[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 22 points 22 hours ago

number of times saying "Have you no shame, sir?" has worked: 1

number of times attempted: 14,789,996

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 13 points 23 hours ago

why is he an orangutan what movie is that

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

anyone else have a difficult time with Star Trek Prodigy? It just feels bloated with proper names and series references. Like to the point where it's just hard to get into it.

It's weird, cus Lower Decks gets pretty heavy handed with the call backs, but it doesn't feel like it gets in the way of the story, if that makes any sense.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Never quite understood why aliens are gonna crop up to save us if the nukes fly. Like, are we a research specimen and they can only start interfering when we've rendered ourselves functionally extinct?

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago

silly, it can't be one of us becasu they have no online presence!

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Imagine if every four years Britain had a contest to see who gets to live in Buckingham palace.

That's us, that's our stupid fucking constitution.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

It's pretty similar, yeah. A lot of casual investing (and even a worrying amount of professional investing) focuses too much on changes in exchange-value while overlooking use-vale. Exchange-value fluctuates with market trends, with how people feel about something and what they are willing to trade to have it. Use-value is sort of like the 'floor' -- it's the material value of something, its practical use.

At the moment, the computer programmes that get called "AI" have an exchange value that almost certainly exceeds their actual use-value (which is still hazy at the moment; this stuff is pretty new). A hardware company like NVIDIA really benefits from this, because it drives up the exchange value of their computer chips, which already have an established use-value. There's a risk here, though. At the moment, demand for chips is high and they are producing as much as they can to meet it. If it eventually turns out the use for "AI" is significantly less than its exchange value, they'll find themselves producing more chips than people actually need.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

Caroline Pinkerton

strikebreaker GLaDOS

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

I wonder if it's just 'cus Nvidia isn't being talked about much. "AI" is the buzzword, the There's Gold in Them Thar Hills of this bubble. Hardware is the picks and shovels, where the real cash is being made. If they're just training this on scrapping text from the web, that's an easy fact to overlook.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

I love enya

it's inclusion in anything ups the comedic value tenfold

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Elden Ring is a game screaming for community servers. Like, let people make servers for trading or with different drop rates or mixed up enemy locations.

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written in the fucking 1970s

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for when you want to say YES very emphatically while talking like the guy who directed Citizen Cane

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for when you feel on top of the world, but also as small as a mouse

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(id look up the quote, but it's funner to butcher ideas and re-arrange them in new language)

i feel like that's not just the US as a nation state, but Yankee culture and society in general. Like, I'm starting to think we're just not capable of incorporating new experience into our collective learned behaviors. Not even after COVID - the polite thing isn't to mask up or even hand-sanitize when you have cold or flu symptoms, it's to pretend like nothing happened (and AIDS barely gets talked about and only in the past-tense...)

Most of the art and music and literature getting remixed remade and referenced is from the 20th century, or has roots beginning in that time. In terms of infrastructure, very little built this century seems to have any amount of longevity in mind.

Geopolitically we're still doing Cold Wars and proxy-conflicts -- even when those have been rendered obsolete by our own fucking actions the previous (and first...) time there was a big Cold War. And we never stopped funding and arming settler colonialism, even with practically unanimous condemnation in the UN (take away our VETO for the love of all things good TAKE IT AWAY)

i don't know that i have a conclusion for this. On a personal level, living in the 20th century US but having 21st century tech reminds me way too much of Fahrenheit 451. It's maddening. Like I'm trying not to notice the great big Amygdalae on the Healing Church; there's no outlet for the Insight so it's just hovering there and i'm scared to walk too close to it for fear of how others respond.

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...Make a national programme to replace all the lead pipes in the country. The more I think about it, the angrier I get. Why the fuck should water come into a home on command and still not be drinkable? We're a crule hospice of a country. The kind of half-funny tragedy that just makes me furious. Perhaps I've been drikning too much tap water. Damn damn damn damn. There would be more exclamation marks here, but I have restraint.

obligitory amerikkka amerikkka-clap acab <flag of the cruel hospice

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request for an empty space emoji, for blocking out space and making more complex combinations with other emoji

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