brendansimms
@brendansimms@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 1 day 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. 1 day 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 4 days 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. 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
so yea, they should unionize.
- Comment on 'Make America Greay Again': are MAGA monarchists? 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Kagi = best 5$/mo I spend. Found them in my de-googling process.
- Comment on Why are Nickel and Cobalt considered ferrous? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
In what context have you seen them referred to as ferrous? [source?]
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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.