hark

@hark@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unpopular opinion but I agree. Maybe I don’t hang around enough stinky people, but I’ve encountered far more instances of punch-in-the-face perfume/cologne than body odor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Advancing tech was sold as a way to make all our lives better. Here is an instance of tech making our lives better, but instead companies dismiss it because the real purpose of tech for the capital class is control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨necessary read⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The non-corrupt ones are a tiny minority and get drowned out by well-funded opposition. If the tide even hints at turning then the billionaires turn to straight-up fascism, as we’re seeing now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨necessary read⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2016 both Hillary and Trump had a lower than 50% approval rating and yet they were the frontrunners: pewresearch.org/…/an-examination-of-the-2016-elec…

  Congress has a less than 50% approval rating and it’s made up of elected politicians: statista.com/…/public-approval-rating-of-the-us-c…

  We don’t have a democracy, we have a system where you can only choose which representative for billionaires you dislike the least. They’re all corrupt, any that aren’t are quickly drowned out by well-funded opposition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s too bad the servers aren’t still up. I loved the multiplayer of Crysis Wars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would try eating this. The texture probably wouldn’t be great, but the taste might not be all that bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you? Control over the medium is far more powerful than being a mere user of that medium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s less “stability in world events” and more so the west riding high off winning the cold war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't worry about the job market on Earth, Gen Z: Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk say you’ll be working in space soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The parasites are destroying earth while claiming their dick measuring contest is what will save us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a CoreWeave-like setup? Smells fishy. I don’t know how the almost $4.5 trillion market cap is justified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a race in Final Fantasy XIV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This plus all the different Italian names for coffee which, as far as I can tell, are mostly just describing the amount of dairy added.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wondering why specifically men, but this makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Move over gamers, AI shills are the most discriminated group now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mentoring⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically you’re getting downvoted for telling people what they don’t want to hear. It’s tough to compete with someone claiming “you can have all you desire”. It’s similar to how trump won by recognizing what his target audience wants, validating their feelings, but then putting the blame on why they can’t achieve what they want based on all the wrong things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like it was on purpose⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The economy is always bad. The idea is to make people feel insecure and desperate so that they take on more/worse work for less pay. They’ll use every excuse under the sun, from “we can’t afford to pay workers” to “AI could do your job” and it doesn’t matter if it’s true because there are fewer companies growing larger who control so much of the employment landscape that they can unify against workers and make it so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes it feels like the internet is just a giant rat maze and people chase after whatever the algorithm rewards them for chasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see clips of this guy in my recommended videos section on youtube all the time. I never click on them and I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it’s deciding that I should watch these clips. Either way, I find it odd how signal-boosted this clown is. The gaming-to-politics pipeline is too strong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King forgot his crown⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to ban birthdays so this never happens again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live wasted lives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoever you vote for will be bribed lobbied until they don’t represent you anymore, assuming they weren’t already compromised before even entering office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, are you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t right meow, I’m at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We should’ve gotten a 4-day work week decades ago. Now it should be a 3-day work week at most and I’m being generous. The capitalists are always screeching about the low birth rate, but if people were working 3 days a week and making a decent living off that time, it would help the birth rate because then a household with two working parents could be scheduled on different days and alternate staying home with the child, plus have a shared day off every week.

  Anyway, that’s just a selling point to make to the capitalists. Whether or not it helps with the birth rate doesn’t matter as much as the fact that we’re owed shorter work weeks thanks to all the blood, sweat, and tears that labor has put into making the world as wealthy as it is now. What’s the point of all this work if not to improve our standard of living? Technology making our lives better is hitting diminishing returns and now it’s often not making our lives better or it’s even making our lives worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The weird people are still there, but development teams are much larger now, so their input is not as prominent. Plus the budgets are so large that a flop can heavily damage a company or even ruin it, so they’re very risk-averse. We need more AA or A games instead of relying so much on heavy-hitters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure, but they anticipate a lot of children having this device in their hands, so they’re going to design it for that, perhaps even over-design it, just in case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt the same until I had one of those challenge peanut things that add straight up capsaicin crystals. It made my tummy feel not so good when I had it on an empty stomach, but I never had the “spice burns twice” effect until I had malatang and I asked them to do a spice level above their written max level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How's it going?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely nude?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The information is freely available because you can do nothing about it. The student protests about israel were shut down. If it was deemed a greater threat, then even more violence would have been used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, that’s another thing! They made it tedious to make progress, probably in an attempt to squeeze out more money, but I ended up just losing motivation for actually learning because it became a drag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a shame. Duolingo was never great for learning kana, so I guess they thought to use it more in lessons, but they should’ve just improved the dedicated kana lessons instead. I had learned kana before using duolingo so it was a smooth transition to take on sentences introducing more and more kanji. It sucks that they’re just making things worse since there were some nice things about the app before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped using duolingo a couple years ago because I noticed I was just doing the bare minimum to maintain my streak instead of actually learning something new.