French75
@French75@slrpnk.net
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 1 week ago:
If you haven’t read about the Milgram Experiment, it’s a fascinating, and disheartening journey into notions of authority and compliance. In short… Milgram’s finding was that most people do what they’re told–even when they known it’s wrong–simply because they’re told to do it.
- Comment on When “Watch Instantly” first came out. Before “streaming” was even the term for it. 1 week ago:
It looks like it says iPad in the upper right. iPad never used Silverlight, it had an iOS app from launch, but you’re right in general. PC browsers used WMV for a brief while at the launch of streaming and then switched to Silverlight.
- Comment on When “Watch Instantly” first came out. Before “streaming” was even the term for it. 1 week ago:
Streaming was very much the term used to describe watch instantly language (like all language in the UI) wasn’t random, it was the result of continual testing and optimization. The entire set of activities was new for a lot of people, and the company tested variants of everything all the time. I can’t remember too much about this specific device/UI combo, but probably watch instantly was chosen because at the time it needed to distinguish “instant watching” from managing your ‘DVD by mail’ queue (which was the only thing you could do on the web before “watch instantly” was a thing. We definitely used streaming to describe the activity though; you’d find it in press, earnings calls, etc… Just not in that particular variant of the UI. (source: worked there at the time).
- Comment on Operation Mar-Kwane 1 week ago:
It’s the new Ice Barbie.
- Comment on The workers at the Sheri's Ranch brothel in Nevada decided to unionize 1 week ago:
This is an interesting bit:
The women who work as courtesans at Sheri’s are hired as “independent contractors” by their employers (Jeremy Lemur, the brothel’s marketing director, provided a statement to Mother Jones that emphasized that specific phrasing multiple times). However, the terms of their actual jobs may not pass the “ABC test,” a legal framework used to determine whether a worker should be considered an employee.
It’s not just the employer saying that they are independent contractors, the courtesans themselves say it several times. Such as:
“A lot of us are artists,” explained courtesan Paloma Karr, who is also a writer and activist. “We have all sorts of other jobs."
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If he’s that out of the loop on news, the poor bastard probably doesn’t even realize he dies in a fire locked inside it every time he drives.
- Comment on But bro please 5 weeks ago:
For sure, but my point was that t hey know that outright banning guns is nearly impossible, so they’ve done essentially what the republicans have done on abortion. They’ve attacked it on every other conceivable angle: they’ve made it hard to buy guns, hard to use them, hard to run any business that sells them, hard to buy ammo, hard to stay in legal compliance with constantly changing laws and case law.
The state’s strategy has essentially morphed to enacting every law and policy that makes it harder to buy, own, and use guns, knowing that most of them are not legal, but get them tied up in courts indefinitely. It’s a scummy strategy, but it’s been fairly effective.
- Comment on But bro please 5 weeks ago:
It’s moronic. We demand lower noise in most products, but demand higher noise in guns because we can’t distinguish Hollywood bullshit from reality. I think most CA Dems would accept the premise that reducing injurious noise levels while participating in a legal activity is a good idea, but institutionally they’d never give an inch on gun laws.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 month ago:
I’m not suggesting it would take much, I’m merely suggesting that the dipshit isn’t serious and shouldn’t be taken seriously in this context. He’s not even trying to make a logical, reasoned point (as evidenced by the fact that he’s an order of magnitude off on what they national debt is). Here is merely a cog in the maga machine, tasked with saying dumb shit any time a microphone is in front of him.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 month ago:
The thing is that he’s right
He’s not right. The national debt is way fuckin bigger than 3 trillion. He’s also wrong in presuming that an infusion of productivity (tax revenue) can “solve” intentional over-spending. He’s just a serial scammer spouting uninformed nonsense to stay relevant.
- Comment on How to avoid getting locked-out of your Google Account (again) 1 month ago:
I solved this problem by taking all my shit out of Google. The only service of theirs I still use is YouTube, and I don’t lose much if they lock me out of that.
- Comment on Someone tries to hack you - no big deal. But you try to login and you have to jump through hoops 1 month ago:
Gonna need you to open the YouTube app on the iPad you left at your mom’s house a few weeks ago and tap “Yes, its me.”
We track it’s location, so we know it’s at your mom’s place a few states away, and yeah, we could send the notification to the phone that’s sitting right next to you (we track its location too) but that would be a little too easy on you. And lets face it, if we wanted this to be easy, we’d just let you use the Google Authenticator 2FA we had you set up a few years ago and skip all this nonsense. But that’s not how we roll.
Hugs n kisses, Google
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 month ago:
I don’t… think I’m a bot?
Your comment reminds me of the Black Mirror episode - Hang the DJ. (if you haven’t seen it, it’s brilliant). Also, I don’t think I’m a bot pushing a Netflix agenda, but who can tell these days.
- Comment on Trump gives the middle finger to a Ford employee who yells "pedophile protector" 1 month ago:
Dude should been like “I was talking to the Secret Service.”