FauxLiving
@FauxLiving@lemmy.world
- Comment on Proton 2 days ago:
He tweeted once and is therefore canceled because social media doesn’t understand nuance or context
- Comment on Proton 2 days ago:
It’s literally a nothing situation that social media, in its drive to find outrage in every single thing, has blown completely out of proportion.
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 2 days ago:
…so far
- Comment on BACK OFF FELLAS, SHE'S MINE 5 days ago:
New Nichole just dropped
- Comment on What is anti-propaganda? 5 days ago:
I started using anti-vaxx propaganda tactics satirically.
The goal is to show how the tactic is manipulative by applying it to something obviously not dangerous.
Water is easy, start insisting that “dihydrogen monoxide” is dangerous:
Celebrity just died? “They had dihydrogen monoxide before they died, maybe it killed them”
“All traffic fatalities in the last 5 years were link to people using dihydrogen monoxide”
“Dihydrogen overdoses kill people every year”
“Why is dihydrogen monoxide in everything? Why is big dihydrogen monoxide putting this in everything, what are they trying to do?”
“I bet Trump was on dihydrogen monoxide when he thought of his tariffs plan”
Etc
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Social media users love to clutch their pearls.
Treating it like it’s exploitative let’s them get their little dose of outrage, it doesn’t matter if it matches reality or not.
Despite the fact that, as you pointed out, to do so often requires that they assume some pretty offensive things (like, “a 19-20 year old is only good for sex and housework”).
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 1 week ago:
It’s the power of defaults.
1 person will hate the change but 100 others will be affected by the default and not care. The net result is more as revenue even if the first user cancels their account.
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 1 week ago:
Exactly this.
You’re not the customer. Google is an advertising company, their customers are people who buy ads.
People who watch shorts watch more videos so there are more slots to put ads in. So, you’re going to watch shorts.
- Comment on How to love 1 week ago:
It’s like being a kid again 🤩
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
Not exactly a disqualifying characteristic for a woman, all things considered
- Comment on Carcinization goes brrrr 1 week ago:
n-gon
n -> ♾️ lim
- Comment on The first 1 star review 1 week ago:
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- Comment on WARNING! 1 week ago:
Uh, no thanks we’ve all already got one
- Comment on Hamster 1 week ago:
A magnet that was strong enough to keep the hamster in place would be applying enough pressure to the flesh between the magnet and cage to destroy the tissue, due to lack of circulation, over 3 days.
If this was even remotely true the hamster would be seriously injured and severely dehydrated, not walking around normally. This isn’t even considering the damage that it would do to itself while trying to escape.
It’s a fake story
- Comment on I tried THIS and it actually works all the time 2 weeks ago:
Por que no los dos
- Comment on adhesive tape to the buttocks 2 weeks ago:
They used a pencil
- Comment on World travelers 2 weeks ago:
It’s far too perilous!
- Comment on LAN (local area network) games 3 weeks ago:
Co-Optimus is a great resource for this.
Here’s their database with a filter showing all PC games that support LAN play:
- Comment on Opinion: It's time for a proper Steam-type service for TV alongside streaming exists. 3 weeks ago:
I used Netflix for years when it came out.
Now there 20 different services and they all are shit.
Jellyfin gives me the service that I want at a cost I can afford.
- Comment on I'll never move on from that 3 weeks ago:
Gotta get on your grind, as the kids say these days
- Comment on Roku TV requires internet connection to EDIT THE HOMEPAGE 4 weeks ago:
Dang, that sucks.
My OSMC box doesn’t do any of this, is completely open source and is just Linux under the hood so I can customize anything I can imagine.
Roku has been shit since inception, they’re only now starting to become obvious in their shittiness. In a few years it’ll be right in the “scam purchase” territory.
- Comment on goddammit Ralph 4 weeks ago:
I read it on the Internet and so I know it’s true
- Comment on I live in the basement of a methlab 4 weeks ago:
Would you mind grabbing me a box of Sudafed, man?
- Comment on Receipt checkers trigger me 4 weeks ago:
Well said.
I imagine that sharks don’t eat you
- Comment on Receipt checkers trigger me 4 weeks ago:
However, they absolutely are able to ban you from a store for not complying. How effective a ban is at a store that sees thousands of people walking in every day, I’m not sure. But it’s something to keep in mind if you have limited other options nearby.
This.
Don’t take the advice of ‘Ignore them and push past them’. You can get trespassed by LP and if you’re caught in that store again it is a misdemeanor and you’ll be arrested, processed into the local jail and have to post bond.
Your store may not do this but it is completely within their right to trespass anybody for any reason and if they’re a store with a lot of theft then they’re more likely to target the people who are attempting to bypass their screening.
They’re standing there during time periods where there is likely to be theft so that, if they’re clued in by LP, they can stop an individual and check their receipts. The average customer they’re going to simply look at your receipt and let you go on your way because they have no reason to suspect you. If they thought that you specifically were stealing then they’d be inventorying your cart.
- Comment on Anon doesn't hold back 4 weeks ago:
If everyone goes home happy, then it’s a success. Leave the fierce competition for tournaments.
Expecting online gamers to have grave, a bold move Cotton
- Comment on What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”? 5 weeks ago:
You’re confused. I said “this thread” and not “The OP”.
If you read the comments, do you see a frank discussion of people attempting to locate a gender neutral term for a tech enthusiast or a bunch of people just riffing insulting terms?
Regardless, to address you specifically. You’re trying to “win” an argument using rhetoric in place of reason. You’re not winning the argument, you’re just throwing a punch and declaring victory.
You win arguments by having better arguments, not by coming up with the best clever clapback so that you get more upvotes
- Comment on What’s an acceptable gender neutral replacement for “techbro”? 5 weeks ago:
This thread is basically “Please help me brainstorm pejoratives”, a very toxic mindset to have.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 5 weeks ago:
for no gain.
Nearly $3 billion USD flowed through the TRUMP cryptocoin rugpull, whoever owned initial coins made very, very large gains.
The $3 billion in quid buys a lot of anti-Ukraine pro quo
But, thanks to the Supreme Court, Trump could go on national TV and say he change US policy on Ukraine because he was bribed and he’d still be immune to any legal consequences (other than impeachment, but never anything criminal).
- Comment on fuck this asshole 5 weeks ago:
No Masks!
Yeah, okay. With a pandemic on?
You gotta at least wear a surgical mask in public for your health, in minecraft.
Your doctor could probably write you a recommendation, prior to the protest, in case you have any legal issues.