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reverendsteveii ,

Silicon Serfdom?

No that’s still capitalism. Capitalism is still the problem. To call it anything else is apologetics, the core issue is that the private ownership of the means of production leads to a concentration of power in the hands of precisely the wrong kind of people after selecting for and reinforcing the most selfish behaviors in them. It then allows them to essentially usurp whatever form of government exists.

reverendsteveii ,

this, but doubly so with Eve. You’ll notice that we often skip over Cindy and Dave and go right to Eve, so often that I don’t even know off the top of my head whether Charlie and Deandra are the conventional names for persons 3 and 4 in this construct. That’s because this construct is used a lot when talking about secure communications and the convention is that “evil” “eavesdropping” Eve is the person trying to destroy, intercept or alter the communication between Alice and Bob. Her role is built into her name.

Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article | It's unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review. (arstechnica.com)

Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article | It’s unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review.::It’s unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review.

reverendsteveii ,

no it’s important to have a mechanism by which to say “this was wrong. we fucked up. don’t use this as a source, attempt to replicate it, or use its results as a basis for new research.” intellectual honesty and rigor are more important than “balls”.

reverendsteveii ,

funny, that’s exactly what a retraction is. you don’t destroy the original stuff, you just publish a statement that says “Hey, that stuff? it’s no good.” individual journals have their own policies, of course, but that’s the template from which reputable journals build their policies. so the problem you’re trying to fix simply doesn’t exist.

reverendsteveii ,

95% of weapons do and they have a bunch of things designed to detect weapons in particular. They don’t exactly have a rotten fish scanner.

reverendsteveii ,

Did you bring enough for the whole class?

reverendsteveii ,

we’re on the verge of a recession I gotta cut back

someone should make and serve my meals for me

reverendsteveii ,

this feels like a good time to mention that the police fought a legal battle for the right to institute a maximum IQ among recruits

reverendsteveii ,

Non

reverendsteveii ,

a future where innocent people are murdered by unaccountable fully autonomous flying assassin robots is pretty inevitable now, huh?

reverendsteveii ,

The part I’m worried about is the part where military tech becomes police tech, and autonomous flying assassin robots are gonna be rolling down main street in a few years. They’ll say it’s to “protect our brave officers serving high risk warrants” but the police are already not responsible no matter who they kill and I don’t see that getting any better when they can just zoop a kamikaze drone in through a window and kill everyone in the house at once.

reverendsteveii ,

you’re proposing…what, private ownership of automated killbots to counteract police abuse of automated killbots?

reverendsteveii ,

Torchlight is Torchlight. You might like it because not Diablo, but Torchlight.

reverendsteveii ,

I play a lot of single player shooters. One thing they all have in common is that I know they exist, which I’m thinking could potentially be part of the problem with this one. Based on reactions in this thread it seems like a lot of people are in the same position I’m in, where the first they hear of the game is when it’s being pronounced a flop. I’m getting big The Producers vibes.

reverendsteveii ,

at this point I’m not even sure you’d have to try to disguise it. I think that Trump could admit that the whole stolen election thing was a lie and that people have ingrained it so deeply into who they feel themselves to be that they’d still believe it and still have the same sense of moral outrage that the election was “stolen”.

reverendsteveii ,

while growing society.

fucking lol

reverendsteveii ,

who pays for repairs to rental properties? the people who live there.

reverendsteveii ,

Where does the landlord get the money? Do landlords often rent property at a loss? Is being a landlord a charity, where someone takes their own money and uses it to subsidize a stranger’s housing costs?

Of course not. Landlords set the rent such that rent - costs > 0. The money to repair a rental home ultimately comes from the renter. The landlord may pay up-front, as in your example with a derelict property, but that’s with the intention of making back what they pay and more in the form of rent. Like all businesses, the cost of doing business plus all the profit the market will bear gets passed on to the consumer.

reverendsteveii ,

you’ve abandoned your original point, now you’re just saying “not all landlords are shitty” when you started by saying “the money to fix rental homes comes from landlords”. it doesn’t matter how we look at buying a new AC unit for a rental vs an owner-occupied property, the money spent on that AC unit will come from the people who live in the property. The occupant always pays for everything.

reverendsteveii ,

Let’s say your three months in on a new rental home. Landlord may be averages $100-$200 per month profit, so reasonably they’ve only collected $600 in total profit from you. AC now breaks and needs a $10,000 replacement. Who pays? Have they collected enough money from you so that you are paying for it?

