AstaKask
@AstaKask@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on UK government should end rail outsourcing ‘racket’, says union 5 days ago:
For-profit corporations running critical infrastructure is just a hostage situation.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Also nice to not have to pick hair out of your mouth.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 1 week ago:
I swear social media people with a very limited grip on what “scam” and “grift” means are more obsessed with Star Citizen than us who actually play it. I log on to do some space trucking when I need to relax, or want to check out whatever new has been added. I’ve gotten more value out of that game in the last couple of years than any I’ve bought since. Many AAA games I don’t even remember playing.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 week ago:
Tbf. many Marantz receivers sound fucking awesome. Although mine’s from the 90s and cost me ~80€. Still blows anything I compare it to out of the water. A modern 1000€ Bluesound Powernode I used to have sounded anaemic in comparison. As a collector of obscure punk and prog vinyl I think it sounds best on a Frankensteined together system with some character that allows you to crank it loud.
- Comment on Bruh... 1 week ago:
Seventeen dicks according to Natalie Portman.
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 2 weeks ago:
This, or just the smell of my cast iron pan heating up.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 2 weeks ago:
I mean sure my cooking is better than most restaurants. Maybe they should go out of business. I very rarely tip. I pay the price that you put on the menu. That’s the deal.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have empathy, you’re just weird.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 2 weeks ago:
Disability as a subculture or identity is just really cringe. Especially the deaf/blind organisations lobbying against curing childrens deafness/blindness.
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 3 weeks ago:
The UK should do a major spelling reform and troll the shit out of the U.S and their then “archaic” English.
- Comment on Anon wants a job 3 weeks ago:
There’s only a shortage of workers who will work for starvation wages.
- Comment on winter fans 3 months ago:
I also used to be an office worker and lunchtime is for you and you only. If what you need is to sit alone with a podcast and decompress, people need to be respectful of that. People are usually more understanding than they’re given credit for.
- Comment on winter fans 3 months ago:
Find the time to go outside during work hours. Take a little walk or something. It’s easy for me since I used to be a smoker but I get how it would make other people uncomfortable. If you live in a northern country it’s very likely you have the right to these kinds of breaks.
- Comment on winter fans 3 months ago:
Fuck yes. “Winter depression” beats the shit out of summer exhaustion. Especially up here where the sun won’t stay down long for most of summer.
Give me snow and ice so I can wear my good boots and coat.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 months ago:
I’ve had the privilege of working with users with actual computer training. Old ladies who started working on terminals in the 70s and 80s. They were awesome, because they actually understood what they were doing. They could give me an accurate description of what they were doing when shit went wrong. They had real concerns and realistic requests for improvement. And they never blamed the computer when they encountered something they didn’t understand. They’re all dead or retired now.
Todays computer illiterate workforce is doomed to be incompetent because they don’t understand how their main tool works. Nobody bothered to train them.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 4 months ago:
Religion is the closest thing to true evil that exist on this planet. Insane cultists shouldn’t be allowed around children. Not even their own (they tend to mutilate them in order to mark them as members of their insane cult).
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 months ago:
No. Soldiers are very much protected from such orders in most countries. They can’t be held responsible for refusing to follow an illegal order.
I mostly hear the argument from civilians helping their employer commit crime.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 months ago:
Same in most of the world. Sucks that these machines brought tipping to places it didn’t exist before. Used to be only shitty tourist trap restaurants asked for tips in Stockholm. Now all the machines do.
Remember kids. Never tip, ever.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 months ago:
The “I’m just doing my job” defence. Nice.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 4 months ago:
They are way worse than 20 years ago. High school kids now grew up with Roblox on the iPad.
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 5 months ago:
Gf is on eyebrow duty because she enjoys plucking those extra thick long ones out. Otherwise I’d do it myself. Although there will come a time when I just let em go wild and embrace the old man look.
- Comment on ESO devs at ZeniMax reel from Microsoft's 'hollow' layoff emails, with some wondering how a 'carcass of workers' is 'supposed to keep shipping award-winning games' 5 months ago:
Making award winning games aren’t the most effective way to make a quick buck. Getting children addicted to gambling is.
- Comment on Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach that will stunt growth 5 months ago:
Everyone who works at Meta is a burden on society
- Comment on Gallium 5 months ago:
Nah. Better to just cut untrustworthy people from your life.
- Comment on Millions of tonnes of toxic sewage sludge spread on UK farmland every year 5 months ago:
Country folk used to have a clue about nature because they relied on it to survive. Now they’re just dumb rednecks with carbrain. Lately there’s a ton of country bumpkins in Sweden who wants to kill all the wolves because they occasionally harm or kill their loose pets (if your dog lives in your home, it’s a pet). They claim the wolves “aren’t good for anything in nature”. So we will likely have a massive increase of tick and mosquito borne illness soon due to deer overpopulation.
- Comment on Video Games Europe release a statement on Stop Killing Games 5 months ago:
A bunch of for profit corporations. If slavery was on the table they would be required to argue for it too.
- Comment on This is the dumbest idea ever 5 months ago:
No one over the age of 70 should drive. It’s simply not safe. Like putting a 7 year old in front of the wheel.
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 5 months ago:
Bike lanes doesn’t “decrease vehicle capacity”, quite the opposite. Maybe someone should explain what the word “vehicle” means to this dumb cunt.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 5 months ago:
It’s Amazon. Of course it’s a scam. I always tell elderly people it’s a criminal enterprise scamming old people when they ask about it.