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- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 4 days ago:
From a PC manufacturer perspective, the important part about including an NPU is that you can slap an “AI” sticker on your marketing. This is regardless of whether it has any actual use cases or not.
There’s definitely a large slice of “AI” features shipping now just to excite shareholders and serve no actual function to the user.
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 5 days ago:
Oooh, white blood cells with bayonets! I’m in…
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 5 days ago:
Are you trying to say my immune system has guns? Now I feel even more American!
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 2 weeks ago:
It’s still out there and going amazing!!! Despite the lack of mainstream media coverage, blockchain and smart contacts couldn’t be doing better.
On an unrelated topic, does anyone want to buy some NFTs? I can give you a really good deal. No take-backs, though.
- Comment on US education 2 weeks ago:
Man, talk about a deep fried JPEG. If it was slightly more blurry with a few more artifacts I wouldn’t be able to read it at all.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 weeks ago:
I clicked through and had to go to a second linked article(!) for the top 5. The #1 is “Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas”, which is pretty much a blue city now.
This doesn’t really support your claim that “they are all red”. Also, we call a “blueish spot surrounded by red” a blue city.
From what I am learning about in this thread is there isn’t really the idea of a “red city”, so when people talk shit about “blue cities” they are just talking about city life in general. There does not appear to be any very large cities filled with Republicans.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 3 weeks ago:
So next time someone trots out the “life in blue cities is hell…” sounds like I can just bring up Miami
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 3 weeks ago:
Miami has its share of violent crime, doesn’t it?
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- Comment on I'm doing my part! 3 weeks ago:
I hear this argument over and over again: “Why should I bother recycling? China is poisoning the planet.” It’s like reverse-whataboutism. I find it really lazy and a pointless attitude. The argument generalizes to: “Why do anything good when bad exists in the world?”
Cleanliness is its own reward. I can tell you if I lived in stink-town where 100% of everyone else’s house was a festering mess, I would keep mine clean.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 3 weeks ago:
Being ecologically friendly is its own reward.
If your neighbor’s house and lawn is cluttered with garbage and rotting food, do you also let your house gather the same?
Or do you wish they did a better job and kept your house clean all the same?
What if you had 95 neighbors all full of garbage and rotted food? Is there any number that would make you do the same?
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 5 weeks ago:
He seems to disagree that it can’t be fixed:
“Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again,” he said at a campaign event in August.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 5 weeks ago:
There are very, very few. I cited some cannabis policy above.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t see this happening, but let’s say he reverses course and renounces all his past decisions, steps down and the USA enters a new golden age. Should we be totally against that too? For any given position, I try to keep in mind what would have to happen to make me reverse that decision. If the answer is “nothing”, then I may be missing something, or maybe I am letting my personal prejudices get in the way of what could be a good outcome.
It’s often confusing when someone we really dislike does something we agree with, but it is a thing that can and will happen from time to time.
I look at this similarly to how I view my atheism. If a God were to appear and demonstrate all kinds of supernatural activity and capability, I think I’d have to renounce my atheism. I don’t think that’s likely to happen, but if it did, I do have a condition where I would reverse my belief.
Same thing with being anti-Trump. I am for now, but there are certain unlikely conditions that would make me reconsider that, should they occur.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 5 weeks ago:
LOL! The guy said the trade deal that was made between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico (USMCA) was done by an idiot and had to be re-done.
That was HIS DEAL! HE WROTE IT!!!
Well, he’s not wrong…
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 5 weeks ago:
I have to really, really dig for this one, but Trump’s attitude re: cannabis is that it should be up to the states to decide, and has also been quoted as supporting medical cannabis. I think overall, this is a good move, not as good as it being Federally legal would be, but a step in the right direction.
It’s just the other 99.95% of the things that he does I don’t agree with. :)
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 5 weeks ago:
Don’t fall for the fallacy of binary thinking. A good way to oversimplify your opponents/enemies is to put them totally in another category from yourself. Life is rarely this simple. There’s a huge continuum of beliefs and behaviors that fall between these two belief systems.
I recall my acquaintance being surprised that I wasn’t for “open borders” even though I voted for Biden. The idea that one could have a belief that is independent of Trump and Biden had not occurred to him.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 5 weeks ago:
This sounds like it would be something that’s an interesting anecdote and a “GOTCHA”. Has there ever been any confirmation of this from Grindr? As amusing of a story it is, it’s only really useful information if it’s provable.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 5 weeks ago:
I’m 100% sure that’s true for some people, but I do not believe that you can put people into two buckets: Totally against Trump and totally for Trump. I am really disinterested in people that DO fall into either of those categories, as they are beyond reason.
However, I’m interested in anyone that falls outside those categories, as those are the people whose minds can be changed.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to [deleted] | 75 comments
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 5 weeks ago:
Is this lady using her phone while driving, after speeding by 20MPH and thinking it’s a flex? If she uses it at 20MPH I’d bet she uses it at 70 MPH too! Couldn’t this have waited until she was safely off the road?
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 5 weeks ago:
Is this why Republican senators keep getting caught kissin’ with other men in public restrooms?
- Comment on Interesting 5 weeks ago:
I also remember that the USSR was mocked because their citizens had to show papers to move around inside the country. With all the warrantless searches allowed within 50 miles of the border (aka a huge part of the USA) and the huge amount of scrutiny that you face to even fly within the USA, it doesn’t seem quite so funny anymore.
- Comment on Thumbs up to people dying. 1 month ago:
It’s not that easy to get so many traitors to the Union all in one photo. I hope they all have a really crummy time.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 1 month ago:
My first mouse driver was smaller than the picture you attached to this post
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 month ago:
Come to think of it, i guess the US made a perfect system to quell protests; Just make it impossible for people to take time off work, nobody will be able to protest even your most sadistic fascist laws
Correct. Bread, circuses and riot police (optional).
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 month ago:
I hear you and I agree
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 month ago:
Not much of a social safety net. Take that much time off work and things are going to get uncomfortable pretty fast. Last I heard, it’s like 1/3 of America that is two paychecks away from losing their housing. It’s sad.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 month ago:
I would like MANA (Make America Nice Again)
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 month ago:
I could substitute some other examples but the two most recent events I had attended were those two nationalities / heritage. In the past, it’s been Portuguese, Polish, French, Irish and probably a few more I’ve forgotten.
I think if you want to understand the American view on patriotism, just have a giant crowd of people who rarely, if ever, leave their country, speak only English, are fed propaganda that their country is the best in all areas, has massive problems with education, and then you have the American public.
If you are told your country is the best, are very incurious and are fed propaganda, you will love your country unconditionally. I don’t want to give you the impression that everyone in the country is brainwashed, I’m just trying to convey that at least a percentage of our population honestly believes they live in the best country in the world.
Don’t get me wrong, the USA is still highly developed and has its strengths, but if you look at some (what I believe to be) important statistics like, life expectancy, literacy rate, happiness index, internet speed, press freedom, we sure as hell aren’t #1, but we aren’t in last place either.
It’s been sad to watch science come under increasing criticism instead of developing positively. Just today, a new budget was proposed for the federal government that makes sweeping cuts to quite a few organizations, like the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA (our space agency), and most importantly, the National Science Foundation.
The one thing that I feel good about is even if we drop the ball here in the USA, other countries won’t stand still and will continue to fund and pursue science, technology and education.
The reasons above is why I find it hard to be excited and wave an American flag around on the 4th. Things could be worse but they could be a hell of a lot better too.