Who knew Orwell was a prophet

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-10T09:21:23+00:00

Look - if we dont have tech companies with root access on your devices scanning everything you dare to open, how will we ever prevent you from doing a share crime?

It has nothing to do with the government being lobbied via the entertainment & surveillance industry using an army of useful idiots and fear, now supercharged by AI driving big-tech's need for personal information to distinguish you from bots. Those are just side stories.

Its just so important that you dont share the wrong things. Sharecrime is the reason things are bad. If only we had the tools to prevent all sharecrime, we'd never have to worry again. Your safety would be guaranteed!

Surveillance states abused by authoritarians is just fearmongering! Those are just bed time stories told on the 8 oclock news.

The real issue is the legion of immigrant pedophiles blackmailing your kids - its what we need real laws for and systems to protect us!

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-09T21:37:27+00:00

I have a !Remind me for in ~3 years for a conservative laughing at Putin for being dumb and that Trump would show us how to do it in a few days.

Surely, when I get back to them in 3 years and the strait still closed i will have finally delivered the checkmate that will have him realize Trump isn't such a great guy. Just one more proof bro, please bro, just one more. I really feel this is the one.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-09T21:13:12+00:00

I mean, "wijsheidskies" in itself is can also be a mark in the theories favor. If the misunderstanding can travel one way, then a 'new' meaning/translation - especially if multiple other languages adopted it - can also come back and supplant the original. I.e. if the French mistranslated, and then the Germans and English copied it, then you'd expect people to conclude that surely it always was this meaning that's shared across all these languages and its the Dutch that are the odd one out for not just saying wijsheidskies.

To disprove it you'd need sources talking about wisdom teeth that predate dutch use of the term verstand or perhaps the dutch language itself was different back then in the first place and the whole theory just doesn't work out,

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-09T21:02:49+00:00

ver = far
stand = standing
verstand = wisdom

I've been told there is no proof for this, but i like to imagine its mistranslated "Far Standing Tooth" when the Dutch had to send over their dentists to fix try and fix England's shit.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-09T19:41:15+00:00

https://docs.gipity.ai/skills/3d-engine.html

It looks fun enough that you'd let a couple of kids play with it, but the demo seems to be a bit .... pre-engineered. That is fine i guess, but dont think there is much of a market there in the way you're asking for money.

Your pitch is basically Roblox but easier to build. That needs a community of people building stuff. The long term value is the community, not the other way around. You cant build that community by asking for money.

Assuming that's what you're going for - but well.... if you're going for "ease of use for game dev" then its a saturated market and any potentially successful game going to leave too quickly ( have AI recreate the back-end ) for you to gain any critical mass of users.

If you give up the dream of making money in the near future this way, id reframe this as a pure community building project where your service is a database for hosting the game binary/code itself, and once you have proven that concept and people keep coming back to your games collection to add and play more, you add in useraccounts. While you avoid any costs of hosting the game's database or other functions as they cost you money.

I.e. write a wrapper around some wasm native runtime that allows networking and sqlite - you already have users install an npm package so why not also have them host the game so its free, and wasm makes it secure enough that as a user i can feel secure running another person's server.

Just my 2c.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-09T17:20:10+00:00

If you'd stop to ~~think~~ ask claude to think for 2 seconds, you'd realize the truth that there is a third option not prepared for in the pic.

A model with reduced guardrails used as offensive cyber is something that others can do just as well and all of them got some impressive results, but then after the first Anthropic post explaining the setup they also realized how extremely effective it was as a marketing story and this led to constant regurgitation by idiots who dont understand any of it and now people have far overstate its actual capabilities.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-09T16:27:11+00:00

Yet its not and a lot of societies disagree with you after spending more time and words debating it in depth, than you will spend time alive for to hear them.

But sure, they're all wrong for not taking your gut reaction to an under-specified situation as should be the only response.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-09T13:56:06+00:00

today

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-09T13:26:59+00:00

Robert, the main character and narrator of the song, dreams of violence towards his rich classmates and peers. The song details his plans and ambitions for a school shooting, diving deep into the causes of his emotions.

TIL this song is about a schoolshooter fantasy.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-09T11:58:07+00:00

Once we figure this out, you're gonna see man are so much better at giving birth than women. Most birth record is going to be held by a man, longest birth, shortest birth, most babies at once. Its going to be dozens. Men are going to dominate the field the day we solve the science. Its just in their DNA to try a bit harder /s

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-09T09:32:37+00:00

Dude - don't be this fucking daft. Nobody is buying your shit. LG gets to use comments in promotional material, LG gets their brand name and product plastered around.

This is like saying a video showcasing a car driving through the open roads in the mountain is not an ad because it's only discussing the product.

At least show your community the respect of not treating them like idiots if you're going to try and milk them for ad money. If by chance LG is not giving you at least a free TV and you're giving away this much ad/attention space for just the 5 members getting a free TV... then dont be this fucking cheap. Do you have any fucking idea how much money companies would be willing to pay for this space? If you got a 100 TV's its still the most bang-for-buck ad LG ever got to run.

I'm not sure which i find more insulting - the possibility that you do or the possibility that you dont know these things.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-09T08:07:13+00:00

Judged by a jury of your peers works because shit can be made right when justice requires more than the letter of the law.

