skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Attitudes 1 day ago:
Post is in the correct sub and yet everyone in the comments is taking it entirely at face value. Are you all new, or are you just playing along?
- Comment on Word. 1 day ago:
LibreOffice is as good as Word. Which sadly means there are still no really good document editors out there.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 days ago:
I’m not actually sure. I’ve always answered it at face value, but I’m not a native speaker. I’ve probably been committing a faux pas, like disagreeing with a British person when they say “lovely weather today”.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 days ago:
The Chinese for “how do you do” translates as “have you eaten yet?”
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 3 days ago:
Ten years ago my position on piracy was broadly, “do it if you want, but don’t act like you’re justified or ethical”.
Now I’m convinced piracy is more ethical than feeding these monsters.
I also don’t consider it a change in my own values. It’s a change in how fucking awful and in need of dismantling the Corporation has got.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 4 days ago:
I should save this comments section for when I need examples of why social media should be banned. A ton of people being dicks to each other over whether they use a honey dripper or a teaspoon.
- Comment on Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms 1 week ago:
profoundly stupid
Hey, that was my favourite movie when it came out.
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 week ago:
A lot of races in Star Wars are dodgy stereotypes. Watto was so bad I think people just blanked it out.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 week ago:
For a moment I thought he was having a rare moment of clarity, but no, he was having a common moment of corruption
- Comment on I support this 1 week ago:
It’s hardly tinfoil hat time - I defy you to name a single poster anywhere on Lemmy who reads more like a repost bot than that particular user.
- Comment on I support this 2 weeks ago:
Yup. Also the post captions always read a bit too engagmentey, if that makes sense? Like either the account is a bot, or it’s one that being run cynically by a professional who’s following a set of guidelines to maximize reach over anything like sincere interest or value or humanity.
- Comment on I support this 2 weeks ago:
I’d recently blocked “LadyButterfly she/her” because I was getting fed up of her constant low effort ragebait, so I was surprised to see this post appear on my feed - it turns out she’s posting from multiple instances, presumably to get around either blocks or bans.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 2 weeks ago:
Yes that puzzled me too, I checked like 5 different transcripts and they all said the same thing.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 2 weeks ago:
The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house-martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter; yet these are not strangers to our land.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 2 weeks ago:
My 3rd generation iPad became functionally useless after only 6-7 years even though the hardware was pristine. Almost half of the apps on it, including some major ones like YouTube, started refusing to run because they had a mandatory Update, and the App Store wouldn’t provide updates for the newest iOS version that the 3rd gen could support.
Meanwhile my Windows laptop that I bought at the same time is still in service after 12 years.
Fuck Apple to infinity.
- Comment on I dunno 3 weeks ago:
There’s billions of people, literally billions of them
On lemmy?
- Comment on I dunno 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know how we’ve managed to get to 2025 and there’s still apparently people who haven’t seen a thousand shit PEMDAS posts already
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 weeks ago:
Epic Boss Tim Sweeney can go fuck himself
- Comment on Zero Chull 3 weeks ago:
Don’t be "both sides"ing this, one of those sides was bigger than the other by an extremely large margin.
- Comment on Following your dreams 3 weeks ago:
Memes are weird, like, you contributed nothing to its creation, yet you’re acting all defensive like it was yours
- Comment on Racism restaurant 3 weeks ago:
What was their central thesis?
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 3 weeks ago:
It’s easy to see why there was so much resistance to getting these released. It’s not just Trump in there, it’s every fucker, all chatting away pleasantly even when he’d already done one jail sentence for sex trafficking. Even Noam fucking Chomsky is cosying up to him.
- Comment on MAGA, splitting hairs. 4 weeks ago:
Yup, suddenly now they’re interested in nuance
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 4 weeks ago:
Anyone remember when Wikipedia was the default byword for Unreliable Internet Source? The internet used to be good.
- Comment on forbidden dots 5 weeks ago:
UP AND AT THEM
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 5 weeks ago:
Just so nobody forgets, North Face planted ads on Wikipedia, and then threw one of their regional managers under the bus when they got caught, as if to claim that it wasn’t really the real company doing it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You don’t even need to, you just need seven digits of numbers. As password formats go, it’s hella low entropy.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 weeks ago:
Your phrasing implies that the issue was that farmers all sat about at home not working because they weren’t getting paid. There were plenty of problems, but I’ve seen scant evidence that that the threat of getting fired for not doing your job was even in the top three.
- Comment on Why are some shows so dark? 1 month ago:
I can tolerate that, the one I can’t stand is Netflix shows where the ~dialogue is a mumbled quiet~ and random bits of foley try to blow my speakers out.
It makes it especially noticeable just how dodgy a lot of foley work is, eg when someone throwing a punch and missing still goes WHOOSH at the same volume they use for gunshots
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 month ago:
It doesn’t stand up on its own terms on other levels as well.
Even the most cynical misandrist interpretation of how research is funded would still lean towards men being given the agency on whether sex lead to pregnancy.