MonkRome

joined 2 years ago
[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I agree they should expand their review protest to all games in the catalog and not selectively review bomb. Consumers have every reason to impact products success through their purchasing power and reviews. I stopped giving my money to game companies I don't like a decade ago. It means missing some games, but there is so much out there it hardly matters. I don't give a shit about this specific controversy, but I do think people have every reason to use their bully pulpit to attempt to impact consumer habits and therefore at least attempt change, even if they are often unsuccessful.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Let's try this logic on other things. Their EULA says they can cut off a finger whenever they want. They haven't cut off my finger for my purchase of this game, call me back when they cut it off.

If you're someone that doesn't want companies to have root level access to your computer, waiting until it happens is silly when they're telling you it's gonna happen. It is every reason to complain and be concerned.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

There are 5 classified levels of automation. At the lower levels of automation, the very article you are responding to quotes this evidence for you. Here is another article that gets deeper into it, I haven't read it all so feel free to draw your own conclusions, but this data has been available and well reported on for many years. https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/autonomous-vehicle-safety-statistics.html

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

They only have to work better and more consistently than humans to be a net positive. Which I believe most of these systems already do by a wide margin. Psychologically it's harder to accept a mistake from technology than it is from a human because the lack of control, but if the goal is to save lives, these safety systems accomplish that.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm not smart enough to spot the error in your comment, so I guess you're an AI.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

He has a long history of retweeting Nazis and agreeing with them. It's an indictment on our society that this is so little known even in the USA.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Ha, probably not that advice.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There are other ways to grow high yield food without using pesticides if that's your primary goal. Like indoor vertical farming in a controlled environment. Recently some growers have proven this is viable and profitable. Pesticides in any form are bad for the soil, bad for our health, and decimate the bee and bug populations, which fuck with the ecosystem. Wasting resources includes our natural resources, which are our biggest asset.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah I agree organic pesticides are just as dumb. Bioengineering pesticides into your food takes the cake though, you can't even wash it off. Not all organic growers use organic pesticides. I know several organic farmers and none of them use any pesticide, they accept the lower crop yield for higher quality food.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Medications

Sometimes worse side effects than the thing it's trying to cure. Sometimes used to cure something that better diet and more exercise could take care of. Made by companies more concerned with money than your health outcomes. What's to be afraid of?

GMO

Nothing wrong with GMO itself, but every company using GMO doesn't use it to make food higher quality or taste better. They use it to engineer pesticides into your food, increase crop yields, and patent our seeds, for, you guessed it, money! Insecticides specifically can be neurotoxic to humans. What's to be afraid of?

Maybe you should listen to your mom instead of badmouthing her to strangers on the Internet.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'll never buy a Samsung again absolutely irritating phones. I've had 2 nearly flawless pixel phones. Even if this doesn't last 5 years, I'm not going back to endless bloatware programs that enshitify the Samsung. If I leave pixel it would be for something like fairphone.

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I got mine around release, which means it's 3 years 2 months, no issues so far.

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