Sway_Chameleon

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

First rule of metal spikey end club.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

When tech companies say they want to “democratize” they typically mean they are making a service more widely available to the consumer. The democracy bit is that the consumer “votes” with their wallet. A notable early adopter was Amazon, and I would hardly think that the public, today, see that organization as a paragon of virtue. So, in this sense of the word we’re somewhat failing ourselves here.

In the context you present, the companies themselves become little democracies internally. This sounds nice but would ultimately lead to chaos and ruin for those companies. I think this would lead to highly unstable, unprofitable businesses that no investor would ever give money to, or at least not expect any returns from.

Furthermore, I don’t necessarily think it would benefit the consumer in the end. Maybe the employees mostly vote to have a good solid ethical company, or maybe they vote in their own best interests to bring home higher wages and/or just keep their jobs safe. One could argue we just witnessed one such example of this with the recent OpenAI debacle with Sam Altman. Board fired him for potentially going against the stated charter of the company (one that has an ethical basis of essentially putting the security and well being of humanity above all else), at the risk of destroying an $87billion company, yet the employees staged a mutiny forcing the board to reinstate him.

But I digress. At the end of the day I think the most we can ever really expect from companies is that they will, inevitably, find new and creative ways to extract ever increasing amounts of money from us, until such time that we simply cease giving it to them.

Edit: spelling.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

“I hear those things are awfully loud”

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

A pipsqueak relative to my ancestor, the great Nova Scotian Angus “The Giant” MacAskill.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_MacAskill

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

Yeah, I know. Best I could do was ask for a vengeful looking celestial charlie chaplin.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bbb5396c-7f49-41e3-81fe-bd2e7eb0d3dc.jpeg

Stupid ai and it’s content warnings. Had to go with a vengeful celestial charlie chaplin and edit the moustache down a little.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

Never attribute to drugs that which be simply explained by stupidity.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

slate.com/…/mike-johnson-christian-nationalist-la…

According to the Slate article the organizer of the event posted his speech on his FB page.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

“For those who don’t know, New Year’s in Russia is like Christmas in the west.”

So you’re saying Putin is the Grinch who stole New Years? That checks.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5688b322-f010-400f-b710-edf9957a93a3.webm

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

That’s pretty much how my wife and I ended up together. I studied amphibians, she likes amphibians, Yada Yada Yada, married.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

There was a Donner… but then there was a very unfortunate party.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0bc26dbb-f988-4774-8ab1-729e50a5946b.webm

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

I had a VHS copy of the Empire Strikes Back that my uncle recorded for me when it played on one of our 3 local TV stations. For the holidays I had a recording of a bunch of the old holiday cartoons that would play in a marathon every Christmas, and one of Ghostbusters (for some reason it used to play every Christmas in the evening, so it became a Christmas movie for me).

Aside from that I’d mostly just rent the same VHS tapes from our local hole in the wall video rental place every weekend (Neverending Story and Inhumanoids) from the ages of 4-6. Then I think we got a real video store and my movie watching experience improved a bit. To be fair, the hole in the wall rental shop was probably only about 10 feet long and 6 feet wide inside, and the shelves of movies lined the walls, so there wasn’t a lot to choose from.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

Oh hey man! Here, try some of this.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bffd4eac-8d00-47e1-8bde-f62233d1ef20.webm

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

The joke is that they embrace the behaviour they otherwise look down upon when they play the game. Nothing to do with games causing people to become violent.

Side note: Johnny?

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

It suggests that Europeans embrace the behaviour when they play the game. The people who purport that extreme behaviours in media (games, TV, movies, books) translate into real life behaviour are making a false equivocation that such behaviour will carry over into reality, which has been shown to be false.

Look, I am not arguing with you that video games do not cause people to behave poorly in real life. But I will push back on the idea that that is what the meme is suggesting. It only suggests they embrace it when they play the game for the first time, nothing more. We shouldn’t extrapolate further meaning beyond that from a silly joke.

Johnny?

Edit: fixed wording

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

You forgot to insert the obligatory national sentence ender: “Sorry”.

You’ll have to be sent off for mandatory re-Caneducation training. Please be sure to arrive wearing your standard issue plaid shirt, and toque. Tim Hortons coffee will be served and there is a 3 three drink minimum.

Sorry.

Edit: grammer/clarification.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

THC def better, but if I really need sleep the combo of the two is best. Just have to be careful with timing and amounts. THC keeps the dreams away.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

There is only but so much time that can be allocated to fun, sleep only serves to rob you of that precious time.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Going to have to say no. Not intentionally at least. Especially since I’m not sure what you’re referring to. A quick search suggests a beach in Greece? I dunno, this is just what the AI spat out when I gave it “Cannibal frogs on vacation”. I think it just butchered the spelling as it is often want to do.

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c143d59e-2201-4a79-932a-9a6187ff13dd.jpeg

What did these poor peasant frogs do to deserve this?

Sway_Chameleon, 6 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/085b0745-404d-4311-b3d5-3d5e45e93724.jpeg