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- Comment on Pretty sure he's fine 1 day ago:
Meanwhile, American schools are struggling to hire anyone with at least a high school diploma and a two week teaching course, because nobody wants to accept the awful pay and working conditions.
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 5 days ago:
The McRib is actually an awful example for this, because McD’s primary deciding factor is the price of pork. When pork prices drop, McD revives the McRib. They want to manufacture them as cheaply as possible. Then when the prices start to climb again, they pull it from the menu. That’s why they don’t do big “it’s coming back on this date, and leaving on this date” announcements ahead of time, because those announcements would affect the pork prices as pig farmers would anticipate the upcoming large McD orders, and subsequent dips when they stop selling.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 6 days ago:
I lowkey considered getting a second SD, just to keep it plugged into my TV 24/7. I cart mine back and forth from work and home, and the minor inconvenience of packing it into my bag each morning had me considering a second purchase.
But then I remembered I’m fucking broke.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 6 days ago:
Nope. Throuple is dating, threesome is a one-time thing. Like if my wife and I have a girlfriend, we would be a throuple. And if we all sleep together, it would be a threesome. But saying “throuple=threesome” is like saying “couple=sex” when the two describe fundamentally different things. One is the relationship between people, and the other is just a physical act.
- Comment on Can you fuck off 6 days ago:
Supposedly the creator of Brave was fired from mozilla for being a bigot. But no one who says that has ever been able to tell me what he said that was so horrible that he had to be fired. Which leads me to believe it’s either a flat out lie that didn’t happen at all or it was blown out of proportion
I mean, this was the second result on DuckDuckGo when I searched “Brave Browser Creator Bigot”. He donated in support of California’s Prop 8, which was an attempt to ban gay marriage by amending California’s constitution.
From the article:
In 2014, [Brandon Eich] was appointed as CEO of Mozilla Corporation, which immediately caused backlash from at least a few people inside Mozilla and many people outside the organization. Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It’s because he donated $1,000 in support of California’s Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California’s state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Eich wrote a blog post defending himself in 2012, when the donation was initially discovered, where did not apologize and denied the donation made him a bigot…
Brendan Eich quit after 11 days as CEO. He then went on to create Brave Software and obtain $2.5 million in early funding by late 2015, then another $4.5 million by mid-2016.
Here’s a bonus fun fact: one of those early investors was Founders Fund, which is operated by billionaire Peter Thiel. He’s a regular campaign donor to far-right political candidates, and said in an essay that “I no longer think that freedom and democracy are compatible.” - Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
Yeah, the benefit to streaming is that you can have much larger libraries. I have +5000 songs on my most commonly played lists, and that’s not even my full library. My devices are already full enough with things like game files (emulators), video files (locally downloaded from my Plex/Jellyfin server so I don’t have to stream video on the shitty work WiFi), and videos/photos from daily life. If I can store my music elsewhere, of course I’m going to do so. I’ll keep one or two common playlists automatically downloaded, but the rest gets streamed.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 1 week ago:
I’m choosing to read it as “we only bought it to get kernel-level access to millions of computers. Don’t worry about why we want that.”
- Comment on Can you fuck off 1 week ago:
There are a bunch of blocklists in the settings that aren’t enabled by default. I’d suggest you go take a look at them.
- Comment on Can you fuck off 1 week ago:
It’s always funny seeing the huge disconnect between Lemmy and Reddit on this one specific topic. On Reddit, Brave’s marketing was wildly successful. If you say anything negative about it, you’ll almost immediately be buried in downvotes. But here, it is known as a conservative cryptobro grift, so mentioning anything positive about it gets you attacked.
- Comment on Can you fuck off 1 week ago:
You rarely even need to hide the element; Just enable the Cookie Consent blocklist in uBlock Origin.
- Comment on Can you fuck off 1 week ago:
I also love seeing the “legitimate interest” ad/tracking cookies that don’t get disabled automatically. GDPR’s big mistake was allowing the trackers to decide whether or not they have a legitimate interest. Because of course a bunch of scummy ones just automatically list themselves as legitimate.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
Due to Steam’s Autumn Sale putting the DLC anywhere from 30-50% off, you can currently get the complete game for the low price of only… $993.79.
I wish I was kidding.
