tempest
@tempest@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Can we impeach the pedophiles now? 2 weeks ago:
It’s always going to be razor thin margins because it’s a two party System and first past the post.
Anything that doesn’t address that problem is just window dressing
- Comment on Can we impeach the pedophiles now? 2 weeks ago:
Even if (big if) the Dems win this year it’s going to be like a 52 to 48 " landslide" . Then they will fix nothing and maybe punish 1 or 2 people but not address the principal cause, in the name of “unity”.
Then you get to roll the dice again on 8 years but likely with someone a little more clever than the Dorito bonito.
- Comment on SlopOS 11 2 weeks ago:
This is actually a very good example of middle managers in a large organization getting marching orders and seeing which way the wind is blowing.
IBM had a similar thing in the early 2010s when they decided they were all in on “cloud” (about 10 years too late). Every manager saw where things were headed and pivoted whatever their product was to “Cloud” regardless of the suitability.
The higher ups like this too because it lets them put everything under the “cloud” or AI heading on earnings and revenue and makes them look like they are nimble and working on the new hotness, even if it’s just someone moving their calculator to a web app or whatever.
- Comment on Getting older is so much fun 2 weeks ago:
Superman does good, you do very well
- Comment on OpenAl: *decides to shut down their Al slop video generating model Sora*. Everyone else: 3 weeks ago:
I was going to say. It still works. They just couldn’t find a customer willing to pay the high price at the moment. Someone will make another model to do what it did.
I suspect the current government just didn’t want the plebs to have access and put Pentagon Pete in more videos and it was a small price to pay for open AI to make them happy and make sure they are the only ones who get to make shitty AI tiktok slop.
- Comment on Dang it, know I need new hardware 4 weeks ago:
The gacha games just keep lowering the poly count until your waifu is 2d, so long as the loot boxes still open the customers won’t notice.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 weeks ago:
I mean the marketing guys are doing their job which is to convince you that you are getting a video feed for your to do cool things with. The actual reason is free camera wearing automatons are cheaper than ones you have to pay for.
- Comment on BAAAAAABY SHARK DO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DO 4 weeks ago:
It hurts to read “The original song dates back to the 20th century” in the Wikipedia article.
- Comment on Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue 4 weeks ago:
It’s a hard life but I’m working through it with my therapist.
- Comment on cigs w/o u 4 weeks ago:
At some point in the late 90s or early 2000s they banned cigarette advertising.
I didn’t think about it but at this point i don’t know any brands anymore. My father smoked players when I was young, and Benson and hedges used to sponsor some public events but otherwise I guess it worked.
That or cigs got too expensive to smoke brand name. My grandfather, before he died of lung cancer was smoking big clear bags of cigs from the reserve.
- Comment on Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue 4 weeks ago:
I have an 82 inch TV that is wall mounted.
My girlfriend can’t lift one side of it so if I ever need to take it off the wall I gotta get a friend to come over to help.
- Comment on Don't tell me that you all don't have the same issue 4 weeks ago:
I just google the tv model number and find an image of the inputs, then I go by feel.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
And like the rest of the Internet encouraged regardless of the rules
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
That is what they are technically doing but they often don’t always consider the consequences and often react poorly when they realize that an Amazon (it whatever) comes along and contributes nothing and monetizes their work while dumping the support and maintenance on them.
That is the name of the game though if you use an MIT license.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 5 weeks ago:
It can be both.
Intelligence agencies love to gently nudge and provide support to someone who might do their dirty work for them.
That said it’s way more likely they have kompramat on Trump and also that he is senile and thinks he is back in the 80s during the hostage crisis.
- Comment on I gotcha, boss 5 weeks ago:
Fighting sports and CTE addled domestic abusers, name a more iconic combo.
- Comment on W rizz skibidi 1 month ago:
It still is isn’t it? Or is it enforcer? Or is it “GET YOUR PARLAY IN NOW WITH BET365”
- Comment on A modest proposal 1 month ago:
Nah Vietnam was because there cold war was too cold and that’s not good for military industrial complex. 60k people is not really enough to make a huge difference in housing.
- Comment on Can't unsee 1 month ago:
My default view is past 6 hours which I think is nice. Missed it the first time though.
- Comment on Can't unsee 1 month ago:
Ok, but explain the calarts bean heads.
- Comment on Make a note 1 month ago:
When consuming edible THC there is a time between when you have consumed the drug and when the drug kicks in. During this time you would wait and not consume more drugs because you will over consume and have a less pleasant experience.
- Comment on the wok agenda 1 month ago:
You could sorta Yik yak before you join a herd?
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 1 month ago:
In a large enough group there is still anonymity even if your face and name are on there.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 month ago:
As a non FF player who played 8 and 9 I thought 13 was kinda bad.
Lots of hallways when the previous games had more discovery to them.
Have not really played one since as I wasn’t into MMOs and figured I would try the 7 remake when they finished which it looks like they never will.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 months ago:
What? You didn’t want your portable document format to be Turing complete?
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 months ago:
“safe”
- Comment on i mean 2 months ago:
You’re right it’s just the system had very few games where the d pad was the obvious primary control device.
What everyone here is really missing is the ahead of its time Golden eye 2 controller two stick setup. They knew where things were going the controller was just a little too soon.
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 months ago:
Lol 1000 doesn’t even get you half way to a speed Queen. You just get the same low end shit except it’s got app or screen that with show you add eventually.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 2 months ago:
I’m shitting in it.
It’s slow, has a ton of advertising, causes CTE, wastes money at colleges that would be better spent elsewhere, covers up sex crimes etc.
There are a ton of more interesting / exciting sports than American football.
I’ll still attend a gathering today but only because I like food and socializing whether the game is on isn’t really relevant to me .
- Comment on I don't care if this is fake, I choose to believe it 2 months ago:
How do you think he got so big?