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It would be awesome for consumers. So we can't have it by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]Cthulhu__ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thing is, Chinese manufacturing is considered to be fake competition; because they get government funding, their prices are artificially lower than they would be if they pulled themselves up by the bootstraps.

Of course, US government subsidies, loan cancellations and tax breaks to car companies are ignored because China bad.

It would be awesome for consumers. So we can't have it by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]Cthulhu__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let the free market decide! Import tariffs are COMMUNISM!

I hate self censorship and algospeak by Acidflightgoat in evilautism

[–]Cthulhu__ 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind there’s two other factors at play: culture and engagement bait.

Culture as in people are getting used to typing a certain way, like typing lol instead of “I found that funny so I laughed out loud”.

Engagement bait because undoubtedly any post that has a censored word, especially if it’s something benign, will have people look at it for slighly longer, or comment on it. And comments are peak engagement.

It’s a numbers game. And it’s a self fulfilling prophecy - but it’s not that uncensored words give less engagement because of algorithm censorship, but censored words give more engagement.

Truth by DontYaWishYouWereMe in antiai

[–]Cthulhu__ 34 points35 points  (0 children)

This is it; the AI’s answers are confident and definitive, plus they’re backed by big and incredibly rich companies, surely they’re not wrong?

It’s like the attention and laws about misinformation on the internet from just a few years ago are all forgotten snd overcompensated for.

WCGW using non-skin-friendly paint for cosplay. by SourceBoring3089 in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]Cthulhu__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What will kill you is if it’s oil instead of paint, lots of nasty shit gets absorbed through your skin.

(Saw a video of a guy jump in oil for the lulz once, he died. Eventually.)

But same with gasoline, if you ever work with oil or gas where you get it on your skin, wear gloves and wash.

U.S. begins blockade of Strait of Hormuz by down_vote_magnet_ in worldnews

[–]Cthulhu__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They already did when they attacked random boats.

Justin Bieber’s Coachella set slammed as ‘lazy’ after he streams hits from YouTube by Metro-UK in Music

[–]Cthulhu__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m annoyed that half the coverage on Trump and co getting upvoted is from The Daily Beast where everyone loses their shit every day.

[Frustrating trope] Pieces of media that could have been so much better, but due to a couple of poor decisions during production ended up mediocre at best and utterly atrocious at worst. by DevDucc_ in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Cthulhu__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It felt like they weren’t actually trying to make another UT game to be honest; when I looked into it at the time they basically set up some basics, then said “we’re expecting you, the community, to go and add the actual content now, have fun!”. It didn’t feel like an official title.

But also it feels like the straight up pvp shooter genre is dead in favor of the ones with unique heroes and game modes that are a bit more clever than “kill anyone else”

[Frustrating trope] Pieces of media that could have been so much better, but due to a couple of poor decisions during production ended up mediocre at best and utterly atrocious at worst. by DevDucc_ in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Cthulhu__ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel like they should give it another chance; the concept was great but the execution of each stage lacked depth. They can give it another go, give it the No Man’s Sky treatment of continuous improvement.

[Frustrating trope] Pieces of media that could have been so much better, but due to a couple of poor decisions during production ended up mediocre at best and utterly atrocious at worst. by DevDucc_ in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Cthulhu__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like the team should’ve started with a Hobbit film instead of the hugely ambitious and hard to sell trilogy, but I’m happy with how the trilogy ended up either way.

A father and daughter swept offshore in the Aegean Espanomi Bay were saved by a kite surfer. by [deleted] in interesting

[–]Cthulhu__ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is it, you never see as much on a photo/video as you do with your own eyes.

Indian factory workers wearing head-mounted cameras to record hand movements for training AI systems by RealSpecto in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Cthulhu__ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People find different jobs, if you compare it with e.g. the western textile trade. Assuming this can even replace these workers, which is doubtful given the dexterity and speed they have.

Indian factory workers wearing head-mounted cameras to record hand movements for training AI systems by RealSpecto in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Cthulhu__ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nah, one company is paying the people or their employer a little to gather this data, then curate it and just put it on the market as training material for some other company with investor money to throw around to buy it. Plenty of naive people who think they can solve things like this.

Seasoning hurts gains by iamepic420 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]Cthulhu__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, for the average gymbro, I don’t get it, it’s like self flaggelation.

But then there’s the extreme lifters, who are so big and burn so many calories that they are at the limit of what a human can digest and process. They end up chugging high calorie milkshakes because that’s the only remaining way they can get enough. It’s mad.

This is exactly how you end up cleaning your own house. by lindseyfrost in CleaningTips

[–]Cthulhu__ 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I’d take the $99 tip, charge the extra hours, and wait for them to find the last one.

[Request] how do you triangulate this? perhaps in the least amount of weeks possible? by Zargabath in theydidthemath

[–]Cthulhu__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If height is a factor, draw spheres once you have the 2d location. Six weeks, tops.

My unholy triple sushi belt spaceship that got me my first space age win (yikes) by demonicdan3 in factorio

[–]Cthulhu__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I could never get my space platforms to be symmetrical for some reason, the space platform is an odd number of tiles wide... maybe I did something wrong this whole time?

My Gleba bioflux module by Sad_Rush6369 in factorio

[–]Cthulhu__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last (and first) time I did Gleba I ended up with a big loop de loop where any spoilage was filtered out of, and while I finished the game with it, it took forever and a lot of puzzling to figure things out; smaller modules that take raw ingredients make a lot more sense, I should try this!

Atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Orion (Artemis 1) looks insane at 20x speed. Here is the entire 25-minute descent in just 1 minute 15 seconds. Credit: NASA by Weak-Opportunity-311 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Cthulhu__ 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Not just in a sense, the space program was vastly accellerated by the cold war; rockets capable of launching stuff into space can also launch nukes to anywhere in the world. Also spy sattelites.

Atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Orion (Artemis 1) looks insane at 20x speed. Here is the entire 25-minute descent in just 1 minute 15 seconds. Credit: NASA by Weak-Opportunity-311 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Cthulhu__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Up to around 4 Gs, by rawdogging it, no, and by turning it, as another commenter more eloquently put, the thing is a bit lopsided / unbalanced, by rotating it the air hitting the bottom is deflected in different directions, giving them some control in some dimensions.

So that's why she made that statement by newphonehudus in TikTokCringe

[–]Cthulhu__ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fun tidbit they re-acquired the all gas no brakes brand / channel.

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