HobbitFoot

@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My spelling and grammar are a lot worse when I type on my phone. I also accidentally a word.

  I don’t bother with correcting it since I don’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple isn’t a monopoly.

  In personal computing and smartphones, Apple has competition. Because Apple has competition, even if it is only one other major company, Apple won’t be forced to unbundle services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Cameron Says Blockbuster Movies Can Only Survive If We ‘Cut the Cost in Half’; He’s Exploring How AI Can Help Without ‘Laying Off the Staff’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a scene in a 70’s movie that James Cameron worked on that needed a computer animated tracking shot of a city. They couldn’t afford the computer time, so they put reflective tape on black painted blocks and manipulated the lighting levels to make it look like the shot was from a computer.

  Maybe do more of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movie Theaters Post Warnings Against Crazy ‘Minecraft Movie’ Screenings: ‘Screaming’ and ‘Taking Part in TikTok Trends Will Not Be Tolerated’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If this was over a generation ago with how movies used to get released, I’d agree with you.

  However, it feels like part of the fun of seeing something in a theater is that you’re watching something with others and you could watch it alone within a few months. With what I’ve read about RRR or the Taylor Swift Eras movie release, maybe theaters should let some screenings being audience participatory because there is more enjoyment with treating the movie as something to interact with instead of passively watch.

  After all, you can passively watch a movie at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actually I will be happy to do it for you once a day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It always confused me that a short pipe with two male ends was a nipple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movie Theaters Post Warnings Against Crazy ‘Minecraft Movie’ Screenings: ‘Screaming’ and ‘Taking Part in TikTok Trends Will Not Be Tolerated’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Outside of making a mess or trashing the place, I think movie theaters need to allow patrons to do more when watching a movie. The movie is going to go direct to video in a month anyway, why not let movie goers have fun?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movie Theaters Post Warnings Against Crazy ‘Minecraft Movie’ Screenings: ‘Screaming’ and ‘Taking Part in TikTok Trends Will Not Be Tolerated’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the mess, but kids movies are always messy and theaters have the staff on hand to clean those kinds of movies, or can increase staff if necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are entire levels of the ocean where ecosystem is fed on the slow sinking of dying animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is EVERYTHINGGGGG behind a paywall?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People also seem to forget how much it costs to create content, even shitty listicles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's the best strategy to follow with a new boss who wants me dumbed down?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It may not be the doctors complaining.

  While not exactly the dynamic between doctors and nurses, I’ve had to be a “doctor” and deal with people in a “nurse” role. The typical “nurses” enforced a hierarchy where they didn’t have to make technical decisions and their work was crap as a result. I got one “nurse” who was proactive and was an asset to my team, but they got pushed out since they didn’t play the game the way other “nurses” did.

  The person who did the firing was surprised that I thought so highly of the “nurse” who was fired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Processing the context, you can see how a lot of internet companies have continued the trend of making wage positions “more entrepreneurial”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Note: before tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a big part of it is that a lot of gaming companies keep wanting to make AAA gaming, but no one wants to pay for AAA gaming.

  Mario Kart 8 was already a recycled game from the Wii U and it sold well. After it stopped selling copies, Nintendo sold more DLC with the Booster Course Pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War: How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like Silicon Valley got trapped between two parties. On one side, Democrats were actively discussing increased regulations and antitrust litigation. On the other side, Republicans were going to accept free reign as long as they got support on “other policies”.

  It turns out the “other policies” included significantly reducing their customer base.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on Mario Kart World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like they had to do something different than Mario Kart 8 and they did. The game looks interesting.

  If isn’t interesting enough to buy, but then I figured I might sit this generation out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a simple solution to a complicated problem. For a segment of society, it sounds good enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on if they try to assert sentience before or not. You can justify a slave killing a slaveowner ethically, but I don’t know if you justify a tree shredder killing its operator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could human stomach acid be bioengineered to break down microplastics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You would need a solvent that would break down organic molecules that create the strength for plastic. Acid isn’t good at breaking that down.

  Any material that could break down plastic would also break down everything that makes food useful for a body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of CAPTCHA is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if it was a Richard Hammond attack, it would probably crash itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of CAPTCHA is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did, it was that link.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that the US is under influence by Russia, what will happen to Whistleblower Edward Snowden?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably nothing, since Putin wants to encourage future defectors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just make it work at scale.

  Lemmy at a million users would look far different than it does now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t trust public wired charging ports to anything other my mobile battery.

  Since I can’t verify if a weird charging port won’t upload malware on site, I’d use wireless charging instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not surprised. Spez killed two good methods of generating revenue while maintaining a staff that is probably too large and not creating products that generate revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eat some good barbeque.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon calls in for financial advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you are dying with millions, inheritance tax is nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon calls in for financial advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is when you spend your last dollar but still are breathing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Long term, Americans have been bad at making idiots feel shame for their idiocy. There is less of a societal push to make people conform to societal pressure. On one end, this leads to great creative freedom for artists. On the other end, it creates the born again movement.

  Medium term, LBJ oversaw the collapse of economic leftism as he was trying to include civil rights legislation and the Vietnam War. This lead to the stagnation of American salaries, but it took a while for people to notice that quality of life wasn’t improving for everyone. Also, conservatives realized they could create parallel media in a way to control public sentiment.

  Short term, the Great Recession and COVID made it clear that quality of life wasn’t as bulletproof as people thought. As a response, some people want to bring back “the good old days”, not realizing/remembering that the good old days had a lot of bad to it that was covered up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Clooney: "I'm Not Doing Romantic Films Anymore"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or Clooney’s character in Up In The Air ends up retiring in Florida, making him a very eligible bachelor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Shouldn’t Have to Work This Hard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like there are a few things not noted in the article:

  1. The relative economic value of labor has dropped significantly as the developing world has developed and the developed world has seen greater labor participation. Efficiency rose, but so did the supply.

  2. The supply of housing has not not kept up as part of the economy, especially low income housing. The lack of housing supply generally drives wages up in economically productive areas, making it so we have to work longer.