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SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Also, to put it more simply.

When faced with Q, Picard tried to reason against an unreasonable foe using philosophy. (theory)

When faced with Q, Sisko punched him. (praxis)

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

If anyone is surprised that Mr. Adams, a former cop is somehow corrupt, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.

I mean, it’s not like he hired his own brother as his head of security right after being elected in no-holds-barred show of nepotism. /s

All (even former) Cops Are Bastards.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

You got a lot more faith in these outcomes than I do.

If there’s one issue Democrats are fucked up on, its cops. They love to let cops get away with shit.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

-Upton Sinclair

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Kevin only watched the most sophisticated musicals… like Paint Your Wagon.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

if it helps accelerate the development of life saving medications

LMAO

Goldman Sachs: “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?”

Not if Wall Street has anything to do with it!

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

but I am not sure about the curation being purely user based.

So you don’t trust random users, but you do trust… random admins or moderators?

Your logic here is not sound. They’re just as likely to be biased or leave out important information.

If you want it like that, I think you should follow @Uncle’s suggestion and just use news sites like Associated Press or Reuters.

Seriously, why would the curation be any better when done by an admin or mod versus average users?

Oh look at that, I’m an average Lemmy user, and I just made a news community and now I’m the moderator of it. See what I’m saying here? If you don’t trust users, well… users are where mods come from, so I don’t know what to tell you.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

I just don’t think purely population based curation is coming up with the best content selection.

Ergo, you don’t trust that users are able to curate as well as an individual, despite the fact that the individual is just one of many users.

Just because you didn’t use the word “trust” doesn’t mean you’re not describing not trusting that you’ll get the best curated content from a large group of users as opposed to a small group. It’s literally exactly what you’re describing, that you don’t trust you’ll get the best results from a group.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

https://media.tenor.com/FuE-uOWS4y8AAAAC/quarantine-costanza.gif

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

In college a buddy of mine went as “that bad dream where you forgot to wear pants” and had a nice dress shirt and blazer coupled with tighty whities hidden underneath an oversize pair of boxer shorts. Also dress socks and shoes. Wad a well recieved costume.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Also doubles as a Jerry Seinfeld costume.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

That isn’t just funny, that’s dedication.

21 and 24 would be proud.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

I would agree on this point, generally businesses lie to the public for political reasons, to gin up political favor for their desired outcomes.

Most rich CEOs are out of touch and think crime just comes from “undesirables” and the only way to fix it is to massively increase police presence. In other words, they’re authoritarians. This has more to do with creating a narrative about crime and intent to get political support for further instituting a police state and taking the required effort for security off the businesses. It’s really about passing the bill for keeping their stores “secure” onto the taxpayer, so they can rely more on local police and on private security less.

The article in question even covers how there are already attempts to write bills targeting this problem at the Federal level. (A bipartisan bill, I might add.)

They are usually pretty honest with their investors. I would expect their investor presentations are a lot more honest, but because that’s “economics news” it usually gets fewer headlines or people reporting on it. It would be interesting to contrast Target’s investor calls compared to what they’re saying publicly. Same with other businesses like Walgreens leaning on the same story.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

For a hot minute, I had a 9-inch screen Dell laptop that could barely run Windows 7.

These small form factor PCs were pretty cool at the time, I remember loving the little thing.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Found someones fetish.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

And when Google added it, it became accidental ransomware, locking them out of their system?

I’m not sure how this is a good argument. “Yeah, well, that thing that Google just released that’s totally fucking broken, really badly. Does the iPhone even have the same thing?”

No, last I checked, the iPhone doesn’t have an option for multiple users that results in an a ransomware-like-outcome.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Except, unfortunately, in the business world, some of the most well-promoted people are those who do almost nothing and take all the credit for themselves, who tend to be the exact kind of people those articles describe.

We don’t have as many safeguards against sociopathy in career-building, it seems, and the whole stupid fucking game seems rigged towards the interests of narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths, especially with the frequency they are represented in the C-suites in the US.

