JimVanDeventer
@JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 13 hours ago:
Or force them to admit they are selling it for real without all the license mumbo jumbo. They have always known what “buy now” buttons were meant to lead you to believe. And — in my humble opinion — you aren’t wrong for believing that; they are.
- Comment on W Earth 1 month ago:
Huh, only a mere 6 alts to send the message you are sad about being wrong about science.
- Comment on W Earth 1 month ago:
You can calm down because I don’t care. Enjoy your massive W, buddy.
- Comment on W Earth 1 month ago:
- Comment on W Earth 1 month ago:
That isn’t clear at all and I’m not even sure I agree, regardless. Hydrostatic equilibrium is a regularly occuring thing. No, I’m not looking up how regular. The Universe is mind-bogglingly enormous and everything is unusual. Have a good day.
- Comment on W Earth 1 month ago:
But it isn’t a mystery at all. The moon is moving away from us. For billions of years the moon’s apparent size was larger than the sun. For billions of years later it will appear smaller. It’s simply a lucky coincidence we live in this moment in time, in that regard.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 1 month ago:
Pedophiles in the olympics, our strange toilets with the “poop shelf”; I just can’t win today.
- Comment on Financial advice 1 month ago:
I made a rather mean comment and I am disappointed in myself. It was meant as a joke. Please accept my apology.
- Comment on Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question) 1 month ago:
Did you put it back in the refrigerator? Did Mom find it under your bed? This wasn’t an accident; someone made an intentional power move and your family is toxic.
- Comment on Financial advice 1 month ago:
When I think of whales holding their breath for hours, I get anxious. I know they evolved differently. But if I suddenly became a whale, I’d be hearing the Sonic drowning music in my head all the time.
- Comment on Breast Cancer 1 month ago:
The AI genie is out of the bottle and — as much as we complain — it isn’t going away; we need thoughtful legislation. AI is going to take my job? Fine, I guess? That sounds good, really. Can I have a guaranteed income to live on, because I still need to live? Can we tax the rich?
- Comment on Stay Mad 2 months ago:
Look on the bright side: a vote for Biden is really just a vote for Kamala Harris with extra steps.
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 2 months ago:
The most dangerous phrase is “we’ve always done it this way”.
- Comment on fruit 3 months ago:
Can elope 🥰
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 5 months ago:
Because assuming you are human is not so much about the correctest of selections as much as it’s about moving the cursor around the screen in imprecise, non robotic, humanly ways.
- Comment on brave little bird 5 months ago:
I was watching some crows chase around an eagle the other day. The pathetic squee noises it made like it’s saying “I toldja I was sorry I ate your babies” has me wondering why we have all fallen for this whole eagles are a symbol of power gobbledegook.
- Comment on To put life into perspective 5 months ago:
I’m in Andromeda?
- Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is 5 months ago:
One way in the back should say “bees knees”.
- Comment on once in a lifetime 5 months ago:
The clouds may have even made it look more dramatic.
- Comment on PROOF 5 months ago:
- Comment on Virtual Boy Pro for Nintendo Switch - Announcement Trailer (2024) 5 months ago:
The VR mode was added to work with the Labo kit. But these headsets also exist now… because…? I don’t think the Labo was head-mounted, but maybe I’m wrong because I never had Labo.
- Comment on Virtual Boy Pro for Nintendo Switch - Announcement Trailer (2024) 5 months ago:
In case anyone actually wants one, that headset is real because Mario Odyssey has a VR mode.
- Comment on m'theydy 5 months ago:
Mandroid
- Comment on Eclipse advice for those in their 40s and 50s. 5 months ago:
The duration of totality differs depending how near or far you are from the centre of its path. I mean, I’m gonna blast my karaoke version for all to hear anyway.
- Comment on Not buying a shaver from Philips again.. 6 months ago:
Yeah, I just did some math instead. Toothbrush is a similar wiggly thing and it will supposedly run 720-ish minutes on a AAA battery, so more than that, probably.
- Comment on Not buying a shaver from Philips again.. 6 months ago:
I don’t actually know how long it lasts; I’m unusually vigilant about swapping batteries. I just put a fresh one in the razor, I’ll let it wiggle itself to death and tell you how long that takes.
- Comment on Not buying a shaver from Philips again.. 6 months ago:
Could get those. Might be a good option for some. I just have a lot of rechargeables already for smoke alarms and clocks and what have you. I think I would find plugging in every battery individually to be more trouble. Even finding micro USB cables around the house is becoming a challenge.
- Comment on Not buying a shaver from Philips again.. 6 months ago:
My travel trimmer takes a AA battery and I just keep a little USB charger for that.
- Comment on What if I ever need it? 6 months ago:
I wouldn’t even know where to do the compressions on a giraffe. Call for a zoo employee is the best answer I can come up with.
- Comment on degree in bamf 6 months ago:
Taking credit for the work of people who are barely even credited in the first place is… a way of responding. If only she had disappeared behind the curtain for a moment, re-emerging with everyone there with big hair and guitars and eye shadow and screamed “we are McCarty and the Et Als!!!”
Oh well; next time.