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  • Disney -- the most powerful entertainment corporation and also one of the most unforgiving IP owners on earth throws all of its lot onto OpenAI

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  • And as a free bonus you get your characters in front of even more millions of impressionable faces than usual. They can tie their personal identity to your IP incrementally ever more. Hooray!

    yes /s

  • U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen

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  • Very much true in my specific limited experience.

    I live in a nice little town here in the US, and I'm a well educated middle aged white guy. It's safe to say that I get to see a pretty nice version of America even as horrible shit is happening all over the place.

    I've gotten to spend a few weeks in Sweden of all places over the past few years. Plus I got to see the insides of some airports in other places luke Belgium and Germany.

    There's just something different in the air over there, in a good way. I thought of it as a kind of dignity that came from respect for others as well as oneself, but I like how you call it social cohesiveness.

    I think some of the details around food and drink showed it best, and they make good examples because they apply to a mix of the general public.

    The food itself is obviously much better over there. Even things like the hotel breakfast or the cafeteria at a workplace had a huge variety of fresh, real foods as opposed to ultraprocessed manufactured branded products.

    But the dishes and utensils were some of the most interesting to me as an american. In places like an office cafe at work, or a local restaurant, or I think even an airport, they would have actual GLASSES, plates, and silverware. And on top of that, you would often return your dishes to the kitchen or even put them directly on to the dish washer rack waiting for you.

    This breaks my american mind. Fragile non-disposable cups in a public place? Other than coffee mugs on people's desks or restaurant glasses being dropped off and picked up with at your table, I'm not sure I've ever seen that within these borders. If you could use glasses and silverware in public places here, I can't decide what would happen first: somebody would get cut on one of the immediately broken glasses, or so much of the stuff would get stolen that they'd close it down.

    I like to call out their bathrooms too. The way we do it over here is big men's and women's restrooms with next to no privacy (it's one big room with flimsy floating dividers forming the toilet stalls) and stupid culture wars about who should and should not get their genitals inspected or whatever. Over there it's just several individual doors, each with a small bathroom. Much better privacy, no fodder for the bigots, and much better utilization of the resources.

  • U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen

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  • American here living in a car-only area.

    I didn't even raise an eyebrow at that previous comment. Sure most drivers are fine, but there are plenty of people who make me wonder what the hell combination of these issues (and others) is going on with them.

    The most common example I get to see is the people speeding through the elementary school parking lot in their luxury SUVs. I especially love it when they start a phone call as they start driving, after they just finished standing around, collecting their kid, and walking back to the parking lot.

  • I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐

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  • This is so stupid that it makes me think maybe the "great filter" (the reason we don't see space-faring civilizations everywhere) is actually that life forms who evolved by fighting for survival and going through natural selection cannot psychologically handle a post-scarcity society. It's like when the threats disappear everybody forgets they exist even if they are well documented historically.

    Related: if you don't know about how horrifying a disease is, go search for some articles and copypasta about it. Congrats on being one of today's (un)lucky 10,000!

  • Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal'

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  • American here, and I was a little boy scout like 30 years ago so I actually learned some of the rules of the US flag code.

    Ever since then I have constantly noticed many of the people who most need to display their patriotism also being ignorant of the official rules for showing respect to their favorite flag.

    And to be clear, I don't care about the rules surrounding the flag. It's just amusing and/or sad to see how superficial people can be and how little effort they put into learning about anything, much less something that is core to their identity. See also: rules in the bible.

  • Sometimes the Onion just prints the cold, hard truth.

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  • Fortunately my Mazda 3 is over a decade old and the headlights are actually too dim if anything. I need to polish the housings too. It sucks to hear that they are jumping on the annoying blinding headlight bandwagon along with some other brands though. They seem to do a lot of little things right in their designs.

    I've posted a couple times about how I load 8' dimensional lumber into my Mazda3 as well, lol. Usually the people around me are driving their giant trucks and not loading jack shit into them.

  • Sometimes the Onion just prints the cold, hard truth.

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  • I have definitely developed an appreciation for Mazda over the years. I keep toying with the idea of an MX-5 for my next car. (I live in suburban USA where driving is required, and I have a short twisty drive to work when I go into the office)

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    TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'

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  • I find that this little program called Jellyfin really helps me separate the art from the artist, lol.

    Not that I have any RHCP in my playlist or even on the server.

  • Sometimes the Onion just prints the cold, hard truth.

