Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Some folks might call me a dreamer 19 hours ago:
Why are you celebrating the good thing? Whatabout bad thing #768390626?
- Comment on How do I ACTUALLY get hired by the United States Postal Services (USPS)? 4 days ago:
Are you able to attach a reference from the local manager in your application? Can you attach a cover letter?
If you see the listing, can you basically paraphrase each qualification and/or key duty and tie it to your experience on your resumé? I don’t know what ARC role is but for example, “Sorted 100s of files per day as a Mytown Public Library volunteer.”
- Comment on China’s Electrostate Is Poised to Win From War in the Middle East 4 days ago:
Yep, both China and Russia are the victors of the war between USA, Israel and Iran. Russia for the short term boost to their coffers from sanction free oil, and China for having been prepared to meet the moment in renewable energy and battery tech.
- Comment on It's tax season and my parents don't really feel lime paying this... Alright Lemmy, what should they do? 👀 4 days ago:
According to NZXT’s advertising partners, all your parents need to do is to win a Fortnite tournament, then they can afford it, easy.
- Comment on Finally, a real name for your penis 4 days ago:
Danny DeVito would say, “Oh, whoops! I dropped my Monster Condom that I use for my Girthy Injector”
- Comment on Amazon’s idea of improving Luna involves stripping back most of it 1 week ago:
What do you even get from a Luna subscription? Just a Amazon-only rental library of games?
- Comment on aaand it's closed again 1 week ago:
My read on the situation:
- Iran said "We will stop attacking if US and Israel stop attacking and considers our plan"
- USA said "We will stop attacking, not go through with our genocidal war crime threat, and remove the time pressure we put on ourselves"
- Israel said “We will keep doing our extermination and colonization campaign in Lebanon on the side while you two talk, surely that doesn’t count as attacking”
- Comment on Is there no rule against politics in shitposts? I mean, most of y'all are way into regulation. I guess maybe not when it applies to you. 1 week ago:
Anything (not illegal and within reason). Post corn if you’re upset about that 🌽.
- Comment on The Three Big Questions Delaying New York [State]’s Budget 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How long until the rise of games with mods turns into user created games. 2 weeks ago:
Legion TD2 is a game that was originally a Starcraft mod.
- Comment on how is lemmy funded? 4 weeks ago:
Many small server instances are paid for out of pocket (you can make your own too, about $60/year renting a cloud server and $10/year for a domain name). Bigger servers rely on user donations.
The Lemmy software development relies on donations as well, but they also receive grants from NLNet. Some of the grants are tied to accomplishing specific features. Third party app developers generally rely on donation support as well, if they’re not doing it just for the fun of it. Unsupported projects tend to get dropped after a while, though, so money does help keep up motivation.
- Comment on As a Chinese American, if I wanna travel internationally, is it better to just say I'm American, or pretend to be a Chinese National (to hide from Anti-American sentinments)? 4 weeks ago:
If you can be respectful of the local culture where you’re visiting while you’re there, you’ll be fine. Being an obnoxious American tourist is just as bad as an obnoxious Chinese tourist. Outside of unwarranted xenophobia, your behaviour matters more than your race.
- Comment on Wealth Taxes Are Pointless While Tax Havens Exist 5 weeks ago:
If it hides, we go to find it. Countries like the US, Canada, Ireland etc. choose to recognize as valid these elaborate schemes involving shell games in multiple countries, instead of insisting on their formula. But what would be better is a Canada-Europe agreement on a standardized taxation and deduction system that includes minimum wealth taxes applied across all member nations. Sketchy accounting is nothing new, we just have to agree to deal with it together.
- Comment on What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next? 5 weeks ago:
Trump and his staffers are desperately trying to find a way to TACO but still somehow claim victory like his other two expeditions in Venezuela and Iran (2025), because it clearly didn’t have the effect they thought it would have like when Bush II did it.
Unlike the US, Iranian forces had a plan that was formulated for years. Doesn’t mean things will go as they envision, due to US, Israeli, Gulf state, and internal factors putting a lot of uncertainty in the mix. Iran is okay with the current situation in the short term unlike the US, but there is elevated risk for a potential coup, an Israeli-style drawn out genocide and annexation, just a stalemate war of air defense attrition, or who knows what in Iran. There will be pressure from all sides to figure something amicable between the belligerents, hopefully sooner than later.
I predict: Oil/gas prices will stay high for months, air ship and truck transportation costs will be somewhat higher and goods will be a little higher for the same period. Over the next year, governments, businesses and people will turn to electricity and renewables pretty much out of necessity (look at Indian residents turning to Induction Stoves in droves) that will lower our needs for fuel which will hopefully offset the shock from future oil supply crunches. Optimistically, it could accelerate the world’s efforts to net zero.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, I’m taken already. Isn’t that right, Nicole the Fediverse Chick?
