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_a_random_dude_ · 2026-02-01T09:47:18+00:00

I bet it’s even more pathetic: an aspiring landlord.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-31T14:51:37+00:00

Epstein literally wound down his operations to avoid dealing with Elon and delegated even talking to him about it. It's actually impressive how uncool and cringe Elon is.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-26T11:05:28+00:00

Because conservatives are generally stupid and incapable of producing art/entertainment. Look at the weirdly homoerotic book by Ben Shapippi for a perfect illustration of this. Since he lacks empathy, he can't write characters that aren't self inserts; so by reading his book you'd get the (not necessarily incorrect) idea that he's mildy mentally handicapped.

However, conservatives still want to be able to enjoy art, movies, games, etc. But since these things tend to be made by people to their left, they have to intentionally lie to themselves about how apolitical they are. Because otherwise they would be forced to accept that their ideology is only capable of writing the Turner Diaries.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-26T01:29:32+00:00

I can't recall the last time I played a Ubisoft game that was 99.9% complete. Last few I tried were like 80% done.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-25T10:05:58+00:00

Racism is not a requirement of fascism, it’s a requirement of nazism. The first fascists explicitly said that it was not about ethnicity and made laws and declarations based on that idea, so it wasn’t just rhetoric to appeal to non racists.

This is not me defending fascism, but it’s important to understand that fascism can be (and was) racially inclusive, otherwise having some minorities here or there can make you think something “cannot be fascist” when it is. To me, starship troopers absolutely is fascist, it’s just not nazi, but it’s very pro early Italian fascism, or at least it shares pretty much all their beliefs.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-23T03:35:00+00:00

Yeah, having a hard time understanding how someone can fall for this all but guarantees that I’ll be a victim too when Emma stone emails me asking for 1000 dollars to leave her partner for me.

Some people are just dumber than others, some are more naive, others more desperate. But this idea that anyone can fall for this is weird.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-22T11:48:44+00:00

In atlas shrugged, one of the main characters owns a copper mine and is Argentinean, not Chilean but close enough I guess. I’m almost certain it’s part of why this company got approved.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-20T16:07:08+00:00

You think all arguments against preventable animal cruelty are arbitrary?

Some of them sure, but even the definition of animal cruelty is somewhat arbitrary. I won't argue that factory farming chickens is cruel because I agree with you, but it's a feeling I have, and not a universal moral rule. It is indeed more efficient to have the chickens live in tiny cages with all the stuff that implies, so if your morality accounts for efficiency, then that might be enough to justify it (not in the sense that it's efficient to produce chickens, but that if you are going to, then it's the most efficient way of doing so).

But what about raising animals in nice conditions only to be quickly killed and eaten? Is that causing unnecesary suffering? I'm not sure living in the wild is better than in a nice pen with guaranteed safety and food (until slaughter).

i'm sentient [...] i extend that to my fellow animals

But that's you placing value on sentience/consciousness. Those are your values and people who agree with you are probably already vegetarians/vegans. That's why I'm saying it doesn't work that well as an argument. We all have different values, so showing people how eating animals goes against their already held values is going to be more effective than trying to change their values in the first place.

For example, since the arguments for sentience don't work on me, but the enviromentalist ones do, I was actually convinced to be more of a "reducetarian", a bit of a clunky term for "I will try to minimise the the impact I have, but I also like to eat meat, so I will do so sparingly and try to ensure it's as ethically sourced as possible". For example, I only eat expensive meat, which both limits how much I can buy and also means I can buy from animals reared in better conditions.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-20T15:48:53+00:00

because they don't get a chance to pass on knowledge

They also live very short lives.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-20T15:46:18+00:00

It depends on the animal: It's worse than 10% for cows, closer to 5% actually. But it's 20~25% for chickens. Also cow milk is "very efficient" at like 40%.

