scarabic
@scarabic@lemmy.world
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 1 day ago:
And it wouldn’t tell a citizen they are at the same risk as someone on a work visa.
- Comment on welp, Patreon just destroyed my stable income after a decade on the platform - what now 1 day ago:
I guess I just be weird because an ongoing monthly subscription to a creator is never something I’m willing to consider, though I have made many one-time contributions.
- Comment on How's them tariffs going 1 week ago:
Goddamit I’m just sitting here waiting to lose my job over this fuckery.
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 2 weeks ago:
I miss the minutes when this term was just used unironically and hadn’t yet become a magat slur.
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 2 weeks ago:
Show zero tolerance for others speaking in favor of it. You don’t have to win every argument. You have to let them know that their “political beliefs” are fighting words and they’re going to get a fight whenever they try to speak them.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 2 weeks ago:
Yep, convenience of plopping the phone down really is 100% of it for me. Especially with Apple’s magnets setup, it’s a one-hand, one-second operation. The thought of having a dangling cable on my desk and picking it up and fiddling to plug it in seems like something from 10 years ago. I’ve even forgotten once or twice what kind of port my phone has.
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 2 weeks ago:
“Source of all problems?” If you exaggerate it right in your question and then ask if it’s exaggerated, of course the answer will be yes.
“It’s just a tool” yes and when people say “social media” they mean the whole combination of the tools and how they are getting used. The whole “it’s just a tool” argument isn’t worth much. Yes, it is, and now that it’s been let loose in the world, we see how it is being used.
A match is “just a tool” but in a forest that’s dripping with gasoline, you can see how that tool will do exactly one job.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 2 weeks ago:
Elon held an all hands at the company to announce “I’m back in charge” and the financial press are reporting that “the markets rewarded it.” Meaning the stock went up. Which makes me want to puke.
- Comment on I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud 3 weeks ago:
That’s disgusting. I can set time delay on my 10yo Bosch at the push of a physical button.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 3 weeks ago:
A 14yo was the first to fire at Marshalls at Ruby Ridge.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 3 weeks ago:
Forgive him for what? I recall there was drama around this show but I legit couldn’t understand what actually happened.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 3 weeks ago:
I’d rather do that than arm people with assault rifles so they can live in remote rural areas where herds of feral pigs are an issue. Yes this is an actual argument people make in favor of keeping assault rifles legal. “What if I need to stop a stampede of 80 feral hogs? This is a weekly occurrence on my property.”
Frankly, if feral hogs have you running scared, it’s not your property, it’s theirs.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah OP needs to define what “slow” means to them. You could say that a one-week delayed effect is slow. Or you could say that it’s only slow if it takes months of exposure.
- Comment on Why Does This Industry Get Special Privileges? 3 weeks ago:
Because yeah, sugar just isn’t cheap enough in America.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
LOL I knew that was going to be the link :)
Keep those out of my pants too!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
He wants to be guaranteed a woman and then to have her loyalty guaranteed.
These are obviously the desires of a man who cannot find and keep the loyalty of a mate just on his own merits. No, he needs the state to help him bag a wife.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard it said that marriage was invented by men as a sort of peace agreement to guarantee one woman per man so that no men were totally shut out of sex. In earlier times, when wealthy or powerful men hoarded the women, this led to serious problems from those men on the losing end of the society.
So yeah, in essence, this douche is trying to level the playing field between his sorry ass and more successful men.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Get your laws out of my pants.
- Comment on Why is a two-party system considered democratic? 3 weeks ago:
This. This. This.
Everyone should watch this. Even people who know about rank choice voting.
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 4 weeks ago:
Just 25 years experience developing websites and apps. Websites are thin clients. Every line of JS that executes in your browser is generated by more server side code, and that’s not even to speak of the middle tier and back end. So yeah. A majority of software is not on the client. Unless you’re doing it incredibly wrong.
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 4 weeks ago:
“Hey boss? I got a user here who’s blocking our ads and cussing us out.”
