Skates

Skates , 7 days ago to Comic Strips in Mother Gaia and Humans

I might not be ready to lose my car but I sure as hell am ready to lose

Whatever it is you're ready to lose, there are people out there who aren't ready to lose it.

coal based electricity

Fuck right off, there are entire countries who would be completely at a loss without coal-based electricity. Countries which would rather you lose your car.

the military complex

Everyone working in the military complex would rather you lose your car than they lose their jobs. It's you and your car vs millions of people all over the world specifically trained to identify threats to their security, find them and shoot/cut/drone/nuke them. Good luck.

single use plastic

I mean you wanna fight all the corpos involved with single used plastics, I'm sure having your car will keep you from being suffocated with a plastic bag for like 2 hours.

You're unwilling to allow for changes in your personal lifestyle to globally change things for the better, so why the fuck would anyone else? Just nuke the planet from orbit at this point, we're all egotistical shitheads and there's no way to convince Jimmy McFuckface to give up his 1994 truck, we're done here.

Skates , 12 days ago to Technology in Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway.

It could be, if she wants it to be.

It could also be the type of case where her lawyers stop openAI from ever using her voice again, if she wants that to be the case.

Being rich opens up options. If openAI would be using my voice instead, they'd have a wildly less popular product but nobody to sue them for it, cause I'd be using my money to still dream about home ownership at some point before I die, not to hire lawyers or fight windmills.

Skates , 17 days ago to linuxmemes in "LiNuX uSeR iNsTaLlInG A BrOwSeR haha" meanwhile :

Ahahahah imagine writing a short story to install a browser

Skates , 29 days ago to Technology in A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well.

They're talking about a chicken. Source: they wrote the word "chicken".

Skates , 1 month ago to Technology in Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths

/c/fuckcars is that way, thanks for stopping by

Cars will never be dethroned. Yes, trains are cool - choo choo motherfucker. Yes, bikes are environmentally friendly. Yes, the car is a truly fucking horible answer to the question "how to get from A to B".

But that's because cars are the answer to the question "how to get from A to B comfortably". I don't want my baby and my in-law to get on the back of my bike when we're going camping. I don't want to take the train and then walk 2 miles from the station every single fucking day with 20kg of tools in my hand, because shit, the train doesn't stop next to my house, and it doesn't stop next to my work. I want to be able to have acces to comfortable transportation.

So the answer will still be the car. Even with everyone crying about it. Cause the cat's out of the bag with cars, we made them efficient and cheap enough to not be considered luxury items anymore. And some countries (see: US) have their entire infrastructure built with cars in mind. You're never putting the lid back on this, even if it's a decent idea.

Skates , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in Computer Monitors [system 32 comics]

I understand you might've meant it as a joke, but if the universe allows it and there is a netfuckerpro, I will buy it twenty times before I even read the specs of the crs5b278n492653b

Skates , 1 month ago to Technology in Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off.

They're not trolls, just Unix-pilled dumbasses who can't accept their 4% club isn't the literal holy grail they want it to be.

Linux is great, yeah. You know what else is great? Playing games. Not debugging drivers. Stable configurations. Not sucking Torvalds' dick. Coming home after my job and just doing whatever the fuck I want on my PC, instead of putting on my "Linux user" overalls and going back to what is basically another job, trying and failing to get the fucking OS to do one teensy little thing that there are 50 half-documented solutions for, 49 of which don't work.

Skates , 1 month ago to Technology in Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road

Yes. As it should be. I'll buy the car that chooses to mow down a sidewalk full of pregnant babies instead of mildly inconveniencing myself or my passengers. Why the hell would you even consider any other alternative?

Skates , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in The one and only downside to wearing crocs

The other downside being you're wearing crocs

Skates , 1 month ago to Technology in Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs

That probably would be the opposite extreme, and I have a feeling entirely different situations will rise out of that.

Tbh idk what I'd do. It's good I'm not in a position to decide. I just think the federal government offering people incentives to bypass privacy is dangerous and wrong.

Skates , 1 month ago to Technology in Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs

Hey man, you're kinda narrowing down the entire problem of the right to privacy being consistently shat upon by your government into "well I knew one person where it was justified so this means those who argue against it fuck kids"

I understand what you mean and if you want to carve an exception into the law for CP I'd be all for it - maybe everyone is a mandated reporter of child porn, and all suspicions MUST be reported to the FBI and the evidence handed over. But I don't wanna get swatted just because my wife and I are into BDSM and we photographed a particularly rough session. Or because I took some pics of some clear plastic bags filled with flour that I put in my trunk to prank a friend. Or a million other things a geek squad guy might misinterpret and call the police for.

Skates , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in Women Should Just Be Honest

why women feel unsafe

How are you unsafe on the internet? Are you willingly giving out personal details to anyone messaging you? Is someone sending you DMs where they convince you to hit yourself? Or are you just worried about viruses?

you literally came at me with a attack calling me a schmuck

Ah yes, the constant fear of being called a schmuck. Frequently confused with the constant fear of actually being a schmuck, the main difference being that the former is image-related, while the latter usually implies some form of self-awareness. Also sometimes confused with the fear of an actual attack instead of just name-calling, by people who are so sure they're right that they can't spend the two seconds to search for statistics.

Skates , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in Victory? [elder cactus]

My dude there's a few billion of you that I'm looking into, I don't have all day to listen to your half-assed "logic", I am eternal, I'm beyond your comprehension. Enjoy the rusted-spear-devil-dick, I'm Audi.

Skates , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in Victory? [elder cactus]

Nope. I'm God. Please remember, you have as much evidence I am not, as I have that god doesn't exist.

And just for that "edgy teenager" comment, I'll put a word in to make sure you're tortured by the devil with the most jagged penis.

Skates , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in Victory? [elder cactus]

neither science nor philosophy can provide objective truth in answer to the question "is there a god?"

That's a loaded question. What type of god? You wanna define it before you ask if it exists.

And after you define it, you can also gather all the proof that it exists and you can present it to science and to philosophy. And they will look at all that proof and say "X". Because they doubt.

But it's still on you to prove your claim that there is a god, if you believe it. If you're just on the sidelines asking because you're not sure - there's a simpler answer: yes, there is a god. It is me. And I need about 10% of your monthly income. Get in touch, I'll send you some details where you can donate your share. In return, I will of course love you unconditionally until you slightly annoy me with your lifestyle (which I already know you will, I am omniscient and I literally made you this way, you have no choice in the matter), at which point you will know my vengeance, for I am the Lord. Throughout this period where I exact my retribution, the expectation is that you'll shut up and take it, and never forget about that 10% you owe me. Otherwise I will literally put you through hell.

If you somehow doubt ANY of these claims, for reasons like "why would God contact me on the internet, or need my money, or hate me for how he made me", or any of these silly questions, just remember - neither science nor philosophy can provide objective truth in answer to the question "is there a god?". Just like they can't provide objective truth to "is god that dude on lemmy?"