DupaCycki

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Phones need to be certified for carriers in the US? How does that work?

In the EU, you just buy any phone you want, any sim card you want, put the sim card in the phone, and that's it.

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

Nvidia, willing or not, is now a defendant in an unjust war, and must be subpoena'd by the ICC.

Subpoenas only exist in the US. Since it did not sign the Rome treaty, and since Nvidia is an American company - the ICC has no power here.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That's actually a lot more recent than I expected. Was guessing something fairly ancient and pre-sanctions, like 2018. Interesting.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This, and probably clearing the license from BIOS. Otherwise you keep the license. Not sure how Asus resolves this. Maybe they just don't care.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's possible to get refunds for unused OEM Windows licenses in the EU.

https://en.refund4freedom.org/

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bro would literally ignore a child dying next to him, even if all it took to save it was a pat on the back.

Unless there were cameras, of course. In that case - phenomenal opportunity for good PR.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Japanese workers are overworked and underpaid, as opposed to... American workers being well paid and relaxed?

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There are only a handful of things billionaires hate more than dropping prices of anything.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even assuming perfect conditions - where the caller very clearly states what's happening and the AI agent understands everything properly - this is a waste of resources. Just hire more operators dawg. It's really not that complicated.

And then think about what happens outside of those perfect conditions. So pretty much most calls.

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

Personally I feel like that reddit post is terrible and nothing but PR. They did not 'refute a lot of accusations', as you claim. They cherry picked a grand total of two, one of which got twisted, and responded with largely irrelevant and misleading info.

Which is pretty much what The Hated One responded to them. Not to mention even the response to the two (out of what, 12?) points was full of holes and manipulative statements.

Naturally, no further comments were made by anyone from Kurzgesagt's team. Just like corporate PR. Publish a meaningless statement that provides no new information whatsoever -> pretend it answers everything -> refuse to elaborate -> act like people are evil for asking questions.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A perfect example is Veritasium's now deleted video about self driving cars. Entirely sponsored by Waymo, featuring exlusively data provided by Waymo (which coincidentally contradicted all other available data), and the guy acts like the video being fully sponsored means nothing.

Once people called him out, he started acting like a victim targeted by everyone for no reason. Just read his comments under videos on the topic. It's just pathetic.

Many other channels, like Kurzgesagt, completely source their data from billionaire-sponsored websites like OurWorldInData. Sometimes the data matches other, more reliable and trustworthy sources, and other times it's just plain made up.

In addition to portraying various subjects from only one perspective, which, suspiciously, always seems to be the one that makes billionaires look better.

YouTube videos about the two cases I mentioned:

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Youtube's system sucks, but I don't feel bad for many of these channels. They used to be great. You could learn a lot while eating, or just entertain yourself without brainrot.

For a few years now, however, increasing numbers of their videos have been sponsored by billionaires (or their chains of companies or foundations), either in part or in full. Some extreme cases are just plain propaganda.

 

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