alekwithak
@alekwithak@lemmy.world
- Comment on Grieve with me 1 week ago:
That’s a tiktok thing. In the videos it’s satisfying to pull out all the glue and pre-staged gunk from the port in one solid go, but in reality you have no idea how much dried glue is being left behind or how it’s going to interact with the lint and dust in the port. You could potentially render the port unusable. Better to go with a soft pick and some compressed air.
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- Comment on Are there any plot arcs, or missed opportunities from any TV series that were abandoned that you think should've been picked up or continued? 1 week ago:
Yes, thank you for articulating what I was trying to say! I also used to do an annual rewatch, now I will still forget and try to watch the first season again, but after a few minutes of watching things that have no impact on the story whatsoever I realize there’s no point. It’s a shame because the books are genuinely really great, but it’s a lot easier these days to watch a show then to crack open a book.
- Comment on Are there any plot arcs, or missed opportunities from any TV series that were abandoned that you think should've been picked up or continued? 1 week ago:
Game of Thrones. I can forgive the characters they left out of the show (I guess). I can’t forgive the stupid death of Ser Barristan Selmy, but I will for this comment. I can even pretend to forgive the rushed ending and anticlimactic fight with the others. What I cannot forgive is what makes the first four nearly perfect seasons pretty much impossible to rewatch: every single symbol, clue, and question (other than Jon Snow’s parentage) is pointless, meaningless, and completely unanswered. Like Chekhov’s gun was not only unused, but never shown or mentioned again. I don’t believe in capital punishment, but I do think D&D deserve the death penalty for that one.
- Comment on Who needs it? 1 week ago:
Ever notice how any time a Chinese app gets highlighted as being for data harvesting, there’s a bunch of people crawling out of the woodwork to claim “whatabout american apps!?”,
Yes, because the American social media apps and other data harvesters have a much greater affect on our lives than Chinese, but American media goes on and on about the dangers of Chinese social media and most Americans don’t even think about American social media.
And did you just accuse me of crawling out of woodwork?!
but whenever an American app gets the same exposer, noone ever goes “whatabout Chinese apps apps!?”
Yes because it makes perfect sense on western social media to cry “What about tiktok?!” When an article comes out about the very scandals you’re talking about. In fact I’m not sure what point you’re even trying to make saying the outrage is manufactured but then giving reasons why it should be legitimate.
I do consider Chinese officials getting blackmail material on American politicians and businesses more dangerous then American companies doing the same.
Well that’s an insane take. American companies blackmailing American politicians is why we slide further and further into a corporatocracy.
- Comment on Who needs it? 1 week ago:
I had assumed that’s what they were doing with the data they bought from data brokers like Meta and Alphabet, yes.
- Comment on Who needs it? 1 week ago:
Accuracy is not really relevant to the conversation. The point is that though the Chinese app gets a lot of crap for being a dataminer, the American social media apps are no better and in fact worse because they create ghost profiles of non users and make a ton of money selling that data indiscriminately. There’s no need to take offense, it isn’t a personal attack on your privacy practices.
- Comment on Who needs it? 1 week ago:
Then they still have a profile on you.
- Comment on Who needs it? 1 week ago:
More like Buys the same data from Meta but okay.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 2 weeks ago:
I think a lot of people idealize this lifestyle until they get there and have sunk all their money into it.
- Comment on Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online? 2 weeks ago:
Meh. The internet is a large place. Block indiscriminately. There’s no reason to have an uncomfortable interaction. OP doesn’t owe a random stranger anything let alone an explanation.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 2 weeks ago:
RVs aren’t cheap and neither is lot rental.
- Comment on Heheheh my secret door of secret knowledge 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been interested for a while but it seems more like a toy than a tool, no? Do you get much use out of it?
- Comment on Uncultured 2 weeks ago:
They’re clearly words. Letters if you want to be more specific.
- Comment on Ah ADHD, you cruel bitch 2 weeks ago:
Hi, it’s me, your friends.
- Comment on We pink inside too :( 3 weeks ago:
I would definitely never trust a mermaid. Well maybe if they sang the right song.
- Comment on My doctor's office now has ads when checking in online 3 weeks ago:
Setting up a pi-hole is as easy as some kind of baked desert. Flash your OS to the SD card, boot, install. Follow the prompts and you’ll be golden. The hardest part, depending on your router, may potentially be giving it a static IP and setting it as your DNS server, but those steps are also usually pretty easy.
- Comment on We pink inside too :( 3 weeks ago:
That’s not true, I caught one the other day who promised to grant me wishes if I let it go. He wasn’t lying but the wishes eventually led to my downfall so now I have a hard time trusting anyone even partially aquatic.
- Comment on Are AAA Games too bloated? 3 weeks ago:
I have some good news for you about the last couple of Pokemon games.
- Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 3 weeks ago:
Just a quote I thought was apt from The Righteous Gemstones.
- Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 3 weeks ago:
“It is time to finally stop the constant flood of filth and propaganda coming out of Hollywood. If they’re going to fill the airwaves 24/7 with that garbage, we’re going to do the same thing.”
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Cookie cookie cookie 4 weeks ago:
Are these double stuffed or has shrinkflation really hit Oreos that hard?
- Comment on Literal interpretation 4 weeks ago:
There are two rules and they’re the same for both genders, and neither one is ‘be nice.’
- Comment on Anon notices 1 month ago:
Don’t have to imagine lol Judaism is my heritage and culture but it’s never been my religion. Not since my family was thrown out of a synagogue for insisting on Palestinian’s rights when I was young. It is scary, being told you don’t have any morals because you don’t believe in eternal damnation. Sort of makes you grateful that person does believe in hell if it’s the only thing keeping him in line.
- Comment on Anon notices 1 month ago:
Every. Single. Other. Kids. Show. From. The. 90s. And. Before. Has. An. Overtly. Christian. Christmas. Special. But Rugrats doesn’t, it must be a conspiracy! It must be war on Christian values! It must be indoctrination of the poor Christian children. Oh God, won’t somebody please think of the children!
Growing up Jewish in the American southeast, Rugrats was literally all I had. Sometimes Christians can just get fucked.
- Comment on bloody instructions. 1 month ago:
“le grill? What the hell is le grill?!”
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan, simpsons never fail 1 month ago:
So many fake Simpsons Trump “Predictions” I see them literally everywhere. It’s so weird how hard people try to push this shit, especially considering The Simpsons has made plenty of amazingly and eerily accurate … prognostications? But you never see those on mainstream social media. Only the fake Trump ones.
- Comment on damn 1 month ago:
Quality meme right here
- Comment on carlos for scale 1 month ago:
Having accidentally stood between a galloping leatherback and the ocean, I can confirm that some turtles are still as big as cars, or at least they look a lot like it when they’re about to hit you at 40mph.
