[-] blaine@kbin.social 12 points 6 months ago

@helmet91

@Ragdoll_X

The biggest favor you've ever done for anyone in your entire life is.... Buying a pack of cigarettes?!

LMAO

[-] blaine@kbin.social 163 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

@ocassionallyaduck

@The_Picard_Maneuver

Not true in the US. They could ban anyone born in the entire month of April, or anyone who "looks like a pot smoker" if they wanted to.

Applicants, employees and former employees are ONLY protected from employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability and genetic information (including family medical history).

[-] blaine@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago

@peter

@PixTupy

+1 for SponsorBlock. I absolutely hate when videos spoil themselves within the first 3 seconds thanks to those fucking intros.

[-] blaine@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago

@Yannik

Is this game still exclusive to Epic?

[-] blaine@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago

Did you read the article? X is alleging that media matters had to manipulate their platform in order for it to generate these ads next to the hateful accounts. According to their records, those ads only appeared one time, for the user account associated with Media Matters. This supports their theory that manipulation was required.

I guess we'll have to wait for the court case to find out who's right. But immediately assuming the X lawsuit has no merits just because you don't like Elon Musk is a bit disingenuous.

[-] blaine@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago

Good for MS, bad for humanity. I believe one of the worst possible timelines for the average human is one where for-profit capitalist entities control access to AGI and horde all the benefits accrued from it. OpenAI was founded specifically to avoid this - with a complicated governance structure designed to ensure true AGI would end up owned by humanity with the benefits shared by all.

The OpenAI board and top researchers made a desperate bid to prioritize safety over profits, and even with that elaborate governance structure behind them capitalism still seems to have found a way to fuck us.

Today we saw Satya Nadella and Sam Altman steer humanity further from a possible utopia and closer to.... Cyberpunk 2077.

Good luck everyone!

[-] blaine@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago

Thereby proving everything the board feared about him. Good riddance.

[-] blaine@kbin.social 28 points 7 months ago

Never forget that Sisko slept with Dax in the Mirror Universe.

[-] blaine@kbin.social 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The IDF spokesman in the clip confirmed they were aware of refugee women and children in the location before deciding to go ahead with the bombing.

[-] blaine@kbin.social 40 points 8 months ago

This isn't vandalism. It's on a page about LGBT slang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ussy

[-] blaine@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago

I've had Google Play Music (and YouTube Premium as a freebie) since it launched at $7.99 per month. Folks like me who were grandfathered in at that price just got an increase to $13.99, which forced me to cancel. I can't afford restaurants or takeout anymore with inflation as bad as it is, and I guess I can't afford YouTube either.

[-] blaine@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean, the FSB could have easily had an asset inside the refueling operation at the Moscow airport. Place a small time-delayed explosive charge in the fuel intake of the left wing just before take-off, and you'd end up with pretty much exactly the crash profile we've seen.

It's cheaper and more reliable than a missile, leaves less physical evidence behind, and maintains a higher level of plausible deniability. Especially if your fallback plan is to blame it on the Ukrainians if the plot gets discovered.

Source: I watched all 7 seasons of Homeland.

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