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  1. Comment on Will an AI actress really become ‘the next Scarlett Johansson’? in ~movies

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    Luce has been in plenty of supremely depraved depictions and is doing fine. For anyone not in the know, Luce is the anime mascot of the Vatican City and Roman Catholic church. People are fine with...

    Luce has been in plenty of supremely depraved depictions and is doing fine. For anyone not in the know, Luce is the anime mascot of the Vatican City and Roman Catholic church.

    People are fine with separating the image of the two when it's a mascot versus rule34.

    Besides, Disney will still slap the highlights out of your hair with lawyers if you monetize their AI creation.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Vladimir Putin has called up 135,000 men for routine military service, the country's biggest autumn conscription drive since 2016 in ~society

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    Yes and that happened both in eastern Ukraine and when the Ukrainians did a little cross border camping in Kursk.

    Yes and that happened both in eastern Ukraine and when the Ukrainians did a little cross border camping in Kursk.

    5 votes

  3. Comment on Monsanto products potentially cause cancer in ~health

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    Oh hey that was yesterday's episode. It was a strong episode, like most chemical company disaster episodes (like most episodes really, Swindled is special). Negligence is made worse when people...

    Oh hey that was yesterday's episode. It was a strong episode, like most chemical company disaster episodes (like most episodes really, Swindled is special). Negligence is made worse when people cover it up.

    I wouldn't call it lighter per se when he talks about the cows being sick. It's rather haunting.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on Monsanto products potentially cause cancer in ~health

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    I understand if someone wants to take the bag but I'm fairly sure Veritasium (and many others) were already doing well. I'm always baffled by the choice to get more than you need. I can't look...

    I understand if someone wants to take the bag but I'm fairly sure Veritasium (and many others) were already doing well. I'm always baffled by the choice to get more than you need.

    I can't look into their wallets, maybe the team needed this to become financially independent, or maybe they were greedy. Who knows.

    No respect lost for me, but a heaping of scepticism about their content was gained. It's on them to make that choice and they chose to pay with trustworthiness.

    9 votes

  5. Comment on Monsanto products potentially cause cancer in ~health

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    That's what you get with PE owned YouTube channels.

    That's what you get with PE owned YouTube channels.

    8 votes

  6. Comment on US House Democrats release latest Jeffrey Epstein documents with Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions in ~society

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    For the law perhaps. Even his MAGA base is showing turbulent polling over the Epstein stuff.

    For the law perhaps. Even his MAGA base is showing turbulent polling over the Epstein stuff.

    6 votes

  7. Comment on Economic nihilism, online communities, and gamer culture with Brandon "Atrioc" Ewing in ~life.men

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    Thank you for the suggestion! I listen to The Lemonade Stand and watch Big A clips near daily. I tried giving some additional context for people that have no idea who Atrioc is. Man, The Lemonade...

    Thank you for the suggestion! I listen to The Lemonade Stand and watch Big A clips near daily. I tried giving some additional context for people that have no idea who Atrioc is.

    Man, The Lemonade Stand came at the right time too. I was just running out of good long form podcasts and then those three doofuses create one. It's been well worth listening to that podcast. You can see a lot of topics that they discuss over there come back in this interview.

    I think it's really funny that Gavin kept trying to steer the convo back to reaching the kids

    He was really hammering on the "but what is gaming/discord and kids nowadays". I'm happy Atrioc kept pushing his envelope.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Economic nihilism, online communities, and gamer culture with Brandon "Atrioc" Ewing in ~life.men

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    Atrioc has been an interesting voice between all political streamers. There's a big focus on economics and business which he addresses in this conversation with Gavin. It looked like Gavin was...

    Atrioc has been an interesting voice between all political streamers. There's a big focus on economics and business which he addresses in this conversation with Gavin.

    It looked like Gavin was trying to talk about games and connect with the kidz but I think Atrioc steered it to some poignant pressure points. Increasing nihilism and escapism among Gen Z because of a lack of economic certainty and stability.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Tesla influencers tried Elon Musk’s coast-to-coast self-driving, crashed before sixty miles in ~transport

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    The official™️ explanation is that it would massively expand the fleet and focusing on one technology allows for more expertise instead of trying to marry both video and lidar together. So, a...

