9point6

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I think I already read about drug dealers using delivery robots in cities where they have a presence already.

As soon as one of those Boston Dynamic dog bots can be bought at the nearest hardware store with an arm on them, I would not be at all surprised to find out they were being used for crime

I'm saying this with entirely no knowledge of actually how profitable pilfering catalytic converters is

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 55 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Seems like a good policy to give non US AI companies a boost whilst also causing a US recession, given a large chunk of the US economy is currently being propped up by the AI bubble.

Wasn't one of the results of the failed 90s encryption export controls, that as a result, other strong encryption schemes were created elsewhere and kneecapped the advantage that the US previously held in that area

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Hmm, I guess denuvo's not forever

......... I'll get my coat

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Honestly the subhead could have been the headline if prefixed with "Britain:"

A case study in self-sabotage

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

My god, they incarnated the big brain wojack

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The internet has broken me

I spent a good 30s trying to figure out how this was loss

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Bingo, he's pretty open about being an arsenal fan

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

infantilizing, condescending, and missing my entire point

Firstly, apologies about the first two, honestly not my intention. And perhaps you're right about the last

The tag is there so that there isn't confusion about what you're saying

Yes I understand that, however especially with humour like sarcasm, it somewhat hinges on the ambiguity. If you remove the ambiguity, it kinda just becomes a non sequitur or contrarian. To add the tag removes something fundamental about it

More subjective on this one, but frankly for jokes that don't rely on that ambiguity, they shouldn't need signposting as jokes if they're any good anyway. Though I'm actually less bothered about them in that circumstance, they're more like canned laughter, which still has a negative impact IMO but doesn't take away something fundamental from a lot of humour.

People telling others to use the tag usually comes from them being massively misunderstood and then saying "I was being sarcastic".

Anecdotal of course, but in my experience it's more often down to it being unfunny or just shitty. I'd say I've seen "I was being sarcastic" much more often as a cop out than any kind of genuine misunderstanding. i.e. they should probably have just not made the joke/quip

do you deliver all of your sarcasm straight?

Tbf, yeah as best I can when trying to be earnestly (lol) sarcastic. If I'm trying to be ironically sarcastic then I'd probably ham up the overly sarcastic stereotypical delivery.

Maybe this is also something of a cultural clash too as someone else mentioned. Dry sarcasm based humour has been something of a key pillar in the gamut of humour throughout my life so far. It was a big faux pas growing up to laugh at your own jokes, that's probably gonna impact my views on this if we're gonna do an armchair psychoanalysis

that's how 4chan brought the nazis back.

A funny jump and technically a slippery slope fallacy, but also kinda a fair point. I didn't mean it in a black and white sense, but I guess that kinda is the problem. I don't think we can really include bad actors in a discussion about something they would simply just mimic to continue doing what they already do.

How does clarifying where you stand detriment anyone?

Hopefully elaborated above enough to answer that, but basically after thought there's more nuance than that question asks for. Some humour kinda hinges on ambiguity that is destroyed by flagging it, other cases it kinda dents it IMO but I guess I have much less of a fundamental issue with it in those cases

 

Jessie Buckley is dug up to marry Christian Bale, while Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are the double act of the year in Steven Soderbergh’s dark comedy. Here’s our round up of movie magic from the last six months in the UK

Big ol' list here, but a lot of interesting looking recommendations that completely passed me by

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Gonna preface this with: I completely understand your difficulty, I have several autistic people in my life and I know that it's important to make reasonable accommodations to help make life easier. However conversely, a reasonable accommodation must not invalidate the initial reason for the accommodation in the first place. If the point is humour, it's a hard sell to force someone to, from their point of view, remove the humour from the humour. You wouldn't knock down a monument to install a lift to get to the top, sure the people with mobility issues can get to the top now, but the monument is no longer there to see.

Given that, an audience freely laughing at a joke is very different from a comedian demanding you laugh immediately after each joke, which would be a more direct comparison. The latter drains all humour from the situation, the former arguably elevates it.

Personally, if the point of a comment is to post something that I think is amusing, there's no point in doing it if I have to compromise what constitutes the humour to me, otherwise I'd just be posting something unfunny, defeating the object of it entirely.

That and it's the internet, we all have a better time if we go with the working assumption that the vast, vast majority of comments are entirely unserious.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Oh.

Well there goes that hope

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (15 children)

I've got to be honest, I've not got a good idea of what the on-the-ground politics of Israel is like, but I have to hope there's a sizable demographic who sees all this as abhorrent as the rest of us.

I hope when they get their turn in power, one of the first things they do is sign up to the ICC.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (18 children)

No

"/s" is the equivalent of ending a quip with a "haha geddit? haha"

If it's not clear you're joking or being sarcastic, perhaps the line isn't very good in the first place

 

In a video posted to TikTok, where Katie Whitney has 2.5 million followers, she says to camera, bluntly: “This video is for Cynthia Erivo. If you’re not Cynthia Erivo … you can keep on scrolling.” Her demeanour then shifts, her voice becomes softer; more the way a person might talk to their puppy: “Hi Cynthia. Hi baby. Hey baby. How are you?” It’s toe-curling – or, in modern parlance, cringe – to watch. “I feel traumatised,” says one commenter. Others post photos of a stunned-looking Erivo and imagine: “What if the Wicked star were to actually watch this video?” Cringe!

Now 25, but having started making this kind of content – “weird skits” – at 20, Whitney is part of what is known online as CringeTok, a subsection of the internet that deals in content designed to make your toes curl. It’s in many ways a reaction to a fear of being “cringe”, which is seeping into all parts of life – from social media to classrooms to the workplace.

(Couldn't think of a better comm to post this in given there doesn't seem to be one for opinion pieces I could find)

 

You're allowed anything on the planet

No there is no clever way to use this meal to escape your fate

 

(via a mate)

 
 

Not upgraded yet, but probably will given the use I get out of v2

Anyone sprung for it yet? What're the initial impressions

 

To our friends, artists, partners, collaborators, and community:

After three months of hard work, and three months of extraordinary loyalty from you, I am pleased to share that a definitive agreement has now been signed for Native Instruments to be acquired by inMusic.

Two iconic music technology companies, with decades of shared respect for this industry and the people who make music in it, are coming together to build something greater than either could alone. Our NKS hardware and MPC Editions collaboration last year was the beginning of this story. Today, we look ahead to a common future.

inMusic has spent three decades building and growing the brands that creators rely on every day — Akai Professional, Moog Music, Denon DJ, Numark, Rane, M-Audio and more. They understand what it means to build tools that musicians love. And they understand what Native Instruments means to our customers and community.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46467325

I hope other software and hardware manufacturers are quick to get on board with Link Audio, being able to avoid a physical mixer for some of my ad-hoc jams is going to be a game changer

 

As the festival draws to a close, and I've been sadly watching from home this year—what's everyone's highlights?

I might just be still in shock, but holy shit The Prodigy just absolutely demolished it.

Biffy, Franz and Scissor Sisters being the other most memorable shows I've seen so far. I've enjoyed a lot of what's been on West Holts as per usual.

A little disappointed in Neil Young's set, he felt a bit lacking in energy to me, but maybe I set my expectations a bit high. I think Pulp put on a great show, but I'm not sure it deserves the lauding it seemingly got in this morning's press.

 

I finished work a bit early today, went for a walk, met a friend at a newly opened pub, watched the football with a few pints and just got back home.

Another fun Friday to put into the box of fun Fridays

What's going on in your corner of the world?

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