skuzz

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  People that like vertical videos have no breadth of perception and a narrow view. Think about that.

  (To be taken non-serious.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  20 years ahead even. Most 2015 model year cars have modems that no longer have networks to connect to. (CDMA, WCDMA, etc.) Also, you can pull the modem fuse on modern cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve ever driven through American cities, you’ll see that a high percentage of drivers aren’t really driving. They’re using their phone and tangentially feeding occasional input into their vehicles. Automakers keep adding Federally required “safety” features to cars like auto-brake and lane-departure correction, I’ve heard from some people they use those to make an ersatz “autopilot” and just let the car ping-pong down the road while they use their phones. Others, as soon as they *almost *come to a stop, the phone is already in their hand again and they’re paying zero attention to their surroundings, probably thinking they’re being a “smart” cell phone driver.

  It is rare I see a USian driver actually operating their vehicle as their sole focus these days.

  I’ve personally got in the habit of managing cars behind and in front of me with longer stopping distances and early brake flashing to get their attention off their phones and back on the road so I don’t become an SUV sandwich, and also a quick polite horn toot when the drivers in front don’t realize the light cycle has been green for 5 seconds because some other driver didn’t pull forward, because all of the front drivers are on their phones.

  So, they probably feel like they have to defend their idiocy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These shipping tape things⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re being brainwashed by corpo social media to self-censor, a necessary 1984 step.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As if those in power have any idea what they are doing. They were handed this giant complex machine called America and are just sitting with their thumbs up their butts hitting it with a sledgehammer and whining why it won’t play “Don’t you forget about me”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This and everything else he has done is expected when you have methed out gutter trash in the White House with no comprehension or respect for history. Would not be surprised if the leg lamp from A Christmas Story is near the entrance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Especially the Ø...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like it is time for Norway, Denmark, and Sweden to finally make peace, and end The Keyboard Wars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very true, your example is airtight. Where mine gets a bit more in the weeds, is the air conditioners and filters in the cabin have an express purpose of manipulating the temperature and climate, that is their only purpose. Otherwise the air coming into the cabin would be so hot from being compressed in the engines everyone would die and all the machines onboard would overheat.

  It was a bit more technical, complicated, (air inside a plane in the atmosphere is still air from the atmosphere being manipulated!) and on the edge though, and not as easily conveyed as umbrellas.

  So perhaps, they should just ban the air conditioners on jets to get it technically correct?

  Kudos for yours though, it was to the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, every commercial passenger flight is also a felon. They are an apparatus released into the atmosphere, and affect weather/climate/intensity of sunlight by causing global dimming. Furthermore, they take the atmosphere in through their engines, and run it through a bunch of air conditioners to cool and filter the air for the cabin, expressly for the purpose of affecting the temperature and climate inside the aircraft. Checkmate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨captchas like these that don't tell you which part of the text you're supposed to input⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These “verify you are human” things should be made illegal at this point. They were training OCR scanners, then self-driving cars, now they’re designing them to be anti-AI and we’ve gone full circle where captchas are on the defense.

  They were always abusive and exploiting free labor, and more so now. If you dumb companies can’t figure out how to filter fraudomation/AI/whatever, just go out of business.

  Tech industry, stop using us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google is on an enshittification speed-run. Close-source Android, combine with ChromeOS. Advertise the crap out of YouTube, draconian login requirements. Wherever their income is coming from now, it isn’t from making products users want. Probably the military “AI” overseas contracts.

  I’ve been de-Googling the last few years casually as functional replacements came along and I’m down to threads now, but the icing on the cake was their injecting an ad into a funeral ceremony stream from a church on YouTube. Sure, software-side, we all know why it happened, but just. No.