starman2112
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- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 hour ago:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
*Unless Facebook is the one doing the unreasonable search, and we simply buy their data
most likely they weren’t even recording.
Sweet summer child
- Comment on What is your take on organ donation? 2 hours ago:
For the most part, I’m unconcerned. Especially in a country where organ donation is opt-out, there are plenty enough people dying already; the rich don’t need to kill me specifically for my liver. There’s another one floating around somewhere out there. Any potential corruption would take the form of the rich and powerful placing themselves at the top of the recipient list, which is also reduced if organ donation is opt-out— more organs floating around means that even if the rich and Powerful put themselves at the top of the list, more people will still get the organs they need.
Re: China, that’s a different situation entirely. I don’t think those forced abortions were opt-in or opt-out. The Chinese government doesn’t seem to give its subjects many opts at all
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 hours ago:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
*Unless Facebook does the unreasonable searching and we pay them for any data they collect
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 hours ago:
I protest against this for the same reason I would protest against the government flying tens of thousands of drones around the city to track every person’s whereabouts and location history. Facebook gives the police unfettered access to their information. It’s like a Ring doorbell, but dumber looking and it moves around.
If you’re sitting next to me with these fuckass glasses on, then you are giving the government live video feed of me. The only difference between this and a drone that’s personally following me is that technically, this doesn’t violate the Fourth Amendment because the government isn’t the one sending a mindless drone after me with a camera, Facebook is.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 hours ago:
You would have fought for the confederacy because it was legal to own slaves
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 hours ago:
Just because you don’t have a legal right not to be filmed without your consent doesn’t mean that you don’t have a moral right not to be filmed without your consent
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 hours ago:
You actually should advocate for violence against people who are violating your rights
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 hours ago:
Yeah, putting cameras in glasses is a really stupid idea
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 16 hours ago:
Probably because you realized that you were reading stuff that I didn’t write. I probably wouldn’t have responded, but drive-by downvotes remind me of reddit, and I can’t stand redditors
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 17 hours ago:
What a weird comment to down vote. Literally just factual information
- Comment on great grandaddy bur oak 21 hours ago:
Xenophytophilia is my favorite word in the English language
- Comment on Anon the explorer 1 day ago:
Yuuup. I’m never gonna forgive Supermassive for killing off my character in Man of Medan because I made the wrong choice at the very beginning of the game.
Spoiler but you should click it anyway
Fuck me for assuming that the experienced diver I’m playing as would know how to handle decompression sickness better than I, some dingus in Kansas. I guess I learned that having one (1) 4.2% ABV beer after surfacing too quickly would prove fatal the next day. It doesn’t even happen during the game. We got the achievement for everyone surviving, and then my character fuckin dies in a cutscene mid credits
- Comment on (Ai) google lens gone blind 1 day ago:
U AUE A FOOL
So close. I get my Us and Rs and Ks and Ds mixed up all the time
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 day ago:
Which of these projects is he still in control of, and still making money off of?
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 day ago:
I don’t know how it is in your region, but where I live (the US), streaming pirated content is perfectly legal. As long as you aren’t distributing it, you’re not actually violating any laws. The only thing a free VPN is good for is masking your location so that you can get around porn bans and region locks
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 day ago:
Basically the thing that turned the internet against Honey, but when a homophobic piece of shit does it it’s fine
- Comment on Anon has anxiety 1 day ago:
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- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 2 days ago:
Talos Principle be like
- Comment on Anon argues on reddit 3 days ago:
Bots or nazis. It’s real convenient that we can’t see the posts they make on /r/GenZFourthReich or whatever
- Comment on Anon didn't like the loot 1 week ago:
The problem is that you talked to Brambieshart before encountering Lotherad’s Hound. If you’d waited until after that fight, he would have given you Brambieshart’s Shattered Urn, which you could give to Herrigold in the Dying Swamp for Kneivel’s Sisters, the best weapon in the game
- Comment on Bean virus 1 week ago:
Bro my vegetarian ass is like 30% black beans by volume. Someone please infect me with the beans virus
- Comment on Bean virus 1 week ago:
I need the bean virus
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 1 week ago:
A second user issued the weapon restriction challenge. I don’t play HD2, but apparently they specifically chose weapons that the playerbase widely agrees are underpowered, but the devs say are fine
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 1 week ago:
If they’re investigating someone who doxxed a user for saying a game that’s too hard and buggy is too hard and buggy, then maybe they should hire Boeing’s PIs
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 1 week ago:
Yeah I don’t remember the last time Steam users bullied someone into suicide. I can think of at least three people who’ve been killed by Reddit.
- Comment on Anon plays a game 1 week ago:
And you get to murder slavers
- Comment on Anon plays a game 1 week ago:
If you want to play as the empire you can just join the army
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 1 week ago:
My go-to is to just beg them to play Kerbal Space Program
They argue that, if the moon landing could be done way back then, with modern technology, it should be possible to quickly get back to the moon.
In the 1960s, getting to the moon was the most important thing in the solar system. The Soviet Union and the US spent ungodly amounts of money and risked uncountable lives in this endeavor. We did the thing, and now we’ve done the thing. We aren’t willing to risk those lives or spend that money anymore. New missions have to be much, much cheaper and much, much safer.
Technology has definitely improved, but there is a physical limit to the amount of energy that you can pull out of a given mass of kerosene and liquid oxygen. Getting to space hasn’t gotten any lighter, and fuel mass has always been the biggest hurdle. Again, play KSP. It will brand the tyranny of the rocket equation into your soul.
They also argue NASA could have just reused the same designs as the Apollo missions if they actually went to the moon.
They could, in the same way that we could start sending children underground to mine for coal again
To summarise, a) Been there, done that. Anything new will involve sending more mass than the Apollo missions had to deal with. Tyranny of the rocket equation: more mass means more fuel means more thrusters means more mass means more fuel…
b) I could do some research and come back, but there is no answer to this that will satisfy a moon landing denier, because any explanation would require a baseline understanding of chemistry and also trust in the institutions that examine these moon rocks.
c) The answer to a also applies here
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
I’m not sure this is quite analagous to neuralink’s monkey experiments. That said,
So is this different only because those are human neurons?
To my mind, a neuron is a neuron. The only difference between your brain and a monkey brain is, again, the number of neurons and the structures they form. I don’t see this as any different from monkey or rat or ant or entirely digital neurons.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
Raises uncomfortable questions about consciousness. The only difference between these neurons and your own are the number of them and the structures they form. Of course it doesn’t know what it’s doing, but… Neither do our own neurons
