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- Comment on No Enforcement ⚖️ 1 day ago:
Might makes right. We forgot for a while. We’re remembering.
- Comment on modern classic 1 day ago:
Needs a railing, is what it needs.
- Comment on When you can’t upload an image to Lemmy, is it… 4 days ago:
Goddamnit
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds 1 week ago:
Isn’t Nintendo the company who gained notoriety for having a 50-year strategy? It was hailed as promoting long term vision over short term profits and focused on creating intergenerational fanbases and lifelong brand loyalty.
What part of that involves shooting your customers in the dick?
Legally, they’re probably in the right. But imagine being the one gaming company that issues tariff refunds and continues to create physical games that emphasize quality gameplay and rich storytelling with optional but engaging couch co-op multiplayer that brings people together over technology instead of tearing them apart.
Guess not if it would impact Q3 2026.
- Comment on Jimothy skittering into our hearts 1 week ago:
This thing will haunt my nightmares. I think it is the face. The videos of Jimothy show him with an adorable face and arched back. This thing looks like it will crawl out of a nest and skitter after you until you trip and fall and when you roll over to confront it - too late, it’s gnawing in your larynx.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Came to say “culture”. This is the thing most average Americans struggle with. We’ve had capitalism drilled into us from birth. Want something better? Pay more. Full stop.
Somehow we miss there is so much more to being a society than just transactional interactions. Not that the open source community doesn’t have its problems but it fundamentally is approached differently. With no profit motive why would you spend a single minute of your precious time doing anything for another person, especially a stranger?
That is at the heart of it, but you can decompose it into leadership (or a lack of it), misaligned incentives, intercompany politics, atrophying innovation, and on and on with the corpo buzzwords.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 weeks ago:
“only objective understanding”
Too late. Should have started with that, dumbass.
- Comment on Dumbass 2 weeks ago:
Has anyone heard someone blame Canada as if the nation of Canada was personally attacking them?
Had a relative do that yesterday and it was a reminder in a moment that should have been a low stress, loving moment with family a rage inducing reminder that we’re fucked.
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 2 weeks ago:
From the Trump Account website:
You can elect to open a Trump Account for your eligible children using IRS Form 4547. You can fill out and submit the form right in the Trump Accounts app, when you file your taxes, or through the secure IRS website called Individual Online Accounts, or IOLA.
Nor can I find anything making them mandatory.
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 2 weeks ago:
The “majority of Americans” are fucking idiots. “If only we owned more of their stock we could direct how the tech is used!”, they decry, completely oblivious to the scam being perpetrating upon them to shift the downside risk to the “majority of Americans”. Never has more blatant propaganda hit my eyes.
You know how I know? Because we already have a mechanism for directing the actions of our institutions, forged in two centuries of nation building. It is called legislation and regulation, mother fuckers.
Now, I’d forgive you for recognizing that the power of the law is at an all time low, at least in living memory. So maybe the “majority of Americans” “seizing wealth” by their corrupt government owning more of the company stock seems more tangible and maybe the “majority of Americans” believe there is a future upside to owning all that yummy stock that will eventually make gas cheaper and lettuce not cause explosive diarrhea. But, see my first sentence.
sigh And now I am off to my job to keep my healthcare and keep a house over my family, and to pretend we’re not sliding into a fascist, racist, mysoginist, elitist hellscape of our own making.
- Comment on I will keep recommending weird, old, and obscure films 2 weeks ago:
Fast and the Furious?
- Comment on I will keep recommending weird, old, and obscure films 2 weeks ago:
Fast and the Furious?
- Comment on I will keep recommending weird, old, and obscure films 2 weeks ago:
Is there a name for this phenomenon? Just did a group road trip and the hotel I picked ended up being shit. Guess whose value as a human went down as a result? Mine.
Why? I did my best, I researched, the online reviews were good. So why does every observation about the rude staff and funny smell reflect on me personally?
