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- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 5 days ago:
And all of those people still need housing which is made more difficult when people own more properties than they need to live in.
- Comment on Yeah 1 week ago:
Naw, text layers in a .xcf is where it’s at.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 1 week ago:
I mean “ought to be useful,” sure that would be nice. They ain’t, but perhaps “ought to be.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My family always told me that I’d grow more conservative and want a family of my own as I grow older.
As I aged I went from ambivalence toward politics and kids to decidedly anti-conservative and anti-kid.
You know your own feelings on the matter more than your family does, and letting your family dictate how you live your life will lead to resentment and misery.
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 2 weeks ago:
A button to toggle is good design, it should just default to your system preferences.
- Comment on Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update 2 weeks ago:
It’s no longer the product you bought, eh? Seems like everyone who owns one should be doing whatever they can to get their money back.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 4 weeks ago:
What are the chances they shipped it on Thanksgiving vs Thanksgiving being the first time in a while the user turned it on?
- Comment on Anon describes experience 5 weeks ago:
Speaking of not teaching things kids have to unlearn later, I’ve often wondered why we don’t just start teaching math with the expectation that you solve for “x”.
i.e. Instead of
2 + 3 =Write
2 + 3 = xThis would prime the child to expect that math is about finding an unknown and you’ve already introduced the unknown that will be most prominent in their academic career. This will also reduce the steps necessary when teaching how to balance an equation as you no longer have the “well actually you were always solving for ‘x’ we just didn’t write it, so you didn’t know, also we’re never going to use ‘x’ for multiplication again.” stage.
But I’m not a teacher, parent, or child psychologist and this is just my blathering hypothesis based on watching my peers struggle with math for years.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 2 months ago:
To continue providing a secure and high-quality experience for all users, Lifetime Deal accounts have now been deactivated as of April 28th, 2025.
- Comment on You can now submit your claims for Apple’s $95 million Siri spying settlement 2 months ago:
So if someone else’s device spied on me they can get money, but I cannot? Wonderful.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
No. When you enable 2FA Google gives you about 10 backup codes that will always work regardless of if you have access to your authenticator app.
- Comment on I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? 3 months ago:
YouTube
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 3 months ago:
If you habitually use it on simple or clear turns or empty roads you will habitually use it when there are people around. That’s a good habit to have.
Lights on always and signal whenever you’re deviating from your current lane.
- Comment on 'Inorganic' - GPS Data Reveals Bernie Sanders, AOC Anti-Oligarchy Rally Was Full Of Serial Protesters 4 months ago:
Therefore oligarchy good actually?
I can’t imagine why people who are upset enough at the current state of things to go out and try to enact change might attend a rally by virtually the only politicians who hold a similar state of mind.
- Comment on Feds arrest man for sharing DVD rip of Spider-Man movie with millions online 5 months ago:
bypassing encryption that prevents unauthorized copying
Not very good at “preventing” if you can just bypass, is it?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Nazi salutes and internment camps sure are a good place to start!
Then there’s selling shirts with swastikas on them and talking about poisoning the blood of our people.
Beyond that there are a lot of scary similarities like book bans, transphobia, and attempts to overthrow the government.
Oh and of course, rubbing shoulders with Nazis and not bothering to criticise them!
- Comment on What's your "this is totally fine and I'm going to have a great time" FPS? 5 months ago:
My monitor dynamically adjusts it’s refresh rate to match what my GPU is spitting out within reason. Anything above 40ish is fine, though competitive stuff does benefit from more. Below that even if my monitor is matching frame to fame I definitely notice.
- Comment on WTH is going on with the price of a quart of Hydrogen Peroxide? 6 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they were just pointing out that bottled water is also way more expensive than its component parts–they were not proposing that they were the same thing.
- Comment on Do sunrise and sunset objectively look different or do they just feel different? 6 months ago:
Phone’s a real camera. The best camera is the one you’ve got and use. Take shots, enjoy the process, and have fun.
- Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset 6 months ago:
I can’t think of a faster way to make me not want to work for you than for you to post details about my name, current work, and our interview.
- Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere? 6 months ago:
If you only have 10 minutes left on a break you can save the half hour read till later.
- Comment on Oh well... 7 months ago:
If your PTO can be denied you never had the means to travel in the first place.
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 8 months ago:
At least in Florida, according to this, you are entitled to complete at least one phone call.
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 8 months ago:
You can use your phone call for whomever, just know it’s not private and you best hope whomever you call will actually help you.
The distinction I was making is that the response to “can you get me a lawyer?” could just be the cops walking out of the room and coming back several hours later and seeing if you’ve changed your mind. The same thing for “I’ll wait till my lawyer is here.”
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 8 months ago:
Don’t ask. Tell them to get you your lawyer.
- Comment on if statement == false 8 months ago:
Brb, making a truly “if” statement function in my products code base for funsies.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale is live for you to empty your wallets, Steam Awards open for nominations 8 months ago:
It’s called “Fall” cause price fall down!
- Comment on is "oh boy" considered a gendered term? 8 months ago:
I’ve never had problems using terms like “look man,” “oh boy,” or “dude” In “normal” conversion with anyone until recently. I was talking to a trans-woman I know and definitely stopped myself from dropping “hey man” in our conversation because I thought she would not appreciate it. That’s caused some self reflection and while I’ll probably continue to use genderbent language when talking with my wife I’ll probably seek to minimize it elsewhere. I don’t really know how in tune a given woman I’m talking to is with their muliebrity and it seems not my place as a cis man to make that determination for them.
I would say for a lot of people it probably doesn’t matter, but for those that it does it does a lot and it’s no skin off my back to try to be courteous in my speech with whomever.
- Comment on What's the first step to starting a third party? 8 months ago:
Probably with a running a bunch of independents at the local level. You can’t do what the Greens tried and drag out an asset for the top position every four years with nothing else to show. Start small and get people used to the idea that it’s okay for someone outside of the main parties to hold office. Build results then form a party from the independents once you’ve had some successful incumbents.
- Comment on Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely' 8 months ago:
“Safety” because they are incapable of uploading a clean game to steam?
1000005417 Also, this used to be on their website before they realised just how much data they could hoover from PC sales.
