brendansimms
@brendansimms@lemmy.world
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 4 days ago:
Meanwhile, in the suburbs of DC/Baltimore you have 96m² for $414k: Local Listing
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 week ago:
switch to linux mint and all these issues poof away
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 1 week ago:
I guess its up to us
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 1 week ago:
there are very rich and powerful people who spend all of their ‘working’ time actively fighting against those things. They (clearly) would sooner support the construction of the fourth reich in america than give up profit streams like energy/housing/automotive.
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 1 week ago:
damn homie are you the heritage foundation
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 week ago:
no i am.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 week ago:
iirc…Lysenko (soviet agri-scientist - a shitty one) had convinced the party leaders that his newly bred ‘winter-hardy’ wheat breed was worthy of being planted en masse. It had worked well under ideal lab conditions but failed after several crop yields when planted in the field, and this created famine.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 3 weeks ago:
I’m on the ONS site and there’s mountains of publications and data on Covid. Which publication did they read?
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 3 weeks ago:
true that our president is an illiterate, racist, asshole? Yup.
- Comment on It's that time of the decade where we can bring out this meme 3 weeks ago:
I can’t wait for the CIA funded war films where we get to feel sorry for the PTSD-ridden us troops that just HAD to slaughter innocent iranian civilians. ya know, for freedom.
- Comment on THIS always annoys me. 3 weeks ago:
As mentioned in other comments - the tax deduction thing is not true. It is true, however, that they can '‘donate’ the funds to a charitable foundation that is run by the same people as the company (i.e. they are on the board of the charity as well as being C-suite execs of the company) thereby creating a slush fund disguised as charity that may only need to actually use 5% for charitable activities.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 3 weeks ago:
I modded it with the ‘no purchasable resources’ and it became a totally different game; It was all spreadsheet/logistics and organizing galaxy wide shipping to central hubs where I had to fabricate all my own materials to be able to upgrade equipment. I found that far more enjoyable, but the game is still meh. Not worth the replays like skyrim was.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 3 weeks ago:
seriously - how fuckin lazy it was to just copy/paste the same enemy outpost 500 times.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 3 weeks ago:
After running through the main story once, I modded it to where you cannot buy any natural resources - they must be harvested in person and/or setup a base and and ship all natural resources to a central storage planet. This essentially turned it into a spreadsheet-logistics game which gave me a a second, much more enjoyable playthrough. But I agree - absolutely medium-tier game.
- Comment on Satellite images reveal Huawei’s advanced chip production line in China 2 months ago:
Are all financial times articles as shitty as that one?
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 2 months ago:
so yea, they should unionize.
- Comment on 'Make America Greay Again': are MAGA monarchists? 2 months ago:
but if any other leader is elected, it was a SHAM and STOLEN ELECTION! so theyre just fascists who want their xenophobe in chief to reign supreme
- Comment on South Korea says DeepSeek transferred user data to China and the U.S. without consent 2 months ago:
This same article is getting rewritten/copypasted between all the “news” sites. It’s all based on absolutely nothing cause they provide zero evidence - it’s just empty accusations and broken links.
- Comment on How would you run a society? 2 months ago:
Sci-fi writer Ursula Leguin wrote a book about an anarcho-syndicalistic society called The Dispossessed. In that book, those who ‘opted out’ of this society were barred from enjoying the fruits of the collective labor but could still live on the outskirts and start their own subsistence farm or whatever. Societal control in that story was basically maintained through personal relationships among the community (shame those who don’t want to contribute) whereas the capitalistic society control method is threaten with death by restricting access to resources (home,food,water,etc). I’m not saying public shaming is the best route, but it’s still more humane than work or die.
- Comment on What is the best place to search for actual news about a keyword and get results that are actually timely and date order descending? 2 months ago:
Kagi = best 5$/mo I spend. Found them in my de-googling process.
- Comment on Why are Nickel and Cobalt considered ferrous? 2 months ago:
Yea it seems like including Ni and Co as ‘ferrous’ materials is only done in certain industries/applications. From a pure chemistry point of view, only iron (Fe) is ferrous. [source: got bachelors in chem]. Also, as mentioned elsewhere, some people/industries [incorrectly] use the term ‘ferrous’ to mean magnetic, but the actual term is ‘ferromagnetic’. Lots of the old terminology (lots of latin) is still used even though we now know they are technically incorrect.
- Comment on Why are Nickel and Cobalt considered ferrous? 2 months ago:
In what context have you seen them referred to as ferrous? [source?]
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Come on over to Maryland :) Specifically the corridor between DC-Balt-Annapolis is pretty progressive (but expensive…)
- Comment on Apple announced that the company has surpassed a 60 percent reduction in its global greenhouse gas emissions compared to 2015 levels. 2 months ago:
Yea this is literally from apple.com
- Comment on Laser cooling breakthrough could make data centers much greener 2 months ago:
Interesting idea but this article gives absolutely minimal technical information
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 3 months ago:
I played GTAV on T-430s
- Comment on What's Rednote and why is "everyone" talking about it? 5 months ago:
the Chinese state is censoring and fencing off some of the content there as a result. Source?
- Comment on What's Rednote and why is "everyone" talking about it? 5 months ago:
tiktok has(d) developed into a hivemind where tens of millions of people (or more?) can be a part of a discussion. This made it easy for trends to spread rapidly, such as deciding where to migrate with the impending tiktok ban. From my own experience on tiktok, the last few weeks there was much discussion of where to go, and it appears the hivemind settled on rednote.