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- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 8 hours ago:
Dictators care about how they are perceived because they used skills in manipulating how they are perceived to get into the position they are in. Making it a self selecting group. But when you change “how” they get there to simply be that they were given superpowers at birth, you remove the self selection. So now it is just a random sampling of the population, which in my opinion skews toward not caring as much about how they are percieved if they don’t need to.
- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 1 day ago:
There are certainly people who do. But I think they are the minority. They do sort of bunch up though. So if you are one, you probably don’t realize you are the minority.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 1 day ago:
That is too much of a commitment. Should end with I’ll consider that, or I’ll look into that.
- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 1 day ago:
Nope, cause pharmaceutical company would produce a drug that you take for a short time and never need again. Not enough profit. And they would have no actual control over the superheros. In the boys, all of the sups seemed to care what the public thought of them so much, they would do what the corp wanted. In reality, the ones who didn’t care would outnumber the ones who did. And they would just kill whoever they wanted, and threaten to kill others to get what they wanted. Kinda like the oligarchy we have today, but with far less constraint, and no need to even try to hide things like being pedos and racists and such.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 day ago:
Only workers are expected to be happy with good enough. The elite will never say the balance of thier bank account is good enough. And thus companies always need to grow bigger.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
You are right I did say easy. In my head I meant that valve pay for it and such, not that it was technically easy. But what I typed didn’t line up.
And as far as sandboxing, I wasn’t really thinking vm sandboxing, I was thinking they could litterally take a whole pc, run the game and see what it does. I assume they could probably do that in a less labor intensive way like run it in the cloud and watch for the process to try to detect that as well. All in all I was thinking more testing env, and not end user changes. Cause yeah, end user support for isolating processes should be on the OS.
But in general, they should do a better job vetting publishers and ensuring those publishers can be held accountable. That is hard to do without blocking out the smaller publishers, but I have faith that if they put a few minds to it, they could figure it out. Probably could contract out the planning part to some experts so they wouldn’t have to perm hire a lot. Might even be able to contract out the vetting so they could pass the liability on.
A crazy thought just hit me. Something like fdic insurance. Won’t happen with this admin in the US, but if the gov setup the vetting guidelines, they could insure the vetters for damages if they followed the guidelines. That would spur vetters into existence that valve and others could then contract. Pipe dream I am sure.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
I didn’t say it was easy. The fact is, valve could do it. It is just somewhat expensive. Make a law that game distributors are liable for losses if they distribute malware and you would see how well they could do it.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
I chose not to spell out the full test. The fact is, valve could do it. It is just somewhat expensive. Make a law that game distributors are liable for losses if they distribute malware and you would see how well they could do it.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
I chose not to spell out the full test. The fact is, valve could do it. It is just somewhat expensive. Make a law that game distributors are liable for losses if they distribute malware and you would see how well they could do it.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
Clearly it passed thier test. But it was not undetectable.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
I am decently versed in the game of cat and mouse. The fact is, valve could do it. It is just somewhat expensive. Make a law that game distributors are liable for losses if they distribute malware and you would see how well they could do it.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
Steam could easily gave automation the installs and runs games in a sandbox. Then watches what they do. The things it needed to do to steal the crypto should be vastly different than what a game should be allowed to do.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 weeks ago:
I saw birth control -> baby scale -> death. I was like wtf. Lol.
- Comment on Incorrect? 2 weeks ago:
Now I am curious, how big is a uterus? Bigger than the average penis? And if we are considering it’s size with a baby in it… no contest.
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 3 weeks ago:
Seriously, what is that supposed to be on it? And what is it supposed to mean? I know it isn’t real, but what were they going for?
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 3 weeks ago:
Something, something, can’t prove a negative… While valuable research, it doesn’t prove no harm is done. It can only provide evidrnce that the harm they tested for didn’t appear to happen. That is a kind of important difference.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
I think it was always fucked. They just hid it better, and many people pretended not to see.
- Comment on Good news. :) 4 weeks ago:
Ya’know, it is odd now that you mention it. Out here in oregon we have a lot more “gray” days then out east. Yet I don’t see as many people drinking coffee in the care compared to out east. You would think we would need it more.
Also odd, there is a clear difference in how traditional east coast companies are (and are allowed to be). Tech is my area, and it is very noticeable. Management hierarchies are much more rigid. Clothing/appearance expectations. Still a lot of golf played on company time. Diversity… I think the people are often liberal, but they don’t seem to take much of that to the office. Oh, and more religion in the east than the west. Y’all still have blue laws in many states.
- Comment on Good news. :) 4 weeks ago:
You hit on the core reason. Less rigidity. The east and south are much more traditional. They are slow to change tradition. That also makes them slow to adapt. It’s a mindset. And the people who left those areas to go west did so with a more open mindset. And once it started that way, it was more or less established. If you like peer pressure from dead people, go east and south. If not, go west.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve noticed how poorly gpus are classified, and how it seems every intersting peice of AI software just has a list of gpus it can work on. So I can see customers just locking into one brand so they have less to memorize.
- Comment on Not stealing 5 weeks ago:
There definitely was a “they are replaceable” attitude back then. Now try to imagine the generations before us, when 13 kids wasn’t that abnormal. And that 13 only counted the ones that survived.
- Comment on Not stealing 5 weeks ago:
I have been told I have to go to my room and stay there. I’m like, you promise? Didn’t take long for that threat to stop.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 5 weeks ago:
If they are old enough to ask, they are old enough to hear “I dunno, ask your Mom”.
- Comment on Not stealing 5 weeks ago:
He’s autistic, and that concept is not something he could grasp yet.
- Comment on Not stealing 5 weeks ago:
In the past people didn’t have access to a device with endless information about how rough it is the raise kids. Instead they had other local parents as a source, and those parents just wanted company in thier misery.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 month ago:
There is a reason for declining child birth numbers… it has everything to do with more people knowing what they are really getting into.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 month ago:
My son(11) will say, “you can’t do that, I’ll call the police and they will arrest you”. I say, great maybe I’ll get some peace and quiet. He doesn’t know I won’t, so it works. Lol.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 month ago:
I couldn’t make it work. But I did notice that the spot in the background changed focus a tiny bit at one point. I suspect my brain was tracking the thumb and simply refused to continue to truely focus on the background spot. I tried and tried, but just couldn’t make it happen. Neither eye. :(
- Comment on Looking for a game like "99 days in the forest" to play with my kid, but not on roblox 1 month ago:
Well I haven’t actually played it. But you start out in the center of a forest. You have a fire. You collect would to level up the fire. That opens more space in the forest… you collect things, level up things, find things… there is a random deer that attacks you at night or something. And some wolves at some point. But unlike raft, satisfactory or Minecraft it is a shorter overall play through. And the forest is different each time. So you play until you die or win. But it doesn’t let you save, which is annoying for me, even if a play through should only take an hour or so.
I am open to other ideas as well. We have put many many hours into raft. Also satisfactory, minecraft, tf2 (though my wife doesn’t like that one :) ) - Comment on Looking for a game like "99 days in the forest" to play with my kid, but not on roblox 1 month ago:
we have put many many hours into raft. Also satisfactory, minecraft, tf2 (though my wife doesn’t like that one :)). I am open to more options as well.