zikzak025
@zikzak025@lemmy.world
- Comment on mega disappointment 11 hours ago:
No
- Comment on fighting evil by moonlight 22 hours ago:
Exactly. There needs to be a stick to accompany the carrot. But if the carrot is refused, then the stick does its job.
- Comment on Is this accurate, Canadians? 2 days ago:
If the US fell apart, I feel like the northeastern states would inevitably just coalesce into “Newer England” since they’re so ideologically and economically linked.
- Comment on Tim Apple calls for a rebellion! 2 days ago:
Not even really a “Steve Jobs” quote, it was by a bunch of people in Apple’s marketing department for the “think different” ad campaign.
- Comment on i guess lunar eclipse got an update too.. 3 days ago:
FWIW though, that would only make sense if the moon was on the horizon. If the moon is directly overhead or close enough, it’d still get mostly shaded.
If it was at like a 45° angle, though, the shadow would look pretty oblong if the earth was truly flat.
- Comment on Plan ahead 5 days ago:
For any curious, basically “I” is to “Me” as “Thou” is to “Thee”.
English used to differentiate singular and plural 2nd person pronouns. “Thou” was the singular 2nd person, and “Ye” was the plural 2nd person (it seems backwards but I swear that’s how it originally was, e.g. the biblical phrase “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”)
“Thee” and “You” were the object versions for these pronouns:
“[I/Thou/We/Ye] give [me/thee/us/you].”
Like French (tu/vous), it became considered polite in English to address singular people using the plural 2nd person, to the extent that the singular version fell out of use entirely. And then on top of that, English stopped differentiating between subject/object forms of the pronoun, with “You” subsuming all 2nd person pronouns.
So the meme is using it wrong, because both would be “thou” as subjects, and that’s before you get into the fact that English at the time also used different verb endings depending on person and plurality.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 5 days ago:
But you don’t start 20 lawsuits for the same thing at the same time against everybody. You start with one case against one company, and if it rules in your favor, that sets stronger precedent to go after the others.
As for why Valve, I’m guessing it’s easier to demonstrate more specific examples of harm when you have a larger pool of consumers to draw from, and easier to get an American entity in an American courtroom.
- Comment on Paid for by...boobs? 1 week ago:
Thank you, I had no idea. Explains why his name doesn’t show up on the list if he supposedly donated anonymously, (albeit badly, haha).
- Comment on Paid for by...boobs? 1 week ago:
Not to say you’re wrong, but do you have a source for that?
The only sources I could find list the founder of WhatsApp as their biggest donor, with no mention of anyone associated with OnlyFans that I could see.
- Comment on Happy international women's day 1 week ago:
You’re on the bottom floor in an unskilled profession, which in my experience is capable of dehumanizing everyone equally. Everyone is just a wage slave, seen as replaceable by their corporate overlords. But there’s a good chance your bosses who are largely women are earning less than their male peers.
When you start looking at fields where people tend to have degrees or certifications, you’ll find women who are just as qualified, have just as much student debt, and have the same workload as their male peers are often paid less for some reason.
- Comment on The Untold Story of Classic Games: Inside ZOOM with CEO Jordan Freeman 1 week ago:
Feel like a C&D on their name is imminent with the video conferencing app Zoom.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
What they’re describing isn’t just going to sleep, but putting a game on pause, doing whatever else you want (such as playing a different game) and then resuming exactly where you left off.
It’s basically just dumping the RAM to a file and loading it later, same as an emulator save state.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
I think it’s “console enough” that it could still work. Current consoles are really just locked-down PCs anyways.
It’d be no different than the OtherOS functionality on first-run PS3 consoles that allowed them to boot into Linux. Perhaps simpler than that even, given that current consoles already use standard PC hardware and not the Cell architecture the PS3 ran on.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
Third party emulation teams trying to keep older games alive are true heroes, but there is absolutely something to be said for the quality of a competent team of first-party engineers who have access to all of the original code and architecture documentation. Truly some magic they were able to pull off.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
Here’s hoping it still has that functionality, I don’t see a reason why it couldn’t.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
Could be that they add that functionality into Windows, though. There’s nothing special about newer games that run on Xbox, they’re all x86 applications. Microsoft could just release the Xbox middleware as its own app and allow Xbox games to work on whatever PC it’s installed on, which is basically all that an Xbox is right now.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
You know, I’m okay with this. If it makes PC gaming more accessible, and if it offers meaningful competition for the Steam Machine, it’s good to have options. Sure it’s Windows, but if it’s just a PC running an Xbox UX, I’m sure you could change the OS to whatever else if you want.
If anything, it does make the PS6 a less appealing choice, because why pick a dedicated console when you can get an (assuming) comparably strong, comparably priced gaming PC?
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 week ago:
They already took their millions in Tencent money and ran with it.
- Comment on RIP Bozo 2 weeks ago:
There’s a major problem with these in parts of India, where certain painkillers that are often administered to dying people for palliative care are toxic to the carrion birds that are supposed to consume them. So populations of the birds have been dwindling and many of these towers are full of decomposing corpses that are left to rot a lot more slowly.
Other than the fuel needed for the incinerator, I don’t see what’s wrong with plain old cremation.
- Comment on many have been saying this 2 weeks ago:
A lot of America is truly that racist. Sometimes overt, but often subtle (e.g. "I don’t hate black people, but crime rates don’t lie).
There are pockets that are generally decent, but these are increasingly imperiled by growing external threats from the national government and bigots that feel empowered to act on its behalf.
- Comment on Relatable 2 weeks ago:
Well they’re sure not going to pay for it if it is.
- Comment on 2022 was a bleak year 😢 2 weeks ago:
It’s the way they dispose of grease, I believe. I think there are less regulations in the US than elsewhere. That or the minimum wage workers just don’t give a shit.
- Comment on ..? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but closer to the eastern bloc you’re likely to hear the term “vatnik” used instead.
- Comment on Remember when the whole family had to share it because you only had one 2 weeks ago:
Well someone has to build the datacenters!
- Comment on It's literally science 2 weeks ago:
What are those better options…?
- Comment on We All Know This Guy 2 weeks ago:
I went to the Nazi bar so no one else would have to.
- Comment on My girlfriend found a cool vintage tube of lipstick 2 weeks ago:
Love the radio noise surrounding it in the photograph
- Comment on straight down to business pls 2 weeks ago:
:(
- Comment on relatable 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what it says, but I do know that writing is Greek and not cuneiform, so it’s likely not the complaint about Ea-nasir.
A matching image search says it may be one of the inscryptions around Arsameia, but I don’t know enough about Greek writing or archaeology to say that with any certainty.
- Comment on Can I get one of you to read this to me tonight? 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, I have none to spare.
