kryptonianCodeMonkey
@kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on well? 11 hours ago:
For sure, not undervaluing scientific research and exploration by any means. But the post seemed to be a call to action or an expectation of a greater reaction to potential findings from the general public. But A) it’s honestly the first I’ve heard about any such news. And B) I don’t think the vast majority of people would have any idea how to even process that information, let alone get excited about it or understand it’s full implications, or to have any sort of reaction to it at all.
- Comment on well? 13 hours ago:
Don’t get me wrong, understanding the nature of the universe is valuable and noteworthy. But how would that information meaningfully impact anyone’s life or change their behavior or worldview beyond a general awe at the unfathomable mysteries we already have towards space as we’ve understood it for centuries? Am I meant to stare up at the sky from 8:15 to 8:30 every other night with my mouth agap while I try to wrap my mind around the spacetime bubble we all exist on the surface of? Or can I just eat dinner?
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 1 day ago:
Worked for Germany /s
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 2 days ago:
Agreed
- Comment on You'd need to calculate the compound interest 2 days ago:
“5 million in a year”
That year is 2143. And the US dollar has been defunct since 2028 (probably). Enjoy
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 3 days ago:
They get away with stuff like that when they have sold you a “license” to their software, rather than something you gave actually purchased outright. It is argued that a license is a an agreement to access a software product, rather than ownership of it, and putting an EULA in between your license purchase or changing it later doesn’t affect your purchase because you continue to hold the license even if you choose not to agree to the terms necessary to use it. It’s a bit different for a physical item that you have actual ownership over, not a license to use it (pending agreement).
I also find all of that to be loophole bullshit that should be fixed, but that’s a separate issue.
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 3 days ago:
No way this is legally binding. It amounts to a bait and switch. A product was purchased and provided without agreement to any further terms. Then they sneak in supposed terms after the fact based upon the action of opening the product. That is a change in agreement made without any consideration for the purchaser. That’s not generally allowed in contact law.
Furthermore, I really doubt that they can get away with the argument that the act of opening a product can constitute any amount of conscious agreement to some writing on a package. If for no other reason than that this is (afaik) a novel way to attempt to coerce agreement such that nobody would expect such an agreement to be part of the opening process abs likely won’t notice it. And it’s not accessible for every person who may be using this product even if they do notice the words. Are you a non- English speaker? Blind? Illiterate? Would you have any way to even be aware that those words are terms that somehow binding you to an agreement by virtue of your opening the thing you just bought? Would you have any reason to even suspect that that is the case? Also, they’ll undoubtedly claim that the fact that you have the opened product means that you agreed to the terms, but that is also not the case. Your mom opened it for you and wrapped it as a gift? You bought it secondhand? The packaging was torn and you never had any reason to see this text in the first place? It was misprinted? Any of those things and more would mean you never agreed to anything.
Just stupid. I have zero doubt that any number of lawyers would love take this to court and get that payday.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 4 days ago:
I had my license suspended for 90 days - due to a paperwork error when I was in college. I just had hope I didnt get pulled over at that time because I had no choice but to drive for school and work.
- Comment on salty 4 days ago:
Poor Mikey
- Comment on salty 4 days ago:
pure sodium meets saliva
mouth catches fire
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 5 days ago:
Climate change leading to precedented volatility and extremes in weather as predicted since the 70s? Bullshit.
A secret cabal of leftists attacking red states (and blue states) through advanced undetectable technology (or magic?) that alters the weather creating these extreme events? Probably real, yo.
- Comment on Shark Dentist is a 'horror roguelike' that's basically The Meg mashed up with an early '90s Milton Bradley toy 1 week ago:
“Haha. You lost! You have to point with your middle finger from now on!”
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 1 week ago:
Either we’re all fish, whales and dolphins are fish, or nothing is fish. All three positions are perfectly justifiable depending on your critieria, so take your pick.
- Comment on Dunkin' Donuts Drinks 1 week ago:
Starbucks white mocha frappaccino is too sweet by half. But Starbucks white mocha frappaccino with an extra shot (or two extra shots!)… Delightful.
- Comment on US | Trump and Congress finalize law that could hurt your Wi-Fi 1 week ago:
And you think they understand or care about that? This administration?
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 3 weeks ago:
“In just 4 easy payments…”
- Comment on Hottie without a body 3 weeks ago:
They hurt like a bitch too. Swam across one in Florida a few months ago. Had a couple tentacles wrapped around my arm. Not fun. And flared up again 2 weeks later. Also not fun.