Screenshot of the Steam store page, showing the “Add All DLC to Cart” button with a total of $993.79. Most of the DLC is priced down anywhere from 30 to 50%. - Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
At this point, I see pirating The Sims as a moral imperative. There’s no reason the full game should be ~$1500.
- Comment on Will Ivermectin Help? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and the graph reflects that. The visible prevalence of left handedness increased when we stopped trying to beat the demons out of left handed children. Teachers would beat kids’ knuckles with a yardstick if they caught them writing with their left hands.
It’s not that there were suddenly more left handed people; Those people had always existed, but got beat until they used their right hand instead. When we stopped beating them, they became more visible.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, this is like saying “skin cancer rates have increased dramatically in the past 30 years!” Well yeah, because now we have the technology to detect it earlier. That “things increased” stat ignores the complementary “but deaths decreased dramatically” stat that immediately follows it. Before, we didn’t know people had skin cancer until it was killing them. But now, with preventative screenings, public awareness campaigns, etc, people are more likely to get checked before it is a life threatening issue.
It’s the same thing. Detection models got better, so detection rates went up.
- Comment on be gay, do crimes (in space) 2 weeks ago:
Was it ever confirmed to be intentionally drilled? Last I heard, they were still in the “it could have simply been a piece of space dust moving insanely fast” part of the investigation.
- Comment on “JUST BECAUSE I HAVE THE VOICE OF A MUNCHKIN FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ DOES NOT MEAN THAT I HAVE TINY LITTLE MOUSE BALLS! BESIDES, EVEN IF I DID, CORRELATION DOES NOT PROVE CAUSATION!!!” 2 weeks ago:
He looks like someone is slowly but steadily sliding grapes into his ass, and he’s trying not to react until he figures out how he feels about it.
Did I enjoy that? Maybe? No? Actually, I think so? Hmm, better wait for the next one to be sure. Nope, no, definitely didn’t enjoy that one. But it did feel kinda good…
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
It’s a hard choice between D and G for me. G gets all of the southern US cuisine that Europeans are always blown away by, along with texmex, traditional Mexican, street tacos, Louisiana seafood, Cali and Florida seafood, etc… But D gets India, the Mediterranean (maybe even Italy? I can’t quite tell on this map), Korean, Japanese, south china, etc…
If I wanted to commit to consistently good food, I’d go with G. But if I wanted a wider variety with a broader spice palette, I’d go with D.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 2 weeks ago:
Emerald+ is somewhere around the 93rd percentile. So she’s definitely good, (better than over 90% of players), but not as good as the true Diamond/master/grandmaster players.
A lot of those grandmaster-level players don’t even have their face on stream; They’ll just silently stream with a camera on their keyboard, because the people watching them want to see their inputs just as much as they want to see the the match. When it comes to streaming, there’s a golden triangle of “Looks”, “Charisma” and “Skill”. In order to be a good streamer, you need at least two. But those grandmaster players are so insanely skilled that they’re able to ignore the other two completely.
- Comment on A Kentucky church is urging its members to remove books from the Shelby Public Library by checking them out and never returning them 2 weeks ago:
Late fees have largely been abandoned, yes. But lost book fees are still widely in use. They’ll just lock your account until you either return the book or pay for a replacement.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m in my mid 30’s and my best friend is nearing 50. Believe it or not, people can have common interests that aren’t entirely reliant on their age.
Though I will say that age becomes less relevant as you get older… A 29 year old dating a 19 year old is pretty universally creepy, but few people would say the same about a 49 year old dating a 39 year old. Same age gap, but it’s assumed that the 39 year old has enough life experience to actually make their own decisions. Even in my mid-20’s, I was looking at 19 year olds as if they were literal children. There’s a lot of maturing that happens in the late teens and early 20’s.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 3 weeks ago:
2 was where the series really peaked. The first did some new things, and brought some fresh life into the shooter genre.
2 expanded upon it, and had a much better story. It was also in the heyday of matchmaking game lobbies, so it was easy to boot up the match finder and jump into a game with someone. Probably half of my Steam friends list came from playing this game and just vibing with people on voice chat while we ran through the side quests.
The prequel was… Alright? I’d put it about on par with the first game. It didn’t bring anything new or exciting to the table, but it was good at what it did.
