kescusay

kescusay , 11 months ago to technology in Unity will start charging developers each time their game is installed

I was waiting for that.

kescusay , 11 months ago to news in US approves updated COVID vaccines to rev up protection this fall

The smell and taste thing is so goddamn weird. Most of the people I know personally who’ve caught it lost one, the other, or both. Several of them are only now getting it back.

And people wonder why I still mask up when going to stores and am champing at the bit for the new booster. I don’t want any of that crap.

kescusay , 11 months ago to news in US approves updated COVID vaccines to rev up protection this fall

How are you feeling? Hope it’s a mild case.

kescusay , 11 months ago to world in We just hit 1.5 C above per-industrial levels for the first time.

I have kids. I am fucking livid that the assholes who pretend climate change isn’t happening have decided to sacrifice their kids and mine on the altar of making a quick buck.

You can’t eat money, assholes. And you can’t bring it with you when you die. If the future is nothing but more and more severe weather to the point that civilization collapses under the strain, then I hope you live long enough to see it and are unable to hide from reality anymore.

kescusay , 11 months ago to world in Powerful quake in Morocco kills more than 1,000 people and damages historic buildings in Marrakech

Perhaps it’s just that my take is… depressing. This is an extraordinary tragedy.

kescusay , 11 months ago to technology in CRISPR used to 'reprogram' cancer cells into healthy muscle in the lab

Could you… I dunno, just talk to other Christians? Tell them they’re being silly on stem cells, women’s health, the age of the Earth, evolution, LGBTQ+ people, and much more?

And could you please, please, please get them to finally actually read those Bibles gathering dust on their bookshelves? Help them discover for themselves that Jesus has a lot to say about hypocrisy and nothing to say about gay people? Maybe they’ll also discover that God doesn’t help those who help themselves, but instead commands his followers to help each other?

kescusay , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to world in Powerful quake in Morocco kills more than 1,000 people and damages historic buildings in Marrakech

I expect it to go considerably higher. This was a very, very bad one, in a place with very old - and not very robust - architecture.

Edit: Extremely sad to have been right. The death toll is well over 2000 now, and I think it will more than double in the coming days.

kescusay , 11 months ago to nottheonion in Nebraska governor signs executive order defining men as "bigger, stronger and faster"

Yeah, clowns at least have a useful job, amusing/terrifying small children.

kescusay , 11 months ago to nottheonion in Nebraska governor signs executive order defining men as "bigger, stronger and faster"

Because Republican men are insecure in their masculinity. So insecure that they overcompensate in the most ludicrous ways imaginable.

kescusay , 11 months ago to technology in X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts

Wow… They just totally embraced it, huh.

kescusay , 11 months ago to technology in X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts

I compromise and call it Xitter. (The X is pronounced with a “sh” sound.) I think it fits.

kescusay , 11 months ago to nottheonion in Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic

Isn’t this like the third time he’s tried?

kescusay , 11 months ago to nottheonion in Police called to yoga class mistaken for mass killing.

I mean, downward dog is a killer…

kescusay , 11 months ago to nottheonion in Delta flight returns after passenger has diarrhea ‘all the way through’ plane

Roger, Roger.

kescusay , 11 months ago to technology in Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history

That’s what people don’t understand. Google’s actual customers are advertisers, just like with broadcast television. The deal you make with Google is that they’ll give you all sorts of “free” services and software, and in return, you’ll see ads.

And there’s nothing inherently wrong with that model. You get what you want, Google gets what they want, and advertisers pay for it all in the hopes that you’ll like whatever they’re selling and buy it.

You can always stop using free services and pay for them directly instead, cutting the advertisers out. Or use free services from non-profits and open-source software.

But the problem is that it’s also in Google’s best interests to make that as difficult as possible. To make avoiding their data-consumption damn near impossible. Collecting, comparing, collating, and indexing data is literally what they’re the best in the world at. And they have their methods of getting it everywhere.

A broadcaster can’t stop you from turning off the TV or muting it during ads. If they could, they certainly would. (Thanks, laissez-faire capitalism!) But they’re not serving the ads AND providing the TV itself.

Google is both the broadcaster and the TV manufacturer in this analogy. They’re saying, “Here’s a free TV. Isn’t it nice? And it’ll help us give you extremely targeted and personalized ads. Hope you don’t mind that we’ve made it hard to mute, and the TV never actually turns all the way off. And sure, it’s got a camera and microphone, but what did you expect? It’s free!”