voracitude
@voracitude@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon doesn't believe 2 weeks ago:
There are vanishingly few generalisations a person can make on the internet and have any chance of being correct. This one, though, you’re bang-on right every time.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 3 weeks ago:
First of all, I agree entirely. Now: Pounds, so you’re in the UK. Have a read about your options with the ombudsman service: …org.uk/…/how-to-use-an-ombudsman-in-england/
the Financial Ombudsman Service sorts out problems with banks, insurance, PPI, loans, mortgages, pensions and deals with other money and financial complaints - read our advice about getting your money back if you paid by card or PayPal
If nothing else you’re putting them on blast with the government, and that contributes to the paper trail for eventual action. In the meantime it might get your complaint resolved. Did you try tweeting at their official account too? Sometimes that can help get things moving.
- Comment on Suggest some games according to my laptop's hardware 3 weeks ago:
Starsector (fractalsoftworks.com)
Uplink: Hacker Elite
KeeperRL
Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament (the originals) 😋
- Comment on My IP address is apparantly suspicious? What? (Real IP, not a VPN) 4 weeks ago:
weak passwords (user error) not really hacking
If you need to cross a chasm, and someone rolls a boulder in that lets you get across, are you going to go into all the ways that it wasn’t really a bridge?
Hacking is about making stuff do things outside is intended purpose. There are no prescriptions on how; hacking doesn’t gatekeep. If it works, it’s a hack. Convincing sometime to open the door for you is social engineering, for example.
So, if someone uses/reuses weak passwords, it’s fair to say that’s an easy hack, but it’s still a hack.
- Comment on Would it be weird to ask my brother if I could tag along when he goes out with his friends? 4 weeks ago:
Hell yeah, I’m always down to hang out with my sister (I’m older but whatever, you said you’re adults so who was born first is kind of irrelevant). I hope you go and you guys have a blast!
- Comment on Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters 5 weeks ago:
Based on this, it sounds like he’s actually a fucking terrorist.
- Comment on Children at Scouts camp mistaken for migrants 1 month ago:
Naming and shaming is something the UK does much better than the US. Put the vile creatures recording and threatening children on blast, let the public see them for what they are.
- Comment on Anon is dehydrated 1 month ago:
You think that ruined your day? I had LASIK - I paid to read that more clearly.
- Comment on I dropped more food. 2 months ago:
Sounds like she might be Labradoriented?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m really glad that he’s aware of the moral implications of what he did.
Doesn’t sound like you are though. I mean, you just admitted he committed fraud in order to appropriate money meant for people who actually needed it, and now:
- you want to justify it by saying “clearly the government wasn’t holding back assistance to anyone at the time” as though it being an honour system at the time made what he did okay;
- you’re pulling that after you first tried to paper over that they weren’t just any old loans he took out; in addition to which
- you want to try and paint me as the bad guy.
You serious, dude? You’re aware that I didn’t commit fraud during the pandemic, right? And it wasn’t hard either, I just didn’t apply for relief I wasn’t eligible for. You’re aware he wasn’t scamming a bank, he was scamming people in need?
It’s okay to make mistakes, but he is lucky he’s not in prison, and if he can own what he did like an adult then so can you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Hope you’ve got some of that broken leg serum
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Also half of the loans were government Covid aid that he applied for even though he wasn’t eligible
Ahh, so he did a bunch of fraud. The reason the government was writing blank cheques was because people were dying in the millions and businesses were failing left and right. He’s lucky he’s not in prison.
I’m glad he’s doing better now, but I can’t help but think of the people who needed that money and might not have gotten it in time (or maybe at all) because of what he did. Does he ever think about that, do you know?
- Comment on It is even possible to "imitate" the voice of a fictional character without AI? 2 months ago:
I believe this is called an “impression”.
