Orcocracy [comrade/them]

We all have lots of very good reasons to keep phone usage to an absolute minimum. Not all screentime is inherently bad, but all of the big infinite scroll apps are designed to be as addictive as cigarettes.

I support the airport-style security & surveillance of commuters on the Shanghai metro, but that’s because when America decides you are its enemy you need to be extra fucking careful.

No, it isn’t a dog whistle. It’s clear-as-day use of hateful language.

Pogroms are also bad, but that’s irrelevant to this conversation. We’re not talking about Pinochet or Pol Pot either. What you are doing is defending the term “PC master race”. Notice how nobody here is able to create a positive argument for why the casual use of such clearly hateful language is ok. Perhaps you should recognize that there isn’t one.

You’re here and he’s not.

Why are you rushing to defend the term “master race”? You don’t need to do this.

No excuses.

Maybe think for a bit about whether you really want to defend your use of that term or not.

Fuck off with that nazi shit.

Yes PCs are fine. “Master race” is not fine.

I think the last time any PlayStation game was re-released at a discount with the hits/platinum/best branding was back in the 2010s. They don’t seem to do this anymore either.

I have to wonder why hydro is always left out of the solar+wind clean energy statistics. Is it just because it’s old tech?

It’s quite difficult and/or very expensive to collect that data since these platforms deleted their open APIs. As far as most researchers are concerned this information is now basically unknowable.

Further proof that orcs are actually the smartest, as they are the only ones not falling for 1000+ hour obsession games.

Nobody can prove you wrong (or right) about “some things” not working. What things?

There’s loads of spec-fic and comics etc from both during and after the Cold War about what if the US loses/lost the Cold War illustrated with the Statue of Liberty having the torch replaced with a hammer and sickle or the book she’s holding is changed to be a copy of Quotations from Chairman Mao or whatever. Just do that.

If you value your time you should switch to Linux. Yes there’s a brief adjustment period, but especially now, that period is very short and well worth the initial effort. It’s not 2005 anymore, Linux has less jank than Windows or Mac OS now.

Why make the computer do a thing that it doesn’t have to? The answer is control and profit. Control by monitoring installs and requiring Microsoft accounts, profit from advertisements for Microsoft services and data brokerage, and so on.

We should not happily embrace Microsoft’s desires for greater profits and control over the public.

It was a thing back in the late 1990s as part of the antiglobalization movement. Look up old issues of the Adbusters magazine or Naomi Klein’s book ‘No Logo’

Yeah, LLMs and generative AI are extremely problematic for lots of reasons, but critical support for DeepSeek. It does actually address many of those issues and perhaps most importantly shows the folly of the western approach to AI.

Yes I do know, thank you. Note how I said “a few clicks”. Image batch processing is not something that has needed to be hand coded for a long time.

You could automate this sort of thing with just a few clicks in a ~30-year old copy of photoshop using less computer power than a modern dishwasher cycle. Maybe vibe coding a script with an LLM wasn’t necessary.

I don’t mean to be rude to anyone personally, but I feel that generative AI usage should generally be frowned upon.