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Those films are weird in that I enjoy them while I'm sitting there, but the moment it finishes I couldn't name or describe a single one of the characters in it or any details of the plot.

It's because they messed up a fundamental principle of character design - we can tell real human faces apart because our brains are highly tuned to it, but with cartoons and CGI faces you need to really exaggerate differences to get them to stick in the mind. The Avatar team tried to go for some notion of realism instead, and tripped over their own feet with a lineup who are virtually indistinguishable from each other.

It's an issue with cost, but that also extends to the perception of the degree itself. Even a few decades ago I always found American culture to be generally more disdainful towards degrees and degree holders than most of Europe or Asia.

One of the worst things you can be in America is "elitist"; it's a loaded word that describes a fundamentally Un-American attitude. And you can see why - there's plenty of idiots with rich parents and a degree, and a lot of intelligent people with poor parents and no degree. So elitism and intellectual snobbery also imply classism and racism.

In countries with free/cheap tertiary education, it's less controversial to say that people who are qualified to do a thing are likely to be better at that thing, and that getting qualifications is inherently a good thing.

In some ways it's just as well to occasionally get a reminder that loyalty to a brand is a fundamentally bullshit concept in the first place.

There’s billions of people, literally billions of them

On lemmy?

I don't know how we've managed to get to 2025 and there's still apparently people who haven't seen a thousand shit PEMDAS posts already

Epic Boss Tim Sweeney can go fuck himself

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

If you can't get your LLM to not deny the holocaust, then your LLM is not ready to get platformed on a major internet site.

I do too, but all the ones I used to visit have gone offline, and whenever I try looking for one on some relevant topic the most recent post is from 2017.

The best argument for UBI isn’t that it’s an inherently decent thing to do, it’s that it would legitimately make the world better for rich people too.

This is exactly why we shouldn't have billionaires. It's literally impossible to spend a billion dollars on things for yourself, so what's left but to spend it on manipulating other people.

I tried reporting a blatant kidnapping/pig butchering gang, and there literally wasn’t a category for it in their reporting mechanism. I picked the closest thing I could think of, and naturally the report just got ignored.