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Promethiel

@ Promethiel @lemmy.world

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  • Time Travel

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  • Funny way of saying "desperately holding on to mortal sanity amidst the true reality of non-linear time and its cosmic horror worthy implications" there, but I agree.

  • Chinese scientists increase F-22 fighter jet’s radar signature 60,000 times with new detection method: study

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  • This. The realpolitik purpose of showing your death and anti-death toys is always at least a little about "don't fuck with us" same way a cigar is usually someone's mother.

    Monke brain still Monke beneath the abstractions.

  • When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be?

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  • Right. You are righteously protesting. Right on. No joke or bullshit, I applaud conviction.

    Of course, the bastards have made it so that the price of mass protest of this kind is the same folks protesting dying more often.

    That's also no joke, or bullshit.

    For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction, and if you stare at the abyss too long it stares back at you; same sentiment.

    Same way you don't kid yourself about the goal, never kid yourself about the price and who pays it or you're no better than who you protest.

    I'm sorry if this is news, and it is not your fault; let's head off that trite response.

    But conviction often quantifiably costs blood, and it's poignant the theme is literal this time which is why I'm taking the chance to blab this much.

    A warrior should know the weight of the sword they heft.

  • Pls pls pls....

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  • Fool me one, shame on you, fool me 35 times shame on... that's really the stance you want to take? Seems sus alright, but trust and verify is for cold war movies.

  • Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools

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  • Thank you. The one arena where the fault really does lie in few enough hands they fit around a biggish table, and the Internet instead makes a nebulous boogeyman out of "marketing" (don't get it twisted either y'all, I condone zero of the bullshit marketing practices we all hate, but that's also the same table of people) instead of the board.

    It's not even secret information. The decision came from the minds of these folks (as they understood what they asked to be measured and think to steer to measure higher numbers of whatever they're measuring):

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/corporate-governance/board-of-directors.aspx

  • Women Should Just Be Honest

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  • Young fellas; as a not so young fella who some say used to fuck: Don't be a dick while thinking with your dick.

    It's that easy. You be you, be whatever you're interested in, and just use your goddamn eye balls to read if the person is uncomfortable. If they are, smile and fuck off king. Keep it going; don't be a dick and watch that aura work and that dick get wet.

    But remember, you have to genuinely not be a dick. Be yourself, be assertive or not, there's someone (many someones even) for everyone and never mind the bullshit rules 1 and 2 you self-deluded fucks.

    Don't. Be. A. Dick.

    You'll be happier, the people around you will be happier, and you will fuck and feel good about it while making others feel good about it. Simple secret.

    Don't. Be. A. Dick.

  • Fuck ads at the gas pump

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  • Mild electric shock and a vandalism charge if caught. Worth it? I don't know but I'm getting sick of the fucking ads

    Edit: So stab then pump, instead of the other way around to avoid boom boom?

  • Buyers Are Avoiding Teslas Because Elon Musk Has Become So Toxic

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  • His vehicles aren't even safe for other Dragons to ride on. Why would I buy from a company who unironically had the below answer for me when I googled from the back seat of one of their cars while Ubering and thought of that news:

    Opening a Rear Door with No Power

    Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors. Remove the mat from the bottom of the rear door pocket. Press the red tab to remove the access door. Pull the mechanical release cable forward.

    Emphasis mine. Still don't know which kind I was on, but an emergency would have not been the ideal 'find out' time. I'll avoid that by not fucking around with purchasing their cars.

  • A cruel irony

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  • What's that? You can message through the app to refill all the other ones easily but not the magic one requires calls and in-person visits to remember and juggle? Cool cool cool.

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  • Then it just looks like you're trying to give a competitive edge to US evil social media.

    This is not just probable but certain; the whole thing is a very long way of saying this. In a world where the US worked for its citizens, this is a national security no-brainer. But we don't live in a world where the spirit of things is followed when you can enrich yourself skirting the letter. Shit sucks, but this not a secret conspiracy; it's realpolitik.

    and preventing youth from learning about the situation in Palestine.

    This one is more subjective...and also still probable for the same fucking reasons and good luck sharing the fact that you can act in a so called 'security' driven purpose and this is the perfect time to do sneaky shit. As if all of History wasn't rife with examples with the Patriot Act being the first USA centric coming to mind amongst fuck what, hundreds?

    That is also realpolitik, and all the players know it. Shit sucks.

  • Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4

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  • Besides magic or the possibility you erred however. On a purely theoretical and divorced from your situation to be perfectly clear: How?

    If you truly did all you did and re-built how did they still peg you as Theseus after you rebuilt your ship do you reckon?

  • Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data

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  • Love the vibe and energy against pretense for pretense sakes, but your source makes you seem demented as it literally repeats exactly what they said if you read it.

  • Tinder Owner Signs ChatGPT Deal. Enjoy the AI Dating Tidal Wave

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  • I have no idea how to best present all that you said at the right time and places to capture enough grassroots attention to actually take off, but man. That really does all read like the perfect "disruption (pardon the tech bro term) to Match's model.

  • OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion

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  • A bit late now, but perhaps people--governments, regulators, leaders, the parties who had the freedom from the fields to sit about and draft corporate structures--should have thought about the interplay right in your statement which delivers us our current modern world.

    I.e, the below points are in my sincere opinion, fundamentally mutually exclusive:

    the corporation SHOULDN'T be considering such issues, they should only attempt to further their own goals

    and

    It's the role of government to align corporate goals with reality, or with societal values.

    The former empowers the more agile structure of a singular corporation to devote all it can regardless of morality to ensure it controls the latter--Government, regulations, public opinion,"ownership" of natural resources--such as to maximize it's own goals.

    The goal of any single corporation taken to absurdity is often touted as absurd because but is it really?

    What mechanisms does a corporation have to not grow until all the world is simply 'Megacorp Branded' ruins whose asset holdings trend to infinite on the last running quarterly report spreadsheet within a planet devoid of both investors and consumers?

    There are no brakes built into the most common corporate structures by short sighted design, and humans suck at exponentials.

    It hasn't even been fifteen human generations since the advent of the Industrial Revolution bringing the impetus for ever speeding greed.

    If the rich were any less short sighted than the poor and money granted the wisdom they think it does, they would be pushing for corporate reform that doesn't risk a period of "blink and both our profits and the world are gone".

    That selfish-altruism isn't common sense even as they all clamor for anti-aging just shows cash doesn't provide wisdom, only opportunity to get your head out of your ass and insulation from consequence until it's too late otherwise.

  • 23andMe admits hackers stole raw genotype data - and that cyberattack went undetected for months | Firm says it didn't realize customers were being hacked

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  • It's data, that's all that's needed. That you or I can't think of a reason or use case (well, outside of authoritarian nation state business that is) that makes it valuable just means we aren't likely ghoulish enough.

    But you can't change your genetic data, so it's a bundle of "anonymous" data that will forever remain just waiting for the right link to irreparably link it to someone.

    Cheap data point now, but who knows how useful or valuable it could be if the cyberpunk Dystopia of Tech Bro Billionaire's wet dreams come to pass?

  • Houthis, defying U.S. strikes, attempt another attack on U.S.-owned commercial ship

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  • I'd wish for you to have to live through a warzone between two ideologies while your normal ass is just trying to make a living through it all, but with my luck you're one of my dumbass neighbors literally or figuratively.

    And that wouldn't be fair to the rest of the innocents around you.

    I'm shocked it hasn't happened to me before, but for the first time online in 15 years I actually feel this sentiment; fuck you very much and all you stand for.

  • Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994

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  • Did you think the MS C-Suite does much other than bloviate on LinkedIn in-between (and during) meetings? It's for them and execs everywhere.

  • Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads

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  • No no no. Nuance can only be used to pave a high road to hell. Get out of here with using it to fire back more intelligently yet equally dirty. We can only do one thing at a time, so it's high road all the way to the grave.

    I mean, what's next in your suggestions? Using the free and available plethora of Republican politician child sex scandals as non-slanderous, factual, and real ammo fodder?

  • Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO

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  • I'll be honest. I want to believe in the Fediverse and Lemmy, really really hard.

    It's ideals (rather, the gestalt of the best of what everyone says is the best of Federation) appeals strongly.

    But sometimes, it's instance after instance of complaining about this or that. Double points when it's all reddit complaining.

    I dunno if being a heavy content creator necessitates an air of misguided superiority but there's no more nuance here than anywhere else, and the content can't seem to form precisely because everyone decides to take their toys away and do their own thing at the smallest provocation.

    I don't use them on my phone because fuck their app, but I've found no choice but to join up with an alias and as much extensions to make their job harder as Firefox allows, just to have genuine discussions on hyper specific topics from a PC.