Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Jarvis, what's my name? 4 hours ago:
Dunkacino
- Comment on I can't believe this is a real article. Just wow. 11 hours ago:
If Americans want to mold themselves in Jesus’ image of Christian perfection, the rich men in the world have to give to the poor, aka eat the rich.
Matthew Chapter 19, verses 21 to 24
Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me." When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth. Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 11 hours ago:
I see what you-gpt did there
- Comment on you are now witnessing the peak of online discourse 14 hours ago:
What better place than Lemmy shitpost for premium “[farts in face]” discourse?
- Comment on Batterypunk 1 day ago:
It’ll just act as if it’s on low battery for a while then stop working as if the battery is drained, when the one battery might only be half drained.
- Comment on Cheers lads an lassies 3 days ago:
The Terminator… no actually it could be Mechagodzilla?
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 4 days ago:
- Creative Club software subscription
- Create tiers to segment what people are receptive to being squeezed in order to maintain all features
- Add a premium currency in addition to the subscription for AI features
- Make tiers of premium currency that can be used for some features but not others…
Did an AI make this pricing strategy with the aim to double and triple dip on their customers as much as possible?
- Comment on $$$ave dat money 6 days ago:
It’s typically a US chain practice, but I see it in Canada since we have plenty of Walmarts and Costcos and the like here, I did see it at Hudson’s Bay do it on at least one occasion. Not sure about Europe, not common in Japan since their return policies are different and final sale products tend to use a sticker instead.
- Comment on $$$ave dat money 1 week ago:
Serious answer: Many stores have their price end in 6 or 8 to indicate items that are final sale. So it is clearance as in they don’t want it back, but really the price didn’t nominally change.
- Comment on who are you? 1 week ago:
In Japan they have two types of dates, which map to “Use by” and “Best before”, but they don’t use them interchangeably or some vague middle-of-the-road term like “expiry date”. One is operative, the other is a recommendation.
消費期限 (shouhi-kigen) literally means “consumption time limit” and 賞味期限 (shoumi-kigen) literally means “guarantee of taste time limit”.
- Comment on We gonna fight 1 week ago:
I would like more unity with people who share alignment with me. Except for anyone who has a slightly different opinion than me on certain issues, screw those people.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project 1 week ago:
Don’t let Musk or his companies anywhere near these projects. He and his team are experts at turning actual infrastructure into vaporware.
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- Comment on Cue fire in 3... 2... 1... 2 weeks ago:
Ah, shit. Here we go again.
Sidenote: Welcome back, buddy.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been around for long enough, time for me to donate.
Sure the two top admins have some shitty opinions, but they still are the main people who have put this software out. The two have been tirelessly working on it for years and years, and have made code that helps everyone, whether you share their opinions or not.
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 4 weeks ago:
I feel bad for female-presenting people having experienced being treated worse than their male peers. I didn’t grow up religious or anything, but I can sense where I could be perpetuating that hidden misogyny myself.
For example: In work and social life, I’ll give my phone number away to people I meet. But I’m not interested in relationships, so I’m far less likely to give it to women, since I don’t want anyone to think I’m trying to make any kind of sexual advances by doing that.
I’m pretty sure for men that aren’t outright misogynist jerks or bullies, it’s stuff like that where they feel as if they might be viewed as awkward providing professional favours to women when they wouldn’t think twice about it for their male peers. That leads to those experiences that women find themselves unable to receive those opportunities to get ahead in their career, or aren’t listened to, or have to advocate their position more when career advancement seems to fall more naturally to men.
- Comment on How important is it that cans are clean when i put them in the recycling. 5 weeks ago:
This is assuming you are expected by your council to clean it “thoroughly enough”.
After you eat/drink the contents, a very quick rinse is all that’s needed. Little stains aren’t going to be bad for recycling.
If you’ve left it for a while and are worried, a simple but surefire way to clean out any significant gunk would be these steps:
- Make sure you have a strainer on your sink drain if your plumbing system is fragile.
