misterchief117

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@blazera

An oath or legal affirmation can be made if what you're saying is true and accurate to the best of your own ability and perceptions.

If you say something under oath with the intent to deceive or omit key information or evidence for any reason really, then this could be considered perjury, which is a crime under most legal systems.

If you truly believe you saw an alien and were completely convinced of that and testified that you saw one, yet your claim was found to be factually incorrect, you most likely would not be liable for perjury nor did you do anything illegal (in many modern legal systems). You would simply be wrong.

This could cause you to become an "unreliable witness" which might mean anything else you say or claim is taken with less weight, even in areas you might specialize in. For example, how much would you trust a cardiac surgeon who claimed they had frequent encounters with aliens from outer space?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@marmo7ade

This sounds nice and all until you realize moderation becomes a scaling issue.

As communities get larger, it'll be impossible for humans to review everything. Some form of automation needs to exist.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@0101010001110100

Yes and it's over 100 years old and back when flash powder was used for photography.
https://time.com/5241498/how-you-think-you-look-meme/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heh, I almost dealt with this yesterday when I cleaned up my room a tad. Everything was scattered on the floor and in order to clean up things better, I had to shuffle everything around until I got everything put back away, albeit imperfectly.

This is one of those situations where ADHD people need to keep going and find a home for the displaced items, even if it's back where it was before. In fact, I'd recommend putting everything back either where it was before, or close to it. Maybe just keep like things with like.

If you're ADHD, you're going to forget where you "reorganized" everything to and you'll end up tearing everything apart looking for that thing you put away yesterday.

It's not a perfect answer, but it's better than leaving everything on the floor...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@Brunbrun6766

spez is the landed gentry 🤣

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

new rule: triangles are the most sexy shape.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@Zebrazilla

This fixed it for me. It was already set to English and didn't think to switch it to something different and back.

 

For some reason my kbin interface has switched to Polish and I can't figure out how to change it back...

#kbinMeta

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

I play with the brightness/contrast/gamma until I can see everything.

It seems like video editors forget that not everyone is using a multi-thousand dollar display specifically tuned for video editing and most people are probably watching whatever on a cheapo Walmart special TV or monitor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think a lot of people here are confusing liquid assets/cash and genuinely believe millionaires and billionaires have this as pure cash in their bank accounts.

In reality, a lot of the money is tied up in non-liquid assets like property, physical assets, and stocks.

Sure these wealthy people can sell their shares for example, but if they sell too many at once, it will drop the value of the shares.

This is likely why Elon Musk can't afford to pay his bills. Not only is he a grifter and a loser, he's likely extremely cash poor and doesn't have enough liquidity to pay his debts. It's unlikely he'll ever admit this however.

Arguably, the majority of the money these billionares have is essentially speculative.

The more you think about how the economy works, the more you realize how much of a facade it really is. The stock market is a huge sham as well. Most stocks simply don't exist and the amount of value manipulation that occurs is astounding. It's all fake.

I think the sooner we begin to realize that the economy is one giant paper tiger and if we just start telling banks and other "money" purveyors that lock us into our flawed system to go fuck themselves, we can really take away the power from "the rich."

 

Sometimes you gotta ooga when you really wanna booga.

#shitposting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@TheCrispyDud

I looked through their post history and they're a troll. I just reported a few of their posts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The article indicates the cracks are forming at the PCIe connector and suggests it's due to GPU sag. The issue was predominantly seen in pre-built PC's, but was also happening to separately bought cards. It's unclear if the pre-built desktops were from Gigabyte or some other vendor. Regardless, not only did Gigabyte refuse to RMA them, they charged the customer return shipping and stuck a sticker with an arrow pointing to the crack on the GPU.

Absolutely infuriating. Depending on the scope, I see either a class-action lawsuit or Gigabyte changing their stance and start to cover these under RMA. Gigabyte would also likely be violating European and Australian consumer protection laws here.

In the US, they're also likely violating some laws but the laws in the US rarely have teeth. In the USA, Gigabyte might as well mail the broken GPU back to the user along with a dildo and a note that says, "Go fuck yourself. You have zero recourse."

Regardless of Gigabyte being total douche bags about this, a take-away here (aside from not buying Gigabyte stuff anymore) is this:
If you're not supporting your GPU then you're wrong. Either your PCIe connector will eventually rip off your mobo, or the GPU's connector will crack, or both.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious how many of these POS (Point-of-Sale, not Piece of Shit) systems have the default settings to ask for tips. If so, I wonder how many of these places are committing wage theft by not actually paying tips out to the employees.

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