sugarfoot00
@sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
Spicy water. Gross.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 3 weeks ago:
I just rewatched Earth Girls are Easy last week and that’d be on my list.
90 minutes of prime Gina Davis in a bikini doesn’t hurt either.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t Spanish for cable just cable (Cah-blay)? That’s what I’ve seen used in Mexico.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 4 weeks ago:
As a Canadian vending machine, the Cheetos removal may well have been political in the first place. I notice just about everything in there is made in Canada, unlike Cheetos.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 4 weeks ago:
If I was the vendor, I’d stock the whole thing with Cheetos and then snip the cord myself. Fuck that guy.
As an aside, this appears to be a Canadian vending machine (Miss Vickies, Lays flavours made in Canada, Canadian chocolate bars), so the Cheeto switch may have been political.
So to this guy- Get used to superior Hawkins Cheezies, and elbows up.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 4 weeks ago:
The only time I’ve ever seen one in use was a friend that had a shed that was powered with lights etc. He had an external plug box on the shed, and would use one of these to jumper from his extension cord to that external plug. It worked, but I shuddered when I saw it.
- Comment on Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ 14:55 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t see through to the end because Rossman was making the same point over and over and over and over. But what he didn’t talk about is that Netflix specifically does not provide the highest tier of quality to PCs. That’s to prevent piracy of super high quality streams. The blockage is very much intentional and not without cause. Similarly, Netflix often does not play well with a whole host of Android streaming devices over which they have no control of the stream for exactly the same reason.
I agree with him otherwise, I just wish he’d have gone into those reasons. Your super fast gaming rig being ‘not compatible’ has nothing to do with its impressive hardware specs.
- Comment on Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ 14:55 5 weeks ago:
Uh huh. It’s kinda been done. Don’t forget the cats.
- Comment on Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ 14:55 5 weeks ago:
A fun aside- Publishers are starting to discontinue paperback releases, meaning that it’s either going to be hardcover or digital from here on out. You won’t even be able to escape that way either.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 1 month ago:
That’s not true at all. It really depends on environment and proper curing. Where I live, carpenters will rarely use dimensional lumber that’s been stored indoors for these very reasons. It’s stored sheltered outdoors, where the air is dry but temperatures can fluctuate between +30C and -30C depending on season. When it’s been through that, it doesn’t automatically screw up like a silly straw the moment you bring it indoors into a warm and more humid environment.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 1 month ago:
Slowly grown wood is going to be as crooked as fast grown wood
No, it’s not. Slow growth leads to a tighter grain, greater density, and reduced moisture content. All of those things make it stronger and more stable. That means less twisting and warping.
But because it is increasingly rare, it is generally more expensive.
I recently did a renovation on my 1953 bungalow. The Douglas fir studs I removed from a wall are both laser straight and tough as guts. That wood is so hard that you can’t drive a modern nail into it without drilling a pilot hole first.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 1 month ago:
I learned to hate Phillips-head screws with a passion that’s lasted the rest of my life so far
You sound Canadian. You’re ready to enter the wonderful world of Robertson screws.
- Comment on History Channel 1 month ago:
Boy, you coulda just said that you don’t subscribe to any philosophy that doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker.
- Comment on History Channel 1 month ago:
Canada, most of Western Europe, Scandinavia- All have a greater blend of public and private responsibilities. Because there are some areas of interest that *benefit *from monopolies. Single payer health care. Industries vital to national security (resource ownership like Norway or Mexico as an example). Canada’s government-created Telsat celecommunications put the first commercial telecommunications satellite in orbit in the 70s, and now as a former crown corporation is set to have a better high-speed competitor to Starlink operational by 2026. Fire departments. Policing. Schooling. There are lots of examples where a socialist approach is preferable to unfettered capitalism.
- Comment on History Channel 1 month ago:
Wealth inequality is gaining traction. The standard of living of the average poor American is better today than it was in the 1960s. What has changed is how we feel about it. Wealth inequality makes us mad, but it has not resulted in worse overall living standards on an absolute scale.
How you can manage to speak with your head so far up your own ass is an amazing magic trick. Wealth has been decoupled from productivity for more than 50 years now. That’s just facts.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 month ago:
Like the way California people say their O’s
As a Canadian, it’s all I can hear when they speak.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 month ago:
Use a different email and a different browser. Turn off IP tracking in settings. You may even need to use a VPN.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 month ago:
Absolutely. I lost my 15 year account for using the phrase ‘burn it all down’ entirely metaphorically. They really, really didn’t like Canadians pushing back. Fuck those guys.
I hope Reddit dies in a fire, and not a metaphorical one. One with the ownership group literally aflame. And I’d like to roast marshmallows over that fire.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 months ago:
I agree with all of this, but I do have a bit of pushback- The account creation process, with the steps of create, verify, provide username to host, wait for invite, accept invite, pin to sidebar is enough of a barrier that it stops some people. I have a handful of guest accounts already setup and sorted that I toss out to interested people, and if they find it useful only then do I have them jump through the hoops of creating their own account.
- Comment on Oh Best Buy, if only it were that simple. 2 months ago:
Memory Express is your friend, especially in western Canada.
- Comment on Genius 2 months ago:
Damn, I’ve heard jokes about quebecios being snobby with their French but that seems excessive
It’s not snobby. From an anglo perspective, here’s how it plays out in reality:
WAITER: Qu’est-ce que vous voudrais? ME: Huh? WAITER: What would you like? ME: {proceeds to order}
…And life goes on.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 2 months ago:
Welcome to the club. Fuck that place.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 2 months ago:
After a decade there I also got permabanned. And then I got permabanned 3 more times with alt accounts for saying some pretty innocuous shit, but almost always political.
I finally got the message. Fuck you Reddit.