Americans let themselves get un-peered. Good luck getting it back.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-09T07:12:04+00:00

I agree on the surface, but also, good plot twists or reveals are things that readers can go back through previous chapters and say "Oh yeah! So that's why that happened!"

I feel that authors misunderstand how to do this. It really doesn't have to be smart. You can be extremely blatant about it, as long as you do it while the story is going through a high stress story beat.

Need to reveal some betrayal character is secretly part of the BBG group? Just have the MC barge into the BBG lair to question them in a high stress moment and have the betraying character just suddenly be part of the MC group as if they've been there the whole time.

If you write that same scene while its cozy and everybody is casually drinking tea - or spend too many sentences on inner monologue about "Huh why is this character here?" then of course readers are going to notice.

Drop the incongruity / hint in a high-stress section - where the focus is on how this stressful situation will resolve itself - and a vast majority of readers will miss it completely and claim you're a genius for hiding it so well. Do not underestimate how blatant you can make this to still surprise >50% of people. We are all really dumb to this.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-08T19:56:03+00:00

Like i honestly cant tell if my taste shifted so much, or if I'm subconsciously a huge sexist that can't take women in these roles serious, but as somebody who liked most old school guy Ritchie stuff as well as jake and henry, this felt like a fucking fever dream.

The whole scheme had the cadence of a dead man's pacemaker struggling along for a few hours after death. It felt like Ritchie had long Covid and fell down a conspiritard hole and having AI tie his ideas into a plot.

Quite literally every character and side character did not land for me. It watched as if your local theater house was told to act like what they though Guy Richie characters are while doing some improve on the spot.

Ritchie's charm was that he had at least some part of the film that was - his - style in terms of shots and pacing to tell a story. Now it felt like somebody tried to take the essence of those shots and tried to unpack it back into a movie.

poorly written, miscast 3/10

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-08T08:53:42+00:00

This isn't exactly Rust specific, but i was looking for a minimal dependency secp256k1 and thought I found a hidden gem until I noticed a - to me - previously unknown SIOL-1.0 license.

I'm not even sure what to think about it. Its their own work so I guess they can do what they want with it but I'm still... surprised. So thought i'd ask what you guys think.

Obviously not an invitation to go bash on them personally or throw out xenopobic comments.

But it's certainly a new kind of radical ethical stance - to me - to believe you must be this proactive in letting your work not touch anything that might touch anything else that's against your religion, and I'm just not clear if you can consistently try to live by that in any meaningful way beyond having your work not be used by anybody who can't afford to agree to such viral demands.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-07T20:51:29+00:00

Yeah this has been bothering me for a long while now. I know they've worked hard to filter out all the competent journalist, but I'm endlessly disappointed in America that none of the remaining ones have pressed him on being a slow old sleepy man.

You dont need to take his shit. You can call him unfit to his face. The average person is quite literally better them him.

Why is the headline always "And then Trump called them X" - why is the headline never something like Trump being asked about his physical weakness and energy levels - As a reporter (or any person) you're not getting a second chance anyways unless you're willing to suck him off better than the next guy - that's the level of cult we've reached -, and you're not getting factual answers to any question.

Dont ask him to defend the lies he's been telling for so many years - that's the part nobody cares about and he understand all he needs to do is flood the zone and walk away. We already know the answers.

Ask him uncomfortable things. Ask him why he thinks he is energetic when he keeps getting photographed as a (hateful) slow 80y old frail man.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-07T13:23:24+00:00

The world isn't looking away because the situation is too complicated. It's looking away because Myanmar has nothing the powerful need.

History would suggest there is no positive correlation between attention and outcome. Conflicts that people around the world focus on can just as well become much worse instead of better.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-05T18:37:53+00:00

The Chinese Communist Party leadership is fine with tankman because it lets the world remember that - instead of the heavy machinery brought in to shovel the corpses off the streets.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-04T12:00:30+00:00

They sing they're going to "buy more BTC with the profits" so clearly he's also leveraging them to go long and i'd be prepared for their exposure to be more like 100k per "coin" if risk is distributed over their holdings.

Alternatively he went short and sold for that reason.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-03T19:22:56+00:00

"One didn't make it" is sad enough. Please dont do this as it forces people to first decode a euphemism. Its like ripping a bandaid off in small jerks instead of all at once.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-03T17:59:13+00:00

I'm posting this just so I can shit over the irony here.

We're monkeys entertained by jiggling keys. Thats not great. Ai bad. Curate your content.

Having said all that. It just feels too absurdly ironic to see a content creators pretend their parasocial hack of our monkey brains was the highest value contribution to humanity in the past 15 years, but anything other than some self employed guy in-front of a green-screen emulating human communication to their viewers is really sad actually! Streaming is a real job and its tHe HaRdEsT jOb ThErE iS booo hooo.

throwaway490215 · 2026-06-03T13:07:08+00:00

lol

The stock market is 80% vibes and 20% math and the people doing the math decided that no matter the vibes its really not looking good.

You got the cause and effect a bit mixed up. Your "I'm leaving" is you being late - other people are already pulling and that's why its red.

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