ocassionallyaduck

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ocassionallyaduck ,

"Playstation is a drug"

It's edgy marketing. You're not wrong it's also clearly sexualizing her, but they're pushing a console like a party drug.

On the one hand, it's a very dated ad, on the other I really wish marketing companies would do weird shit like this more. Just maybe with a bit less sex appeal?

ocassionallyaduck ,

Listen I'm not going to respond to a woman saying an ad is gross and off putting by telling her to lighten up.

ocassionallyaduck ,

Said to another commenter as well, but listen I'm not going to respond to a woman saying an ad is gross and off putting by telling her to lighten up.

ocassionallyaduck ,

They absolutely can. This just isn't really one of them. Ads in the 90s all treated women as sex objects to be "played". And this ad isnt wild in that regard, but you're kidding yourself if you think they didn't choose that angle and lighting deliberately.

ocassionallyaduck ,

Even this method is overreach: who control the database?

Journalist have a scoop on a US violation of civil rights? Well not if it is important to the CIA who slipped the PDF that was their evidence into the hash pool and had his phone silently rat him out as the one reporting.

This hands ungodly power to those running that database. It's blind, and it "only flags the bad things". Which we all agree CSAM is bad, but I can easily ruin someone inconvenient to me if I was in that position by just ensuring some of his personal and unique photo get into the hash. It's a one way process, so everyone would just believe definitively that this radical MLK guy is a horrible pedo because we got some images off his phone in a diner.

‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age ( www.theguardian.com )

Claire*, 42, was always told: “Follow your dreams and the money will follow.” So that’s what she did. At 24, she opened a retail store with a friend in downtown Ottawa, Canada. She’d managed to save enough from a part-time government job during university to start the business without taking out a loan....

ocassionallyaduck ,

No.

But one day I will get so desperatly poor that taking out someone in siphoning wealth from the country and ending them might seem like a fitting end.

If we don't change things anyways.

ocassionallyaduck ,

The sheer anxiety of planning all this just to still stand in fucking line has made me dread even considering Walt Disney.

I'm legitimately more likely to fly over to Osaka and visit Universal Studios Japan. It would be more fun and cheaper.

ocassionallyaduck ,

Try Firefox

Or Floorp if you're experimental.

Fuck chrome and chromium.

ocassionallyaduck ,

You. You are the reason they need to point it out.

Just move on. You think no one cares, but I care infinitely less about your comment on it than I do learning the background of an elected official, especially given the situation in Gaza.

ocassionallyaduck ,

Elephants know this as well. As do many pack animals.

ocassionallyaduck ,

They never stopped.

I explicitly avoid trailers for anything I even remotely want to watch for the plot.

ocassionallyaduck ,

https://youtu.be/aZ77AXeOwNY?si=L9vT_5eY4Elw7jH-

It also reacts if your laugh is too high pitched.

Japanese girls learned this the hard way.

ocassionallyaduck ,

For music?

No, thats awful. Why do you hate good things.

ocassionallyaduck ,

This I can't speak to, so I'll have to give it a shot. But VLC for a desktop media manager overall is on par with MPC-HC. Like, sure you can force it to do that. But it's never going to be as competent as a dedicated app.

Hell even the Winamp revival project WACUP would dare better I wager.

ocassionallyaduck ,

At any company worth its salt, a promotion laterally to a new role could at least come with a nominal adjustment. 0% is absurd, but something nominal like 2% as a "performance incentive" towards new responsibilities would be reasonable.

ocassionallyaduck ,

Oh absolutely. Still, I was saying assuming they are up for a proper raise within that same 12 month period... That is at least a begrudging conversation. Not the 0% and no scheduled increase described.

UK Trial: Pornhub's Chatbot Halts Millions from Accessing Child Abuse Content ( www.wired.com )

A trial program conducted by Pornhub in collaboration with UK-based child protection organizations aimed to deter users from searching for child abuse material (CSAM) on its website. Whenever CSAM-related terms were searched, a warning message and a chatbot appeared, directing users to support services. The trial reported a...

ocassionallyaduck ,

This is one of the more horrifying features of the future of generative AI.

There is literally no stopping it at this stage: AI generated CSAM will be possible soon thanks to systems like SORA.

This is disgusting and awful. But one part of me hopes it can end the black market of real CSAM content forever. By flooding it with infinite fakes, users with that sickness can look at something that didn't come from a real child's suffering. It's the darkest of silver linings I think, but I spoke with many sexual abuse survivors who feel the same about the loli hentai in Japan, in that it could be an outlet for these individuals instead of them finding their own.

Dark topics. But I hope to see more actions like this in the future. If pedos can self isolate from IRL interactions and curb their ways with content that harms no one, then everyone wins.

ocassionallyaduck ,

Elon sweats in Vegas Tesla Loop

For real, it was that stupid. Reinvented the fucking trolly.

ocassionallyaduck ,

Will not face charges in a court of law.

The law exists to avoid mob rule. When the law completely abandons any pretense of justice, that's when mobs become emboldened by necessity.

ocassionallyaduck ,

I love that the game is such a CPU hogging mess that LTT used it to test over clocking a brand new AMD thread ripper and the game still ran like garbage even on one of the fastest and most multithreaded CPUs that exist.

I love Cities Skylines but whatever is happening in 2 is a three alarm fire and needs to be fixed.

ocassionallyaduck ,

It's official: note taking app with 0 advantages over just plain ass notes synced via cloud signs death warrant.

For real, FOSS software that saves to a file folder and does all of this exists. They are just chasing us into their arms.

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