    The official™️ explanation is that it would massively expand the fleet and focusing on one technology allows for more expertise instead of trying to marry both video and lidar together. So, a simpler software stack.

    While true, focusing on improving a single piece of tech would be easier, it's probably not sufficient.

    At the time they created the first Tesla's and made this argument, lidar was prohibitively expensive. Nowadays you can find it on cheap commercial robot vacuums.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Disney decides it hasn’t angered people enough, announces Disney+ price hikes in ~tv

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    @Zestier is right that it's usually handwaved away with a simple explanation. But it's true and the reason is that it's cheap. Setting up another debrid provider will cost about ten to fifteen...

    @Zestier is right that it's usually handwaved away with a simple explanation.

    But it's true and the reason is that it's cheap. Setting up another debrid provider will cost about ten to fifteen minutes and about ten to fifteen dollars. The risk assessment is so trivial that I wouldn't even mind if I paid for a six month subscription and lost it the next day. I'll be out ten dollars, sad, and then hop skip to the next service and pay again.

    The biggest downside is the cache as @zestier also pointed out. Torrents being what they are makes that problem largely moot unless multiple debrids will purge their cache at once. Stuff will get lost over time, though none of the files are as ephemeral as sometimes entire seasons are unavailable from one day to the next on Prime.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    The DLC release version of the final boss had a combo that couldn't be dodged even with frame perfect dodges. Unless you're the parry god Ongbal it pretty much made it RNG whether or not he would...

    The DLC release version of the final boss had a combo that couldn't be dodged even with frame perfect dodges. Unless you're the parry god Ongbal it pretty much made it RNG whether or not he would get a hit in.

    Honestly? The fight is mid both then and now. It just sucked even more then because that combo wasn't about skill, just luck.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on I tried to protect my kids from the internet. Here’s what happened. in ~tech

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    This all sounds like a moderation problem, not an age verification problem. Already you're shifting the conversation from the supposedly harmful content age regulation is to block (porn) to social...

    This all sounds like a moderation problem, not an age verification problem. Already you're shifting the conversation from the supposedly harmful content age regulation is to block (porn) to social media in general. I don't mean that with any hostility, it serves to illustrate the onus has been shifted to the wrong party even among the most fervent supporters of regulation. Companies are shifting the blame to the government, parents, and the children. Everyone but their own responsibility.

    If you want to hold companies accountable for their uncontrolled social media you should force them to moderate properly. Regulate that.
    Selling drugs on Facebook? That's a Facebook problem, not a government verifying to see if someone is the right age to buy or sell drugs online. This particular problem is age agnostic, what would age verification even do? On top of that, the perpetrator is the dealer/groomer/predator and not the kid. Facebook providing the criminals a platform is the issue.

    Companies have been stripping customer service and site moderation to their bare metals for a decade or two now, shifting the onus onto the consumer or volunteers to do the work for them. Most Reddit mods are volunteers, they're also stopping CP at the gates, I'd argue this should be on Reddit itself.

    The examples you provided are horrifying, but realistically speaking, how many of those are solved by age verification? How many of those could we reduce or prevent if we regulated the companies hosting the platforms the criminal activity happens on? I'd argue we'd have a better result with the latter, where you'd go after the root of the problem instead of the symptom.

    And then we can have the argument over privacy and data security. Neither particularly FUD'y, the world thus far is showing a mediocre track record at best when it comes to protecting people's privacy and data.

    14 votes

  13. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    That sounds about right. I lost my first big chunk of rosaries yesterday because I was careless and running on autopilot. Like Dark Souls, overconfidence or carelessness is punished. When I play...

    That sounds about right. I lost my first big chunk of rosaries yesterday because I was careless and running on autopilot. Like Dark Souls, overconfidence or carelessness is punished. When I play like that it's usually an indicator I need to stop and relax for a while.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    The difficulty ramps in later areas, even in the first act. I haven't been too challenged either in act one, but I'm sure I'll hit a wall at some point in act two or three. Having seen how some...

