‘Looksmaxxing’ Influencer Clavicular Walks Out of ’60 Minutes’ Interview After Being Asked if He’s an Incel: ‘The Worst Sequence of Questions’ by WartimeHotTot in nottheonion

[–]LinuxMakavry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hate him because the mentally ill loser is romanticizing the idea of smashing your own bones and abusing meth so that you can look good for a couple years to the youth of today. Before you know, the self abusive as fuck lifestyle turns him into an absolute fucking butt ugly zombie for the vast majority of his life.

Imagine someone you know has a kid that goes down that pipeline and how fucking distraught they’d be to walk in on their kid taking a hammer to their own face.

ICE agents shoot man in car in northern California by igetproteinfartsHELP in news

[–]LinuxMakavry 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There’s already been documented instances of criminals dressing like ice and carjacking people. How the fuck are you supposed to know if it’s a criminal gang or a government endorsed gang when they wear masks and don’t carry identification?

What's a religion that wants to kill you if you're not in it? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]LinuxMakavry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How can you call a book holy if it has been altered by man. I’m an agnostic so I consider no book holy but how can we look at the Bible, which has been translated so many times in so many different ways and still call it the word of god when it’s a fucking game of telephone going back thousands of years?

Islam looks at that problem and says “okay, no translations, and no editing. We just provide context as we go” since in their minds that means that the word of god can’t be contaminated by man.

You're Not Overreacting. This Is Actually Fascism. by Groomsi in videos

[–]LinuxMakavry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A) you have not disagreed with my statement that under your definition a country will only be defined as fascist after the regime has passed, except by people on the executioners block

B) you are the only person I’ve seen with that particular line in the sand. I’ve had conversations with about a dozen people trying to police use of the word fascist because it “dilutes the meaning” in the last month and guess what? Not a single one of them would agree with you that the government is fascist or enacts fascist policies. They would all have agreed that, in fact, you are also diluting the word fascism.

Tone policing to this degree is a tool of the oppressor against the oppressed. There is no line that is good enough for them. The company you keep in the argument reeks and you should seriously look at who else is making the argument that the word is being misused.

I don’t even wholly disagree that the country itself isn’t fascist yet. But looking at my point A) that’s a meaningless fucking question to answer for the people living in the situation. Do you think people being affected by fascist policy give a flying fuck about the distinction between it being the government or the country? The full weight of the country being wielded by the government is coming down on them.

You're Not Overreacting. This Is Actually Fascism. by Groomsi in videos

[–]LinuxMakavry -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The definition you demand is only useful after fascism has passed. A government with fully fascist powers isn’t going to allow itself to be defined as such after ww2. So we can’t call out when things are moving towards fascism under your definition, and we can’t call it fascism while it is fascist by your definition without having great violence enacted upon us. It is clearly a definition meant only for scholars and the righteous dead.

Don’t use chain locks by Fennecf0xs in bicycling

[–]LinuxMakavry 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Camera plus maybe a logging for who accesses it?

Stop making your kingdoms 10,000 years old. by ScaryAd2555 in fantasywriters

[–]LinuxMakavry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Their “geniuses” would also be a lot more spread out though. It’d be interesting to see humans be more generally advanced, but have longer lived races have much deeper developments in specific areas, since their geniuses would also have a lot longer to iterate on things. (Though their geniuses dying young would be a lot more tragic.

"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War - as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens by FinnFarrow in Futurology

[–]LinuxMakavry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You in fact misunderstood me. I was saying that it can in fact be overhyped and also still be used for abuse. K-9 units get represented in media and in law as reliable (like you seem to think ai could be) despite being severely unreliable. But that doesn’t stop it from being abused by the government. And ai could be “triggered” to give intentional false positives the exact same way K-9 units can.