So these misogynistic chucklefucks often rise to the top.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Hi-Fi Rush just consistently reminds me how comically bad I am at rhythm games. I love the game, but man I got burnt out because even though they made it “easier” for folks with no rhythm like myself, it’s still tough if you just can’t match the beat.

I am some kind of masochist though, because in the past I beat both Parappa the Rapper and UmJammer Lammy.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

We know better. We claim to be better in empty rhetoric. In actions though, our species is made up of proud monsters, their enablers/worshippers, and their victims.

I’ve been saying this for years. The “civilized” world acts like we’re better because we’re not cutting people’s heads off, but we’ve clearly just exchanged that for the far more sophisticated (and far more fucked up) mental and emotional torture.

Just look at how we treat prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. We have never been better, it’s a fucking lie we tell ourselves.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Lore: It’s pronounced GIF… because of the implication.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

It’s true, anger can make a motherfucker real productive.

The question is whether or not what they produce will be good for anyone else.

I fully agree that anger can be directed towards good goals, however, it can also be directed towards totally dangerous goals, both getting their drive to succeed in their plans from “anger.”

The person whose anger leads them to create something that helps people, or prevents the horrible violence they suffered, is doing a service for those around them, born out of the anger they had at a broken system. There have been many like this throughout history. Fred Rogers took the pains of his childhood and created Mr. Rogers Neighborhood for similar children, who were maybe bullied and needed a friend, much like he did in his youth.

The person whose anger leads them on a shooting rampage to kill innocents because they’re angry at a broken system and too dickless to know what to do other than lash out violently are the problem.

We need more Fred Rogers’ and fewer mass shooters.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

If you can’t control your anger and allow it to make you impatient and careless, that’s far more on you as an individual than on the idea of anger.

Plenty of people are quite capable of being quietly, patiently, absolutely fucking furious.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Well folks, the crowdfunding for Season 14 has begun in earnest. If you want Joel, Jonah, Emily & the rest of the gang riffing stuff like The Original Series, get your manos on their crowdfunding!

showmaker.mst3k.com/makeseason14

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

RiffTrax (a MST3K spin-off created by Mike Nelson after the end of MST3Ks original run, and would eventually go on to include Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo) and Bill Corbett (Crow T. Robot)) actually riffs a bunch of the original series movies like Wrath of Khan.

www.rifftrax.com/collection/star-trek

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Beaver? Uhhhh, you mean vagina…?

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Mother father Chinese dentist!

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/0ad08ae0-fb79-48d2-9fd5-0a7fb3595160.png

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Super Mario Bros Wonder threads this needle expertly, in my opinion.

Each level has a difficulty rating from 1 to 5 stars with 1 being easiest and 5 being “Mario Hard.”

To complete the main story, you only really need to beat mostly the easier levels, like difficulty 1-3 stars. All other levels are really optional, but there are a lot of them, and they are the 4-5 stars level difficulty.

So the “main game” by default should be “easy enough” for most gamers, and for those who want a challenge, there are tons of extra challenges for them to pursue.

I think I prefer this to a “difficulty setting” because it allows both casual and hardcore gamers to approach the same game in different ways. It doesn’t make you feel like you are missing anything from either way you choose to play. It also allows you to practice the harder levels if you want to get better.

Some games like Halo, if I recall correctly, literally rewarded you with special cutscenes for the hardest difficulty in beating the game. That can leave players who “aren’t good enough” for such high difficulty to feel a bit left out.

I don’t feel the same about Super Mario Bros Wonder, it just feels pretty accessible to all and I think more companies need to attempt something similar.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

I forgot to mention that! Yeah the nigh invulnerability for struggling players is a huge help.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

I am glad we are at least getting a graphic novel to finish off the series.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

I havent checked in a hot minute… maybe it did.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Wait… there’s another Kevin?

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/d7d7008a-c37d-46bd-b144-55b15bbb56de.png

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Nope. You will have to fill out paperwork after triage and before being put in a bed.

You can be prosecuted for fraud for providing false info.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Paperless RFID Tags Are Carbon-Based

OK, thanks headline. I thought all RFID tags were paperless?

