Would you care if a robot suffered more than any being in existence?
What if you're a pervert? That's a pretty decent excuse.
Zozano
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I use it when I get stoned with my mates and think of funny shit to generate.
I meant to reply to you, to illustrate it's not always unethical; a point you raised, not OP.
For the sake of brevity, I'm just going to agree that I'm sea-lioning.
Now, explain how what I'm doing is unethical.
Do you think it's unethical because it uses stolen art?
If so, I don't think there's an issue because I'm not publishing anything I generate.
Do you think it's unethical because of the electricity usage?
If so, you could make the argument about any frivilous activity which generates electricity.
I really don't know of a compelling reason besides these two which raises a red flag for you.
I'm not trolling. Why is it unethical for me and my buddies to generate images of a duck with the head of an elephant?
(Not my art)
It's hilarious to me that Epic will never introduce features like this, and also complain Steam has a monopoly, as if they're at all comparable
Mass Effect, The Witcher, San Andreas Hot Coffee Mod, Sega Bass Fishing 2, Cyberpunk 2077.
It's pretty common.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Those of us on the left needs to be more concerned with our optics and police ourselves better.
Catch-phrases like "all cops are bastards", "defund the police", "math is racist", "black lives matter", "trans-women are women" etc., do not help to promote liberal progressive ideologies and push the people on the fence away.
For the record, I'm not saying that the ideas behind the words are bad*, but the phrases themselves act as a litmus test; If anyone questions the phrases, the divide has occurred, and they're a fascist (another word which is used far too often).
Many of these are so easy to correct for, "Reform the Police", "Black Lives Matter Too" are the most obvious and easy changes.
There are those who'll say that conservatives are going to complain about it anyway, and many of them are set in stone, but there are far too many people going to the right, as a result of the left making fools of ourselves.
The strength of the right is that they'll accept anyone who isn't left. Proud Boys, Neo-Nazi's, and KKK are tolerated by the right because their strength is in numbers, not ideas.
*I support the ideas behind all of them, but how they are perceived by conservatives is not how they were intended to be understood.
EDIT: The conversations about liberal and liberalism have been draining. There is one definition which is practically synonymous with progressivism - this is what I meant, not Liberalism.
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So you're telling me I can get my daily vitamin C if I drink just 13 cups?
I've unironically had this happen to me, same friend, twice.
They had the audacity to blame me, despite being generous enough to perform some basic maintenance and performance enhancements.
Then when they got home, forgot to plug it back in.
This was comedy gold. His inflection was identical to that of a child being called out.
"I caught a Mew in the grass just outside of Pallet Town"
"Oh yeah? Show me your cartridge"
"Ah, I didn't save it after I caught it, my batteries died last night"
Twitter formatting sucks ass.
Reading order:
4th (first post)
2nd (second post down)
1st (third post down)
3rd (last post)
Ken, I'll be real with you.
The real reason you're not getting your dick wet is because you aren't announcing you want to connect, sexually.
"Famously, Steam does very little to earn the massive cut they take"
Must be why it's so successful.
Same energy as Joan Cornella's comics
COX: Drug traffickers love gizmos. They love gadgets. And if they have something like, ooh, the app is hidden behind a calculator, they think that's amazing, and they want to buy it.
TIL drug traffickers have the mindset of a teenage boy looking for ways to hide porn.
How does everyone keep up with this shit?
It's like living with Trump, every day is some new bullshit.
One of my favourite quotes (about Trump): "If he was 10% better, he would seem far worse"
What does it mean? Well, we don't actually have time to process how shit everything he said is, before the next new shit thing he said is being shoved in our faces.
I know there are shitty things Trump did, that I can't even remember, because I just don't have the capacity to remember it all.
Musk is the same.
That's why I invest in wireless, RFID resistant, anti-flash dick screening devices. Wake up sheeple!
Never have I ever heard "I'm proud of you" from my Dad :'(
It's interesting to me to think about the optics of posting memes like this.
On one hand, it's funny, and 99% of the Lemmy community would vote for him over Trump.
On the other, if it was posted anywhere else I would be worried about the implication of scoring an own-goal.
