Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Lemmy told me to make a lamb cake. Went about as well as I expected. 2 days 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 4 days ago:
Now give me the Foie-rier Transform of that.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
- Comment on I was all set and then crushed in disappointment 1 week ago:
It made that patch of grass more attractive for dogs to piss on, for one.
- Comment on ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities 1 week ago:
It’s nothing but a cruel dog-and-pony show for Trump.
- Comment on Trump rejects Australia's bid for tariff exemptions 1 week ago:
Canada: Psssst… straya. We should produce and refine each other’s steel and aluminum. Pass it on to New Zealand
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 2 weeks ago:
If you want to read the story of someone’s experience trying to block all the big tech companies from their life back in 2019. Their first week was trying to block Amazon.
- Comment on What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate 2 weeks ago:
- Hello
- Thank you
- Excuse me
- Sorry
- Do you speak [your native language]? [Native Language] please?
- Where is …
- Check in?
- The bill?
- How do I get to…?
- I am from… [your country’s name in the foreign language]
- Yes/No
- How do you say [word] in [foreign language]?
- The bathroom?
- the hospital?
- Help me!
- Emergency!
- Payphone? Portable charger? ATM?
- Taxi stand, Bus stop, Train Station?
- Restaurant/Eatery?
- Water, Food, [Your dietary restrictions]
- Comment on Friday is a boycot day of online retailers. I saw this from CPUSA. 3 weeks ago:
Bud, it’s about teaching Americans about solidarity, because anti-unionism propaganda over 70 years has beat it ojt of them. This one day of not buying stuff, is like Day 1 lesson of Solidarity Kindergarten. You have to start somewhere.
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 4 weeks ago:
Certainly, maybe you can make a new AskLemmy post for that.
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 4 weeks ago:
They have slowed some appointments in House committees.
The Senate Democrats have stayed late to filibuster nominations
Democrats have an upcoming opportunity to refuse to pass a budget with the trillion dollar tax cuts that Musk and other billionaire are trying to somehow justify with every fibre of their being. This means that everyone in the House (including purple state Republicans) have to be in lock step, even 2-3 R-defectors will mean it doesn’t pass.
Democrats have been proposing amendments left and right, into the night… House members have suggested excluding people with wealth over $10M, $100M and $500M, all voted down Congresspeople are doing their job harder than they ever thought they would have to, but we should expect more.
- Comment on Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through? 4 weeks ago:
Trump during the campaign has said a lot of things during the campaign. Some very concerning, some things appealing broadly. Some things he has said polar opposite things at consecutive campaign rallies. (You can still see it happening now with the “Ukraine started the Russian occupation” then “Russia started the Russian occupation”). Some promises he hasn’t done a thing to keep, such as make life affordable. I think a lot of people were holding on to that promise.
A lot of other things he didn’t promise at all, he is doing, supposedly to bury the lede. Did he ever talk about Denmark, Greenland or Panama in his 2024 campaign? We know he likes tariffs but I think the 51st state BS came about after his election.
- Comment on Instance A does not federate with Instance B. But B federates with A. What does it mean to a user? 4 weeks ago:
Instance A defederating B or vice versa is the same result. Any posts on the now inaccessible community wi
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 5 weeks ago:
Change one thing just because you can. Take a different way to work, whether it is walking (and leaving much earlier), or a different bus/train or car route.
Listen to your favourite songs… look at the birds around you. Borrow a book from the library and read it, one bit at a time. Make the choices in your life, deliberate and DIFFERENT. Break your routine. Feel human.
- Comment on Anon shares his taste in music 5 weeks ago:
Anon’s favourite music genre:
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 5 weeks ago:
I mean saying the government doesn’t use SQL, in tech-speak is about as dumb as saying the government doesn’t use numbers.
Government is full of what are known as relational databases as you are well aware, and though it stands to reason that they aren’t all using the same software to manage it, many can be accessed using a standard language of commands. It could be a Microsoft Access, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Derby, Microsoft SQL server, PostgresQL, SQLite, SAP HANA, so on and so forth.
And saying there can be multiple entries in a database for one item with respect to the Social Security Database is, to me, a silly distraction and spreading BS FUD to ignorant people.
