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Abyssian

@ Abyssian @lemmy.world

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  • Surprise! Meta Says Now You Have to Pay a Monthly Subscription to Use Key Features of Your Already Expensive Smart Glasses

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  • "Our AI has detected you're taking a lot of videos and photos of children in public. If you would like us to not inform your family and workplace of this please sign up for our $99.99 monthly secrecy package."

  • Sony Says Next PlayStation Won't Simply Compete With PCs

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  • What else is it going to do? Suck your dick?

  • Looking for books where an alien/ancient/unexplainable structure is explored

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  • Randezvouz With Rama

    This one.

  • People who are dead, what’s it like? Trying to plan ahead

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  • Does dead inside count?

  • Live reaction

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  • You'd expect the federal government to fight them? More like surrender on the condition certain politicians get to run the new Confererate States.

  • Calls for killing of Trump at funeral of Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei

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  • By all means, go for it.

  • How do I get the cops to come take me away?

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  • You could kidnap someone. Works even faster if it's an actual kid.

    Wait... are you wealthy? It only works for the poors. If you are very wealthy there may be no real answer for you. :/

  • Demonstrators in white supremacist attire protest on Capitol Hill

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  • Protest? What exactly are they protesting? The fact that people with skin tones and sexual preferences that don't match their own exist?

  • Calls for killing of Trump at funeral of Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei

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  • There are calls for killing Trump all over the world.

  • Ringo Starr has the Elf Stones.

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  • The world is in decline, it may be time to use the roof stones. Might save some trouble if they get used a few years earlier this cycle

  • Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever

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  • Winners don't use AI.

  • What's one book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?

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  • I actually haven't read any of his other books. When I was in high school Slaughterhouse 5 was one of the default books on class book report lists, so I assumed he was a dry, dusty, old-timey author. One of the things that surprised me reading Timequake was finding out he has a daughter my age.

    It's a very weird book. But it's brilliant and touching and heartbreaking and eye-rolling kind of funny. He's writing in his own voice. The setup is that "Timequake" was a draft novel he never finished.... I'm not sure if that's true on some level, or just a literary device. He says that in that novel the Timequake occurred in 2001, and pushed everyone, everywhere, backward to 1991.

    But... not to change anything. Every single thing plays out exactly as it did the first time around. Everyone ended up in some kind of conscious "autopilot" with no free will, forced to repeat every event, every choice, every moment they had lived over those 10 years all over again, conscious they're stuck in some kind of loop/nightmare watching and doing but unable to do even the tiniest thing differently.

    Seems like it would make a horribly boring, pointless scifi story... but as a literary device, it's amazing. It's him looking back on life and coming to terms with getting older and not being able to change the things we've fucked up. One of the things that stuck with me the most was him saying that no one asked to be born, no one got an instruction manual for this "life" and "self-aware consciousness" nonsense, no one has any real idea what the hell we're doing. Every one of us is just making it up as we go. We never got a chance to practice, just pushed out into this shit with no warning at all.

    My parents weren't the best, and I've definitely had my own relationship issues. It really helped put existence into perspective. It's not a book you read for a story, it's just sort of his life... but it's the parts that pretty much anyone over 40 is sure to relate to.

  • Me_irl

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  • Seems like you only watch your established type of American films and think that's all the world has to offer.

  • "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"

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  • Honestly you sound insufferable.

  • What's one book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?

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  • Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. I'd have never picked it up if I hadn't been bored and trying to kill time, but it really put life in a new perspective. Genuinely think it's made everything lighter since reading that one.

  • "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"

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  • You'd literally just said the Switch was shit, which makes it sort of weird for you to follow that up with gripes that emulating those games in better quality would be less mobile.

    You're not nerding hard enough. It's ok, we slow down as we get older sometimes. If you have a nice connection at home and abroad you can use anything as a screen. You can play any PC game or emulated game running on your PC at home and streaming to a phone/tablet/screen connected to a bluetooth controller or one of those cases that snap around and add controls like a switch or steamdeck if you feel like it.

    Aside from that, yes, of course Nintendo consoles have a lot of great exclusives. They always have. That's not something new in the last several decades. The last several Zelda games have been amazing, and I'd much rather be playing them on a massive screen having been rendered at a much better resolution.

  • Me_irl

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  • It's not about a white guy attacking minorities. It's just about a guy sick of spending every moment grinding to merely exist with no real time for pleasure in a world running only for profit and not people, who just can't take it any more. If you're looking at skin color, you're missing the point. He's all of us. We're all stuck in it. Many feeling the same way.

  • Iran says it is selling oil at 20% premium as end of U.S. blockade sees 40 million barrels exported

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  • Me_irl

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  • No, because it doesn't exist. If one person can view, hear, experience a form of media then unless it's somehow fed directly into their brain in a way that ensures only they can decode the signal then it's always going to be possible to record and copy.

    As long as the visual, aural, and other necessary data for the media experience are being transmitted through physical space to be picked up by human sensory organs you're always going to be able to copy those things.