yozul

@yozul@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barely sustainable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t want coffee that hot. That’s the fucking lie, stooge. McDonald’s own market research shows that the overwhelming majority of their customers drink their coffee immediately in their car. Serving it burnt to crap and too hot to drink quickly is actively terrible for the vast majority of their customers, which is why even McDonald’s doesn’t actually serve coffee that hot anymore. They stopped doing that over a decade ago.

  Do you really expect me to believe some corporate ass-kisser that makes lawyer jokes like they think they’re being insightful actually knows anything about doing a honest days work. We don’t have time to casually sit around the office sipping coffee all day. We have to slam that shit and get to work, yuppie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barely sustainable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to give up your ability to defend yourself in the world that actually exists to fight for a better one. That’s childish thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barely sustainable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh goodie, so now we’ve reached the point where you’re trying to flood the argument with so much meaningless gibberish that you hope it’ll fool someone into thinking that you’re making point somewhere in that mess. I don’t care that you have creamer in your coffee, dude. I don’t really even care that you think a meat thermometer can accurately measure the temperature of liquids. Sure, you can take a tiny sip of 185° coffee. Whatever.

  The facts of the matter are that 185° is hotter than any other chain serves their coffee, they received multiple health code violations for it, serving it at even slightly lower temperatures dramatically reduces the possibility of getting severe burns, McDonald’s knew all this, lied about why they were doing it, ordered their employees to keep getting health code violations anyway, settled with other people out of court before this case for upwards of $500,000 because it was such a small expense for them, only offered this lady $800 for some bizarre reason, the judge actually reduced the settlement to $640,000 before it was actually paid out, and she ended up spending all that money on a live in nurse because she was in so much pain and barely capable of walking for the rest of her life. We do not base our regulations on the assumption that no one will spill any coffee ever. That is an insane thing to assume.

  Have fun giving up your only defense against corporate negligence though. I’m sure that could never possibly backfire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barely sustainable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to boil water to make coffee. You don’t have to serve it still boiling. That is, again, actually against the law to do the way they did it. They were already in trouble for it before they gave that lady third degree burns. They had to go out of their way to set their warmer to boiling, because it’s McDonald’s. They don’t actually make every cup of coffee custom for you. It just comes out of warmer that they get to set the temperature of, and setting that to be too hot to drink would be stupid even if it didn’t burn the crap out of the coffee and leave it tasting like charcoal. They had to knowingly and intentionally break the law to serve coffee that hot. You just got played by your corporate overlords trying to pretend they’re the victims.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barely sustainable⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, he’s right, that’s clearly on the flap on the lid that gets folded inside the box. You can only read that while the box is open.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barely sustainable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Coffee isn’t supposed to be served hot enough to give third degree burns causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills. That’s actually illegal. When the health department gives several warnings and a senior corporate executive orders employees to disobey the law, that makes judges very, very grumpy. Lawsuits are a stupid system, but they literally the only system we have for legally fighting back against corporations. There is nothing else you can do if they wrong you. Spreading the idea that you shouldn’t sue is only taking away your only method of defending yourself within the law. You are being a corporate shill right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Not Required to Sell Chrome in Court Antitrust Ruling⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a separate point in the same case, but yes. The judge also ruled to allow google to keep paying for search engine placement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Takes Nearly 10% Stake in Intel, Clinching Unorthodox Deal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s kinda my point. He’s not just a wanna be dictator. He is the fascist leader of a fascist movement, and his supports are fascists, even if they don’t like that terminology. Fascism isn’t just a mean word for politician I don’t like. It’s an actual populist political ideology. The whole movement is fascist. Not just the guy at the head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Takes Nearly 10% Stake in Intel, Clinching Unorthodox Deal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, obviously. It’s just that a nationalist, authoritarian government led by a populist strongman merging corporate and state power is the primary goal of fascism. We really shouldn’t think it’s hypocritical or surprising when the fascists support fascism. That’s what they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Takes Nearly 10% Stake in Intel, Clinching Unorthodox Deal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Merging corporate and government power is not at all the same thing as the workers seizing the means of production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨0°mg⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or alternatively they’ve only ever had temperatures below 0°.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨salty⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmm, yes. I too love eating metals that explode when they touch water. Extra spicy. It does more than double the sodium content of your salt though, so watch out for that if you have high blood pressure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how these tech companies are so desperate to prove that AI is useful that every time an engineer ever uses any kind of software that has even the tiniest element of machine learning they’re all like, “See, AI did this! This was AI! Isn’t AI so useful, and amazing, and definitely worth all the money we’ve spent and environmental damage we’re doing!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed's summer update revamps fighter and ranger skills so those pesky wizards aren't having all the fun⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m starting to get worried that Obsidian will be the first of Microsoft’s recent acquisitions to get EAed. They make neat little $40 AA games that I really like, but Microsoft seems just convinced that if they can use a massive budget to fix the bugs and give them the shiniest new graphics then they’ll somehow turn an Obsidian game into the next Skyrim, and that just doesn’t even begin to make a lick of sense. They do not and have not ever made that kind of game. The closest they ever came was Fallout: New Vegas, and that’s because they were literally working with Bethesda’s game engine, and the things people love most about that game are the things that make it the most different from a Bethesda game.

