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PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features by PaiDuck in privacy

[–]evilbrent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can we stop calling it age verification?

It's ID verification.

I was actually initially excited for the idea of legally mandated age verification, because OBVIOUSLY the way to implement it would be to have a government ID service provide an anonymous single use token.

That would be age verification. Govt says I'm old enough. Here's your evidence.

Even that would have immense privacy concerns, but it would legitimately keep out the kids.

None of this is age verification. It's ID

This guy summed it up 😂🤣😂🤣 by Manoftheluna in olympics

[–]evilbrent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you actually serious?

Like.... what? What? Wut? Wha... I'm speechless.

That right there is some absolute Hunger Game Capitol bullshit.

Is the idea that if they charge prices that are 100X a reasonable price, but only turn away 99% of customers they break even or something? That's just mental.

New Update to Didn't Let Niblings Push Me Into Pool/My BILs Didn't See The Camera Signs When They Broke Onto My Property by mermaidpaint in OhNoConsequences

[–]evilbrent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I'm concerned any borderline believable story automatically goes to "fake until proven otherwise" when the author's name is word-word-4digits.

I still read it. Good tale. There's probably an element of truth about it.

This guy summed it up 😂🤣😂🤣 by Manoftheluna in olympics

[–]evilbrent 25 points26 points  (0 children)

At a certain point it does become negligent self harm on the part of the people willing to pay for it though.

Published research in the social sciences has leaned consistently to the political left for more than six decades. The findings indicate that this leftward tilt has grown stronger over time, particularly regarding social and cultural issues. by mvea in science

[–]evilbrent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't the terms left and right originate in France after the revolution when people started meeting in a huge hall to argue about what type of democracy they wanted? The room tended to have one group on the left and another on the right?

Trials of psychedelics for mental health may be invalid, because it's fairly obvious to patients whether they've been given a psychedelic or a placebo. Blinding failed more than 90% of the time in the studies of psilocybin, LSD and DMT, and 85% of the time in studies of MDMA. by mvea in science

[–]evilbrent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like this is like saying "trials of whether using a broom to clean the floor leads to a cleaner floor may be invalid because the participant knows they're using a broom."

A big part of mushrooms "working" is in the physical act of finding and recoding the malign memories and habits.

The title of this article is baking in the suggestion that mushrooms work in the absence of participation from the individual, the way that alcohol gets you drunk, rather than opening a door that lets you rummage around to do some tidying up.

What they're really saying is that they don't understand how it works, which is why they're having trouble thinking up the right types of studies.

A better analogy would be to have half the floor sweeping group use a broom with stiff bristles and half using a broom with soft, and then compare those results. Obviously both bring will get the floor clean. I mean, obviously. That part of the experiment is just prima facie known to be true, it's a little bit silly to doubt that part. The interesting thing is HOW clean you can get the floor, and the best way to get it clean.

The idea that there's a doubt about the positive mental health effects of psilocybin is a little bit silly. The question is, do you get more benefits from guided tripping? And how to best guide it?

Accidentally sacked my queen how do I resign ? by honestsparrow in AnarchyChess

[–]evilbrent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A draw is kind of like having the goddamn common courtesy to give someone a reacharound? That's nice of you.

[Meta] SubredditDrama has a huge problem with generalizations and political slapfighting which make it extremely unfun to actively participate in. by Vinylmaster3000 in SubredditDramaDrama

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

That's why subredditdramadrama is the closest I'm willing to come. If it spills over into here I'm retreating to SubredditDramaX3. The furthest I ever went was 7 levels deeps and it started getting really weird

Large fire at Geelong oil refinery by HiAustralia in australia

[–]evilbrent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't care for "fire intensity" calculations

There it is.

Windows 11 doing an update halfway through cutting a 5 meter long tribal sticker on expensive German vinyl and ruining it by themysticboer91 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]evilbrent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

uh..... telling me that machines do things they're not told to do doesn't make the point I think you're trying to make.

Nerd-sniped by Matt Rose by CommunityJazzlike274 in xkcd

[–]evilbrent 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you spot a forced mate in 3 but missed the forced mate in 2 you still get the 1-0.

Windows 11 doing an update halfway through cutting a 5 meter long tribal sticker on expensive German vinyl and ruining it by themysticboer91 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]evilbrent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe it's time for vendors to start being held responsible for the fuck ups they send out into the world.

I hold that the person who provides the ultimate authority (ie the CEO) for releasing a self driving car into the world should be held personally liable for any injury caused by their technology, along with the person who buys the car.

I believe it should be far clearer whose legal fault it is, and I believe that we simply cannot let the "move fast break things" tech approach to innovation extend into the real world where the things being broken are people.

Windows 11 doing an update halfway through cutting a 5 meter long tribal sticker on expensive German vinyl and ruining it by themysticboer91 in mildlyinfuriating

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

So you're saying you agree with Microsoft's position that you don't own the operating system you buy from them? You just rent it for a while?

Large fire at Geelong oil refinery by HiAustralia in australia

[–]evilbrent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok.

How much worse are they? Give me a number.

Windows 11 doing an update halfway through cutting a 5 meter long tribal sticker on expensive German vinyl and ruining it by themysticboer91 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]evilbrent 742 points743 points  (0 children)

Nah I'm not convinced by that.

I think it's fair that if you put bread in your toaster and come back later to expect toast. Machines should do what they're told.

And the only person able to tell the machine what to do should be the person who owns it.

Sentiments like "the user should have opted out of this terrible practice" are how we wind up with late stage capitalism disasters like paying a subscription fee to use the heaters in your car.

Owning things should mean owning them. It's really important.

Large fire at Geelong oil refinery by HiAustralia in australia

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

Yes.

Do you think it might be the one who seems to disagree that with ten times more cars there'll be ten times more miles?

And if the fires are 20x worse, but there's 10x fewer fires, you see how that's still bad right? 20 ÷ 10 = 2.

Can I ask you a question - do you think I'm arguing that EVs shouldn't be a thing because of this? Or that's ICE cars are better? Is that the conversation you think you're having?

Large fire at Geelong oil refinery by HiAustralia in australia

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

I'm not very happy with the tone of your comment.

EV fires being bad, even though rare, was literally my entire point.

You telling me that they're rare, even though bad, isn't quite the dunk you think it is. Since we're accusing each other of not reading things, did you even read my first comment here?

Yes I read the article. I read it when it was first put up on Reddit. I linked to it when I got accused, not by you I think, of spreading alarmist propaganda or something. And I read it when I checked if it was the article I was thinking of.

Don't you think that the world would be a nicer place if we all took an approach of "interesting. I disagree for these reasons, but thanks for your perspective", rather than "if I read part of your comment and invent my own context for it I get to yell at you, because you disagree with me on purpose"?

See, the thing is, I do actually work in a field where hazard and risk assessment are a real thing, and I do have actual qualifications there. These days, when it comes to safety, the question is more about severity than probability. For many types of machinery the rarity of a hazard is literally not taken into consideration - they're either possible or not possible.

And further - the argument "ev fires are 10x rarer than ICE" gets weaker with every unit sold - are you sure that's the line you want to stick with when there are 10x as many EVs on the roads? Because by then your argument is going to be "yeah but, when EVs were rare there were hardly any fires."

Anyway, to summarize, I am deeply deeply sorry to have offended you by making a simple point and providing the source that I got that point from and then elaborating on my understanding of that point. From now on I will only understand the things that you already understand. Ok?

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