SanctimoniousApe
@SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 16 hours ago:
Yes, as it has been for decades. I also learned some about it back in the early days of the '80s into the '90s. It’s constantly evolving along with the tech (and the capabilities of the current majority of users), so there’s never been much of an absolute set of standards that have withstood the test of time. Again, there are a wide variety of people in the world - all with their own perspectives and ways of doing things. As such, the goal of a universally intuitive interface - while laudable - is a bit of a quixotic pursuit, IMHO.
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 23 hours ago:
I don’t doubt that, but courses are selected/designed by their teachers - who likely select what fits their pre-existing biases. Virtual nothing humans do comes out without biases affecting things, which is what makes the “reproducibility” of studies such an important part of science - and even those reproductions need to be done numerous times to truly start to become trustworthy.
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 1 day ago:
Seems a convoluted way of looking at it to me, but i guess it’s just another case of different strokes for different folks.
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 1 day ago:
Did they just make the page look basically the same, but reverse the order? If so, then that’s on them because of shitty UI planning. Making such a drastic change should come with a equally drastic visual layout change to disrupt the automatic mental flow that goes with muscle memory.
- Comment on New infostealer malware snaps webcam photos when you watch porn 3 days ago:
Would that “sticky” be cum?
- Comment on AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time. 3 days ago:
Never gonna happen while we’re under Republicans’ grip - they are truly the party of hypocritical control freaks.
- Comment on Something is seriously wrong. Trans sex hormone drugs are driving extreme violence and should be banned. 5 days ago:
Something is seriously wrong… and it’s Elon. The site he links to focuses strictly on any bad news it can find that it can somehow tie to trans people. It’s a hate site. I guarantee the spread of good and bad people in the trans community is not worse than any other groups of people who have been historically mistreated, and therefore have a certain portion of them with mental issues due to said mistreatment - absolutely nothing caused by the fact of being trans on its own.
- Comment on Chirp in Fahrenheit 5 days ago:
Yeah, I’m going to hunt I’ve down, and isolate it from all the others just so I can count its chirps without the count won’t be screwed up by being confused by other chirpers - all to avoid simply looking at all the other sources of said information that are much more readily available and convenient
Unless you’re doing some sort of environmental science experiment while living in a post-apocalyptic world where every pre-existing analog device for accomplishing this has somehow been destroyed, this is utterly useless.
- Comment on Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster 6 days ago:
“This sucks” were your words - why else would you say that? Your “personal freedom” argument doesn’t hold water if you’re fine with restrictions on other drugs.
The article says they’re restricting under 16s, so I’m not sure what you’re thinking with the end of your second paragraph - which kinda lens credence to my point that teens aren’t known for thinking things through.
Everyone is different, and that includes how they grow and mature. We all know worry-warts, and we all know boisterous jocks who are more likely not to be careful. If course some will think about it due to who they are, but many others won’t - or erroneously rank other things as more important considerations.
I don’t disagree the justification is flimsy, and as an American I’m not sure why they’re doing that - but I don’t think it’s an entirely misguided approach, either.
- Comment on Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster 6 days ago:
It’s not unimportant:
- Teenager dies in classroom of caffeine overdose after downing latte, energy drink and Mountain Dew
- Lethal Lemonade: Energy Drinks Aimed at Young People Linked to Deaths, Cardiac Risks, Lawsuits Allege
- This article talks about even relatively young mature adults dying both in the main story as we as in links to some others further down the article.
- Comment on Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster 6 days ago:
So let’s sell cigarettes to kids, too. They’re a legal drug, right?
Look, I’m no expert, and I’m not saying caffeine is as bad as cigarettes, but I’m sure neither of us has a full understanding of the brain, or caffeine’s effects upon it. How about admitting you might not know enough to make an informed decision, and let those who do know more work it out?
- Comment on Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster 6 days ago:
You’re obviously affected by this personally, and thus biased. You’re blatantly ignoring the fact that few teens have a full understanding of how the human brain works, the chemical interactions involved, or the long-term effects possibly involved.
Cigarettes were once actually endorsed by doctors, but we all know better now. I’m not saying this is anywhere near that bad, but that’s because I’m admittedly not anywhere near an expert on this - I know the limitations of my knowledge, and when to defer to someone with more expertise. I would suggest you find the humility to do the same.
- Comment on Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster 6 days ago:
They’re not stupid, but their brains aren’t fully developed yet. A huge problem is the fact that the part of the brain that takes into consideration possible consequences for any action one decides to take is one of the last things to fully develop, and that doesn’t happen until roughly age 25.
- Comment on A cat/sheep hybrid 1 week ago:
Finally - a literal shit(ten)post!
- Comment on Another creative solution from APPLE 1 week ago:
The perfect accessory for those suffering from excessive flatulence.
- Comment on Another creative solution from APPLE 1 week ago:
Yeah, but an agreement has to be signed that they aren’t responsible for what carrying around all that weight up front does to your body.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 1 week ago:
Not into it, but no strong hate for it, either. Does it remind you of someone or something you’d rather forget, or something?
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 1 week ago:
“There was something in the air that night the Star Wars fight, Han Solo…”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Answer to title question:
(Double-checks against OP…) …um… How to spell it?
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 2 weeks ago:
I think he’s going for the live target holding a target.
- Comment on Fluid Fashion 2 weeks ago:
I see they’re working on the next installment of Venom.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 2 weeks ago:
Yep - the bottom line is what will get them in the end.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 2 weeks ago:
If someone complains about such things in today’s political environment, odds are much higher that they are automatically dismissed as “anti-American libtards” and laughed at - all the while patting themselves on the back for “owning the libs.”
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 2 weeks ago:
If you really think complaining about this is going to make someone doing this sort of thing stop doing so, you definitely do not understand the American right wing these days.
- Comment on Current mood 3 weeks ago:
Looks like a great remake of the old Rampage arcade game.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
“…I just play one on TV.”
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Oh, cool! I miss having grandfatherly types playing The Doctor.
(That’s a Doctor Who reference, for those not in the know.)
- Comment on Working Overtime at the Disease Factory 4 weeks ago:
I thought you were dead, Mr Dangerfield…?
- Comment on Working Overtime at the Disease Factory 4 weeks ago:
Seriously? With the amount of stupidity dominating our lives from so many directions, you’re gonna date one of them to get even closer to it all? You must be a masochist.
- Comment on AOL is finally shutting down its dial-up internet service 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know, but if I had to guess: email, bank, & government sites are probably the bulk of their use. Those pages don’t change all that often, so once they’re in the browser cache they’ll probably still load at reasonable enough speeds for their use I’d imagine. Those people probably see it as a tool to get certain things done, and that’s about it. They’re likely much older, and so never had much interest in being terminally online.