“Oh dear. Better give him whatever he wants.”
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 4 weeks ago:
That Harriman version is the only kind I understand, where it’s basically a freestanding robot that a human gets inside.
Others if the variety that you strap on worry me. Elderly people have weaker bones and cartilage. Having something apply force to the skeleton itself to do work seems dangerous.
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 4 weeks ago:
Look, the majority of the software is on the server end. Even if they have you a full stack trace, and you understood it, you wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. You want them to give you a way to send in a merge request? I’m sure that would be received here as Google exploiting you for free.
- Comment on I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it 4 weeks ago:
Let’s ALL buy the same thing as OP and then leave negative feedback. We’ll all get it for free and bleed this vendor.
Link, OP?
- Comment on I'm sure people fall for this type of greenwashing all the time... 4 weeks ago:
74 loads versus 60, bruh
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 4 weeks ago:
Forgive me but I wanted to nitpick all those examples
Cantonese is not a dialect of Madarin. It’s a distinct language, just a smaller one.
Standard Arabic is not actually spoken anywhere, and is primarily a written form. Egyptian pronunciations ARE commonly taught, not only because Egypt is big but because, with Egypt’s large entertainment sector, they have exported their pronunciations around the world in TV and movies.
British English is taught largely as a colonial legacy, not because England predates the US and Australia in history and is therefore considered “standard.”
While all of these secondary examples are flawed, IMO, I believe you’re actually right about Castilian Spanish. It’s simply more of an individual case than part of a common pattern.
- Comment on "Algorithms are breaking how we think" 4 weeks ago:
I can’t argue with the notion that we’re worse at finding information through other means. I’d just say that’s the way times change, though.
I’m reading Henry Huggins to my son right now and in it, a boy needs to find out how to take care of a fish he’s bought. He waits for his dad to come home in order to ask him, and when dad doesn’t know, they go on a trip to the library. The librarian has a little trouble figuring out where the right book might be, and ultimately can only find him one that he needs adult help to read.
And that’s a success story for those times.
While we’re certainly worse at things like that these days, we’re better off in other ways that more than compensate IMO. It’s still good to know how to resort to books, but I think it’s romantic to bemoan the options for learning nowadays (not that you are doing that).
- Comment on "Algorithms are breaking how we think" 4 weeks ago:
Good points.
I do think It’s been a longer road to where we are than most people realize. Conservative talk radio and Christian AM radio had been peddling disinformation, outrage, and conspiracies for decades prior to the Internet. That really paved the way for today’s bullshit, and the prevalence of podcasts in the conservative media wackosphere helps show that.
I think his point is that the more people conflate their social media algorithms with the internet, the less able they become to do some basic research.
I guess that didn’t come through very clearly for me. Does using Instagram actually harm people’s Googling skills? This is a bold claim, and while interesting, was not founded on any evidence. I could tell he’s concerned this might be the case but he didn’t have any particular knowledge of this to present. Which is odd, because he typically has extensive knowledge about what he’s presenting.
It was a bit of an odd video for him. That’s fine. He’s more than earned the right to the occasional weird editorial.
- Comment on "Algorithms are breaking how we think" 4 weeks ago:
I genuinely do live this guy.
When I watched this though, I had to think: back in the days of television, wasn’t it even worse? There was nothing you could do to influence what was on. We literally called what was on programming ffs.
I was also a little unimpressed by the radio parts shopping example. Is he really saying that instead of engaging in some feed scrolling while you’re waiting to be called in the doctor’s waiting room, that you should go on a mission to repair some electronics? There’s project time and there’s entertainment time and they ain’t the same.
- Comment on Receipt checkers trigger me 4 weeks ago:
I only experience this at Costco and my theory is that they just check that it’s a receipt from today, and that it is about the right length for your size of cart. On top of just making sure you have a receipt at all, this would make it harder to walk out with a pirate cart. Plus there’s just an overall deterrence because you don’t really know how much they are checking. Maybe every 10th person gets a real look-over.