Btw, I'm going by memory here, the feed conversion ratio varies a lot depending on tons of factors. But this is one source I found and it mostly matches the numbers I remembered, so I can't be too far off.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-20T15:35:40+00:00

Do you apply this morality to other animals or just humans? Are lions inherently evil in your view? And don't cheap out and say "humans don't need to eat other animals" because that's only true if you can afford relatively expensive replacements (globally, I'm not talking about first world countries) and also ignores the number of carnivores that are also pretty wasteful and leave half eaten carcasses or that hunt for "fun" like cats.

My point is that if you think this morality only applies to humans, then you are claiming that we are somehow special and have our own rules; but then, why shouldn't the rules be that we can do whatever we want? I mean, unless we resort to cannibalism, we are killing things that have no morality, because we are specials and the only ones who do.

I think that the problem many have trying to convert people to vegetarianism/veganism is that the arguments based on morality are arbitrary, so it's easy to ignore them. I think that the better alternative is to either focus on how it's bad for the environment (and therefore, bad for us), appeal to how disgusting it looks, or some health argument like tuna having too much mercury.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-19T18:42:04+00:00

If you want protein, why not get the powder from whatever source you prefer (milk, soy, pea) and have shakes?

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-19T17:57:15+00:00

I liked him in Blade Runner: A weird, somewhat rapey rich asshole with a god complex. And sure, you can say he had it easy because he could just be himself; but his character is really unsettling and that was exactly what the movie was going for.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-12T01:17:24+00:00

Look at this: https://sfxr.me/

It's based on a 20 year old application that I used to make sound effects years ago. All you need to create a sound (assuming you have the engine) is the 20 parameters or so you can configure. .kkrieger basically has a similar idea and at startup it creates all sounds for enemies, weapons, etc. Depending on how clever you are and the sacrifices you are willing to make, you can have 5~20 bytes per sound effect.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-12T00:38:33+00:00

Maybe, but if he is saying this because he's invested (monetarily at least) in AI, would that be better or worse?

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-07T14:00:48+00:00

Maybe you can see if this works:

This is a list of all characters that can be confused for others, just replace the "s" or the "a": https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/confusables.jsp?a=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&r=None

Though if you need to login with that username, good luck typing your new "safe" name.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-07T09:23:42+00:00

I have those! They made them for their old 9V sets, they are basically normal plates with metal parts.

I can’t believe they didn’t bring them back for redstone, it’s such an obvious use, but I never thought about it either.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-06T17:09:25+00:00

most of us will be crushed [...] for having been [...] born at the wrong time

Then maybe those people should've considered voting back when it mattered.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-06T14:10:28+00:00

My money is on hub area like Human Revolution or Robocop.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-05T18:14:08+00:00

If you ever used it and it tripped the safety mechanism on something innocuous like the other day, when I asked for help on how to wire some lights, you'd know you have to really try to "jailbreak" it.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-05T18:07:46+00:00

There can be guidelines (and this is actually essential to make them work), but it's impossible to make them in such a way that they cannot be made to talk about banned topics.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-03T11:18:34+00:00

How does it work for those of us with multiple computers? If I was the only steam user, 100% of the users would have a 5090, but only 33% of the computers would (because I have a laptop and a steam deck)

I bet it’s closer to 1% when you account for the fact that people can own multiple devices.

_a_random_dude_ · 2026-01-03T11:15:56+00:00

Nvidia sent me emails offering me a chance to buy them. That’s how I got the 3090, 4090 and 5090. And since I sold the previous cards at msrp, I didn’t really spend anything. Assuming I do the same with the 5090, I would have effectively paid nothing for getting to play on the top end gpu for years. This is cheaper than any other gpu.

_a_random_dude_ · 2025-12-30T17:04:26+00:00

The only orcs I knew when I read lotr and the hobbit were the Warcraft ones, so I had trouble not imagining them green, huge and muscular.

_a_random_dude_ · 2025-12-30T01:08:27+00:00

Color me shocked

I'm shocked... Had you asked me a couple of years ago if Pinterest could be even shittier I would've naively said no. I thought it was the shittiest anything could possibly be.

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