CileTheSane

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do you have your wife's password?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Check out the new Steam Family Beta. My friends and I are now a polyamorus "family" as far as Steam is concerned. I can play their games, they can play mine, didn't have to touch each other's computers, and live in separate households.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Had ChatGPT actually promised its ability beyond "hey, isn't this neat?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And giving users inaccurate results isn't going to hurt profits?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yes, my comment wasn't about online casinos but about the people who think they have a right to tell others how to live their lives.

Who's "~~they~~ the people"? I don't know much about ~~the gambling industry~~ the internet but if it's anything like any other ~~industry~~ place then it's not a centralized monolith but many independent ~~business~~ people.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago (6 children)

This reminds me: I need to change my default search engine.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Stockholm Syndrome

Completely off topic: Stockholm syndrome gets its name from a hostage situation where the police seemed to show no care or concern for the hostages' safety and the captors did more to protect them than law enforcement. Of course the hostages' felt more empathy towards their captors.

According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the police were acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages' safety. This forced the hostages to negotiate for their lives and releases with the robbers on their own. In the process, the hostages saw the robbers behaving more rationally than the police negotiators and subsequently developed a deep distrust towards the latter.[9] Enmark had criticized Bejerot specifically for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors. She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire, and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"anyone who disagrees with me is a racist!"

Good talk. Engaging with you is definitely worth while...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's the trolley problem with a single track: you can pull the lever and the trolley will run over 5 people before it stops, or you can not pull the lever and the trolley will run over 10 people.

If you're standing beside the lever with your arms crossed refusing to pull it, saying "the fault is on the person who tied the people to the track. Getting involved makes me complacent." Then yes, people are going to blame you because even if you didn't cause the problem there is something very easy you can do to make it less bad.
You can't save all 10, but you can save 5. So you do what you can, and then you also go after the guy who tied the people to the tracks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I understand that the people protesting are doing something. This is the first time you've actually advocated for an action.

People are fully capable of both protesting and voting to keep someone worse from doing worse things. The fact that you don't understand these basic things is truly phenomenal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Considering I specifically suggested doing something is better than doing nothing, I'm going to go ahead and guess that listening to what other people are saying isn't a strength of yours.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

You mean the logic of "I'm not going to do anything and neither should anyone else"?

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