ViatorOmnium
@ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
- Comment on FTC sues Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of "secretly and systematically overcharged" misleading advertisers on its platform by manipulating its pricing and auction systems. 6 days ago:
So the trick to get customer rights in the US is to be a corporation?
- Comment on Infuriating day of the week layout 1 week ago:
Weekend as in both ends. End can already mean extreme points of something.
- Comment on Infuriating day of the week layout 1 week ago:
I personally would put the one in the middle on top PR bottom, like
* * * * * * * - Comment on Infuriating day of the week layout 1 week ago:
7 is not divisible by 2, and the package designer wouldn’t settle for anything non symmetrical, so they took the playing card layout.
- Comment on ASML stands for Advanced Semiconductor Materials and Laser, and was an American company, so when did it become a French company? 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t. Even though it has an English name it was always based on the Netherlands.
- Comment on ASML stands for Advanced Semiconductor Materials and Laser, and was an American company, so when did it become a French company? 2 weeks ago:
ASML was never an American company. It started as a joint venture between the Dutch Phillips and the equally Dutch ASM, and when it became an independent company it remained in the Netherlands. Did you know non American companies are also allowed to have English names?
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 3 weeks ago:
I drank beer more often at 16 (which was the drinking when I was growing up) than I do now. And I did it for the flavour. Though granted I had better choices than american “Budweiser”.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I could find this particular one, but you can see examples like https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA23609, https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA25693, and https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA25017 to see what the pictures actually look like. While Jupiter’s storms seen from space do have a certain Van Gogh feeling, the one on this post has saturation and contrast dialled up to 11.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
NASA: heavily edits a grainy drab picture to make it look like a Van Gogh painting
Internet: Van Gogh must have had telescopic 3rd sight.
- Comment on No Enforcement ⚖️ 5 weeks ago:
Considering the 5 countries that were supposed to coordinate in enforcing the rules immediately went for each others throats and that two of them have a competition on who can accumulate more violations of international law, the UN is actually going an amazing job at preventing the world from going up in flames.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The prevailing theory in Europe at time was still Aristotle’s idea that a force was necessary for objects to remain in motion. The theories on how an arrow or any other thrown object remained in motion involved an impromptu Rube Goldberg contraption involving the object and the atmosphere.
- Comment on Urine Luck 1 month ago:
Wait until you find out where milk comes from.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 2 months ago:
⚽ is also an Adidas World Cup match ball.
The difference is that the design was streamlined and iconic enough to be timeless and become the football design in public mind.
Before the Telstar footballs looked like this:
- Comment on A FYI from Skeletor 2 months ago:
A superhero can just say go fuck yourself to law enforcement.
At this point they would probably be seen as supervillains by most people, especially if they are routinely destroying half of the city they are “saving”.
- Comment on A FYI from Skeletor 2 months ago:
Most countries like to at least pretend universal rule of law is a thing. How much “collateral damage” each country would accept would depend on national culture and how much the super heroes accepted government oversight, but I don’t see any government tolerating the average comic book hero as they are portraited.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 months ago:
I just checked and the most expensive restaurant I found in delivery platforms in Berlin costs about 35 Euros per person (with drink, taxes and delivery but without the tip). In most restaurants that would be the price of both meals. 100+ for delivery food is bananas, especially since the transportation is never kind on the food.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 months ago:
What are you ordering? I’ve seen Michelin star restaurants with cheaper options.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 2 months ago:
They could move the story forward with Atreus as the main character, that would still be familiar enough. Prequels are very hard to do right.
Terminator is a special case, because time travel limits the interesting time span for the story if you don’t keep erasing the previous movies plot.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 2 months ago:
With the current state of the entertainment industry I’m surprised they still didn’t do a LOTR movie explaining Tom Bombadil.
There isn’t a single exec that understands why it’s important for big narratives to have mysteries.
- Comment on Well said 3 months ago:
Amid the French fry furore, Rimm has since clarified that he was merely suggesting restaurants offer smaller plates of fries.
Smaller, not literally 6 small fries.
- Comment on Well said 3 months ago:
It was an hyperbole that flew over the journalists’ heads: https://www.sciencealert.com/you-should-only-be-eating-six-fries-per-serving-advises-harvard-nutritionist
- Comment on Rebuilding 3 months ago:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spinosaurus
Spinosaurus keeps getting reconned.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 3 months ago:
Those questions would only matter if this kind of police reaction wasn’t almost exclusive to the US. So American police are idiots.
In Europe there were a few cases in France, but they led to changes in police procedures to verify reports more thoroughly before busting through doors.
- Comment on Mint 3 months ago:
That’s why you always plant it next to strawberries and blackberries.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 4 months ago:
Do they claim that though? Neo-liberal economists often adopt praxeology openly, and the other ones are mostly deluding themselves.
- Comment on Batteries 4 months ago:
Perfect example, Skynet is an excellent engineer. Be like Skynet.
- Comment on Inside Project Nova, Firefox's biggest redesign in years 5 months ago:
Based on the rest I think they don’t mean actual natural language interface, but having enough personalisation options to setup the UI in a way that’s natural for your workflow. They are just speaking 2026-corporatise instead of English.
The full sentence is:
“Definitely, the idea of extensions and just customizations in general is: can you create more of like a natural language interface that lets people do everything they want?” Varma added. “For example, we announced an update that we’re doing to our design, which is called Project Nova. And a lot of people didn’t like the rounded corners modernization. Now, we can let people pick how round they want their corners. People care, so we put it in the settings.”
They also mention some misguided “AI” features, but not in this part.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 5 months ago:
There are a few close ones between Portuguese and Spanish but I can’t think of any that’s spelled exactly the same.
Between Portuguese dialects, the first that comes to mind is “puto” which just means young boy in European Portuguese and it’s a swear word meaning male prostitute in Brazilian Portuguese (Brazilian Portuguese technically makes more sense because it’s symmetrical to the female “puta” which always means “slut").
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 5 months ago:
Not all plant based leather uses plastic. It’s unfortunate that plant+plastic mixes are allowed to call themselves plant based leather.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 5 months ago:
Hydroelectric power stations still rely on steam, it’s just in another part of the cycle.
