4grams
@4grams@awful.systems
- Comment on Why are you wearing his tee-shirt 17 hours ago:
I’ve got a weird Al shirt that everyone confuses for one.
- Comment on Is it more accurate to call current 'Artificial intelligence' (AI/LLM) as Counterfeit Intelligence? 6 days ago:
I don’t know. SI does actually have a certain ring to it. Stolen Intelligence.
- Comment on What would happen if the next President, said I want that ballroom destroyed and the White House put back like it was, and I want to use all Union members? And done in Six months? 1 week ago:
Honestly, with the caliber of contractors this fucking clown selects, it will either tear itself down, or will need to be about 17 seconds after competion.
- Comment on Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon? 1 week ago:
No, not a chance. They need to make these criminals accountable, and if they can’t, they need to invent new laws to lock them away forever (no joke, I don’t care how unconstitutional ot is, never stopped the current administration). Things need to change, this has to be a lesson.
I doubt it will happen though. 4 seconds after winning, if the dems get power, they will once again discover decorum and will claim it to be their most precious asset.
But even then I won’t despair, because at least a slightly less criminal enterprise will be in control and we can vote for better ones next time.
This of course will never happen though, because instead of incremental changes for good in the right direction, moron Americans will fall for the next “one weird trick” when a single election doesn’t solve every problem in the world.
Eh, maybe some despair after all.
- Comment on Thanks, doc 1 week ago:
I keep trying to be seen for therapy, or to get a diagnosis. All they ever do is prescribe me another brain pill that does nothing but gives me hemroids.
Mental health in the US is completely fucked, efforts aren’t made, unless it’s for a pill they can sell you.
- Comment on How did he do that? 2 weeks ago:
There is some kind of incentive structure to look this fucked up. There is a whole different world where looking like a parody of yourself is virtue signaling, shows that you can afford to look like such a cartoon. It’s the same reason maga face is a thing. Humans aren’t attracted to it physically, but you can tell they that they have enough money to do that to themselves and not have to feel embarrassed.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 3 weeks ago:
I honestly think we need representational government. One of our big problems in this country is regular people thinking they understand all the nuance of an issue. Not that random assholes completely solve this issue, but the law of averages is enough that some would take this seriously and actually learn, listen and think before acting.
It’s mostly a joke though, obviously a random lottery will never happen, but I absolutely would choose it over what we have today.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 3 weeks ago:
I have indeed, I still trust them more than anyone who actually wants to be in politics.
- Comment on buffalo buffalo shitpost in the wild 3 weeks ago:
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Best buffalo shitpost.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 3 weeks ago:
I think the government should switch to a random lottery. Every term a random person is selected from all available and eligible citizens. It would be our civic duty, put your regular job on hold for a few years and do your part.
Most would hate it, but that’s kinda the point. If we all had to eat our own dogfood, we’d eventually start making it taste better.
- Comment on just sayin 4 weeks ago:
I miss practical effects. They are just so much more raw. The highly polished CGI that is everything these days is just visually boring to look at. I am not interested in the next flashy gimmick, anything that you can dream up is now possible to show on screen, so the fast paced stupid action doesn’t hit home at all anymore.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 month ago:
I’d quit my job, sell my house, get a box in the middle of nowhere and work at a gas station the rest of my life. I’ve got kids though, and a wife, they are more important than me so my mental health gets ignored for now. Maybe once these kids are grown…
- Comment on New level of capitalist hell unlocked: Companies are relying on AI to pinpoint exactly how desperate job seekers are in the hopes they can pay them as little as possible. 1 month ago:
Sure seems like it. Not like these same algorithmic salary calculations will be used for the C-Suite.
- Comment on modern classic 1 month ago:
Yeah, I see so much sandblasted brick these days from removing paint. I mean, it does look better than paint, but it’s so worn looking. Painting bricks is just a horrible idea.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 2 months ago:
Every time I hear a song from that game, the world starts looking like Minecraft.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 2 months ago:
Lumines! All of them. I might go home and see if my PSP or Vita still hold a charge (and I can find the games).
- Comment on ADHD story telling 2 months ago:
That is one of my most used phrases. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started telling someone something simple, 10 random side conversations later, maybe I’ll remember to get to the point. It’s there that I hit them with “short story long” and then finally wrap it up…
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 2 months ago:
I never look at reviews, I just go in expecting to be disappointed and so usually am not. Even shitty movies are fun since I plan on them sucking…
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 months ago:
It really is time we figure out how to level the playing field.
