CmdrShepard42
@CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
- Comment on My doctor's office now has ads when checking in online 1 day ago:
SOTYUKU sounds like one of those shitty Amazon product listings that’s just reselling shit bought from Alibaba/AliExpress.
- Comment on GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead 1 day ago:
Now read it in a Canadian accent.
- Comment on Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years 1 day ago:
It should be interesting considering she’s currently the director of national intelligence yet seemed to learn about security during the time of AOL floppy disks.
- Comment on Google requires me to find a "verification code" from my android device in order to log in; the device in question has already been wiped (factory reset). 3 days ago:
Wouldn’t “Desktop mode” work the same on a mobile browser?
- Comment on Hopping out of the shower, realizing I forgot to bring a towel 4 days ago:
Do people not keep towels in the bathroom cupboard??
- Comment on Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding 4 days ago:
And now they’re showing locked episodes, which drives me up the fucking wall. Seems to only be with all the podcasts that SirusXM is buying up as of late, which unfortunately make up a good chunk of what I listen to.
- Comment on From 4chan to the White House: James Ball explains how failing to take games seriously has fed the populist right 1 week ago:
I’d argue that this is a symptom, not the cause.
The real issue is that these guys are what most people would call “losers” who sit at home, isolated, playing video games and browsing the internet all day. The right noticed this and targeted them specifically with a bunch of propaganda telling them that it’s not their fault they’re losers, it’s the fault of the left, women, and immigrants.
I used to game with two guys who fall into this category, and over time, their language got more harsh and militant until I couldn’t take it anymore. They always had someone to blame like “SJWs” for their own personal decision to sit at home all day rather than work on their shortcomings. They expected attractive women to want then even though they’d do absolutely nothing to make themselves attractive to others. They’d have wild opinions on far-flung groups that they never actually interacted with personally since they’d cut themselves off from the real world. I saw Steve Bannon’s tactics playing out in real time in their words.
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- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t question interior space based on the height of the car. I’m also 6’3" and have comfortably driven Geo Metros and Mini Coopers while being cramped in 4Runners and Tacomas
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 2 weeks ago:
Same problem here with size 13. Most stores maybe have a couple available in my size so I mostly just wear Nike since they consistently have my size available.
- Comment on The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy” 2 weeks ago:
So it means “democracy centralization?” That doesn’t really sound like a good thing either.
- Comment on Chipotle offering a discount, while warning they may also inflate prices and delivery fees simultaneously 4 weeks ago:
So is Chipotle and 90% of your burrito/bowl is now rice.
- Comment on "LEDVANCE" is just a trademark. This is just a plain old fluorescent tube. 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t even look like “LEDVANCE” to me. More like “LEOVANCE”
- Comment on T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children 5 weeks ago:
why would this app even need to include their names and pictures?
How else are parents supposed to remember who their kids are?
- Comment on Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it 5 weeks ago:
Imagine that, your previous images were pulled from an article claiming these are being sold in Thailand by Chinese companies just like I thought, so your argument is that vapes should be banned in the US because of what may or may not be happening in Thailand?
or the illusion that your country is the only one in the world.
How convenient for you and your argument since that means you only need to find one example of a bad thing happening in the world and can then apply that bad example to millions of other unrelated products sold elsewhere in the world. What happened to your argument claiming that these were being stopped by US Customs? That so quickly morphed into “it doesn’t matter if these products were actually shipped and sold here because Thailand!”
Your other article, from the rag that is the Daily Mail, claims that Squid Games is a children’s TV show, and only lists one western company receiving a notice (which they incorrectly called a “Canadian” company rather than a California based company in true Daily Mail fashion) for having a vape that resembles a banana. How convincing since we all know how crazy and insaitiable children get when they see something that slightly resembles a banana. They gotta have it!
I’m not going to discuss …
Didn’t you already say that when you claimed you “didn’t get those images from a quick Google search” and “wouldn’t bother to verify the legitimacy of these products” even though you just now claimed to do a quick Google search to find the very articles that your images came from? Why such inconsistencies?
