Talcosis

One of the most interesting statistics I’ve ever heard was that traffic stops go up significantly around theaters that have recently screened a fast and furious movie.

I hope it’s a true statistic because it makes a lot of sense.

I just don’t think it was possible back then. Not enough internet bandwidth/integration.

Now, cloud gaming is just another use case/revenue stream for data centers.

Damn, they’ll have to go all the way to zillow if they wanna case your place, huh?

Factorio devs once put out a blog post about game key stores. Essentially, they were running into the issue of people buying factorio keys with stolen credit cards and then reselling them for cheap on G2A or whatever. Then the credit card would get identified as stolen, charge backs would be issued, and bank fraud departments would get involved. As a result, the factorio devs were actually losing money from stolen credit card sales.

Of course, factorio is in a somewhat unique position of never putting the game on sale, so if you’re getting it cheap it’s probably from some dude using a stolen CC.

At this point I think it’s a hardware (or the lack thereof) issue. I tried to virtual box on my computer using…I think cinnamon? Was recommended as a noob distro. Got weird error codes, googling them didn’t help.

Upon further discussion, I was informed that VB is one of the more complicated methods and I should just install it on another computer. Unfortunately I don’t have a fully functional second computer.

Once again, I agree. Perhaps my previous phrasing was a bit harsh, I’m not taking offense. In my judo practice, there’s this idea of “stupid uke”, an opponent who intentionally acts like dead weight. Living training dummy for learning new moves or perfecting your form.

I am, to some extent, playing stupid uke right now.

Accessibility to normies is a common problem I see in smaller projects, even minor stuff like videogames. I’m thinking of a specific example right now, where the (small) dev team is clearly very talented…and very much falling into the expertise trap. Basically need to learn an entire programming language to play the game, which is not marketed as that kind of game.

I recognize that I’m ahead of the curve in this sense, and I will figure it out one day, probably very soon. I just want to point out that accessibility will be a major factor, and that this is something that privacy-focused software will have to reckon with sooner rather than later.

You’re not wrong.

But I’d like to point out that I said “I’m struggling to find a decent tutorial that works for me” and your response was “skill issue lol”.

Do you actually want people to switch to linux and graphene, or do you wanna laugh at incompetent normies?

Simple tutorials.

I know that a decent chunk of the privacy/Linux folk have that same “I had to suffer and you should too” boomer mindset, and that’s like 80% of the reason I haven’t stopped using Google and Microsoft.

I’m not a software dev, but I do have a job and a life and shit. There is only so much time I can spend trying to figure that shit out before I decide it’s not worth it.

Seems to me that it’s much easier to create a single cohesive nationalistic identity by destroying every other place where people can find identity. Which often involves groups of people interacting and finding ways to work together.

Bit like how people with few real life social connections are much more likely to fall into parasocial relationships.

Also a bit like the isolation step before the abuse starts.

I would not pull the switch, that’s my solution to all permutations of the trolley problem.

I meant did you try bending your elbows further than that?

They technically could go further. Might, uh, sting a bit. Or is your mind/willingness limited by your body?

Have you ever tried moving your toes? Not as a whole, but individually. Like your fingers. The nerves are there, the brain connections are there, the muscles are there…can your mind grow enough to make them function?

You are correct. I do make a guess as to who feels what. I just don’t feel the need to limit my guesses to some arbitrary definition of life that does feel pain and life that does not feel pain. All life feels pain. Plants included.

How do you measure emotions?

Like, how do I know that you have emotions? If I punch you, how do I know you’ll feel pain? I’m not gonna feel what you feel, I can only observe your response. Stimulus, response.

Same thing with plants. Same thing with dogs.

As to your last point, it wasn’t that long ago that Very Smart People argued dogs don’t feel pain. Of course they obviously did, and of course most every normal person recognized they did…but that wasn’t what we “knew”, as a society. Hell, it wasn’t until like, 50 years ago that we recognized human babies felt pain prior to being able to vocalize an “ow that hurts”.

Perhaps it makes people feel better to know that dogs feel pain and lettuce doesn’t. But that’s almost certainly not a true statement.

Edit: also, how much of your body controls your brain? Like, have you ever considered bending your elbow in the wrong direction? No? Why not? Why is it the wrong direction? It just is, right? That’s how the body works?

No, but they will release chemical signals that attract predators of things that eat plants, while telling other nearby plants to start moving nutrients into their root structures to minimize damage.

Yeah, but we’re talking about literally soaking the entire building in concentrated vinegar for months, not throwing a water balloon of regular vinegar at it. This particular case probably didn’t do anything

Pretty minor. If they picked up the whole data center and soaked it in a large jug of 10% acetic acid for about nine months, the concrete would lose about 20% of its strength.

Not sure about the civil engineering side, but I assume there’s enough safety factor in your average construction to account for 20% strength loss.

I got a Scepter 55" dumb TV for like, 600$ in Nov. 2024

I figured between tarrifs and the orange, shit was gonna get more expensive and less private

People that don’t like pineapple on their food are just not adventurous enough to get digested back.

Some people can only dish it, I guess

Tbf tng did actually deal with robot (data) rights and humanity, so robo-racism sorta makes sense.

I agree with everything else you said. I blame the netflixification of media, where they assume everyone is looking at their phones the entire time.

Depends on who you piss off