[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 6 points 2 days ago

Fun fact: America was actually created as the world's largest scale Prisoner's Dilemma experiment. Sure, you could do the right thing but it only works if a bunch of other people also do the right thing, and you kind of know they won't.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 3 points 6 days ago

A lot of people don't follow their own advice or beliefs. It'd actually be super cool to find someone who does.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 67 points 2 weeks ago

This has to be terrible news for conspiracy theorists. Our government got caught doing something shady overseas but it was encouraging other people to NOT vaccinate, which is the thing the conspiracy theorists thought our government wanted everyone to do.

I'm legitimately interested to see how/if Fox or OAN report on this. It should be entertaining.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 171 points 3 weeks ago

The "I got a big tip on a small bill" part suggests America, but the "three ten year old boys in public without anyone calling the cops" suggests Europe. Hmmm

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 119 points 2 months ago

I have a similar one! I did house calls. I got called out on a warranty call, someone said a coworker of mine didn't fix the problem. I look in the notes and the coworker says he did a standard virus removal, suggested virus protection but was turned down.

I get there and sure enough it's riddled with viruses again. Coworker was legit, notes all in order, I tell the client that this isn't a warranty issue, the work was done, and it has now been reinfected and will need another removal. He seems fine with this, but his wife flips out and demands I prove it got reinfected.

I suggest that we can check the web history. Since it was popping up ads, we'd see when the pop-ups started, and more importantly we'd see if they had stopped after coworker left. Guy says that's unnecessary, it definitely got reinfected, and this time he'll buy an antivirus. Wife is having none of it, says go ahead and check and I'll see the problem was never fixed. I ask if they're sure, guy kind of resignedly says to do it.

I'm not one to kink shame, but when all the trans porn site titles came up, the dude was clearly mortified. I didn't get very far into trying to figure out if I can prove it's related before the wife says "just fix the damn thing" and stormed out. I hope it wasn't too bad for him, she seemed a bit difficult to deal with.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 68 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure what you're talking about. One result affirms that you should feel safe and provides a hotline, the other starts with outright victim-blaming. The second result under "Maybe it's your fault for not listening?" is not a hotline, at least for me.

My point is that if they just made the result the same then it would not detract from women, nor would it hurt the men who don't need the advice. You're going out of your way to defend an unnecessary bias by claiming it's more relevant, but that's not the point. They could choose to just not have the bias, and it would be a win while hurting no one.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 397 points 4 months ago

The true mildly infuriating is the comments. Whether this is rage bait or not, we should all be about to agree on some basic things:

  • Domestic violence sucks regardless of who the victim is and who the perpetrator is.

  • Helping one group of victims, like males, does not have to and should not take away from helping another group.

  • The number of victims should not be the deciding factor on whether victims deserve empathy and support.

People in here are going out of their way to defend what is clearly a biased oversight, treating women like an automatic victim and treating men like an automatic perpetrator. Why? Just acknowledge that it's dumb, shows bias, and move on.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 131 points 6 months ago

Of these, I'd like to point out that unironically Uber is the obvious choice for Best. Hear me out...

  • Outside of the really big cities, taxi service was trash. You had to find a number and a phone, the price was almost impossible to figure out in advance, and none that I am aware of were doing anything to keep up with the times or improve anything. The competition that it hurt deserved some pain.

  • People can now paw drunkenly at their phone and generally arrive home safe. Easy access to rides has almost certainly saved lives. I don't think you can say that about any of the others on the list.

But wait! I'm not saying that Uber is good. I'm just saying that, theoretically, you could start a service like Uber that isn't hot garbage, that has employees or at least better paid contractors that take home a more reasonable share of the money. Hell, a local government could create a ride hailing app that passes the entire amount back to the driver, and it would be a net benefit to society. Though at that point, maybe they should have just been looking into better public transportation and planning instead.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 112 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Unless I'm mistaken, the most popular fiction in which VR is wildly popular is.. Ready Player One, Snow Crash, and Neuromancer. And in all of them, VR is only popular because people are trying to escape the hellscape that unrestrained capitalism has turned the planet into.

I dunno. Give it a few more years, maybe.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 97 points 7 months ago

It's so infuriating with DIY stuff and video game guides. There's definitely a use for video in those contexts, but a lot of times I have one specific need. I don't need to know how to completely disassemble my faucet, I just need to know how to get one handle off, and rather than search through a video and then rewind it fifty times I'd much rather have some words and pictures that I can scan through at my own speed.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 99 points 8 months ago

At first my brain only saw nightmares. It took me a while but... It's an earbud in an ear surrounded by some blonde hair.

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