- Comment on Speedometer, or Siegometer? 1 month ago:
120km/h Hitler is just raising your hand to answer or ask a question. 160km/h Hitler is just showing off how flexible he is.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
No, only stupid reaction GIFs are allowed at my company. If an emotion doesn’t involve sending multiple megabytes of data to every member in the conversation, it’s not worth expressing.
Note: Standards are higher for secretarial and HR staff. At least 20% of the gifs must have Minions in them.
- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 1 month ago:
As the name suggests, a mod is “modifying” the game, in ways that the original creators never intended to support. That’s why out of very few exceptions (such as Paradox and Steam mods), there is not a centralized hub maintained by the creator to organize and apply mods.
The process tends to be different for every game because every game is made differently. To boil the concept down, basically if there’s no official interface for custom functionality (such as a plugin system), then modders will usually “hack” this in themselves. Installing the mod often means replacing a game file with one that hooks into the game, to be able to load custom code and custom game resources.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Not a border crossing but Nova Scotia’s toll road, the Cobequid Pass is doubling rates specifically for US commercial vehicles.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
If you spent 48 hours or more abroad then you can claim an $800 exemption from duties. This is the case for both Canada and the US (except the dollars is the respective currency). USA gets a fixed $200 exemption for every crossing if the other one doesn’t apply, Canada requires a 24 hour minimum stay for any exemptions, but in practicality if you tell CBSA you have around $200 of stuff that isn’t alcohol, most (especially at road/rail borders) will just wave you through without needing to fill out duty forms and pay.
- Comment on Romance scammers are now in the fediverse 1 month ago:
I got a similar message from that user and a near identical one earlier from a lemmings.world account. The latter onr also had links to a peertube channel with a different angle thumbnail of what appears to be the same person.
If you had an established profile and DM’d me I’d be more humoured to respond to out-of-the-blue introductions. But seeing that both accounts were created today, no public activity and immediately giving yourself a horny-bait nickname set off all the BS alarms.
- Comment on Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires? 1 month ago:
Tangential speed of the tires is proportional to the angular speed, and the factor is the radius (assuming a perfect circle with negligible differences from tire deformation). Same thing with distance. Tires that have half the radius of stock would report speeds and distance twice as fast/far, and twice as large tires would be half as slow.
- Comment on Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture 2 months ago:
Inauguration day 2017, the defining moment was “American carnage”. This year it’s this. Fine job, America.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah, conservatives like to randomly plug phrases of propaganda like unfunny inside jokes. Depending on my relationship with them I do one of the following.
- Ignore if I’m not that close. Maybe roll my eyes a bit.
- Push back on it if we’re in the context of world events/news/politics.
- If we’re close enough, re-direct the culture war bullshit interjections with interjections of class war. If your friend sees it fit to just randomly call society lazy, you can also randomly call the upper capitalist class lazy government-teat sucking hoarders.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If it’s any consolation, I’ve got you lot.
But I dunno, it just feels like a bunch of us just want to be told what to think, what to be happy about and what to be angry about, while ignoring the real harms and injustices being perpetuated.
The one thing I hope people will come to realize is that to overcome the giants, we must stop relying on them. Rebuilding the functions they controlled from the ground up, starting from the common folk around you.
- Comment on Will getting my drivers liscense renewed mess with my employer checking my driving record? 2 months ago:
Get it renewed now if you have time. Unless you’re super broke there’s no reason to wait.
You’re far enough through the process that something like your license expiry date not matching the record you submitted wouldn’t be a hassle, and even if it was, looking at the date they can immediately see the reason why without even needing to ask you.
- Comment on Microsoft refund problem 2 months ago:
Buy on credit card? Initiate a dispute on the transaction with the credit card company. Reason is “Goods not received”, have Roblox account screenshot showing history of debits/credits, purchase receipt, and email correspondence saved as evidence, attach it if requested. Usually you’ll get your momey back without much hassle.
Buy on debit card? Contact your bank and start a similar process but it will be more difficult. Microsoft gift card? Register a complaint with your consumer financial protection organization, depending on your country.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 2 months ago:
Would anon want to be with someone full-time that they had to keep silent about their harmless hobbies?
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Petition to UK Relaunched 2 months ago:
It’s good, he’s the originator, but the reach in Europe is not that great and there have only been a few multilingual channels that have picked it up.
