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Comment on Musk | Official teaser trailer in ~movies
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Comment on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in ~tech
Akir Link ParentOur global society has a convenience problem. The company I work for has the bad habit of asking its workers to sign up with random service providers. Just this week, they sent out a link with...Our global society has a convenience problem.
The company I work for has the bad habit of asking its workers to sign up with random service providers. Just this week, they sent out a link with calendly, which requires everyone who responds to them to accept their terms of service and privacy policies, which includes mandatory arbitration agreements and class action waivers - clauses which sometimes are able to be opted out of by jumping through insane hoops such as sending certified mail, but in this case didn’t have any way out of. Another time I was told to use this screen recording application that I only learned later was owned by Atlassian, and it took months to fully delete my account and data from their systems.
Basically everything on the internet is a mouse trap; it’s designed to be really easy to get ensnared in and really hard to get out of. But they’ve built mouse traps where the mice really don’t care if they’ve been trapped. Why should the mouse care if they can’t sue Amazon if they aren’t usually suing Amazon in the first place? 😮💨
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Comment on UN says world will miss its climate target, warming must be reversed in ~enviro
Akir Link ParentIt would be a next level irony if it turned out that the conspiracy theories of it being a bioweapon turned out to not only be true but also to be something to try to save the world as a “lesser...It would be a next level irony if it turned out that the conspiracy theories of it being a bioweapon turned out to not only be true but also to be something to try to save the world as a “lesser of two evils” kind of bad choice thing.
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Comment on I made a chill minimal 3D golf game that fits in 13 kilobytes - Sunshine Golf Classic in ~creative
Akir Link ParentI'm more than willing to just chalk the arrow thing to "safari just being dumb".I'm more than willing to just chalk the arrow thing to "safari just being dumb".
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Comment on I made a chill minimal 3D golf game that fits in 13 kilobytes - Sunshine Golf Classic in ~creative
Akir LinkThere's three things that bug me about this game playing it on my iPhone: Sometimes the arrow buttons to change the directions of shots stick. I'm not entirely sure what causes it - maybe when my...There's three things that bug me about this game playing it on my iPhone:
Sometimes the arrow buttons to change the directions of shots stick. I'm not entirely sure what causes it - maybe when my finger slides off of it before it lifts off?
The fly-by showing off the current course seems to follow the ground, which can be kind of bumpy for some of them. It would be better if it had a smooth arc.
No Craig Stadler.
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Comment on Musk | Official teaser trailer in ~movies
Akir LinkHuh, interesting that I see this the day after I see a trailer to the sequel to The Social Network which paints Zuckerberg as a sociopath destroying society. Maybe 2027 will be the year society...Huh, interesting that I see this the day after I see a trailer to the sequel to The Social Network which paints Zuckerberg as a sociopath destroying society. Maybe 2027 will be the year society stops accepting oligarchs destroying the fabric of society?
Please?
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Comment on Summer US box office hits all-time $4.76B record: how audiences surrendered to moviegoing in ~movies
Akir Link ParentShe somehow made a JJ Abrams movie not suck. Anne Hathaway literally is movie magic and is worth whatever her talent agency is asking for.She somehow made a JJ Abrams movie not suck. Anne Hathaway literally is movie magic and is worth whatever her talent agency is asking for.
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Comment on What's a show you love that's from before your time? in ~tv
Akir LinkI Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched. I haven't watched either of them in a very long time, but who doesn't want to watch a wish fulfillment show where you can be a gay man with a pretty wife with...I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched.
I haven't watched either of them in a very long time, but who doesn't want to watch a wish fulfillment show where you can be a gay man with a pretty wife with whom you have a purely platonic relationship with who magically solves all of your problems? Plus they were made when color TV was pretty new so everything was so pretty and colorful (or weird and gross)!
The Bewitched movie they made a few decades back was complete garbage, though, and the world is a worse place for having made it.
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Comment on What's a show you love that's from before your time? in ~tv
Akir Link ParentIt really feels like she should have had an acting school. Comedy is the hardest form of acting to get right, and I don't think there is a modern performer who can match her breadth of skills,...It really feels like she should have had an acting school. Comedy is the hardest form of acting to get right, and I don't think there is a modern performer who can match her breadth of skills, especially when it comes to timing, exaggeration, and understatement.
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Comment on Adulting -- what advice or encouragement did you receive / wish you had received when you were just starting out moving out? in ~life
Akir Link ParentI’ll also add that I’ve also seen a lot of young people who simply haven’t built in the register in their head for how much money they have left in their budget. Credit cards become an infinite...I’ll also add that I’ve also seen a lot of young people who simply haven’t built in the register in their head for how much money they have left in their budget. Credit cards become an infinite well to draw from, whereas keeping with cash helps them to develop the register so they can keep up with a mental budget.
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Comment on Fitness Weekly Discussion in ~health
Akir LinkI've been on weight loss medications for about three weeks and it's been... a lot. I'm not on GLP agonists, I'm on the old stuff, phentermine and topiramate. I'm finding it to be very effective so...I've been on weight loss medications for about three weeks and it's been... a lot. I'm not on GLP agonists, I'm on the old stuff, phentermine and topiramate. I'm finding it to be very effective so far, in fact perhaps too effective. My doctor has me calorie counting and they gave me an 1800 calorie target which seemed very small given my activity levels and my size. But in spite of taking half of a pill, I am finding it hard to reach that goal and I've lost over 10 pounds already. Probably more, I haven't checked in a few days.
