EldritchFeminity @ EldritchFeminity @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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This was my understanding as well - that miners often underclock their GPUs rather than overclock them.

Me neither, to be honest. I just find it funny that they brag about the US having the best healthcare in the world and then go to Canada for anything that requires a stay in a hospital, Mexico for dental, and Thailand for cosmetic surgeries.

And ironically, rich Americans travel the globe for the best healthcare.

But there's a difference between a political party ignoring their constituents and a social media platform where people don't want to interact with assholes. Social interaction, in general, is a series of echo chambers. You're not gonna invite the MAGA asshole everybody hates to your birthday to balance out the conversation because he'll rant about out how certain groups of people don't deserve rights when the cake comes out. You're gonna invite your friends who you largely agree with in your opinions and interests. We used to kick those kinds of people out all the time on the internet, and nobody had any issues with "echo chambers" back when forums were still the thing people used.

Social media isn't some public debate floor. It's the local pub.

It's funny how people don't realize that social interaction in general is largely a series of echo chambers. Your group of friends all likely share common interests and opinions, but no news correspondent is writing articles about how bad that is and how you should add a fascist or two to your New Year's Eve party to balance it out.

Social media isn't some public debate floor. It's a platform for social interaction, and if nobody wants to listen to you, there's probably a reason why. This obsession with neutrality and both sides-ism is poisoning our social relationships. Progressives not only far outnumbered conservatives in posting politics, they also far outnumbered conservatives in general. These platforms see a rise in conservative views (and then extremism) as they make more left leaning people feel unwelcome and drive them off the platform.

I was instantly reminded of the appendix, where for so long we thought it was just an extraneous evolutionary leftover of an organ, only to find out not all that long ago that it actually acts as a seed vault of sorts for our gut's microbial biome to repopulate the good bacteria in case something bad happens and wipes them out.

IMO, you're not wrong, but Magneto is the better portrayal.

Magneto was right all along about the persecution of mutants. Tony Stark and Captain America disagreed on a "who watches the Watchmen" level in the movies.

Stark thought that heroes had too much power to act without the approval of some higher authority, and the Captain believed that they should be able to act when and where they could without needing permission in order to do the most good. Magneto looked at the number he had tattooed on his wrist as a child in the camps and said, "Never again."

Fill the curtain rods with fish. It'll take a few days for the smell to start, and weeks before anyone even thinks to check the curtain rods.

You're absolutely right, but I have the exact same concerns about Meta and Facebook, Google and YouTube, and Musk and Twitter - all of whom have been shown to be influencing the algorithms to censor left-wing news and people and favor right-wing groups and push right-wing extremism.

The other platforms are already doing that. So does the news when they report on events using different language (see the cyber truck blowing up vs. the New Orleans attack). The only difference here is that it might be China doing the propagandizing instead of the corporate overlords.

Seriously. I read the article, and the entire time, it was just a bunch of facts that all pointed to how poor our living conditions have become under mass surveillance, the commodification of the human experience, and dwindling bank balances, with the completely wrong conclusion that people are just lazy and don't want to be the one to throw a party.

Yeah, the reason they want to ban TikTok is because it's not an American owned social media platform like every other one in the country, which means that they can't as easily police its content and only China has that kind of power over it (but I think they don't really have much control over the international version? I don't know enough to say).

This is purely about America's ability to put propaganda on the platform.

Not to be confused with a danger noodle.

He clearly wanted to become a martyr to start off a Night of Long Knives/mass terrorism campaign against anybody who disagrees with the MAGA extremists.

I could go all armchair psychologist and guess that he was probably suicidal as well, and this was a better option than, say, suicide by cops or burning yourself to death on the steps of the capital building or something, but who really knows.

And, yeah, the cognitive dissonance is par for the course. You need it in order for fascism to make sense.

One thing I forgot to mention is that there were tons of memes like this with Linux as the third as well (or other random stuff, of course), so this is kinda relevant on all fronts.

So much for state's rights.

I think when a lot of people talk about video games, the conversation largely revolves around the AAA industry. Especially considering how difficult it is still to get indie games on consoles, which locks the majority of gamers out of the space entirely. There's definitely some good stuff in the AAA industry, but it often seems like sleeper hits rather than big-name titles. Compare Astro Bot to whatever Call of Duty came out this year, or my favorite to point out, the first Splatoon being the best-selling shooter in a year where both a Battlefield and a Call of Duty game came out. Both games that really came out of nowhere to critical acclaim rather than games people were excited for a year before release.

The games I play and enjoy the most seem to largely be from small developers that I never heard about until after they've already released.

As for Bloodlines 2, I'm not surprised. It's in the same development hell as Duke Nukem Forever as far as I'm concerned, and I'd be surprised if it ever releases at all.

I'm not surprised, that picture is from 2009. It's a play on an old Mac TV ad campaign and a long-standing stereotype in the furry fandom of fox fursonas being... very promiscuous.

I never thought I'd use this ever again...