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

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    Little late to it, but the remaster of Dead Space is amazing. It's been years since I played the original, however this title still packs a punch!

    Little late to it, but the remaster of Dead Space is amazing. It's been years since I played the original, however this title still packs a punch!

  2. Comment on Florida is the first state to ban lab grown meat - Ron DeSantis in ~food

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    Sounds to me like cities are now powerless in preventing non-ev's from just straight up parking in charger spots...

    Sounds to me like cities are now powerless in preventing non-ev's from just straight up parking in charger spots...

    5 votes

  3. Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. in ~enviro

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    Alternatively, why not store that excess? Why toss it away?

    Alternatively, why not store that excess? Why toss it away?

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 22 in ~news

  5. Comment on I have an issue with the 3 Body Problem in ~tv

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    Just finished the Netflix series. I'm completely disregarding the original material and am solely speaking from what the show has presented. But the whole "Trisolarians can't lie" is 100%...

    Just finished the Netflix series.

    I'm completely disregarding the original material and am solely speaking from what the show has presented.

    But the whole "Trisolarians can't lie" is 100% bullshit. I might go so far as to say it's questionable they're actually from a 3 body system (or maybe once were), but use that as a manipulative tactic to help goad the more intelligent to welcome them.

    They act as if story telling as a concept is unknown to them but they make a game that is extremely socially manipulative in order to get people to accept and welcome their coming (as opposed to defending against an invasion).

    They act as if manipulating people into thinking something that's not real is real (a lie) is an unknown concept, but they're actively deceiving our perceptions of reality on a regular basis, whether it's our experimental results, our own sky, or even what we think we see with our own two eyes. They're master manipulators.

    The first communication admits that they're extremely capable and confident they'd wipe out our civilization despite not knowing anything about us, which speaks to frequency. They've done this before, they've gone out and conquered other civilizations and that's built confidence. To act like they're simply looking for safe harbor IS A F*CKING LIE.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on I have an issue with the 3 Body Problem in ~tv

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    The sophons didn't hack the cars.

    The sophons didn't hack the cars.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Intelligence community largely won House FISA fight. Now comes the US Senate. in ~tech

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    That's what happens when you only have one party interested in governance. That's the real detriment the Republican party had unleashed on Americans.

    That's what happens when you only have one party interested in governance. That's the real detriment the Republican party had unleashed on Americans.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Indiana now has a religious right to abortion in ~health

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    Honestly they've been really flexible, I don't see them struggling with this one.

    Honestly they've been really flexible, I don't see them struggling with this one.

    17 votes

  9. Comment on Tesla recalls Cybertrucks over accelerator crash risk in ~transport

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    100% this and it has to be hurting the company. I still haven't seen the far right he's been pandering to actually buy his products, but I've seen plenty of his original base cancel reservations...

    100% this and it has to be hurting the company. I still haven't seen the far right he's been pandering to actually buy his products, but I've seen plenty of his original base cancel reservations because they didn't want to support that kind of behavior. I wish the board would remove him. Plenty of talented people in those companies that deserve better.

    5 votes

  10. Comment on For those involved / interested in Web3, what do you make of the near and long term future for it? in ~tech

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    ENS and Peepeth were two efforts I was paying attention to. Both leveraged these new approaches for different but equally positive potential advancements for the general public. However between...

    ENS and Peepeth were two efforts I was paying attention to. Both leveraged these new approaches for different but equally positive potential advancements for the general public. However between Peepeth slowly discovering that web3 was a needless bottle neck and backed away from it for most of it's functions, and ENS pivoting away from the low-cost automated smart contact solution it began as to be more centrally managed and having to financially support that management - I've considered the web3 experiment mostly dead. Not to mention the gas costs rising so much that it increasingly made web3 inaccessible to most users. I was really hopeful for the potential of blockchain and automated trust-less smart contacts. But every application I've seen that could have been popular by providing a useful service, has become a dud.

    7 votes

  11. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

  12. Comment on MDN’s AI Help and lucid lies in ~comp

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    Completely agree with this piece. To make substantial and crucial progress, we need more than what LLMs can alone provide. We need something that can "continue to" learn and correct itself....

    Completely agree with this piece. To make substantial and crucial progress, we need more than what LLMs can alone provide. We need something that can "continue to" learn and correct itself. Personally I think that will come with further research & development; it's simply a matter of time. But we certainly don't have that now, and to act like we do, while good for marketing, is harmful to users.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on EV bargains to be found as Hertz sells off some of its US electric cars in ~transport

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    Personally I want an EV truck - but everything on the market is HUGE. What happened to small pickup trucks?!

    Personally I want an EV truck - but everything on the market is HUGE. What happened to small pickup trucks?!

    6 votes

  14. Comment on Jon Stewart on the false promises of AI in ~tech

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    To me it felt more of the "AI take our jobs, AI bad" tripe. And I love John Stewart. This episode felt like poorly thought out filler. Worse, that this mind set gets an enormous amount of people...

    To me it felt more of the "AI take our jobs, AI bad" tripe. And I love John Stewart. This episode felt like poorly thought out filler. Worse, that this mind set gets an enormous amount of people to focus on the wrong problem to their own detriment.

    Would have loved him to bend the narrative arc to the real enemy - the exploitive rich. Focus on our need to decouple human value from profit generation - perhaps even shed light on Sander's 4-day work week, something our tech advancements should have allowed decades ago. Lots of opportunity that was just left on the table...

    16 votes

  15. Comment on On the XZ Utils Backdoor (CVE-2024-3094): FOSS Delivered on its Pitfalls and Strengths in ~comp

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    I think reflecting on how we can support our package maintainers mentally and financially is pretty important too right now.

    I think reflecting on how we can support our package maintainers mentally and financially is pretty important too right now.

    9 votes

  16. Comment on Lego requests California police department stop using their toy heads to cover suspect mugshots on social media in ~tech

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    Should police departments be spending resources to "be engaging and interesting to [their] followers"?

    Should police departments be spending resources to "be engaging and interesting to [their] followers"?

    21 votes

  17. Comment on Elon Musk on racism, bailing out Donald Trump, hate speech, and more - The Don Lemon Show (full interview) in ~tech

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    Absolutely no need to spend any more time on this. It was just a few. Like: Which makes Musk sound better than he actually did because he was arguing that DEI was lowering standards. I think this...

    Absolutely no need to spend any more time on this. It was just a few. Like:

    "Musk disputes claims that standards are being lowered for minority or women doctors at Duke University, citing unsupplied evidence to the contrary."

    Which makes Musk sound better than he actually did because he was arguing that DEI was lowering standards.

    I think this is fine enough for people to take the summary with a grain of salt. Thanks for putting this together so less people have to listen to that blowhard!

    6 votes

  18. Comment on Elon Musk on racism, bailing out Donald Trump, hate speech, and more - The Don Lemon Show (full interview) in ~tech

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    It seems many times you reference Musk but meant Lemon.

    It seems many times you reference Musk but meant Lemon.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on Titanfall is still EA's most innovative shooter ten years later in ~games

  20. Comment on Titanfall is still EA's most innovative shooter ten years later in ~games

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    I looooved 2142. Loved that the community kept it alive for so long before they got shut down. Got excited when I thought EA were announcing a remake, but then noticed it was 2042, and not nearly...

    I looooved 2142. Loved that the community kept it alive for so long before they got shut down. Got excited when I thought EA were announcing a remake, but then noticed it was 2042, and not nearly as cool.

    3 votes