CannedYeet
@CannedYeet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Brrrrr 5 days ago:
Me and Frostillicus go back a long way. I used to share a bathroom with Frostillicus.
- Comment on Some of you are too young to know what this is 1 week ago:
Looks like an actual device I had for applying labels to burnt CDs. You’d print the labels in your inkjet printer.
- Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. 2 weeks ago:
We could not determine whether Giovansanti has ever harmed someone by speeding. But the circumstantial evidence is not reassuring: The right side of his truck is visibly damaged, and he refused to answer a straightforward question about his collision history.
If it was his car being damaged while parked it would be the left side, so probably not that.
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 2 weeks ago:
Are you sure about that?
Looks like the US gives Israel about $3B per year.
usafacts.org/…/how-much-military-aid-does-the-us-…
Versus Israel’s GDP of about $700B
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Israel
I think the main form of aid is the access to US weapons and technology and that’s largely about subsidizing the US defense industry. I think I read somewhere that US aid to Israel is literally sometimes in the form of vouchers/coupons they have to spend on weapons/defense tech.
That’s not to say we shouldn’t cut off that aid when it’s used to commit atrocities. Just saying get the facts straight.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Do you mean dressing like a tart?
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 2 weeks ago:
Israel has its own military industrial complex. It’s an even bigger portion of their economy. They’re a very high tech nation. ICQ, the predecessor of AOL Instant Messenger, was invented in/by Israelis.
- Comment on Are there seach engines that dont depend Google and Bing, if not what are the barriers to entry of new search engines? 2 weeks ago:
Brave delivers results from its own, built-from-scratch index.
- Comment on “It was because my bed is facing the bedroom door” 3 weeks ago:
You got to stop blaming yourself. Blame yourself once and move on.
- Comment on Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk. 3 weeks ago:
Walmart doesn’t pay people enough to give a shit so it probably sits out a long time while they loading it.
- Comment on Wing boy 3 weeks ago:
us.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-remote
I like my Kobo for a couple reasons
- All the reasons you might want to boycott Amazon
- Built in Overdrive support so you can borrow ebooks from your local library
- Instapaper built in
It used to have Pocket support until that service shut down. Kobo was good about quickly replacing that with the equivalent service from Instapaper. It lets you save web pages and it doesn’t just save the link. It strips the ads and junk and saves a copy of the content. It’s also useful for bypassing soft pay walls.
I don’t know what you’re talking about with music on an ereader. I can’t speak to music or audiobook support since I haven’t tried it. I think the basic model I have supports audiobooks but not music.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If we’re naming after what it used to be, then call each plank a trunk or a log or a tree. I feel like we’re half way to a Mitch Hedberg joke.
- Comment on Wing boy 3 weeks ago:
The Kobo ereader has a remote you could manipulate with your feet.
- Comment on 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 3 weeks ago:
Australia has one of if not the highest minimum wage.
This economics YouTuber ranks it as one of the best economies, based on his own slightly subjective ranking that factors in both overall strength and egalitarianism.
- Comment on When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift? 3 weeks ago:
Contemporary to hashtags being invented on Twitter was the use of tags to categorize blog posts. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy
- Comment on How come some Corporation or some Business don't sponsor a protest? Like McDonald's sponsoring that No Kings protest. Or a hotel giving free room and board to protestors and so on? 3 weeks ago:
Donating to politicians is more effective.
Leadership of these companies are part of an elite business class. They live in their own luxury, country club world separate from the rabble. They think the common man doesn’t know what’s good for them. They keep an eye out for other high up jobs at big firms so they don’t rock the boat.
Noam Chomsky talks about this a lot. I recommend reading more from him. Also Michael Sandel has makes this point in a more politically anodyne way.
- Comment on Can a company stop operating in a country to avoid paying a lawsuit? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us? 5 weeks ago:
Found Kristi Noem’s account
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 month ago:
Not exactly a solution for the ultra rich oligarchs, but a progressive consumption tax would be a good policy. It would be applied as a sales tax on everything, everyone would get regular rebate checks to cancel out the tax on spending up to the exemption. It could make all the megayachts more expensive.
- Comment on Basic geography 1 month ago:
Actually, in the cartography community they’ve reclaimed the word and now the best practice has flipped.
- Comment on You can just do stuff. 1 month ago:
Pigs can’t look up because they have crippling depression.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 1 month ago:
Gooning
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 1 month ago:
Hello Congress, I’d like to report that you are corrupt. Plz fix. K thanks bye.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 1 month ago:
The place to read that would be the latest IPCC reports www.ipcc.ch
- Comment on Normal 1 month ago:
Udder confusion
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 month ago:
It’s the opposite of whipping the llama’s ass
- Comment on Anyone know where I can buy or get books by the pound to start a new library for our local jail. To help them read and prep them for a GED? 1 month ago:
Better World Books has donation drop boxes near me.
- Comment on "I hate this place even more than I did before" 1 month ago:
- Comment on War. War never changes. 1 month ago:
Good band
- Comment on 2 months ago:
What starts with c- and ends in -uck?
spoiler
___ Cybertruck
- Comment on A succulent meal 2 months ago:
Wheat is a plant. If wheat was a vegetable we wouldn’t need the distinction between plant and vegetable.