Maeve
@Maeve@kbin.earth
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 19 hours ago:
But wouldn't it be equally valid to frame it the other way around that so far we have paid for them to be included, whether we like it or not?
But then you have it. Sell it, put it in another room, give it away. They should lower the phone price by the amount of whatever they charge for the charger. They should also give buyers the option to have it included or not, especially in this economy.
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 20 hours ago:
That said, one thing that OEMs never say out publicly is that they are also saving a ton of money by retaining their device's price tag and still ditching accessories in the process.
I guessed so.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 day ago:
Flavonoids and polyphenols. Cleveland Health has articles on both.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 2 days ago:
It's not their responsibility.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 2 days ago:
In ww2 Europe 65-75 people had to die before the pendulum swung back.
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- Comment on The Usual Suspect 6 days ago:
- Comment on 'Buy one, get one free' deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets 1 week ago:
Fwiw, lettuces will stay fresher longer by wrapping in a paper towel and then foil, rather than plastic.
- Comment on Animal guessing game!!! 1 week ago:
Big butt sheep
- Comment on Never meant to cause you any sorrow 1 week ago:
Thanks for getting this lodged in my head before sleep. There are worse things to imagine as one drifts off to the astral realms.
- Comment on What they do with the pulp? 1 week ago:
Soylent green
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
Not only that, Jesus doesn't fit the requirements for the prophesied Jewish Messiah, to the best of my understanding. He may well be the Christian Messiah, but no one else is under any obligation to accept or reject anyone else's religious beliefs.
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 1 week ago:
Those comments are just sad.
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 1 week ago:
He's playing the crowd.
- Comment on When the Tylenol hits. 1 week ago:
Autism died?
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 2 weeks ago:
Not all, but many in my general region do.
This article references Walmart, but you can apply it to most stores that employ greeters:
https://www.historytools.org/consumer/why-does-walmart-have-greeters - Comment on Sweet dreams are made of these? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, well let s/he who never had a weird sex dream cast the first stone.
- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 2 weeks ago:
Because it's about as communist as natsoc is socialism.
- Comment on What is the origin of the whole "X destroys and humilates Y" genre of debate videos? 2 weeks ago:
Most straightforward answer with least inflammatory language. You win the internet.
- Comment on What is the origin of the whole "X destroys and humilates Y" genre of debate videos? 2 weeks ago:
Debates aren't pointless, it is public discourse with what is meant to be guardrails unintentionally becoming skewers. One would hope someday people again appreciate decorum and evidence based discourse, with time out for more research when needed, again.
- Comment on Sweet dreams are made of these? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe Freud in his primitive way, was onto something. Pioneers are rarely a finished masterpiece of their art or science. My question is, what is the purpose of this post and how does this public shaming of this particular human psychological experience benefit public discourse, or public materiality?
- Comment on Hardest battles 3 weeks ago:
Every man and every woman is a star.
Every number is infinite; there is no difference. - Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 3 weeks ago:
Callousness is a poor facade to thin skin. Personality disordered people have deep, festering wounds that have never been properly addressed. Hurting others is a coping mechanism that releases pressure, momentarily, but doesn't address the cause. That's what cutting attempts, but it's directed at others, rather than self. Psychologically, it's the difference between lancing a cyst and squeezing out the ick without getting the sac that contains it, so it's never really gone - but the ick is now on others.
- Comment on US Department of Homeland Security Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users 3 weeks ago:
Way to spin it for the uh... Biden admin. :-/
- Comment on Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement 3 weeks ago:
It's their own fault for not being Google or chatgpt.
- Comment on 9 arrests for violent fascists attacking police - 900 for grannies and disabled people holding placards 3 weeks ago:
Jesus Christ
- Comment on For those saying Charlie was hateful watch him debates a trans man 3 weeks ago:
That's enlightening. I'm not interested anymore, thanks.
- Comment on For those saying Charlie was hateful watch him debates a trans man 3 weeks ago:
If we were evolved enough to breathairianism, I'm down. And I eat meat. I think when we realize how abundant resources really are and hoarding isn't a problem so we can equitably share, we could make real progress. Lady justice is depicted holding ⚖️, not weapons.
- Comment on For those saying Charlie was hateful watch him debates a trans man 3 weeks ago:
"All men are created equal”?
Ideals are easier to have than live. But Jesus Christ the brutality... There were abolitionists alongside them.
Still. I'm glad the thread was posted. I don't want to debate. A conversation maybe.
- Comment on For those saying Charlie was hateful watch him debates a trans man 3 weeks ago:
Liberals literally founded the United States and counted humans as "property."