unlimited access to porn? who could imagine?

Do people still pirate Windows? You can download the iso directly from Microsoft’s website and you don’t need a registration key anymore.

Are you going to have to deal with a full-screen ad when you’re trying to open File Explorer eventually?

I was literally reading this sentence when the whole page grayed out and a window asking me to subscribe popped up.

Is there any evidence of American rat-fuckery in the Bolivian coup attempt?

There is a concept in post-modern philosophy called “hauntology”. This theory posits that late-capitalist societies loose their ability to imagine different social orders; and cannot imagine the future except as high-tech versions of the current social order. To fill the void of novelty, the culture industry must constantly recycle and repackage old culture.

Anyway, this isn’t a new phenomena, just a technology enabling us to resurrect live people instead of just fictional characters.

The funniest thing about the Cybertruck is the windshield wiper. Not only does it ruin the science fiction ascetic by breaking up the flat surfaces, it breaks up the primary surface with a dumb squeegee arm. It’s also a little reminder that not only were the first wipers invented in 1903, but that they were fitted to electric vehicles.

I think they used one huge wiper in an attempt to make it look innovative by just by virtue of being unusual.

REMEMBER: If you have to have sex with you boss for advancement, that doesn’t make you a slut, that makes them a sex-offender.

“career advancement” is euphemism designed to switch the power dynamic.

DAE remember that the OceanGate CEO bragged that Boeing helped them manufacture the sub?

At the time Boeing disavowed, but who you gonna believe?

Currently it seems that there is a negative correlation in some places between intellectual achievement and fertility

It’s ironic because the more people who accept the plot of ‘Idiocracy’ (2006) as plausible or scientific is evidence that humanity is getting stupider.

This is a bad take. Software updates that fix life threatening defects are as serious as any recall.

It’s motivated reasoning. Either the people making this argument are Tesla owners, simps, or shareholders and are trying to protect the phantasmagorical value of the company.

Saying “my car’s drive-by-wire software gets more firmware updates than my printer” is not a flex.

Reading through these comments it seems that many lemmings have wildly optimistic ideals about ethics in the “true crime” genre of documentaries.

Even for sincere documentarians, presenting unvarnished history accurately and completely is an impossibility. For the bad-faith actors, you’d be amazed at how much is outright staged or otherwise faked. The only rule is that it be entertaining.

As far as “true crime”, the question of “should we even make this” is pretty ethically fraught. True crime is cheap, popular, and stuffed to the brim with hacks and bad faith actors.

Well, I know what the next Jimquisition is going to be about.

You say that belief in an “obvious fairy tale shows a massive issue with critical thinking and cognitive ability” , but you can’t back that up because people who are smart and religious exist.

I agree that believing in something phantasmagorical is a cognitive blind spot. But that’s so common criticizing others for it lacks self awareness. It’s normal to take some obviously symbolic, illusory, or non-existent things seriously: the law, borders, sovereignty, human rights, authority, hierarchy, language, logic, or math. Are you terrified of those willing to die for human rights?

Everyone thinks the US is a litigious society, but it’s the consequence of our political order. The lack of regulations are “compensated” by the right to tort. In many instances, there is no authority to enforce rights, only the ability to sue. The Americans with Disabilities Act works this way. (and there are many calling to remove that option, making the entire law theoretical)

Of course, the idea is that lawsuits will discourage people from getting redress because of the high-bar to enter a case into the legal system. But that wasn’t enough, so the capitalists are trying to take that away too.

There are few things more obscene under capitalism than a privatized court system.

The consumer choice center is a Washington/ Brussels think tank and lobbying group. They are passionate about free markets and consumer choice and oppose taxes and regulations on things like petroleum products, tobacco, and sugary/fatty foods.

I don’t have an opinion on the “Kids” act, just consider the source.

They’re still rolling it out. It’s only in preview builds for now, you have to register to basically participate in beta to have it by now, and that’s no guarantee.

I read that one LLM was so good at detecting TB from Xrays that they reverse engineered the “black box” code hoping for some insight doctors could use. Turns out, the AI was biased toward the age of the Xray machine that took each photo because TB is more common in developing countries that have older equipment. Womp Womp.

Equating forced labor, prison labor, indentured servitude, and poverty to chattel slavery is ignorance at best and serves white supremacy by minimizing the the Atlantic Slave Trade. If you get confused, just ask: Is someone legally allowed to sell my child?

Ha ha, very clever… money is just made up. But wait, so are borders, sovereignty, language, art, moral and commercial value, the law, logic, authority, human rights, culture, and government.

According to Jacques Lacan, experience itself is a fabrication; the worst thing that can happen to a person is to come into contact with the real.

but a lower court dismissed this partially because he loves playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. (emphasis mine)

I suspect that “partially” is working harder than John Henry in this sentance.