Doomsider
@Doomsider@lemmy.world
- Comment on 1 day ago:
BBC discovery rails Trump!
Trump is subdued by BBC!
Trump’s says he can take on BBC!
BBC forces Trump to come!
BBC penetrates Trump’s Inner Circle!
Trump can’t take BBC pressure!
Trump takes BBC head on and chokes!
BBC bottoms out and Trump powers through!
BBC stretches Trump thin after intercourse!
Trump butthurt by BBC slam!
Trump’s long history taking on BBC revealed!
- Comment on New voting machines fix your vote if you accidentally select the wrong candidate. 1 day ago:
The U.S. has been always been an oligarchy.
FTFY
- Comment on UK government will implement all measures to "combat antisemitism in schools" following the IHRA definition which bans criticism of Israel. 2 days ago:
It is now in the schools of England apparently.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Is Obsessed With Union-Bashing 2 days ago:
I think you might be romanticising things a little bit. Here is Edward Murrow from 1954, over seventy years ago, making his critique that journalism was DOA.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Is Obsessed With Union-Bashing 2 days ago:
Billionaire wants to end unions? You don’t say.
- Comment on The walls have eyes... erm.... ears! 3 days ago:
They don’t intercept anything honestly. They either buy it or receive it through PRISM. Saying they intercept it really isn’t the right word when Internet companies literally allow them into their interconnect locations (IXP) to install NSA hardware. I suppose technically you could still call it intercept, but it is more like they just listen to all traffic without any actual clandestine action.
- Comment on Can social media bans protect young people’s mental health? Early research suggests that bans aren’t the answer 3 days ago:
I think you are confused. There was no study, which is what I was referring to.
- Comment on Can social media bans protect young people’s mental health? Early research suggests that bans aren’t the answer 3 days ago:
This is an interesting postulation, but this article has nothing about this. There is no study or research, just well thought out opinion.
- Comment on As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely. 5 days ago:
I would disagree, lots of people do need help and we are being abused by the government and corporations. It is important to recognize this.
Reddit is an abusive entity borne out by the fact that they are thieves of the commons, taking our collective knowledge and communities for themselves, and locking them up behind a paywall. I don’t care what their abusive terms of service are, what they did is wrong. But this isn’t even about them though because everyone is doing this same shit.
I have already been involved in local elections. I have stood on the capital of my state demanding rights for other disfranchised citizens. I have gone to DC to lobby my representatives multiple times. I know the power of community organizing and influencing local elections. I also know how little power we have on a state level and how we basically have zero power at the federal level (non-wealthy people)
We have problems that can’t be fixed by flexing our political power alone. This is the real conflict we face and is why so many people have been disenfranchised.
- Comment on As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely. 6 days ago:
I was there from the start on Reddit. I saw how my left leaning views were accepted, then eventually rejected, and finally demonized. I remember peacefully talking about Linux for years then getting constantly brigaded by Winbros. Don’t think I wasn’t there. I left, I was not banned. It was definitely heading that way though.
Before Reddit it was forums, Usenet, IRC, BBS, etc. We definitely need to return to simpler times where everyone isn’t corralled into the same place to be propagandised to. I stopped Meta during the pandemic when I saw them spread misinformation on purpose to divide people. It is clear major platforms are a cancer on our society.
Democracy is a window dressing for control by the wealthy at this point. We definitely need to fix things, but we need to take a long hard look at what we have and why we have it first.
You are correct, we should take back our digital space. That is why I am here. That is why I am trying to replace corporate services with a homelab.
- Comment on As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely. 6 days ago:
Besides the companies that abuse us, the government abuses us as well. In a lot of ways the current administration mirrors what an abusive relationship is like. One that we as citizens are compelled to endure. But unlike a personal abusive relationship, there is no escape.
If you cannot use the information then please pass it along to someone who can.
- Comment on As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely. 6 days ago:
- Comment on As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely. 6 days ago:
Oh, but Reddit is a leftist utopia!?
- Comment on As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely. 6 days ago:
On average it takes seven tries to leave an abusive relationship.
- Comment on Paris, France 6 days ago:
This is kind of a dumb statement. The French also protested and destroyed a bunch of shit when the government raised the retirement age.
Guess what happened?
If you guessed the government raised the retirement age you would be right. So what does rioting and destroying a bunch of shit accomplish in France. If you answered nothing much you would be correct.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
My gut hurts just thinking about it.
- Comment on US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license" 1 week ago:
You are right, but also fuck them. They didn’t invent the code or the concepts. They paid for other’s works and pretend it is theirs. Software is an amalgamation of so much before it. Pretending you own it when it really is the work of tens of thousands of people is silly in a way.
- Comment on Konami president Hayakawa believes AI “won’t bring a significant change” to the game market. “Humans” and “creators” are crucial for developing innovative games 1 week ago:
Tons of slop AI games before to differ.
It is amazing these people will come out and lie like this.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 1 week ago:
Always have a jump drive or some other backup of your presentation ready to drop on another computer. I have had this exact thing happen during an important presentation.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The SlopBox
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Every single game developer doing massive layoffs is betting on the exact same thing to save them and it is of course AI.
Unless they are very careful (hint: they won’t be) gamers are going to see right through the slop and it will be the end of the AAA gaming industry as we know it. They are speed running their collapse as we speak.
- Comment on Tax billionaires, insure millions: The CA wealth tradeoff 1 week ago:
Just like the French revolution the victims will mostly be commoners like you and I. Be careful what you wish for
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 1 week ago:
The original point was sales. I do agree with your point of view though. I just need to build a gaming computer for each gamer in the house. Six computers at today’s prices… Nevermind! I guess we are sticking with what we got for now.
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 1 week ago:
I am all for the little guy. I looked up all the stats because if what you said. PS roughly 10 million estimated by end of year, Xbox roughly 2 million by end of year. Gabecube maybe around 60k per month with a total in 2026 of around 400k units sold. That will be roughly half of Xbox sales if they performed similarly the entire year.
Impressive start, but the PS blows them out of the water.
- Comment on The "Threat" to America. 1 week ago:
As long as they enjoy (forced labor) it, then it is not slavery is not a very good argument. Even outside of prison wage slavery is a real problem. Having someone work in prisons for decades and then released with barely anything to show for it is the very definition of exploitation. Likely leading to more recidivism since without the capital crime is the easiest way to support oneself after missing out on society for decades.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
Fair enough.
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 1 week ago:
It is estimated that Playstation sold 13 million consoles in 2026.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 1 week ago:
You make a compelling argument. One word for you though, per capita.
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 1 week ago:
PS5 pro prices are through the roof so it will likely keep sales muted plus everyone is ready for the new console by now. With prices the way they are the next console generation could be three years away. That is an extremely long cycle and will further hurt their sales.
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 1 week ago:
Gabecube is projected to sell several hundreds thousand copies. PlayStation 5 is close to 100 million units sold.