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Alt account of @Cube6392@beehaw.org for looking at stuff Beehaw defederated
- Comment on Plasticccc 1 day ago:
building these facilities must be funded by levies, and most jurisdictions vote no on most levies because no one ever feels like they can afford more taxes. really, if the world worked correctly, the richest people and companies would just pay for these things because society benefits them more than the rest of us, and we should receive benefits from society
- Comment on Plasticccc 2 days ago:
that’s still bad though. it requires petroleum based processes to grow the corn and then convert the starch into a plastic like substance when the book could have just not been shrink wrapped. i get that you’re joking, and i’m being pedantic, but not enough people realize bioplastics are not the solution, they’re a gap measure, like EVs, and i’m usingeyour comment as a soapbox
- Comment on Name generator 1 month ago:
i think switching phonetics is more in keeping with the spirit of the joke than switching spellings
- Comment on Name generator 1 month ago:
Cot Hoffee
- Comment on Another job lost because of technology 👿 2 months ago:
Rest area payphones. Its why most rest areas have a huge blown up atlas map these days
- Comment on U.S. is cracking down on Shein and Temu by closing a loophole that makes their cheap goods exempt from tariffs 2 months ago:
Oh for sure. The solution isn’t to raise the price of unfairly priced products, its to introduce the concept of accountability to the world
- Comment on U.S. is cracking down on Shein and Temu by closing a loophole that makes their cheap goods exempt from tariffs 2 months ago:
My thing is that there’s a minimum price for fairness, and then there’s products that present themselves as being marked up for fairness that don’t actually benefit the people a fair price should benefit. Your best bet is to do some research into what the minimum fair price something is, and then look for something that price from a local economy.
Unfortunately, this is next to impossible. The systems in place favor us never knowing where anything comes from, and the research tools we used to be able to use to find fair prices (internet search) have been broken for this purpose for nearly 10 years (not just AI bullshit, but all those SEO pay to play bullshit listicles that even infect real human driven testing processes like The Wirecutter and Gear Lab). I think there’s even an argument to be made that AI is an intentional device to steer us into a digital dark age where finding real trustworthy information is nearly impossible.
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 2 months ago:
You spent all those years down in the trenches implementing bullshit designs an architect came up with, positive you could do better if you just got the chance. Then you go to graduate school to get the qualifications companies say you need to be an architect. You receive a masters degree. You’re your companies leading expert on software design. You get promoted to architect.
That’s when you find out the truth. All those previous architects left for the same reason you someday will. It wasn’t the previous architects making the terrible decisions that frustrated you. It was the marketing team and the CEO telling the CTO that the software product must have certain buzzwords present in the design. Those buzzwords offer no value to what your software product is meant to accomplish. But if you don’t put them in the designs, they’ll fire you and hire someone who will play their games.
Eventually, you can’t take it anymore. Having interfaced with the upper levels of your company, and having the understanding of systems engineering you do, you realize that every software firm will be this. There is nowhere you can go that will be better. You start saving.
Your goal is to save enough money to purchase a small plot of land and put an organic farm on it. Your convictions for this farm are simple: it must be able to feed your family. This may not be exclusively what you envision for it, and you may not even intend for it to be the only source of food for your family, but it will help you be less reliant on the kinds of corporation you’ve come to know and come to see as irrevocably evil.
And then sometimes, you get people like this in the post. Who find enough success farming to focus their energy on it exclusively.
- Comment on Hehe jhair 2 months ago:
Biblically accurate
- Comment on Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments 2 months ago:
Storage is cheap. Losing valuable data is expensive
- Comment on I remember a time where you would get multiple results from a search with no scrolling 3 months ago:
1 is the right number of info cards
- Comment on Mr. BOOZE 3 months ago:
It is, in the sketch
- Comment on Scratch that. Let's do an airstrike instead. 3 months ago:
How you even knowing what’s going on in the stall next to you? Focus on your own shit
- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 3 months ago:
Same with your contacts. There’s people I was in regular contact with that I’ve lost the ability to get in touch with.
