callouscomic

joined 2 months ago
[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

It is well known that police chases far too often unnecessarily escalate situations, causing them to be more dangerous in the first place.

How many police chases are for non-violent offenses?

Simply not worth it from these largely untrained, out of control, trigger-happy, power-fetishists.

Also a lot of police maneuvers go bad. Just because this one turned out okay doesn't make this okay everywhere. They are lucky it didn't snap or cause the car to careen off some other direction.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Thoughts and fucking prayers.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

That'd be nice for Nascar races. Its all blue pills and bent dicks.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)
  1. People are more willing to be honest now.
  2. How much of that sex in the past had the same amount of consent?
[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not referring to votes, but basically every pill or survey that asks people about these ideas. Most Americans generally agree with and want universal healthcare.

Also, a lot of voters are single- or few-issue voters. With limited choices, some will just vote anyways closest to their beliefs. That doesn't necessarily mean they agree with the full package.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

This is one of many reasons I don't buy textbook economics of capitalism.

For example, if they'd just put lots of pockets in women's clothing decades ago as standard, they'd have sold SOOOO much.

This idea that capitalism and the free hand of the market will gravitate towards bulk of demand is bullshit.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 58 points 3 days ago (10 children)

American Elites and conservative morons.

Not all Americans. The majority have wanted socialized Healthcare for a long time, but actual political results rarely match the popular opinion here.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

It was worth it.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Subsistence release: "ermahgerd garbage, go play original."

HD collection release: "ermahgerd garbage, go play subsistence."

Master collection release: "ermahgerd garbage, go play HD."

Delta release: "ermahgerd garbage, go play master collection."


To be fair, the first one I'm assuming. But the HD and Master Collection bitching I personally watched go down. Gamers are never happy and it's always sliding. Delta will be seen as wonderful by the time the next whatever is released.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I have played every release of this game out there. I even played it on Vita. I played the original around when it released.

I even saw the Master Collection issues and dealt with that.

This is a pretty damn good release. I'm having a lot of fun. I mean I pre-ordered the game at a discount too like you can for a lot of games though. For what it is, they did a pretty fucking good job and I've been having a blast. I also don't preorder much ever cause most initial releases for lots of games are horrible.

There are some downsides, but they're more just getting over aesthetic choices and some control clunkyness due to it being so different than before. It's nothing dealbreaking, and it's not an embarrassment. As a massive fan of the series, I will note there are insane nuances that were kept intact that blow me away. Especially character behaviors and cutscenes are incredible to see like this as compared to the originals.

They also said they HAD to improve this release over the buggy release the Master Collection was. They did that. Its been mostly pretty smooth. Minor tinkering to get the graphics dialed in on Linux with proton GE, but aside from that. It's been great.

I wish they'd not used UE5, but it is what it is and they did decent with it. The Master Collection support we saw also suggests this will only improve with support.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

I rarely get games on launch, but you can often get these at a discount on sites like Fanatical months before release. They definitely had the deluxe edition like 20% off months ago to pre-order.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by callouscomic@lemmy.zip to c/memes@sopuli.xyz
 

Inspired by another post.

Quick sources.

According to Google, a single search requires about 0.0003 kWh of energy.

https://www.rwdigital.ca/blog/how-much-energy-do-google-search-and-chatgpt-use/

Each ChatGPT query consumes an estimated 2.9 Wh of electricity...

https://balkangreenenergynews.com/chatgpt-consumes-enough-power-in-one-year-to-charge-over-three-million-electric-cars/


Edit: I'm an idiot for not even considering conversions. I simply pasted the numbers from the sources. Apologies.

0.0003 kWh is 0.3 Wh, and 2.9 Wh is 0.0029 kWh.

I think the regular search is effectively one-tenth a chatgpt prompt.

...according to a simple calculator, and a lot of commenters who've now accidentally made this funnier.

I'm not an electrician.



Okay, after some more rabbling, here's some edits. Take your pick:

 
 
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