CmdrShepard49
@CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Don't poor people split the bills on dates? 4 days ago:
Yeah i question OPs definition of rich people because it sounds eerily similar to incel “Chad/Stacy alpha/beta wouldn’t date…”
The truly wealthy 0.1% probably wouldn’t care who pays the bill because it’s less than pocket change to them. The rest might split it or splurge and pay for their date depending on how far into the relationship they are.
- Comment on Is a video streaming co-op a useful idea? 5 days ago:
A: In the US at least, it’s illegal to stream movies you don’t own or don’t have the license to stream. By participating in the co-op, when you stream a movie, ownership of that physical media and the digital copy is temporarily transferred to you.
Is it illegal to stream or is it just illegal to upload files?
Also how does ownership transfer to the user and how are they streaming physical, DRM-protected media? I would think it was the distribution company who determines who gets licenses not a coop that just happens to own a copy of the movie.
I’m not sure I see the difference between this and you just giving your friends and family access to your Plex/Jellyfin server. It seems like the same thing but with more self-imposed hoops to jump through that don’t really change the legality of anything, but IANAL.
- Comment on When you send old camcorder cassettes to a digitising service, do they watch the contents? 5 days ago:
Busted.
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 1 week ago:
And the rails are all privately owned.
- Comment on I got an ad in this community 1 week ago:
I don’t know why, but I find the “DrinkCocaCola@programming.dev” username to be one of the funniest parts.
It’d be hilarious to spin this off with instance tailored versions like a DrinkCocaCola@hexbear.net that comes in with death threats toward Pepsi drinkers followed by brigading from DrinkDietCoke and DrinkSprite who post nonsensical memes in support.
- Comment on I got an ad in this community 1 week ago:
Reddit and lemmy are a mirror image of the internet not of themselves or each other.
- Comment on I got an ad in this community 1 week ago:
As a fellow Dr. Pepper® head and conpletely alive human, wouldn’t you agree that Diet Dr. Pepper® offers less calories but with that same great Dr. Pepper® taste?
- Comment on How does one who doesn’t have a ‘home’ choose their team? 1 week ago:
Spoken like a true Team Jacob fan. We Team Edward folks have a little more integrity than to just pick a team willy nilly.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 1 week ago:
So what if it’s their job when they clearly aren’t doing it and have no connection to the neighborhood? This is a lame appeal to authority fallacy.
Some random official and random engineer checks some bad plans and paperwork and claims “stop signs and crosswalks aren’t needed” so we should just automatically defer to their decision despite the residents who actually live at and use this intersection overwhelmingly claiming the exact opposite? That’s utter nonsense.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 1 week ago:
I just think this guy’s approach is king because he put in a ton of time and effort to do it right with expensive materials, has a very sympathetic cause, and has all of the public and media on his side with the city looking like unreasonable bad guys. Another example of this is the guy who updated a freeway sign (also in CA) to better show the upcoming split and was never caught. He waited until the statute of limitations ran out and published the story of himself doing it online
When you start tearing up the road that you and your neighbors use daily, people are going to turn on you and make you a pariah which not only hurts yourself but also your cause. I bet you this man’s charges get dropped and the city will cave to get some good PR with very little effort.
Now for places with a shit ton of potholes and bad roads, I think spray painting dicks or other vulgar things on them is very effective vandalism because the examples out there show that the city/county will be quick to correct the issue and everyone has a laugh about it.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 1 week ago:
Much like that park bathroom that was going to cost something like $2M to install in San Francisco. Once the residents and news got ahold of the story, suddenly the bathroom would only cost $100k to install.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 1 week ago:
He’s not a random person, he’s a resident of the neighborhood where he made the change. City officials and this alleged traffic engineer would be considered the “random people” here as they have absolutely zero stake in any of this.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 1 week ago:
That seems counterproductive because it just antagonizes people. His method blends in with the rest of the road and will likely gain much better compliance from drivers.
- Comment on How to stop a parent from jumping into the nearest religious rabbit-hole to cope with a divorce? 1 week ago:
When I was looking at potential therapists, there were more than a few that slapped their Christian beliefs right there on their website and made it a point to state that they integrate their faith into their therapy, so there are probably options like that available to them.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 1 week ago:
Its because they’ve already burned through all the good ideas and iterative designs have reached the point of diminishing returns. What’s something 2026 tech can do that six-year-old 2020 tech couldn’t? With the introduction of AI, a lot of tech has become objectively worse with no replacements in sight.
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 1 week ago:
Not sure I believe you’re Italian when you didn’t use a hand gesture emoji anywhere in your comment.
- Comment on Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film. 1 week ago:
So we can expect Liam Neeson or Jared Leto as the next Bond, phoning it in for 2.5 hours
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 1 week ago:
This sounds like a conspiracy theory.
- Comment on Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope 2 weeks ago:
Two government sources, which as we all know always report truthfully and without bias about street drugs. The same government that made weed illegal because it “lead to race mixing,” “jazz musicians to create Satanic music,” and caused people to go violently insane.
- Comment on Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope 2 weeks ago:
So that means xylazine is being mixed in and it even has its own name “tranq?”
- Comment on Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope 2 weeks ago:
Just because heroin and fentanyl are prevalent on the streets doesn’t mean that every claim that sounds like it was sourced from a 1990s chain letter is true. That’s an absurd assertion. The commenter I replied to didn’t mention either of these drugs in their comment.
- Comment on Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope 2 weeks ago:
According to whom?
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 2 weeks ago:
Just a guess, but maybe because S02 finished production and now would be the time to begin production on S03 including signing contracts with the cast and crew. If they didn’t announce it, then all of those people out of work would sure as hell shout it from the rooftops.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 2 weeks ago:
Most definitely. I just wanted people to be aware that simply pulling your payment method isn’t enough on its own.
- Comment on How are you supposed to pronounce "Macklemore"? 2 weeks ago:
I say this when I want refills on my mac n cheese.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 2 weeks ago:
Just because aware this doesn’t terminate whatever contract you had and they can take you to court if they wanted to.
- Comment on My brother has or had now a drinking problem. Now he is asking for the worst tasting crap that he can take a cap full like an airplance bottle so his body whenever he thinks about it will remember 2 weeks ago:
How about instead of gross alcohol, he punches himself in the balls when he wants to drink? He’ll still get the Pavlovian response but without having to continue drinking.
- Comment on What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph? 2 weeks ago:
I imagine it would probably rip them to pieces, but then again what kind of drag does a fly encounter in the air?
- Comment on So what's your take on Pokopia? 3 weeks ago:
I got it last week and it has been taking up all my free time since then. I’ve also never been into casual games like this (Animal Crossing didnt do it for me) nor minecraft, but I’m enjoying the combination of both.