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What's the worst invention of the 21st century?
  • Old mandolin slicers. The plastic on one's produced recently cracks in a year for the cheap ones, or five years for the expensive ones. My grandmother had one that was solid metal. I'm sure it's serving my cousin as well today as it served my grandmother 50+ years ago.

  • Flat to not flat
  • Scientist are stupid removed because they're liars, Sometimes. Gravity is a complete scam! Ask a scientist, any scientist to explain gravity to you. They can't. Newton thought he could, but then Einstein came and proved he was a liar and a little removed. Einstein thought he could, but then some other scientist proved he was a liar and a removed. So how do we know they're all not lieing removed. /S

  • What would you consider your threat model?
  • If those companies that say they get other companies to delete your data weren't just going to turn around and sell their data I might actually sign up for one at this point. Sadly, even the heroes are villains in this story.

  • Campaigns Can Now See What You Watch on TV.
  • I use computer monitors for TVs. Mostly because they're smaller and I don't have that much space for stuff. Most have all those features but don't have a smart interface. I plug them in over HDMI and make sure CEC is enabled so I can turn it on and off with a dumb remote the RasPi. Works pretty well actually.

  • What was your worst work mishap, accident, or oopsie?
  • Tripped and dropped a box, worth approximately $220,000 today, of extremely precise tooling meant for a cutting die. I was on my way to my bench to wrap them up safely. Boss was not pleased that day.

  • What do you think of this prediction?
  • Realistically, it's only a matter of time until Steam becomes as enshittificated as any other services. There is profit to be made from Steam selling advertising space and customer data. They can either choose to capitalize on the profits that are in front of them, or allow another company to and take that capital from them. For a business it's not a matter of what's right and wrong anymore but consume or be consumed. If Steam isn't willing to do that someone else will be willing to play the long game and do it. Then it'll be only a matter of time until Steam gets acquired by another company and then it's game over.

  • Israel’s imminent fate
  • They won't divide it because Canada has always been Zionist and fascist. Not only did Canada permit an actual fascist Nazi to live in peace for 70 years. They then gave him honors and applause on their capital hill. Canada has abstained from any UN votes on the Israel - Palestine genocide. It doesn't get much more clear than that.

  • Ukraine to Protect Its F-16 Fighter Fleet by Basing Planes ‘in Other Countries’
  • This comment is for anyone who is experiencing nuclear-phobia, kinda like I do, to which I strictly mean living with a state of fear or dread about a nuclear apocalypse, this development does puts the world one step closer. It's okay to be scared by that, I know I am. It doesn't mean the world is one step away from a nuclear apocalypse. The world has been closer to the brink of nuclear war before and we're all still here. It's okay to breathe.

  • What's the dumbest blockbuster movie you have seen that somehow received high praise?
  • While I do agree that it, at times, definitely stepped into 'dumb femminism' as you put it. I also acknowledge that it was a movie and to do a discussion on feminism justice it would require a lot more than 2 hours. So a lot got simplified, sometimes too much. I disagree with you that it was a constant attack towards men. The movie went wayyyyy out of its way to make it clear they were attacking patriarchal systems, not men in general. That's Ken's whole arc, he's suffering under patriarchy too. He just also gets the benefits of the patruarchy while he's suffering. If I had any criticism about the film it was how much it tried to avoid criticizing capitalism and corporate culture's role.

  • the debt
  • I'm not a financial expert, so someone who is please step in and correct anything that I say is wrong. I need to learn too.

    It's because the government's debt is also a surplus. Government debt isn't like personal debt because the government debt is mostly through selling bonds that the government issues. Most of that debt is owned by American citizens, in one way or another, who buy those bonds. Most of that $34 trillion is money the government owes it's people, or at least the Americans who hold those bonds.

    It's not really money you owe but it's money that is owed to you. Well actually the billionaire class who can actually afford to buy these bonds but hey, that's Capitalism baby.

  • I feel so old
  • Playing our hidden games on the school's network. Good times. Back then if you knew a few lines of code you could give your session administrator privileges. That was when internet security existed because so few people knew how to use a computer, let alone a local network or the internet. An entire computer lab playing against another entire computer lab in whatever those games were called. The most popular was light cycles, an open source Tron clone.

  • Sam Altman Admits That OpenAI Doesn't Actually Understand How Its AI Works
  • It's not our fault our AI chose to set prices so high they extract all the money from customers. We just told it to find more efficient business strategies. How were we supposed to know that collectively raising prices with our competitors would bankrupt the public? It's not a conspiracy, we just chose the same AI models and the AIs just coalesced on the same answer. /S

    Seriously though, your absolutely right

    If he claimed to know how it worked, they wouldn’t be able to sell it as a scapegoat for indefensible business decisions.

  • The weight of different breeds of chicken over their lifespan
  • [s] How can you find the vegetarian in a large crowd? Don't worry, they'll tell you. [/s].

    Spoiler

    In all seriousness that's why I went vegetarian for almost a decade. I don't have an issue with eating meat, that's part of nature. We're omnivores. It's really messed up how profit focused the meat production industry has become and it's killing us as much as the livestock. I'm not using the word farming cause that's not farming

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    Very nuanced issue
  • Can't believe I'm posting in a Palestine thread again but here we go. I think people aren't using the same words in the same way in this thread. In the last decade there has been a shift in how the word liberal is used. Two decades ago there were the neo-liberals, which said they were not big C conservative but were.

    To separate themselves from the neo-liberals, liberals started calling themselves leftist. Which meant the neo-liberals as the only "liberals" remaining. So now the word liberal can mean a person on the left, or a person on the right, depending on the intent of the speaker.

    So saying that the liberals are turning a blind eye to genocide is true, the speaker probably just means neo-liberals but ommitted the neo. Language is fluid, and confusing

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