On the other hand, I've been to the gym exactly once since I started, and I didn't have a good time then. I had little energy and my muscles burned for what I did. I haven't been because I have been feeling very low energy and that's because I've been simultaneously been trying to wrangle with my sleep apnea problem again. The doctor who put me on the weight loss medication said to talk to the sleep doctors again because they might have an alternative, and talking to said sleep doctor literally made me have an emotional breakdown because no, there is no alternative, so now I'm back using a machine that is literally strangling me with my own phlegm every night and waking up with headaches from having terrible sleep that is worse than when I just try to sleep unimpeded.
So basically I have been making a ton of progress on weight but no progress on actual fitness and probably actually negative fitness since I'm basically completely sedate now. My apple watch didn't even log 12 hours of standing today. I'm really frustrated so I am considering asking the doctor to discontinue the medications.
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Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games
Akir Link ParentThe thing that really pisses me off is that if I'm watching on my phone, I'm watching the same things that I've been watching or that are on my watchlist. Those should already be cached. There...The thing that really pisses me off is that if I'm watching on my phone, I'm watching the same things that I've been watching or that are on my watchlist. Those should already be cached. There shouldn't be anything that needs to load, but they want to show me new things to annoy me instead.
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Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games
Akir Link ParentI know this is an extreme tangent but I am sooooo pissed off how every fricking streaming app needs to waste my time with their fricking song and dance logo video whenever I start up their app. I...I know this is an extreme tangent but I am sooooo pissed off how every fricking streaming app needs to waste my time with their fricking song and dance logo video whenever I start up their app. I already know what app I am using! It’s the one I tapped on!
Actually the worst thing is that my banking apps do it too.
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Comment on CGA-2026-09 🕹️🙎♂️🛹 INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 in ~games
Akir LinkI actually picked up the series on the Dreamcast. In spite of this I’ll actually be playing the PlayStation version out of pure convenience because I don’t want to dig out the Dreamcast or deal...I actually picked up the series on the Dreamcast. In spite of this I’ll actually be playing the PlayStation version out of pure convenience because I don’t want to dig out the Dreamcast or deal with emulation.
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Comment on Gamergate but actually in ~games
Akir Link ParentIf that is your definition of trust than trust is something that one literally cannot determine for themselves if they have. There are almost certainly people who still trust CBS news after Bari...If that is your definition of trust than trust is something that one literally cannot determine for themselves if they have. There are almost certainly people who still trust CBS news after Bari Weiss, but she has doubtlessly directed her people to misdirect and lie to the audience.
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Comment on Gamergate but actually in ~games
Akir Link ParentYes, that doesn’t mean you should trust categorically. Trust is something built over time by demonstrations of good faith and acts of service. It requires demonstrations that the efforts they are...Yes, that doesn’t mean you should trust categorically. Trust is something built over time by demonstrations of good faith and acts of service. It requires demonstrations that the efforts they are giving are for the good of the public.
People who don’t trust anyone may have problems, but untrustworthy media actively creates problems on a societal level.
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Comment on Gamergate but actually in ~games
Akir Link ParentI actually take umbrage with the concept that people should be able to trust media inherently. Anything is media. The only thing anyone needs to do to create media is money or the backing of a...I actually take umbrage with the concept that people should be able to trust media inherently. Anything is media. The only thing anyone needs to do to create media is money or the backing of a monied organization. As a result media can and often is used to push propaganda, misinformation, and outright lies. The idea that media should be trustworthy itself makes media more dangerous and less trustworthy because it becomes more of a target for manipulation.
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Comment on ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ snags no. 2 with $15.4m as ‘Spider-Man’ nears ‘Avatar 2’; ‘Dog Stars’ put to sleep in ~movies
Akir LinkI’ve been seeing a lot of YouTube ads about The Dog Stars lately but I still have no idea what it’s about. Gritty people being shot…? All I know is that in the trailer it has the words of the...I’ve been seeing a lot of YouTube ads about The Dog Stars lately but I still have no idea what it’s about. Gritty people being shot…? All I know is that in the trailer it has the words of the title showing up one after another so I keep wondering what it is the dog stars in.
I’m not sure if trailers and commercials for movies are just bad these days or if I’ve just somehow managed to filter out marketing enough that I don’t get any of the good stuff. Every trailer I seem to see is just a collage of action shots and people making dumb faces, it seems, with very little pulling it together. As cliche as the “In a world…” narrator was, at least he told me what to expect about the movie they wanted me to see.
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Comment on The NES CD, featuring Super Mario CD in ~games
Akir LinkFDS has nothing on this, though it does lose points for the lack of FM synth channels.FDS has nothing on this, though it does lose points for the lack of FM synth channels.
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The NES CD, featuring Super Mario CD
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Boy oh boy would I love to see government implement laws that protect the public and actually enforce those laws and things actually happen. But these days I have more faith in a Luigi Mangione scenario happening.
But frankly there is a missing grassroots to begin government action. Most people don’t think that social media companies should be moderated the way we do. This is a topic on which people are “useful idiots” by default and it’s extremely difficult to educate them out of. I don’t have a lot of hope for society at this point in time.