schwim

@schwim@piefed.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nerve-controlled prosthetics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No more having to sit on your hand to make it feel like a stranger is giving you a happy ending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Official - TurtleWoW is Over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoyed playing on their servers in the past, it was one of the more refined servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  due to Switzerland’s political stability & neutrality and high liquidity

  I feel like you answered this in the first sentence of your post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you block someone on Lemmy, does it stop them from seeing your posts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No., you are blocking them, you can’t force them to block you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I submit a question to /nostupidquestions/ and I get downvoted does that mean my question was actually stupid or is it a paradox?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Down votes don’t equal stupid, I imagine you already know that there’s lots of reasons a post could get downvoted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you talking about, the octothorpe?

  https://snomoto.com/the-octothorpe-why-we-stopped-calling-it-a-hashtag-and-why-it-matters-1bol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come they don't make generic drugs for cats and dogs. I love my sisters buddy to death. Its just weird that all my meds are generic but animals are name brand. I just hate spend 250 every 3 mon.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We can barely get our government to protect us from medical price gouging and unfair practices. They care even less about a dog or cat than they do about a human being.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were in Jail would you stick withe bible or be interest in other religions?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would remain indifferent towards all religions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s dimensional lumber so it’s not actual size but before they started shorting them for profit, they were called 2x4s because they measured 2 inches x 4 inches. 4x4s, 6x6, 1x8, 2x12, etc. They all represented actual dimension of the lumber but you’ll notice that today, they are basically 1/2 inch short in every dimension so a 2x4s actual measurement is 1 1/2” x 3 1/2”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump reformed the gov so much he made himself a King. What recourse would americans have? How would we fight at considering all gadgets and armed forces would be his?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree with your entire sentiment,

  powerless/spineless the rest of the gov is.

  I would add “less openly but equally corrupt” to your summation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump reformed the gov so much he made himself a King. What recourse would americans have? How would we fight at considering all gadgets and armed forces would be his?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would think it would be obvious but the answer is numbers and guns. A corrupt government would be unable to fight against 10s of millions of armed militants.

  Although your question was “How would we fight” and although many Americans like to cosplay as well-armed superheros, there will never be a number of citizens large enough to risk their lives, safety and comfort for a greater good to achieve a successful uprising. The way “we would fight” would be sharing videos somebody else made on social networks, impotently arguing in comment sections and finding echo chambers to talk to like-minded individuals about how terrible the other half of America is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GrapheneOS push apps, aka "install available apps" feature, how does it work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Play is already sandboxed and as was explained to me on their forum, separate profiles do not further isolate apps from each other so I operate with a single profile policy to keep the complexity down. Keep in mind that privacy is not my primary concern but rather the usability of a smartphone so Ymmv.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did the gun buy back program work did you get a gift card or cash or something? How effective was this? Did this even make a dimple in crime?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It made no positive change in the surplus of weapons on the street. The only people that turned them in were people that would have never used them in the first place and many people in the deep red areas, like where I lived actually went out and bought more guns because they saw it as the beginning of forcefully taking their guns from them.

  I would suspect that the only people that benefited from the program was the weapon industry and might have even helped get the program in place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was in the market for a good used car, which car would be the best to outrun the cops?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bugatti Veyron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is 'Philippines' spelled with a PH, but 'Filipino' is spelled with an F?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had no idea either but I did find this while Googling(Kagi-ing?)

  https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/04/why-is-filipino-spelled-with-an-f.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Planet Fitness has a "No Commitment" membership, with a Commitment Length and buyout fee.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I’m really sorry you went through that but it makes me want to suggest using something like privacy.com for future subscriptions and purchases. You can create virtual cards that you can make merchant locked(so if a scammer got the number, they couldn’t run it), one-time use, and with a total or monthly limit. In this case, you could have simply paused or canceled the card you used for of as you were being told you needed to write a letter. I’ve used it for years in this manner and I’ve never paid a dime for the service, their free tier provides everything I need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Planet Fitness has a "No Commitment" membership, with a Commitment Length and buyout fee.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they take a ton of heat on it and most employees just don’t even try when you come in to cancel. Two out of three PF accounts in our house were canceled at different times and both times, the person behind the counter didn’t ask a single question, just wiped the account and told us to have a great day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good communities to follow for someone who is just getting into lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather than try out other people’s preferences, browse all / new, invest a little time learning how to block instances, communities and users and in no time you’ll be browsing content you want to see. Not what any of us want you to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagi Worth It?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely love kagi. At some point I moved to their $25 tier as I use more than just their search now.

  I can’t tell you if the search limit is large enough for your use but I can say that they are very generous with what they consider an individual search so you’ll get much more than the stated limit.

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve always excelled at terrorism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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