The most terrifying thing to me about Nazism and fascism is that, by all psychological and otherwise measurable accounts, people who exhibit its traits are on the whole not that different from any other person you might find without them. Perhaps you could say they found a mental switch—a way of justifying their actions and behaviors—that forfeits one’s humanity in the process, but I believe this line of thinking is flawed.

No, I think Nazis are fully human, which condemns their depravity all the more. They don’t get to escape from the moral weight of what they’ve done by being stripped of the burdens and responsibilities of humanity. We cannot underestimate Nazis, or treat them as though they are mere animals or dumb cogs; they are an example of every single thing a person cannot be and also be allowed to live normal, quiet lives in a just world.

Nazism is a sort of evil that, from what we know, only humans are capable of.

Steam can delist all of Ubisoft’s games from their storefront in retaliation to what Ubisoft does on their own independent store

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The switch 2 costs considerably more in the US than elsewhere thanks to the tariffs. That tax is going to suppress sales no matter what, and there are other economic pressures that harm most people’s buying power as well

Do you use smart glasses? Because you shouldn’t.

Right like my opinion is that we should socially discourage antisocial creepy behavior such as recording others without their consent, in public or otherwise.

The Gaza issue seems to have been pretty big

https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling

We are all Virginia on this blessed day

By that logic every cell in your body has touched a cell (that has touched a cell)^n that has touched ass

That is because nearly all of nvidia’s revenue comes from AI datacenter hardware now, and before that from crypto miners. As long as CUDA works without issue, their main clients by dollar volume are happy

There is room in [email protected] for everyone!

The issue then would be migrating all of your existing server to an offline server auth method. If there’s anyone who doesn’t log in during the migration period, anyone else could nab their account name (and presumably everything that account has on it) once it’s fully swapped over.

Plus, if the server remains popular after this, Microsoft lawyers could pursue legal action on the operation to bypass their auth servers as well

Who knew flickers on a cave wall could be so addictive

The problem is that, for the property owning class, the unaffordability of homes is broadly a feature and not a bug.

What? Any and all filters an intelligent species could encounter need to be factored in statistically, even if not all of those filters will 100% be encountered

Perhaps it’s a contextual Great Filter only for instances of intelligent life in which capitalistic modes of production win out.

I think it depends on the reason you do not use it. The Luddites were primarily frustrated over automation displacing their high-skill job with low-skilled ones that produced worse quality goods. It’s a 2 for 1: we are losing the jobs we need to survive, but also we lose the personal touch from the work of artisans + lose appreciation for their talent.

I am not carte blanche against AI as a concept, but it really does seem like a technology that makes interactions worse quality, more depersonalized, and on top of that it has a horrible externalized environmental cost which benefits nobody in the long run.

Addendum: I believe technology has the power to be liberating when it provides for all of us, and oppressive when it concentrates wealth+power into the hands of moguls and tyrants.

If it gets you talking about it, even in the context of telling them to shut the fuck up, it’s working :)

The gerrymandered border slicing through an American’s house to isolate its occupants into different districts

In my experience, you find out BONTO! had a security breach via an Ars Technica article published around 4 months after the fact because the data was found on the dark web. Zero correspondence from the company itself except in rare circumstances