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TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to games in Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 has officially begun!

The donkey Kong runs have been great so far! It’s great to have AGDQ back live in person again.

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to asklemmy in Weird question I've tried to Google, what would be the best basketball video game to help a child understand the game/develop court sense?

If you are wanting to teach him the rules closer to the high school rules. One of the college games would be closer to than the NBA. Of course the stopped making them at the start of the ps3, 360 era so you’d need one of those consoles

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to asklemmy in If you would have a threesome, will it be with a girl or a boy and why?

Redditors of Reddit, sex, am I right?

Believe it or not, despite all the furry porn in the all feed. Lemmy isn’t horny enough for posts like this OP

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to news in A boomer retirement bomb is about to blow up America's economy

Yes legally you are correct. The mother legally did inherit the home and has no obligation to share any of that windfall with her adult children. The grandparents didn’t put in any legal requirements that the house not be sold/scammed away from in a reverse mortgage scheme.

My point wasn’t about the legality of the situation just refuting the implied point from the original replay, that while OP did nothing to be entitled to an inheritance, neither did their mother.

Pulling up the ladder on your way up is a generally shitty thing to do.

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to asklemmy in ELI5 why is anarchy not "the guy with the bigger stick" making the rules?

At that point, it isn’t anarchy as a “representative community council” with the power of enforcement is just another name for “state power”.

Of course I don’t think anarchy can truly exist in anything but hunter-gatherer societies either so it is a moot point.

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to news in A boomer retirement bomb is about to blow up America's economy

They have about as much of a claim on the house that their mother did anyway

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to fediverse in Instances in the free fediverses should consider "transitive defederation" from instances that federate with Meta

I honestly don’t know what my mastodon instance’s take on blocking threads is but I probably will be blocking them on the account level. Blocking servers transitively because they don’t defederate with meta seems like it is unnecessarily siloing servers into a second “free” fediverse. If a server is moderating their accounts in accordance to the written policy then if they choose to federate with meta, it doesn’t feel like it’s any of my business.

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to technology in Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines.

Honestly protecting vulnerable people from these scams is probably more generous than the usual philanthropy he does

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to technology in Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines.

How are you going to market yourself for the Oscars push without an IG account? It’s the celebrity spam platform

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to technology in Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines.

I had to uninstall the YouTube app and start using vinegar via safari on iOS because I got tired of being insulted by deepfakes who called me stupid for not falling for their fake stimulus scam.

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to technology in Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data

And what about the authors whose works were injected without compensation? What should we do for them? I don’t think that these commercial AI models should get to infringe on their copyrights for nothing. If I pay for a ChatGPT subscription and ask it to tell me about the war the Middle East and it basically regurgitates and plagiarizes information it learned from a journalist, then ChatGPT has essentially stolen the copyrighted work from that journalist and the revenue that my click would have earned them.

I don’t see a problem using publicly posted copyrighted data for non-commercial use for training local language models but don’t think its fair to allow copyright infringement for commercial use.

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to technology in Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines.

There are different standards between the users and the people that give meta money. It’s sad but true, and why I think moderation is a SIGNIFICANT concern when considering federating with threads

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to technology in Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video

I was mostly just trying to get my point across in a hastily written comment. But you are absolutely right that I should have considered the layoffs market wide when talking about the impact they have have market wide.

And I hate to lessen the human impact that the layoffs have, especially when COBRA is a joke and people rely on their employers 401k match and such to have a decent living in retirement. I’m not endorsing our current system, I don’t like any more than the rest of us. I just think we need to solve the problems of people’s QOL in retirement being tied to the market and things like healthcare being dependent on one’s employment before we worry about companies being run to make as much money as possible

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to news in The rich now own a record share of stocks, about 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%

Don’t most people already pay property tax and tax on their interest income?

TORFdot0 , 6 months ago to technology in Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video

These people would lose their jobs regardless because twitch is not profitable.

Edit: Investments are made in good faith, and having law backing that and recourse for those wronged is important. Like it or not the millions of people with their money in the market outweighs the temporary bummer that is a few hundred losing their jobs. It might be popular to think that the people being hurt are sleazy venture capitalists but it’s the workers who rely on their 401k to be able to live when they retire or the parents who are trying to save for their child’s education that get hurt.