scarabic
@scarabic@lemmy.world
- Comment on All glory to the techno viking. 2 days ago:
Nothing gets the blood pumping like a little confrontation. Hardly looked necessary TBH. The dude tripped into someone. She was fine.
- Comment on Movie intros in 2026 3 days ago:
I saw all that and thought “damn it’s good to be a grownup.”
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 3 days ago:
Unjust go back to the things that forum admins have done forever: block whole IP continents you don’t see meaningful engagement from but see a ton of bots from. Make new accounts jump through a bunch of hoops. Don’t allow new users to create content for a while, and then make them earn that right over time. Shadow ban the crap you can identify so they waste their strength. Reap inactive accounts periodically. And so on.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 3 days ago:
I acknowledge your point about alternate use, but we also need to look at a datacenter we may or may not need as a “power consumption plant.” These jackasses just keep loading and loading up the grid, looking to make a private dollar on public infrastructure. It’s wasteful and not necessarily a baseline good thing ^TM even if AI goes flop.
- Comment on A bear, exhausted from abuse, attacks its trainer— Hangzhou Safari Park, China 6 days ago:
Funny as it may seem, that is actually standard equipment under ISO:8110 for animal trainers world wide. And I quote from the text of the standard:
Safety Equipment (503, section C):
Animals of size over 20kg shall require a neck restraint device with a rigid staff. Leashes and chains are unacceptable for their ineffectiveness to protect the animal’s handler. A specialized noose-rod or other neck restraint device with handle no less than 80cm shall be on site at all times, or if one is not available, a basketball hoop is an acceptable substitute.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 1 week ago:
Because Reddit exists.
Reddit itself didn’t truly take off to massive scale until some other players were out of the way. It was the underdog for a long time.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 1 week ago:
Some of these are under threat too. There are online lawyer and doctor offerings now. Maybe not numbers, but there are certainly tech companies trying to own the plumbing referral business (like Thumbtack) and they suck a great deal of the profit margin out of it. Nothing is safe.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 1 week ago:
Some local retail makes sense, and some does not. For example, my life would really suffer if the hardware store down the street closed up. I like being able to get a paint match home in under 30 minutes. And sometimes I spend half an hour looking for the exact bolt I need, checking it against the other part it’s going to screw into: you just can’t do all that on Amazon and the big box motherfuckers are further away and far less convenient.
Once I messed up and superglued a wrench into my palm. I couldn’t wait for fucking Prime Overnight. I went down to the hardware store and asked if they stocked ca glue debonder. They didn’t, but the store manager got out some acetone and sat there with me, slowly pouring it on as I peeled the wrench out. He wouldn’t even take my money at the end. You just get that kind of service from Lowe’s or Amazon. I now buy every single thing I possibly can there, to help ensure they stay around.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 1 week ago:
Local hardware store stands apart as an indispensable local retail utility and I buy everything I possibly can there, because I like having a local hardware store and occasionally really need one. I buy all the household cleaning products I can there, because they sell them, I need them, and I’m incredibly happy to pay whatever extra 40 cents they cost over having Amazon pack up a box of dish pods into its own cardboard box and truck it out to my house,
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 1 week ago:
Yeah I actually never expected to have an LCD billboard up inside my home.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 1 week ago:
I would merely hate this and curse the manufacturer. But I know that if it were in my house, my kids, with their raw, unhardened minds, would find it irresistible. The slogans would worm their way into their everyday speech. They would talk about new ads over breakfast. They just don’t have the filters we adults have. So I’m so fucking glad I don’t have anything like this. It’s beyond mildly infuriating to truly insidious.
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 1 week ago:
Why do you even visit them? I’d say if you use them for product discovery but then give all your sales to online merchants, you are an absolute enemy of small businesses, whatever you think you feel about them.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 3 weeks ago:
Not as a rule, no.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 3 weeks ago:
I see brown and tan herringbone with paisley patterns blooming through it.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 3 weeks ago:
They tried AI the nice way and nobody gives a shit about it but billions have been spent already so they are tightening the screws to make you use it. This is late stage fuckery and hopefully the whole thing will collapse soon.
- Comment on [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content? 3 weeks ago:
And the third is broken into two pieces
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 4 weeks ago:
If you have a good job that’s not too demanding and are still feeling this, then you might think about it as a health issue and look into it with your doctor. You have two paths:
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look for some treatable malady - perhaps depression
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focus on wellness and fitness: exercise more, get your electrolytes, fix your diet
Either of those two paths may lead to more energy. I don’t know how old you are but this kind of thing doesn’t get any easier with age so I highly recommend getting ahead of it as soon as you can.
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- Comment on What is the catalyst that actually causes (financial) bubbles to burst? 5 weeks ago:
The actual trigger is when someone influential decides “this is far enough - I’m pulling my money out before it all vanishes.” This doesn’t have to be such a dire thing - investors are constantly saying “this is enough - I’ve done well in this - time to take the profits and move my money elsewhere.”
Others see the influential figure doing that and begin to get scared. Many follow. And this becomes a chain reaction when the market at large sees this trend. If it’s enough people, and there’s enough doubt looming out there, it will chain and take the entire market down. If there’s not, it will stabilize. Small corrections happen all the time.
It’s a very basic human thing. If you were in a room and everyone else in it suddenly screamed and ran away you would follow them and figure out why later.
- Comment on How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster 1 month ago:
I’m just seconding the consideration of UV curing products because they are cool and have many benefits. I have zero experience with anything to do with nails.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 month ago:
This question is too vague. “Higher beings” is not well defined enough. “Other planes of existence” is not defined well enough. For that matter “the Gods” is not very specific. And in a weird way, what you’re saying seems somewhat circular. Like what do you call it when you believe gods aren’t gods? If you don’t believe they’re gods then who are you even indicating?
Are you asking if there’s a name for someone who believes that humanity’s major religions do worship real living beings, but those beings are simply advanced alien creatures and not metaphysical in any way.
- Comment on How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster 1 month ago:
I use UV curing wood finish for my woodworking projects now and it’s amazing. Nothing evaporates so there’s no smell and no respiratory health risk. Every bit of the liquid turns to solid, so you don’t have to use very much. And it’s done and set in 5 minutes instead of hours.
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 1 month ago:
There was a “n——r regime?”
- Comment on How do I finally get a long term career and become financially independent? 1 month ago:
Do what generation after generation of people have done: move to find opportunity. There are plenty of places where the economy is active enough that you aren’t caught between union gatekeepers and starvation.
- Comment on How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events? 1 month ago:
SMH. You could get hit by a meteor tomorrow, or you could not. I guess you have a 50% chance of dying! Good luck with it man… I hope you make it.
- Comment on How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events? 1 month ago:
Two outcomes does not mean 50/50 chances. Maybe you were being sarcastic about that, but people actually use that reasoning in the real world all the time.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 month ago:
Yeah the damages don’t make sense. They might be able to press other changes.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 month ago:
I’m not sure how that pushback can be applied. It’s not a legal argument that I am justified in stealing something if you won’t sell it to me.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Hell yeah. I love the way Trek makes people like this piss and squeal and moan.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 month ago:
I remember one old vet that used to show up every day as soon as the bar would open for his daily fix… It got to the point the bar refused to serve him
So he’d go to this bar during business hours to drink. And this went on to the point where they stopped serving him? Something is missing from the middle of this story…
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 month ago:
VPN ads seriously need to stop promising that you can get around content restrictions.