skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Deleting my certified banger of a comment on WomensStuff because I respect the rule 1 hour ago:
Go on a linux forum and post “as a windows user…”
Go on PC gamers and post “as a console gamer…”
Would have a problem with being told “this is not for you” then? No, you wouldn’t.
This is a terrible example, because yes absolutely I would indeed consider the mods to be militant over-the-top a-holes if they deleted and blocked all comments from Windows or console users.
- Comment on US education 17 hours ago:
What are birds? We just don’t know.
- Comment on get sum 20 hours ago:
Speculating wildly, I think it was a lot more common back then for teenagers to just disappear off for hours on end without their parents knowing where they were.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
For sure they’re bait; the ones that aren’t AI are still clearly written to a formula.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Yeah, I’ve been seen this fallacy over and over again ever since ChatGPT was first released. This model gave them the answer they expected, so everything will be ok if you just use this model for all your questions from now on.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
haha, I came here to post the exact same thing. The only times you see “YTA” are when OP is pushing on one of reddit’s triggers, regardless of any other aspect of the situation.
- Comment on Become back status quo 1 day ago:
Why does it have to be a bank card?
- Comment on Become back status quo 1 day ago:
Part of me kind of wants these companies to stick to their guns. Once people start to find alternative payment methods for their adult content, maybe they’ll start using those methods for everything else as well and cut Visa, Mastercard et al out of their lives completely.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
The up/downvote history of your post was interesting. Seems like the downvotes all hit at the same time…
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 3 days ago:
It’s also why American global hegemony is bad; they all tend to move in lock step with each other. If there were a few more European and Asian payment providers out there we’d be a bit more diversity of policy and true consumer choice.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 4 days ago:
One of the great mysteries of the 21st century is how a tiny number of US companies control most of the world’s payment processing, when it’s not a technically difficult problem.
You could implement an entire end-to-end payment processing system in a year with a team of a few dozen competent engineers. The only difficulty is getting banks and retailers to sign up to it, but when the big players charge so much and create so much trouble this doesn’t seem like it should be a tough sell. In most cases literally all you’d need to do is charge 2.4% instead of their 3%.
- Comment on I want this on a t-shirt 5 days ago:
Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail… Boom, right away, I had a different problem.
- Comment on These totally legitimate comments 6 days ago:
One day openai will drop a new model that uses fewer emojis, affecting a billion comments sections all over the internet
- Comment on I'm doing my part 6 days ago:
I feel like the phrase “state monopoly on violence” has so many loaded words in it that people see it and assume it’s a bad thing by definition, when in fact it describes a cornerstone of all civilized society.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 6 days ago:
I thought it was quite funny, and very obviously a joke.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 6 days ago:
Yeah. The criminal justice system doesn’t always get it right, but it’s still a better system than anyone being able to have anyone else lynched by calling them a pedo on unsafe evidence.
- Comment on Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA 1 week ago:
Remember, when tech bros complain that Regulations Stifle Innovation, this is the kind of “innovation” they’re talking about.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 1 week ago:
I think that person’s logic goes like, “government run” = “artificially propped up” = “doesn’t count as real growth”.
It’s the final form of capitalist indoctrination to only be able to reason about other systems through its lens.
- Comment on Anon wants robux 1 week ago:
Brothers, it is once again time to give away a massive yacht.
- Comment on english snaccs 2 weeks ago:
I have just learned that Smirnoff is (now) British, which I didn’t expect
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
The dimensions of the pink paper look just very slightly shorter than either A4 or US Letter. Sure, it could have been trimmed, but why would you go to the effort of trimming such a tiny amount on an otherwise low effort poster?
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I thought the same, can’t pinpoint it exactly, but even if it’s not AI it’s definitely fake as fuck regardless.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Circles of Control theory.
mindowl.org/the-circle-of-control/
(I tried finding a more academic source but DuckDuckGo wasn’t playing nicely so have the hippy self-help site instead)
- Comment on english snaccs 2 weeks ago:
It saddens me how many British classics are now owned by American companies or Nestle.
“Valeo Foods” who own most of the traditional brands like Barratt’s, Fox’s mints, Barker & Dobson, Mojo, Poppets, McCowan’s and a ton of others, is actually owned by US Republican Mitt Romney’s company Bain Capital (which isn’t even a publicly traded company).
Mondelez’ acquisition of Cadbury’s everyone knows about already, and Mars was American to begin with even though all their best items originated in the UK.
Terry’s also got bought by Kraft/Mondelez but they’ve since been sold to a French company, which I guess is better than most of the alternatives.
As far as I can tell, Tunnocks are pretty much the only British chocolate left.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What’s weird is that recently I only ever see it used inappropriately. The thing being highlighted in this meme wasn’t particularly objectionable or weird, so pulling a “Nobody:” on it just makes it look like OP is desperately trying to crowbar their observation into a meme.
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic but yeah. Head them off in the direction you want them to go, just like sheepdogs do.
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 3 weeks ago:
AI seems to really love that extreme high contrast side-lighting on everything. Then the text itself is irregular in a very non-human kind of way, like there’s no natural processes that would result in an ‘E’ like the one in ‘BECAUSE’.
Then you’ve got the person’s face, which if it were drawn by an artist of the skill level we’d expect from the rest of the piece, one would imagine they’d do a better job of conveying some sort of personality or emotion.
AI Art is fundamentally antisocial because it’s the Art equivalent of the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle; it took less effort for OP to create that than it did to pick apart exactly why it feels so unsatisfying and unsettling in all the wrong ways. Always downvote AI Art.
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
Heat accelerates decomposition. Cold burns tissues. Water logfing from rain would be a nuisance, at least.
I think most “undead” type zombies handwave that sort of stuff away as part of the powers that animate them in the first place. It’s only really an issue for “virus” type zombies.
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
I figured they chased them in a big circle. Or did laps. Or anything other than a completely straight line.
- Comment on Made Ya Look... 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. The problem with capitalism is that if you’re not willing to fuck things up for short-to-medium term benefit before moving onto the next thing, you’ll go out of business to someone who is.