PancakesCantKillMe
@PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sixt wants to store a scan of my face 1 day ago:
I think this is somewhat of a willfully ignorant thought in the age of data mining. This is Disney we’re talking about. I would presume their data management to be superior than most. And in the realm of using and/or selling data that would likely include facial recognition, I’d think they’d capitalize on that given the data is already in their pocket and given freely 50k times a day to enter their park. How am I to check that they deleted the photo they took of me? I cannot.
- Comment on Sixt wants to store a scan of my face 1 day ago:
I’m not over estimating anything. They take the pic with a cellphone and it gets uploaded.
- Comment on 🤝🤝🤝 3 days ago:
Cocaine makes me feel like a new man.
The trouble is that he wants a line too!
- Comment on Monkeys on the Interstate 4 days ago:
Reminds me of a joke (that is better spoken, but I’ll try anyways):
A state trooper arrives at the scene of a horrible accident on the interstate in the middle of the night. Nobody is around, but the carnage is everywhere both mechanical and biological. Without any witnesses, the trooper is mystified as to what exactly happened. As he’s inspecting the accident he sees a rustle in a nearby shrub. He steps closer to discover a monkey shivering and scared. He speaks to the monkey in a calm voice and coaxes it out to him. The trooper feels like the monkey understands his words, so he asks the monkey if he saw what happened. The monkey nods vigorously that he does.
“What were the passengers doing?” asks the trooper. The monkey mimes drinking and smoking motions. “They were drinking and smoking?” and the monkey nods with certainty that they were. “Anything else?” and the monkey makes hugging and kissing motions. “They were fooling around and having sex?” and the monkey again nods to affirm his question.
The trooper, wondering what the monkey had to do with all of this asks, “Monkey, what were you doing while all this happened?” and the monkey makes driving motions with his arms while craning his neck backwards to watch.
- Comment on Sixt wants to store a scan of my face 6 days ago:
They do a face scan. Their tiny print terms say they only keep it temporarily, but I don’t believe that at all.
- Comment on I just dont seem to ever learn 2 weeks ago:
This guy slurps.
- Comment on Wavy 3 weeks ago:
Yah, this one hits hard.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 3 weeks ago:
You reminded me and (unintentionally) made me go read about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In the story, there is a child-catcher working for the Baron and Baroness of Vulgaria where children are illegal.
Whilst watching the child-catcher scene, I saw a familiar face. It was the toymaker who was portrayed by Benny Hill. That made me check the IMDB page and it was indeed him. Also of note: the story was written by Ian Flemming (screenplay by Roald Dahl) and one of the children was the (then) future singer Phil Collins.
/tangent
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 3 weeks ago:
No. 😬
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 3 weeks ago:
Gnatt Man’s super power is FaceSwarm. There is no defense against it.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 3 weeks ago:
That was the porn. You’re thinking of Iron Man: Irony Abounds.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 3 weeks ago:
Obligatory: That’s anti-Semitic!!
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 3 weeks ago:
Sharpie it up!!
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for the comprehensive reply! I am curious: do the ponds not produce mosquitoes as well?
I live on a hillside and creating water spots might get tricky on our rocky soil. It could be done I suppose, but it’ll have to be the next place to try.
The forest must help. We have some thick western red cedar groves and do have a lot of dragonflies at times, but no water other than birdbaths. I love seeing them scanning the hillside and the few flat spots we have. I’m always rooting for them. Funny about the frogs. I like em too, but we don’t see many. Lizards and snakes mostly.
Thanks for the Ted talk! 😂
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the TLDR. Dragonflies are the worlds most efficient hunters.
You mentioned that you “use” them. Do you introduce them or do they exist naturally where you are? If so, are there ways to increase their numbers? We have some dragonflies, but we have far more mosquitoes! Just curious.
- Comment on kingdom come 4 weeks ago:
He told me to get off his lawn and he’s keeping the ball.
- Comment on What's green and slimy and smells like bacon? 4 weeks ago:
I am not aware of bored panda or their reputation. But I have edited my comment to the preferred site. Thank you.
- Comment on What's green and slimy and smells like bacon? 4 weeks ago:
Okay, this got an actual laugh out of me. Imma hafta look up Max Garcia meow.
- Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now? 5 weeks ago:
You can, but you should not.
- Comment on Businessman Josh Kraft, son of Billionaire Robert Kraft, is running for Boston Mayor. He is accusing the mayor of worsening traffic by building bike lanes 5 weeks ago:
It’s a team sport for them!
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 5 weeks ago:
“The net itself measures 3.5 by 3.5 meters, with an effective range of up to 25 meters.”
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 month ago:
Excess coffee cups received as gifts work too.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 1 month ago:
It is either a type of rubberized material degrading or one piece of plastic in the group. Being a home-labber/gamer I have gone through a couple hundred mice easily. In addition to Logitech, I’ve had lots of stock MS/Dell/HP and even Sun mice. A few can get this condition with the materials. Often it will be a rubberized component, but sometimes it is a plastic part. Like the mouse wheel is a more common part that gets sticky, but the rest of the mouse is okay. Nothing happened other than it sat around for a long time. It could be that the last user had grubby fingers stained orange from cheetos whilst using that mouse and that lent somehow to the degradation. Hard to say. Plastic does degrade for sure and maybe our grubby mitts help?
- Comment on I dont need to camp, I am homeless enough already. 1 month ago:
One year whilst out group camping, one of the campers awoke in the middle of the night to relieve himself. He was still very drunk from the previous evening’s festivities and thought the opening of the tent was right there. Well, it was the *new * opening for sure now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s all perfectly cromulent, but just keep in mind fleaBay has its issues as well. One must be ever diligent whilst shopping online. And it’s getting worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Chase is an awful bank so be ready to fight them too. I am still upset about the money they siphoned from my account after taking over a regional bank here. I would change banks when you are able to. I wish you good fortunes.
- Comment on 5-minute oil change place 2 months ago:
Also ensure the previous gasket has left the scene as you only want one and for the love of Pete, DO NOT OVERTIGHTEN the filter!!!
Hand tight and just a smidge more. That’s it.
- Comment on Fresh 2 months ago:
So precious!
- Comment on Fresh 2 months ago:
My dog taught me that years ago!
- Comment on quick health tip 2 months ago:
I smell chicken….