rowanthorpe

@rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mickey 17 is an absurdist, anti-capitalist, Trump-mocking masterpiece – review⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was confused seeing the release date on the YouTube trailer saying 3 July, then after a few beats it hit: US back-to-front date [sigh]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Working below minimum wage to save the planet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And also the tax/pension/health/VAT deductions from money earned is x% for varying scary values of x, but the equivalent from money “avoided” AKA “money you didn’t need to earn because you didn’t need to spend it because you fixed stuff yourself” is 0%. That is the reason DIY, Right-To-Repair, barter systems, etc are all demonised institutionally. They are wedge-issues which run counter to the fostered futility-narrative that keeps the wage-slaves quietly running on their mouse-wheels, and out of the way of the ownership-class while they constantly “repair” society to their liking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PACK 1a €5/month Get access to “my self-hosted VPN + obfuscation proxy”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not the same⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think some of the expandable GenAI “made-up explanations” and “images” on that page are the icing on the cake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doppler⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For the same reason this baseball causes an expanding plasma-ball disintegrating everything. Fusion with air molecules that can’t get out of the way fast enough what-if.xkcd.com/1/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A daunting realization⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you must be a real fungi at parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A daunting realization⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In reality, we are actually farming jpegs, by posting reencoded versions of them daily, until they all eventually decompose so we can merge with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Giving the neighbors a laugh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Humble-brag number-plate, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real estate market is tough⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “luxury…” www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tangential nitpick:

  s/Australia/Oceania/

  (shoutout to New Zealand, Hawai, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Samoa, etc)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll take a liberal. Just 86 the tofu.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not enough spam… www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for answers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems the technique you’re describing is a kind of societal “good cop, bad cop”. Similar scenario to an interrogation too (trying to get information from someone who does not want to share the information) because in this case the challenge is “how to get people to share the capacity for self-determination, quality of living, and dignity when they clearly prefer to hoard it, even to the detriment of others”.

• Pigeons get a special self-service rate.lemmy.ml ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explosions in the Sky⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (apparent deadlink BTW). In answer to the question: slow and steady Hawking radiation from all the black holes, perhaps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching videos of people screaming "shooter on the roof" at law enforcement⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But… but he’s not a hurricane… I guess they could fix him up with horse tranquilliser and bleach afterwards though. (adding a /s here for the terminally oblivious)