Zephorah
@Zephorah@discuss.online
- Comment on I dunno 1 day ago:
Alternatively, the poster calculated the wrong answer, thus assuming this guy was wrong.
- Comment on Booking.com cancelled woman's $4K hotel reservation, then offered her same rooms for $17K 4 days ago:
Booking.com seems great until something goes wrong. Then, there’s no remediation.
Show up and discover a dirty, roach motel homeless flophouse instead of a vacation rental. The pictures are of the hotel but from a different time.
Good odds you won’t be able to get a refund.
Booking.com customer services words: We just talked to the owner, and they say it’s not like that, denied.
Send pictures. “Your picture…”. You mean pictures, plural? “No, there’s only one picture.” Try again. “Ok, I have multiple pictures.” And? “I don’t see the problem.” Mold isn’t a problem? “The owner says there’s no mold.” And the picture? “The owner says there’s no mold.”
Booking.com is awful.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 week ago:
It exists. Or did. Menslib over on that other platform.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 week ago:
Ferengis are known outside of the Star Trek fan base. A well travelled species.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 1 week ago:
Water useage by data centers in Georgia, cannot be revealed to the public because that information is under NDA.
Nothing is that useful.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 1 week ago:
If local city council representation would simply vote with the wishes of their voters, then we would have no data centers.
These people are guilty of fraudulent representation and should be recalled.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 1 week ago:
I’ve been listening to way too many Behind the Bastards podcasts in a row this week, but, apparently, Peter Thiel’s pick for the antichrist is a nebulous finger point towards the anti-AI movement.
All of it, the data centers going up faster than a fireworks tent on fire combined with decreased regulation and the dismantling of democracy reads as pure Thiel.
In short, this AI crap isn’t going away anytime soon.
- Comment on After Elon Musk’s Boring Co. was cited for serious safety violations, the Nevada governor’s office stepped in. Then someone deleted evidence of that meeting 1 week ago:
I had to look that one up. Trump blurted it out last year. Fits with present policy, which has Thiel vibes.
- Comment on After Elon Musk’s Boring Co. was cited for serious safety violations, the Nevada governor’s office stepped in. Then someone deleted evidence of that meeting 1 week ago:
I spent 4 hrs chaining Behind the Bastards on Thiel. My brain is still recovering.
The object is to dismantle democracy for a version if city-state style tech/corporate/billionaire whimsy rule instead.
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal and all the rest.
If workers get hurt in the process, they do not care.
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 3 weeks ago:
Anything but Yelp. Depending.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
That’s the episode I cited.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Weird. My stay at home mom and favorite aunt watched it back when TVs had 5 stations on a dial. They introduced me, female, to it at a young age. None of us are Trump voters.
The only dislike expressed was for the Spock’s brain episode. They still talk about what a terrible episode they thought it was.
Where is this article getting their demographic numbers, wishful thinking? The wiki says it’s always been a diverse viewership with a slight skew to male.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yes. The character arcs are the best thus far. It’s less “police procedural” than the prior two. And Sisko is the best Captain.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yes. That’s from Deep Space Nine. S5E6 Trials and Tribbleations. A neat mashup that puts the DS9 crew into the original tribbles episode.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. Star Trek is the original woke.
A black woman was part of command staff on the bridge.
They entertained TVs first interracial kiss.
Their society doesn’t involve money.
They have a no interference policy as the prime directive, completely opposite the bottom line of the United States.
Roddenberry knew Takei was gay.
For an example of TOS’ level of woke, please refer to Season 3, Episode 15: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
- Comment on What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage? 1 month ago:
He wants pets and is using the stair edges to handle it himself.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 1 month ago:
Any media we can own outright is a win.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 1 month ago:
No, this is more common, or at least it’s more talked about, than 30 years ago.
Worse, if we can get some hard data on this, it may reinforce the trend that humans have way more stress than they should regarding unfiltered things. No, not stress, stress in general is normal. Capacity. They have no capacity, or willingness, to process through it, they’d rather run away and hide so they do that instead.
Similar to MurderBot diaries, in that MurderBot struggles with his human interactions, thinks eye contact is the absolute worst, and so, instead of using his own eyes to interact, he uses the eyes of his little drones to watch the humans in his life.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
I wasn’t even aware it was a sub, but if course it is. What could possibly be so alluring in paramount that has a bigger pull than Disney and ESPN content?
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
What’s the boycott there?
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
GOG. It’s not all games, but you can own some of them. Steam, in spite of the CEO that keeps it decent, started this lease under the guise of buying model.
That said, subs are much worse. If the Disney/Kimmel situation taught us anything, it’s that boycotts work.
Subs are costing most Americans, on average, $300/mo. (More Perfect Union covered it.). That’s a monthly grocery bill for 1-2, if you buy right and cook. Subs are part of the “squeeze” that siphons money to the top 1%.
- Comment on Steady 2 months ago:
Doesn’t even have to be a doctor. An ED or ICU nurse would cover most needs.
- Comment on Steady 2 months ago:
This is why most medical dramas are irritating.
- Comment on Know your place 2 months ago:
Getting a lot of memes with errors like this lately.
- Comment on Police seek man who called for Keir Starmer to be ‘assassinated’ at far-right rally 2 months ago:
Social contagion is real.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
I’m still convinced flat earthers are an internet hoax/troll.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
I think it was a joke. A little levity in the midst of all this chaos and intentional hardship.
Yes, the deal with dairy farmers drinking the unpasteurized milk from their cows daily is that it’s consumed within 24hrs and then replaced with the next days milk.
RFK is a dipshit and MAGA is likely running with him for two reasons. Cutting FDA regs, insurance policing, fluoride, and vaccines save money. (Put another way, it keeps “their” money where it belongs, away from the working class.) It also thins the herd in the continuing decline of available resources while the planet fails.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
I lol’d.
- Comment on Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy one of the world's foremost experts on public health. He is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization 2 months ago:
Kennedy is a dipshit.
- Comment on Right... 2 months ago:
This sounds like the title of a ChubbyEmu video.