MyBrainHurts
@MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca
- Comment on Best GFY I've seen in ages - Cam Anderson from Blacktail Studio on the age gap in his new relationship [1:56] 10 hours ago:
Well played sir, on all fronts.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 2 days ago:
Me everytime my calf muscle does anything that is any way unexpected: Please Jesus no, please!
- Comment on Is this accurate, Canadians? 1 week ago:
Decades ago I was a young backpacker and saw other folks with the maple leaf on their stuff. Went to chat and they admitted they were Americans who had sewn it on so people would be nice to them.
I was simultaneously annoyed at them (I’d have been pissed but they did buy me an apology pint) and proud of Canada for the reputation.
- Comment on Intro to the Lemmy World 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure about emissions per activity rankings but if you’re concerned about the emissions from a post, but surely that means someone watching a 4k movie on netflix is akin to a warcrime?
- Comment on The Producers (2005) - Springtime For Hitler & Heil Myself Scene 4 weeks ago:
Never watched the new one but I occasionally get Springtime for Hitler stuck in my head because I guess my brain wants to see what happens if I accidentally mumble lyrics around people.
- Comment on I heard we're doing leftist infighting just in time for six months of primaries plus another three months of general election wind-up 5 weeks ago:
I was wondering about that. All the Israel memes dropped off right after the election. Seems a little early for the midterms but hey, I’m not the one helping the fascists win.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I get it but damn, a good friend who lives on the other side of the country phoned a few months ago and we just shot the shit for an hour. It was as surprising as it was amazing.
- Comment on [meta] Wanted: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, with English subtitles _and_ cultural refernce notes 1 month ago:
Thanks for the update and the question, I’ve been hoping for something exactly like this.
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 2 months ago:
Neat, our tenancy laws pretty much borrow that word for word!
In this case, loud neighbouts, failure to act would mean not calling law enforcement.
Or letting the place deteriorate would generally count. But, most buildings are up to code etc and the landlord isn’t expected to install extra sound proofing above and beyond code.
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 2 months ago:
That’s the law in pretty much anywhere that derived their tenancy agreements from English law.
Please feel free to share an example, because this seems like absolute nonsense.
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 2 months ago:
Wow, that’s uhhhh, an interesting take. If one tenant is too noisy, you want the building manager to install noise dampening somethings? And who determines if it’s too noisy, the landlord who’d have to pay for the renovations?
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 2 months ago:
To be slightly more polite, as this seems like one of your first places… You absolutely want to keep a neutral third party involved.
In my building, some of us are paying half or a third what new tenants do, the manager has a clear financial incentive to remove as many old timers as possible (and has tried her best.) If the norm was that building managers patrol for noise etc, you could much more easily get into a “he said/she said” with someone who has the means and motivation to remove you. Having the norm be police means that the complaint has to be somewhat valid, not just “enough that the building manager can increase their income stream.”
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 2 months ago:
Building manager isn’t your parents. If you have a problem with the building, that’s their issue, if you have a problem with your neighbour, you’re expected to deal with it like any other adult; talk to the person, if that doesn’t work, police.
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 2 months ago:
What do you expect a building manager to do and why do you think boise complaints are their responsibility?
- Comment on The Resistance Libs Were Right 2 months ago:
(I don’t actually dislike the nyt as much as some of the online crowd does but this is still the first thing I thought of and had to share.)
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 months ago:
Two things can be simultaneously true:
1) Russia has suffered substantial loss of materiel etc.
2) Russia still has effective command and control systems. Whereas the EU depends heavily on America for advanced targeting (think the Ukranian long range missile strikes on refineries in recent months.)
Here’s a fairly accessible article on some of the difficulties/timelines for a post American NATO:
(Notable quote from someone wiser than myself “We’re almost completely dependent on U.S. intelligence for satellite and everything that goes with it")
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 months ago:
It’s one of those symbolic initiatives. There may be an official mechanism but right now, it would be a disaster without NATO. Right now, the US has most of the Command and Control logistics (think constant satellite connection, missiled detection systems etc.) That stuff is super expensive and the assumption was that America was an ally, so not a lot of duplication was built in.
A NATO without the US dooms Ukraine and presumably, whatever hits of Eastern Europe Putin feels like holding.
It’s shitty, frustrating and awful but it’s also the grim, current reality. We didn’t realize our allies would become two bit thugs.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 months ago:
When the US briefly revoked command and control (think, satellite connections, real time intelligence, missile warning etc) Ukraine suffered heavy casualties quickly. Were thr US to walk away, neither Ukraine or NATO has those same capabilities. NATO minus US vs Russia, in the immediate future would be incredibly bloody and possibly fall in Russia’s favour.
