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Neato , 9 months ago

You can say the same thing about Israel as well. They are long past peaceful diplomacy when Israel decides it owns their homes.

Neato , 9 months ago

One factory worth of jobs can't make up for an abusive government that wants to oppress people. They can't work their way out of this.

Neato , 9 months ago

I don't understand why the pro China tanked subs would get banned but not the rest.

Neato , 9 months ago

Why? They could roll out W12 with subscription-only plans. Besides the contracts they currently have that specify a specific amount of security updates for X years, they can let W11 and previous versions die. No more updates besides what they need to protect themselves.

It's not like governments and businesses will balk. They already pay a premium for Windows licenses and they'd probably get deals, anyways. Average home users might not upgrade, but all new PCs sold will have W12 and require a subscription if you want to be able to use most of the features.

This is what happens by not breaking up MS more or imposing penalties for anti-competitive behavior.

Neato , 9 months ago

And seatbelts for consoles. People go flying every time they get hit or run over a space whale.

Neato , 9 months ago

Battlestar Galactica also had a good idea: the bridge where they commanded battles from was deep inside the ship. Unlike in Star Trek and Star Wars where the bridge is at the front top, Battlestar's bridge is nearly impossible to target from other ships. This is especially baffling for Star Trek because they used screens, not windows.

Neato , 9 months ago

Possibly because being a fur isn't really a political stance. There's furries out there doing everything, we just only tend to hear about them when they make the news.

Neato , 9 months ago

Organized racists make you happy?

Neato , 9 months ago

Inclusion and representation isn't controversial unless you're a bigot.

Neato , 9 months ago

You mean there's a surefire way not to get invited to potlucks? Hold my raisins!

Neato , 9 months ago

Them and Terraria. Love those folks.

Neato , 9 months ago

Websites that look like CVS receipts with their excessive left/right padding. Some L/R padding is desirable, but the degree to which it’s done now is typically done to cram a bajillion ads in the margins.

Yes, I deplore this. I don't see ads so I assume it's due to conform to mobile UIs that have a more vertical aspect rations like 9x16 so the designers don't have to bother actually designing their website. Fucking Wikipedia did this some time ago. Lemmy does it. I sit here on my desktop using 50% of the screen because web UX designers can't be arsed.

Neato , 9 months ago

He should be careful. He can't actually negotiate with foreign governments due to the Logan Act. This looks like he's trying to go abroad to influence those governments.

Neato , 9 months ago

Transporter accidents prove transporters work this way and are murder machines. To an outside observer a perfect clone is the same person, impossible to differentiate. But to the individual's experience, they die every time they are disintegrated in a transporter. It's a new consciousness being created when reassembled that thinks it's continuous. It's hand-waved away because it's how it's always been and transporters are a key part of the Star Trek setting.

Neato , 9 months ago

Not quite. You're describing our brains as a ship of Theseus, which is fairly accurate. But our consciousness is always on while alive. Even asleep and in near-death or temporarily dead our brains don't fully stop or die. Though our brains don't actually replace neurons quite like they replace all other cells. When neurons are damaged, those pathways are lost. Our brain is redundant enough that rarely manifests as a total loss of ability. And when it does, our brains can eventually route new pathways. If enough of these are damaged at once, it can totally change a person's personality.

But transporters turn matter into energy, those patterns are transmitted elsewhere, and energy (or different energy if stored in a pattern buffer) is reassembled very much like replicators. In this case the entire brain and body is stopped, destroyed and re-created. This is, for all intents and purposes, death and cloning. People have trouble with this because to anyone NOT transported, it looks identical. But the person absolutely stopped being alive and a new one was borne that thinks it has always existed.

And Star Trek backs it up. The classic transporter accident that makes a clone of someone? If the transported person is still the same consciousness, what is the clone? Clearly that person isn't controlling 2 bodies with 1 consciousness. Which is the "real" McCoy? The answer is whichever wasn't disintegrated, or neither if they both were as part of the transporter process.

Neato , 9 months ago

I haven't seen that episode. But it kind of defeats the traditional explanation of how transporters work. Unless we go with the "we can exist as beings made of energy" which is always a popular type of alien or alternate being in Star Trek. And the classic transporter accidents don't make sense, then. When a transporter clones someone, who is the real one and how would you figure it out? Most of the accidents only make sense if you treat a transporter as a digital device that moves data.

Neato , 9 months ago

We don't really understand consciousness well. Current theory is that it's the weird self-awareness that comes from a human brain. Even sleeping our brains don't really stop. It just stops conscious thought. Which is a confusion of terms, really. So we don't really know.

Here's a more terrifying question: every time you lose and regain consciousness, is it you coming back? Or is it a new version of you with the same memories? What if every time you went to sleep, you effectively died but you'd never know it because the only version of you that you can actually be certain exists is the one right now?

To put the lie to the transporter-consciousness debate: a clone in the transporter either works one of two ways: 1. it creates a new consciousness with the exact same memories and there is no way to tell the 2 apart from the outside but they are clearly different consciousnesses i.e. different people, or 2. transporters kill and remake people constantly birthing new consciousnesses every time and a clone is not that remarkable as it's just creating 2 instead of 1 this time.

Neato , 9 months ago

or it’s forum results from 2010. Nevermind I’ve explicitly asked for 2022, 23.

I wish I could do the opposite. Sometimes there's a new article about something and I want to search its history or find an article about it from a year ago to see what people were saying then. It's all but impossible to find anything that isn't trending. I know the info is there but no search engine I've used allows me to see it.

When you mean using GPT, you mean you pull that drop-down from the top and talk to the AI? How do you know the info you are getting is accurate? AI has had a terrible track record of just regurgitating popular posts or making things up and AI can mask where the info came from, lending it an air of authority to what might be forum speculation.

