JillyB
@JillyB@beehaw.org
- Comment on Best BBQ on the block 1 week ago:
I think one of the first commercially viable cultured meat products will be celebrity burgers. People aren’t going to spend a bunch of extra money on regular beef but they might spend $40 on Kim Kardashian’s ass meat.
- Comment on Movie lines people laughed at in theaters despite not actually being intended to be funny? 2 weeks ago:
In the recent Ferrari movie, there’s a scene with one of the legendary racing drivers. He’s in the lead at the big race and he just needs to bring it home for the win. He’s got a big smile, the shots are serene, the music is swelling. Then suddenly, he wrecks super violently and crashes into a crowd of people. I absolutely lost it. I was the only one.
- Comment on Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it 3 weeks ago:
You claimed that the government was focusing on this one issue when really it was a small part of a much larger legislation. Whether it’s good or bad is a separate judgement.
- Comment on Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it 3 weeks ago:
This was part of an overall package including aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
Personally, I just find it really disappointing. This Tik Tok issue could have been an opportunity to improve privacy and reduce data collection across the board. Instead, it’s a surgical strike in order to not disrupt American tech companies doing the same thing.
What will happen is that Bytedance will sell the US Tik Tok to an American VC firm and it will continue data hoarding as before. This time, the US government will be getting the data instead of the CCP. I’d rather nobody got it.
- Comment on Got a Switch today, need some recommendations. 4 weeks ago:
If you’re trying to play with your son, Smash Ultimate is good. It also has a good amount of single-player content.
- Comment on we are but a gravy train in outer space 4 weeks ago:
I’m no scientist, but there is some debate about whether it’s a fundamental force. Some think it might be like centrifugal force which isn’t “real” but shows up in a certain reference frame. Gravity might actually be a result of thermodynamics and entropy.
- Comment on Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok 2 months ago:
When I worked in a factory, all the old country maintenance guys and techs were on tik Tok during their breaks.
- Comment on Paul Wall, Slim Thug & Mike Jones Tease 'Still Tippin' Tour As Classic Song Turns 20 3 months ago:
Amen. Slim Thug"s verse especially is just a clean flow.
- Comment on What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time? 3 months ago:
Then, the sequels were so consistently mediocre that the original was more or less erased from history.
I will not have you slander Battlefield Vietnam like this. I spent countless hours on a “heliwars” server after school as a kid.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Theoretically, that would only reduce the price proportional to the amount of new production relative to existing world production. This does little to dampen market turbulence.
- Comment on Drew Barrymore’s 3 co-head writers aren’t returning, even after WGA strike lifts 7 months ago:
Oh. Well what does it matter what we’d say? I’d wager the people in this thread aren’t her core audience.
- Comment on Drew Barrymore’s 3 co-head writers aren’t returning, even after WGA strike lifts 7 months ago:
She didn’t fail to appease the internet. She did something to make 3 of her employees not want to work for her. Maybe they just used the time away from work to re-evaluate their careers and decided to make a move with no hard feelings. Maybe it had been a terrible place to work and the announcement was the last straw. I bet they have a much more nuanced view of the situation than we do.