phoenixz
@phoenixz@lemmy.ca
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 day ago:
That’s because nobody is arguing that. The argument is against people saying that industrial farming is evil and should be stopped, which is a bit of a past time hobby around here.
- Comment on Checkmate, science 1 week ago:
It would only work if you manage to keep the car at an extremely precise distance from the car in front. If you’re off by tiny tiny amounts, you’ll either lose the magnetic attraction, and stop, or you’d started getting closer fast until you’d be stuck to the car in front of you
- Comment on Mad Palaeontologists 1 week ago:
That sounds like your average Republican, like literally.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
Apparently there is no life in Mexico
- Comment on Risk your life with this one easy trick! 1 week ago:
Shot him in the knee, he’ll never walk normal again…sounds super reasonable
- Comment on Woman attempts to provoke a man into a fight. "I am so ready to 'Fight Club' this sh-t," she said. She also called him the p-word multiple times. 1 week ago:
p word
Peppermint?
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 2 weeks ago:
Yeah Microsoft isn’t releasing this until we can use it responsible.
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we’ll never be able to guarantee that. There will always be people abusing this.
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Though right now it’s in the hands of Microsoft and likely requires a shit tonne of hardware to run (I’d imagine a collection of specialized servers), this tech WILL come out eventually, and eventually, everyone will be able to run it.
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I give it 5-10 years tops before anyone can just do this with anyone. Want to make a movie of trump or Hilary fucking a donkey? Done. Want to make a video of your 5 year old daughter in a gangbang? Done. The future is very bleak.
I’m honestly unsure if the internet was a good idea and I’m even less sure if humanity was a good idea.
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- Comment on Oddly specific question 2 weeks ago:
Democrats fear fascism, Republicans WANT fascism.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
Somebody didn’t see those mount St Helens videos…
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
Was he? As I understand it’s he was not a bit mentally ill
- Comment on Anon watches The Last Samurai 2 weeks ago:
Hate the guy, love the actor. He just makes mostly great movies.
- Comment on small wins 3 weeks ago:
All those corona antivaxxers that all the time spout their theories about those evil rich scientists should read this…
- Comment on When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 3 weeks ago:
No because that image is from Canada
- Comment on So sweet 3 weeks ago:
Why, though? Serious question, why is it so hard to have a conversation with a person? I am introverted, I don’t socialize much, I wouldn’t be able to walk up a pretty girl and ask her out, but making a phone call? I don’t see the problem.
Please don’t get me wrong but it’s very hard not to see this as a “get over yourself” problem. I pushed myself “over myself” many times when needed, “call that girly that you like, just effin do it!”
- Comment on tremendous 4 weeks ago:
I threw up a little in my mouth…
- Comment on Complete this sentence 5 weeks ago:
not complete this sentence…
- Comment on Next on the hydraulic press channel! 5 weeks ago:
When your life is protected by, and depends on a little scribbled piece of paper…
- Comment on Facebook now wants to write your posts for you with AI. 5 weeks ago:
Great! Even more ways to fake like I care about my family.
I actually care abouty family, but doing it with Facebook is just posturing anyway
- Comment on Food Delivery Apps: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 5 weeks ago:
You somehow completely missed the point of these companies being abusive to their drivers. You’re also an asshole, but that is a different issue to be discussed, I guess.
- Comment on Food Delivery Apps: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 5 weeks ago:
I disagree with his final conclusions… If we all try to be nicer to the driver, give them 5 stars, they’re still being abused.
You need better laws to protect them.
Also, don’t become a gig worker, you WILL be abused
- Comment on What firing your PR team does to a motherfucker 1 month ago:
Doubling or halving anything would not solve the problem if growth is the problem.
- Comment on What firing your PR team does to a motherfucker 1 month ago:
Eh, it’s not that I’m involved in it, I saw the movies, that’s about it. It just struck me as a seriously dumb idea. This enormously powerful guy who wants to make the universe better by killing half of the people. it was just dumb.
- Comment on What firing your PR team does to a motherfucker 1 month ago:
No he wasn’t, his idea was shit.
Halving something means that, at 7% growth per year, you’re right back where you were in 10 years. Traumatic events usually make people multiply like bunnies for a while so yeah… Even in the best case scenario, he’d murder trillions of people, traumatize the rest, and all that to buy “the universe” what, 10, 20, maybe 30 years.
Instead he could go out and teach everyone how to become responsible. Slowly have less babies until, you know, the world evens out in a good number. Earth can be quite nice and stable with, say, 5 billion people, and then you make sure that in average, just as many people are born as they die. Use taxes and other things to control that. Nobody needs to suffer or be bloody murdered or winked out of existence, no dictatorship necessary, just nice teaching.
- Comment on Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab 1 month ago:
Though we can’t stop the brass from making decisions like these, the brass can’t stop us either from forming the project and no longer helping them because fuck them.
This is way too much a cash grab by people thinking that they just got voluntary slaves to do the development. Redis, like mongo, and MySQL have the name, other projects will have the strength and value. The company will be sold off and the name will disappear
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
Yeah, and the right way to do that is to put a number of hard and soft limits on capitalism. Tax the greedy bastards, put good employment laws in place.
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 1 month ago:
Look, it’s the holy Triniteight! Or something like that…
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 1 month ago:
I highly agree with how they do it in Iceland. There is a list of 3000 or so names that you can pick from, that’s it.
Dumb people should not be allowed to pick names for human beings.
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
Unbridled uncontrolled capitalism, that is.
Capitalism in on itself isn’t necessarily bad, it’s a tool. Just as you can use a knife to carve out a nice image, you can also use it to stab somebody to death.
Captialism is quite powerful and is pretty much the reason why western nations are as powerful as they are. The uncontrolled part is the reason why things got bad and are getting worse
- Comment on Staying for the week at an AirBnB in Rochester, MN. This is what I just found out I'm stuck with. 1 month ago:
I just saw the “radio link internet” there
If your internet is beamed in over some radio signal somewhere then yeah, I get why it’s so shitty. Wait until it starts raining!
- Comment on Staying for the week at an AirBnB in Rochester, MN. This is what I just found out I'm stuck with. 1 month ago:
A ping of 100+ is slightly noticable (not counting gaming here), 200+ is very noticeable, 500+ becomes close to very annoying / unworkable for most cases. A 600 ping will be hard to even load pages. Streaming might might work, but a high ping like that usually comes with a high packet loss too, so I wouldn’t hold my breath for Netflix even…