Khanzarate
@Khanzarate@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 4 days ago:
So at this point you know what it is, you know how to avoid being scammed, and you are aware that the most optimal way to deal with these people is to just block them and move on.
With all these things known, you can waste their time by pretending to have trouble depositing the check, saying the deposit went through while doing nothing, saying it worked and then playing hard to get with their “overpayment return” (usually they play on good Samaritan/pay it forward kind of guilt, so just pretend to be an asshole), and fucking with them every step of the way.
Atomic Shrimp on YouTube has done a bunch of these, if you’d rather live vicariously rather than expose yourself.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
I would too, unfortunately, but it’s not you, its them.
- Comment on Butter 1 week ago:
It’s fine. All this really means is together you have generated multiple posts worthy of this sub with a single photo. Very efficient of you, I appreciate it.
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 week ago:
I mean, financially it wasn’t really a choice. Cotton wasn’t profitable without slavery. Inherit a cotton farm from your racist parents and capitalism would ensure the racism kept flowing.
That’s why we had to force the issue in the first place, the south needed the institution of slavery, and wasn’t just fighting to defend slavery because they thought it was neat, it was because they needed it.
No excuses, but when immoral behavior is profitable behavior, yes, people can get dependent.
- Comment on How come Nurses are not bound by the same rule is a lawyer is to a defendant or a wife to a husband or a priest? If someone says something on their death bed why are we suppose to report? 2 weeks ago:
Then you’ve killed the man you told and the court will have a terribly difficult time producing him, but if they manage it, you’ll have to marry him to apply any kind of privilege.
- Comment on How come Nurses are not bound by the same rule is a lawyer is to a defendant or a wife to a husband or a priest? If someone says something on their death bed why are we suppose to report? 2 weeks ago:
A lawyer is considered an extension of your (legal) self. The reason is that if your lawyer can be compelled to talk about your private communications, then a client won’t actually get a fair trial, as they needed that lawyer aware of everything to defend them properly, but if prosecution could just call your lawyer to the stand and go “did they do it?”, no one would tell lawyers anything incriminating.
Your spouse is also considered to be part of you, legally. You have a right to confide in them, they are part of your life.
Same for a priest, many religions require confessions and have religious consequences for not confessing or a priest telling what they heard. The right for them protects them from being forced to break religious rules, although notably this one doesn’t exist everywhere.
Nurses and doctors are covered in the same way, actually. Revealing your medical information improperly is a HIPAA violation.
Aside from spousal privilege, all of these relate to your job. Your lawyer defends you, your priest hears your confessions, your doctors and nurses treat you. If you tell your priest about your heart condition and your lawyer about your blaspheming against god and your doctor about that time you murdered a man back in '03, then no privilege protects you at all.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 1 month ago:
Ooh it does. So yeah, options. Hiver would also be more subtle than Hoarfrost, less “Zephyr”
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 1 month ago:
Alliteration sounds great, mostly. Hanna Frost wouldn’t sound as good as Hanna Hoarfrost, at least in my opinion.
And there aren’t that many H cold words.
Plus, hoarfrost looks awesome, too.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 1 month ago:
Hoarfrost is cold-themed. I think its unique but shouldn’t raise too many eyebrows, and you get alliteration.
Hannah Hoarfrost, or Heather Hoarfrost, both sound neat. Does it sound good with your particular H name?
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 1 month ago:
What’s the first letter of your first name? Perfect chance for some alliteration. Esther Essington, Gretchen Gesundheit, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes. Don’t put people in uncomfortable situations.
But also, if they don’t know about the real cause, you may still hurt their feelings. If you can find another reason to decline it may go better.
- Comment on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California 1 month ago:
What pivoting?
It changes the plans of shuttering a server, not offering a new one. Any such independent play patch soils only be released when a company is ready to end servers.
A new game previously intended to be released December 31st of this year, caught off guard with just one day of warning, could still release without changing a thing. The game will have servers for years to come, presumably.
- Comment on Top-selling video games ever (2025) 2 months ago:
That hasn’t been true for years now
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 2 months ago:
I do assume things based on performance based on the engine, but that’s more for moments like "new game is coming this fall, using some engine ", before tech specs are out. I find a lot of games that care to announce an engine in any way tend to be the heavier resource hogs, because they’re advertising the high fidelity of something-or-other.
But that’s not really a condemnation on any games. I do often avoid the high resource games, but that’s because I have an older PC, not because of any actual prejudice against an engine itself.
- Comment on A shrubbery! 2 months ago:
You’ve never had dehydrated bananas?
I’ve put them in oatmeal before.
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 3 months ago:
Right? They specifically set out to make sure it wouldn’t be scalped to hell and back after repeated complaints.
They did that, and now the product is real, and market predictions on existing products are much more reliable. The initial production wasn’t sustainable but wasn’t meant to be sustained, either.
- Comment on New kink unlocked 3 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 3 months ago:
Yeah it’s a stopped payment. Checks or bank accounts.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 3 months ago:
Nah there’s legitimate reasons to do that. Banks don’t charge the fees that credit card companies do.
Also, you can have your bank refuse payment, anyway.
- Comment on Day 611 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
Right, that’s why they suggested the quarry. Entirely safe.
Also, while NPCs do destroy furniture, they now shove chests, so it’s also easier to find these paths manually.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
It became unlimited in HG/SS, which made it easier, but also more annoying for me when I had Platinum as my hub, because it meant I needed to catch a bunch of junk to trade over to my SS if I grabbed a Pokémon from the GBA games.
Such is life.
Although there are emulators that support loading the GBA games on DS, so if you want that pal park experience you can have it properly even on emulator.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 months ago:
I remember trying to get my living Dex sent over to gen 4 via the pal park. It was before heartgold and soul silver, so 6 pokemon a day. I’d do things like get middle stage Pokémon ready to evolve by getting them one level away, or holding the stone they need, etc, then as soon as I got them in Platinum, I could evolve them immediately and go get an egg. Called it “compressing” them, because the pal park was such a bottleneck, it was easier to rebreed them. Level 31 bulbasaur, for instance, send it, get it to 32 for a venusaur, get two eggs, hatch them, get one of those bulbasaur to evolve into ivysaur, so then I could store the proper living Dex trio in gen 4. Good times.
- Comment on ard 4 months ago:
The root means “slow”, BTW, so it does get to join that list.
- Comment on Is it possible to pay someone to create an excel sheet for me? 4 months ago:
The answer is yes, this is exactly what sites like fiverr are for.
That is, if you value your time more than your money for this, because there’s probably a way to still semi-automate it and avoid some of the work. But yes, fiverr.
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 5 months ago:
Simple, dissolve the whole package in one gallon of water, and then the solution is 110 times as potent as it should be.
Round up to 128 because watering it down a little more won’t hurt you, and that simplifies the math. You put one ounce of that gallon of solution into a second gallon of water, and you’re ready to drink. Repeat with a new gallon of tap water mixed with an ounce of your solution as needed.
- Comment on I dunno 7 months ago:
Worth a reminder that *'s get converted to italics. At first I saw the 2+58-55 and was very concerned for your education.
- Comment on A heartwarming classic! 8 months ago:
Translating the text, it seems correct. Some AI can get that, but it means it’s at least a lot more likely to be real.
- Comment on Venn Diagrams 9 months ago:
The green area isn’t defined there’s room for everyone
- Comment on Creative way to boost your business 10 months ago:
Thats not an “until”, it’s a winner
- Comment on Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service 10 months ago:
Ubuntu got tired of all the memes, and is taking action.
