Uriel-238 @ Uriel238 @lemmy.fmhy.ml

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Robot-made pizza came up about a decade ago on Idle Thumbs noting that the guy who was promoting it was suggesting it would be cheaper to make, yet he wasn't willing to offer cheaper pizza prices.

I wonder if it's legally possible to make a non-profit restaurant or other food source that charged cost + 10% and then sought to automate as much as possible and pay fair wages when automation wasn't, and see if that could compete effectively in fair market capitalism. I'm sure there are barriers to trying to make such a thing happen (not to mention creative legal attacks by for-profit competitors) but I don't know specifically what those barriers are.

Then I'd appeal to constraint-derived creatvity.

Simulated universe hypotheses.

Since J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI is secret police by the most common definition (investigates and hunts enemies of and threats to the current regime) although the Comey-era bureau changed its mission from enforce the law to national security

At this point in the US the function of the common precinct is to ensure its own survival, and is a threat to both citizens and the hierarchies that decide their budget.

It is true. Every civil right we have was withheld until it was seized by force or by the authority of state. Our oppressors will continue to withhold rights until their own being is threatened.

Authoritarians negotiate only with terrorists.

I think Sonic is immune to acceleration injury, and would laugh at sustained 10gs of force.

We kinda knew this was going to happen. New Hollywood really wants to be classic Hollywood, where the studios own the lives of the actors and control every aspect. But I expected them to start by cyber-thesbianning Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, Jean Harlow and Clark Gable.

But yeah, the studios are going through a creativity crisis, now decades into a best practices run of avoiding new ideas for less risky sequels and high concept films, preferring spectacle over introspection and character study.

The copyright maximalism and Hollywood accounting isn't really about piracy or greed so much as desperation to keep old promises of exponential dividend growth.

Every bubble eventually pops, and the longer they try to keep it intact, the more disastrous the outcome.

In the meantime, I look forward to when small indie directors can star Bogart and Harlow in their concept film.

Can I ask what comic this is? It smacks of QC but I don't recognize any of the characters. Also no robots.

I'm not sure I trust anyone to exorcise my personal demons.

Besides which we're on terms, and have regular tea at the bottom of the abyss.

Heh. During the Trump administration when all the Republican elected officials we're shouting Free Speech In Social Media because Trump was getting factchecked on Twitter, we fantasized about a state-serves social media platform that would be as free-speechy as the state legally allowed.

Not that it would be useful except to point at it and say if you don't moderate your platform, it'll turn into this!

I expected some poor bureaucrat would have to clear all the CSAM but the furry-futa porn would remain, as would all the advertisements for penis pills and Nigerian princes. The hate speech would stay up but get tracked until someone got radicalized by it.

An Underground Education by Richard Zacks. Especially since all the controversies are getting combed out of Wikipedia.

A lot of evil playthroughs require kitten-eating miniquest, were you have to suck the souls of forsaken orphan children or massacre cute things. I'm way too much of a softy to harvest Little Sisters

Curiously the Vader-grip in the Jedi Outcast series allowed me to disarm foes without killing them, allowing me to pacifist my way though entire levels that were meant to be cleared.

I was called too lazy as a kid so much that it figures largely in my debilitating disability. Then in the 90s studying psychology I developed a hypothesis there was no such thing as laziness (or the sin sloth as its recognized by post-Calvanist Protestantism) rather all instances of avolition could be traced to dysfunction, poor health or misunderstanding the degree of fatigue caused by the necessary work.

By the 2010s the psychology sector came to the same conclusion, that productivity could be improved by creating a healthy environment for work that allowed people to do human things between tasks (take bathroom breaks, check social media, eat snacks, etc.) Or can be decreased by making the work environment toxic (crunching, harassment, stale offerings in the vending machine, pressure to not take relief breaks, etc.)

The epidemic lockdown of 2020 and mass furlogh actually vindicated these hypotheses (though I haven't read the studies) when people turned to hobbies with fervent obsession, often enough yielding marketable results, resulting in the great resignation.

I live for statements like this one.

God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers

sounds to me like

God stress-tests each of us until we die

which smacks a lot of

Survival of the fittest. with extra steps.

Isn't this how we invented the automobile?

The TV series Bob & Rose written by Russell T Davies is about Bob, very much a gay man, falling in love with Rose, a cis-het woman, while still preserving his gay identity, and how they (and friends and family) process this disparity between identity and behavior.

So the answer is, yes, of course. How we identify ourselves doesn't always match our behavior, and so long as the closet is a necessity, we have to be allowed to have mismatches between identity and behavior.

Is there a community exclusively for users with strange names? And if so, how is qualifying strangeness determined?

Related to this topic is Masnick's Impossibility Theorem, Mike Masnick observes that it's impossible to do content moderation at scale well (that is without both malicious content slipping through while false positives get taken down).

A more humorous version of the same notion is found on Masnick's proposed Twitter content moderation speedrun. Note that Musk not only failed to not trip over all these steps, but also found new ones to trip over, and now Twitter is... well what Twitter is today.