I'm scared the election will be a close call, I really don't know how good of an idea it is to clown on Biden (even though, as aforementioned, it's funny, and shouldn't convince anyone to vote for Trump).
Step 1: drink water
Step 2: piss
Step 3: put seat down
Step 4: repeat 5 more times
Step 5: wait till I'm nagged
Step 6: remind her of the toilet seat
Step 7: continue ignoring child's needs
Step 8: ignore feelings of depression and ruminate about how fucked my life is
Honestly... How much has Google spent trying to counter people skipping ads?
Is it less than the amount of potential profit if everyone was forced to watch ads?
This seems like that situation recently where NYC paid a million dollars to enforce people to pay for train tickets, which was less than twenty thousand a year in lost revenue.
Not to mention Steam/Valve uses a significant portion of their resources to develop Proton.
Putting pressure on Microsoft is PRICELESS.
Democratic Party would never give him the chance after the narrative about age competency; he's a year older than Biden.
On top of that he's a "radical socialist anarchist protesting rebel".
Unfortunately the Dems are convinced they need a candidate close to centre to pull people from the right - I'm hoping the success of Harris proves this strategy is shit.
My advice: get grandma to start mewing and chewing hard gum.
You can see she has a recessed chin from eating nothing but blended food for sixty years.
His hat reads 45-47
That's wrong. It implies he was the 46th president too.
It should read 45, 47
What a dumbass.
Do you want more AI gens of nude Taylor Swift? Because that's how you get more AI gens of nude Taylor Swift.
What is there so hard to understand?
They became billionaires without treating their customers like a product.
Enshitification hasn't reached Valve yet.
They are making important progress in Linux compatibility for free.
Customer support consistently break their own rules to keep customers happy, at the expense of profit.
Their platform offers a lot of great services to customers for free.
Roaming black holes
Oh man, wait till they hear about how I riced both my master and slave servers. I threw so many RGB LEDs on them, they look like recipients of a Fukoshima clown bukkake.
God damn... Republicans are... Dare I say it... Weird.
Pacific Rim | Winnie the Pooh
Evangelion | Also Winnie the Pooh
I've been following this case for almost two years, the sick fuck did this in my home town.
The degree of pain this cunt inflicted is disgusting. I regret reading the detailed description of the 1B9P video, it made me sick.
To give this piece of shit the opportunity to reenter society, and potentially torture other animals, is unacceptable. 10 years doesn't cut it.
A Reddit user said:
Which about sums it up.
I don't know how the Christians see this and think anything other than "this is some evil shit".
At the risk of derailing the conversation, if you haven't seen The Last Wish, do yourself a favour.
If you've seen the first Puss In Boots and was dissuaded, give this a chance.
The animation is Spiderverse tier, the theming and context of the movie is very much not for children.
If you need convincing, take four minutes to watch this clip of Puss meeting >!death!<
For the uninitiated, the game was banned, not because of the gratuitous violence, extreme drug use, and themes involving fugue states, war crimes and cold war conspiracy,
But because of a scene depicting rape.
Except, the "depiction" was simply a character, from a pixelated top-down view, climbing onto the other character. No nudity, no thrusting - then...
The director yells "CUT!"
Turns out, it was a movie being filmed. So even within the context of the game, it wasn't rape, it was an abstraction of an abstraction, WITHIN an abstraction.
Ratings board are morons.
As an Aussie, I was lucky to have a friend gift this to me on Steam.
Microsoft can suck my FAT32mm Micropenis
First anecdote:
I'm convinced driving stoned is still a problem (though I understand my experiences may be an outlier);
My friend used to drive stoned regularly, and while in the car with him he failed to notice traffic lights and stop signs. These are mistakes he didn't make while sober.
Caveat: he was an inexperienced driver at the time, so he probably hadn't developed intuitive driving habits, so being stoned meant he needed to manually assess every action.
Second anecdote:
I feel that driving drunk is so bad, not necessarily because of distraction or motor control (though once sufficiently drunk, these are absolutely an issue)
I feel the most dangerous part about driving drunk is the overconfidence which comes with it. People are much more likely to take risks while drunk. Conversely, people who are stoned are paranoid, so they're locked in and focused on not looking like they're driving inebriated.