princessnorah

@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is always risky in older humans as well. My grandfather broke his wrist ~10 years ago from a fall. He was doing fine, they kept him for observation because he also hit his head, and he needed surgery to set his wrist. They put him under general anaesthetic, he vomited, aspirated and they broke 5 ribs reviving him. He was in ICU for a week. Still alive today though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, same lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neverway is a horror RPG Stardew Valley from one of the artists behind Celeste⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you never recommended a game to someone by referencing a game they know that it’s similar too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'A lifetime of disasters': Young protester interrupts PM's major announcement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Albo, in a minority government with the Greens. As an excellent video I watched recently pointed out, The Coalition has always been minority governments too, Labor & the Greens just need to point that out this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insurrection act — April 20th. Pls read!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But you don’t understand! Kamala supported a genocide in Gaza! We had to show her our disapproval by supporting the election of a man who not only wants Gaza wiped off the map, but also wants to commit domestic genocide against immigrants, PoC, trans people, political opponents. That wants to destroy the very rule of law itself. That’ll show the Democrats!

  I hope the /s is heavily fluffing implied! Sitting here in Australia, it has been surreal watching this all play out. I’m terrified for my friends and family in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro yet again subject to mods’ poor understanding of “gambling”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube no longer allows any reference to gambling sites or applications “not certified by Google.”

  It’s literally on the Play Store, rated at M.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking with the US will be painful for Australia in many ways – but it’s inevitable | John Quiggin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now there’s anger and depression as the tariffs sink in.

  I hope we don’t end up putting retaliatory tariffs on goods sold by American companies that are actually made in China. iPhones and Pixels are the one that comes to mind first. All that would do is harm Australian consumers and cause the cost of living to increase, because I don’t think people will turn around and buy a Samsung instead. Well, maybe people looking to buy a Pixel but not an iPhone. I’m pretty sure Apple pays most of their corporate taxes in Ireland anyway.

  As well, tariffs on American pharmaceuticals would be pretty silly, because it’s the government that’s going to foot the bill, when they’re the ones collecting the tariff anyway, so it’d just be a ridiculous cyclical situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe Coded AI App Generates Recipes for Cyanide Ice Cream and C*m Soup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except running a train is a real job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🔮 Friday 4 April 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all trial and error really. Do you have an empty garden bed you could test things on? There are pretty simple ways to do this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨peak fitness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of? It’s referencing a well known set of mass extinctions that are talked about together, the ‘Big Five’, but it also is worded poorly. Instead something like “Sharks have survived the most recent four of the ‘Big Five’ mass extinction events.” might be better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate management is now too lazy to even physically go to locations now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also used to be faster, as most people used self-checkouts as an analog for express lanes. But now with folks with full trolleys using it, the lack if specialisation and theft prevention systems constantly breaking requiring the one or two employees to fix, it’s now significantly longer than a regular checkout in most cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutton flip-flops on proposals for three separate referendums if Coalition wins election⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be happy with four and eight year terms. Personally, I think the UK has shown why five years is pushing too far the other direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutton flip-flops on proposals for three separate referendums if Coalition wins election⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indigenous recognition is an interesting one. The LNP undermined the ALPs referendum on recognition. If the LNP floated their own then ALP would be under a lot of pressure to support it, but of course the LNPs “recognition” would be tepid and I’m almost certain would limit equality in the future rather than promote it.

  I genuinely think the proposal, to recognise indigenous history in the constitution’s preamble, is that lukewarm that ALP could easily not support it. The vast majority of indigenous rights groups aren’t going to consider it good enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ONE OF US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not at all what happened with the Demon Core. On its own, you could not do anything to it that would make it reach supercriticality. The experiments that were conducted on it involved neutron reflective materials. With the addition of neutrons back into the core, that pushed it closer and closer to criticality. Both incidents occurred when too much reflective material was added around the core and it reached supercriticality, a sustained chain reaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NotTheChaser: Greens senator brings a whole salmon into the Senate chamber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whut?

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  skill issue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does for me, but I have auditory processing issues so your mileage may vary. Discord also just has a lot of issues, like audio sources messing up, or calls cutting completely for up to ten seconds for no discernible reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But even a standard voice server is better quality than a phone.

  It really isn’t in my experiences, but maybe it’s different in Australia? As well, other services like Telegram or Signal have way better quality too. Discord just kinda sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yea, absolutely, but HD Voice can do 128kbps and comparatively that’s better than Discord. The other person’s comment seemed a bit snarky so I wanted to refute their assertion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe if you pay for Nitro. Without it, the standard call quality is only 96kbps. Meanwhile VoLTE/VoNR and HD Voice have made mobile phone calls typically equal or higher quality. If you only ever call corporate/business/government services, those are typically still narrowband though, so you’re not going to notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really think you fail to understand how many engineers there are out there. Or how many disciplines of them there are. Let alone that many come across stand-offish in the fields of say, Civil Engineering because they are ultimately responsible for human life, yet people want to argue with them about “overbuilding” things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardcore gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay you’re right about the one in the image, but I was more talking about a hypothetical here, bc this guy clearly did bring a keyboard and mouse too. Some Sennheiser HD650s would be perfect imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardcore gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve never worn headphones with one half off your ear before? Arguably better than just putting one earbud in, because you can still hear the game audio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardcore gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the headphones make much more sense than the keyboard and mouse imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German thermostat company Tado locks previously free app behind fake paywall, claiming it's "marketing tests"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a German who was taught all the dark times of our nation in school, I can confidently say that us causing the second War To End All Wars is almost as bad as this company’s behaviour.

  Yikes friend… this reads like a different flavour of holocaust denial…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: Friday, 14 February 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay…I don’t think you’re doing a good job of not being arrogant on the internet either though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: Friday, 14 February 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, I think we as a society have been restricting the rights of teenagers more and more. I’ve helped a lot of young adults access resources to escape from less than stellar parents unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily Discussion Thread: Friday, 14 February 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry but isn’t it a bit creepy that you location-track your child like this? I’m glad that I grew up before that was a thing my parents could do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework (2nd Gen) Event is live on February 25th - Framework holding new product launch in 2 weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if one of their existing mainboards would fit in the form factor of something like a Legion Go (which is quite a bit larger than a Steam Deck)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, genuinely one of my favourite original sci-fi movies I’ve watched in the last decade. I did a linguistics course in high school so just really loved that side of it. It also really felt like they did a great job building the tension and making it feel like there were high stakes to her work.