halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on the definitive proof that you weren't your parent's favorite 1 week ago:
Probably someone trying to use the meme in a Halloween-specific context.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 1 week ago:
This is why you never trust a single source. For anything. Reputable news organizations have never trusted single sources, they always use multiple sources to verify information they are told. Science is not immune from this, and never has been. And even for those that you’ve followed in the past, times change, especially in a capitalist society with a massive oligarchy that owns the news companies, like modern western civilizations. Trust, but verify.
- Comment on Chatgpt refusing to believe Trump won lol. 2 weeks ago:
Ah that’s true. Hadn’t considered that it would be pulling from before the latest election cycle entirely.
- Comment on Chatgpt refusing to believe Trump won lol. 2 weeks ago:
This is true. But it also is stating that it knows Trump did not win a second term, insinuating it has data past the election.
There needs to be a lot more transparency in what the models are actually based on and what is being artificially filtered or limited.
- Comment on I don't need no app 2 weeks ago:
And their app is just a wrapper for a webpage anyway.
- Comment on Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Remastered - Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Onimusha was such a good series. Happy to see it being remastered.
Capcom is always a toss up with whether they care about any given IP anymore.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Probably, but the internet is forever. Definitely for stuff like this. There will be tens of thousands of copies of this in a few hours and it will not disappear anytime soon.
- Comment on Friendship is survival in Citizen Sleeper 2 3 weeks ago:
Same here. Not the type of game I would normally have jumped on, but something about it was just captivating.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 3 weeks ago:
To be honest, that seems like it should be the one thing they are reliably good at. It requires just looking up info on their database, with no manipulation.
Obviously that’s not the case, but that’s just because currently LLMs are a grift to milk billions from corporations by using the buzzwords that corporate middle management relies on to make it seem like they are doing any work. Relying on modern corporate FOMO to get them to buy a terrible product that they absolutely don’t need at exorbitant contract prices just to say they’re using the “latest and greatest” technology.
- Comment on ADL defends Nazi salute 4 weeks ago:
Never trust someone with two first names. Been following that advice my entire life and I’ve yet to find an exception, they’re always a piece of shit.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 4 weeks ago:
Tencent happen to own large portions of nearly every video game company on the planet to start with, and a ton of other large companies, 600+ of them in fact. Large enough positions to directly affect board decisions if they wanted to. And that assumes overt sudden changes and not more subtle things.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. You might want to look into some other foreign owned companies as well. Tencent owns a metric shit ton of “American” companies for instance, I bet there’s several on that list that would surprise you.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Rednote isn’t trying to attract foreign users. It’s only blowing up because of the imminent app ban affecting TikTok, same as other apps like Lemon8.
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 5 weeks ago:
Country borders are just lines on a map. They don’t exist in the real world.
If only everyone was able to experience the overview effect, a lot of our issues could potentially fix themselves.
- Comment on Reason for Walmart online product reviews frequently being service related? 1 month ago:
This is why many/most reviews are actually useless.
Many people use reviews to complain, about anything, especially if it has nothing to do with the product because it’s the easiest way to try and get it out of their system.
Combined with fake reviews, astroturfed reviews from undisclosed free products, and the average user having no knowledge of a product or category to compare against, etc. and I’d even say most reviews are effectively useless.
On the bright side, seeing any of those types of phrases in the review means you can effectively ignore that review entirely.
- Comment on Does the southern hemisphere get colder farther from the pole? Why? 1 month ago:
While the North and South poles match the planet’s axis of spin. If you’re comparing differences in latitude, you’re looking at it as if the Earth were spinning around a vertical point between the poles, but the planet itself is tilted 23.5° compared to the solar plane. Plus we’re in an elliptical orbit, not circular, and that axis of tilt also wobbles about from the pull of not only the Sun but also the gas giants in our solar system like Saturn and Jupiter, and of course the Moon which also gives us our regular tides.
There’s a lot of factors that go into orbital mechanics. All of which result in our planet having widely varying tidal forces, distinct seasons, but still resulting in an overall stable and balanced ecosystem.
- Comment on Oh well... 1 month ago:
Not telling someone why you are firing them isn’t a magical lawsuit avoidance option. In a wrongful termination lawsuit, the courts take context into account specifically because of shitty companies/managers trying to hide behind exactly that.
- Comment on Oh well... 1 month ago:
There are still limits, even in at will and right to work states there are some protections.
Revoking approved time off after it’s already started is definitely a valid reason for a wrongful termination lawsuit. Especially if you have evidence of previous bullshit.
That’s why you should always get everything that seems even remotely bullshit in writing, and have your own backups.
- Comment on Counterpoint, don’t settle 1 month ago:
The Try Guys never went anywhere, one dipshit revealed himself. The rest of the group kept going, and they have expanded to a larger group with several different shows now.
- Comment on Hurry 1 month ago:
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"? 1 month ago:
They can say whatever they want about him without actually stranding him in Russia to literally be a potential further leak. The info he leaked is different than his knowledge of processes and systems.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"? 1 month ago:
Yeah so many people talk about Snowden going to Russia and ignore the fact that he was only in Russia transferring to another plane when his passport was cancelled stranding him there. The choice was basically stay there, or go back to the US, and that wasn’t really an option.
Why the US would want to leave him in Russia as a potential asset for Russian intelligence to break instead of letting him get to a different country that isn’t such a direct threat though is a really good question.
- Comment on We dumb 2 months ago:
I know you’re being cheeky, but we did get an answer to what the Ultimate Question was…
spoiler
The Ultimate Question “What do you get when you multiply six by nine” is found by Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
- Comment on Ice cream machine is also broken 2 months ago:
They usually do, it’s pennies to the government. Notice however, it’s information leading to the arrest AND conviction. They’re not getting paid anytime soon, if at all.
- Comment on Lt. Gov. Patrick vows to ban all THC in Texas 2 months ago:
While other border states have done the right thing, legalized, and taxed it to increase revenues and ensure a minimum safe quality, you can always rely on Texas to do the opposite.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 months ago:
I’m fine, just trying to understand why you’re even here if you don’t want to participate in conversation.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 months ago:
If you only care about the facts, read the fucking article and ignore the comments. No one here is an expert or involved in the investigation, we’re here to talk about it.
For whatever reason, you seem to not understand the function of a comment section, and feel the need to voice that. Not sure why.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 months ago:
Might as well. No empathy for merchants of death.
The insurance companies are the death panels politicians used to talk about like the bogeyman, not the government.
Don’t really give a shit about any of the rich assholes making decisions about who should die just to increase shareholder returns.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 months ago:
Not just new clothes, probably a reversible backpack so when leaving the park the backpack wasn’t even the same color.
- Comment on huehuehue 2 months ago:
And the marijuana stuff leads back to both the tobacco and wood fiber industries. Cannabis is a threat to tobacco, and hemp is a threat to darn near everything wood fiber is used for. That one even more so because it grows so dramatically faster than a new forest.
