LordWiggle
@LordWiggle@lemmy.world
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 4 days ago:
I’m not buying the fancy expensive shit. But the cheap stuff fills pores and creates pimples. Also, don’t use the one from last year, it has an expiration date. The protection goes down significantly.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
What OP tries to say, is that he’s to simple to deal with any form of complexity. He can only go as far as befriending other simple minded men who don’t need anything more than beer and football and love to complain about all women.
- Comment on Hard times call for hard decisions. 4 days ago:
Right?!? I mean, do they expect you not to wash your dick (wtf, that’s disgusting), or put a recently washed wet dick in your pants? (super uncomfortable)
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 4 days ago:
In the city of Utrecht NL they have free sunblock stations spread around the city. It shows the temp and UV rating. But buying it in store is crazy expensive and often the quality is poor. Some fancy tiny spray bottles go up to 12 euros, only good for 3 to 4 uses. wtf.
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 4 days ago:
Baking in the sun risks skin cancer. But people like to be tanned, so cancer is worth it for a good look.
- Comment on Crikey 6 days ago:
Error instruments loopman 1. It can record and playback, at different speeds. You can use existing tapes with music, but also modified tapes with for example 8 sec loop. YouTube
- Comment on Crikey 6 days ago:
At least mine has a cassette deck and jack plugs.
- Comment on It is what it is 1 week ago:
You clearly have no knowledge on how browser instances work. Just because Brave has built-in stuff like ad blockers doesn’t mean the Chromium platform isn’t Google anymore and Google has no more access to the data. No matter the extra features it has. Using Chromium means sharing data with Google.
Why would using Firefox share more data with Google than a Chromium browser, when Firefox is the only alternative to Chromium, made by a different company and not at all affiliated with Google?
- Comment on It is what it is 1 week ago:
So even though Brave is made on a Google product, Google doesn’t get the data? Is that what you’re saying? Because Google is such an honest company, sure they have no interest in the data of other browser instances made with their platform. Right?
- Comment on Crikey 1 week ago:
Wait… My phone can play cassettes and cd’s? Freaking awesome!
- Comment on It is what it is 1 week ago:
Brave is also Chromium.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Future aspirations 1 week ago:
Those boomers have a decent enough pension to be able to buy food for that many pets, in their bought and paid off home.
- Comment on Life after 30 be like 1 week ago:
Although the frequency of partying is lower, I still like to go out and party from Friday till Sunday evening. Recovery takes a bit slower than in my 20s so I don’t party every weekend anymore. But I’m 38 and will never stop dancing my ass off. This summer Fusion and Boom festival :)
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 2 weeks ago:
Hogwarts Legacy
- Comment on I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308 2 weeks ago:
I just see through the “innocent facade” and judge the underlying bias. Propaganda these days can be hard to recognize for most people. Some are obvious AF, like Fox News, although loads of people are unable to even see that. Other sources, like Smarter Every Day, have a finesse and innocence built into it making it hard to recognize it has a strong bias foundation, even making you defend it even though I doubt you are MAGA yourself. Fox is for dumb people. Propaganda like Smarter Every Day is to trick people who won’t fall for Fox.
There are news sites with relatively normal news articles. Not much opinions in them, not radical. On the surface it looks like a regular news site. Comparing it’s articles to other news sources and it isn’t much different. Trustworthy news site right?
But when you look at the web address, you see it is registered in Saint Petersburg. There are no ads on the website and there’s no paid subscription plan. What is their source of income? When you check the articles on the website, they are almost all about something negative in the US. The same articles as on US respectable news sites. But only the news pertraying the US in a negative way. All the other articles you see on US news sites which aren’t negativity tinted are missing on this website. But the articles there are rather solid.
This is an example of very subtle propaganda. It’s not in the extreme form like with Fox News. It’s in the absence of anything unfavorable to their naritive, which gives a certain view on the US in general.
It’s like the review system on Amazon. When a product has 100 reviews, with 95 five star reviews and 5 is one star reviews. Pretty decent product, right? But when you only show the 5 one star reviews, the product looks like shit.
With Smarter Every Day it works somewhat similar. He scetches a scenario which is favorable to the Trump naritive, but leaves out a lot of other factors which are unfavorable, yet very real. With in the end the effect of people like you defending him and his naritive he tries to push.
Not all propaganda is obvious AF and focused on conspiracy loonies. There’s all different kinds of propaganda tailored for everyone.
- Comment on I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308 2 weeks ago:
Are you aware he’s a creationist, a republican and a Trump supporter? And this video about producing locally, the thing Trump tries to do with his tariff wars, isn’t political? What got us into this Trump mess is people not seeing the political views in the content they see, believing anything they see and becoming pro Trump as they are constantly being fed MAGA propaganda. You not being able to see what this channel is trying to do is the issue with why fake news is having such an insane success rate.
But who am I, really. I’m only an OSINT analyst specialized in fact checking and analyzing fake news narrative in media and it’s effects on the targeted crowd. See this article I was the leading researcher.
- Comment on I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s called trade. Trade is good for the economy. Every economist will tell you that. But feel free to follow Trump, who says the economy will be better when everything is made in the US.
