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New comment by Morromist in "Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems"

Morromist — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:08:57 +0000

Actually you need a REAL ID to board a plane now. 20% of americans don't have them. They're pointless, take a lot of time and effort to aquire and are needlessly expensive.

I don't have one because I have a passport.

New comment by Morromist in "The Overton Window of Food"

Morromist — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:10:04 +0000

Actually that's what I usually eat. But its a bit more work than opening a box and pouring out the contents.

I really just want to check the "morning nutrients" box without having to do a lot of bother, its something I really don't want to care about or pay attention to. I just want a very fast, convienient breakfast without added sugar and that's not available in a lot of stores, which is crazy.

New comment by Morromist in "The Overton Window of Food"

Morromist — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:55:51 +0000

Going to the store and looking for a healthy breakfast cereal that isn't loaded with added sugars is actually not easy. Sometimes they'll have a few, but last time I looked at Kroger there didn't seem to be a single box of cereal in the main cereal aisle without them.

Apperently 92 percent of cereals come pre-loaded with added sugar. I just want something to fuel my workday in the morning that isn't bad for me. It doesn't even have to taste that good, its just breakfast.

New comment by Morromist in "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope"

Morromist — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:28:36 +0000

I see. And how do you you know that elon, a notably close supporter of the president didn't have anything to do with the Artemis program? I notice that Chinese electric vehicles are essentially banned in the US, but probably that had nothing to do with Elon as well right? And what does it matter if Blue Origin also made money on the Artemis program?

New comment by Morromist in "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope"

Morromist — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:17:05 +0000

How is landing on the moon not a publicity stunt? What can the humans do that massively cheaper robots couldn't - besides take some awesome photos and bring back some more moon rocks?

Of course there have long been plans to go back to the moon because its a cool fun thing to do and whoever happens to be president would likely be well remembered for taking credit for it. That doesn't give it credibility as a useful endeavor.

New comment by Morromist in "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope"

Morromist — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:05:24 +0000

Starship isn't actually operational. I'll let you look at their plans for it and you can tell me if they involve doing things the goverment would pay for like landing on the moon and building space stations or not.

New comment by Morromist in "What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022)"

Morromist — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:43:29 +0000

Humans weren't built to live in massive societies with 100s of millions of people.

No wonder we love minecraft and Satisfactory and playing murder-hobos in ttrpgs. I would be in favor of restructuring society to be in smaller units, communities where people know and understand eachother, but nobody has that power.

One thing I disagree with "We won’t live in small villages with cobbled streets en masse anymore because we need the giant glass skyscrapers and the congealed intellect of our multi billion population to move ahead"

Do we? What is "moving ahead"? I would say there's a good chance our way of life is simply going to waste all the resouces that sustains it and collapse over a long period of time without moving on to a "higher" state. I know lots of people working in tech, none of whom actually advance useful technology. Instead they advance technology that makes their bosses rich and makes people consume more for no real benefit. That's actually the opposite of useful. The glass skyscrapers are not helping us move ahead.

New comment by Morromist in "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope"

Morromist — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:17:31 +0000

As I see it Musk is lobbying the goverment to give him money to do useless stuff & expensive in space like land on the moon again - basically redirecting funds away from useful stuff like the James Webb Telescope for publicity stunts. Not any different from the legacy aerospace companies, who also lobbied like crazy, except on a bigger, dumber scale.

New comment by Morromist in "The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now"

Morromist — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:48:19 +0000

Where to go to see the internet is blessed with a future of truth, fraternity and general goodness?

New comment by Morromist in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

Morromist — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:37:15 +0000

I mean its so much easier to do stuff the Stasi could only dream of with technology today.

New comment by Morromist in "Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI"

Morromist — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:17:51 +0000

The polls I've seen make it seem like there's much more public distress about AI than excitement, so yeah. Honestly pushing ai into people's faces and talking non-stop about how great it is really has a negative effect on its PR I belive. People don't like being told "you'll eat it and you'll like it" and AI bros haven't got much empathy for people who see it as ugly, boring, gross and filling the internet and life generally with crap.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/12/key-findi...

New comment by Morromist in "Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't"

Morromist — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:47:29 +0000

I can see a future coming soon where everyone has cameras in their house and voluntarily sends the data to insurance companies for lower rates. If most people agree to do it then it could basically become manditory if you want insurance. Alexa is already this with audio and lots of people I know already have their house completely crammed with cameras for no particular reason at all.

New comment by Morromist in "Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't"

Morromist — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:25:09 +0000

Its commonly said by people who seem to love this tech that we don't get to have a right to privacy in public spaces (anywhere but shut inside our houses with the window blinds drawn) but it appears now we also don't have a right not to be surveilled intensely, our every movement recorded, tracked and noted down permanantly, analysed with Algorithms & scrutenized for potential crimes.

Land of freedom they say.

New comment by Morromist in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

Morromist — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:01:32 +0000

Yes, I know many. Of course everyone has minor mental health problems but I know many who have basically cured mental health problems from depression to crippling OCD. None of them did it purely with counciling but with a vast combination of life experiances, including becoming more prosperous and being able to afford to excercise and enjoy a good diet and not have to worry about losing everything and starving to death (this was a big one for mental health), having children, success giving them self confidence, growing older and having their hormones change, having time seperate them from trauma, drugs, legal and illegal, hooking up with someone who somehow made them feel better, study of human culture, history and psychology to get a new perspective on themselves, and finally finishing their dissertations.

New comment by Morromist in "The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized"

Morromist — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:36:42 +0000

Me too actually. Its enormously better than any of the sim cities, especially the last one.

New comment by Morromist in "The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized"

Morromist — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:58:06 +0000

Yeah. Actually it looks to me like FIFA jumped the gun a bit. They stopped letting EA making their games in 2023, but then choaked and have only released two not-great looking games seemingly meant for low end systems like phones and the Nintendo Switch. I doubt either sold as well as the EA FIFA games.

I'll bet they lost a lot of money - I'm sure there's an interesting story about FIFA's efforts to get their own game development up and running. I guess they wanted EA to pay $300 million per year and EA said no, but I doubt FIFA made 50 million on the games they released.

New comment by Morromist in "The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized"

Morromist — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:36:37 +0000

You'll take Skylines 2 and you'll like it.

New comment by Morromist in "The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized"

Morromist — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:22:20 +0000

I agree they're good at making games that sell to a mass audience - but I really think that a lot of franchises have wasted a ton of money partnering with EA, which makes poor quality games that are exactly the same as the one they printed out 12 months ago. I haven't heard anyone talking about an EA sports game since the PS1 era and they seem to have completely missed the e-sports era where DOTA and Fortnight made vast sums of money. Don't get me wrong, they've made a ton of money, but I think they could have made still far more in more competant hands.

Fabulously greedy FIFA seems to have realized this and is no longer partnering with them.

New comment by Morromist in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

Morromist — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:33:21 +0000

I love these little websites with amazingly focused content. <3

New comment by Morromist in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

Morromist — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:20:10 +0000

True! But somehow Disney has been drawing ducks riding bikes in a way that seems to satisfy everyone since before my grandfather was born.

https://ridesabike.com/donald-duck-daisy-duck-huey-dewey-and...