schwim

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?⁩ ⁨⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not any different than me not giving a shit if you get killed. We all signed up for this continued existence and we’re all dying at the end. Best of luck on your run but I’m not going to lose any sleep when you check out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the first game you ever bought ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Colecovision pong in the early 80s for console. Commander Keen would be my first for PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's wounds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do play with it every once in a while but if it’s not problematic setting up or there are some settings that don’t work correctly, invariably, there will eventually come a game update that breaks it on linux.

  For all it’s flaws, the games I play have never needed more than an install in Windows. I know that may not be the case for all games, I can only speak to the games I enjoy playing.

  I have used it since the 90s as my main machine and have nothing but love for it but Linux is not there yet for my gaming needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's wounds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it continues to play my games without issue, I couldn’t care less what they do with it. I use a second machine with a KVM switch; Windows runs games only and the second machine running linux does absolutely everything else. Installing fresh, blocking telemetry and blackholing windows update domains has worked fantastically for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is school cafeteria food in America trash?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When the government allowed corporations into the schools with soda and snack machines in exchange for a kickback in the 80s, any hope of a bureaucrat looking out for the kids’ health was dead. Once they could use the excuse that most kids weren’t making use of a subsidized nutritious lunch(very loosely using the phrase) because they were bringing their own or eating their lunch from the machines, they didn’t even need to try any longer.

  https://www.nuvending.co.uk/news/history-of-vending-machines-in-schools/ (Ironically, a post from a corporation installing the vending machines points but it makes the necessary points)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gacha Game Apologizes For Giving Players Malware With Some Free Loot Boxes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, as long as they’re sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I were to go out steal 34 cars. And charged with 34 felonies. One per each car. Could I not use the presidents case in defense of my own? Why or why not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, because you’re not valuable enough to the billionaires running the country to stay out of prison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve always excelled at terrorism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on your communities. There are plenty of proudly toxic people on the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that the corpos and billionaires know that they can be openly and brazenly corrupt and greatly accelerate their schemes, we will never see a return to the politics of old where hiding it minimized profit regardless of who the next puppet figurehead is. You cannot un-ring the bell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird for parents to keep saying "I love you", then asks "Do you love me?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not intimately familiar with the culture but as an American, it would be something that would make me uncomfortable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Others carry thoughts they would never attach to their name anywhere.

  As do I, I guess the difference being that sharing that thought without self-attribution would serve me no better than keeping it safe inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see an argument that the exit node is someone else’s computer. An an example of this risk, honeypot Tor exit nodes.

  In this context, however, I would trust Mullvad’s exit nodes, I think. Well, do trust them, since I use them, just not for anything that would get me in hot water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, as they say, it takes all kinds but I wouldn’t want to be on either end of an anonymous confession of any magnitude.

  I neither benefit from yelling my secrets into the void or reading someone else’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alex Jones CRASHES Out on Tim Pool's Show Over Joe Rogan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to the social internet, where people comment on this shit content you post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alex Jones CRASHES Out on Tim Pool's Show Over Joe Rogan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is absolutely no reason on earth that watching this video could benefit a person in any way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was literally my point. The reason there’s no linux phone is because everyone keeps trying to work within Google’s ever-shittier restrictions instead of having made real progress on a linux phone alternative. Now everyone is staring down the barrel of a scenario where they lose their non-Google android phone and still the entities that are supposedly working for our privacy are writing letters to Google asking them to please not be such a corporate giant intent on serving ads and knowing the location of 100% of their OS users.

  The linux phone landscape is so terrible because developers keep wasting their time trying to work with Google instead of offering an alternative that works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As developers keep trying harder to appeal to Google’s kindness and not kill off privacy-based usage of it’s OS, we just keep falling further behind in creating a real-world usable linux phone that can do everything a phone is supposed to do.

  Instead of writing a strongly worded letter to Google, EFF should have used this chance to let the community know that the boat is sinking and it’s long past time to jump ship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any reason we were taught in school that blood is blue in the body until it reaches oxygen and then it turns red other than our veins look blue?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think most people that think they were taught this in school actually just heard it a lot from random friends and acquaintances, as I did. I heard this all the time but never from a scholarly authority.

  YMMV, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It seems like when I eat meat my ears ring more. Any ideas if what causes this? Not so much with hamburger but more with pork. Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might it be related to the chewing of a tougher food? My tinnitus gets worse sometimes when my TMJ is acting up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is what American Christians really believe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He is simply too long-winded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US we have signs that say No Shirt No Shoes No service. When did this become a norm? Also if I am wearing a shirt and shoes but no pants can I still enter?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember these signs when I was a kid in south FL in the 70s. It was popular to keep the beachgoers out, I don’t know if it was to keep the company out of hot water should something happen to the shirtless or shoeless customer while they’re in the store or whether it was just a choice in who to serve.

  As for your question about pants: Since the “No shirt….” phrase isn’t there to make something legally binding but rather a notice to people that this particular business is exercising their right to not serve you, no, you likely won’t get served without pants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prominent Pastor’s Son Sentenced to Six Years For Possessing ‘Torture’ CSAM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Peternel read an apology in court, apologizing for his action, saying he was ashamed of his son, * and shared that he was giving his life to Christ. *

  Because Christians aren’t perfect, just ̶u̶n̶f̶a̶t̶h̶o̶m̶a̶b̶l̶y̶ ̶e̶v̶i̶l̶ forgiven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was your social media path?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  local dial-up BBSs sharing gif and wav clips and chatting about anything that you felt like at the moment AOL chatrooms free hosted forums on Anglefire and Geocities Larger forums(SA, Fark, etc) FB/instagram Lemmy/Piefed

  I think that would be my path as it relates to communities where I actually ended up having a social community involved. I would say that it also is a direct increase in toxicity as it works downward. I find Lemmy/Piefed just as toxic as any other platform but the lack of a forced algorithm lets me basically mute all of the negative content sources and it’s niche enough that you can actually mute the negative influence, which makes for a pleasant experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine the fact that they allow the embedding of videos on other sites make it hard to restrict the playback to that degree. There seems to be a tipping point at which they’ll work on breaking something, more than likely based on it’s popularity When enough 3rd party frontends figured out background playback, they took the time to develop a way to break it. I think the same will happen when they feel too many people are circumventing their data scraping, ads or algorithms. They’ll finally go all in but it’s clear that they don’t want to do that just yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what I would have done in her position. Having to make either choice(waiting or sending one child) would have put me in analysis paralysis, I think. In the end, her decision had the effect of potentially saving 4 lives.

  The son is an absolute rock star. This will make quite the argument-winning ender in the family dynamic for life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kind of seems prophetic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know the history of the US fucking with Venezuela in this way is more than a month old, right?

  https://www.wvtm13.com/article/venezuela-us-military-timeline-maduro/69907657

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kind of seems prophetic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not prophetic at all, he’s documenting actual events that are already occurring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨60 Minutes CECOT Segment Axed by Weiss (Aired in Canada)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone have an alternate source?