On the other hand the three and a half years me and my ex fiance were together have also been wiped out. So that’s a load off my mind haha
- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 3 months ago:
Yeah and when people were like “hey, this decision sucks, can you not?” They were like “where was this feedback before, we’ve been discussing this on our forums for months” and its like… Obviously most people who use your app aren’t on your forums. The usage patterns of people with that much dedication to signal will be different from people who are just using the app to talk to their friends and family and treat it as a tool.
- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 3 months ago:
This situation to me is it seems like it’s a echo chamber bubble situation. The way Signal gets feedback for their app is kinda bullshit. It disproportionately values the input of their own developers and the very most evangelical signal users. They don’t request feedback from users at all before making changes. They push out notifications of upcoming changes through banners at the top of the app, but they never use this same mechanism to be like “Hey, doing a quick poll. Whatchu folks want?”
I don’t think it’s malice in this case. Just blind incompetence.
- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 3 months ago:
Their justification for that is so bullshit to me. They let perfect be the enemy of good
- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 3 months ago:
It’s true. They got that shit on lock down. And the thing is… If their goals were actually what they say they are they’d let more other services access that, but instead, no. It’s actually about locking you into their ecosystem
- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 3 months ago:
I’m using Quik SMS which is a continuation of QK SMS. I’ve found that the current state of SMS apps on Android kinda… Sucks. Fossify messenger is probs my second favorite
- Comment on Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation” 3 months ago:
Yes. Using kids to drive engagement on YouTube is exploitative. Parents who do that are exploiting their children
- Comment on Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation” 3 months ago:
What would you call it when a child does work that you profit from?
- Comment on Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation” 3 months ago:
Its exploiting child labor and the impulsive brain chemistry of adolescence.
- Comment on Inspirational quotes. 3 months ago:
Really? The america has a blowjob crisis lady?
- Comment on Average Amazon user intelligence 3 months ago:
Whatever you do don’t use bucket replication and lambdas to push a massive number of small objects into one bucket that then blows up another bucket
- Comment on Average Amazon user intelligence 3 months ago:
Amazon reviews haven’t been useful at any point in my time as an amazon customer starting in 2010
- Comment on Average Amazon user intelligence 3 months ago:
In case anyone is interested, Amazon has headquarters in Seattle, Washington and Crystal City, Virginia. They also have data centers in Ashburn, Virginia, Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California. There’s more, obviously, but those are the ones I have ideas on the location of. The data centers are harder to find. For those you’ll likely need a contact to help you. Your allies will be Amazon employees and meter checkers. You’ll be looking for a building with MASSIVE power draw. And hey. Even if you don’t find an Amazon data center, it’s still good to find buildings with massive power draws because… Well… That’s the worst thing these companies are doing
- Comment on Never underestimate the surveillance power of Babushkas! 3 months ago:
That’s how it works in communities that don’t trust cops, too. Our old folks (our village elders) keep an eye on things and make sure we stay safe all across the world. I mean if you ask me, its something we should lean into and embrace. Fuck a neighborhood watch association. We don’t need to snitch to cops. We already can keep our neighborhoods safe without them
- Comment on Superheroes 3 months ago:
Its always been about waking the people up. First it was showing the people an ideal version of themselves. Then it was about showing the people a version of themselves who had quibbles but never gave up. Then it was about showing the people the kinds of monster people can become when their moral character was neglected. Now? Its about showing the people they’re seen. Showing them we understand each other and can have solidarity.
Comics aren’t just woke. They haven’t just always been woke. They’re an alarm clock ticking down to our collective awakening
- Comment on I'll get right on that 3 months ago:
You can actually get yourself out of the prerecorded script and into actual problem solving if you list all the things you did, yell a little bit, and then say you’re not yelling at the technician you’re just frustrated by their company. Guess what!? They hate their company too
- Comment on Applied for a job and was asked to do a live interview. But all I get is this. 3 months ago:
I have a bachelor of the arts in computer science. Landing that job was so hard because companies filtered out my resume because they were looking for a bachelor of the sciences. Fuck me I guess for my college mandating I take at least one class a year about how the world works instead of just computer stuff