SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 5 days ago:
Dude, we gotta live in a society and we have to have a government. It seems it doesn’t matter what the government does (Mandani isn’t even mayor yet) you just want to be a rebel without a clue. You’ve probably lived a life of privilege so you don’t need to worry about real world problems.
Whatever, you do you. But for us peasants that actually need a government, Mandani isn’t in the wrong for not burning everything down.
- Comment on Anon finds a bot 5 days ago:
Note to self: If the Epstein files ever come out, search for Steve Huffman in them.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 5 days ago:
I figured it would be about a month after Mamdani was actually mayor before leftists would turn on him. But maybe I underestimated the need of leftists to be against anyone with power that’s sympathetic towards them?
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 5 days ago:
PROTIP: Nothing Trump says is genuine. One day he could say someone is a great person, the next day he’ll say that person is nasty or whatever, and the day after that he’ll say they’re a great person again. Everything is transactional to him and everything he says is entirely dependent on what benefits him personally in that specific moment.
- Comment on Take the plea deal 1 week ago:
Snitch to whom? Pam Bondi? Kash Patel?
Who is it do you suppose would offer a plea deal to take down Trump?
If anything it’s the opposite. Gislane Maxwell said Trump did nothing wrong and got transferred to Club Fed and will probably wind up walking out of that “prison” in a few months.
- Comment on New book out 1 week ago:
What was the deal with Hwi Noree? Seemed like there was something weird with what the Ixians did with her, but I could never figure it out.
- Comment on New book out 1 week ago:
That’s racist!
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 1 week ago:
It’s more likely they have contractual obligations with marketing companies, retailers, data centers, etc. If a product is discontinued they can get out of those obligations. Sure they will write off a loss and reduce the taxes they pay, but it’s not as if a bigger loss nets them more money somehow.
Really what needs to be regulated is all of the excessive exclusive B2B contracts which mean a company can’t just sell a product for a small amount of money to someone to maintain it when they’re done with that product.
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 1 week ago:
There’s more monarchists in the US.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It could also hide from predators in an aquarium where it will be brought food every day and get medicine from a veterinarian if it gets sick. An Aquarium is the safest place for the octopus to live, so why wouldn’t it’s survival instinct tell it to live there to hide from predators?
We should set up an experiment with an aquarium that allows the octopus access to the ocean. Do you really think the Octopus would run away from the aquarium where it’s safe from predators and gets fed every day?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yes and for all we know the octopus prefers to live in a place safe from predators, always has lots of food, and a veterinarian on call when it gets sick.
It’s strange to me that people anthropomorphize animals to make big claims about the animal wanting to live in the wild. If you release that animal into the wild it will likely be eaten or starve but everyone assumes the animal wants that based on absolutely nothing.
Why not anthropomorphize animals under the assumption they would want a life similar to what we’ve built for ourselves? Is the validity of the complete guesses about what an animal wants gain merit based on how holier than thou the people making the guesses are acting about it?
Bottom line, the octopus is safer living in an aquarium with ample food than living in an environment amongst predators where food is scarce. All animals have a strong survival instinct (they’d be extinct if they didn’t) so it’s more likely if an animal could communicate it’s preferences, it would choose the option where it’s most likely to survive for a very long time, so it would choose living in an aquarium.
If a I scream “RELEASING ANIMALS INTO THE WILD IS MURDER!!!” over and over again, does that make it a more compelling argument?
- Comment on You should start doing this today 2 weeks ago:
I already do.
I did recently tell a guy to go fuck himself, but in a good natured way.
- Comment on A car advertisement that you have to think about 2 weeks ago:
I’m wondering how they pronounce 69 now…
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The octopus went back to it’s tank after getting a snack. That’s at least some indication the octopus likes living there.
You are assuming the octopus prefers living out in the wild where it could be eaten alive. Who are you to assume what an animal wants?