This only seems to not make sense if you assume that the landlord hasn’t rented the property in the past and won’t continue to rent it in the future, and also that you assume that revenue is the same as profit, which it fundamentally is not. If they’re only making $100-$200 in profit how do you account for the rest of the money that’s paid in rent? There’s no way they’re renting me a house with central air for only $100-$200/mo, is the rest of the money I pay in rent maybe, and hear me out here, going to cover expenses like a new AC unit?

you might as well start arguing that every business ever pays for things because of money, they’ve collected in their patrons.

I’m arguing exactly that, that every business pays for things with or in anticipation of revenue. It’s built into the idea of seeking profit. I’m a W2 employee and the business that employs me pays me with revenue they bring in and in anticipation of being able to use my work to bring in more revenue than they pay me. It’s kinda fundamental to the rationally self-interested profit motive that’s supposed to drive this whole economic system.

reverendsteveii ,

Oh man my bad, I thought you were like me and enjoyed this sort of shit for its own sake. Hope you have a good one too!

reverendsteveii ,

There seems to be this thing where the mainstream media tries to appease anti-murder voters by insisting that Joe “I Am A Zionist” Biden is really trying hard to find a solution to this and he’ll get there eventually, but in the mean time his hands are tied and he has to keep picking up the tab for Israel. But like, really guys, any minute now he’s gonna stop because secretly he agrees with you that this is wrong. He just can’t stop now. Like, he could. He could just stop sending them money. But he can’t. But he will soon. But not now. Because he can’t.

reverendsteveii ,

He already restricted visas for extremist settlers in the west bank

I’ll tell that to that mother in Rafah who’s trying to scrape what’s left of her kid into a bucket, having gone there because Israel told her it was the safe place to evacuate to after she followed Israeli orders to evacuate to Khan Younis and was bombed there as well…

Funimation setting for yt-dlp to backup your digital copies

Background: I bought a Blue-ray set that came with a code for the digital copy. This was back before Funimation was acquired. I could go through and rip my discs since Sony seems to be on the verge of nuking my digital copies, but teaching myself yt-dlp seemed more convenient....

reverendsteveii ,

They generalized the problem and then released the solution. OP may own the discs they’re backing up but this solution is designed not to care whether you own the discs.

reverendsteveii ,

are you the brick wall in this meme?

reverendsteveii ,

I literally just asked my covid-don’t-ever-leave-the-house friend to marry me last week

reverendsteveii ,

Id be a bit less tempted to put it on the internet had they not. Thank you!

reverendsteveii ,

you guys ever read The Strain?

reverendsteveii ,

I mean, in the KJV at least there’s adam and eve, then cain and abel. then just cain, and then the book just says “Cain went to the land of Nod, east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife.” So there were definitely other people around and canonically we’re not inbred, it’s just that we all have a common inheritance from Cain, and therefore Eve, and therefore we all inherited original sin.

It makes a lot more sense when you remember that YHWH was originally a bronze age thunder and warrior god who was not the one and only god like it says in christian canon. He was a god amongst many gods, and only ever asserted himself as the one and only god of the tribes of Judea (who were, at the time, polytheistic). It’s the difference between your girlfriend saying you’re not allowed to date anyone else and your girlfriend saying she’s literally the only girl that has ever existed and will ever exist. It’s not until after the Jews lost their war with the Babylonians and Solomon’s temple was destroyed that we start seeing YHWH spoken of as the creator and the only God. Early versions of the creation story even have YHWH using the first person plural when making declarations, implying that the audience was other gods which would have been easily accepted at the time in which the stories emerged but are absolute anathema to Christians and Jews today. From memory, after Adam and Eve eat the apple YHWH says something like “They have eaten of the tree of knowledge, and now know of good and evil. If they eat from the tree of life they will become like us.”

reverendsteveii ,

kinda feels like selling someone a burger and fries, taking away the fries and then going “no one lost a burger”. the digital copy is part of what was purchased, and its been taken away from purchasers with no recourse. The digital copy was part of the deal.

