Mirshe
@Mirshe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Flock said they were only using the cameras for license plates. Cat is out of the bag now. 1 day ago:
Ah damn, I knew I had missed the market for expansionist foam.
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 1 week ago:
Target identification, threat assessment, determining level of force necessary, simply being a human face rather than a machine. Drones are also vulnerable to electrical issues, signal issues, all sorts of things a human simply doesn’t need to worry about or are more easily remedied in a human.
Occupying land is not simply about killing the enemy, and multiple armies have learned this over the course of human history. Rarely are you concerned with SIMPLY taking the land - even if it’s agrarian capacities or whatever you’re worried about, having the employees still alive (largely) leads to better outcomes. Having a functioning economy in the occupied zone leads to less resistance. Facilitating the continuity of life within the occupied zone does too - and that doesn’t work if your “occupation force” is a bunch of robot dogs that mow down anyone for being in the street.
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 1 week ago:
Drones cannot occupy a city. Drones cannot hold land. Even in the grim darkness of the 21st century, a drone is far more susceptible to outside factors eliminating its fighting capability than a human soldier standing in the same spot. At the end of the day, yes, a bulk of the fighting will be done by remote, but you’ll still need meatbags with guns to actually advance and take areas. There’s really no way to get around that unless we somehow develop autonomous robots that are able to make smart choices and strategize on the ground without human oversight, and I simply don’t see us managing any serious level of “AGI” from the current idea of machine learning, at all.
- Comment on Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis? 1 week ago:
It also just has a lot of really cool factions to fight in general. I will always love the Clockwork.
- Comment on Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis? 1 week ago:
Man I fucking forgot about Freedom Force. Hours lost in the first one just for character creation, I must’ve spent days fine tuning things.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
Nah nah, we aren’t allowed to do wind and solar anymore. The US president is paying a shitload of money to a lot of companies to stop them from developing renewables in the US and abroad.
- Comment on Indie game bundle saving buyers over $1,000 in support of laid off developers has raised over $100,000 in three days 1 week ago:
I recommend Skate Bird.
- Comment on One Standard Yglesias 1 week ago:
Don’t forget college sports. If your parents are early Gen X or Boomers, college sports weren’t quite as big a deal - they weren’t quite as commercialized until the mid-80s, which started salaries for coaches and staff flying.
In many states, the highest paid public employee is a college football coach.
- Comment on shipping available 1 week ago:
I dunno, with his incompetence, Waspinator might be a fun hang.
Just make sure he doesn’t get possessed again.
- Comment on Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism 2 weeks ago:
Nah, these people think the nonwhite nurses and doctors will somehow harm them, negligently or intentionally kill them, etc.
Because that’s what these racists would do to nonwhite patients.
- Comment on Babe you hardly touch your anti-hunger protein loaf 3 weeks ago:
This is called “goetta” here in Cincinnati. Usually you toss some spices in the mix, fry it up and serve it for breakfast. It’s delicious. I know Pennsylvania has a similar thing called “scrapple”.
Now, without the spices, yes, terrible.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 3 weeks ago:
Additionally, since prosecutors are an elected position in many places, they have a serious incentive in locking up as many people as they possibly can, if only because incarcerated people generally don’t make campaign ads.
- Comment on Need to lose 15lbs in less than a week? I got you. 4 weeks ago:
Different method of action, but yes. Turns out coating your entire GI tract in an impermeable film for a day or so is a bad idea.
Maintenance Phase did an episode on it a while ago, well worth a listen.
- Comment on Pov It's 2035 4 weeks ago:
See, here’s the thing, we would’ve heard about it. Trump and all his ilk can’t keep their fucking mouths shut and would’ve been lording this shit over us. Someone would’ve said SOMETHING, because none of these people can keep a secret.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind 4 weeks ago:
Enough to fill the black void in his soul.
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 5 weeks ago:
It also requires a lot of free labor and money from other workers that are willing to donate or put in time voluntarily. When you’re only just able to put food on the table and a roof over your head, that’s hard - and it’s harder to organize it all because you don’t have a critical mass of unions that communicate and understand each other’s struggles.
