mechoman444
@mechoman444@lemmy.world
I am live.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 hours ago:
Ok. Fine. Sure.
Not sure though what this has to do with llm companies making money. Since they write their own code and llms are trained on data… Like wikipedia.
🤷
- Comment on 2 hours ago:
I’m not sure why everyone is so upset about the price.
It’s a gaming computer with steam on it.
It’s significantly less than a gaming rig with similar specs that you can custom build.
It’s a really good product for the price.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 3 hours ago:
I’ve seen this argument in one form or another for years, and my response has never changed:
Either information on the internet is free for everyone, or it isn’t.
You don’t get to publish information for the public to access and then turn around and say that some people are allowed to use it while others are not, especially if the distinction is based on whether someone might make money from it.
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t claim information should be freely available and then try to restrict who can benefit from it.
Pick one. Either the information is free, or it isn’t.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 1 day ago:
Also also. You have a 17 year span of time for 13 people that died in a plane crash. That’s less than one person a year on average. I’d say that’s pretty freaking safe compared to other modes of travel like automobiles or through The Warp.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 days ago:
God, I hate these arguments.
“Look at all these things that happened! There must be something more to this! It’s too much of a coincidence! CONSPIRACY!”
Did you know shark attacks increase alongside ice cream sales? By that logic, there must be some secret alliance between Big Ice Cream and the shark cabal.
Or maybe both go up because it’s summer and more people are at the beach.
The same thing happens with plane crashes involving wealthy people. Rich people fly far more than the average person, and they often fly private aircraft, which have a higher accident rate than commercial airlines.
Not every cluster of events is evidence of secret black-ops CIA assassinations. Sometimes a correlation is just a correlation, and sometimes a streak of bad luck is just a streak of bad luck.
- Comment on Why are we so afraid of cockroaches? 5 days ago:
Because they’re basically land shrimp that can survive nuclear fallout.
You should be afraid.
- Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed 6 days ago:
If you’ve been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be entitled to compensation.
- Comment on *Honk honk* 1 week ago:
No. But that is the name of the narrator in Moby Dick.
- Comment on *Honk honk* 1 week ago:
I would argue that the Agricultural Revolution was the turning point that set humanity on its current path, for better and worse.
To be fair, life before agriculture was often harsh, but many of the problems that define civilization today, such as large-scale warfare, rigid social hierarchies, widespread inequality, organized slavery, and systemic exploitation, became possible only after humans settled down and began producing agricultural surpluses.
Regardless of what is happening in the world right now, we are living in one of the most peaceful and prosperous periods in human history. Aside from the anti-vaccination movement, which is a travesty for humanity, we have the best medicine, the highest life expectancy, and the lowest infant mortality rates in history.
That said, I suspect humans are better adapted to living in small migratory bands of hunters and gatherers than in large, sedentary urban societies. Civilization has given us extraordinary technology and material comfort, but it may have come at the cost of the social structures, physical activity, and close-knit communities that humans evolved to thrive in.
- Comment on Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Alien 1 week ago:
Uhhhh. I have four hernias in my spine…
- Comment on Alien 1 week ago:
That’s one hell of a reference!
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
We don’t. We come home around 7 and start doing the bare minimum to keep up the household letting daycares and schools raise our kids.
We clean and cook and pay our bills then we go to sleep irritated and tired and sick of the rat race.
We have sex once or twice a month and go to fucking florida once a year. That’s it.
- Comment on poverty is a choice 2 weeks ago:
He did indeed say that yes.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 2 weeks ago:
I encourage you to read through my common history.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 2 weeks ago:
There has been a major uptick in people supporting socialism under the guise of social programs. Many will claim to support socialism because they favor things like universal healthcare, fair wages, unions, and similar policies. In reality, however, these things have nothing to do with socialism itself. They are social welfare programs that can be implemented under virtually any form of government.
What many of these people are actually advocating for is social democracy, not socialism. The fact that both terms contain the word “social” does not make them the same thing. Socialism, traditionally defined, involves some form of collective or public ownership of the means of production. Universal healthcare, labor protections, welfare programs, and unions do not inherently require that.
The most frustrating part is that many people simply redefine words to fit their preferred narrative. They make declarative statements that are objectively incorrect, then dismiss the actual definitions when challenged. At that point, it becomes nearly impossible to have a productive conversation because you’re no longer debating ideas, you’re debating the meanings of the words themselves.
- Comment on poverty is a choice 2 weeks ago:
I wonder what Andrew Taint would have to say about this.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 weeks ago:
The more I think about it, the more I realize daycare centers probably don’t make nearly as much money as people assume.
My three-year-old goes to daycare, and we pay around $1,000 per month. Sometimes they send home a list showing which children are assigned to bring certain food items, so we have a rough idea of enrollment. The last time we counted, there were about 18 kids in my son’s class. That’s roughly $18,000 in revenue from that classroom each month.
Now consider the costs. There are four employees plus a manager. Even if each one only makes $15 an hour, payroll alone consumes a huge portion of that revenue. Then there are utilities, insurance, food, equipment, building maintenance, transportation costs for the bus, licensing requirements, and everything else needed to keep the facility running.
If anything, they may not be charging enough.
The real issue is that the entire system seems broken from the start. Daycare is barely affordable for many families, yet many childcare providers are operating on razor-thin margins. Parents struggle to pay for care, workers aren’t highly paid, and daycare centers themselves often aren’t making huge profits. Somewhere along the line, the economics simply don’t work very well.
- Comment on Hail power! 3 weeks ago:
Making crap up to fit one’s narrative.
- Comment on Can't wait. 3 weeks ago:
This is also funny.
- Comment on Can't wait. 3 weeks ago:
🤣😂
- Comment on Can't wait. 3 weeks ago:
It’s phunny how fotographs phunction in filosofy.
There is nothing more useless than ph.
- Comment on Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. 3 weeks ago:
And before y’all start downvoting an indie game has nothing to do with budget. As long as it’s not made by a major publisher it is considered indie. Just like Mixtape and Expedition 33 are both indie games right along with schedule 1 and balatro.
I already defined it in my first post.
But here it is again: an indie game is any game made by a none-major publisher.
Examples of major publishers: Activision/Blizzard, Ubisoft, Sony.
Examples of non-major publishers: Larian Studios, Annapurna Interactive, Playstack.
An indie game has nothing to do with budget or how many people developed the game. It is exclusively referring to the publisher.
- Comment on Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. 4 weeks ago:
Well. Luckily there’s already an established definition of the word indie.
- Comment on Made me chuckle when I saw it, so you have to see it too. It cannot be unseen. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. 4 weeks ago:
It’s never been a major studio. They make a very specific kind of game they publish themselves or through a small publisher. So they’re by definition indie. In fact many people call larian AAA indie.
- Comment on Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. 4 weeks ago:
Indie games have publishers. Just like indie bands have labels.
- Comment on Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. 4 weeks ago:
Baldur’s gate 3.
And before y’all start downvoting an indie game has nothing to do with budget. As long as it’s not made by a non-major publisher it is considered indie. Just like Mixtape and Expedition 33 are both indie games right along with schedule 1 and balatro.
Just don’t play mixtape. It’s terrible.
- Comment on Nancy Takes Out a Loan 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 4 weeks ago:
You ever watch Police academy? You remember Tackleberry? That’s basically the United States police.
