loathsome dongeater

Not that it needs to be said but I commend Iran for making the US-israel aggression the whole world’s problem by impeding the free flow of fossil fuel. If the world wants to sit by as it happens, at least they will have to actually feel uncomfortable rather than just saying that they feel so.

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I am not sure what the statue is supposed to symbolise but it looks nice.

USA is cringe for sure but I cannot imagine looking at what Americans do and thinking that the country is uniquely worse at critical thinking than the rest of world. Sure, their education system and the people coming out of it are abysmal considering its the wealthiest country in the world. But there are tangible reasons for it, like the underfunded public education system. I look at the people around where I live and most of them are not good at critical thinking either. It is not something that is taught in general.

The other sad thing is what made him surface this thought is the rambling of a weird nazi on X, the everything app. That platform is a cesspool of all varieties of fascists who inhale oxygen just so they are able to make atrocious bad faith posts on it. Now Musk even pays them for it. Content creators cannot fathom leaving that website because a big chunk of their self worth and income is tied to their follower count. Don’t use that website that all. Otherwise don’t use it to survey national mentual acuity. Just be normal.

Even words like dumb, stupid, imbecile, moron have always had an ableist subtext. But that subtext has somewhat eroded over time because we don’t call mentally disabled folks those in a clinical sense (except for dumb). I don’t like using these words myself but it’s not a big deal to use these words.

R*tarded meanwhile to this day means mentally disabled as a clinical category. It is always used as an insult and a pejorative. It has the implication that mentally disabled people are subhuman. This makes the term exclusionary and robs disabled people from the chance of being a part of the rest of the society, something that is their right. Even “mentally disabled” is an uncharitable descriptor. Most people labeled as such are just different and can contribute to the society just as much as a so called able people can given that they are accepted and accomodated for. Conditions where there is a full spectrum mental disability are a subset of all the conditions which are labelled as mental disability.

Then there is the issue that most people you are calling r*tarded are in fact not technically r*tarded. They are being asinine for some other reason. But if you call them r*tarded you are insulting, along with them, all the mentally disabled for no good reason. At best you are inconsiderate and at worst you think disabled people are subhuman which makes you an ableist.

I think it should be short videos that should be focus, not just tiktok. Videos have become extremely easy to make and distribute since tiktok became a thing. The apps themselves not contain capable video editing suites. Not to mention the advances in internet, codecs, playback, AI captioning and so on. Short videos are extremely simulating. They are short so you don’t have to pay attention for long. They get to the point from the very first frame so there is no delay in gratification. They become even more stimulating when there are more things on screen, like the creator talking or the weird eye catching appearing-as-they-speak subtitles that these videos have. I don’t watch this stuff but so I’m making all this up but I feel if one gets accustomed to this level of stimulation the digital crack of yesteryears like an Instagram post with only pictures will feel less interesting. It’s no accident that the ghouls at Google and meta had to copy this format. Even outside tiktok-verse short videos are often sprinkled across facebook and twitter timelines.

Solarpunk af

Is this true or not? I’ve heard mixed responses

Have you heard anything to support this? The strongest support I can find for these claims is redditors saying something like “-50 social credit points” to a comment saying “china bad”. There has never been any credible evidence of the evil CCP monitoring your everyday speech and behaviour to adjust these supposed social credit points. It is also not explained what the implication of having a bad “social credit” are. All of the stuff avoids any concrete details and asks you to fill in the blanks with whatever biases you might have.

There isn’t a wrong way to do this. But magick montage can do all that except for the permutation thing which you’d have to script in another language like bash or python. My point was that imagemagick is a mature and battle tested software. It’s worth learning if you find yourself working with images often. I’d rather ask the LLM to figure out the right flags to use it (because it’s truly unintuitive) rather than to punch out a script. But as I said there isn’t really a wrong way to go about this.

All I can find is a NSFW chat with an AI crush

This shit is everywhere.

Sounds like something you should use imagemagick’s montage for: https://imagemagick.org/script/montage.php

Just have to figure out the right flags to make it look like a 4-panel comic.

Suiting up in my salmon costume to dance before the volcel police as we speak

Purely probabilistically token generating machine is intelligent. Got it.

Could AA games become more resource hungry in the next five years? It is possible but unlikely. Even if it becomes a trend then at least some games will definitely exist that won’t be resource hogs. Engines breaking compatibility is also unlikely. As I said the thing is essentially a computer. The only things that make it a handheld are the form factor and peripherals. Regardless of these two points a huge backlog of games will continue to exist. At that point it won’t justify the price tag that Steam Deck has today but if you could get one cheap you could crank out insane value from it.

but of course you can’t upgrade a PC handheld while video games demand more and more specs every year

These devices are not meant to play AAA games. It is what the manufacturers advertise but they are lying. Unless you can look past terrible performance (20-30 fps) and battery life. Valve marks AAA games as “Steam Deck Verified” willy-nilly but most run awfully on it. Best option you have for this slice of games is have them run on a gaming PC and stream them using something like Moonlight.

I use my Steam Deck for low end games and emulation mostly. Laat game I finished on it was Silksong. Right now I am giving Hades 2 a whirl. These kinds of games run great. It is also essentially a handheld computer so I also use it to watch Jellyfin.

Or you can simply get a Switch 2. It’s not a handheld PC, but it’s still an awesome portable gaming machine.

I have pirated a preposterous number of games on my Steam Deck so I would advicd against this.

Hacking into the mainframe of course

Who killed Charlie KKKirk? And why?

Praying for a swift end to his suffering 🙏

Owning the libs by giving a fascist transphobe all my money