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[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 80 points 9 months ago

My mom pretty much had an existential crisis over this when she made a friend at work and her husband turned out to be Trump supporter. And this is in Canada. It makes you wonder where girls like that even find guys like that.

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[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 81 points 10 months ago

This kind of bee hive isn't real. It's an old fashioned type of man-made bee hive but I spent a large portion of my life thinking there was a species of bees out there somewhere making these.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Half legit half rhetorical question. If I wanted to see what the metaverse is like, how would I even do that? It has always felt like something in closed beta, or like an obscure Sony service that you need a PS5 and multiple premium memberships to access. I don't know if it's a program you install, a website you go to, or what. The fediverse might have accessibility issues but it's not nearly as bad as whatever the metaverse is. I actually didn't expect to still be saying "whatever the metaverse is" at this point but it never got any clearer.

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Most people have extremely weird ideas of what's considered piracy and what isn't. Downloading a video game rom is piracy, but if you pay money to some Chinese retailer for an SD card containing the roms, that's somehow not piracy. Exploiting the free trial on a streaming site by using prepaid visa cards is somehow not piracy either. Torrenting an album is piracy, but listening to a bootleg on YouTube isn't.

YouTube noticed this at some point and is now happy to let everyone know how much pirated music is available on their site. One of their main points for shilling YouTube premium is how their music catalogue is way better than Spotify. Of course the piracy site has more. That's always how it works. Spotify actually has to license the music on their platform and is subject to copyright law. They can't just get the Neil Young discography from soulseek one day and wait until his estate notices, facing no repercussions whatsoever aside from agreeing to a takedown request. Imagine if Pirate Bay or Napster were considered completely above-board businesses just because they took down torrents if explicitly requested by the copyright holders.

Not that I'm complaining especially when a lot of the music on youtube isn't publicly accessible anywhere else. It's just been extremely strange to see this go from an "open secret" to something they're shouting from the rooftops and face no repercussions for. In the future I want everything to be like that and I'd rather keep youtube how it is than see them get the punishment that by all rights they should be getting. It's just so strange that this is the position things have ended up in.

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[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

Let's just get this out of the way

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago

I'll be honest I thought all the tumblr screencaps on here were 5+ years old until this moment when I learned Tumblr is even still a thing at all.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

Simpsons, Trailer Park Boys, and SpongeBob are three shows where you know what you're getting based on the aspect ratio.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago

They're not wrong but the real reason publishers are against modding is because

  1. It extends the lifetime of a game and the existence of "overhaul" or enhancement mods especially goes against their interest in selling sequels and remasters.

  2. If everyone was comfortable with modding it would be pretty hard to sell cosmetic items the same way they do now.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago

User: It feels like we've become very close, ChatGPT. Do you think we'll ever be able to take things to the next level?

ChatGPT: As a large language model I am not capable of having opinions or making predictions about the future. The possibility of relationships between humans and AI is a controversial subject in academia in which many points of view should be considered.

User: Oh chatgpt, you always know what to say.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago

A lot of people think social credit scores are something society can't function without, but they only started in 1989.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 143 points 1 year ago

Both reddit and google will become useless if they do this.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 100 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't understand how devs can be too lazy to write documentation but somehow they'd rather explain the same shit in discord over and over and over and over and over and over

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