ThomasWilliams
@ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 5 days ago:
Only latinos distinguish between europeans and native americans, no one else gives a shit.
- Comment on Knowing that boomers had the "hate my wife/husband" humor because they were rushed to marry borderline strangers and didn't believe in therapy but can't prove it 5 days ago:
It was just a thing comedians did to sympathise with people who couldn’t get partners.
- Comment on In the age of electronics, when is go to vote can I request a paper ballot instead of a machine? 1 week ago:
I don’t get it isn’t it expensive ?
Say each machine cost $500 to buy and maintain, multiply that by 30 booths and then tens of thousands of polling stations the costs would be massive.
You can just scan the ballots in to get a quick count and then hand count them later.
- Comment on The City of Encinitas, California is removing a protected bike lane to replace it with a painted bike lane. Cost? More than $3 million. 3 weeks ago:
That’s a dangerous bike lane, if the car turns off the road the bike is right in their blind spot.
- Comment on Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke 4 weeks ago:
Its starts with sherbet powder, by high school they’re snorting cocaine off the toilet seats…
- Comment on why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right? 1 month ago:
The number system is Indian not Arabic.
- Comment on why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right? 1 month ago:
Pictographic languages go top to bottom or sometimes bottom to top even.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 month ago:
These are not enough ebikes.
They are 1000w twist throttle bikes they buy on eBay and AliExpress.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 month ago:
How do you think they arranged the meet ?
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 month ago:
They use behavioral psychology, a system of rewards, i’s not violent.
Only wild horses are “broken”
- Comment on Why I gave up electronics club 1 month ago:
The current does flow from positive to negative. Electricity is not the flow of electrons - they just generate the field that the electric wave flows through. The electrons don’t actually move very far. The wave flows outside of the wire, not in it.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 month ago:
The expert systems that the console manufacturers supply to developers can already do this sort of thing.
- Comment on Xbox Hardware Sales Plunge 32% YoY as Services Keep Gaming Division Afloat 1 month ago:
That’s not that much. YouTube would have you believe they’ve crashed 95%
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 2 months ago:
Most of the bots are generated by the moderators.
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 2 months ago:
In China you can exit from a 12 lane freeway into a creek bed.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 2 months ago:
Electrical, plumbing, HVAC are all pretty solid.
Heh no. All of those are being automated and dumbed down.
In a few years all you’ll need is an unskilled labourer and a robot.
- Comment on Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 - but one open-source legend may not survive 2 months ago:
They still haven’t even begun to fix the bugs in rust utils and sudo -rs. Rust is going nowhere.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 2 months ago:
Biden increased sanctions on Venezuela.
During the Venezuelan election, when the US-backed opposition leader said that he wouldn’t give the oilfields back to the US, Biden had their financial support cut off and arrested opposition members living in the US.
The Venezuelan policy is bipartisan.
- Comment on How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness" 3 months ago:
Violence.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 3 months ago:
This is not an opinion piece.