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Comment Re:Sounds sensible (Score 1) 18

The problem is that it won't be long before every game has the label on it and everyone ignores them.

The point of food labels isn't that people look at them. It's that people CAN look at them. It enables some of us to look for all of us. It doesn't matter if a majority looks at labels regularly. A minority can look at it and inform the rest of us. And then we can verify what they say by looking ourselves if they say there's something important to be seen.

I also don't think that AI will be so easily ignored. Especially for the areas the label is trying to highlight.

Comment Re:What drivel (Score 1) 136

I really don't know where to begin to respond to this nonsensical article. But somehow, I managed to live about 75% of my life without a smart phone (and indeed, probably 60% without a mobile phone) and my cognitive abilities are OK.

There is one kernel of truth in the article, though... it's getting harder and harder not to have a smart phone. For example, if you want to see a concert, a lot of venues require you to have the Ticketmaster app for those annoying mobile tickets with the moving blue bar. That's super-annoying and a giant imposition on the public.

i mean yeah that's dumb but whatever I'll just go see concerts that aren't doing through Ticketmaster...... oh wait.

Comment Re: Like the world has never seen (Score 1) 130

Yeah, think of the ratings! Especially if there's a few explosions. Oh yeah, that is marketing gold right there.

reminds me of a sketch from Baroness Von Sketch Show the concept was a theatre troupe who was practicing in the wood. The joke was there was a flat tire and they could only think of theatre kid solutions. The news reported they died of exposure. Other theatre kids hearing that report were jealous of how much exposure they got and already planning a possible trek to the woods.

Comment oh my mistake he's a idiot shill not a normal one (Score 2) 130

At first "US goes to moon in 2nd term" I thought the dude was just an idiot who doesn't know Trump

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who was confirmed by the Senate just last week

Oh nevermind. He's an idiot shill trying to suck up to Trump who doesn't realize that Trump and Co would probably be happier shutting down NASA then going to the moon again. Just another case of "Just fake it, till you make it" except they don't particularly care about making it.

Comment The service animal loophole. (Score 1) 195

Does it keep out the entitled people carrying their little rat dogs into the store. I saw a god in the store in San Jose where we were staying at least every third time I went to the Safeway. I wish I had recorded my arguments about unsanitary conditions. Even the staff said "it's up to the manager." And the workers would often pet the rat dogs. Dog shit to their fingers to produce. No, no health issues at all. They of course claimed they were service dogs. Well I have a friend with a service. It smells her sugar level to alert here when she is close to a seizure. That is a great dog. That is a dog she can take anywhere she needs it. Those bitches (pun intended) and their rats think their prestige items are service dogs? "Oh he improves my mood." Fuck you bitch. I eventually went to another brand that was 10 minutes away by car, and gave us on the unsanitary shit hole.

Abuse of the "service animal" status is a problem. Mostly because while there are laws about service animals. There's no laws that designate what is and what isn't a service animal. But it's just a giant legal loophole. Until that's fixed there's not much you can do though. For a while you might get by asking the two questions you are legally allowed to ask about service animals. But the fakers will catch on quick and make up answers and there's no ramifications.

Comment Good riddence to yet another racist misanthrope (Score 2) 65

Good riddance to that race baiting prick. He was racist against Black people, Irish People, Latin people, Jewish people, women people, fat people. Far as we can tell there's no one he wouldn't throw stereotypes at and suggest they were genetic. He supported post birth abortions. He was a disgusting misanthropist who justified everyone he hated with the veil of genetics.

“all our social policies are based on the fact that [African] intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says not really.”

"people who have to deal with black employees find [the idea of equality among all people] is not true"

"Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can’t be criticized, that’s very dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society"

"[Melanin increases libido] That's why you have Latin lovers. You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient”

The intelligence of Africans is “not really ... the same as ours.”

His views on genetics also veered into ethically dangerous territory. He was a proponent of genetic selection, once saying that if a woman could discover a “gay gene,” she should be allowed to abort a homosexual child. Furthermore, he suggested that a fetus should not be considered alive until three days after birth, which would give parents the option of infanticide if they discovered a birth defect.

Comment Re: Cancelled for saying the truth (Score 1) 65

there's no difference in IQ test results for races once proper adjustments (income, education, etc) are made.

What the ... "proper adjustments" ??? So I guess Polynesians are no heavier than Sri Lankans once you adjust for waist size? What a bizzare abuse of logic to suggest these are independent measurements.

Poverty you moron. The adjustments are things like being poor makes you less intelligent. Dropping out of high school makes you dumber. If it's the case the more black people are less intelligent than their white counterparts. It's more likely a reflection on the fact that more of them are poor and more of them drop out of high school (for various reasons, not always voluntary). So saying it's genetic is stupid like Watson.

In your example adjustments would be things like diet. are polynesians genetically heavier or do they just eat more. It's called science to eliminate variables by reaching for more similarity. No one says you have to have twin biracial children but schooling makes up a lot of someone's measured intelligence so comparing someone who doesn't have any to someone who has the most is going to lead to flawed conclusions. But I suppose it's inconvenient if you have no minorities to look down upon ehh?

Comment Re:what is it? (Score 3, Informative) 20

"one of the most recognizable names in Android launchers". What's an "Android launcher"?

It's what you get when you hit the home screen button on your phone. It's how you "launch" applications. It can include the home screen, the lock screen and the app drawer. Nova was the best of the third party launchers. SOO customizable. It's going to be frustrating to have to pick up a new one. Nova let me launch three different apps depending on how I swiped the icon on my home screen. I designed my setup and I haven't changed it in years. It's so convenient. Heck I paid for pro to unlock all the features even though I honestly only use about 1/3 of them.

Comment Re:Are VideoGames more costly? (Score 1) 69

nah I want guidance. give me a well directed game and it will feel open even if it isn't. The illusion of choice is more important than actual choice when it's done well.

AI frame generation needs to go the way of the dodo. If you're telling me you can't keep the framerate stable at 60fps on modern hardware without resorting to an AI to fake the result, then you shouldn't be spending money on art assets that aren't actually being rendered most of the time. (Especially when some of those assets are themselves made by AI in all or in part. Or the asset is only on screen for a total of 45 seconds out of 60+ hour game.) If this means smaller worlds, fog, etc. So be it.

I agree.

Comment Re:Servicing a need (Score 1) 39

especially the phrase "this is such an extreme need", I got the sense that the poster is bothered by women sharing information about men, and I would like to know why.

huh? My point is that women desperately want to protect themselves from bad men that's all. They're so desperate to protect themselves that even when they hear the app was hacked the result is just more women wanting to sign up. Which isn't unexplainable. For some of them this is life and death. I was just trying not to be so melodramatic as I expect the audience here trends against that sort of perspective.

Comment Re:Servicing a need (Score 1) 39

I remain curious why thewolfkin and others seem bothered by women sharing information about men.

Where did I say I care about that. My point is that clearly women feel very strongly about this which I understand. I'm not bothered by it or worried about it anymore than I'm worried about laws that enable women to report sexual assault. What I was saying is that I don't trust the technical aspects of the app developers. I think if you want to make a woman only app there are too many practical barriers. For instance sending in photo ID or picture validation runs into ugly women problems where mannish looking women might get rejected. I think the only secure way to make an app that's only for women is to have women pass the app the other women phone to phone. But it's slightly more trustworthy. That's the only thing I care about I just think it's inherently insecure. Men don't like being excluded and they hate being talked about and since that's this apps entire purpose the idea that some vibe coded it meant it was destined to get 'hacked'.

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