[-] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 4 weeks ago

not to out myself as someone who takes family movies all too seriously but while it's relevant: i thought the plot was kinda weird. the whole movie kinda ...

spoilers for major plot points of kpop demon hunters...sets up mortals-turned-demons as being those who did terrible things and hold guilt/shame for those actions through Jinu with him betraying his family and all. but then Rumi feels guilt/shame for being half-demon because... ??? demons bad? like either demonhood is a metaphorical manifestation of one's guilty conscience, or it's just evil purple people disease, but either way Rumi's motivations make no sense. she doesn't have any big mistakes or regrets in her life as far as we know. we can see she has learned to feel shame about her half-demonhood from Celine, but neither Rumi nor we as the audience actually get any real reason to understand why. it's like a dangling metaphor.

[-] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

aside from the rest of the assheadedness of this comment, this jumps out to me:

Look, sorry dude, but if you vape, you haven't given up smoking. If you take nicotine pills, you haven't quit.

and, uh, no? if you stop smoking, you've stopped smoking. there's not yet solid scientific evidence that vaping is a reliable path to nicotine cessation but it is, in fact, not smoking.

if it is nicotine cessation you're talking about, then nicotine patches and pills are known effective tools. they're often prescribed to people quitting. in that case, taking pills is literally "quitting".

but let's be real: you don't care about either the physical act of burning tobacco or the medical act of kicking a nicotine dependency. you're just invoking "smoking" as linguistic shorthand for a(nother) group of people you feel smugly superior to for having problems you don't have

[-] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

stolen from cohost but i appreciate the succinctness of "capitalism make computer bad"

[-] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"AI is just like smartphones" yes thank you for this statement that we definitely haven't heard dozens of times before

[-] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

don't post slop, nobody wants to read any of that

[-] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

i aim to please

[-] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

goddammit! you have no idea how many variations of "first person walking simulator projected image texture trippy visuals" i slapped into every search engine!

but yes, that was the one i was thinking of

[-] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

oh gods they're multiplying

[-] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

you do an excellent job of writing. several times reading this i had to mentally delete paragraphs of explanations for some of the rationalist thoughts and ideology because you have described it perfectly in just a sentence or two.

shared this with some of my in-tech-but-skeptical friends. you deserve a bigger audience

[-] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

wow, that side-by-side is so obviously bad i'm surprised it even got posted. usually AI bros try to hide the worst of the tech, or at the very least, say shit like "this is only the beginning!!"

also, was not expecting to click that link and see FUNKe. good nostalgia

[-] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

but the NULLGE

[-] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

i suppose if Elizabeth Holmes can wear Steve Job's turtlenecks and carry a biomedical scam to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars by doing so, maybe "financial pickup artistry" will see more success attracting VC funds than "pickup artistry" has attracting the ladies

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oh gods we're going to get so many self-stylized Elon clones. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

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