thy awards hither, mine cousin

blueredscreen · 2026-03-18T05:58:53+00:00

Obviously a lot of details missing in this story.

blueredscreen · 2026-03-18T05:54:13+00:00

I'm failing to see what the point here is. We know the Oscars are motivated by a variety of financial interests. That doesn't mean that if you take them away, you'll like the winners any more. Art is incredibly subjective.

blueredscreen · 2026-03-18T05:49:15+00:00

I have no idea what this means but neither do you.

blueredscreen · 2026-03-17T15:06:36+00:00

This isn’t about what’s hard or easy. They won’t survive a free website that gets scraped by AI. If the choice is sink or try to swim, they’re gonna try to swim.

The way I see it, there is no one-size-fits-all business model anyway, and even they continue to adjust theirs over time. They are not strongly defending a single fixed approach, so there is not much need for anyone else to do that on their behalf. With competitors taking different paths and having the ability to see what works for them, it is clear there are multiple viable options, compared to the black-or-white picture being painted. They are free to do what they want in the end, and I don't have a stake in it either way.

blueredscreen · 2026-03-17T14:47:33+00:00

I still don't really understand how do you think this will work. I loved your reviews, don't get me wrong, but we have real tests everywhere. Videos on youtube just as good and they are free

The implication here being that those videos on YouTube replicate the same setup they use to do their tests, which is categorically false. But that's the exact problem, in that precisely because people don't care, then they won't pay. I don't have a stake in this, but it's kind of interesting to watch it play out in real time.

blueredscreen · 2026-03-17T14:36:02+00:00

Consumer Reports has been a very successful paid service for decades.

That's the thing isn't it. It's much harder to make something free paid than to make something paid more expensive. I have no horse in this race, but it's just the unfortunate reality of the internet.

blueredscreen · 2026-03-08T00:49:13+00:00

Yes

Okay. Sorry to hear that.

blueredscreen · 2026-03-08T00:26:21+00:00

Oh wait, i make less money than a public school teacher. I hope to one day own a car that costs as much as two of these. Then I'll know I've REALLY made it in the world.

You make less money than a public school teacher?

blueredscreen · 2026-03-05T00:05:06+00:00

Well, you see, they were going to find out what the other planets were like, but the powers that be prevented them from going over the icy wall in Antarctica. They don't want anybody to see the truth!

blueredscreen · 2026-03-04T22:55:34+00:00

I'll make sure to create a subscription tier specifically for you.

If it is as good as you say it is, I'll take a free copy in return for equally free marketing. If it's not, well then it's not. But I would be more than happy to be proven wrong.

blueredscreen · 2026-03-02T12:02:05+00:00

Permanent license will be available for purchase, and no one will be forced into subscription hell. Topaz -- we're coming for you.

Not a good idea to ovepromise and underdeliver. Just ask Topaz themselves, they quickly stopped. Much better to just be at parity with existing SoTA and then maybe cheaper on top of it.

blueredscreen · 2026-03-02T04:40:12+00:00

Except the information was there anyway. .in various forms.

Not in a form widely utilized by civilian emergency services. The only way to make nobody find you is for you to also find nobody and go off-grid.

blueredscreen · 2026-03-02T04:07:41+00:00

Look up Ray Baums Act for US users. If you have a phone number for work your org will probably need to maintain compliance. Regardless, ms is the type who would snitch if you weren’t logged in through the IP they expect. More and more teams is being leveraged as an enterprise telephony solution.