- Comment on Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it 5 weeks ago:
You aren’t going to look for them because you just grabbed whatever image you found from a Google search and have no clue what you’re even talking about.
If these even exist, the only reason why a black market would exist for vapes is because of the idiotic bans that created it by killing the legitimate market further proving my point. Furthermore your argument that they’re “stopped at customs” contradicts your previous argument that they’re being marketed and sold to kids since they aren’t being sold at all.
- Comment on Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it 5 weeks ago:
How convenient that none of the manufacturer or product names are listed for any of these devices except the “Moti Pop” which appears to be a black market disposable from China. It’s almost as if someone just either fabricated a bunch of items or cherry picked a bunch of already illegal devices in order to push the FUD angle. Can you provide any listings or images showing that any of these were ever sold in a vape shop anywhere in the western world because I’ve been vaping for 13 years now and have never once seen anything even remotely resembling anything like these sold in any store. It’s just more bullshit propaganda.
- Comment on Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it 5 weeks ago:
This is literally the argument they used and it’s complete bullshit propaganda. Can you elaborate in detail on what makes it “toy shaped?” Do you consume fruit and or fruit-flavored things as an adult? I’m surprised you didn’t also mention “bright colors” as another draw being so appealing to children as well. I guess I never got the memo as an adult that I should only be consuming and enjoying drab colored, unflavored oatmeal for all my meals as color and flavor are no longer appealing to me.
I suppose I should be forced to smoke cancer-causing cigarettes produced by big tobacco for my crime of enjoying nicotine and flavors as an adult all so some shitty parents can be absolved of their duty as parents. While we’re at it let’s also ban things like D&D and rock music because those lure children into worshipping the devil which leads to things like talking back and human sacrifice.
- Comment on Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been vaping since around 2012 and ran through a ton of disappointing eGo clones and mods and got a GeekVape Zeus about a year or two ago and it’s been rock solid. It is a dual battery but that just means it lasts a day or more depending on how often you’re using it.
- Comment on Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it 5 weeks ago:
They literally only exist because of all the government regulations that decimated the industry “because of the children.”
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 1 month ago:
Well, I hadn’t seen that mentioned anywhere, so if that’s the case I agree it’s not a big deal to pack your trash back to the cafe.
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 1 month ago:
I can see taking things that I brought with me like granola bar wrappers and water bottles, but if you have a cafe selling cheeseburgers, fountain drinks, and coffee, it seems dumb to expect people to carry all that home rather than allowing them to throw it away at the same place they bought and consumed it.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 month ago:
We just got this on all our Win 10 work PCs, too, from IT.
- Comment on Influencers people are finding their way to the Fediverse 1 month ago:
I don’t and I just tried different search terms but couldn’t locate it.
- Comment on Receipt checkers trigger me 1 month ago:
Walmart receipt checkers infuriate me but Costco receipt checkers do not because Walmart is a predatory shithole while Costco is the opposite of that. It’s the same reason why I don’t give a shit if people steal from Walmart.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve gotten 3 or 4 separate PMs from different alts of this account (same username but different instances) over at least a month now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This makes sense to me because why else would they keep creating the same exact account on every instance and sending the exact same message?
- Comment on Influencers people are finding their way to the Fediverse 1 month ago:
From “Nicole?”
This is someone that keeps creating new alts and spamming everyone with PMs. Someone noticed on a previous iteration where they posted a separate photo (of a buttplug) that the reflection in the photo was of an old, bald white guy. After being called out they immediately deleted the photo.
I don’t think it’s an influencer. I think it’s just a plain old scammer.
- Comment on MS new captcha: Why did it have to be that hard!?!? 4 months ago:
It means you’re not human.
- Comment on Should you bother with... mini PCs? 4 months ago:
Find a brother in law that works in IT. I changed his brakes and he gave me three Optiplex micros that were e-wasted from his work.