nickwitha_k
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- Comment on Tips off the cops 5 hours ago:
I recommend Kinoite, if you’re doing anything graphical. Gnome support for DRM leases hasn’t been great. Saying that really does pain me as I still think that Gnome 2.x is my favorite DE that I’ve used.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 1 day ago:
King Charles doesn’t have this power in a constitutional monarchy.
He does have the power to dissolve parliament, immense wealth, as well as physical and financial security not enjoyed by the general population. And this is granted not by merit nor democracy but, because his ancestors had the resources to kill anyone who thought that they weren’t granted the right to rule over everyone by their god. And his uncle was even a big fan of Hitler, which was covered up for decades.
Monarchies of any sort are fundamentally unjust power structures that are relics of a bygone era with no business existing in modern times.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 2 days ago:
Americans don’t understand what a King is, or how monarchy fits into a modern democracy.
It doesn’t. That’s why. Being the descendent of those who had power to kill anyone who disagreed with their claim of “divine right” and getting a special title for it is directly opposed to democracy.
- Comment on Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters 6 days ago:
Midjourney makes money selling access to their model. Midjourney’s model, like those of OpenAI, has no value without the training data. In fact, the model is a derivative work of all of the works that it was trained on. The training data was obtained without license to resell or create derivative works.
While I hate how much the Mouse has screwed with IP law and prevented productive reforms, I hope they refuse to settle and get a judgement that bankrupts Midjourney and establishes the precedent that AI companies have to follow the law and make licensing agreements with any creator’s works that will be used. Can’t exist as a company if that happens? Boo-fucking-hoo. It’s not society’s job to subsidize the wealthy’s desire to run a business model that depends on violating the law and causing financial harm to artists.
- Comment on Nuclear family 1 week ago:
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
When playing Forbidden West, I pretty quickly concluded that Faro was based on him. And the Zeniths were very much Bezos and friends.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
I get it but didn’t “get it”. I suppose I tend to think in terms of small groups rather than manipulating rubes that have been keeping in a state of perpetual outrage through decades of right-wing talk radio and TV, and are so desperate to be told what to do that P. T. Barnham would say “Hey now, that crosses a line.”
I’d still suggest that it might be less charisma and more an audience so primed that they’re near auto-ignition being subjected to a Hitler-fanboy who picked up a few things from professional wrestling.
Then again, I also don’t “get” celebrity worship and numerous other NT things.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
He’s also had a lot of help due to being born with an emerald spoon in his mouth.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
Maybe it’s being neurodivergent but I have never understood his “charisma”. He’s always been a vile, crass, babbling, moron whose only “secret” to deal making had been finding rubes that didn’t think his lifetime of theft of service, as well as just plain theft (that for was never prosecuted as it should have been because white collar crime) magically wouldn’t apply to them.
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 1 week ago:
Exactly. The actual cost of durable goods tend to be pretty consistent, when corrected for inflation. It’s just that wages are so terrible compared to what they should be, if they were not completely divorced from the value created by labor.
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 1 week ago:
An oft-overlooked part of this is the fact that it is also a socioeconomic issue. Due to half a century of wage suppression, the diminished purchasing power of the majority of the population would not be able to handle the shift to more durable goods. Wealth/income inequality is a major hurdle for reducing single use plastics and disposable goods.
- Comment on Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square! 1 week ago:
I do think that you’ll eventually be held up there with the likes of Ken M. for your contributions to the art of classical trolling.
- Comment on Ukrainian carriers are leasing their IPv4 addresses to stay afloat - sometimes after being overrun by Russia 1 week ago:
Hah! It’s way easier than it looks and has so many advantages. Like not needing to NAT and making it harder to seek rent on IP addresses.
- Comment on Ukrainian carriers are leasing their IPv4 addresses to stay afloat - sometimes after being overrun by Russia 1 week ago:
So, another reason to switch to IPv6 globally
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 1 week ago:
It predates that, actually. Goes back to the USSR sending tanks into Eastern Europe to put down rebellion.
