CosmicTurtle0
@CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 1 day ago:
I recall that tencent had like a small stake in Reddit too. Like 10% or something like that. Or am I remembering wrong?
- Comment on Anyway to erase the permanent marker so I can reuse this? 5 days ago:
Aka grease pencils but I’ve always known them as China markers.
My phone keeps auto correcting to capitalize China and I just am too lazy to fix it.
- Comment on Anyway to erase the permanent marker so I can reuse this? 6 days ago:
China markers are perfect for this. I made this move a few years ago to mark my left overs in the fridge.
China markers come off when rubbed intentionally, unlike dry erase that erase with the slightest incidental rub.
Permanent markers can “bake” on in the dishwasher (as can dry erase) where China markers rub off.
- Comment on Time travel is easy, it's just lame 6 days ago:
That was the first Steven King movie I saw when I was a teenager. Messed me up.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 week ago:
I’ve started making my own bread and pizza dough. It’s also practice. The more you do it, the faster it takes. You think of ways to make it easier next time.
Costco was having a sale on those heavy duty KitchenAid mixers so I bought it and it makes dough. I’ve recently doubled the recipe and freeze half and make the other half.
Admittedly, a lot of my lessons are learned by reading which assumes you have the time already to read.
- Comment on There is a fee to close my HSA account 2 weeks ago:
That’s a funny way to spell executive bonuses.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 weeks ago:
The thing that bugged me is that at the end of Season 3, they were legally married. This never got resolved in season 4.
If it got resolved in season 5, I didn’t watch it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If the police continue to not do their job, hire an attorney (if you can afford one) to go with you. The attorney doesn’t even need to do anything except be a witness.
They tell you there’s nothing they can do because they don’t want to be bothered. And they don’t want their stats to go up.
Having an attorney present bumps it up to “being fucked by court duty is worse than doing some paperwork”. Likely nothing they can do but having the paper trail of a stalking report will help YOU should the stalker escalate.
- Comment on Anon degoogles his Samsung 2 weeks ago:
The number of services that have adopted dark patterns is too much.
It’s no longer “No” with a checkmark that says “Don’t ask me again” to only “Not now” with the implied consent that they can ask you again later.
Dropbox asks me every fucking time I use the browser.
NewRelic asks me every fucking day.
Amazon asks me every fucking order.
- Comment on Caveman technology 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people don’t realize that the wifi that they are used to is artificially made. The best wifi and the most ethical wifi is grown naturally underground and is harvested by established naturalists that won’t harm the ecosystem by harvesting too early or too much.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
I’m here hoping to any god that is watching that Project 2025 becomes something like a dog catching the car situation. The Republicans are the dogs and now they are arguing amongst themselves what to do with the car.
I’m planning as if Project 2025 goes forward. If civil war is in my lifetime, the shots will start with the alt-right.
There is a quote that’s been ringing through my head ever since the CEO murder: “Those who make peaceful reform impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”
The Republicans have made any meaningful reform impossible through half-assed negotiations, bad faith arguments, and “fEeLiNgS pOlItIcS” over the last 50 years.
Democrats like AOC and politicians like Bernie are the acute minority. The DNC has moved more toward the right and given workers the middle finger.
Almost every regulatory body has been captured. The overturn of the Chevron doctrine made the rest completely powerless. We now have a fucking lunatic whispering into Trump’s ear to remove accident reporting requirements for his shitty cars. We will have an anti-vaxer running the CDC, a supplement pushing hack running Medicare, and a man who overpaid for Twitter running the fucking “Department of Government Efficacy.”
This is the tip of the iceberg. They aren’t even in office yet and they are already stirring shit.
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 2 weeks ago:
Tbf, the number of posts on shit post pretty much outnumber the other communities.
Even the Linux and Star Trek ones.
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 2 weeks ago:
Not OP but here is the link
- Comment on Counterpoint, don’t settle 3 weeks ago:
Oh are the try guys back?
- Comment on Anon gives a piracy history lesson 3 weeks ago:
I personally don’t have too much of an issue for paying for piracy. It’s money I would pay to Netflix if their catalog was decent.
Servers cost money.
If anything, these assholes streaming companies should see people paying for pirated content and say, “We should do better” instead of “ThEy ArE sTeAlInG oUr CoNtEnT!”
- Comment on Anon gives a piracy history lesson 3 weeks ago:
tbf, there are alternatives to torrenting now. I usually recommend fmovies, sudo-lol, or other streaming websites because the barrier to entry for those sites is just knowing the URL and having ublock origin.
