SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 22 hours ago:
I think anime girls predate Japan’s current demographic problems. There was concerns in the past in Japan about overcrowding and anime girls may have appeared around that time.
So this theory is still plausible.
- Comment on Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts 4 days ago:
There’s a much much bigger indy market now. I’m sure people will still be playing games, just not AAA games they can’t afford on hardware they definitely can’t afford.
- Comment on Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts 4 days ago:
There’s just a general downturn in the economy. People don’t buy video games when they’re struggling to pay for groceries.
That and MS probably wants to throw more into the AI money pit.
- Comment on Give the People What They Want 4 days ago:
The head is a little different. Other than that, yeah it’s the same thing.
- Comment on The waves struggle to accommodate your needs 6 days ago:
Yup, just about to suggest the same. The most important feature of a microwave that most people never think to use is the power selection.
Imagine using a stove and always setting the burner to max and never using the dial to go to lower level. Then saying “the stove sucks because it’s always burning my food.” That’s equivalent to how most people think about a microwave.
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 6 days ago:
^^^ more atheist dogma.
- Comment on All cells are bastards 6 days ago:
Again, what impact do messages of hatred towards your enemies have?
It’s possible flying a banner on a big building won’t have any impact no matter what message you put on it. Do you really think people would change their view on any issue because of a slogan on a flag?
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 6 days ago:
It’s not. You can read the things philosophers wrote down thousands of years ago and people didn’t think that way.
Probably just some atheist dogma.
- Comment on All cells are bastards 1 week ago:
What impact do messages of hatred towards your enemies have?
- Comment on All cells are bastards 1 week ago:
Yeah… a message of peace? Super lame.
Don’t they know promoting hatred and violence is what all the cool kids are into now?
- Comment on All cells are bastards 1 week ago:
Are you trying to say we need to grant plants personhood?
I think you might be creating a false equivalence when comparing using plants for stuff to literal slavery. Just a little bit.
- Comment on Help 1 week ago:
I think they’re called fascist units now.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
Nah it’s just internet troll culture. Say things in a controversial way to get a response and argue over semantics and accomplish nothing.
The people that actually want to make a difference actively make an effort to get people to agree with them, which is the opposite of troll culture.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
Yeah because capitalism is just how things develop without excessive government intervention to prevent it. It’s a lie to say capitalism is a choice. I guess technically you could say it’s a choice between buying food from a farmer or starving to death, but really that’s not much of a choice. The two biggest famines in history were cause by socialist countries taking direct control of the agriculture industry.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
The problem is the insistence on trying to force the word “socialism” onto people. The meaning of the word is completely nebulous, but to many people it’s synonymous with the USSR. So by saying to want “socialism” you’re automatically fighting an uphill battle by explaining distinction between what you mean by the word as opposed to other people’s meaning of the word.
This is part of a larger problem of leftists generally being incapable of communicating with working class. If leftists abandoned the terminology and just said “we want universal healthcare, higher minimum wage, better working conditions” there would be a lot of support by the working class.
But the problem there is that you’d be largely indistinguishable from liberals who you’re told to hate by monetized “influencers” on corporate social media. Corporate social media has emphasized the importance of identity over being effective, so leftists will continue to cling to the word “socialist” even while it hinders effectiveness on achieving goals that most people want. Then probably be angry at the working class for being “stupid” because they don’t understand that you want the same things as them and it’s their fault that they associate the word “socialism” with a country that had that word in it’s name.
- Comment on Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek? 1 week ago:
There’s a an admiral in Star Trek Beyond that looked familiar, I had to look it up and it’s Shohreh Aghdashloo. A forgettable role, only noteworthy because I recognized the actor.
She plays Avasarala in The Expanse. Total powerhouse performance.
- Comment on Holy hell, Ernie. 1 week ago:
He ain’t 'fraid of no cancer.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Also, for extra GTA-doomer content, I still expect them to put online mode’s in-game currency on their own blockchain to prevent exploits, better enabling their bullshit monetization schemes.
Why would they do this? Do you think they’d want people to sell their in-game currency to other people without them being able to take a cut? How would putting it on a block chain prevent exploits?
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 2 weeks ago:
He died about a week before Alex Trebek died.
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 2 weeks ago:
If religion is the opiate of the people, then communism is the heroin of the people.
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 2 weeks ago:
Millions of people starved to death under the Soviet Union. it sucked.
Also do you think Korea was some developed country at the beginning of the 20th century. They had it hard in WWII and the Korean war. How did SK become a developed country and North Korea remains a horrible place to live.
