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- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 5 days ago:
That sounds a very reactionary way to see Vulcan/Ni’Var on DIS.
Vulcan changed it wasn’t destroyed. And it’s implied that this change was what saved the outward facing outlook of their civilization - the romulan component of population becomes the more pro-federation side of Ni’Var.
There are some interesting things to explore their, since on one hand you have T’rina who acknowledges her emotions and moderates them with logic, and on the other there’s Duvin who is clearly more conservative.
I don’t know if there’s an actual plan on the timeline of these cultural changes or if it’s accidental but there’s already some evidence of this cultural shift in Prodigy and Lower Decks with Maj’el and T’Lin. Even before that there’s Saavik but at least non-canon novels assume she’s half Romulan.
- Comment on Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr 1 week ago:
It’s inevitable for ads supported social media.
They need to keep you “engaged” to show you more ads, and the most effective way to do it is to foster conflict.
- Comment on Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr 1 week ago:
You underestimate how much interface and algorithms impact how people interact with eachother.
- Comment on Anon is at a work function 1 week ago:
*below mediocre manager.
Even the average HR person can see a large scale roasting in a work environment would be a disaster.
- Comment on Another (Negative) ‘Superman' Reaction — World of Reel 2 weeks ago:
Well, at least they are getting used to rebooting cinematic universes on an accelerated schedule.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 2 weeks ago:
As a native Portuguese speaker I found it very useful when I started to learn English. And even nowadays having some form of “visual map” between English and Portuguese at least for more erudite words - which tend to be the ones that are shared between more languages - helps me write English better.
The similarities between English and German also ended up helping me learn German.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 2 weeks ago:
Going by how ortography changes have gone in other languages, I doubt it.
Besides English, if English fix its ortography it’s going to become much harder to learn for speakers of other European languages - as confusing the pronunciation rules and exceptions are, they are caused by writing things similarly to other European languages while mangling the original pronunciation.
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why 3 weeks ago:
They can’t close the kernel. They already distribute Android with proprietary software - for example Google Play services and DRM services.
- Comment on Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon 3 weeks ago:
It’s almost like LLMs aren’t capable of understanding or something. /s
- Comment on Porn on Spotify Is Infiltrating the Platform’s Top Podcast Charts 3 weeks ago:
Antennapod and not depending on the whims of whatever a CEO feels like today.
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 4 weeks ago:
Pre-industrial societies still expected children to work from young ages. And they would often switch to adult labour in their early teens.
- Comment on Anon is a reader 4 weeks ago:
I did and I don’t use subdomains for mobile. Have you tried being good at it?
- Comment on OpenAI calls for US government to codify 'fair use' for AI training | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Please do. I want to train an AI on Disney movies. (Dear Disney lawyers please take the bait)
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 5 weeks ago:
No European country has unrestricted jus soli for nationality. Ireland was the last one to restrict nationality by-soil to children of long term legal residents, which is the same as Germany.
- Comment on 'You can now jailbreak your AMD CPU' — Google researchers release kit to exploit microcode vulnerability in Ryzen Zen 1 to Zen 4 chips 5 weeks ago:
All of the above and more? There’s always the risk of something falling through the cracks, so the more layers of security measures you add/can afford the better.
- Comment on 'You can now jailbreak your AMD CPU' — Google researchers release kit to exploit microcode vulnerability in Ryzen Zen 1 to Zen 4 chips 5 weeks ago:
90% of security vulnerabilities are caused by “let’s just use/do this for now and change it before production”.
- Comment on gigachad 1 month ago:
To each their own, but when I play games I want games that are fun to play. When I want realistic graphics I just go for a walk.
- Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 1 month ago:
I think they just figured out they can offload the modernization of old games to the community. People will still have to buy the game to get the assets needed to play it legally.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month ago:
Back when silicon valley wasn’t all about fellating boot Google left China for much less.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month ago:
Of course it’s feasible, that’s why there are courts. And even if they lost in court they could leave the British market instead of complying. But Apple will always kiss boot no matter how much they tell their cult otherwise.
- Comment on GameStop selling 500+ stores because of "woke". 1 month ago:
Weird, every time I went to my local GameStop before it closed it looked like a diversity fair.
- Comment on Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News 1 month ago:
Just a reminder that alternatives like open street maps and Here WeGo exist and are not taking marching orders from Trump.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 1 month ago:
Because we still need to bring CO2 levels down even if we stop burning fossil fuel.
And then we’ll probably need to burn fossil fuel to keep them at the right level, since we are in a capitalistic society and we’re never going to be able to shutdown the CO2 collectors if they are ever built.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Mormons are about as Christians as Muslims. The only reason they are not lumped together is because they are mostly melamine-deficient.
- Comment on MSN doesn't work in IronFox whatsoever 2 months ago:
That just sounds like they were trying to fetch a few resources and the request timed out.
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 2 months ago:
True. We don’t have masterpieces like “Spock’s Brain” anymore. /S
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 2 months ago:
Assuming you mean discount, they pay the third party the agreed value, and give the discount from their percentage, or, if they think they can recoup it with more sales, they pay the difference from their own pockets.
- Comment on The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie 2 months ago:
There’s a very clear line between having a military and intelligence services and having a MKULTRA-era-CIA-in-space.
- Comment on The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie 2 months ago:
“The people in the Federation exist in a bubble of safety and happiness, but there are outsiders to that sphere of the Federation—surrounded by the Dominion, the Founders, the Klingons [of this era], the [Romulan secret police] Tal Shiar, that don’t have the same moral relativity that we do. They would see [the Federation] destroyed to fit their moral relativism,” Kazinsky argued. “People need to understand why people don’t like the idea [of Section 31], but it hasn’t changed the idea.”
This kind of logic implies that stooping down to barbarism is OK as long as you are hypocritical about it.
- Comment on From during the Tiktok ban 2 months ago:
That’s also an important lesson.