A team of design program graduates from London’s Royal College of Art aim to change that. They’ve devised a mostly-paper RFID tag that’s as safe to recycle as a piece of paper with a pencil doodle on it.

So, not paperless? Mostly made of paper. Paperfull?

What the fuck even is this headline trying to say?

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EDIT: Thought about it some more and came back. I think the headline really is referring to all standard RFID tags, and not the new RFID tags referenced in the article. It’s just a confusing ass title to go with because it doesn’t reference the new tech at all. It just makes a factual statement about old RFID tech: that they are paperless and produce carbon pollution. Except isn’t it the production of them that makes the carbon pollution, not the RFIDs themselves? I don’t know, still a confusing headline, even though I’ve sort of sussed out what it was trying to say.

TL;DR: Headlines should probably reference what the article is about, not what it isn’t about. Which this headline did opposite here. It tells us in the headline what the article isn’t about.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

I guess Elon Musk isn’t the only guy in his fifties whose brain is stuck in teenager mode.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

Hi 80, I’m son.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago

It would all be fine if it weren’t for that bloody oxygen tracking patent!

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago

Hard feelings towards LOTR you say?

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago

I mean, I get it, but like… so the other side (Trump & co.) is able to make mistakes and be absurdly emotional over petty fucking bullshit, and it’s just sort of accepted and okay for them?

I’m so sick of everything being tilted towards we can never appeal the people who are obviously acting in bad faith and everyone who is operating in good faith has to endlessly cross every T and dot every I while the other side essentially plays the pigeon and knocks all over the chess pieces while shitting all over the table and strutting around like they won.

Like, I get that some people have legitimate grievances for appeals, but I’m so sick of a justice system that hands people with money an effective endless route to act in bad faith to drag out cases and get away with it. Why is there no legal recourse to deny such things to people who are painfully obviously operating in bad faith? Why do we have to keep letting them get away with it to make the case “iron clad.” I don’t fucking get it, it seems like the whole system is set up for people like Trump to actively exploit it.

Why the fuck isn’t there more demand for reform of our criminal justice system? Not just the painfully obvious two-tiered justice system that favors the rich and politically connected, but just this basic idea, that the rich can’t just endlessly look for fucking loopholes to try to drain the other side of money to fight the case. Too much of our system really comes down to who has the most “Fuck You Money” to spend on lawyers for the longest, and I’m sick of acting like that’s fucking okay somehow. It isn’t, period.

This kind of behavior should be grounds for denying future appeals, not handing them out like fucking candy, for fucks sake. He lead a fucking coup, and if our government can’t grow a pair of balls and start treating this accordingly, he’ll end up pardoning himself and then being an insane autocrat who gives out capital punishment to his enemies.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago

Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

If “good” thinks these rules that favor those with the most money, who spent a lot of money on senators and house representatives to make sure those rules favored them, that those rules should be followed with strict intensity, then yeah, good is pretty fucking dumb.

Society: You keep playing by these rules that favor the wealthy. We even have proof the wealthy paid for bills to be passed for the rules to be more favorable to them!

Government: Look, if we don’t follow these rules we’ve set up for ourselves where we’re always outspent by the oligarchs who actually fund us, we stop getting payche---- err, I mean, it all falls apart.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago

And I am reminded, on this holy day, of the sad story of Kitty Genovese. As you all may remember, a long time ago, almost thirty years ago, this poor soul cried out for help time and time again, but no person answered her calls. Though many saw, no one so much as called the police. They all just watched as Kitty was being stabbed to death in broad daylight. They watched as her assailant walked away. Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.

It can easily be argued that the constant kid-gloves approach with Trump and other rich and politically-connected defendants falls under “the indifference of good men.”

They understand the laws have been twisted to favor people like Trump, but they keep acting within the confines of the “law” like that makes them “good.” No, at best it makes them “lawful neutral” if we’re talking D&D alignment.

SnotFlickerman , 7 months ago

In March of 2019 I made a comment online pointing out that US work culture wouldn’t respond effectively to COVID and that soon we would be right back to sending people to work sick because the God Economy matters more than public health.