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, I’m getting to the point where I suspect a fork or alternate compatible platform may be needed.
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Now Promotes Microtransactions When You Swap Weapons 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t play Call of Lootbox in a long while. Bet they still haven’t done anything to fix spawns.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 2 weeks ago:
Gabapenten
hascan have serious side effects for some people, dont just go get some and go “o we gonna be good.”FTFY. Everyone’s brain chemistry is different. For some, it can be a lifesaver in low doses for anxiety, for some (like me) it can be used as an adjunct to acetaminophen/paracetamol in a combination that is more effective for pain than opioids (had a minor hemorrhage in an adrenal gland - not fun), and for others it can cause extreme depression and other behavior changes.
Noone should take it without the supervision of a medical professional.
- Comment on Anon visits a guy's house 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s because I’ve mainly lived in temperate climates but this seems like a great way to get a lot of mold under your fridge.
- Comment on Tragic 2 weeks ago:
It’s not even an OS at this point as much as adware, spyware, and malware (ex. intentionally breaking multiboot) in a trench coat. To top it all off, it is just terrible for performance and reliability (on top of, you know, spying on you and likely making that “recall” screenshots available to governments to help them find dissidents).
- Comment on Neuralink competitor Paradromics completes first human implant 2 weeks ago:
US corps: Best we can do is an extended support contract at the cost of indentured servitude.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
JFC. Damnit. Fuck Texas.
- Comment on buddy of mine is in a horrible mood 2 weeks ago:
Welcome to Lemmy, where all of our users have autism, ADHD, both, brachycephaly, festering demonic anatomy of carnal nature, or may or may not be Academy award nominated actress Margot Robbie. We also all run Linux (or Plan9).
Totally normal :P
- Comment on crustacean 2 weeks ago:
For anyone who does not speak biologist/zoologist, what the two at the bottom are saying translates to:
Creature of peak evolutionary development.
- Comment on Little miracles 2 weeks ago:
Part of it is just how Nazi recruiting and attempting to get a foothold works. They see a subculture with disaffected youth and societal outcasts (especially young men) and think of it as an opportunity. All subcultures have to remain vigilant because Nazis will do their best to subvert and appropriate anything and everything that they can to try to spread their socio-political disease.
Some more current examples are gaming, the chans, and fitness clubs/events (ex. Spartan Race). Not all of them are filled with Nazis but, they have been used as recruiting tools.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 2 weeks ago:
Or if sunshine starts competing with wood pulp for paper manufacturing.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 3 weeks ago:
Is it the one about the guy who finds a nice brick of aged cheddar on their fridge that they had forgotten and get to enjoy the salty deliciousness? No… Wait … That’s just me fantasizing about tasty cheese.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The moment that you call them out on hypocrisy, you’ve already lost. In conservatism, hypocrisy is only a problem if it can be used as a bludgeon against an opponent. Otherwise, it’s a privilege or something to use to rub it in the face of the out group that one has power over them.
The ideology is fundamentally about rigid socioeconomic hierachies that allow cognitive loads to be outsourced to one’s “betters” and power to be exercised over those lower in the hierarchy. The ideology is almost completely opposed to meritocracy - one is supposed to know the station that they were born into and not try to reach too high. And a fun thing that many moderates and center-left folks still don’t get is that conservative morality is based upon the person and their standing in the hierarchy, not their actions (unless they oppose the hierarchy). This is why they don’t give two shits about electing a convicted felon and rapist. And this is also a major part of why neoliberal centrists do everything that they can to prevent laws from applying to said felon and rapist - as someone high in the socioeconomic hierarchy, he’s supposed to be above consequences for any actions, the laws only apply to their “lessers” (plus, allowing them to be applied would put virtually every career politician at risk of prosecution for the crimes that they’ve committed).
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 3 weeks ago:
Came here to mention this. Good reference, and chummer.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 3 weeks ago:
Some do indeed. The one near me has a pretty ridiculous one that makes me sad for the academics that it is leeching from.
