Lumisal
@Lumisal@lemmy.world
- Comment on Oh no! 20 hours ago:
Yeah no, I’d rather stick with Firefox. We need another browser but not from a future fascist grifter.
- Comment on Oh no! 1 day ago:
Great, find out they’re supposedly not against gender neutral pronouns, only to know hear they’re charlie Kirk stans. Source?
- Comment on Personally, I never travel anywhere without it 1 week ago:
Apparently it’s now ironically a younger crow I guess since it’s just less aged Jim Beam:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Crow
But seems the version in the ad might’ve been before the recipe changed due to an error.
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 2 weeks ago:
I like how the two comment replies you got were completely opposite of each other lol
- Comment on Happy American import day 2 weeks ago:
Colonizers aren’t just immigrants, piss off with that false equivalence. People committing attempted genocides (or successful in some cases) aren’t the same as people just moving somewhere.
- Comment on Andrew will be banished from royal premises to King Charles' private and remote Sandringham estate 3 weeks ago:
*French.
Y’all are busy installing your own king after all.
- Comment on Happy American import day 4 weeks ago:
Well fuck off to you too.
If you hate it that much practice what you preach and go back to England, colonizer.
- Comment on NOW! 4 weeks ago:
Fixed.
Also, added context plus apparently Keepa is better?
- Comment on NOW! 4 weeks ago:
That site is owned by Amazon now.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 4 weeks ago:
Well, at this point more like out of the fire into the frying pan
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Republican levels, so checks out?
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 5 weeks ago:
We have local providers too tho, and if they go down could give this EU ones a chance to move in, which could be good.
Especially since both Microsoft and Google are both quite in the AI stuff.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 5 weeks ago:
Revolut is subject to EU laws which are much stricter than US ones. It’s not like Wells Fargo, an actual US bank, hasn’t already messed with Americans by just straight up stealing from them. Wells Fargo would’ve been dead by now in the EU for their shenanigans.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 5 weeks ago:
Our economy isn’t propped up by AI. One of the biggest AI’s we have is Mistral, and it’s no where near the size of the US ones.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 5 weeks ago:
Revolut
- Comment on Anon uses the internet like a normie 5 weeks ago:
I do forget the general American public has the reading skills of a middle schooler. Touché.
- Comment on Anon uses the internet like a normie 5 weeks ago:
People always precede “slop” with “AI”, even in the comment I responded to.
And the reason I got annoyed is because they used it for an algorithm rather than AI as well.
- Comment on Anon uses the internet like a normie 5 weeks ago:
Whoops fixed.
And I think goop fits too.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 5 weeks ago:
Weird no one is saying this, but exchange dollars to Euros.
Had it been done back in November of last year, 1,000$ would now be worth about 1,200$.
Even if the Euro loses some value from the crash, it probably won’t be greater than 20% of the exchange difference there is now.
- Comment on Anon uses the internet like a normie 5 weeks ago:
I’m so tired of seeing the word “slop” used for everything AI. It’s fucking annoying and as tiring as an American right-winger calling everything libtard.
Open a thesaurus. You can say “trash”, “shit”, “garbage”, “waste”, “viral fecundity”, “sludge”, “gook”, or “muck” for example. Keep it new instead of just parroting the same old tired phrase.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 5 weeks ago:
I carved mine out of an old olive tree. Good luck stealing it.
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 1 month ago:
So I guess you have to make sure you apply to have your tax home changed. Doesn’t seem automatic from what I read
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 1 month ago:
US is one of like 2 or 3 countries that does that.
There are usually other costs, and if you have any outstanding debts you have to pay those first too.
Some may need a lawyer to figure out how to just do the paperwork.
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 1 month ago:
They have treaties with some countries so that if you don’t pay you can have your wages garnished. This is assuming you have citizenship and not residency etc with the other country.
So it’s on a per country basis. In some, nothing happens. In some there’s also treaties so you don’t have to pay double tax anyway, or it’s percentage based.
However, this also assumes you have no family you care about anymore in the USA or that they’re able to travel to see you instead. Otherwise you face prison for tax evasion if you ever go back.
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 1 month ago:
Well, a modern form of that still sort of exists today, except the leash is longer.
You cannot for example just get rid of your US citizenship - you have to pay to get rid of it, and as long as you have it, you’re susceptible to paying taxes to the USA. Even if you have dual citizenship.
- Comment on She's a pain in my rear but she keeps me straight! 1 month ago:
I thought this implied the wife was even smarter
- Comment on Sora AI Slop is here 1 month ago:
To be me it was the way the possum jumped. They don’t cartoonishly move their limbs like that, but jump similarly to an Armadillo.
… But not everyone has seen a real one jump to be fair.
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 1 month ago:
Unpopular opinion, but I partially agree with you.
Win 7 and 10 did pretty much mostly work out of the box. And during those times, Linux didn’t work as well always.
But with Win 11? Microsoft has fucked up. Not only do things not always work (the biggest issue I get is display drivers malfunctioning and Bluetooth/internet issues with updates), but certain Linux distros the hardware works better, which was really weird to come across. Specifically KDE Fedora stuff. I can actually control the brightness on a desktop easily from a software panel for example, instead of having to manually use the buttons on the monitor.
Even HDR recently breaks on Win 11 when it was working just fine, throwing off all the colors outside of the game you’re playing if you activate it for the game.
There’s also something you pointed out in your own comment that’s a benefit that Linux sort of had since even back then - the interface is easier to use than Windows. My dad always had issues figuring out how to use his computer to just browse the internet on Windows but finally learned on Ubuntu. But like you said, at the time, I had to set everything up first. Now? I’m pretty confident certain distros wouldn’t need that.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
I’m not a woman, but after going through a whole explanation saying it’s not about you specifically, but about the unknown, and you still take it personally - I’d consider that a red flag.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
But that’s a me thing, something you would know if you knew me.
You’re not getting the point.
The point is, we don’t know you.
And this may shock you, but people with bad intentions can just lie about things online. I’m not saying you are some psychopath who acts nice and caring online only to spike a drink and rape in person. Or that you’re an abuser but you can’t catch it yourself. I’m saying people don’t know you, and therefore it can’t be ruled out as a possibility. And so therefore the risk does indeed exist.
Not knowing is the point. Some people will therefore want to take more precautions when getting to know you even better in person, to minimize the risk further. Others won’t think of the risk and just take it, or think it’s not too risky, or not care of the risk, or even might think they can keep themselves safe, and won’t meeting you in person alone in public.
No matter what though, the point is that initially, people don’t know you. It’s not an accusation directed at you, it’s literally just the situation.
