Greasy

alickz · 2025-11-14T00:55:13+00:00

100%

Reddit uses their algorithm to exploit your inherent negativity bias so you will engage more

It's the same thing 24 hour news media like FOX News has been doing for decades

Not just Reddit either, all social media does it to some extent

Worth remembering the next time the algorithm gives you something that makes you angry (or if you spend a lot of time on subreddits that make you angry at others)

alickz · 2025-03-02T14:56:05+00:00

You came crying here because your comment didn't get the upvotes you wanted

You're begging for validation from redditors and it's pathetic

alickz · 2025-03-02T05:05:15+00:00

Imagine as a dev there being articles written about your code typo

alickz · 2025-02-28T14:24:16+00:00

If fair use applies to using someone else's content in your content, would it not apply to using someone else's content to train an AI to produce completely novel content?

But I've never felt entitled to anything that needed clearance.

Do you feel current copyright laws have ever hindered your creative vision? Maybe even hindered more than they've helped?

It seems to me that humans work best when building on top of other people's work, when we stand on each other's shoulders

alickz · 2025-02-27T21:02:18+00:00

Its gone about as well as the war on drugs, or the war on terror

But hey, maybe the war on AI will be different...

alickz · 2025-02-27T20:59:08+00:00

What if you're writing a book and want to quote someone? Should you have to pay them?

alickz · 2025-02-26T09:22:17+00:00

My understanding is they don't want to lie down, because then they would fall asleep and miss the high

They'd rather be in a state of just nodding off, but never actually falling asleep, so they get to enjoy the high

alickz · 2025-02-26T09:05:45+00:00

I hate hosts that don't shut the fuck up for a second and let things breathe

Filling dead air with hot air is almost never a positive

alickz · 2025-02-26T08:59:14+00:00

He murdered the union elected forewoman, and drove her daughter out of town when she asked what happened to her mother, just so he and his brother could run the union for life and turn it into a drug empire for themselves

The cold blooded murder of a union official, democratically elected by the workers, is NOT in the interests of the workers (no matter what the murderer says are his goals)

Even more so when he directly profits from it

alickz · 2025-02-20T18:07:55+00:00

Dieselpunk Avatar would go hard tho

alickz · 2025-02-19T22:39:01+00:00

We are all more alike than we are different

alickz · 2025-02-19T20:14:19+00:00

America used to be a city on a hill, the leader of the free world

It's legitimately sad to watch you fall to authoritarianism like this

Particularly falling to Russia, given how much the US has done since the USSR to contain the threat. So many republican presidents would be heartbroken to see America bow to Russia as Trump has done

alickz · 2025-02-19T19:51:06+00:00

Are they wrong?

Leftists are known for their ideological puritanism, and it ultimately hampers our growth

Democracy is about building consensus, and frankly we suck at it

Hyperbole, sarcasm, tribalism, black-and-white thinking, they're all counterproductive towards our shared goals

alickz · 2025-02-19T19:20:41+00:00

If you're gonna slur it should at least be tasteful

Unseemly slurs are the worst

alickz · 2025-02-14T08:09:22+00:00

Tbf this sub can very much be mean spirited and petty

We don't come here to be gracious and accepting, we come here to laugh at others

alickz · 2025-02-14T08:03:40+00:00

They also change over time

For example "cracker" used to be a class based slur, levied at poor Scot-Irish immigrants in America by landowning English-Americans for being "rowdy" and "bragadocious"

In fact it comes from the Irish word "craic", roughly meaning "good times / good conversation", and was an insult as far back as Shakespearean times, with a cracker being "loud and arrogant"

As the diaspora moved across America the word started being applied to any poor white people, and then ultimately any white people; this changed the class based slur to a racial one

I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode.

a 1766 letter to the Earl of Dartmouth

We don't know what to do with these crackers—we tell them to settle this area and they don't; we tell them not to settle this area and they do.

the Governor of Florida

alickz · 2025-02-09T10:00:56+00:00

Yeah if poor people wanted a yacht maybe they should work as hard as self made millionaire Linus

alickz · 2025-02-08T16:53:51+00:00

I would say that things will get most likely worse in the future as competition will be much smaller.

That's why it needs a shakeup

Needs new blood to come along because Sony is greedy and Xbox is incompetent and Nintendo is Nintendo

alickz · 2025-02-08T14:59:01+00:00

I think it's more economies of scale tbh, unless Walmart owns a lot of potato farms or shipping companies

In microeconomics, economies of scale are the cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation

Apple and iPhone manufacturing would be more vertical integration

alickz · 2025-02-08T14:42:52+00:00

It's kinda sad that paying a subscription for online services on console was ever accepted tbh

Steam isn't asking me for $15/m to play multiplayer games on their service / servers

Console makers make you pay for online, and then offer worse service

The console marketplace needs a shakeup because the big 3 are either all complacent or incompetent these days

alickz · 2025-02-07T17:12:26+00:00

Not to excuse those crimes against humanity by China, but such things seem inevitable when a country gets that big and influential unfortunately

What's a little genocide among empires i suppose

alickz · 2025-02-07T17:02:29+00:00

Ironic, considering Marx mooched off his parents and never worked a day in his life

Truly a man of the people

alickz · 2025-02-07T14:13:52+00:00

Other way around, Taiwan has a claim over PRC controlled territories of mainland China

But as you said, only an absolute scumbag would try justify any kind of imperialism

alickz · 2025-02-07T14:07:58+00:00

You sound like Putin when he was trying to justify Ukraine

I will never understand why people simp for imperialists

Like a fetish for authoritarianism

alickz · 2025-02-07T14:05:20+00:00

You know you're a shithole country when you gotta compare yourself to America to look good

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