LesserAbe
@LesserAbe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anyone have one of these? 2 weeks ago:
I think what the other commenter was getting at is you can access a cellular connection (wireless) in a land line format
- Comment on Anyone have one of these? 2 weeks ago:
I think what the other commenter was getting at is you can access a cellular connection (wireless) in a land line format
- Comment on garden faries 2 weeks ago:
Good thing I can take personal credit for all these plants. Sort of like how I helped my local sports team win the championship.
- Comment on garden faries 2 weeks ago:
And potatoes and corn!
- Comment on garden faries 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t familiar, they’re beautiful birds! That said, I read that they feed while perched, while I think the defining feature of hummingbirds is they feed while hovering. thisweekinpalestine.com/the-palestine-sunbird/
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the suggestion. I did check with them, unfortunately it didn’t work, I think because our window wasn’t in their line of sight. Guy said he’d talked to other people in my building before.
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 3 weeks ago:
Oh good to know. We moved before the date on that document though.
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 3 weeks ago:
God bless em.
Fiber of course is preferable, but requires a lot of knowledge and up front investment to lay. In Philadelphia there’s a WISP - wireless internet service provider - that has their equipment up on a tower and can service a particular neighborhood: phillywisper.net
I was ready to use them but our apartment building had made a fucking exclusive agreement with Comcast. If we lived in a normal house at that same address we could have got FIOS or PhillyWisper.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah! First, I don’t think it would be weird to ask it elsewhere, but definitely ok to ask it here.
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 5 weeks ago:
Even mass produced things require skill and sophistication. Pop music is more like a mass produced iphone than a mass produced frisbee.
Sure the lyrics aren’t saying something important or the singer isn’t the same person as the songwriter, but a lot of hours went into it. The average person on the street could not create a comparable song to what you hear on the radio without significant effort.
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 5 weeks ago:
It’s not exactly slop if the pigs eat it is it /s
I get what you’re saying, if people don’t detect ai music it must not be so bad. But in the original usage of slop, pigs don’t care, but humans wouldn’t eat the food. Same here, just because some people don’t mind doesn’t mean others can’t easily discern the difference
You could also make the argument that pigs would prefer better food if it was an option, but they have no choice, they’re only given access to slop.
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 5 weeks ago:
I get not liking it, and there are some real clunkers, but I think you’re dramatically underestimating the amount of craft and expertise that goes into some pop music.
- Comment on Inspired by a friends current vacation 2 months ago:
Skill issue
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 2 months ago:
Thanks for attempting an answer. I’ve got to say this feels laughable in light of what’s going on.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 3 months ago:
Let’s skip the “I have no basic survival skills” part (also skipping disease) and assume we find a nearby group of humans. If you approach first contact carefully they’d probably let you live with them in exchange for labor, giving you time to learn the language.
I think I have enough ambient exposure to modern technology that I could contribute at least 3-4 major innovations to my group over a couple decades. The challenge would be conveying and implementing ideas more than remembering them. You’re not going to get back to modern standards of living in your remaining time traveled years no matter how much you remember, but what little you can impart to others would earn your keep.
I don’t know what all the innovations would be, but germ theory and pasteurization come to mind.
- Comment on tune in, drop out 3 months ago:
Holy shit I had to tap out. The casual, informed way they talk about fucking dolphins conveys how much time they must have actually spent fucking dolphins.
- Comment on America is fucked 3 months ago:
He’s just demonstrating New York City is fucked, not America
- Comment on Elisabeth Moss and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Team Tease a ‘Rewarding and Satisfying’ Ending in Final Season: ‘It Will Surprise Audiences’ 3 months ago:
It turns out it was all a dream
- Comment on California ballot measure named after Luigi Mangione would make it illegal to ‘delay, deny’ healthcare coverage: ‘Crazy’ 4 months ago:
That part isn’t in quotes, so I’d guess he didn’t call it sick himself.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 4 months ago:
Oh yeah, Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania is cool. Probably not “worth traveling there from some other state before leaving the country” cool, but cool. maps.app.goo.gl/SQp261ecxj7exAJy8
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 4 months ago:
Did they add a stun gun sound effect to that video? Seems way too loud and crisp from that distance
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 4 months ago:
You’re doing all the stuff you suggested too, right?
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- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 4 months ago:
Why would citizenship be based on who your parents are?
- Comment on Request to close boardgames@lemmy.world 5 months ago:
Works for me
- Comment on If we want to have any power vs. watching helplessly while people in charge fuck everything up, we should focus on democratic workplaces. Not just unions, workers should own and control the business 5 months ago:
Also being at a worker coop doesn’t mean you have to sit in company meetings all day. For large organizations like Mondragon workers vote for representatives in an assembly, which then appoints a general manager.
Also also, an owner who cares is a single point of failure/leverage. If they fall on hard times personally or just want to retire, they can decide to sell the business out from under workers to a venture capital firm, or just to another business with a less benevolent owner.
- Comment on If we want to have any power vs. watching helplessly while people in charge fuck everything up, we should focus on democratic workplaces. Not just unions, workers should own and control the business 5 months ago:
You’re right, private owners who care are better than private owners who don’t care.
Worker owned and controlled companies are preferable (not just ESOPs where decisions are still not made democratically) because democracy allows for error correction. Even the most benevolent king still has a limited amount of attention, information and decision making ability.
- If we want to have any power vs. watching helplessly while people in charge fuck everything up, we should focus on democratic workplaces. Not just unions, workers should own and control the businesslemmy.world ↗Submitted 5 months ago to [deleted] | 12 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I’ve seen you say a few places in this thread that reducing caloric intake is related to eugenics. That’s a pretty strong claim to make without any evidence. Can you share any?
- Comment on Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post 5 months ago:
I don’t think this is entirely accurate. I understand what you’re saying, that a determined person can relatively easily bypass this hurdle and view the content.
Still, I can see value in creating a hurdle. It’s not unsurpassable, but it requires energy to pass it. And sometimes that’s enough to not be the low hanging fruit. Maybe the poster wants to avoid trolls, or they don’t want that particular content to be easily scraped.