The reason everyone is rolling their eyes is because no one ever really took it seriously. Those with the most money were able to get treatments and isolate themselves easily. They still are able to. The number of CEOs who demand return to office while also not showing up to the office themselves is quite high.

We were always disposable. There are effective ways to continue to handle this, but no one in charge wants to spend time or money on those things.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I know this is how people in the 80s and 90 imagined the future and a lot of concepts were probably too far fetched for them.

You also have to consider that TV executives were also considering this, and punting any ideas they thought wouldn’t be accepted by a TV watching audience of the 80’s/90’s. Like the planned gay characters who were scrapped.

I mean, think about that, being gay in the future was too much for some television executives to accept, I really wouldn’t be shocked if they gave thumbs down on lots of more esoteric and abstract episode concepts simply because they thought it would be too above the heads of a 90’s TV audience.

And to be fair, they were probably right. The communicator seems less amazing now that we live in a world with cell phones, but back then a personal communications device that was on your person at all times seemed definitely in the realm of sci-fi. Now we all have a near-equivalent in our pockets, as well as it being general purpose computing device that can be used as a personal communicator and much more. Our communicator is also a primitive tricorder.

Some of the ideas they did let pass were either already accepted tech from the original series or were close to existing civilian or military hardware that was in it’s infancy.

So a combination of “this was the extent of human imagination about these concepts back then” combined with “television executives are keenly aware of ideas the general public won’t understand, and doesn’t like confusing audiences, and thus will cut any content they deem too abstract or confusing” is what I think actually happened. One part actual limitation of imagination, one part purposeful limitation of imagination as to not to confuse the audience.

Which, honestly, is fair. Do you think sci-fi series like Rick & Morty would exist as they do without all previous sci-fi series laying down frameworks we understand for it to be based on? Human knowledge and ideas do build on themselves, and so, in a way, the TV executives are half-right that you can’t overexpose an unexposed audience. You kind of have to slowly spoon feed them ideas over time.

Like, what if we tried sending Rick & Morty as a show back to the 1960’s, and how many of the ideas would be entirely over the audiences heads? Simply because they didn’t have 60 years of sci-fi media relating different iterations of these various ideas until “the multiverse” is just talked about like it is just a given thing that exists, and nobody questions it. At least a few would have trouble wrapping their minds around it, because while many of these ideas were pioneered in the Original Series, their lack of depth might leave audiences back then really confused about some of the ideas presented.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago

Too right, exposure to those kind of ideas has grown over time, and thus given the modern era the ability to take those ideas mainstream, because of the simple breadth of media available. We often take it for granted that even a hundred years ago, it wasn’t super easy to get a hold of books, let alone catch every film release. Now a near infinite stream of media is literally available at people’s fingertips. The speed and amount of media that exist has contributed heavily to a more informed modern audience that can digest these ideas more easily, because they’ve simply been exposed to more media explaining the basics underlying such ideas.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago

Exactly, media moves so much faster now, so they literally had a smaller frame of reference and were exposed to far fewer of these ideas than modern audiences. We take it for granted now, but it used to be difficult to get your hands on media that was more obtuse or complicated, because often they didn’t have copies at your local library, and as such, audiences back then just wouldn’t have the frames of reference that we do in allowing us to understand the concepts and references to other existing media.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago

Hey buddy, I heard you were made of cake!

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago

Via USA Today:

www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/…/71300954007/

Which states are filing the lawsuit against Meta?

In addition to Colorado and New York, the other states with attorneys general joining the suit are Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Nine state attorneys general in Florida, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont and the District of Columbia have filed similar lawsuits in their states.

In all, 41 states and the District of Columbia have filed suit against Meta on the issue; another state, Arkansas, in March filed suit against Meta over the addictive nature of Facebook and Instagram.

SnotFlickerman , 8 months ago

Exactly. If the reason you are “conscientiously objecting” is because you’re a rich Nazi shitheel who is too much of a pussy to fight for anything yourself, no one cares because you obviously don’t have a real conscience to be conscientous with.

He is clearly fine with sending others to fight his battles for him. Can he be any more the Gen X version of Trump?