Neato , 9 months ago

I stopped using Facebook years and years ago when adblockers failed to stop FB ads. I have yet to find one that actually works.

When I took a look to see if it had improved, the feed wasn't even chronological. I get posts from days ago on top and posts from hours ago buried pages in. The posts at the top of the feed are even ones I've seen before. FB has become entirely useless and only bother for the few groups that insist on using it.

Neato , 9 months ago

Why are there LGBT+ Catholic groups? Catholicism hates them and has since forever.

Jesus doesn't care if you're Catholic. The Golden Rule is all anyone needs to follow Jesus.

Neato , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

ITT: men who can't ever admit they might be the problem. So many excuses here it's pathetic.

edit: I love the "not all men" and "not me". As always, it's not all men. But it's enough. And the men here getting so defensive really prove the point. And before anyone gets into it, it's not really the sex or gender. It's the societal expectations and allowances that encourage men to engage in abusive shit like we see in the article here. I.e. the patriarchy and those who support it.

Neato , 9 months ago

It's abusive to invade women's spaces as a man looking to take advantage. Stay out.

Oh look, you're all up in this thread a day late posting his horrid takes.

Neato , 9 months ago

Damn things are having heart attacks.

Neato , 9 months ago

Wow. That was a brutal video. Give up everything for your dream and it can all go away in an instant if the dream doesn't work.

Neato , 9 months ago

Government should at least seize Star link because it's a military asset for the us and it's allies. Argument could be made for space x as well.

Neato , 9 months ago

Same. You can opt in for it doing that.

Neato , 9 months ago

I'm confused. Don't these restrictions do nothing to stop mass shootings? Open carry is for intimidation. Most mass shooters don't use handguns, they use rifles.

So what are these restrictions for?

Neato , 9 months ago

Do the programmer socks come in striped and thigh high for additional cold res?

Neato , 9 months ago

Blind spots are an issue. It's why you must turn your head.

Though this was about turn signals. Which should be used 100% of the time. Even alone on the road, just to build the muscle memory. I don't even have to think about it.

Neato , 9 months ago

Twist and reuse clip? Absolutely.

Neato , 9 months ago

My bread lasts for 1-2 weeks on the counter. Modern science is rad.

Neato , 9 months ago

Rowsdower...

Neato , 9 months ago

I'm sure the Fall Guys owner who sold it is happy. Made bank and all it cost them was the livelihoods of all the people who made the game.

Neato , 9 months ago

I think we need more worker protections. Mandatory severance, can't fire without cause.

A lot of people don't get much choice who they work for. Basic devs and QA and now out of as job and need to scramble to find another job. It's nice some of these are getting severance but it's not mandatory nor the norm in America.

Neato , 9 months ago

le petite mort, if you will.

Neato , 9 months ago

if you have a lot of honor and respect from society

Isn't that just populism? Do they measure "honor and respect" differently than just "is popular"?

Neato , 9 months ago

That's like 65.

Neato , 9 months ago

The writers of Community had a fun little game. Someone puts forward a racist or otherwise offensive statement. The rest guess if this was something Pierce Hawthorn said (Chevy's racist character on Community) or something Chevy said himself on set.

Decent article on how disliked and how much of an asshole Chevy Chase is.

Neato , 9 months ago

Nah. It's supposed to make all LGBTQ+ kids feel like they are alone and that something is wrong with them so they hide who they are and are easier for others to manipulate.

Neato , 9 months ago

You all see ads?

Neato , 9 months ago

Neolib? Definitely. Leftist? Only if you really don't pay attention, I guess.

Neato , 9 months ago

I think the biggest thing isn't even your age. It's that when you realized it was wrong and why, you changed. These kids obviously knew better because the school had received this type of bullying before and the kids keep using hate speech after being told not to.

Neato , 9 months ago

Adults can think two things at once. Crazy, I know.

We used to call that doublethink. Now we call it the right-wing.

Neato , 9 months ago

Cook looms over Colie while holding a cellphone about 6 inches (15 centimeters) from Colie’s face. The phone broadcasts the phrase “Hey dips—-, quit thinking about my twinkle” multiple times through a Google Translate app.

On the video, Colie says “stop” three different times and tries to back away from Cook, who continues to advance. Colie tries to knock the phone away from his face before pulling out a gun and shooting Cook in the lower left chest.

This is just harassment since Cook wasn't battering him. Perhaps assault (not battery). Lethal violence wasn't warranted. You'd probably need to call the police. There isn't a good answer for the "I'm not touching you." level of harassment this asshat was exhibiting. You might have been justified for violence less-than-lethal but that's probably going to be iffy in court. Lawsuit after the fact would be feasible as well.

Neato , 9 months ago

This doesn't actually say anything. You just don't like what was said.

Neato , 9 months ago

He wasn't being threatened. But as I said above, non-lethal violence probably would have landed him no charges or a lot less.

Neato , 9 months ago

The original post was proposing a hypocritical view. I.e. saying violence as bad while also endorsing it.

Doublethink is hypocrisy. And as long as you acknowledge that, then fine. Whatever. Sometimes it's necessary to be a hypocrite. But if you're always a hypocrite, you're probably right-wing. Which was my point.

Holding contradictory views is not intelligence. It's a learned skill to discard the cognitive dissonance inherent in hypocrisy.

Neato , 9 months ago

Speaking in absolutes in this world is the worst thing you can do.

This is the dumbest fucking thing I've heard all day. Congrats. I don't even have to point out how ironic it is for calling me dumb and then saying this. Bravo.