We all rely on each other. International trade has never been on a larger scale as it is right now. You can’t have a complete production line in a single country. Like Nintendo said, it would cost billions to set up their entire production line of the swith 2 in the US, and even when they would try it would be impossible to do it a 100%. Resources come from all over the world. Rare earth metals are being imported into Taiwan, chips are being produced which are being imported into Japan. The chip machines are made in the Netherlands, which buys its resources from other European countries, the US, Asian countries like China. This is the entire process just to produce a chip. There’s an entire different international production line for just the screens, as well as all the other parts.
Back in the days you needed copper for wiring and plastics to mold, and you basically had a rotary phone. Easy to produce in a single country. Not comparable to phones these days. Trading was expensive back then. These days trading is cheap. Beleving everything needs to be made in the US using US raw resources is completely dillusional. Like Trump.
Even for simple products like a grill scraper, the most economically efficient way is to use the international market. It might not feel nice to be reliant on other countries, especially when you start trade wars with everyone and make everyone your enemy. Look at Russia, and the European reliance on them with gass, oil and rare earth metals. Even now we buy Russian stuff, even though we don’t want to. The alternative is to destroy our economy, like the US is doing right now. It isn’t fun, but it’s the reality. We slowly need to find substitutes. For that we can’t just say we will do it ourselves, we need to look for new sources elsewhere.
The world isn’t as simple as it was the 19th and early 20th century. You can’t compare it to our current economy, products and lifestyles.
- Comment on I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308 3 weeks ago:
What a load of MAGA propaganda. Saying American made products are good quality. Ehm. No, they aren’t. They are usually shit quality and aren’t allowed in Europe because they are dangerous / toxic. It’s overpriced junk.
Also his product looks shit. It’s a combination of hard and soft materials. That means there are several weak points. The metal handle is connected with a single screw in plastic. The plastic will break and the sponge will wear really fast.
American producers need to cut costs, otherwise their already overpriced product will be insanely expensive. In China they have cheap labor, in the US they can only cut costs with cheaper materials and importing from China. When they don’t import, they will have to be creative by using less material and cheaper stuff. Poorly regulated, toxic material for example. Softer metals / plastics. While in China they don’t have to import most of their material, or it comes from neighboring countries. Chinese products are actually of better quality than American ones these days.
I remember buying my first Leatherman, a long time ago. The blade is made of extra hardened steel, it’s impossible to dent it. I recently bought the new flagship Leatherman, for 300 euros. The blade got dented while cutting cardboard. The multitool I bought on aliexpress for 20 euros has a hardened steel blade and doesn’t dent at all.
Now Trump is angry becssue the EU won’t take poor quality American products. Like chicken for example, in Europe American chicken is concidered toxic.
Chinese EV’s have surpassed American EV’s by a long shot now.
The time of Chinese products being shit has passed. It’s a struggle for European companies to compete. The time of American products being shit is now.
The smarter everyday videos do not fit their YouTube name anymore. I used to love his videos but for several years already it has become propaganda junk. He’s just a MAGA hillbilly who thinks he’s super smart.
- Comment on Happy Fuckin' Pride 3 weeks ago:
Fuck me
- Comment on Only $50? 3 weeks ago:
Haha hahaha who would buy this! This is so funny! Does anyone have a link by any chance? So I can make fun of it there, of course. Totally not to make an offer. No no, I would never do that again. Trust me, I’m a professional couch fucker.
Love, JD
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 3 weeks ago:
From what I’ve seen, they don’t even learn about the law and often break the law by illegal detainment, searches and confiscation. Cops who served for over 20 years but don’t know people their rights. They often get minimal training while having to serve alone where everyone carries a gun. That’s asking for problems. And now cops in the US are militarized with heavy combat gear, while the majority is white and racist. So obesity is the least of the problems with US police.
- Comment on Why is DOGE still around if Donny and Elon aren't getting along? 3 weeks ago:
Russia still needs to get all the data somehow.
- Comment on Do you care about up/down votes? 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes when I’m not doing too great and see loads of shit during my daily doomscrolling, I can get very synical, harsh and bold. When I get several downvotes, it can be a sign I’m in this negative depressing mood and I need to light up and be more open to others. It usually takes a while as first I fee like explaining myself making things worse, but in the end it let’s me think “hey dude, stop, take some distance. You’re not like this and your behavior is pulling you further down. Do something fun instead, stay away from comment sections and put away your phone completely and meet some friends or something”.
It’s a struggle sometimes.
Upvotes always help with the short endorphins boost, even though I don’t want to admit it. I got rid of all social media except YouTube and Lemmy. Yes, I’m I search of approval, again, not what I’m proud of. Because I want to get rid of this addiction and doomscrolling.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 weeks ago:
I have friends
- Comment on Special sampling opportunity 3 weeks ago:
2,25 per roll. For the price of 8 rolls you can buy a bidet.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 3 weeks ago:
Win7 isn’t that old.
- Comment on what is north? 3 weeks ago:
I can specify: south of the arctic.
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 3 weeks ago:
A divider at checkout? Everything is self scanning these days over here.
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 3 weeks ago:
Depends on the country. In Denmark for example, the one on the highway has to give way to the merging traffic.
