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New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "Astronomers Find a Third Galaxy Missing Its Dark Matter"

jsbisviewtiful — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:51:33 +0000

Read into it. Large amounts of dark matter fall into the one of several theories presented by the professionals as what could be causing the phenomenon.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill"

jsbisviewtiful — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:32:03 +0000

I forget the timeline of events but the school bombing was within a very short timeframe of the announcement - a short enough timeframe that no rip and replace could have happened yet.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "Astronomers Find a Third Galaxy Missing Its Dark Matter"

jsbisviewtiful — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:22:25 +0000

Personal theory: Possibly the Great Attractor has something to do with a very large collection of dark matter - potentially dark matter galaxies. Hard to say though until we figure out how to see that section of space.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general"

jsbisviewtiful — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:36:27 +0000

It was also indefensible. A few years back she campaigned on prosecuting pedophiles and, well, as AG she refused to do that. She went as far as protecting them.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "“CEO said a thing” journalism"

jsbisviewtiful — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:40:07 +0000

That's still more interesting than what some sociopath rich person without a real clue says.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "VR Is Not Dead"

jsbisviewtiful — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:53:31 +0000

A new hurdle the VR market will be facing is that Meta bought and burned the Oculus brand, one of the most well-known VR brands in the market. Will be curious to see how the market performs if Meta completely abandons Oculus headset production.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

jsbisviewtiful — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:27:49 +0000

My partner and I joke that seitan filled sandwiches are protein bread sandwiches lol. Def like the taste of seitan though!

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

jsbisviewtiful — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:42:24 +0000

I haven’t done a comparison of Beyond vs seitan for their nutritional value, but as someone who used to eat a lot more seitan I gleefully moved over to Beyond/Impossible. Seitan is packed full of gluten, which is much harder to digest. Seitan makes me uncomfortably bloated whereas Beyond/Impossible do not. And no, I don’t have a gluten “intolerance” or Celiac.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images"

jsbisviewtiful — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:23:20 +0000

Even without looking it up to know for sure it was pretty obvious and could be inferred by anyone playing the game. Especially the scanning, which was painfully obvious to be a data collection method.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately"

jsbisviewtiful — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:35:22 +0000

> I could write a book about.

You should - Perhaps it can gain notoriety and start waking people up to their bad habits. I've witnessed so much terrible parenting both in public from strangers and from people I know. It's unfortunate how easy it is for anyone to have a kid, qualified or not.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

jsbisviewtiful — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:57:54 +0000

My household just bought The Brick to start taking control of our phones and online usage. We've been very online for 15+ years but are hoping to break the addiction cycle by simply blocking our devices from access. The timing feels right, mostly because sites like Instagram and Reddit are too braindead and spam+ad heavy these days. The executives and shareholders' desire for profits have already killed two of my biggest online pastimes.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

jsbisviewtiful — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:27:19 +0000

Not like the current admin and AI companies are helping with that at all. Also, anyone in that department has brought great harm to the entire country and their employment should be public knowledge.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "The government uses targeted advertising to track your location"

jsbisviewtiful — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:37:47 +0000

>If you don't use social media, the value proposition of a smart phone is incredibly low.

Sorry but what are you using your device for? There are many, many tools I use my smartphone for and I currently don't have Insta, reddit, Facebook, typical social media, etc on my device. Dismissing a pocket sized computer with far reaching access to the internet as a low value proposition is misguided. If all you use your device for is social media, call and text that's really too bad and a complete misunderstanding of what those devices are capable of.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "The government uses targeted advertising to track your location"

jsbisviewtiful — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:14:23 +0000

> It's never popular when I post this

That's because you're coming off holier than thou and condescending. Anyone who understands gadgets will say phones are highly trackable and will have told anyone that well over 10+ years ago. It's a trade off of value. Corporations/gov can track me while I have my phone, but turn by turn directions, maps and a camera while wandering around are useful. We could legislate that traceability away in the US to an extent, but that would require our gov be working and right now it is not.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

jsbisviewtiful — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:03:23 +0000

> (hard to believe even Meta would do this intentionally)

Are you referring to the same company that runs Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram? Meta has, for well over a decade, been caught multiple times -as recently as 2 years ago caught for the third time I know of- burrowing into areas of phones that their apps weren't directly given access to. Android phones have been highly susceptible to this kind of snooping.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/meta-halts-phone-and-...

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal"

jsbisviewtiful — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:36:42 +0000

No offense meant, but unfortunately tone cannot be given well via text: What did you think was happening there? The concerns you have expressed seem like they were clearly happening for all users, no matter what, from the beginning.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems"

jsbisviewtiful — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:27:19 +0000

Personally, I removed ChatGPT from my phone for Claude last week. This reenforces my choice.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance"

jsbisviewtiful — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:30:32 +0000

This seems like something the current SCOTUS would shut down very quickly, but I could be wrong.

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

jsbisviewtiful — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:23:00 +0000

Multiple sources cite different totals but it does seem like there are multiple 1+ mil servers.

https://www.deepcord.com/leaderboard/top-members/all/all-siz...

New comment by jsbisviewtiful in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

jsbisviewtiful — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:47:11 +0000

> Do they? Personally I've never willingly joined one of those massive servers

Large community servers are plentiful. I'm in a few that are definitely several hundred if not a few thousand users. It's pretty common to have a public server for cities too.