LastYearsIrritant
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- Comment on 1 day 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 1 day 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" 1 day 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? 2 days ago:
I think using this exact language may be your problem. 🤣
- Comment on True torture 2 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? 2 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 2 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? 2 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).
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 2 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. 3 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 3 weeks 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… 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on The land before time 1 month ago:
There’s a pizza dough spreader machine now. Makes it more consistent.
Smaller places often still throw the dough, but chains usually have the machine so every pizza is the same.
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 1 month ago:
Bigger fires burn out quicker cause they burn hotter.
But maybe you wouldn’t need as much fire cause bigger animals tend to hold heat better?
Curious what the actual research reasoning would be.
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
It’s not illegal to not have ID.
It is illegal to drive without a license.
Depending on what you’re doing, it’s perfectly fine to leave ID at home (assuming you’re light skinned, but also ID doesn’t save you anyway in some cases)
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
Cash is required to be accepted to clear a debt.
Cash is not required to be accepted to make a purchase.
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
Stores sell more product when they accept credit cards. It makes the purchase a lot more seamless. It also helps them track money and reduces mistakes or theft during a cash transaction.
There is a reason that shops accept credit.
There’s also a reason why a lot of shops are charging an extra % or two if you use credit. And a big reason why a lot of larger purchases like cars and home renovations do NOT accept credit.
- Comment on Pouring one out for the homies 1 month ago:
If you want to use Google instead of Bing, but don’t want AI slop, set your default search engine to this.
google.com/search?udm=14&q=%25s
Along with ublock and Firefox, it gives me ad free, ai free, Google search.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 month ago:
Except history disproves this over and over.
People get stuck in what they know, but eventually they break out of it, and usually it’s a small thing that takes them over the tipping point.
Thinking that everyone on the planet is dumb except yourself just proves you’re not looking into the facts.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 month ago:
PC games are pretty much locked down to the original purchaser. Console games could be bought and sold used. Once I was done with a console generation I just sold everything on ebay and made back a bunch of my money (especially since I bought most of it used as well).
PC games are a whole different beast. But now that most console games are locked to an account… there’s really no benefit of them anymore. Just get a PC for your living room and install SteamOS (or similar).
- Comment on End of an era? 1 month ago:
It works until it doesn’t. Companies can push prices for a little while, maybe a whole generation, but one day people decide it’s not worth it and it all crashes down suddenly.
Happens over and over again, could be the new era of PC gaming that Valve is pushing will tip them over, could be a new generation of Nintendo games. Could be a new company from China.
Big players do this every time, then the CEO says “nobody could have predicted that the 6th price hike was the end of the brand!”
- Comment on Real advert real company. They make good rifles now. 1 month ago:
What??? You mean to tell me that people in <year> have complained about how people in <same year> are violent and worse than previous people?