Capricorn_Geriatric
@Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
- Comment on Colorado delenda est 3 days ago:
Since a 2°C increase in temp means a ~2m increase in sea level, there’s plenty of room left over from your 33’.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 3 days ago:
First strategic stop: Chick-fil-A
- Comment on Sage advice? 1 week ago:
Mine has usage, at the very least.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 1 week ago:
literacy crash course…
I love how today literacy isn’t even a thing. No one talks aboit teaching things (in the EU, at least). It’s all about financial literacy, digital literacy, social media literacy, hell, even (and bear with me here) AI literacy. Yes, really. There’s prpbably 800 of these literacies floating around.
Whoever thought of this is an idiot. The word literacy means one thing: the ability to read and write (and understand what you read/wrote). Nothing more, nothing less.
It isn’t just stupid, it’s also malicious. Kids all over the globe are suffering from poor literacy, and instead of fixing the problem you quite literally shift the goalposts.
- Comment on you spin me right round baby right round... 1 week ago:
The fuck is RT FOOT PN and why the hell is it not RT FT PN
- Comment on Light. Not Even Once. 1 week ago:
If “Life” is “Evolutionary”, then yes.
- Comment on Just got this flyer in the mail today. 1 week ago:
Every now and then, I can’t help but wonder
Is me’s AC ready for Summer?
- Comment on Lead 2 weeks ago:
Will nobody mention the wrong placement of the checks notes stigmata?
- Comment on Trapeze artists 2 weeks ago:
Well, here’s me hoping the victims suing for damages get them paid from the one responsible for making the poor (wo)man work, and not from them directly.
- Comment on Cable placement a little weird, but the ergonomics are excellent. 3 weeks ago:
Have you heard of grue?
In any case, the same applies to animals. They may not be linguistucally differentiated in the same way across language boundaries.
- Comment on N. 5 3 weeks ago:
Number one is pee, number two is poo, and number three is barf.
What are four and five, then?
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Sure. It’s just that the user doesn’t install Unity (or any other engine) themselves when installing a game. They install the game and “it just works”.
For a mod, you have to either have the game, or go get it before you can play a mod.
I know what a game engine is. A court clerk or judge most likely - doesn’t.
And it’s in Nintendo’s interests to paint mods as something lesser - that’s why they take this strawman angle to mods. They couldn’t care less about “games” or “mods”. They care about protecting their IP with any groin punches and baby mario noises they can get their divorced-from-reality hands on.
- Comment on Good shot indeed 3 weeks ago:
Trump is clearly dishonoring prescious Charlie. How dare he!
But more importantly, why isn’t he getting
cancelled“cosequenced” for it? - Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
It’s basically a non-sequitur.
A mod isn’t a standalone game, sure. It requires the base game to have meaning. Unitl it gets spinned off and becomes a “real” (standalone) game.
However, that has no connection with the original problem: Did anyone who isn’t Nintendo ever animate a cartoony person throwing a ball that does something, before Nintendo filed for a patent?
Of course they have. That’s prior art, and the patent itself is under serious question - whether the animation was in a “real” game, a “fake” one or in a Blender animation has very little influence on that fact.
- Comment on Too soon? 4 weeks ago:
They must’ve been… Immaculately concieved.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks ago:
Have you heard of “induced demand” courtesy of the FuckCars community?
Well, the same applies to violence.
If you have police on campus people subconsciously expect violence. It’s a self-fullfilling prophecy. The more security theatre you add, the more actual security you’ll need.
Normalizing shootings by giving them such media attention also doesn’t help, if the prospective shooter craves it. Neither does the fact that it occupies a large part of the US public consciousness.
Some kids do it because others have already, and because school shootings are such a hot media topic.
- Comment on monthly challenge 1 month ago:
It’s so wrong it underflowed into somehow being right again.
Unusual? Sure. Mathematically? Right.
- Comment on Finally a washing machine that understands me 1 month ago:
Max SPIN FART until SLUT: 1200 rpm
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 1 month ago:
500% import duty is way too much.
80% is enough.
High one-time taxes are not a good idea.
Rather dilute them into 8 seperate yearly taxes.
A curb weight tax of 40% sounds reasonable. A fuel inefficiency penalty of 25% also sounds good.
At least a 15% tax on anything shorter than 1 meter being invisible from the cabin is also very warranted.
That’s 3 of 8.
Additionally, whenever a truck is involved in a crash treat it disfavourably. That should drive up insurance premiums.
So with my 80/80 tax mix they’d actually pay 880% tax in the first 10 years of ownership with 3 basic taxes.
- Comment on AI art 1 month ago:
Look, at least it’s not an AI generated cycle of ads. Those fools over at Marketing burnt the planet to a crisp already.
Do you know how much re-prompting it takes to get the little family pics all consistent?
- Comment on Life hack 2 months ago:
Don’t have money? Try using ~guns~ nukes instead
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 2 months ago:
Sure. Let them whatabout. But to us, consumers, it shouldn’t matter.
We know the stores aren’t responsible, so we shouldn’t attack them.
The processors are. For Visa and MasterCard it’s pretty obvious. Itch, as you said, puts direct blame on Stripe, and I think we can trust that.
As much as processors need banks, banks also need processors. It’s a sort of symbiosis. Damage to one actually trickles onto the other. So pressing onto processors isn’t a mistake. It’d be foolish at best and malicious at worst to suggest that.
Now that we have leverage as users and consumers, having started a push which made way and caused a response (first the prepared phone statement and now a press release), the absolute wrong thing to do is bacl down and say “sorry, we were wrong, it was B after all and not you, A”.
And look at it this way: There’s less payment processors and they’re smaller than banks. If you suddenly turn to banks, you won’t accomplish anything because to them, a few consumers who aren’t their customers doesn’t cause them even an itch. But if payment processors come to them it might.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 2 months ago:
It never was about the laws. If it were, Mastercard wouldn’t have been doing it for quite some time now.
It’s truly idiotic. They backed down to 200 phone calls from CS. They probably cited that rule, saying doing what they do (processing payments) will damage their brand.
Lo and behold, once they stopped processing transactions their brand got damaged. And due to the ego damage already associated, they won’t back down and backtrack not that they actually have a problem on their hands. What with their brand being seen as discriminatory, weak to undue influence and excersizing undue power against their own clients. Very “good brand” of you, Mastercard.
If Mastercard wants to display Christo-fascist family friendlyness they can slap a cross onto their logo and change the font to Comic sans.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 2 months ago:
Nor did you read between the lines.
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 2 months ago:
The thing with “this one” is he was president for 2 terms, unlike the previous one. The others before him in this millenium were a bit less off the rails, hence less ridicule.
Bots do sway the results towards every current president, but this one is a bit… Specific.
But whatever the next one may be, short of insane choices like Kim K, Elon, Kanye, MTG, etc. The ridicule will be much less than for Trump.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 2 months ago:
When you can’t decide between Hertha Sponer and Marie Curie
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 2 months ago:
And please show me where I didn’t say that.
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 2 months ago:
Then treat your employees like humans, not human resources. That means sick days at the very least. If you want to be respected more, then start respecting your employees more.
- Comment on If you are still confused, here is the simple explanation 2 months ago:
It is to show that I suffered with you for a bit. Only one third of me, to be fair, which I created specifically for that little exercise.
- Comment on Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles 2 months ago:
They’re right. They are the ‘Right’, after all.
The conspiracy is called ‘rising levels of decency’.
More like a disease than a conspiracy, really.
And unlike actual diseases, I assume they’re well-vaccinated against this one.