Then 3 was just bad. It felt really cringey, in a “how do you do, fellow kids” kind of way. Like it was trying too hard.
And now 4 sounds like more of 3. The lead dev sounds out of touch, and the game sounds rushed.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 3 weeks ago:
That’s Alfredo, the dude who invented (or at least claims to have invented) fettuccine alfredo. He ran an Italian restaurant, and when you ordered it he would come to your table and prepare the alfredo sauce in front of you.
Real alfredo sauce is basically just butter and Parmesan; the jar sauce you find in the grocery store that says it is “made with 100% real cream” technically wouldn’t be authentic alfredo sauce, as authentic sauce doesn’t use cream. Alfredo would put a full stick of butter on the plate, then pile the hot noodles on top to melt it. He’d grate Parmesan and use his hands to mix it. The butter and Parmesan would melt together, forming the sauce. Add some spices, and you’re done. The restaurant was popular with celebrities and social elites, who enjoyed the unique dining experience.
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 3 weeks ago:
I’m a fan of audiobooks, but it’s the same basic concept. I host an Audiobookshelf instance, so I always have something fresh to listen to if I finish my current book.
It’s nice because you can listen while doing menial tasks. It keeps you entertained, even while being productive. As long as you don’t actually need to interact with anyone, you’re fine.
- Comment on tall tails 3 weeks ago:
Soft tissues can also become fossils under the right conditions. For an example, here is the fossil used for the B. markmitchelli holotype:
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 3 weeks ago:
In times like this, fascists will work to weaponize empathy. They’ll say you’re an awful person if you don’t feel bad about it. They’ll say you’re awful for shit-talking, because you lack empathy. In reality, demanding empathy from the victims of fascism is another violence against the victims that those fascists actively work to oppress.
Fascists have mastered the act of shooting and crying, then using empathy (or more specifically, the lack thereof) to demonize the same people they have been shooting at. They begin by oppressing people. When those oppressed people eventually refuse to show empathy for the fascists, the fascists claim that the people they have been shooting at are monsters. And that is used to further justify the fascists’ actions.
Don’t fucking fall for it. This is the same idea behind “the tolerant left” being coined by conservatives. It’s used as a cudgel whenever intolerance is refused, like some sort of gotcha.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 weeks ago:
I’m guessing it’s something like when you lose to a boss you have to travel a senselessly difficult and long way back to the boss to try again?
Exactly. Lots of bosses don’t have convenient save points nearby, so you’re forced to walk back from the save point every time. And many of the treks are either long or just outright annoying (cheesy enemies, obstacle courses, etc.)
- Comment on My reaction to learning that KingCobraJFS died a few days ago. 5 weeks ago:
KingCobraJFS was one of the early internet troll targets. Sometimes called a lolcow, in the “you can use this person to farm lols” way. 4chan saw his early YouTube uploads, and quickly realized they could troll the hell out of him. He was mentally unstable, and always took the bait that trolls laid out for him.
Chris chan was basically the OG lolcow. She was an early YouTube uploader who obviously had mental issues, and 4chan bullied the hell out of her. And she always responded, which only fed the trolls even more. IIRC, she’s where a lot of the old shittily-drawn Sonic the Hedgehog memes came from, because she was trying to make a comic featuring Sonichu:
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Huh, somehow I had entirely missed the “Macron is married to his high school teacher, who he started… Uhh… “Dating” when he was 15 and she was 40” scandal.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 5 weeks ago:
Younger generations seem to treat basic conversation as cringeworthy. Like the fact that you’re even talking to them is seen as appalling, regardless of the context.
I’ve seen kids walk up to a register at a fast food joint, then act surprised and put off when the cashier asked for their order. Like the cashier was in the wrong for initiating a conversation. Oftentimes, the kid won’t even respond until the cashier is like “ooookay, uhh… If you’re not ready to order, can you step out of line?”
The best description I’ve seen for it is “they’re waiting for the dialog options to load.” Because it 100% looks like they’re just waiting for some external force to move the conversation along. It reminds me of when boomers get the lead paint stare while waiting for the card reader to finish reading their chip. The machine will just be dinging at them to remove their card, the cashier will be like “Uhh sir? Please take your card” and the boomer will act surprised. Like they were just stuck in a loading screen while the rest of the party was already pulling mobs.