Are you currently living in some kind rectangular structure where you have easy access to regular meals? Why are you living in this way and assuming an octopus wouldn’t also prefer this? There’s nothing preventing you from leaving the rectangular structure you’re currently living in and going out into the wilds and fending for yourself to survive. Why don’t you do the thing you’re assuming the octopus wants to do?
- Comment on No Way 2 weeks ago:
We have a highway that goes all across Canada that’s for trans people.
- Comment on CNC 4 weeks ago:
The safe word is “Tiberium.”
- Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be? 4 weeks ago:
Now if you want to flatten out everything, even the floor under the sea that is then also filled with what has been land before, then we do not even need to know how much the land is. The water will be above it, regardless the height of the land.
But wouldn’t moving the land from the high points increase the circumference of the solid part of the Earth and stretch the water around it a little bit, making the height of the water a little bit less?
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I keep an analog clock on the wall because it’s a more intuitive way to keep track of how long I’ve got to get ready to go out. I know where the angle of the minute hand will be when I have to be out the door, so it’s quicker to glance it it and know if I gotta pick up the pace or I got plenty of time or whatever.
- Comment on Soup 4 weeks ago:
Well the cereal is baked which is a form of cooking. But yeah, it’s not cooked in the milk, so a bowl of cereal is not soup.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 5 weeks ago:
Sure but the Palestinian flag appears on the usernames of people spouting a lot of antisemitism. And there’s a lot of people claiming the confederate flag isn’t about white supremicism. So there’s a high probability of an AI scanning conversations and coming to the conclusion that these flags have the same meaning.
Maybe instead of looking the other way on antisemitism in the Free Palestine movement, people that are a part of that movement should be calling it out? But as always it’s easier to look the other way and make rationalizations about how it’s ok for your allies in a movement to be racists assholes.
- Comment on got this ad and uh 5 weeks ago:
Easy to understand why an AI scanning discussions of these groups would guess they’re associated with each other. Both say pretty much the same things about Jews controlling the government, Jews controlling the media, etc.
- Comment on Only you can prevent forest fires 5 weeks ago:
Surprised Smokey hasn’t already been shot by Kirsti Noem .
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 5 weeks ago:
Not too far off…
The Bibles are put into hotels by the Gideons, which was founded by travelling salesmen that wanted to make sure other salesmen would have access to a Bible while traveling.
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 5 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s the Gideons that put the Bibles in hotels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gideons_International
It’s an international organization, but based in the US so they obviously focus more on the US.
- Comment on Inspirational 5 weeks ago:
The optimal launch angle would only be 45 in a vacuum. It’ll be lower if you’re on Earth where there’s air resistance.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 1 month ago:
Incitatus was more competent than most of Trump’s cabinet.
- Comment on It's true... 1 month ago:
Even better: I’m going to write my PhD thesis on this one!
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 1 month ago:
You could do this (there are websites you can find easily) but Pelosi isn’t in power anymore and wouldn’t be in the loop on Trump’s corruption which is way more significant than just knowing which company the government is going to award a big procurement contract to or whatever.
The Trump corruption seems to have gone with crypto shenanigans and you can’t track them. We just know that someone made >$100M by doing crypto shorts exactly one minute before Trump posted about more insane tarrifs on China, but there’s no way to know who did that and we can’t track them. They’ll probably make similar amounts of money on the inevitable TACO.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 1 month ago:
Given what Peter Thiel’s been talking about lately, that’s not all that far fetched.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 1 month ago:
Yeah I remember a VC guy during the dot com boom was saying they were just about to invest in another start up (following the same plan they’d been doing for a few at that point) and they got a call form upstairs telling them to pull out. The next day the bubble burst.
These bubbles burst not based on random chance. The big guys know the business isn’t sustainable, but if they keep their money in it the shares maintain their value. Then one day they all pull out and pop! The bubble bursts. But they’ll make money on that too by shorting everything.
They make money when the stocks go up and they make money when the stocks go down. And they have enough money to make those stocks go up or down.