Zorque
@Zorque@lemmy.world
- Comment on Never trust coworkers 1 day ago:
DIY painting
- Comment on Skill issue 2 days ago:
Master Chief Collection came out in late 2014.
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 4 days ago:
No one called you any names. They said your advice is ridiculous, but that’s not name calling. That’s critiquing.
They’re not using your dishwasher for your needs, they’re using their dishwasher for their needs. They likely don’t overlap. Different models have different feature sets. One can say that they should have done more research into the home networking requirements for super basic features (as heavily explained in the article that we’re all commenting on, and you seem to have completely ignored), but frankly that’s beside the point. The baseline should not be well below par. The baseline should not be “download our potential spyware that also doesn’t necessarily work very well with your system just so you can use basic features”.
I’m glad you like smart features. I think people should have that kind of flexibility and choice in their home environment. The problem here is that when using this particular appliance, they don’t have that choice. That is a problem. Even if, when you use your appliance, you don’t have that issue, they do. Because they are not you, and do not have the exact same use case that you do.
- Comment on 'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too 1 week ago:
Maybe one day you’ll decide to have one with someone else instead of the voices in your head :)
- Comment on 'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too 1 week ago:
You’re right! The man can say he works hard for years and you dismiss it as entirely as just luck instead of mostly luck.
No one is saying luck isn’t the deciding factor here, we’re just saying there’s also a limited measure of hard work. It’s not all just one thing. There is a very precious few who just keep falling into luck over and over again, but they’re in the extreme minority of even the successful. The majority of them put in some hard work.
- Comment on 'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too 1 week ago:
No, it’s definitely both. Luck is going to be the larger factor on that level of success, but there’s still a large portion of hard work that went into it.
We want to dismiss the successful as just being born under the right star, but a large portion of it is still hard work. They get disproportionately rewarded for that hard work, and often they have to do less and less hard work as time goes on… but there was hard work involved, whether we want to admit it or not.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 1 week ago:
People haven’t turned out. Voter participation is abyssmal. Just because you personally have not seen universal and positive change from your own vote immediately does not mean it can never ever work.
Voter participation is low because dipshits like you keep saying “See? Your life hasn’t irrevocably changed because of this one election! There’s no point in doing the absolute bare minimum! Better to sit at home and complain about how everything is broken and hope that someone else does something radical and meaningful about it!”
Maybe stop treating everything like a winner-take-all competition and realize that we won’t see effective long term change except through repeated concerted effort where you keep showing up. Even if you see setbacks. We might actually achieve something.
But I guess if you’d rather give up because you haven’t gotten what you want immediately, that’s entirely up to you.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 1 week ago:
You’re right! The system sucks!
The problem is, if you don’t do anything but complain about it, at best it stays the same. More likely it gets worse.
But sure, fine, you’re mildly inconvenienced. That’s totally an intelligent and rational reason to sit on your ass and complain rather than doing something about it.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 1 week ago:
Hard to when people decide they’d rather stand on principle than actually act.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 1 week ago:
Apparantly you also have 0 desire to see effective change unless it’s exactly as you want it, because you refuse to participate on principal.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 1 week ago:
Then you can watch as things don’t change because of your stubborn pride.
You can declare a party to vote in an election and remain philosophically independent, that’s always been allowed.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 1 week ago:
I think coming at it from the angle of “doing the same thing over and over” is incredibly disingenuous.
Voter participation is abysmally low. Local elections in my area have a turnout of 10%. And that’s a high. If people actually showed up, that’d be something different.
Instead of pushing “do nothing and hope things change”, which is what we’ve been doing for decades, maybe we should have change and show the fuck up.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 2 weeks ago:
Yes, we can dither and make excuses all we like, but if we never try, nothing happens anyways.
Might as well try, yeah? Unless of course we just want to complain about how the system is unfair and not actually do anything to change it.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like it’s as easy as declaring a party. Are there some strange initiation rituals you need to go through to declare? Sacrifice a goat or something?
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 2 weeks ago:
Shockingly enough, there’s things called “primaries” where you can show the fuck up and get these fossils out for people who actually act in the best interest of their citizenry.
The catch being the “showing the fuck up” part.
- Comment on WoW guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again 2 weeks ago:
Your track record of not hating people for their opinions is muddy at best.
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 2 weeks ago:
Being bought, or being sold? There’s a difference. If they’re not being bought at those numbers, they’ll still show up the most.
They also said “starting”, which implies that’s what it’s being sold at, not what you see the most listings for.
- Comment on This kind of f$&%ing packing foam 3 weeks ago:
… hunter2?
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 4 weeks ago:
HA
- Comment on This letter from "Friends of Zion" my grandmother received today 4 weeks ago:
I think they’re just another kind of echo chamber people use to espouse views.
Until people change the way they express themselves, and open themselves to different ideas, nothing will change. Moving to a different social media tool because people think similarly to oneself there doesn’t expand horizons or change perspectives, if anything it narrows them.
- Comment on This letter from "Friends of Zion" my grandmother received today 4 weeks ago:
There’s good solutions, and there’s easy solutions. They just don’t align. It’s just those with power prefer the latter over the former, cause it helps them keep that power. Their end goal also generally isn’t peace…
Which is really what this post is about. It’s about the tactics used (by “both sides”) to vilify their enemies and galvanize their base. To create extremists and reactionaries who think little and act a lot.
The real rub is those parties, the “good guys” and the “bad guys” (interchangeable depending on which power player we’re talking about) are vastly outnumbered by the people caught in the middle. If they stopped reacting and started thinking, those power players would lose their momentum.
- Comment on This letter from "Friends of Zion" my grandmother received today 4 weeks ago:
We also shouldn’t be trying to propagandizing people to try and fanatically support us instead of “the other guy”.
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t like it because it seemed pointless if you don’t really care about getting vengeance on specific thing. So the name of a mob that kills you fills in an empty space? Which is the same thing that happens any time you hit a story beat anyways? What’s the point? It’s all just randomly generated grunts that try and kill you.
It brought very little in the way of innovative gameplay and roleplaying, yet people seem to treat it as the greatest revolution of game design in the last several decades.
- Comment on Layoffs every 2 years 5 weeks ago:
I had the opposite experience. Left a shitty blue-collar job (it was even a union job, but the union was toothless and mostly just existed to get work from places that would only place orders with union shops) for an office job.
The hours are better, the pay is better, the co-workers are less bigoted, and I no longer smell like grease and sweat whenever I come home.
There will always be trade-offs in any job. Whether it’s blue-collar, white-collar, or whatever ever other collar you can think of. There is no perfect job type for everyone.
- Comment on 4 Top Officials to Resign Over Adams’s Cooperation With Trump 5 weeks ago:
It’s even harder when everyone in a position of power is corrupt instead of just most.
- Comment on I worked hard on this meme and now I can't use it because the guy's a Nazi 1 month ago:
Dude was unhinged from the beginning. His early could be defensible because we can kind of agree with the words… but it was always about him. He couched it in defense of others, but it was always about “Look at me” for him.
I would say that’s not a reason to take him out of memes, but it’s also not a reason to think of him as ever having been a “good person”.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 1 month ago:
Then baby we got an algorithm going.
- Comment on What we all want deep down 1 month ago:
Most of his money is imaginary anyways.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
How big were they before?
- Comment on Charles Barkley rips politicians for intently dividing Americans: 'Both parties suck' 2 months ago:
There’s no escaping your biases.
Only if you believe that.