- Fill every can or jar with water to near the top
- Wait 15 minutes
- pour out a can into the sink
- fill the can with a bit of water and shake the last bits out
- pour and lightly rinse the rest of the cans in the same way
- bin the gunk caught by the strainer.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 5 weeks ago:
Main reason for me is that I have bought humble bundles, donated to gamejams, and gotten keys off of legit and grey-market sites in the past in conjunction with buying directly from Steam. Those aren’t included in the Steam spend category.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 5 weeks ago:
I make mistakes because my replies are often my stream-of-consciousness, and the primary review is mainly to make sure I even want to reply to the comment at all. I don’t use autocorrect so my fingers slip frequently.
If you look through my comment history, a good chunk are edited because I catch more grammatical errors in my comment after I post. I suppose most others don’t bother.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 month ago:
The question they are answering is the first one they read.
(/s)
- Comment on Are any calls without caller ID legit? 1 month ago:
From Canada: I get legit calls from private numbers. Usually it is based on something I have inquired previously about, by phone, text message, webform or email.
Random non-scam cold calls have been largely: surveys (a federal election is coming), requests to donate places from places I’ve donated to before, telecom companies I have ditched begging me to come back. But anything that begins with an automated sounding message I just hang up immediately.
- Comment on Read the Letter 1 month ago:
I am really getting the sense this group of PhD holders are doing their almighty best to pick words and write their statement in a way that people with a grade-school reading ability can understand.
- Comment on Power isn't energy. The difference matters more than you may know. | Technology Connections 1 month ago:
Power = Energy ÷ time, and conversely, Energy = Power × time. Even though in English, people use the two colloquially.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 1 month ago:
Regarding your confusion and surprise, the person you replied to merely gave their reason why they bought it and supported a transphobe, and it was because this person’s sister requested that game specifically.
I know the question posed was mostly rhetorical in nature. But I’m not sure why you are questioning why someone is answering the question, and I’m not sure what kind of satisfactory answer you could get from anyone who had purchased the game (and supported a transphobe, yes, which I haven’t).
The rest of your comment is a legit response, but I’m only pushing back on the first sentence of your reply. Or even moving that sentence to the back of your comment to make it less charged. If someone’s going to answer a loaded question, let them, but get to the point about how misguided they are with their justification before you question the answer. That would likely make for a more constructive discussion. Unless you think that these answers are unhelpful in the first place, that we’re better off not hearing why people have done transphobic things with different intentions, and we should refuse to give them space to reflect, learn, then own up to their transgressions if they don’t come right out of the gate to apologize. Then sure, ignore what I said.
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 1 month ago:
Are you going to retire in the next four years? Or take all your cash out into gold, quit your job, and go into hiding for the next four years?
If neither apply to you, you can leave your money in your 401k. Selling index funds right now is ultimately up to you, but in the long term time in the market tends to beat timing the market.
What I’ve read in books is: Building up savings itself is more important than whether the returns are +10% or -10%, early in your career, since it will fluctuate but tends to average up.
And remember if your national index funds, bonds or whatever market and government backed investments lose half its value, you have bigger problems on your hand of the state of your country at that point which having cash on hand may or may not help anyway.
- Comment on They said the packaging would be discreet! 1 month ago:
That’s contraband in the state of Texas.
- Comment on SOMBRE TIT 1 month ago:
Fossilesque has taken a sudden interest in ornithology. Or maybe started playing wingspan !boardgames@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 1 month ago:
I think a lot of people are waiting for the first Civ7 expansion pack to be released, whenever that may be.
Civ 6 without R+F, GS feels like a completely different game. As an example, in vanilla you can expand anywhere right up to someone’s borders whereas with the expansion straying too far from your territory you could just lose it to influential pressure from neighbouring cities.
- Comment on Lemmy told me to make a lamb cake. Went about as well as I expected. 2 months ago:
You made an excellent cake, it looks just like what you were totally going for from the start:
the dog from undertale, a blob with four equidistant legs on the bottom, two ears and a pointy tail
- Comment on Wave-riding and wave-passing by ducklings in formation swimming 2 months ago:
Now give me the Foie-rier Transform of that.