    The difficulty ramps in later areas, even in the first act. I haven't been too challenged either in act one, but I'm sure I'll hit a wall at some point in act two or three. Having seen how some people play games and miss incredibly obvious tells it's not really a wonder they're having problems when they miss half the tools to help them. That sounds like a negative opinion but it isn't. Lots of people just don't care enough to deeply investigate all corners and it bites them when they miss some pivotal upgrades later on.

    I'll say that a large part of the discourse about difficulty is how later on even the regular enemies start doing 2 damage for contact hits. Damage quickly becomes higher than one can heal.

    Like you say though, the curve is rather gentle. It eases you into the movement tech and different abilities before throwing down the gauntlet so by the time you need to platform well, you've practiced enough that you're comfortable doing tricky jumps.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on California attorney fined for using twenty-one AI hallucinated cases in court filing in ~tech

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    Both things said in that sentence are mindboggling. Making shit up is constantly the conversation surrounding LLMs, and not knowing the law is the shoddiest defense known to man.

    Both things said in that sentence are mindboggling. Making shit up is constantly the conversation surrounding LLMs, and not knowing the law is the shoddiest defense known to man.

    16 votes

  16. Comment on The Mandalorian and Grogu | Official trailer in ~movies

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    I thought they were awesome as a kid and then promptly revised my opinions on a rewatch when older. They truly are subpar movies. Memorable though.

    I thought they were awesome as a kid and then promptly revised my opinions on a rewatch when older.

    They truly are subpar movies. Memorable though.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Looking for some cat advice in ~life.pets

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    I'm not a vet, nor should this advise be taken as anything but something to explore with an expert, but grain free cat food tends to have a positive effect on diabetic cats. Usually because of the...

    I'm under the impression that maybe I could buy some regular but more expensive food with the same ...er... Macros I guess

    I'm not a vet, nor should this advise be taken as anything but something to explore with an expert, but grain free cat food tends to have a positive effect on diabetic cats. Usually because of the macros. It's also similarly priced to regular cat food.

    Something to explore perhaps if it hasn't been already.

    I've also once read a study why cats feel like they're starving if they haven't had any food for a bit. I'll try to dig that up. But it's been a while so I don't know if I can find it.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Tiny co-living spaces are popping up across New York. Local communities see them as ‘harbingers of gentrification’. in ~life

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    Isn't it the opposite of gentry? The gentry is the wealthy land owning social class. These people are cohabiting because they can't afford to own land. If there even is land to buy in a place like...

    Isn't it the opposite of gentry? The gentry is the wealthy land owning social class. These people are cohabiting because they can't afford to own land. If there even is land to buy in a place like NYC.

    If anything, short term cohabitation creates the opposite of gentrification and likely lowers quality of living and reduces the economic value of the neighborhood. Perhaps the only thing that fits the narrative of gentrification is that the demographics change.

    Other than that, this is not a problem of gentrification, it's just another symptom of the ever increasing squeeze of the housing market.

    39 votes

  19. Comment on What writing 'tics' stand out to you? Repeated phrases, strange words, or otherwise weird stuff that jumps out at you. in ~books

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    I agree with you from another language. It doesn't even have to imply it was partly or in full a wasteful endeavour. I have niet voor niets learned English to communicate online.

    I agree with you from another language. It doesn't even have to imply it was partly or in full a wasteful endeavour.

    I have niet voor niets learned English to communicate online.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on Flight fares surge after US President Donald Trump's surprising H-1B visa move; ‘Extremely bad situation’ in ~society

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    I'm somewhat surprised. Tightening H-1B visa rules wasn't popular with the tech moguls. It's a large part of their cheaper labour near/offshoring strategy. Musk for one was vocally critical of...

    I'm somewhat surprised. Tightening H-1B visa rules wasn't popular with the tech moguls. It's a large part of their cheaper labour near/offshoring strategy.

    Musk for one was vocally critical of changes to H-1B.

    As for all those people in your quoted parts... Yeah, for them this is possibly their livelihood drying up within hours.

    8 votes