CosmicTurtle0
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- Comment on Beyond fucked up 5 days ago:
Oh this shit is still going on. There were people in the late 90s early 00s that were counting down the days when the Olsen twins would turn 18.
Would not surprise me one bit if there are websites dedicated other child celebrities.
- Comment on All fight no flight 1 week ago:
By this logic, I’m all fight as well.
Come at me.
- Comment on Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off 2 weeks ago:
Mozilla are using a similar model to Microsoft and open sourcing Firefox code under the MPL while distributing the executable under a new Terms of Service.
Firefox (the executable) is no longer considered FOSS since they can revoke your license at anytime. I posted a comment that details my personal view of this change.
TL;DR: they would have only done this if they planned on farming user data. And last month announced that they intend to do just that.
- Comment on Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off 2 weeks ago:
I’m okay with Opt-Out so long as it’s clearly marked.
I shouldn’t have to go into the config or click through 7 layers of UI just to opt out.
That said, this is a reminder that Firefox is no longer open source. It’s source available and you should use Waterfox or LibreWolf if you want a browser based on Firefox but without AI out of the box.
- Comment on Will they wake up before it's too late? 2 weeks ago:
Trump is proving once and for all that so long as he doesn’t get punished for it, everything he does is legal.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
Nations can’t ignore the fact that the US has one of the active militaries in the world. Our Navy is more of less second to none and we have nukes. In the hands of a normal president, we might be fine but you sure as heck know that Trump and his Project 2025 people are just itching to launch one.
This is a situation where there are no good options. The best you can do is continue political pressure, get other nations to rally behind you in the hopes of creating a strong economic resistance.
But the real answer is that we, the US citizens, need to fucking take this country back. I hate to say it but protests simply aren’t enough anymore.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 1 month ago:
Our education system values rote memorization over actually learning something. So instead of teaching you how to use the periodic table, they teach you “The element of Hydrogen has an atomic mass of 1” etc.
A few teachers who actually give a fuck will do both, but they are required to teach the test for funding. Because that’s how they are graded.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 months ago:
There’s a season 2?! I thought it got cancelled after the first season.
- Comment on Obama's got jokes 2 months ago:
He essentially got it for not being Bush.
Not saying Donnie deserves it but we need to stop pretending that Obama getting the prize is some sort of achievement.
Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if the next elected Democrat president got it either.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 2 months ago:
Wait…WHAT?!
I don’t want to fact check this. Is this true? Is this what all the memes were about yesterday?!
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 2 months ago:
I’d trust a Lemmy source more than a reddit source.
But that’s just me.
- Comment on 877-CASH-NOW 2 months ago:
I’m sorry but I have to ask: what is the point of a 50 year mortgage?
It sounds like a dumb way to give banks even more interest.
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 3 months ago:
Right back at you!
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 3 months ago:
You’re getting down voted right now and I think it’s important to understand why because I had a similar reaction not too long ago. I was curious to understand my own biases and what I think it’s important to share what I learned as a cis male in IT.
Women just want to be women. Some want to wear nail polish and “look pretty” while others want to just rock a T-shirt and jeans. Like men who wear full tux and debug code at 6pm on a Friday (because they aren’t farmers), they want to be what they want to be.
Men have the luxury to wear whatever they want (for the most part) and not get shit for it. Women have to do everything that men do and do it with maturity while handing the shit that men throw their way.
I learned this lesson when I was the sole male STEM counselor at an all girls camp. It was a volunteer gig that my company put together. They had last minute cancellations and I had time on my calendar and so I volunteered. I did not know it was all girls and I certainly did not know I’d be the only guy.
I stayed curious and helped where I could. My job was to be a project manager, help teams understand how to win their competition that had set requirements. So I walked them through all that and looked over their code. There as a dedicated “make up hour” where the girls were encouraged to make their presentations “pretty” with make up, glitter, etc. I personally found it pointless given how far behind we were but I kept my mouth shut.
And I observed.
The fact that these girls could do this and do IT was immensely powerful. You could see their spirits lifted. It rocked my world and made me check my own beliefs. Why not allow them to be pretty? Why not let them take an hour to put glitter and stickers on their board if it made them happy?