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 5 weeks ago:
It’s a mixed bag, I’m pretty neutral on it since it prevents copyleft licensing as much as copyright.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 5 weeks ago:
I don’t mind if the developer adds AI-generated code, but if they mix it with their own work without appropriate attribution in a way that it could be considered all AI-generated, it may become un-copyrightable.
- Comment on Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value 5 weeks ago:
Uh oh, Epic’s not making more profit than last year! We need to squeeze money out of parents’ pockets for their gullible kids and milk our cash cow harder!
- Comment on NBC Interview abruptly ends after New Yorker blames private equity and landlords for the city's issues 1 month ago:
Because Donald Trump… the Dow! The Dow right now, is over… THE DOW IS OVER FIFTY THOUSAND DO- I don’t know why you’re laughing, I hear you’re a great stock-trader, as I hear, Raskin… the DOW is over fifty thousand, right now…
- Comment on Lemmy needs real deletion, not just soft‑delete/hiding 1 month ago:
As a general note, the design of Lemmy is around preserving information against censorship over having private conversations (like Matrix for example). You’re probably aware that once data is delivered to other servers, the origin server can’t guarantee deletions of data from them.
I’m not an admin, but I remember that Lemmy admins are able to purge content from their server, and send out a request for other servers to purge their copy of data which by default would be accepted if received from the canonical server. This was used to remove some harmful content that was posted on Lemmy a few times. This feature isn’t user accessible, at least as of now.
Media uploaded to Lemmy by the user can be deleted.
Edits are propagated through federation, so if you are concerned, you can edit posts you want to delete before deleting them which is close enough.
- Comment on Shit, I'd pay $9 1 month ago:
Makes me want a phone tree…
Thank you for calling. Are you trying to sell me something? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.
Am I in trouble? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.
Could you just have sent me a message instead? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no.
- Comment on The duality of search engines 1 month ago:
I use DuckDuckGo which is Bing’s results more or less.
- Comment on Windows 11 has a new Start menu — here's how to unlock it 2 months ago:
It’s not ready for full rollout until Microslop gets Slopilot to put sponsored apps back into it.
- Comment on Judge Strikes Down California’s Ban on Masks for Federal Agents 2 months ago:
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 2 months ago:
Counter-point: AI-generated muzak.
- Comment on In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War 2 months ago:
But when I landed in Minneapolis on Monday and saw the size, scope and lawlessness of the federal onslaught unfolding here, I understood that Good’s killing was emblematic of its true mission: to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance of Trump’s dark vision of America.
Honestly, I’m so proud of the ordinary Minnesotans standing up and fighting back in response to this spectacle. This is what the resistance looks like, and it will only grow the longer Trump continues this.
- Comment on Couple Says ICE Agents Gassed Them as They Drove With 6 Children 2 months ago:
Hopefully they have added this encounter to MN ACLU’s collection of abuse documentation www.aclu-mn.org/ice-feds-form/
- Comment on Without getting into current politics can someone describe to me what an authoritarian regime looks like? 2 months ago:
Umberto Eco, in 1995, laid out 14 common charactistics that characterize what he describes as ur-fascism, fascist societies independent of the time and place.
- Cult of Tradition – A syncretic belief in ancient truths, rejecting modern interpretations.
- Rejection of Modernism – Viewing the Enlightenment and rationalism as the root of moral decline.
- Cult of Action for Action’s Sake – Valuing action over reflection, leading to anti-intellectualism.
- Disagreement is Treason – Suppressing dissent and critical thinking as threats to unity.
- Fear of Difference – Exploiting xenophobia and racism to unify the in-group against outsiders.
- Appeal to a Frustrated Middle Class – Mobilizing those feeling economically or socially displaced.
- Obsession with a Plot – Promoting conspiracy theories to justify aggression against perceived enemies.
- Enemies are Both Too Strong and Too Weak – Portraying adversaries as simultaneously formidable and feeble.
- Pacifism is Trafficking with the Enemy – Viewing life as perpetual warfare, dismissing peace efforts as betrayal.
- Contempt for the Weak – Glorifying strength and dismissing compassion as weakness.
- Everybody is Educated to Become a Hero – Promoting a cult of death and martyrdom.
- Machismo – Elevating aggressive masculinity and denigrating non-conforming sexual behaviors.
- Selective Populism – Claiming to represent the unified will of the people, dismissing individual rights.
- Newspeak – Employing an impoverished vocabulary to limit critical thought.
- Comment on After Machado Offers Her Nobel, Trump Says It Would Be an ‘Honor’ to Accept It 3 months ago:
Lol, Trump will be the first person using the threat of war to extort someone into giving them their Peace Prize. Some peacemaker, I tell you.
- Comment on Alchemy is so hot right now. 3 months ago:
If we could go back in time to tell the alchemy conspiracists about disappearing gold that would be wild.