- Comment on Give the People What They Want 1 month ago:
This feels like them trying to “it’s just a joke” a topic into local public discourse.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I expect this to show up on that fascist Pioneer Woman’s website in about a month.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah, even a coordinated attack on physical networking backbones wouldn’t be TOO rough. We’d have to piece together what’s left and figure out what to replace, but there’s enough worldwide structure that we can do that in a pretty coordinated manner even without the Internet - it would probably just take a lot longer. I feel that a lot of the West would be the worst off, but surprisingly, a lot of governments already have plans for stuff like this. I feel even with incompetence, you’d be looking at 2-3 years max, but I don’t think you’d see Purge-style societal collapse or whatever you’re envisioning.
- Comment on FEMA Official Who Claimed He Once Teleported to a Waffle House Is Leaving 1 month ago:
He claims he was driving around late at night with his kids, then suddenly was at a Waffle House 50 miles away in the parking lot. It’s a very typical “hi I’m an alcoholic” AA-style story, and I’ve heard it tons from various people in my life as “this is when I knew I had a drinking problem”.
- Comment on *Honk honk* 2 months ago:
I was about to say, you nod along with Ted until he starts into the racist bits.
- Comment on How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it? 2 months ago:
Much easier to say when you’re not the one invested with massive power, and often massive wealth too. There’s a reason the saying goes that power corrupts.
- Comment on The struggle is real 2 months ago:
For doctorates, sometimes. For Master’s students, the answer is usually no.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah, a situation like this can easily wind up where even if you’re asking for consent on every little thing, and making them know they can say no, there’s no real way to KNOW certainly whether or not they’re actually consenting eagerly, or just think that saying no isn’t allowed or whatever. They might even justify it in their heads that “I signed this contract” or “I’ve got nowhere to go” or whatever.
- Comment on The secret to happiness is living in the moment and not fearing the future 2 months ago:
This is the real issue. Their values systems are broken because you can literally do ANYTHING with that much money, so long as you’re willing to also put in work. Wanna become a world class athlete? So long as you’re choosy with your definitions of both world class and athlete, you can hire people to teach you, hire chefs and nutritionists and doctors to plan every single thing that goes into you to make you good at your Thing.
Money is truly a superpower, but that superpower is reality warping. After you’ve created your fourth harem and played poker with Einstein, metaphorically speaking, what else could you want to do? It’s part of why all these guys believe in some sort of apocalypse, space travel, AI God, or metaphysics - with money alone, they can basically shape their entire world to their whim, so you want something that you’re still nominally able to ride out, but that will radically alter your reality so there’s SOMETHING new you can experience.
- Comment on I was a husky boy and look how I turned out 2 months ago:
A lot of this is just the loss of proper third spaces where kids can get outside. Now if you and your friends are walking around the mall, you get security hassling you. Hell, even if you’re just in a park or wandering your neighborhood, cops/rangers/randoms will give you shit if you don’t have a specific reason to be there. Don’t even think of trying to hang out at your school after hours, or using their fields/playgrounds to play on.
Yes, some of it IS cultural. But at least from my N=4 between my nieces and step nieces, kids really enjoy playing outside weather permitting. It’s just that they don’t have places to do that. Sure, you might have a park in your neighborhood - does it have sidewalk access? Sure, your kids might have bikes or scooters or skates - can they safely ride them without getting turned into a speed bump by a high-line truck or SUV?
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 3 months ago:
“Also we’re just doing this to make HR happy, we’re already gonna hire my nephew.”
- Comment on Indian Symbole of Peace 3 months ago:
Hitler actually sent material support to India during WWII (because keeping England bogged down fighting a revolution is obviously a good thing if you’re trying to stop them from redirecting those efforts to either Japan or yourself). So there’s that too.
- Comment on Leaked audio of JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon Slamming Remote Work 3 months ago:
You forgot that “golfing with clients” and “dinner with clients” and “yacht party with clients” are also work for these people.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
If you’re not a Pokemon fan, there’s also a pile of quality hacks for the Fire Emblem games.