- Comment on Reverse cowgirl 3 weeks ago:
Fair feedback. Unless it is the guy’s kink. Then I feel like it deserves a conversation.
- Comment on Reverse cowgirl 3 weeks ago:
So nobody asking the real question… Why they fucking on a dude’s arm?
- Comment on GinkNo. 4 weeks ago:
Posted: 16 Years Ago
The mark of a legend.
- Comment on Now with more privacy!* 5 weeks ago:
The enshittification continues…
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- Comment on Fafo 1 month ago:
Can’t wait to see how they turn this into another grift.
I’d bet a shiny nickel one of his cronies gets the contract to eradicate the screw worm where lip service is paid to solving the problem and a few people take in that sweet, sweet gov funding.
Also, I’d bet another shiny nickel this gets blamed on brown people and funding the wall gets pushed as a way to contain the screw worm.
- Comment on How do I unrot my brain from AI, how do I start using ChatGPT less and less, and is improv a good enough way to fix an AI-rotted brain? 1 month ago:
I believe to keep your mind strong you have to stretch it. Meaning you have to do something difficult with it. That will vary by person. Thinking about elderly people doing word searches or similar puzzles versus someone in uni learning physics.
Is improv difficult for you? Is it a stretch? Do you feel mentally exhausted when you do it? Then probably a good activity. If it is something that you just enjoy and is fun, still do it for goodness sake but you might want to find something else to help rebuild what AI taketh away.
Code used to be that for me, but I get frustrated when I know I could just pop it into an LLM and take the thinking out of it. It is hard to do things the long way knowing there is a simpler way. I think we’re hardwired that way. Maybe I should move to Amish country and call it done.
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 1 month ago:
You inspired me to fix it:
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 1 month ago:
Because the steering wheel is on the wrong side.
Source: 'Merica!
- Comment on There was a time when people had to deal with all of these being separate 1 month ago:
Serious question: What do you do about maps/navigation? I travel a bit and that’s the one thing I can’t find out of the big tech ecosystem.
- Comment on disgusting 2 months ago:
This is why I shouldn’t be reading Lemmy comments during work meetings. I just had to apologize for my poorly timed snort.
- Comment on Dammit! 2 months ago:
Curious… Did they compensate you for your time? At some point that’s gotta cross some threshold, otherwise companies could have year-long “interview” sessions filled with 40-hour weekly interview questions and tasks.
- Comment on Dammit! 2 months ago:
What industry has four rounds and a 3.5 hour interview session? To me, that wreaks of incompetence. Unless you’re going to be the VP of something that’s just inconsiderate and wasteful. Even a senior dev position should take at most two hour sessions and a 30-min code practical.
My guess is it was some HR person’s whole job to “enhance hiring practices” and this is what they came up with. Probably got a promotion out of it for the great work they did. And they’ll probably get another one when they “streamline an inefficient hiring process” next year.
- Comment on Notifications 2 months ago:
You should text him.
- Comment on Nuts or just looking to gain some attention 2 months ago:
ITT people assuming it is for the human. I think this guy loves his plant and wants to ensure it gets an abundant supply of CO2 rich air.
- Comment on If I were to go out steal 34 cars. And charged with 34 felonies. One per each car. Could I not use the presidents case in defense of my own? Why or why not? 4 months ago:
User name czechs out.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 4 months ago:
I once explored the hypothetical of what would make me abandon the love for one of my kids. I went with something awful: imagine we found out they were a gruesome serial killer in secret. I decided after pondering it that I would continue to love and support them even through that. No one else would, rightfully so. But I think it is my duty even when the rest of humanity has abandoned them.
Writing this I thought of a variation. Instead of a serial killer, what if they murdered my spouse or one of their siblings. I’ll have to ponder that. I’d like to think I’d have the same unconditional love but I’m really not sure. In that case I might have to admit that I’m disappointed in them.
