TheFogan
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- Comment on Can one of the math addicts of lemmy.world calculate how much it would cost to give every adult in the US 5k for voting Republican? Also who is going to pay for it? My guess taxpayers. 4 days ago:
It’s basically the covid subsidies twice over… so, in theory it could be done… but realistically no it’s not going to happen, just like the tarrif refunds and the doge checks.
- Comment on Do rich people only wear designer clothes? Like, every piece? 1 week ago:
from what I’ve heard there’s a style of sorts called “quiet luxury”. Basically no huge branding, look simple, but more of a timeless look. Look up Celine or “the row”. typical clothes that look simple, have a major reputation among old money people, and yeah looking at thousands for basic clothes that… well quite simply don’t stand out.
- Comment on How does a person abuse an Animal? 1 week ago:
If that is the case why are they allowed to own a pet or have a kid?
The psychology of abusers of any kind is well beyond my understanding. Far as the "why are they allowed, obviously it’s they haven’t been caught or enforcement didn’t do their job right. Laws are weak, enforcement is selective… and unfortunately the people who do enforce, have a tendency to be the kind of people that are more likely to sympethise with finding enjoyment of exerting control of people or animals that are not in a position to fight back.
- Comment on Because of Trump, is it now open for someone with a criminal background to hold the office? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not from the US, but I am interested to know if Benjamin Franklin falls on this category? What is his crime?
By definition the founding fathers were part of an opposing empire.
- Comment on What happens in Jumanji (the original) if a player gets killed cause the board game? Does it just stay locked? The Robin Williams version of Jumangi. 2 weeks ago:
Trying to is a hard thing to define in the game. The fact that it can flat out rewrite time shows an absurd amount of power, while I didn’t watch the sequels I’m assuming it’s motives aren’t known, and the fact that it has as much power as it does, and never resulted in killing a player, and in fact due to time travel schenanigans actually saved 2 lives would lead me to believe that it could be all knowing and altruistic.
Or possibly just neutral, or a game for survival training. Maybe everyone dying is just “losing”, which would also trigger a rewind and reset just like winning does.
- Comment on I grew up in the age of the Cold War. And was taught to hate Russia. All the way up to the fall of the USSR. What the hell happened between then and now? Is their like a timeline or something? 2 weeks ago:
What does Russia hold over us?
blackmail on a guy that a significant portion of the country was stupid enough to elect as president twice.
- Comment on What happens in Jumanji (the original) if a player gets killed cause the board game? Does it just stay locked? The Robin Williams version of Jumangi. 2 weeks ago:
Well it would be assumed the player would be eliminated and would remain dead until someone wins the game. Obviously it’s just speculation but I’d guess it would take a hostage and find a way to find a new player to reach the desired number of players.
- Comment on Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam 3 weeks ago:
People have hated our product next to steam for years. We’ve never had an interface people like, we’ve never had features. Our competitor has a product that people love and want to use, we’ve given away hundreds of free games just so people will use our software and they won’t, what can make people want it.
Oh I know. 5 seconds of loading time once a day… and all the good will that bragging about it being vibe coded gets… that’s going to really get people excited to switch.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Why not, just take that as a lesson? Small time creator fine… but, we’re talking a thumbnail here, take a random screenshot from the video, toss a text overlay. Boom you are done. and honestly you’ll stand out MORE, because everybody’s doing the Mr Beast style thumbnail, you don’t need to badly imitate the big boys… just do your own thing.
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 3 weeks ago:
ah my bad, it’s at the server end, point still goes from the user end, there’s almost nowhere that they would go in which they have to type in the www.
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 3 weeks ago:
Mainly because it’s lost it’s novelity. all browsers automatically search for it so it’s not something people need.
- Comment on Why is everyone freaking out about the Paramount WB merger or something? Doesn't that mean we can have all shows and movies on one platform? Isn't that a good thing? 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t that mean we can have all shows and movies on one platform? Isn’t that a good thing?
kind of like how Disney+ and Hulu just became one bill when Disney took over the rest of hulu. Except of course, it didn’t.
- Comment on What are some awesome science YouTube channels for preteens? 4 weeks ago:
Now keep in mind it’s been years since my son was young. But Mark Rober is pretty entertaining, the backyard scientist used to be one of my son’s favorites (though looks like he hasn’t been active in a about 5 years, but he’s got a pretty good back catalog),
- Comment on For those of you with LineageOS and rely on F-Droid/FOSS apps, how do you make extra money without gig apps like DoorDash? 5 weeks ago:
Mainly post on like craigslist or nextdoor. “mowing lawns” or “house cleaning” etc… Not a fan of churches but that used to be a standard way for word of mouth.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 5 weeks ago:
I could see that, but I think the key difference.
Adblocker is an active block of something from outside.
AI block is telling firefox not to use any of it’s own.
Kind of a do this, versus don’t.
“Do protect me from attackers.”
“Don’t attack me”
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 5 weeks ago:
What’s the difference, my opinion, the definition of gender affirming care is.
Treatment to allow your external body to match the characteristics that you feel your body should be.
Which would include, boob jobs, hair transplants. hormones, anything to build up muscle, anything to fix erectile dysfunction etc…
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 5 weeks ago:
90% of instances should be fine, but, if in doubt while you are using this one, do a search for communities for the topics you care about, and either join the community that has the most of what you want, or check their linked/banned list to know which ones not to join.
