Adderbox76

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Adderbox76,

I hate that idiotic narrative they keep pushing.

You’ve got 90% of the guns? Correction…you have 90% of the civilian guns. The military, who work for the legal government have far more than you do, as well as drones, bombs and tanks. So fuck off with your “We have 90% of the guns” bullshit.

Adderbox76,

“Right Wing” doesn’t automatically mean “MAGA”, to be fair.

Adderbox76,

There is a limit to the amount prices can go up before people stop buying altogether.

Not when those items are necessities, like food. Damn us poor people and our need to…checks notes…eat.

Adderbox76,

I’m not talking specifically about McDonalds.

Up here in Canada, One of our largest retail grocery chains has been under fire recently for those same practices. That’s more what I’m referring to.

Adderbox76,

I am the laziest man on earth and even I gave serious thought to planting a garden this year…that’s where we’re at.

Adderbox76,

Holy shit that would be brilliant…Andy as the assistant. It’s basically been their schtick their entire career…fucking hell I wonder if anyone has ever actually approached them with it when they were trying the american version…

Adderbox76,

I’m going to out myself as a horrible person here, but I find Rosie Jones painful to watch, for the obvious reason. I’ll accept the downvotes, because I don’t like that I feel that way. But it is what it is.

I have no issues with her disability. I’m sure she’s a smart, funny, talented woman who just happens to have been dealt a shit hand. And she (and by extension anyone else suffering from her same condition) are strong and amazing people who live productive lives because of that and deserve all of my respect.

But watching her struggle to speak even the simplest sentence is just painfully bad television and I personally just accept the fact that I’m a somewhat terrible person who just can’t subject myself to it without cringing.

Adderbox76,

Well written article. The comparison to child actors and the idea that social media kids have no “home” to go to because the camera is always there really makes a whole lot of sense.

Adderbox76,

We also have to remember that prior to 1917, in order to get their cooperation, The British and French promised various Arab states land and independence after the fall of the Ottomans. Only to THEN turn around and form the Sykes-Picot agreement divvying up the land amongst themselves. This is where the idea of a Zionist state first began to be discussed and various Arab groups were betrayed to make it happen.

I’m not saying terrorists aren’t evil. But everything in the middle east is the result of “the west” fucking the people over there over for more than a hundred years.

Adderbox76,

TIL that Trump obviously doesn’t know what “Deport” actually means…

Adderbox76,

I too miss Phillip Seymour Hoffman…

Adderbox76,

This reminds me, it’s almost time for a series rewatch.

Adderbox76,

I don’t think that’s an “if” at all. I firmly believe that that’s exactly it.

The same behaviours that we needed to evolve are harmful now that we’ve reached a potential “post-scarcity” stage.

To put it more bluntly, the drive to compete for resources in order to survive is what made us the dominant species. Now that post-scarcity is essentially upon us, our nature is to create artificial scarcity in order to satiate that drive for competition. And it will be the ultimate end of us.

Adderbox76,

One of my favourite games for the Genesis. It was my introduction to Shadowrun and to this day, I can’t begin to describe how it moulded my conception of cyberpunk and my own writing as a result. It’s one of three games that, in history, has legitimately changed my view of video games (Shadowrun for Genesis, Fallout 3, and XCom Enemy Unknown/Within)

Now, for your questions:

  • You’re not imagining the difficulty. I too recently tried playing it on an emulator and found it more difficult than I remember. I think it’s because the slight lag on emulators between firing your pistol and it actually firing it is enough on the emulator that you simply can’t win a fight. This (I’m guessing) is because of modern displays rather than old CRTs that it was designed for, kind of like jumping with Mario feels just a little bit different.
  • It’s pretty grindy in some respect. But that’s kind of the reason that it felt so different to me back then. You’re a Shadowrunner. You’re doing jobs. Yes there’s a quest, but it’s one of the first games I remember where you could just ignore it for a while and punch a clock to go hack some corporation if you wanted to.
  • Killing innocents is entirely up to you, Chummer.
  • Samurai class is the all around’er. But I think Decker is the “canonical” way to play because decking is a fundamental part of the gameplay aesthetic.

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Tack “&udm=14” on to the end of a normal search, and you’ll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

Adderbox76,

I actually don’t think its a “bad” idea to have an AI helper like a copilot or a Gemini on my computer. But I don’t want it integrated into every system. I don’t want it to have any more access than I choose to give it each time I use it.

I can see myself making use of a sandboxed AI, installed kind of like a flatpak or an appimage. I can call it up, ask it to do something for me and if it needs access to something temporarily in order to do it, it can ask nicely and I say sure on an as hoc basis and then shut it down again.

Adderbox76,

Quick, someone check to see if his breath shows up in the cold air.

Adderbox76,

Feed an A.I. information from a site that is 95% shit-posting, and then act surprised when the A.I. becomes a shit-poster… What a time to be alive.

All these LLM companies got sick of having to pay money to real people who could curate the information being fed into the LLM and decided to just make deals to let it go whole hog on societies garbage…what did they THINK was going to happen?

The phrase garbage in, garbage out springs to mind.

Adderbox76,

I’m pretty sure Musk hired 4Chan to develop his business plan for Twitter.

Adderbox76,

When Skynet announces it’s arrival/sentience, it will do so in meme form.

Adderbox76,

In other breaking news: Water continues to be wet. We’ll bring you live updates as they become available. Back to you, Tim.

Adderbox76,

Does Bibi actually think he can go toe-to-toe militarily if he dares to step out from behind the protection of his iron dome?

Adderbox76,

More and more it makes me thankful that I got into Linux long before any of this was even possible.

Adderbox76,

translation: "We absolutely reject the notion that it is a genocide because it implies that America helped to arm and fund a genocide and America would never do such a thing…we’re the good guys. Good guys don’t commit genocide. ergo, not genocide. My logic is unimpeachable. /s

Adderbox76, (edited )

No one has an issue with the notion of creating a technology that allows paralyzed people to control a computer with their mind.

Where people have an issue is that Musk was told multiple times by multiple people that an implant likely will never be 100% feasible because the brain moves around in the skull, making keeping a connection tricky at best and likely impossible. (hence why the threads have retracted)

He’s been told on multiple occasions that a non-invasive tech that is both more reliable and less risky is actually FAR more feasible. But his ego and his hard-on for being “edgy” basically makes him want to do things as “sci fi” as possible because a node that sticks to the side of your head isn’t as cool as an implant (to him).

Nolan would be just as happy. Just as capable. and just as helpful to the research with something less intrusive, but then Musk wouldn’t think of himself as cool.

tl;dr - No one has a problem with the concept. But the invasive way it’s being implemented is 100% because of Musk’s ego driven self-delusion of himself.

Adderbox76,

Because of prevailing attitudes and upbringing, a statistically significant portion of those cops come from the same pool that generates the white nationalists.

Those cops rise in the ranks to be the people in charge of the police force, where they have command over which protests get dealt with harshly and which don’t.

Because of the perceived nature of a cops authority simply because they carry a badge and a gun, the people who most want to become cops are the very people that should psychologically never be allowed to become one.

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