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  • I thought of you all the other day when somebody in a newer pickup truck got behind me driving my Mazda 3. I didn't take a photo in my rear view mirror because safe driving and all that, but I felt like I was living in some kind of AI generated c/fuckcars meme.

    In my mirror the front of the truck looked like a WALL the height of a grown adult with a little thin stripe of windshield above it. AND there was a big hood scoop on top of that. The little stripe of windshield was like 10'/3m behind the wall at the front of the truck too, just to make the visibility as dangerous as possible.

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  • Oh no. There could be a whole revolution in sentencing people to house arrest work programs. Just think of the cost savings of making inmates pay for their own housing, and the surveillance potential to keep the neighbors "safe."

  • Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye

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  • I recall thinking Zuckerberg had copied the google/alphabet change from several years prior. And naming this meta-business-entity was super easy with his metaverse obsession, lol.

  • My Religion

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  • I was never a coffee drinker for unrelated reasons, and also never acquired the taste for it even though the smell is generally nice.

    But now I'm in my 40s and have multiple medical conditions (i.e., more than just the AuDHD, lol) that are treated with stimulants, so I will usually supplement my adderall with a cup of coffee in the morning and one at lunch time.

    The nice thing is that I don't have decades of tolerance and habit around the stuff, so it is still nice and potent. Instead of adding a bunch of junk to it, I just let it cool off then drink it quickly or add a chocolate protein shake to it for a few breakfast calories if I didn't eat.

    Plus even though I don't like the taste I think the coffee at work is decent because it's a machine that grinds whole beans, and the operations manager for our location fills the hopper with the beans himself. Some Starbucks somebody gave me recently tasted rotten in comparison. And that's not "mischievous child" rotten, that's carcass rotten.

  • Safety first

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  • I dont care if the person field strips it in front of me, the first thing im doing after they hand it to me is clearing it myself.

    This kind of attitude is the exact right way to do it when safety is involved. You make it automatic, not a decision. It's like wearing your seatbelt. It saves you time and energy while producing the best results.

    Put another way: Crazy shit happens every day. You make it automatic not because you distrust the person unloading it in front of you. You do it because you shouldn't trust yourself to be perfectly flawless in life and death situations. You do it 100% of the times that you rationally know for certain that it's empty, so that you skip the check 0.00000% of the time that some crazy sequence of events quietly creates a dangerous situation.

  • Why condoms in China are about to get more expensive

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  • No, not at all. I don't think there's any government regulation of family planning that does not end up somewhere dark.

    It's more about how stupid the US approach is vs the big rival that actually seems to care about the future. That doesn't make any specific actions any more noble or less evil.

    Though now that you got me thinking about this again, the US's current rulers would love to do the whole forced breeding thing too. But I think they only want white babies.

  • Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.

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  • That usb-c connector with side screw locks looks like a future I want to live in.

    It's futuristic, but it's open and not corporate. It's miniaturized and sleek, yet still mechanically rugged.

  • The real American household poverty line isn’t $31,200, it’s around $140,000.

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  • but you were using language of emotion (“Pay a living wage!”) rather than showing the math.

    There's a key bit of bullshit buried in this line that I'd like to call out. This calls back to some old fashioned conservative propaganda from decades past.

    It's the idea that the left thinks with their heart while the right thinks with their brain. It implies that emotionally stunted greedy assholes are actually smart and admirable, while things like empathy and giving half a shit about the lives of people outside your circle are weak and foolish and "giving in to emotion."

    But giving in to greed and anger are just following God's plan or some shit.

  • Why condoms in China are about to get more expensive

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  • I've posted a few times about how doubly shortsighted the US is with the immigration situation. The entire developed world is trending towards population stability and then decline, and our infinite growth economy is not going to like that. So, even if we didn't have horrible things being done to actual humans, it would still be a shit strategy.

    There goes China actually planning for the future again...

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    I support this

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  • I'm human and I enjoy these stories of pettiness just like anybody else.

    But if I may please speak in my "old man who has seen things" capacity for a moment, this is not the way to live. You should endeavor to do positive things every day to make life better for people around you as well as yourself. And you don't do this because it gets you praise or rewards, you do it because of the internal rewards. It's good for your mind.

  • Choose wisely!

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  • I take exception with the mixing of the stone cold fact that we're all stardust with all that other crap.

    It is good to be able to vape some weed and watch beautiful videos about amazing mind-blowing shit that actually exists, and not automatically entertain whatever magical/religious/supernatural idea is making the rounds in your neck of the woods.