mecha_ghidorah

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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
I have a redirector extension in my browser that changes all requests to www.reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/star so I literally never see it on my home machine. I am always startled by how awful it is the few times I ever open a r
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
Just to expand upon what other people have said not only does it cause a big explosion which usually kills whoever is firing the laser it also looks almost indistinguishable from atomic weapons, which are considered a war crime in the Dun
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
Bravo! I've often been off put by books that advertise that they link to some sort of digital content because I can't trust that said content will be around when I want to actually access it. It never occurred to me they could be
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
> but the fact that predicting the next words based on past models does such a good job of masquerading as human thinking indicates that much of human thinking isn't much more than that. I'm not sure I agree with that logic. Wh
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
> Both 'homeless person' and 'slave' make the negative sound like a permanent unchangable state of affairs... as if that is that persons identity. ... How so? Imagine these two sentences: "The slave poured wine f
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
I am not who you asked but I can see an argument being made that, yes, a banned word list consisting of racial slurs is still bad, albeit significantly less so. The argument would go something like this: you can ban use of racial slurs with
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
I'm left handed but always used a mouse right handed growing up for a few reasons: 1. My family was poor, I didn't have access to a computer that was ours so I only used other people's and it was set up with mouse on right 2.
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
If I bought physical books of everything I read I would run out of space in my apartment. I already have so many books, so I started only buying physical books if I felt like they contain a lot of pictures or are pleasing physical objects.
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
I work for a smaller company (< 200 employees) and it's similar. We are still hiring additional engineers but we've let go some project people as well as our scrum masters. Scrum masters at least do feel like they don't ju
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
It doesn't present Indians as privatives who eat Monkey Brains.... the villains in the movie eat monkey brains, and are Indian, but the villagers who have had their sacred artifacts stolen by those villains aren't eating anything
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
To be fair a lot of students don't bother to read books school assigns as textsx because the way schools run things actually reading, engaging, and thinking about it is a disadvantage. There are certain themes and points your teachers
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
You can buy some free weights at home, and do things even without equipment beyond some dumbbells and a barbell plus plates which don't take up loads of space. Floor press is a reasonable substitute for bench, you can squat without a r
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
> specifically, the ad that said "enjoy premium content in your own home without commercials." Surely showing you commercials would make that false advertising? In Australia where I am at least I am fairly certain it would and
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
I mean... I am. It's hostile to the user, period. It doesn't matter if 99% of AppleTv owners have another device, it's still user hostile. I suppose it might not be "insane", just malicious, if the intent is to forc
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
Oh my god that is just an insane design choice
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
I actually didn't find the finale a letdown to be honest, though I can understand why some people did
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
Oh goddamnit. I was starting to get hopeful that twitter would actually fucking die, if he isn't in charge it will probably be someone less absolutely insane
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
The first season of True Detective was in my opinion the greatest single season of tv I've ever seen
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
> Cancellation is the consequences of speech. Period. This... isn't true though. It can be and often is, but it isn't just that. People accused of certain types of crimes, or accused of having done something racist/sexist
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
>> The people who complain the loudest about cancelation generally do not come from "either side". Look you aren't wrong exactly but for those of us who grew up being incredibly left aligned and still are on a majority
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
> It is almost as though many folks want Twitter to fail I mean, I do want it to fail. It's an awful thing. Maybe it is better than Meta/TikTok (I disagree, I hate them all, but I especially despise twitter), but I still would
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
Hah, that is indeed true
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
Yeah that's a valid point. It definitely shouldn't put them in a situation where they need to depend on crime because they have nothing left to lose. I'm just suggesting that there is a line to walk and for a lot of this whit
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
Not to mention "working 100 hours a week" is very different when you're the boss and set what your output is expected to be. Working 100 hours a week at the top is very different: it's voluntary (meaning he knows he does
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
So I think (and this is I admit largely based on my opinion, I don't have good data for or against) that punishment is less of a deterrent so much as _how much there is to lose_ from the punishment... Note I don't mean (just) fina
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
Minor correction, the Doom (2016) soundtrack is considered one of the absolute best soundtracks ever created. The Eternal one not so much
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
I mean I am only 31 so I can't speak to 20 years ago, but I moved out of home at 16 and I always fucking hated unannounced doorbell rings, depending on who it was it could lead to a pretty massive disruption to what I had planned for t
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
I don't think the problems are inherent to the internet... sadly I think they are inherent to human beings. Twitter by design exacerbates a lot of these problems though IMO. Character limits, the way replies work and things are display
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
> Twitter offers him value, or he wouldn't be on it I mean yes, but that value might be so low as to not be worth paying for. Not even for the monetary cost, but for the effort involved in setting up the payment (entering card detai
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by mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
> Imagine a new form of news and communication that solves all of our social woes, allows people to be informed, and have constructive discourse. I did imagine that happening once - I imagined the internet would lead to that. The state o

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