s chalk[,] not paint[.] Please replace it with a real one.”
A police report that Cox shared with the news station alleged that officers were unable to determine whether his improvised crosswalk had been created with permanent paint.
Like he explicitly told them it was chalk and also you can just look at it
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately at the end of the day people like this will still be rich and not have to worry about the problems the rest of us do.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
if it were me I’d be conflicted about whether to respond with just “k” or demanding a conversation about boundaries
- Comment on Breadstick 5 weeks ago:
Yet another reason to own a bidet
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 5 weeks ago:
Maybe not as huge as it should be but
In 2021, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ordered the Met Police and NPCC to pay a total of £229,471 to Ms Wilson “by way of just satisfaction for the breaches of her human rights”
- Comment on Anon goes for a walk with a girl 1 month ago:
ah right I guess I misinterpreted
- Comment on Anon goes for a walk with a girl 1 month ago:
Imagine you’re walking with someone and they get shit on by a bird but they try to pretend it didn’t happen. That would be way more awkward right?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s really hard, I tried for a while and gave up. Way too many things to pay attention to and get right at once, while doing something dangerous.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 1 month ago:
When people get scammed, it’s not their fault just because there are conceivable ways they could have learned it was a scam.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 1 month ago:
Not everybody has all the information to know whether a company is known for this kind of shit. I’ve heard a lot of stories about PayPal screwing over sellers in particular by freezing their funds for no justified reason, but I can see people falling for the “they must have been doing something bad they aren’t admitting” you always see in response to anyone complaining about some authority imposing arbitrary punishments on them.
My personal gripe with PayPal is, I was once relying on income from sales through them, and had withdrawn money to my bank that I needed to pay my rent. A customer filed a spurious dispute (later resolved in my favor) on a sale that was only a tiny portion of that, and their response was to immediately reverse the whole completed bank transfer. So I almost missed paying rent and had to scramble to figure it out.
Anyway, fuck PayPal, sympathy to all their victims.
- Comment on Anon describes currency 1 month ago:
I think the other answers people are giving are wrong. It’s backed by debt and the enforcement of that debt.
- Comment on New York Bitcoin Miners Are Buying Up Power Plants—and Communities Are Fighting Back 1 month ago:
Besides the climate implications, this highlights the centralization risks in Proof of Work mining; the only way to mine Bitcoin profitably is if you have some kind of privileged access to electricity with effectively low ongoing cost, and that access is gated by government regulation.
- Comment on Anon takes the last bus 1 month ago:
Is this a post about racism
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 month ago:
What’s basically being said is, making an AI powered software local-only doesn’t make a difference and doesn’t matter. But that’s not true, and the arguments for that don’t seem coherent.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 month ago:
But the company hasn’t collected it, because it doesn’t have it. Your computer has it. So long as it stays on your computer, it cannot harm your privacy. That’s why there is such a big difference here; an actual massive loss of privacy, vs a potential risk of loss of privacy.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 month ago:
Software that is designed not to send your data over the internet doesn’t collect your data. That’s what local-only means. If it does send your data over the internet, then it isn’t local-only. How is it still happening?
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 month ago:
So you don’t think collection of user data is a meaningful privacy problem here? How does that work?
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 month ago:
Even with Recall, a hypothetical non-local equivalent would be significantly worse. Whether Microsoft actually has your data or not obviously matters. Most conceivable software that uses local AI wouldn’t need any kind of profile building anyway, for instance that Firefox translation feature.
The thing that’s frustrating to me here is the lack of acknowledgement that the main privacy problem with AI services is sending all queries to some company’s server where they can do whatever they want with them.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 month ago:
I don’t see how the possibility it’s connected to some software system for profile building, is a reason to not care whether a language model is local only. The way things are worded here make it sound like this is just an intrinsic part of how LLMs work, but it just isn’t.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 month ago:
The use of local AI does not imply doing that, especially not the centralizing part.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 month ago:
I don’t care if your language model is “local-only” and runs on the user’s device. If it can build a profile of the user (regardless of accuracy) through their smartphone usage, that can and will be used against people.
I don’t know if I’m understanding this argument right, but the idea that integrating locally run AI is inherently privacy destroying in the same way as live service AI doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 1 month ago:
as confirmed by a Reddit thread on r/ChatGPT
hmmmmmm
