Jikiya

@Jikiya@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goddammit Texas!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you go ahead and find those treaties for me, since I’ve never gotten a result back from a search. And I’d like to believe but have no proof of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goddammit Texas!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the reason is that there are state laws against outside observers, and no treaty giving any foreign government the ability to monitor. So they’re just enforcing the laws, as they’re supposed to.

  Mind you I’m not saying the UN or any other nation is going to interfere, but seems really important to follow laws around voting to make sure the attitude of enforcement isn’t lax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I meant by cents on the dollar is usually, they broke rules, make $100 billion from it (imaginary scenario), and then the settlement from that wrong doing sees them pay out $2 billion to the affected customers that joined the class. It may be due to the fact that I’ve not paid attention to too many class action suits, but it seems like the settlement never comes close to the harm they caused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell you that I have arbitration on going, and it’s been well over a year that it has been happening. To assume that the arbitration wraps up in a month, when you’ve got lawyers involved is non-sense. I don’t believe arbitrators are in anyone’s pocket either. The arbitrators aren’t in-house council for Valve, they are a company Valve has contracted with, and they’re going to be neutral, and rule based on law, not who’s paying. As a lot of arbitration rules state that if you take the case to arbitration and lose, the one that is ruled against pays for the cost of the arbitration. Based on the “mate’s rates”, I’m guessing you’re UK based. I don’t know that legal system, so can’t say how fee structures work. But a great deal of lawyers that are suing on behalf of you, in the US, take a percentage of the settlement. So the biggest cost is all to the person being sued, as they do pay the lawyers by the hour instead of a cut of the ruling.

  I don’t think Valve is changing their rules to screw customers, I think they’re doing it because they’ve found separating each case into a different arbitration claim is too expensive. And it would have been better for them all to be in one group. I believe Valve is the best game distributor, as it turns out. But if people with law degrees think they’ve broken rules, I’m all for punishing rule-breaking. In this particular scenario, it seems like it might slightly improve things for consumers, and greatly benefit small studios.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you push everybody into a class action, it will be cheaper. Have you ever gotten more than a cent on the dollar from a class action settlement(unless you’re the class representative)? Sure the seem like the settlements are a lot of money, but if you can get the class action settled with very few claimants, no one will be able to sue over that particular issue again, so it puts it behind the company. Instead of being dogged by individuals for however long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate change⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nobody’s business but the Turks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay frosty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure wish they were quiet enough to sleep through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Elon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It certainly can be, but it’s such a high bar to get over that these days I’m not sure there will be another amendment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too easy!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imma start flingin shit if this video doesn’t load soon!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the actual point of a bra?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You absolutely can ask them that. Noticing it is not the same thing as getting distracted by it. Allowing your focus to be highjacked by the environment is a sign of a weak mind. If you went to work and a coworker told you the shape of your nose was distracting to them, and you need to wear a mask so they can continue to work, that is on the coworker, not you. It is absurd to put someone else in charge of what needs to be done to stop you from being distracted.

  People need to control themselves, no one else has that ability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the actual point of a bra?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They do, but they shouldn’t. You should not ask a stranger to change their behavior because you cannot control your own. Maybe family would do it for you, but even then it’s can be a shitty thing to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would if I didn’t fear that the scarcity will then be artificial to keep groups in power. The idea is beautiful, our current direction is terrifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨math checks out⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a higher average than the amount of calls they had 150 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen alpha has no fucking clue⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a banger!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Euro bottles are so much better now⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man have I got bad news for you. Almost everything uses idiots as the baseline for making stuff. They’re so numerous. Probably because everyone’s an idiot about something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can only pick one⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like it would be perfect for you then, as you would never have to watch any video there, ever again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would someone openly say that they oppose human rights?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel I might have misunderstood something here, as it seems like this argument is ‘Anal sex can’t be pleasurable, because that’s where poop comes from and poop is bad’. Am I understanding his argument correctly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do overnight shift workers do when the clocks change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The US also has ‘salaried - non-exempt’ which would require the employer to pay for time above 40 hours. Manufacturing jobs aren’t allowed to be exempt from overtime pay. It is generally white collar workers that are allowed to be exempt from overtime pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate Turkey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it due to all the sand they have? It’s coarse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[What if scenario] What if all commercial institutions suddenly decided they no longer intend to acknowledge religious events such as Christmas?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Really depends on the religion. There are some religions that aren’t organized at all, and are fully self practiced. They don’t require things to be sold.

  The religion of capitalism is a different beast though. I would say that people need things to celebrate in life though, or they tend to get very hostile. It seems to me that the more communal an event is the better the effect is on society, as people can set aside a lot of grievances for the festivities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Spiderman 2 and Mario Bros Wonder.

  Mainly Spiderman, but play the other when my daughter is playing her SM2 game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube ads finally got me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand this. And not saying it to stir up hate, or troll. This came up for me, I closed the pop-up, and watched the video with no ads. It only added a single click to the whole thing. And they’ve since gone away for me. Don’t know why they stopped, though they have.