stankmut

@stankmut@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What metrics are deoderant companies using to calculate their "72hr protection" numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just reading about the Red Bull case the other day. It seems like they settled in order to make the stories all about how they ‘lost’ the ‘red bull gives you wings’ case, which sound like a stupid lawsuit, rather than go to court and have the media write about how Red Bull doesn’t do anything that a cup of coffee won’t do. They even still use the ‘gives you wings’ slogan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The news feed can have ads, but the poorly designed feature itself isn’t about showing ads. It’s just showing the top item of the news feed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no downvoting for specific communities?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It says it in the reason portion.

  reason: Community ban from site admin. Consider curating your feed instead of downvoting all of the content within a community

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no downvoting for specific communities?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The mod was either also an admin or asked an admin. You can even see it in the ban reasons from OP. The most recent ban mentions that a site admin is responsible for the ban.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s American Exceptionalism at work. Unlike the rest of the world, we have no healthcare, we use Fahrenheit, and we put on our pants one leg at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be interesting to see the Supreme Court try to enforce that on the person who has the ability to suspend habeas corpus and have them all arrested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These AI generated pics are becoming impossible to spot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing that got me was the lighting. I’ve been camping and you just can’t get a good photo of your tent fire. Not as well lit as this at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the difference between "English is not my first language" bad grammar, and "The only language I speak jmis english" bad grammar?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I didn’t have a problem reading it. The most awkward part was the weird comparison to Big Ben. The wrong “there” was the first thing to make me pause and then I saw the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Grow up. These are my movies, not yours": George Lucas Won't be Happy How Star Wars Fan Group is Illegally Saving the Original Trilogy⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t knock you, we have to keep the tradition alive. I only read the article to make sure I was right before finishing the reply to you.

  Since the headline said he “won’t be happy” instead of “isn’t happy”, I guessed the writer was just bringing up some old stuff to stir things up and make the article more dramatic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Grow up. These are my movies, not yours": George Lucas Won't be Happy How Star Wars Fan Group is Illegally Saving the Original Trilogy⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The quote is from before he sold those movies. The story is that he was interacting with fans who were saying that they didn’t mind the edits, but they would like high resolution copies of the originals. He then told them to grow up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handy reference⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The apostrophe is also used for possession. For example, the DoJ’s lawsuit against Apple was filed Thursday morning or Adrian’s baseball went missing. It’s only backwards for its.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post was removed on this instance only - is there an appeal process?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the federated nature makes it tough to just have a blanket policy of leaving it up to the community mods. Ideally you would want the report to go through the community mods and then the host instance admins first, but you might not be able to contact those instance admins to see if they have looked at the post. You also have no control of the community mods and would not expect them to remove the post because of your rules.

  Even with that, I do agree that something should change. As it stands, you can have posts disappear from largest Lemmy server from seemingly arbitrary admin decisions and there’s no formal process to appeal. It seems like you would need some sort of Alliance where you all agree to certain guidelines and have a formal process for these cross-server disputes.

  Maybe there should also be some sort of ‘Approved by host admin’ system so that other admins can at least know that you looked at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post was removed on this instance only - is there an appeal process?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Arent federated comments and posts from you instance hosted on each server you federated with? Admins of each individual server have the right to moderate content seen by their users. If they couldn’t remove individual comments or posts, then the only other option they would have if your users are breaking this server’s rules would be to defederate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KFC be like...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s individual fast food restaurants, not fast food chains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition | Free on Epic Game⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does include the DLC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 dev shows off the level of optimization achieved for the Xbox Series S port, which bodes well for future PC updates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The series S is the lowest spec console that they are targeting. In order to get the performance they want out of it, they are trying to optimize as much of the game as they can. Those optimizations have decreased the amount of RAM, VRAM, and CPU load the game is using and those optimizations affect the PC version as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually had a whole paragraph about junctions being a limit and then deleted it since i didn’t feel like it added to my point. I also was going to add a point about how much space the lanes take up and that even if more lanes added capacity, it didn’t necessarily mean they were the right option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It does increase the capacity of roads. Two lanes holds twice as many cars as one lane. Four lanes hold twice as many cars as two lanes.

  You’re probably thinking of induced demand, but that’s related to traffic congestion and not capacity. More lanes ultimately means more cars are getting places, but any individual car will see that congestion is just as bad as it used to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The PS5 is the size of a small boat. The only way Nintendo can release a portable console that matches it would be if it came in a wheelbarrow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reported UFO sightings. Aliens are very interested in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You say you saw it with your own eyes, but you were looking through a camera. That’s not the same thing.