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- Comment on Lead writer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the finished Moon landing script 2 days ago:
Ah right, thanks!
- Comment on Lead writer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the finished Moon landing script 2 days ago:
In all seriousness, who was this really? Wasn't she some computer science pioneer or something?
- Comment on Are there any serial killers still active in the US today? With all the tech like dna, fingerprints, flock camera's etc. Would it be almost impossible to be one? 5 days ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Wettlaufer
For every new bit of technology, there's someone who finds a way to do stuff that the technology would never catch because the inventors of the technology never thought of the idea in the first point. Case in point, Elizabeth Wettlaufer is one of Canada's most prolific serial killers. They in all likelihood wouldn't have caught her if she herself hadn't confessed at some point. She was a nurse in a nursing home who regularly killed her patients by overdosing them on insulin. Because of the nature of her patients, those deaths never aroused enough suspicion to be investigated by police.
- Comment on Every heartwarming human interest story in America... 6 days ago:
Reddit had an orphan crushing machine subreddit... Maybe something to revive here?
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 6 days ago:
Yo dawg, I heard you like to hover.
- Comment on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers 1 week ago:
Air Canada 307 requesting clearance to land
You have clearance to land ON YOUR MOM lol
- Comment on Felt cute? 1 week ago:
I KNEW it! Girls do shit rainbows and rose petals!
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 1 week ago:
Nah, I'm just too much of an optimist. My bad.
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 1 week ago:
Jesus fuck now I'm being downvoted as well... Is this what they call a Reddit moment?
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 2 weeks ago:
Lol the /s was pretty glaringly obvious to me, but anyway...
- Comment on Lemmy or Piefed? 2 weeks ago:
+1 for mbin. The dev(s?) doesn't seem to be as problematic as the Lemmy dev and it federates with a whole range of fediverse systems. The only real complaints I had with it turned out to be me misunderstanding how it works (for instance not noticing that some of the stuff on my feed is Peertube since it's just really well integrated), so now that I understand that, I'm extremely happy with it.
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 3 weeks ago:
OK, got it! I tried going on a microblog post and opening the original URL, and sure enough, I landed on a Mastodon instance. Makes sense, I was sort of surprised at the amount of microblog content on kbin.earth, that explains that.
Awesome - thanks!
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 3 weeks ago:
I checked the global microblogs page, but I'm mostly seeing things posted to random@kbin.earth, with a couple of things posted to some Lemmy instances, but nothing posted to mastodon. Maybe I'm understanding the whole concept wrong? (Or I'm blind?)
But I did look at the Linux Experiment channel - and realized that I have seen their videos in my feed - awesome! And there, it makes sense that not as many of those pop up, since there are way less videos being created than posts made. But I now know that that works - cool! (And now I'm distracted by another of his videos...)
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 3 weeks ago:
OK, odd. So I guess something is off on my end.
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 3 weeks ago:
Don't quite understand. That would be in a separate feed then?
- Comment on Might be time to change prescriptions again 3 weeks ago:
Could be Rémi Gaillard. He always had the "c'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe quoi" quote on his videos (essentially: it's in doing whatever that you can become whatever)
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 3 weeks ago:
Good to know about the sorting, that explains why I barely see microblogs. The mixed feed is what I'm generally using, but I only ever see microblogs from kbin.earth and not anywhere else. I've checked to make sure it's set to all instances, as well as all magazines as mbin calls it, but still, only kbin.earth. Even if I just show microblogs. And I don't ever see anything from peertube. So I guess mbin does it, I must be doing something wrong somewhere...
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 3 weeks ago:
No, accessing content is directly what I'm looking for. I would specifically like to avoid having multiple accounts if possible. I'll have to check it out.
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 3 weeks ago:
Interesting discussion, I'll have to check it out, thanks!
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 3 weeks ago:
Ah OK, but it seems like you have to follow them first? I'm kind of looking for it in a general feed. Or am I maybe doing something wrong?
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 3 weeks ago:
Cool! (And not sure why the hell someone downvoted that)
Would that also apply to content that you're not directly subscribed to (in a kind of "all" feed)?
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- Comment on I hate Android! 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, the state of mobile OSs is quite sad. Everything is locked down, it's a duopoly of shit and shittier, and the Linux alternative just isn't daily driver worthy for the vast majority of users. And that's not because the development isn't going well - it's because phones have so much more proprietary shit that needs drivers, and that's if you can even unlock the bootloader in the first place, otherwise you're SOL.
- Comment on Microsoft Sam starts his car 3 weeks ago:
All stand for the YouTube National anthem 🫡
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 4 weeks ago:
Yes, that's essentially it. Also, for instance, if a company buys something in one month and pays for it the next, then the costs apply to the first month, but it affects the cash flow on the second.
- Comment on A masturbator 4 weeks ago:
🎶Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise🎶 - Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 4 weeks ago:
It's more complicated than that. The DB as an umbrella organization (consisting of over 100 companies) is publicly owned, but:
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The infrastructure is completely separated from operations, with a lot of regulations to make sure that the infrastructure company doesn't cooperate with any operations company for fear they might discriminate against other companies, effectively throwing sand into the gears of railroad operations because many communication paths that are standard in other railroads are banned.
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The companies that carry out operations are expected to be completely self-sufficient, with no direct support from the government, but only through contracts auctioned off to the lowest bidder for local services (definitely no connection with competing companies who bid really low regularly going bankrupt /s). Long distance services are expected to finance themselves but are expected to cross subsidize services to cities that aren't quite as lucrative (because they are, after all, owned by the government) and at the same time compete with companies that aren't government owned that just offer rides on the most lucrative routes.
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The budget that is available for infrastructure is decided by the government every year, meaning absolutely no financial stability. This means that construction companies don't end up growing because it could be too risky, and when suddenly there's a lot of work to be done the few construction companies that are able to do the work demand insane prices and conditions, and the infrastructure company is essentially forced to swallow if they want anything done at all.
Source: I work in this clusterfuck.
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- Comment on Can anyone tell me what type of bird this is I keep seeing? 4 weeks ago:
Fucking hell why do I see this right before I go to sleep. Goddammit.
- Comment on Xbox live days were wild 4 weeks ago:
Rule 1: your mother is the biggest object known to mankind.
Rule 2: despite that, everyone has had intercourse with her.
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, it's not really a part of my vocabulary, but I think a bit of history on the term is interesting here.
The word "woke" actually came from a certain segment of the left, originally, to describe themselves. They were using it as to say "we're awake and are aware of the way things are", almost the way some people (with vastly different opinions) talk(ed?) about being redpilled. Mind you, it was often used as a kind of virtue signalling, which already gave it a fairly snobby undertone. Add to that that it implied that everyone else was asleep or dreaming, and it was not well received by many, not just amongst the right. That's where it was picked up by the right to be used to this day as "anything that seems left of my position that I want to rail against", taking advantage of that poorly received undertone and painting everything to the left of them with that brush. Meanwhile, it's been ages since I've seen someone on the left use the term to describe themself unironically.