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 5 weeks ago:
The super simplified version of it is.
some instances block other instances. Either due to political differences or because too many spammers are in one etc… Bottom line, if it’s not linked or blocked, you won’t be able to see posts to them, and people on those instances won’t see posts you make from your own, (creates kind of a shadow ban, where you think you are posting, but no one over there can see it).
you can see if you go to
you can see a list of instances they’ve linked with, and blocked.
compare that to say beehaw
You’ll see there’s a big difference in what they do and don’t federate with. Which could be good or bad depending on how you look at it.
If you have a community or 2 that you really care about, it’s worth checking to make sure their instance you want to post to and read the posts of, is friendly with the one you don’t
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 5 weeks ago:
ah got it, kind of never really dug that much in, just see it mentioned as extremist, so admitted getting some flipped going off of vague info
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 5 weeks ago:
Pretty much it’s like an e-mail service overall. obviously for the “MOST” part you can join any instance and it will let you view content on almost any other instance.
Like say beehaw I believe defederates from instances that don’t have verification steps at the start.
instances like lemmy.ml, lemmygrad etc… are considered tankie, so a handful of places defederate them. and I believe a few like hexbear that tend to lean right and get defederated by most.
- Comment on why don't pandas exist in Chinese history prior to 1869? the creature "Mo" that is referenced looks nothing like a Panda 1 month ago:
not an expert on animals at all, let alone panda’s specifically, but I’d imagine it’s horrific evolutionary path, likely had them at very low numbers for most of their history. Hell it wouldn’t suprise me if panda’s were the equivelant of like pugs are to dogs. Some crazy group selective bread them because they thought it was cute… it got out enough to survive, but just barely survive, and lives now due to humans trying to protect these things that can’t even be motivated to reproduce.
- Comment on What would happen if the next President, said I want that ballroom destroyed and the White House put back like it was, and I want to use all Union members? And done in Six months? 1 month ago:
not sure how that could be done in 6 months. Tearing down can be done in weeks, but building with any level of quality takes years.
- Comment on Will an ISP get on to you for downloading porn? Or will it just be a generic DMCA strike? 1 month ago:
Obviously country may vary, also, legality of the porn in question.
Typically ISPs don’t police activity themselves. IP Owners may hire people to monitor torrents send them a list all the IPs seeding, then they send a notice to the ISP that owns your IP address. Then your ISP will send you a “please stop, if you are caught 2 more times we’re canceling your service” letter.
Of course, if you are downloading CSAM or something, then law enforcement may do any number of responses.
- Comment on Are we at a point in human history where we can get robotic limbs and other things to better our day to day lives? Like a robotic arm where I can pick up 100lbs with one arm and so forth? 1 month ago:
Don’t think I’ve ever really watched it, but yeah his legs and arms were both enhanced, but if he were to ever do something like pick up a car or something, you’d likely expect his spine to snap unless he used some kind of leverage.
- Comment on Are we at a point in human history where we can get robotic limbs and other things to better our day to day lives? Like a robotic arm where I can pick up 100lbs with one arm and so forth? 1 month ago:
Isn’t the obvious problem whatever your arm lifts, the rest of your body has to support? an “arm” alone attached to a frail human body would pretty quickly hit its limits, and lifting 1000 lbs is basically giant exo skelleton level.
- Comment on Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes? 1 month ago:
I think slashdots also most useful for if I recall, basically no ability to vote.
IE If I remember right, as a lurker you get no votes. You basically have to participate, and if you get votes on a post, you then get a handful of votes you can use on others. I do wonder how a system like that would work on other sites. If a modernized form of it could work on a reddit like site etc… Would on the surface appear to be a way to counteract bots, but also run the risk of say one bot getting votes and automating a circle jerk with it’s clones.
- Comment on If my cell provider gives me Netflix w/ads for free, can I pay to upgrade it to remove ads or am I locked in? 1 month ago:
from what I’ve seen yes, at least in spectrum’s case they basically give you ad subsudised for free, and for something like 8.99 you can upgrade that to ad free. I think most give that option.
- Comment on Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes? 1 month ago:
I mean both in reddit and lemmy the concept of downvotes was never meant to be a “agree” or “disagree”, even “like or dislike”. It’s meant to be a “good for discussion” vs “hinderance of discussion”. AKA lets say we’re discussing linux distributions, I come across this.
Person A: I like linux mint, it’s much easier to install, I like the defaults and my printer just works with no setup.
Person B: “Linux mint is for noobs, arch ftw”
Within that, as I am personally a die hard fan of archlinux, so in the agree vs disagree system, I should downvote A and upvote B.
But in a discussion based voting, I’d perhaps respond to A with my pro’s or cons of arch (though in this situation probably agree if the user in question sounds to be a newer user, though I may still make a case for possibly the pro’s of using arch even as a starting distro.
Meanwhile person B, is hostile, gives zero details for WHY anyone should use arch, does absolutely nothing to open discussion or actually help anyone make an informed decision.
- Comment on If dogs have such a great nose, why do they sniff other dogs asses? Wouldn't it smell like shit or not a good smell? 2 months ago:
I mean I think they figure those things out off sight and initial body language etc… generally they do the sniffing asses after they’re already pretty confident it’s a dog. I think more of “how’s your mood right now, are you healthy, what are you up to”. I don’t now fully what information they get, but it’s stuff we don’t really think about.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There’s lots, but just like everything, very few people actually can stick with and use them. Probably the thing that I think would be a logical feature in most chat programs, would be if say you put in your timezone into the client somewhere, then when you type a time you put some character before it like *3:30pm - the chat client could determine your timezone, put it in chat as UTC, and each recieving client could automatically convert it to their users timezone (and I suppose some kind of tag to make it so people know it is already translated to their timezone).