abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just didn't want to make it bulky, so tried to bring in the core statement. My thought was that for more details, the Wikipedia link is right there.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

FYI, you can disable the pop-up in settings.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Back then, pretty much everyone had. If your dad is a shit shoveler, then you're also a shit shoveler. Cause unless you find someone else to let you be their apprentice, your parents are the only ones who are gonna pass on any knowledge of a trade. Plus, your dad already got the shovel and the cart, and that's an investment!

[–] abfarid@startrek.website -3 points 2 months ago

It's ok, from all the downvotes and lack of genuine answers I already understood that asking questions here isn't encouraged and I should just treat this as a religion.

But if anybody eventually decides to sincerely answer my question, I'm still interested in expanding my knowledge.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago

Idk about "so many" other instances, but this post is clickbait. Company just hired 2 cosplayers for entertainment and didn't claim they were robots. It's no different from what Musk did for his robot reveal.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 84 points 2 months ago

Nobody was busted, this is a clickbait post. Even the article just says they hired 2 cosplayers as entertainers, company never pretended that they were robots.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Huh. Thanks. I didn't even know he was a libertarian, only knew him as an atheist skeptic guy (besides the illusionists part). And according to Wikipedia, seems he's no longer a libertarian:

In a 2024 interview, he said he renounced his libertarianism […] adding "Many times when I identified as Libertarian, people said to me, 'It’s just rich white guys that don’t want to be told what to do,' and I had a zillion answers to that — and now that seems 100 percent accurate."

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago (20 children)

Why Penn Jillette though? Is he for some reason popular with libertarians?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"E Ink" is a company, producing displays with a very specific proprietary technology. I think you mean to say more "e-paper", which is a generic term for "paper-like" displays. And unfortunately, right now the only real competition is RLCD (reflective LCD), which is arguably not paper-like enough to qualify. Yes, it's reflective, but other than that, it's just a higher density Game Boy screen. Which is great and all, but it can't compete with E Ink in a lot of aspects. It doesn't have retention, you gotta power the screen, so no signage and stuff. It has LCD-grade bad viewing angles.

RLCDs are cool for certain uses though. For example, I sometimes choose to play on my AGS-001 over my Analogue Pocket if I'm outside in bright daylight.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago

When the other candidate's performance is "rock bottom", "low" is a massive step up. Not doing the listed things shouldn't raise the evaluation to "high", because that's the bare minimum.

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