- Comment on Lomg Sleeve T-Shirt 2 months ago:
This and flannel was me in the 90’s; and everyone else. I loved the thermal under a t-shirt look, let me stay both casual and warm!
- Comment on Saving 2 months ago:
I’m convinced this has been the plan for some time. My kids don’t see the point of computers when they have their phones and school iPads. They dont understand the concept of data ownership and everything is temporary to them, whatever is fed by the algorithm.
They are better off that most, my hard core nerdiness has rubbed off so they at least know how to use a computer, have built one each themselves. I just hope it continues to be possible going forward, but I’ll be willing to bet, on the other side of the age verification crap, is even more restrictions. They plan a death by a thousand cuts, until it’s no longer feasible, then. No longer legal to run your own compute.
- Comment on Saving 2 months ago:
F’ing suck, used to be available to the masses. I hope it will again, but even a raspberry pi is a luxury good these days.
I have failing hard drives in my NAS but they are nearly 4x the price from when I bought them, so I’m struggling to save for replacements. I’m so pissed off that even used enterprise stuff that used to be cheap, is now also luxury goods priced. I will be paying 259.99 for a drive I used to pay 69.99 for.
- Comment on Saving 2 months ago:
I agree that the functionality is sometimes nice, but I would never keep data in just the cloud, at least anything sensitive or valuable. Beyond not trusting someone else with the integrity of my data, I also do not want to be subject to control of it or access to it. Lastly, my data is mine, and in most cloud providers, my data will also be used for AI training.
So, I enjoy using the cloud for some things, I still keep my primary data under my control, in my own known and backed up locations.
As for the forcefulness, there are a lot of us who care deeply about ownership and privacy, and there are a lot of those that dismiss our concerns as invalid or unimportant. Not that you are by any means, just that is what I see frequently.
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 2 months ago:
Most of the time it does work, which is why it’s so goddamned hard to undo. Time working on de-appleing, I’ve nearly completely de-Amazoned and am also working on de-googling. But these damn providers make it so difficult, they get in so deep. It’s not even me that makes it hard, I’m willing to make a little extra effort for a more privacy focused platform I control. No, it’s the family and friends they all are perfectly comfortable handing control of their data and frankly lives (everything is in these fucking things, schedule, contacts, financial stuff, all digital communication, photos, videos, etc…).
As long as you keep spending a lot of money, and upgrading to the newest devices, you will have a decent experience. As soon as you try to extend the life, find alternatives, look for ways to control your own data, then it gets real hard.
To be fair, it’s not just Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, any of the big players are the same. They all manage to make it easy, so long as you are comfortable being captured.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah, I got your incredible wordplay, clearly mine sailed over your head (unsurprisingly).
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I can tell this is how you see the world.
Dude, I don’t get why you are so very interested in carrying water for billionaires. I’m truly baffled in these conversations why people just insist on defending people who will never know they exist.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
lol, good for those in power maybe.
You are walking away with the opinion that there are good billionaires who have your best interests in mind. I meant that’s an opinion, just a really stupid one.
I’ll be fine here in the actual world.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Sigh, steam has zero support, like actually none and it’s well known in the industry. It’s 100% a drm platform, you must have an internet connection and a valid account to play your games that you purchased. You only have access to any of them because they allow it.
Again, I don’t care about your opinion because it’s wrong, and I will judge it the same as I judge people who have other similarly bad opinions. I do wish you would realize that your idea of a good billionaire is bullshit, but that’s to protect you from falling for the shit they are peddling. No skin off my nose if you choose to continue to suck up to them.
I will stand by my original statement that there is no such thing as a good billionaire.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
No, but I definitely have knowledge of what you don’t.
Look, suck up all you want, but there just is no good billionaires. There are ones where the goals are temporarily aligned, but to think that any of them do what they do for the benefit of others is just a moronic take. Some probably started that way but ALL billionaires alive do what they do for themselves, their own power and control. Gabe is better than most, but he’s still on the list and has done many terrible things. Valve is better than most gaming companies, but it’s still a DRM platform that has no customer support and dictates how the industry has to bend to their will.
I can tell you haven’t done your research because there are many stories of valve fucking people over, and again, valve is arguably a net negative for gaming in general due to how it’s completely destroyed the idea of ownership. We all only have access to our shit due to their good graces. I personally hate having thousands of dollars of things I’ve paid for, controlled by one single company (I too used to assume they were the good ones).
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Because you don’t do much research outside of the ways that it’s impacted you.