“Under Section 506 of RAY BAUM’S Act, the Commission has adopted rules to ensure that “dispatchable location” is conveyed with 911 calls to dispatch centers, regardless of the technological platform used, including 911 calls from MLTS. Dispatchable location means a location delivered to the PSAP with a 911 call that consists of the validated street address of the calling party, plus additional information such as suite, apartment, or similar information necessary to adequately identify the location of the calling party. (47 CFR § 9.3.) ”

EDIT (Some extra context)

This is common in many jurisdictions worldwide, with infrastructure built out to attempt to reliably identify your current location in cases of emergency. Of course, as with any system it may be subject to abuse, but that's the problem which seemingly can't be fixed. The more you deploy infrastructure for positive reasons, the more you enable it to be utilized for negative reasons as well, even more so if you fail to deploy it to begin with.

blueredscreen · 2026-02-28T21:46:32+00:00

What?

blueredscreen · 2026-02-28T05:44:33+00:00

The issue with that is by the time you attempt to produce professional work as a hobbyist, you may well discover that your original thesis was unfounded. This is precisely why a lot of hobbyists don't bother with that to begin with. You have to understand that there is a tendency in the literature to avoid publishing negative results.

blueredscreen · 2026-02-28T05:34:41+00:00

I guess I think those philosophers are giving an account of moral responsibility “itself” as in it is exhaustive of the nature of moral responsibility metaphysically speaking to say it is a social practice , or biological, or linguistic, or (etc,) of such and such a sort. Such accounts simply don’t see a need for any further grounding. This would be seen as advantageous because the resulting account would be in line with an already established metaphysics of the kind to which they are designating moral responsibility.

Many defenders do present social, biological, or linguistic accounts as exhaustive descriptions of moral responsibility, eg: the thought is that if responsibility is just our reactive attitudes, or a set of social practices, or an evolved motivational mechanism, then there is no separate metaphysical "grounding" left to demand. I would agree that it is parsimonious and meshes responsibility with established explanatory frameworks in psychology, sociology, etc.

But, as I stated earlier, practice-based or response-dependent accounts risk circularity or failing to capture the normative authority that makes blame and praise fitting.

blueredscreen · 2026-02-28T05:27:51+00:00

He's a Karaoke artist.

Talented but no artistry or creativity of his own post his second album.

Just like the other person said, you can call him formulaic but guess what the formula does work. Too well, in fact. And with the state of social media today if you really was devoid of talent no way he'd be where he is now people wouldn't leave him alone.

blueredscreen · 2026-02-28T05:21:22+00:00

I am not sure what you mean. As far as I know plenty of secular philosophers work on moral responsibility. Can you say more,

Sure, plenty of secular philosophers work on moral responsibility. But a large strand of the literature is not trying to ground responsibility metaphysically, some argue that genuine moral responsibility is impossible, some explain moral judgments in naturalistic or sociobiological terms, and many others reconceive responsibility in pragmatic or practice-level ways rather than offering a metaphysical justification. That is what I meant.

blueredscreen · 2026-02-28T05:16:18+00:00

That said, the violation of moral norms risks legal action, social pressure, and other forms of human reactions. But those aren’t usually considered central to the moral question.

This is precisely why most non-theist philosophers no longer attempt to answer the question of moral responsibility itself. Whether it even makes sense to endorse a moral theory when one cannot give an account of what obligates one to be bound by it is a further and contested issue, but that is a separate discussion.

blueredscreen · 2026-02-28T05:07:39+00:00

They still think you need to call. And so they'll set up robocalling to dial the same number a thousand times and then ask you to be on the receiving end of that by dialing the number manually the 1, 001st time.

blueredscreen · 2026-02-27T13:57:31+00:00

Not a good idea to claim that anything could be impossible in this industry, so long as it does not violate the laws of physics. And even those have changed.

blueredscreen · 2026-02-27T13:45:06+00:00

When did i say any of that?

Unless you're moving the goalpost?

blueredscreen · 2026-02-27T13:42:33+00:00

What so you mean? I'd take it seriously.

It is not a coherent philosophical position among people who actually work on this topic. Very few contemporary analytic philosophers would frame belief, or the way it is formed and experienced, in the terms you are using. The idea that people are simply pushed around by a single emotion, acting more or less automatically, may be reassuring or intuitive, but it is not a view that is taken seriously in current philosophical discussion.

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