LastYearsIrritant
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- Comment on Be prepared 2 days ago:
Debt is a hell of a drug
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 2 days ago:
One thing you missed… WhatsApp took off BEFORE facebook (now meta) bought it. So it had a huge network effect while it was independent.
- Comment on Voyager crew incompetence. Has Trek always been like this? 4 days ago:
In TOS, when they find Kahn, the first thing they do is give him access to all the technical specs of the ship, which he promptly uses to take over.
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 6 days ago:
I can decide who I want to follow. I hate it when the “algorithm” decides when something wouldn’t be interesting and hides it from me when I specifically followed someone.
Also, contacts of contacts can be reshared by my contacts if it would be interesting, so I don’t want an algorithm deciding that I need to see it.
Basically, show me a timeline of my followed contacts sorted by new and stop trying to decide what I should see for me.
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 1 week ago:
Dunno, I guess - new first, only your contacts - is KIND of an algorithm, but I don’t know that anyone would call that an algorithm.
- Comment on Love 1 week ago:
No, cause this is sunset, which happens when the sun sets in the west.
West is left, which means this picture was not flipped, just taken from an unintended angle.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, you also have to advocate for yourself as a patient. Ideally you have someone trusted along that can help with that, but if you’ve been sitting there for hours, you need to find out exactly what’s going on. Especially if it is serious.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 2 weeks ago:
If you’re waiting 12 hours in the triage area of the emergency department, then you probably should have either gone to your primary doc, or an urgent clinic.
12 hours means either the waiting area is unusually full of extremely unstable patients, or you are especially stable yourself.
I get that not everyone has access to different levels of care, but urgent clinics exist to take the load off the emergency departments.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 2 weeks ago:
Sorry to burst your bubble, but those don’t work without a lot of gym time.
If you’re on the juice, but don’t put in the work, your body just gets weird.
- Comment on Buying new electrical outlet, and the grounding are just a decoration 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need to take them apart, you can just plug in an outlet tester.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_outlet_tester
Also, depending on what you plug into it, the device itself might complain about a missing ground connection.
Of course, if you’re looking for other issues, you might have to take it apart, but just checking if everything is connected the way it’s supposed to can be done non-invasively.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I don’t understand how people use the term WiFi when they mean Broadband Internet or Always connected Internet.
WiFi is just one way to deliver the network connection to your device, but it’s not the only way.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours 3 weeks ago:
Geothermal systems can do that for water heaters, AC, and heat, so… They kinda already do that.
- Comment on It's about logic and not "feelings" 3 weeks ago:
My best friend? Gets the cash no questions asked.
If I needed additional follow ups, then he’s not really my best friend.
- Comment on People who get "happy ending" massages, is there like a common keyword or process? 3 weeks ago:
I think using this exact language may be your problem. 🤣
- Comment on True torture 4 weeks ago:
Use your tongue to count your teeth. Once you get an idea which tooth it is, it’s a lot easier to find stuff stuck in there.
Proprioception in your mouth is weird if you don’t actively practice.
And it helps with cross training your tongue for other tasks.
- Comment on Are there any technology-oriented content creators that are still good? 5 weeks ago:
This week: NO VIDEO
Last video: 1 month ago. Ceiling fans. Already watched.
You son of a bitch… Got my hopes up.
- Comment on Does Star Trek's USS Enterprise Design Make Sense? | Adam Savage's Tested 5 weeks ago:
I would love it if Deconstructed partnered with him to turn his interpretation of the Enterprise into a 3d model.
Though this is just one person’s idea of how it would work, so it would be a ton of effort for something that doesn’t really match the show exactly.
It’s interesting how the ship actually doesn’t really work together as represented in the show, but most sets didn’t really work back then. They didn’t care about how it really works. These days there’s a lot more effort in ship design to ensure it is more logical.
- Comment on Correlation == Causation? 5 weeks ago:
Drove a few hours for both the 2017 and 2024 eclipse.
Waited several hours afterwards to go home both times.
The 2024 eclipse was a much easier drive home (though still not great).
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- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 5 weeks ago:
I was the “go find the pliers to turn the channel, cause the knob went missing last year” kid.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
If you scan one item and put two on the scale, it will usually just accept it.
The scales and the items aren’t all that accurately documented, so it doesn’t always know the difference.
- Comment on Don’t you lie to me 1 month ago:
There’s only two types of people who carry that much cash, and neither of them can afford to lose it.
It goes back to the person that lost it, no matter how much effort it takes.
- Comment on “We’re used to people saying fuck no and doing it anyway” -Michigan governor Gretchen Whitner. Daughter of a health insurance CEO. She is currently selling Michigan out for every penny she can as her… 1 month ago:
People be complicated, yo.
You can support some progressive policies, but also have the (incorrect) belief that these businesses are necessary for your state to have a strong economy in the future.
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 1 month ago:
Would it? I turned off the AI answers from Google and most of the people I know also ask how to turn it off.
In my circle, most of the people I know are more annoyed by it than helped by it.
Also, they’re getting sued in the EU by giving incorrect answers in the AI summary, cause that’s actual info FROM Google instead of answers Google is pointing to.
Sure, there’s Gemini that people are actively reaching out to for answers, but cramming it into their main product is way more of a miss for me and the people I know in real life.
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 1 month ago:
Feels like this article got too excited about the headline and the actual meat of the text is lacking in context.
First negative quarter since when? Obviously Google didn’t spawn wholesale making money. Had to look around and it’s their first negative cash quarter since 2004 when it went public. (I assume there’s no real public data before then)
The ars article says
To be clear, Google is still profitable—wildly so.
How can something be profitable, but also have negative cash flow?
Legitimately confused here. Is “cash flow” some hyper specific business term for a very narrow type of money exchange, while profit comes from a different line item?
This is a rare miss from ars, but a HUGE miss.
- Comment on Are modern electronic devices (i.e. cell phones) still susceptible to damage from magnets? 1 month ago:
Had an audiophile buddy who had two giant speakers next to his CRT TV.
There were two permanent half circles on either side of the TV. It was bad enough that degaussing didn’t help.
He didn’t care one bit about video performance, just wanted his audio to be the best he could.
- Comment on Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous? 1 month ago:
Jack Black was in so many smaller roles so different from his mainstream roles before making it big.
It’s hilarious seeing him as a jock/bully/soldier in Mars Attacks.
- Comment on It's rigged 1 month ago:
Social security has a max payout, so it also has a cap on the taxes you pay into it.
At a surface level, it makes sense, which is why it continues.
Once you look into it even a little bit further, the max payout needs to stay, but the tax cap needs to be removed.
- Comment on Same day shipping 2 months ago:
Every body part has a major artery in it.
Get hit in the armpit, dead.
Get hit in the thigh, dead.
Get hit in the liver, dead.
Break a femur and it nicks the femoral artery, dead.
There certainly are ways to reduce the blood flow to survive a trip to the hospital, but if you don’t get blood back in you soon, you just shut down forever.
- Comment on The land before time 2 months ago:
And health codes didn’t stop them from filling it with all sorts of other stuff, and nobody looked to see that there were 5 sticks of butter and two handfuls of salt in each pizza.