  Now not only were they trying to sell this game for $70, but the next one’s going to be $80. Obsidian is screwed, and that makes me sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, Mozilla makes tons of decisions I disagree with, and this is one of them, but some of y’all have turned hyperbolic, misleading, unwarranted Mozilla hate into your entire personality.

  Feel free to point out when they do something stupid, but if you’re going to do that try to keep it to the facts instead of trying to make it seem like every dumb little thing they do is the apocalypse. It’s impossible to take you seriously with titles like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Klarna CEO says company will use humans to offer VIP customer service⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So… How many burritos worth of debt do you need before you count as a VIP?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is north?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The entire Weddell Sea is just north of Antarctica. That’s where the Weddell Sea is. The problem is that everything near Antarctica is just north of Antarctica, including things on the complete opposite side of the entire continent. It’s just a way of saying near Antarctica that sounds like you’re giving more information than you really are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It can vary from location to location, but honestly I think a lot of it is that a pretty significant percentage of management can’t get an erection unless they’re watching people suffer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who are you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of food doesn’t even have an expiration date. It’s more common on a lot of foods to have a sell by date, which is not the same thing as an expiration date, and some foods are even just labelled with a packaged date, which is hopefully always in the past. Otherwise you’ve got bigger problems than spoiled food. MREs are especially notorious for this.

  That being said though, I’m still usually the one throwing food out. At some point you just have to admit you’re not going to eat it, and no one wants your dubious opened packages or half eaten leftovers. It’s just gonna have to go eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neutronium would like a word.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guarantee that it is physically impossible to fill a cardboard box with pure neutronium. Is it physically possible to get over 70 lbs of the stuff in there in a stable, shippable manner? I don’t know, and neither do you. It’s certainly far, FAR beyond the capability of any technology on Earth, but I guess it might maybe possibly not break the laws of physics. I can’t prove that though, and neither can you, so neither of us can actually prove the statement wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is. I mean, it’s also true, but it is pretty cringe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize… Demolishing Section 230?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh come on. Seriously? They’re going to lose “freedom”, and democracy, and the economy is going to go to shit, and the world is going to be less stable, and also they’re not the ones who are going to end up homeless and destitute and worrying about the government killing them. It’s not that fucking complicated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize… Demolishing Section 230?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem have isn’t that they don’t have all the same goals as me. The problem I have is that they’re idiots who are going to lose everything they care about because they refuse to accept reality and they’ll be mostly fine while the rest of us suffer for their failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨place yer bets⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it is on a collision course we probably have time to do something about it. If we don’t do anything about it it’ll probably hit the ocean and it’s not big enough to cause any kind of crazy mega tsunami or anything like that. If it does hit land it’ll probably hit in the middle of nowhere and kill, like, 12 people, and if it does manage to beat all the odds and hit a major city it will be a major disaster, but it’s not going to be the apocalypse or anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's slow Chrome Extension reforms anger developers • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mozilla is kind of a mess, but part of that is it’s actually a whole bunch of different companies all named Mozilla something or other. It’s really easy to go down a rabbit hole of angry videos and articles that make it sound even worse than it actually is, but yeah, there’s some nonsense going on. It’s especially sad how little the main foundation seems to care about Firefox anymore.

  MZLA Technologies, the company that runs Thunderbird, has kind of worked around the shenanigans of the main Mozilla Foundation by directly collecting donations from users that are specifically earmarked for work on Thunderbird. They’re doing good work with a fairly safe funding model, so I don’t worry about Thunderbird at all, personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 bizarre AI TV features that simply shouldn't exist⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This, but unironically. When I had a small apartment I just had a big monitor with everything hooked up to it in the main room, and it was great. Now I spend all my time at my desk because I hate the stupid TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I’m just kind of curious how this would even work. Lots of people in the US already have Deepseek. If they already have it that’s not importing it, is it? What if someone makes a copy of Deepseek from a server that’s in the US? Is that importing it? Are we just trying to block future AIs? How is it even supposed to be beneficial to the US for the people working on AI here to have no access to Chinese models, when China can still freely use ours? Won’t that just give them an advantage in developing AI?

  Honestly, the more I think about this, the dumber it gets, and it was already pretty stupid on a surface level. It’ll probably pass though. I don’t think anybody in Washington DC is even interested in thinking about the consequences of anything they’re doing. It’s all pure pageantry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every AI model has been incestuously training off every other AI model for years. OpenAI has done it just as much as everyone else. They’re just throwing a tantrum about it now because they’re butthurt that a Chinese company beat them on the cheap, and they’re trying to save face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you see it....⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, it could be, but at some point it becomes easier to just photoshop something than to try and talk an AI into replicating some hyper-specific arrangement of tiny elements of a picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It needs to be revealed. I’m not super into this kinda stuff, but from what I understand it’s pretty easy to do if you’re running it locally. You’re never supposed to see this in an app or anything, but one of the big things about Deepseek is that it’s easier to run on a normal desktop computer.