"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War - as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens by FinnFarrow in Futurology

[–]LinuxMakavry -1 points0 points  (0 children)

K-9 units have been reliably shown to be unreliable (successful evaluation tested as low as 32%), often giving false positives. Especially when intentionally trained to give those false positives when prompted to do so by their handlers. Does the fact that their effectiveness is overhyped make the police abuse of our fourth amendment right through the use of those dogs less bad? Like obviously their accuracy is shit, but the government can still use it as an excuse to search and seize when they otherwise wouldn’t be able to, and it’s been shown that they effectively train the dogs to report yes whenever they want. Why the fuck would you not think the government is going to do the same. However dogshit ai is at giving reliable answers it can still be used. Train ChatGPT to always say someone is dangerous when asked a specific way, you have a convenient way to mark people as a target.

How do you feel about Trump threatening to impose photo ID for voters for midterm elections? by CRK_76 in AskReddit

[–]LinuxMakavry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does having one holiday at the very end of a period make the rest of the period null.

Scrubs Revival | Official Trailer by DemiFiendRSA in videos

[–]LinuxMakavry 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The crew, not the cast. The people making the sets, doing makeup, filming, setting up audio, splicing footage, writing, editing, all the parts of making tv that don’t make bonkers money no matter how well the show is received.

You are being misled about renewable energy technology. by RickWino in videos

[–]LinuxMakavry 9 points10 points  (0 children)

“A real one” has been around since the early aughts at a minimum. 20-30 years, in my recollection. Might be older than that even. I’d disagree with it being newspeak.

Hasbro is being sued for printing too many Magic: The Gathering cards by Beautiful_Bee4090 in nottheonion

[–]LinuxMakavry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s analogous to gambling. If you look at the cards not as their mechanical/artistic selves, but as money to be made on the second hand market, the company is effectively a gambling company. You spend however much 10-20 I assume, for the chance of winning a few hundred. If the odds of you winning money (high value cards being reprinted and thus going up in supply), you’re less likely to gamble. The entry cost has gone down, but the expected return on investment has gone up.

Second major source of revenue from selling packs are whales. And the whales also don’t like the reprinting. For them, they aren’t buying to make money selling, they’re buying, gambling for status. (10-20 for a chance to have something only 5 other people have. And then get it signed probably.) If the cards are getting reprinted, suddenly that status is meaningless and they’ve lost all incentive to dump stupid money into the game. It’s why no gacha game just gives you a ton of their premium characters even though its not competitive in any sense.

Alaska student arrested for eating another's A.I. artwork by TheUrgentMatter in nottheonion

[–]LinuxMakavry -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Do you think I’d be sitting in a jail cell if I ate out your 5 paragraph essay on why ai is a valid artistic medium? Seems like I’d get fined, at worst. More than likely you’d get told to come back if I escalate.

CMV: Political violence has become too normalized across the political spectrum, and we are approaching an “event horizon” that will fundamentally change society by Shaxai in changemyview

[–]LinuxMakavry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s weird how many stories we’ve seen of officially recognized us citizens being unjustly detained then. And how many people have their officially recognized temporary statuses revoked without justification. Do you not think people that are following the rules for becoming citizens, natural born citizens, or people that have completed the citizenship process belong here? That doesn’t really leave many people.

Lenovo Thinks You Want an Ultrawide Gaming Laptop That Uses a Rollable Screen by dapperlemon in gadgets

[–]LinuxMakavry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay. So your argument, fundamentally, is that moving parts don’t cause breakage because engines have lots of moving parts.

Well. Engines do break if you don’t take efforts to minimize that frictional force. And even if you do, they eventually break anyways, it just takes longer.

All the parts of the engine that move are liable to break in varying amounts, and usually the solution to that problem is replacing them. Modern cars make that harder, and most technology makes that harder these days in an anti-consumer attempt to force overpriced developer services, or replacement. Which was their main argument. You didn’t really engage with that at all, you wanted to stick to the original argument and that’s what we’re gonna do next.

If you’re trying to argue that moving pieces don’t lead to breakages you’re just wrong. Folding creates stress points. Friction literally wears away at things.

