leftascenter
@leftascenter@jlai.lu
- Comment on How do Superheroes or villians get their suits on is there like a magical zipper or something? Or how do they do it? 4 days ago:
In private.
- Comment on Am I right to be afraid of germs / is my family disgusting or am I overreacting and this is germaphobia? (read post) 4 days ago:
Everything else being said, putting TP in a specific garbage can is normal when toilet plumbing is not to the same standard and TP would clog it.
I learned this travelling.
- Comment on Americans love videos like this. This is why they are paying higher electricity prices 5 days ago:
I didn’t know that, but still racist is what struck me quickly
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 5 days ago:
Somehow this already happened between the gilded age and the mid-20th century.
- Comment on Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year 1 week ago:
Next Motorola will not even fund google
- Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 1 week ago:
Major Abnormally Glorious Assholes
- Comment on Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year 1 week ago:
Not for the expensive part though
- Comment on The BBC journalist who hacked AI with a hilarious hot dog hoax 1 week ago:
Interesting, fun and terrorizing at the same time.
- Comment on I wish I could do executive orders 🤔 4 weeks ago:
The last survivor decides no crime exist and achieves complete enlightenment with a better zero.
- Comment on How long and how hard would it be to get a star removed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame? Asking for a friend. 4 weeks ago:
Depends on the amount of destructive power at hand. Plasma torch makes it easy but nuke definitely makes it easier.
- Comment on PSA 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
Palantir Technologies Inc. is an American publicly traded company that develops data integration and analytics platforms enabling government agencies, militaries, and corporations to combine and analyze data from multiple sources. Its flagship products—Gotham (for intelligence and defense) and Foundry (for commercial and civil use)—connect previously siloed databases to support intelligence operations, counterterrorism analysis, law enforcement, and enterprise analytics.
- Comment on LG's new subscription program charges up to £277 per month to rent a TV 1 month ago:
Event companies already have ready-to-rent TVs.
- Comment on Le Tits, Now! 1 month ago:
No, it iz lunch time!
- Comment on NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books 1 month ago:
If we are to abolish intellectual property, we might as well abolish all property (including land, patents and money as well
That’s a bit messy.
Patents are IP, with the caveat that they usually protect corporation over inventors.
Money is a medium for measuring transactions. Hoarding it is very much like having people owing you a service.
Land is more complex and needs for a society to clarify “property” first : property because of use or property in a more abstract way allowing others to use it for your benefit. This also implies a split between single-person usage (t’is my plot for I toil it for my family) and a more common use (10 persons toil the field which provides enough for 20).
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 1 month ago:
- Comment on If I go crazy will you still call me Superman? 2 months ago:
- get near the white house
- stop time
- summon a 1lb rock of pure polonium 212
- resume time
profitdie. You summoned 1lb rock of pure polonium 212 and stayed.
- Comment on Five Europeans denied US visas for combating hate speech online, accused of censoring ‘American viewpoints’ 2 months ago:
It is on classical fascists by choice apparently.
More here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascism?wprov=sfla1
And many countries have links to detailed articles.
- Comment on Five Europeans denied US visas for combating hate speech online, accused of censoring ‘American viewpoints’ 2 months ago:
American Fascistic"Made Great Again American"™ viewpoints - Comment on Five Europeans denied US visas for combating hate speech online, accused of censoring ‘American viewpoints’ 2 months ago:
He was a genuine piece of shit. Trump learned a lot from him
Was laughing at that point, thanks
- Comment on SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years 2 months ago:
That’s pretty much the universe being compatible with the big bang
- Comment on Which RSS are you using? 3 months ago:
Freshrss, running alongside my nexcloud provider
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 months ago:
It amazes me that people who can’t distinguish between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ are allowed to manage people
Don’t. In this case yes, but overall there are dyslexics who are great managers. And on a more sober note, I’d rather have a manager who is shit in grammar but works for the team rather than a PowerPoint manager.
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 3 months ago:
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 3 months ago:
“Incentives” for the purchasing party.
- Comment on Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk 3 months ago:
how would this work in your utopia?
Like it did in the US in the 1930-60s. Not gonna reinvent something that has proven useful and effective enough to create a superpower.
Seems difficult to raise capital that way.
Something something banks?
Would you put more large cap projects in the hands of a government? Things like power plants, large buildings, etc?
Power plants are a perfect example of infrastructure that need to be national and not private in order to be technically and financially efficient. Running them for profit either means you end up overlooking safety for profit (see David Besse) or hiking the selling price which is detrimental to both your industry and population.
Large buildings are just not on the same financial scale or are just uselessly tall.
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 3 months ago:
I tried it, but ended on heliboard which has glide typing, Floris didn’t at the time
- Comment on 'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 [404 Media] 3 months ago:
Why the need for an extension in the browser? One can add max date to any search engine search terms and limit the results too.
Because it’s not an extension or a tech tool. It’s an art project, in the form of an extension. The purpose is not the tool, but the message.
- Comment on HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use 3 months ago:
The reductions will largely hit product development, internal operations, and customer support,
So HP is geared towards buggy products and shit customer support.
- Comment on Booking.com cancelled woman's $4K hotel reservation, then offered her same rooms for $17K 3 months ago:
Booking is a nice search engine. Once you found the hotel, go to its own website using name and address as search terms, then book from there for cheaper.
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 3 months ago:
There is a case in the Acts of the Apostles where two people lie to the Church, and pretend to donate all of the proceeds from selling their land to the Church and drop dead. This wasn’t because they didn’t give it all, it’s because they publicly gave in front of many others as a show of holiness.
Nope. Acts 5 follows acts 4 (the “But” makes it clear), and acts 4 is all about giving up your riches to live in a commune.
That’s also supported by the teaching that rich people won’t go to heaven (unless you can pass a camel through a needle hole) and James.