Did we win? No. But they enjoyed it.
In my 20+ years in tech, we need more women because they bring perspective in ways I don’t. Not because they want to be pretty because they provide insight in ways I don’t expect. Anything I can do to help make that happen I’ll gladly do.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 3 months ago:
Add dual climate control and then I’m with you.
- Comment on I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs 4 months ago:
It says “7 comments” on my end but no actual comments. Also the post is from a year ago. The post I saw was at least a week or two ago. though it’s cool to see a meme rotating like in Reddit. 😅
- Comment on I'm looking for a Lemmy post on a website that "would give your CISO a heart attack". In essense it was a specific URL forwarding service but had a very dubious URLs 4 months ago:
I think these are the image I saw but not the thread. The threads had comments.
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- Comment on POV you are rich 4 months ago:
The problem is that sovereign citizens try to do this in the wrong way. They often appear pro se in court with little to no research on how to actually argue their case.
I’m not an attorney but based on my understanding of current jurisprudence, here’s what you need to do to avoid taxes:
- Be rich. Like obscenely rich.
- Hire accountants and attorneys to align your income and assets into corporations.
- borrow against those assets, listing them as part of your collateral, and then use the money to live your life.
- if you get into trouble, say that it was the corporation, not you, making those decisions. Remember that corporations are people.
- if the corporation gets charged, bankrupt the corporation until it has negative assets and the shutter it.
That’s it.
I would argue that corporations actually have more rights than citizens or even religious organizations. The only thing they can’t do is vote. Companies can literally murder people and pay a fine.
- Comment on erotic scenes actors and actresses, how do you not get aroused while acting in those scenes? 5 months ago:
Okay you just described my last dungeon event.
- Comment on Meta uses AI for all their recruiting now and shit has gotten out of control 5 months ago:
Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW
- Comment on if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead? 5 months ago:
You know what would do this justice? We all gaslight the GOP into saying this is fake news. That it’s AI. That he’s completely fine but in a bunker somewhere for his safety.
In fact…this is what’s true.
No way that a shot would show this much blood, especially against a white hetero man. This has woke AI written all over it.
- Comment on Meta uses AI for all their recruiting now and shit has gotten out of control 5 months ago:
Everything is a dildo if you’re brave enough.
- Comment on Meta uses AI for all their recruiting now and shit has gotten out of control 5 months ago:
Slight correction:
Every technology invented has been used at least once for sex.
- Comment on UK Age Verification Data Confirms What Critics Always Predicted: Mass Migration To Sketchier Sites 5 months ago:
I know the comic shows Uncle Sam but it still applies to the UK.
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 5 months ago:
I worked with an accountant for years and he got his ass bit by some asshole who left him a negative, and false, review.
He added a clause on renewal contracts with new language saying you won’t leave a negative review and to arbitration.
I told him I’m not signing this. I never leave reviews and I understand he’s trying to mitigate his losses and force arbitration but I told him that it wasn’t going to work.
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 5 months ago:
Ew. Unless your bachelor’s is from a for-profit university, that’s not going to set you back.
Best I can do is for you to LARP as a 2A activist. No pay but you get to feel like you’re one of the special ones. At least until we don’t need you anymore.
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 5 months ago:
Yeah, but, hear me out…what if I told you you’re now allowed to be openly racist?
And openly transphobic? Would that sweeten the pot?
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 5 months ago:
Which is why I think the next big step is a blogsite that actually covers these without feeling like you are just reading a guy’s wank diary
There is a site that I frequent but due to this community’s instance rules, I won’t post it here.
The site is more of a forum/community than a blog but it’s pretty good.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 5 months ago:
The biggest issue with adult content in games is that it limits your market to adults that want that content. Which is already small to begin with. And you often can’t advertise the same way, which limits your audience further. You only find out about them through word of mouth or through places like Lemmy.
From the standpoint of the developer, your ROI is likely to be very small. I think that’s why VN are the most popular form of adult games, since they are easier to make than full games.