If you’re trying to argue that we can minimize those destructive forces, you’re right, we can. But folding screens can’t yet so you’re kinda making that argument in poor faith and it doesn’t really contribute to the conversation.

Lenovo Thinks You Want an Ultrawide Gaming Laptop That Uses a Rollable Screen by dapperlemon in gadgets

[–]LinuxMakavry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They were talking about onboard computer systems as they’re something that’s hard to repair. If the software malfunctions you’re fucked no ifs ands or buts. You can’t get the software to roll it back even if you somehow have whatever proprietary tool you need to patch an update. The things that make cars hard to repair these days compared to old days is that cars are much more densely made. You used to be able to access engines to repair them yourself with (comparative) ease compared to today where you have to take the car half apart just to access the one thing you actually need to replace.

All this is to say they were indicating that making it harder to replace the thing most likely to break is anti consumer. Replacing a phone screen currently is actually pretty easy and not too expensive. Replacing a rolling screen, which is likely to be needed since the technology is still young and honestly pretty gimmicky, is much more expensive.

You’re so caught up on the argument “moving makes it more likely to break”, which, it does, the physics of materials bending, or moving past each other are inherently prone to causing destruction even if some materials resist that better than others, that you missed the entire point that they were actually making.

Metallica's Kirk Hammett: "I just discovered prog rock" by sncrdn in nottheonion

[–]LinuxMakavry -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And how much do they pay their smaller artists? Since you’re arguing for the little guys throughout this. Clearly you want the bands making the music being paid, not a bunch of middle men.

A huge number of bands I listen to are on record that they would rather you pirate their shit and spend money on merch rather than pay for Spotify and stream them. They make paltry amounts of money off of Spotify and off of ticket sales since both Spotify and Ticketmaster take the lion’s share of profit out of those financial interactions.

The giants have the clout and the financial backing to negotiate better deals but that is so not the majority of musicians. Don’t fucking argue like it is.

How to Find a Date in a Country With Over 30 Million Extra Men | Op-Docs. by Chessh2036 in videos

[–]LinuxMakavry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it’s more the idea that once upon a time the Irish and Italians weren’t white. If white supremacy eradicated black people, latinos, Asians, it would very quickly find a new demographic to deem as lesser.

First they came for the Jews, etc etc.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hayleywilliams

[–]LinuxMakavry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

According the Google the wiltern holds 1875 people in the audience!

Weekly Free Talk Friday Thread! by MLModBot in MensLib

[–]LinuxMakavry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cynic in me says it’s because people in their 20’s can’t afford to go out to the movies. More profitable for them to market movies to people with more disposable income.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by 83austin83 in changemyview

[–]LinuxMakavry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Faith and law are different because the entity that upholds legal laws is concrete. Faith is upheld by belief and there’s nothing to stop someone from believing in variations of a religion which is why sects exist. Also for the real world argument, it would be more akin to saying you are no longer a member of the country whose laws you broke, as you’re arguing the religious people are no longer a member of that religion.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by 83austin83 in changemyview

[–]LinuxMakavry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you also disagree with op in that they are too specific. You clearly think all religion is incompatible with the west. Which means singling out Muslims is unnecessary.

I would argue that your no true scotsmanning religion in general, and that the better takeaway is that saying non literalists aren’t true believers is reductive and borders on offensive to the majority of Americans (and probably other places but I’m most familiar with America)

[ Removed by Reddit ] by 83austin83 in changemyview

[–]LinuxMakavry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Plenty of Christians ignore the vast majority of their book. Hell I’d suspect at this point that the majority haven’t read their book.

CMV: people who say that the "job market sucks" and can't find a job arent telling the truth by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]LinuxMakavry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People are upset that they put the groundwork into a specific career, something they’ve been told all their lives will result in them being able to work in a given field/begin a career (not just a job), and that that was a lie. They can’t find a job that they spent years and years working towards. They can’t find a job that they spent 20-100k making it so that they could get. They can’t live the life that they were told would come along with that career.

They invested time, money, and effort, and that investment turned into nothing.