- Comment on Starting a conversation with a stranger is usually unwise 4 weeks ago:
Starting a conversation with a stranger is usually unwise
Starting a conversation with a stranger by calling a kid ugly is usually unwise. Doubly so when the person you are talking to is the only other adult and possible parent in the vicinity. Triply so when you are grown adult man sitting alone in a park assigning beauty standards to kids. But yes, it is the baby with an overbite and his mother with alternative style that are the weird ones, sure.
- Comment on Crikey 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget about fidget apps, so throw in some bubble wrap too.
- Comment on Crikey 4 weeks ago:
TBF, the stereo speakers probably sound better and are certainly capable of being much louder than my phone speakers. But yeah, miles better in every other capacity.
- Comment on The roses, of course. Ow. 4 weeks ago:
Robot. Always robot. And music is too loud now.
- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 4 weeks ago:
They US just kept the name the discoverer wanted instead of giving into those British asshats that just wanted to troll Sir Davy.
It probably wasnt really a willful defiance thing. It’s likely more correct to say that we kept the name because by the time they changed it officially in Europe, we had millions of students across the country that had textbooks with the name Aluminum in it, that had already been taught the original name, and if the inconsistentcy was even important enought to consider “correcting”, it was likely deemed too costly and too much of a headache to change at the time. By the time people were buying reprints/new editions/more recently written textbooks anyway, professional chemists in the US had been calling it Aluminum for years. Given how isolated we were from Europe in the early 1800s, there was very little pressure to align with them on it, and so it stayed. The longer it stayed the more likely it was to be permanent, and here we are.
But yeah, Sir Humphrey Davy was an indecisive wishy-washy namer of elements, disseminated multiple names across the world, but somehow that is our fault when we just stuck with the one we were given and everyone else changed over nitpicky conventions. It’s not the only thing that Brits shit on about American English that is entirely their invention or their mistake:
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“Soccer” being a British term short for “Association Football”
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The season “Fall” being a British term shortened from the phrase “The Fall of the Leaf” and directly complementary to “Spring” which comes from the phrase “The Spring of the Leaf”, which they still use despite making fun of Americans for “Fall”.
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“Dove” instead of “dived”, “pled” instead of “pleaded”, “have gotten” instead of “have got”, etc. all started in Britain but were dropped there and stayed in the US.
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“Herb” being pronounced with an audible “h”. The word is borrowed from French, where the h is silent, exactly like , “honorary”, and “honesty”. Neither country pronounces either of those words with an “h” sound, but that doesnt stop people like Eddie Izzard shitting on how Americans say it with a silent “h” despite the American pronunciation being, arguable, more correct given the word’s origins.
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- Comment on I don't think he's sorry 5 weeks ago:
Beast master ranger confirmed
- Comment on What the fuck you 1 month ago:
You can really see the “made in China” on the costumes
- Comment on What the fuck you 1 month ago:
It’s an answer 🏴☠️
- Comment on I'll just take the bus 1 month ago:
My father in law decided randomly one day I was going to learn to drive manual. So he started up the pickup truck, and said “it’s easy to get started going down hill” as he demonstrated rolling down a steep hill. Then he u-turned, parked the truck at the bottom of that steep hill, turned off the engine got out and said “your turn”. Dick.
- Comment on Friendly reminder 1 month ago:
I mean, not all of those are less cute.
- Comment on Friendly reminder 1 month ago:
I mean, we all know about it now. Does that ruin the kink for them? Or do they like that we know?
- Comment on Canadian Wildfires signal major L over the United States 1 month ago:
Because fire doesn’t give a fuck about your imaginary lines in the dirt…
So in not disagreeing with you. It is worth noting though that the border between the US and Canada is not just imaginary. It does have an actual physical demarcation. And it actually can slow the spread of fire across the border, if only slightly. The trees at the border have been cleared for a 20 foot wide gap, often referred to as “The slash”.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 month ago:
Low population, low density, lots of farm land, can count the number of houses in a mile stretch of road on your fingers. May have one small commercial area within 15 miles with a dollar general, a gas station and, if you’re lucky, a grocery store. Not nearly enough businesses nearby to employ people even the measly number of people there that isn’t a farmer, so they commute to neighboring towns or counties to find work in factories, possibly dozens of miles away. I basically just described where my sister lives in Tennessee.
