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whoami, 9 months ago

“F2P game developers are the biggest fucking idiots” - Unity CEO, c. 2022: theverge.com/…/unity-ceo-john-riccitiello-apology…

whoami, 11 months ago

Posts like these make me feel like I could live with the loss of the pattern recognition part of my brain.

whoami, 11 months ago

I disabled my DNS block-list for 5 minutes to test something, and my Samsung TV used its newfound freedom to immediately go and automatically install the TikTok app from its app store. It no longer gets the privilege of an internet connection.

whoami, 11 months ago

This was in Europe - 2019 model as well. Must have been around 2021 or so, when TikTok was just taking off.

whoami, 11 months ago

Can they still claim their security deposit back or does this fall under cover for emotional damages?

whoami, 11 months ago

Your credit card details (and renal failure)

whoami, 11 months ago

Isn’t it amazing how detached people can be from the real-world effects of their thoughts and beliefs, so long as they don’t get to personally experience their impact?

whoami, 11 months ago

Is the view that this wouldn’t have happened under private healthcare predicated on something in particular? It’s not like private healthcare is somehow fundamentally immune to malpractice.

whoami, 11 months ago

I’ll note that it’s extremely hard to vet for that sort of behaviour in doctors and preempt the cases you’ve described from happening - they could have just as easily happened under private healthcare.

whoami, 11 months ago

Don’t worry, Sony has a patent that will ultimately take care of this problem: www.creativebloq.com/sony-tv-patent

whoami, 11 months ago

Saw your edit, just a reminder for people to be careful with cheap Android TV boxes off Amazon/AliExpress etc. Lots of them are malware-ladden: techcrunch.com/…/popular-android-tv-boxes-sold-on…

whoami, 11 months ago

Unfortunately there’s so many OEM variants of these things that it borderlines on impossible to tell for certain which ones are and which ones aren’t, short of taking the firmware apart. Given the proximity in the naming convention, I suspect it might be.

Much as I dislike Google, the Chromecast with Google TV (4K) variant is probably the closest in price and is reputable.

whoami, 11 months ago

Evergreen George Carlin quote: “Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.”

whoami, 11 months ago

Yeah his take on that matter was spectacularly off base, even for comedy purposes

whoami, 11 months ago

meanwhile the sacred band of thebes:

whoami, 11 months ago

Marriage is not a Christian concept - matrimony is. The concept of marriage predates the Christians by millennia.

whoami, 11 months ago

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell is also a good exploration of the subject

whoami, 11 months ago

“From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.

Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.

But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal.”

whoami, 11 months ago

You become more digitally beautiful but cannot help the feeling that you have lost a small part of you in the process. You traverse your new habitat only to realise large parts of it are walled off to you.

You eventually acquiesce to your situation, as a metaphorical bird in a carefully designed and elegant yet ultimately hollow bird cage.

(Also a Mac & Linux user, I’d really be hoping nobody takes enough offense at joke posts like this in 196 Lemmy to warrant a flame war).

whoami, 11 months ago

Although the original paper in question appears to have just been English with Greek characters. So “ωε νεεδ το οβσκυρε τηις κνοωλεδγε” would have been more accurate.

whoami, 11 months ago

The average person isn’t wrecking the environment for no reason either, and yet they always appear to be the target for “environmental sustainability” snipes presented by mainstream media as fact. There are an innumerable number of practices that large industries can practice to limit their carbon footprint, but it is never a priority.

whoami, 11 months ago

Public transport probably isn’t a viable option in some cases, so I’m hoping EVs do catch on for this reason. Reducing or eliminating meat consumption, or at least finding more sustainable ways to provide it (i.e. lab-grown meat) also would definitely play a significant role. I am not advocating for eliminating all responsibility from the consumer side

whoami, 11 months ago

I especially like the part where I prefixed this with “there’s no responsibility on the part of consumers whatsoever”

whoami, 11 months ago

“I didn’t realise it was only cold hearted pragmatism that prevents you from pumping gas into Lidl!”

whoami, 11 months ago

If sociopathy can be transmitted by prion disease, that’ll be a quick way to find out.

whoami, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Is that methodology also how the CDP works? I am looking at en.wikipedia.org/…/Top_contributors_to_climate_ch… in particular, and the figures aren’t looking ridiculously better still.

Or is that the difference between the Scope 1+3 tables and the All cause table in this page?

edit: Snopes has in fact written a fact check that corroborates the methodology used by CDP is potentially flawed for this exact reason. So it will not be accurate - www.snopes.com/…/corporations-greenhouse-gas/.

I’ll defer to the following point by the original Twitter OP though, which I still think is valid: “The point I was trying to make is that any media coverage that reduces the issue to personal choices is incomplete, and [structural] issues should always be central to climate reporting,” Johnson told us. “Individuals’ choices are not unimportant. They just shouldn’t be the focus of climate coverage.”

tl;dr: Yes, personal responsibility and reducing one’s carbon footprint is also very important, but there is chronic under-reporting on the other end of the equation.