Clent
@Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 4 days ago:
They get 20-30% of the ticket sale. Considering the price of tickets, that’s more than cents.
The share they keep increases the longer the movie plays.
This idea that they get almost none of the sales is a story they sold people so people would feel guilty not paying for over priced concessions.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The problem is people who use these then unknowingly propagate these unusable websites.
It’s gotten so ridiculous that often a bad website is blamed on the user for not having a properly customized webrowser. This is despite not everyone is able to set up these blocking tools.
- Comment on A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke 1 week ago:
Teslas burned to the ground
All user error. Musk said so. Trust.
Everyone knows lithium is a mood stabilizer, same for batteries.
- Comment on A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke 1 week ago:
Tape backup is still a thing.
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 1 week ago:
Advertising does not work equally well on everyone. It’s literally a numbers game.
- Comment on comparison 1 week ago:
Grocery stores. Some assembly required.
- Comment on Does anyone know? 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying don’t try to reduce your emissions by…
I’ll say it. Don’t do these things because you think they reduce your carbon emissions. Do it when it’s the most frugal option.
Reduce and reuse are still something we should 100% being doing but trying to measure then inject carbon foot print is futile.
Every dollar spend it a better measurement of your contribution to emissions. Trying to calculate it yourself with incomplete data is pointless.
Don’t be fooled by some study you read that made you feel like a righteous person. No one knows. The methods we have for measuring and assessing our footprint are hilariously incompete.
The truth is buried in endless noise. We don’t know what we need to know because it is in the best interests of others that we not know it. Blindspots.
Buy less products because buy “better” is a personal fantasy. Where better is because some popsci idea made you feel guilty for not being better. What the fuck do these things know, they’re bullshitting. Yes people do that; not just on the internet but definitely there.
- Comment on Yea well it still can't have an existential crisis like humans can! Take that! 3 weeks ago:
We have no idea how our brain functions.
This isn’t even remotely true.
You should have asked your LLM about it before making such a ridiculous statement.
- Comment on Not rule 3 weeks ago:
Some days this idea feels less true than others.
- Comment on What even is money at this point 3 weeks ago:
But no matter how much ketchup I use, I can’t cover up the bitter taste of the TVs lcd panel.
- Comment on How could I order a package without my parents finding it? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a delivery option during checkout.
“Free local pick up” and then you can select a locker location. These are Amazon branded lockers.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 4 weeks ago:
And in no case would it pay to so much as begin legal action.
Unless it’s very new equipment, financially its not worth the hassle.
Same reason they dont want the monitors or adjustable desk back, shipping would cost as much as they are worth and they’ve already deprecated away most if not all of the value which the court would take into account.
- Comment on AT&T tracked employee attendance to find 'freeloaders.' Now, it admits the system is driving workers to the 'brink of frustration.' 5 weeks ago:
It’s insane how these companies’ policies have become more strict after Covid. Leave it to CEOs to always managed to learn the wrong lesson.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 5 weeks ago:
I just don’t even know what to say to you. Do you understand that you are being the shithead?
Going to chime in here to say you’re definitely the shithead here.
Are you’re one of the people that came to the fediverse because your Reddit account was banned?
- Comment on A conundrum 1 month ago:
Also, the 500 is just the mortgage payment. It doesn’t include the insurance and property taxes and, at least in the USA, private-mortgage-insurance (pmi) if the down payment isn’t at least 20%.
The monthly obligation can easily be more than that 1000. The savings is in locking the first half in at a set amount.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 month ago:
It took republicans a while to full dismantle everything. Their almost done now so, yay?
- Comment on Official Training 1 month ago:
Are there still municipalities that haven’t automated the container pick up part of it? Those trucks have the added benefit of having cameras track what is dumped at each address.
- Comment on Truck go 💥🚚 1 month ago:
And if that doesn’t work, try it again while violently jiggling the steering back and forth.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
This is actually an argument for why these features should be mandatory. Traffic is caused by humans and their silly emotions. These types of self driving features with inter-communication would erase traffic jams.
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 1 month ago:
The idea that intimacy is required to live a fulfilling life is the lie. There are famous examples of people who were life long virgins. A few of them were in unconsummated marriages.
- Comment on Not stealing 1 month ago:
The problem with parenting advice is every kid is different. This becomes clear after raised a gaggle of them. Anyone with one child that is giving advice is clueless.
My suggestion is not to give that type of child options. Tell them what’s happening. Then do it. May that not work any better and ignores why you may have started giving them choices.
You didn’t specify an age but typically choices are best for later development. Toddlers are terrorists and one should never negotiate with a terrorist.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Anyone have a version of this with less potato?
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 1 month ago:
You like the sound of your own typing.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 month ago:
And that’s why ketchup makes an excellent fuel additive.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 1 month ago:
It’s a shit posting sub. This is how it works. It’s not anyone’s safe place. Feelings are the punchline here.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 1 month ago:
They are all downvoting my shit comment to a shitpost, so they’re all proving it correct.
Most people who use Linux don’t tie their personality to it. I’ve long suspected that Lemmy has few of those.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 1 month ago:
Makes dumb people feel smart.
Gives people who lack agency in life something they use to look down on others, despite no one caring.
For a tiny majority that have them. It is a useful red flag for your loved ones, that the slide of mental illness continues.
They secretly desire to be seen as hackers by others; reality is they are hacks.
They lack the ability to enjoy self deprecating humor.
The inky blackness of terminal screens to sates their inner emo.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 month ago:
Edison but instead of talking to him, I Rick Roll him for three hours.
- Comment on It's true. 1 month ago:
This is hating facts and science but with excuses.