I agree with you though that today’s young adults are not as technologically inclined as young adults of the early 2000s where torrenting was rampant. But everyone understands a website.
Torrenting is hard compared to a visiting a website. Not only do you have to vet each torrent, you have to download a second piece of software (torrent client) to make sure it works, all the while making sure your router is set up correctly. And even if they set all this up correctly, they’ll get a letter/email saying that they downloaded a file illegally since they didn’t use a VPN. That will scare a novice user and stop torrenting.
- Comment on What happened to techbros from the 90s to now? 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s important to note the difference between “make a living to keep things going” vs. “I want to make ‘fuck you’ money.”
I have no problem with people who make a good product and seek donations or sell their product at a reasonable price.
Hell, take uBlock Origin. I’d easily pay $10 / month for this but they do not want money. So I do what they request and donate to the people who make the filters.
This is the first year in perhaps a decade I won’t be giving to the Mozilla Foundation because they are enshittifying their product. I wrote to them and told them why I won’t be donating. I don’t know if it will make a difference but I’m keeping an eye on them over the next year.
- Comment on Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks 4 weeks ago:
You would think that of all people, rich CEOs would understand the concept of the sunk cost fallacy.
The money on desks, rent, insurance, etc. is already spent. You’re not getting it back. Asking people to come back to the office “so that it doesn’t go to waste” assumes that you aren’t taking on additional costs for people coming to the office.
You now have worn carpet, doors, pens, paper, etc…money you could have saved if you weren’t such a knob.
- Comment on Help 4 weeks ago:
The last time I used gimp…it does but in like a really weird way. It’s not intuitive.
Iirc you take the circle selection tool and then make a path. Which you then assign a brush width and then a color.
- Comment on Important life choices 5 weeks ago:
My understanding with glass is that it’s still cheaper to make new glass than recycle it whereas metal the costs have just about evened out.
Last I read about high density plastics is that they aren’t as strong after the first use. So they can’t be reused as high density plastic and have to be mixed in with other plastics.
- Comment on Important life choices 5 weeks ago:
I can all but guarantee it’s the latter. I have even noticed this at most Starbucks. They got rid of separate bins for recycling and just do trash/landfill now.
Fwiw, recycling doesn’t work anyway, except for metal. But even then it’s highly dependent on people cleaning the metal before recycling.
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 5 weeks ago:
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 month ago:
There is a reason why it worked for the Republicans and won’t work for the Democrats: the bases are vastly different.
Republicans, by in large, will vote for a Republican even if they don’t like the candidate. I saw this a lot when I was a poll worker. They don’t even care about their platform. So long as they have an R at the end of their name, they get a vote from Republicans.
While Democrats vote Democrat, they’ll only come out to vote if they are energized. They won’t come out to vote if they don’t feel like you’ve earned it. We saw this in 2016 and 2024.
Simply put, Republicans are more reliable voters.
The Democrat tent is very large with often conflicting values. A lot of single-issue voters will simply stay home than to vote for a Democrat. Because of this, it is rare when a candidate will arise that will galvanize and coalesce the base.
The last time it happened was Obama.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 month ago:
Right now is actually the perfect time to create a third party. You have effectively two years to get people excited about an actual progressive party and if the DNC come knocking saying you’re going to split the vote, tell them that they are splitting the vote and they should fold into you.
I’m fucking tired of the Democrats learning the wrong lessons from lost elections. They’d rather lose than give up power.
- Comment on Persistent problems require persistent solutions. 1 month ago:
- Comment on How embarrassing 1 month ago:
Makes sense. 9mm is protected under the second amendment. And our incoming VP says that shootings are a way of life.
- Comment on How embarrassing 1 month ago:
Jury nullification exists for this very reason.
Did the shooter do something illegal? Yes
But was it wrong? If I was on his jury, I’d acquit.
- Comment on Judas 1 month ago:
Here me out: Judas betrays Jesus.
Not saying you’re wrong. But I’m willing to hear the guy out.
- Comment on Subscribe now for more clicks! 1 month ago:
I want to know what priority support looks like for a mouse.
Like what questions would you ask? How would they troubleshoot before sending you to tier 3 support?
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 1 month ago:
Measuring number of CVEs is not a great metric anyway.
Linux is open source, so people can find more things wrong with it and fix it.
It just means that Linux users and developers are more diligent in finding and removing vulnerabilities.
