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New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

Moomoomoo309 — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:34:51 +0000

Check the Flashpoint archive, it's the biggest collection I've seen.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

Moomoomoo309 — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:26:53 +0000

If anyone wants to see more of these flash games, check out the Flashpoint archive.

https://flashpointarchive.org/

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "US Criminally Charges Southern Poverty Law Center, Blanche Says"

Moomoomoo309 — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:41:05 +0000

Yes. They are fuzzy around the edges, and those people on those edges should not be lumped into the binary categories because they don't really apply to them. For example, if an intersex person has both sets of genitalia, both underdeveloped, what are they? Usually, the answer is one is removed, and that's that, but what if they don't? They don't fit into either the male or female category. I'm not saying the sexual binary is useless, but saying "there are only two sexes" is entirely disingenuous when you know it not to be true.

Additionally, men don't need to protect women anymore, not really. We're not out here hunting bears, we're commuting to the office. A woman with a gun or pepper spray could incapacitate the strongest man in the world, we don't really need to hold onto these ideas in the same way, they don't map onto our lives that way anymore. The instinct still exists, and that's fine, but we don't need to emulate our forefathers' social structure in societies that don't reflect that.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

Moomoomoo309 — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:07:53 +0000

Take this question a step further and ask _why_ those activities disappeared. What are those people who would previously have been doing that, now doing instead? Usually, the answer is working. For the unions, decades of policy have systematically eliminated them, but for the other points, it's more of a "between the lines" thing.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "US Criminally Charges Southern Poverty Law Center, Blanche Says"

Moomoomoo309 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:21:56 +0000

That is not an accurate description of how the human sex hormones' traits are embodied, intersex people exist, sex chromosome disorders exist, and conveniently ignoring those people makes the model simpler but denies a more complex underlying truth.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor. Workers told to keep going"

Moomoomoo309 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:45:48 +0000

Yes. Respect for the human who just died is more important than money, and I'm saddened you don't see that.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

Moomoomoo309 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:17:21 +0000

Honestly, I'm from NJ and I'm still shocked they actually charged Gold Bar Bob for what he did. He's so influential in NJ politics, I thought they'd let him get away with it like he did all the other bribes he's taken over the years. I guess literal gold bars from Egypt with obvious provenance was just too on the nose.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

Moomoomoo309 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:35:58 +0000

Collabora is the blessed one currently, but you can use either, it supports either one, and you can easily swap them. The EuroOffice image will likely default to OnlyOffice, but NC has not announced any plans of switching that to the default. It could change in the future, but I don't foresee them discontinuing support for either if they have any say in it.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution"

Moomoomoo309 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:06:19 +0000

They're referencing Trump's constant insistence that we won or are currently winning. He never, ever admits defeat or concedes any ground, everything is a victory, nothing is a loss. Trump also famously said (paraphrasing) "We're gonna win so much, we'll be tired of winning".

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

Moomoomoo309 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:48:41 +0000

Sure, you can argue that despite being allowed to, most police departments do not discriminate in that way, but the legal precedent provides credence and legitimacy to the stereotype, regardless of its truthfulness, which is what I pointed out. I don't think any real data on this would be available, though, so I think most people (you and I included) just go by vibe, so in the absence of evidence one way or the other, the stereotypes will prevail, regardless of accuracy.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)"

Moomoomoo309 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:05:39 +0000

Best bet is an adversarial image, which is essentially reversing what a classification algo is looking for to get out the "Most banana-looking image", for example, and then using that. It, to the AI, looks so much like the category it's designed to look like, that all the weights of everything else in the image are too low in comparison and nothing else gets recognized.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War"

Moomoomoo309 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:26:52 +0000

You're really playing fast and loose with your definition of war here, you change it depending on the country, but aren't clearly delineating which you're using. So let me ask a question to try to clear this up:

By the US's standard of what is considered a war, is China at war, and have they been at war in the last 10 years? If so, where and when?

Russia obviously has been at war with Ukraine, no question there.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

Moomoomoo309 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:49:41 +0000

To be fair, there is legal precedent for cops not being too smart.

https://ny.prelawland.com/post/719662253773832192/too-smart-...

They're allowed to not hire someone if their IQ is too high. The stereotype is at the very least based on truth, and has been affirmed legally.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "U.S. to suspend the Jones Act in a bid to curb oil prices"

Moomoomoo309 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:15:20 +0000

That is the leverage unions have. Do you expect them not to use it? The union isn't there to protect the economy, it's to protect its members.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign"

Moomoomoo309 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:08:51 +0000

No, they're pointing out the "right" way is also corrupt and the problem is deeper-rooted. It being done plainly is obviously worse, but the corruption runs deeper than just this.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo"

Moomoomoo309 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:25:03 +0000

Why would it need to be re-evaluated? The financials haven't changed, the end goal hasn't changed, even if the AI is better or more useful, the stuff Zitron puts out assumes AI will continue to get better until the money runs out. Unless the AI genuinely starts taking jobs en masse (and not just being used as an excuse for layoffs), they're still in the same situation.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo"

Moomoomoo309 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:27:22 +0000

Did you actually read the articles he made going through the finances of these companies? He definitely has a bone to pick, but his numbers don't lie. The amount of return these AIs need to give due to the amount of spend is so ridiculous that unless they really do automate most jobs, they're screwed. There's a reason these companies only post AI revenue now, not profit.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Against fancy ligatures in programming fonts"

Moomoomoo309 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:35:28 +0000

I think there's an even more obvious criticism of that first point: The ligature is two characters wide, the character isn't. That's a pretty easy tell - fira code doesn't narrow it much (I think it does slightly, but I've never really noticed, it looks two characters wide).

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

Moomoomoo309 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:21:08 +0000

Time is a factor here. You need to launch each of these into space. Now, in the time it took to send those satellites up into space, how many datacenters and how many solar panels and how many GPUs could you have set up and built and had operational? If latency isn't a factor, why bother building them in the US? Build them in Iceland where they have cheap geothermal! The amount of rockets you'd need to launch to fit the same number of GPUs as a datacenter is definitely quite a few. SpaceX has done 165 flights in 2025. How many datacenters or solar farms or battery plants can you build in the time it'd take to launch 1 datacenter worth of satellites?

I'm entirely ignoring the problem of cooling in space (which is a huge problem!), and of how much it'd cost to launch the satellites.

New comment by Moomoomoo309 in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

Moomoomoo309 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:09:42 +0000

I'm quite surprised to not see teamspeak 6 on here. From what I've seen, it has all the features discord has now, including screen sharing, video calls, channels like discord, and it's also designed for gamers. It's been mentioned in some replies, but not any top-level comments yet. Is TS6 missing some discord features? (maybe calendar events, and their bot ecosystem is a lot smaller)