IrateAnteater

@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "We Tried" Award⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a millennial, at no point did we actually want participation trophies. The feeling of coming in last was not changed in the slightest by receiving a junk trophy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨huge tracts of land⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Capitalism” isn’t some self aware entity that you can blame all evils on. It’s humans all the way down. And it’s not even the cartoon evil type of humans; those are rare. Everyone responsible at each step of the way is terrifyingly ordinary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no way right⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I seriously doubt that will happen. The current administration has shown zero indication that they give two fucks about what the people want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sheeple⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you can. Probably shouldn’t though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in a factory making turbine engines, if I worked in a factory making 50k$ watches we would produce just as much CO2.

  You absolutely would not. Not even remotely close.

  Also, you’re ignoring the emissions over the lifetime of the thing. As soon as the watch is manufactured, it’s emissions contribution is done. That turbine will continue generating emissions over it’s entire existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arcturus looking for playtesters!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because this is Lemmy, I feel like I have to ask, Linux support? Or is it Windows-only for now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The kind of waste I’m talking about doesn’t give two fucks about proportionality. CO2 in the atmosphere makes no distinction between being emitted by a single person or three million.

  Also, fuck living in a world where only things arbitrarily deemed “useful” are considered worthy. Does art have no place in your world? It’s not “useful”. Should people be banned from having hobbies? Those aren’t “useful”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say so in this case. A watch is probably about as close to “good” conspicuous consumption as it’s possible to get. Think about it: it’s generally a “buy once, keep it forever” item, takes essentially 0 resources to keep functioning (generally the expensive ones don’t require batteries), uses very little material to manufacture, and all the price is coming from specialist labour.

  It’s a waste of money, but it’s a harmless waste, especially when compared to things like private jets and yachts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty much the theme for most of the responses here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinda fucked up tbh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We already have a definition for this, the Karman line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In new build stuff, I’ve actually been seeing a lot more torx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Blame Henry Ford. The superior screw head style was available to him, but he refused to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you build it, they might come⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are a founder of a website or software company that is already open to the public: fuck you. We know you are going to be pulling shady shit later to monetize your users.

  If you are a founder of a company making a new widget that you just invented, which isn’t for sale yet: you’re cool. Just don’t enshittify the thing later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t currently use a VPN provider, but when I do, it now won’t be VPNSecure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes past⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also worth noting: in most areas, that price is exceptionally cheap for what he got, even for the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re free to do whatever you like, but I really can’t imagine cutting myself off of seeing most of the world, simply because of a bunch of theoreticals. I fly fairly often for work and I’ve not even experienced half of those (I’m not even sure what problem you might have with airport limos). Most of those issues are easily avoided anyway, since they are a product of your own planning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give an inch take an inch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want static html webpages back. The sheer volume of scripts that run just to display text these days drives me nuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistance is futile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say that’s controversial, but it’s really just a matter of choosing which platform you think will enshittify slowest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely love that his name is the first thing anyone thinks about when someone so much as mentions a couch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They would. Just not in the way they’d prefer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Re-invent. Your still far too late to be first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sound quality will be exactly the same among any of the services that offer lossless files (ie all of the ones that aren’t Spotify). That’s literally the point of lossless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what knowledge we are talking about. Personally, I’d be feeding it tons of manuals so that I could ask questions like “Which version of software x introduced feature y?” There’s no extra context I need, I just need a version number to give to a customer. And in my industry, that type of info just doesn’t show up on Google. So having an LLM that can answer the question in seconds saves me an hour of sifting through manuals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what I was thinking. And this is actually the first time I’ve heard of some use of LLMs that I may actually be interested in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst instance of plot armour on characters you've seen in TV?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I’m generally not a fan of prequels. Everyone has inherent plot armor, since we know for a fact that they survive.

  As for Tolkien’s universe, I can forgive a certain amount of plot armor, since he structured things to work that way throughout the stories. It’s not just the show runners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨logs are for quitters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How much more energy would you get if you fused uranium?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t even credit them with that much thought. It’s far more likely that it’s simply “you watched late-night political comedy talk show, so here’s another late night political “comedy” talk show.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused. Is it Bill Maher or just the concept of “You may also like” in general that you take exception to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little poser⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole “answer this trivia question” gatekeeping is dumb.

  But the unreasonable metalhead in me also wants all band shirts to have been bought at a show, so maybe I’m a bit guilty too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That falls squarely under the “don’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to” category.