Perhaps central planning can be beneficial for a developing country, if you don’t get ideology brained and do stupid mistakes like the Soviet Union and China did which resulted in famines. But even then once you get past basic needs, socialism stagnates. Who determines what people “need”? What if the powers that be decide “the people need more tanks?”
Once a society reaches a certain level of prosperity and people have some disposable income, it’s better to have a system that allows people to choose to do what they want with that income. Socialism fails at that point.
- Comment on Skeletor laying down, out and about FYI 2 weeks ago:
OP produces all forms of shit, even those not discovered yet.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s leftists when centrists, liberals, democratic socialists, the working class, Jews…
Pretty much anyone other than fascists. They’re cool with actual fascists, but they label everyone else as fascist and hate them instead.
- Comment on Femality is stored in the nipples 2 weeks ago:
If by “society” you’re referring to my erection, then yes, it’s society that ascribes sexuality to boobs.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah the details which helped foreign adversaries. That’s the definition of treason.
If he said “The NSA is spying on everyone” there wouldn’t be a story. The details that aided foreign adversaries made it a story about him being on the run from intelligence agencies and made it an interesting story. You want it to be a story about someone doing the right thing and blowing the whistle, but it didn’t actually reveal anything we didn’t already know in the broad sense, it only revealed secrets that aided foreign adversaries.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who cared already had a good idea about what the NSA did. Go and read The Cuckoo’s Egg, a book published in 1989 goes into what the NSA does. it was public knowledge in 1989 that the NSA was monitoring all phone calls and all internet traffic back in the days of modems.
Nobody cared back then and the NSA continues to do what it does and nobody cares now. Nobody actually cares about privacy and constantly willingly share pretty much all information about themselves that’s possible to be to be put onto a computer.
Snowden essentially just revealed that the NSA exists to people that were ignorant of it. But while doing so he revealed other state secrets to adversaries.
When the EU makes laws that require companies to disclose they’re tracking you, people are angry at the EU because the cookie popups are annoying. It’s very clear people would rather be tracked without knowledge of it than have even a popup on their screen. All of the information these companies collect is bought and sold regularly.
It’s trivial for the NSA to just buy all of your purchase history and all of your activities online because all of that is tracked by marketing companies and no one gives a shit. Suddenly you’re upset if the government knows what everyone else knows? It’s like putting your personal information on a billboard and getting angry if someone that works for the government happens to drive by and see that billboard.
The only thing of significance that Snowden did was share specific state secrets to adversaries. He currently lives in Russia and says whatever Putin demands that he says. He’s just a Putin stooge now.
People like the narrative of this guy who blew the lid on something nobody knew before, but anyone who cared to know already knew the NSA monitors communications, it’s kinda their whole thing. According to the narrative, the evil governments are after because he revealed the existence of the NSA. The truth is the existence of the NSA wasn’t a secret it’s just the ignorant didn’t know about it. The whole point of the NSA is to monitor communications, and it was widely known the degree to which they did this. The budget of the NSA is something you can see in public records.
Not long after the Snowden story went from the limelight, everyone went back to not caring about the NSA. Nobody actually cares about privacy, they just pretend to be upset about it for a short time before there’s some other story to pretend to be upset about.
- Comment on A FYI from Skeletor 2 weeks ago:
I think the point they were trying to make was that black men should just listen to white people and dress the way they’re told to dress, talk the way they’re told to talk. White women should be with white men and it’s really bad if black men get involved with white women.
That’s what I got out of it anyway.
- Comment on So guess what boss 2 weeks ago:
Kinda. Had the CEO want some code changed while the VP of my department was on vacation. Changed the code, and the VP had a grudge against me afterwards because it was code he wrote. A year later a project failed (due to mismanagement) so it was blame game time and the devs got blamed and it was firing time. I didn’t work on the project that ended in failure, I was working on a different project which was a success.
Guess who got fired?
I guess technically it was because the VP didn’t like me. But the reason he didn’t like me is because I did my job and made the software work the way the CEO wanted it to work.
That’s just how she goes. Catch-22 scenarios happen no matter how likable you might be.
- Comment on How not to advertise 101! 2 weeks ago:
Which is why so much advertising is geared towards young people. Some a pretty weird, designed to look like TikTok videos. No idea if it works, they give off a “hello fellow young people vibe” to me.
I also notice there’s a lot of Asian representation in the ads I see, and there are a lot of Asians that immigrate to where I live and/or come for university. Makes sense, someone comes to a new country, don’t have any preferences for brands in the new country. If there’s a person that looks like you enjoying a certain brand in an ad, it’s more likely that’s the one you’ll try first.
- Comment on I swear it won't hurt you if you use it for like a second 2 weeks ago:
I’ll only use the Open GNW (GNW is NOT a Window) system.