- Comment on Tony Abbott tells Advance supporters bequeathing money to rightwing group will ‘protect’ Australian values 2 months ago:
Sorry Tony, none of us can hear “the response we deserve” over the crunching of that fuckin onion
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 3 months ago:
Where did you hear that setting your phone on fire works fix the screen? Out of curiosity.
- Comment on What the fuck you 3 months ago:
And it can be bought anywhere other than Amazon.
- Comment on What the fuck you 3 months ago:
There are better solutions than literally anything that could be behind that Amazon link.
- Comment on Anon's split personality 3 months ago:
Explanation: Luck. Just pure good luck. Biology is messy, results for one aren’t the same for all. It does however increase the chances of an infection, regardless of whether she’s ever had a UTI from this practice.
- Comment on Anon's split personality 3 months ago:
As a straight boy who is better-versed in vaginal care than most: thank you for spreading the word. Uninformed men can do a lot of damage to the self-esteem (and sometimes, by consequence, to the vaginas) of their partners if they don’t know this stuff.
- Comment on Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose? 3 months ago:
Interesting! I’ll update my post, it makes sense there would likely be variability in how it presents due to biology. My experience isn’t necessarily the default.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
homey needs to smell like a gun in a pine forest
Stealing this whenever I need to describe Axe in the future.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Women always telling me a smell nice is why I use women’s soap and deodorant. I would rather smell vaguely like a field of wildflowers, a warm summer breeze, and fresh-washed linens than whatever the fuck Axe is meant to be.
- Comment on Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose? 3 months ago:
That’s the prevailing theory, yes, but as far as I’ve found there’s not empirical evidence to back it up. The theory does make perfect sense to me, though!
Also, as a sufferer, I’ve noticed it almost always requires sunlight or something with close to the same frequencies. Most artificial lights don’t trigger it.
- Comment on Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose? 3 months ago:
Contrived acronym. I much prefer Photic Sneeze Reflex, it’s easier to remember and doesn’t sound like bullshit 😂
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 3 months ago:
This is about the shittiest argument you could make. Good luck in your search, maybe you’ll find some self-awareness along the way.
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 3 months ago:
Ugh, of course those people would point to any source that supports their current claim, without vetting the source itself. They’ll even tell you that of course they don’t support antisemitism, while spouting that antisemitic Irving shit all day, and that’s okay because they pick and choose only what they agree with out of the rhetoric. As though they couldn’t find sources that support their point without the concomitant antisemitism.
First and foremost, then, I’d go about this by not denying the genocide in Gaza and not saying stuff such as “I bet you love Palestine” like it’s a pejorative, spacecadet@lemm.ee.
My second point would be to recognise that there is no moral or ethical reason not to pirate Irving’s works. If you were able to find it at a library, it would be there because someone paid a publisher for the copy and likely some kind of library license. Some of that goes to Irving. There is no way to deny him profit and acquire his work legally. So, pirate it. Fuck that guy.
- Comment on A “victim blaming” row has broken out on social media, after a cyclist uploaded footage of what he described as the “closest pass I’ve ever seen” 3 months ago:
Learn to share the road, mate. England’s not that big, you can slow down and get where you’re going with plenty of time to spare.
- Comment on Cold Callers phoning during work hours and then not accepting your at work and can't spend 30 mins listening to their script. 3 months ago:
I take the view of the social contract: if they won’t respect the rules and are impolite to you, they forfeit their right to politeness back. You’re perfectly justified in hanging up on someone if they’re so rude as that.
- Comment on “I Hope That It Brings Comfort”: Sarah Michelle Gellar Shares Her Vision for the ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Reboot 4 months ago:
No worries! Honestly I was pretty out of the loop too, I’d heard some stuff but never looked at the extent of it.
- Comment on “I Hope That It Brings Comfort”: Sarah Michelle Gellar Shares Her Vision for the ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Reboot 4 months ago:
Here ya go, this claims to cover the abusive and sexually predatory behaviour at least: screenrant.com/joss-whedon-abuse-misconduct-alleg…
