Capricorn_Geriatric
@Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
- Comment on Life hack 2 days ago:
Don’t have money? Try using ~guns~ nukes instead
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Nor did you read between the lines.
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks ago:
When you can’t decide between Hertha Sponer and Marie Curie
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 4 weeks ago:
And please show me where I didn’t say that.
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on blursed 4 weeks ago:
The Curse of No Cancer
- Comment on I've achieved comedy! 1 month ago:
Press the Start button. The React Native app doesn’t… React.
The ship’s main computer and all its systems crash - every single fancy monitor shows the same BSoD.
Since the doors are all electronic, due to safety concerns on Earth that have gotten overlooked while making the craft, all the doors release and open.
You see the smiley faces and QR codes dissapearing as the monitors get yanked out into the void.
You soon follow.
The end.
/s
- Comment on Going back in time to see how the fishes and loaves trick was done 2 months ago:
Oh, it got the concept very right. Do you think (most) Christians care about things such as historical accuracy or logic?
They believe unironically in a benevelent-omnipotent-omnipresent Sky-Daddy. Their Bible has way more passages about stuff like hating the poor or not being a dick than the opposite. They’re in the cult that’s as old as time, since the modern calendar is based on Jesus’ (alleged) birthyear.
Facts don’t care about their feelings. But more importantly, neither do their feelings care about the facts.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 9 months ago:
I don’t think it’s Steam setting the prices.
- Comment on This means I close the tab, regardless of what is on the site. 9 months ago:
A GDPR infection on the wallet, I’d hope.
- Comment on This means I close the tab, regardless of what is on the site. 9 months ago:
Or (being devil’s advocate here): just don’t be a fucking slut. Have like 3 partners and have ypur website pick the best offer dynamically, it’s not that hard. In the end they all use AdSense, so they don’t even need to give data to the other 873 or even Google itself - as you said ads don’t have to be targeted. Although it’s not as if it won’t get there anyway.
- Comment on Perspective 11 months ago:
Realist: the glass is plastic
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 11 months ago:
Lemmy isn’t a single website like reddit.com is. It’s rather a collection of decentralised servers (“instances”) offering the same service (one very similar to reddit). It’s often compared to e-mail - just as Gmail users can talk to Outlook users, lemmy.world users can post and comment on lemmy.ml from their home instance.
What this does is it removes the centralised aspects of Reddit - if a community has powertripping mods one can make an alternate community (like on Reddit). But this goes a step above - powertripping server admins can be reigned in by simply switching instances.
- Comment on Universes 1 year ago:
The Eiffel Tower in the meme is as illegal as the Rattaouile frame since if the photo is from a broadcast the royalties have already been dealt with.
- Comment on Never believe the hype. 1 year ago:
As if it was about thr worker, it’s about the great gift from Burger King (that never happened)
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 1 year ago:
I’d like to interject for a bit, if I may.
While german has cases, somewhat more complex verbs and gendered nouns, english also has its peculiarities that make it hard for non-natives to learn. Things like spelling and using the same word in a bazillion contests and methaphor-based idioms come to mind first. There are also simple-to-understand pecularities like its/it’s and paid/payed which not even natives get right sometimes.
The point being, for all the “hard” and “useless” parts of one language the other language (as it’s always comomparing apoles to oranges) has similarily “hard” and “useless” features itself, so in my opinion it more or less evens out.
What makes a language “easier” or “harder” to learn is how much of it you already know. In other words that’s usually how similar it is to the languages you know already.