- Comment on It's New Year's Day and you want something entertaining to watch. You NEED Auralnauts' Star Wars remix. 2 months ago:
I listen to this way too often. Have it in my downloads and grin whenever it comes on randomly.
- Comment on It's New Year's Day and you want something entertaining to watch. You NEED Auralnauts' Star Wars remix. 2 months ago:
Always! Especially if it’s a Cerveza Cristal!
- Comment on It's New Year's Day and you want something entertaining to watch. You NEED Auralnauts' Star Wars remix. 2 months ago:
For those just starting their auralnauts journey, you are in for a treat!
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 2 months ago:
Okay?
The question was “why does internet advertising work”, how does what does what you’re saying have anything to do with that?
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 2 months ago:
I mean, showing random ads before or during things is pretty much what sustained most television and radio for a number of decades.
And now they aren’t random.
If you’ve been watching influencers on youtube or tiktok, they know a lot more about what to show you. And whatever they’ve been talking about, they can shoehorn an appropriate ad in.
Then you consider the cost which is a fraction of a penny per eyeball, so even nudging only one in 20,000 targeted views, of an audience who are interested in your type of product is probably going to be profitable.
Think of email phishing scams. It seems insane that anyone has ever fallen for thr Nigerian prince thing but all they need is one success every so often and it’s profitable.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 2 months ago:
Oh no, that was an extreme example and it would be impractical to always have that granular level. For other, more mass ads, consider say, the water bottle trend or almost any other tik tok food fad. Maybe it started organically, maybe not, but advertisers absolutely jumped into those, connected with “influencers” to make sure their brands were represented. And for those campaigns, age and location or general demographic of each influencer’s audience would be more than sufficient (and still fairly microtargeted, they’re hitting folks with under 100k subscribers! Almost no other traditional media campaign can slice so finely.)
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 2 months ago:
My friend’s partner works in online advertising from matching, ugh, “influencers” to brands to more “traditional” targeted online advertising.
I asked her something along these lines and she told me about a campaign she’d just worked on which dropped my jaw and changed my perspective.
Essentially, she was working with some product being sold with or inside some luxury brand of cars. Her firm was able to target people who seemed to work in dealerships for that brand in Canada. The product being expensive as hell meant that even a handful of sales would justify the campaign.
The campaign cost her firm almost no time, the data were available fairly easily and once established could essentially be run automatically.
Hers is an extreme example but combine relatively low costs with unnervingly accurate micro targetting like that… It’s a stupidly efficient means of communicating to prospective clients compared to every other type of advertising.
Reddit is an interesting example. They’re milking the advertising for all they can but I’d be surprised if the bulk of their revenue/stock valuation was from ads versus holding all sorts of AI trainable data.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 2 months ago:
There are uhhh, many people who are not you.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 3 months ago:
Complete societal collapse, hard to say what, beyond the basics, would be useful as a medium of barter.
But, in a society facing major issues, e.g., hyper inflation, or say, a US government default, yeah, gold is a pretty decent hedge bet.
The traditional safe haven has been government debt but that’s been seen as an increasingly risky bet where you could lose a lot of money to inflation or worse, government default/intervention.
So, while not ideal, gold at least seems a better bet than most other “safe” places to put one’s money.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
This feels like ragebait or you need to read or watch more modern stuff.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 months ago:
I’ve legit wondered about this and one of the many reasons I don’t want kids is I don’t think it’d be fair to inflict my lifestyle on them, no matter how morally correct I feel.
My basic thought though is that as long as social media is the dominant means by which cultural trends are spread and amplified, anti-consumerism will be hard to spread.
Once modern social media became dominant, social justice pivoted from our own sins (wearing slave made clothes, children losing limbs for our new phones etc) and switched to dunking on public figures and large systemic forces. I think that’s because it’s much easier to share, make jokes about etc evils that you are not currently doing. That is to say, it’s a lot easier to make memes about say, OscarsSoWhite when none of us are in the Academy than say, “my shoes are made by kids who occasionally burn to death” while many folks are wearing those types of shoes.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 months ago:
And I just got a better job after having a bad one.
I’ve also known addicts who’ve quit.
Does that mean “just get a better job” “just quit your addiction” and “reject consumerism” are reasonable answers to people struggling?
