AbsolutelyClawless
@AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social
- Comment on 10 miles to escape a bill 5 hours ago:
Croatia, Austria, Slovenia… going up the mountains in flip-flops in 35+ degrees Celsius weather with little to no water. Every. Damn. Year. Lol.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Everything others said, plus you can choose your client. For example, I use VoidTV for Jellyfin on my TV which offers a different design (though I use it because it’s the only Jellyfin client where DD video+audio work).
- Comment on Weekend drinks 3 days ago:
Not everything is AI slop. Oldest instance I could find of this with a quick search is from 2019.
- Comment on Bean there, done that. 4 days ago:
The latest game should have been Count the beans instead of rice, smh.
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 1 week ago:
Slovakia, are you okay?
- Comment on a wonderful world 1 week ago:
I love the colors.
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 2 weeks ago:
My main annoyance is when USians shit on Russians for not standing up (many are, and they’re locked up or disappeared) to one of the most authoritarian governments in the largest country in the wrold. While in the same breath saying things you just said about doing something back home.
I’m not saying that’s what you’re doing. It’s just something that grinds my gears, and I’m neither Russian nor American. Shit is difficult when you live in countries that are realistically too large to effectively organize.
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 weeks ago:
Not entirely sure what the point of your comment is.
However, most influencers/"content creators” aren’t wealthy. Only the top of the top. I can’t tell you the percentage, but I know for a fact many of them are compensated only in paid travel and accommodation when traveling to promote whatever they’re paid to promote. They don’t get actual money. I know because there’s an influencer in my partner’s extended family who was pushed into the “business” very young by their parent.
There are also many who earn just enough as if they were working a regular 9-5 job. And if their viewership drops — which it usually does — they’re fucked.
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 weeks ago:
Funny how he finally managed to buy his own place after ditching LTT. Just another proof how much wealth the rich are extracting from us.
(PS: no severance package after working for so long for LTT is such a dick move)
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t watched LTT in a long time (basically ever since it was publicly obvious the money got to his head and everything that comes with ego), so when I saw somewhere he bought a jet, I first thought it was April Fools. Then after a short research I realized he’s for real. My partner, on the other hand, was convinced I fell for it, and it took me a while to prove him otherwise.
Absolutely wild what Linus managed to convince (some of?) his fanboys. People will suck off filthy rich assholes like it’s their job.
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
I learned my lesson when my banking app had an error with location detection and wouldn’t let me pay. Luckily I was with someone I could borrow the money from. I now always carry a backup, lol.
- Comment on For those who are super against to AI/LLM today. What was the catalyst how did you reach to this point? If you have the power to change our current situation what would you do. 4 weeks ago:
It’s shocking to see how lazy people are. I get the work stuff, it’s usually boring and many hate their jobs. But when it’s for personal stuff? Seriously, you’re offloading all your thinking to a random generator machine? If you have no curiosity about anything in life and want to be an LLM zombie, what’s the point of living at all?
- Comment on porch of geese 5 weeks ago:
I meant to write “US and A” like the above comment pointed out 😄 But either way, if inserted out loud in while speaking a non-English language, it’s weird. Especially if people you talk to aren’t chronically online, lol. Imagine speaking German and then unironically saying “US and A” in English.
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 5 weeks ago:
You mean like the president who literally called his voters stupid and does exactly the detrimental shit to the country he ran his campaign on? Yeah, I get the skepticism, lol.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 month ago:
I started saying “US of A” out loud because of internet memeing and one time it slipped during a (non-English) language class. I genuinely didn’t clock why people were laughing. I didn’t register I said that instead of the proper way.
- Comment on 🙄🙄🙄 1 month ago:
Yep, I still check regardless.
- Comment on Meow meow meow 1 month ago:
And then we have mink trained to exterminate rats together with dogs. That might be the most entertaining way of rat extermination to watch.
- Comment on Meow meow meow 1 month ago:
I know it’s a meme com, but they really aren’t. In this case it’s more about humans being “dumb”. They try to apply the same methodology they use with dogs to cats. And that in itself is dumb. There are studies out there that treat cats as cats and yield actual results.
Another thing is there’s much, much more funding for dog research simply because dogs are far more useful to humans than cats. E.g. guide dogs for blind people, other service dogs, bomb sniffer dogs, rescue dogs, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I usually spend 5 minutes retracing my mental steps to figure out what it was, because I have to make sure I keep worrying. Brain, just let it go, goddamnit!
- Comment on There was an attempt... 1 month ago:
Not really deserved 😂 (For more info see my other comment in this thread.)
- Comment on There was an attempt... 1 month ago:
I can confirm that for Croatia it’s accurate to a point. At the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century two separate towns had an outbreak of syphilis, and therefore the disease was named after these two places locally. From my understanding, in both cases the disease was mostly transmitted due to poor hygiene, and not much through sexual contact. In the second town, aside from the aforementioned, a bunch of kids and their families were infected because the local doctor vaccinated the kids against pox using materials from an infected child, unintentionally.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 2 months ago:
I personally don’t use Idealo, but I’ve seen it. Good heads-up.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 2 months ago:
Gonna guess Idealo and Geizhals. They don’t cover everything, but they’re pretty decent, yeah.
- Comment on I only date virgins 2 months ago:
- Comment on Just animal noises 2 months ago:
My father’s counterargument to my refusing to procreate is exactly this. “Who’s going to take care of you when you’re old?” What that told me is his main reason for having kids was to have someone do that for him. Funny, because despite having lived under the same roof, he wasn’t much in my life, or has made any positive inpact on me. Everything was on mom (and sometimes grandmother). And now listening to him talk like some day I will move back to the country and abandon my entire life to take care of him/them, while right at this moment he’s being extremely financially irresponsible? Cool cool cool. My partner’s mother expects the same, all the while she doesn’t work at all because it’s beneath her.
With that said, I find having children for the sole purpose of them taking care of me in my old age not only selfish (especially with the imminent climate colapse), it’s also risky (and I’m not even talking cases where the child has disabilities and can’t take care of their own needs). And that’s in the case I even live that long.
- Comment on I only date virgins 2 months ago:
It’s the melon fucker.
- Comment on Anyone feeling like doesn't belong anywhere? 2 months ago:
7 years in another EU country for me.
My home country has continued to rapidly decline in QoL, so going back isn’t really in the cards. I don’t feel at home there at all, except for no language barrier and just knowing the culture and how to navigate it. But to be honest, I’ve always wanted to emigrated, I just hated the average backwards mentality.
I don’t exactly mind the country I live in, but the language barrier keeps things difficult. I had to learn the language in a short amount of time, but it caused a bad burnout, and all the progress went down the drain. Now between being employed and health and other life things, it looks like I’ll never actually learn the language. And the (family) history (kind of) repeats itself.
- Comment on Ballin' too hard 2 months ago:
Been there. Another job, got constantly teased by male coworkers and had to pretend I found it funny just so they would get bored quicker.
Mentally sending daggers in your coworkers’ direction, and hoping you find a better environment.
- Comment on Ballin' too hard 2 months ago:
Kind of the same. My coworkers aren’t bad people or anything, but… I work in a male-dominated field. I’m the only woman in my office and department. IYKYK.
- Comment on Takes one to know one 3 months ago:
Damn, it’s just a name in my region, never seen it in that light 😂