reverendsteveii ,

delivery drivers lie all the time. when I was still in a row house, I watched the amazon guy from my window take the same package from door to door, put it down, take a picture, then pick it right back up and take it to the next stop where he did the same thing.

reverendsteveii ,

Chuck Montana, Charcoal and Charcoal Accessories. It’s the smoky flavor your family will savor.

reverendsteveii ,

if you can take it from me, I can take it from you. piracy has become a moral imperative to stop valuable art being flushed down the memory hole.

reverendsteveii ,

My samsung fridge was brand new when we bought it two years ago and has shit the bed twice since then. Every time it does I lose $200 worth of groceries and have to live out of a cooler for a week while I wait for a tech to come buy and charge me another $100 to tell me he doesn’t know what’s wrong with it. I’ll never buy another thing from samsung, they make a trash product and their support is an absolute scam.

reverendsteveii ,

Eurafricasian Archipelago. It’s actually 2 separate major islands and a series of smaller ones

Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US (www.engadget.com)

Disney+ started getting strict about password sharing in Canada last year, and now it’s expanding the restriction to the US. According to The Verge, the streaming service has been sending out emails to its subscribers in the country, notifying them about a change in its terms of service. Its service agreement now states that...

reverendsteveii ,

raising prices, adding ads and cracking down on shared accounts all have me LOOKing for a place to get a MOVIE 2 watch without messing with a DOT TOrrent file

reverendsteveii ,

I don’t understand why you’d pay for this unless you like the content

reverendsteveii ,

it’s designed so that you can’t win except by being and doing precisely what you’re told. this is because it’s designed by evil people and promoted by weak people.

reverendsteveii ,

for some poeple, taboo is the fetish. whatever it is, as long as it’s forbidden

reverendsteveii ,

that’s why you don’t use a scale that’s only accurate to the full gram (and barely that) when dealing with something where the cost is such that a missing half gram actually makes a difference.

reverendsteveii ,

Liberté, Egalité, Chemotherapé!

reverendsteveii ,

for this guy, who leeches off the work of real human beings and hides child rapists from justice? absolutely, my hate for him is a source of strength and pride, I’m glad to have it on display.

reverendsteveii ,

it’s okay if my family members die shortly after becoming king of england

reverendsteveii ,

I’m significantly more confident in this AI if police unions are against it. Police unions serve one function: to protect criminals from the law as long as said criminals have paid their union dues.

reverendsteveii ,

fun thing about the whole “UNRWA sponsors Hamas” thing, Israel has failed to provide any evidence of the claim but pro-genocide governments all around the world sentenced a lot of innocent people to death based on the claim anyway.

Remember when Israel said Hamas was beheading babies? The president of the United States signal boosted that claim, then his office had to walk it back when it turned out to be false.

reverendsteveii ,

“Israel refuses to share either its evidence or the intelligence dossier”

The American government has said that the intelligence is “highly credible” while confirming that they haven’t at all seen it

BBC Channel 4, France24, Sky News and other organizations have had a chance to review what Israel has released and concluded that they provided “no evidence” of UNRWA workers’ complicity in the Oct 7 attack

Just like beheaded babies, this is some trumped up bullshit. it’s just that israel also seems ready to murder anyone who doesn’t fall for it.

reverendsteveii ,

Piracy is really easy to compete against. Ask GabeN. Steam has singlehandedly taken me out of the piracy game because they have what I want, it’s super easy to get and if it’s not reasonably priced today I’ll wishlist it until it goes on sale (and it will). If it sucks, or my hardware can’t run it, I just dm someone and I get my money back. I know they can disappear shit from my library like any online store but they haven’t abused that privilege with me yet and that makes me confident they won’t.

With Netflix, there’s a small chance that they actually have what I want. If they do, it’s gonna disappear soon. Prices only ever go up, not down, and that series you love is gonna be cancelled as soon as it stops driving new subscriptions. To watch everything I want I can spend a hundred dollars a month on a rotating set of accounts on several streaming services or I can go LOOK for the MOVIE 2 stream for free without even messing with a DOT TOrrent file.

Piracy is easy to prevent if you provide a better service than the pirates. What he meant was that it’s hard to get people to pay you to shit in their mouths when someone else is giving out sandwiches.

reverendsteveii ,

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