BassTurd

@BassTurd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is so difficult to organize a strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you live in Europe, so it’s different, but in the US healthcare is almost always tied to a person’s employment. If you don’t have a job, your family doesn’t have medical coverage. Everything everyone else has said is also relevant in the US as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else apprehensive to down voting even if you're being down voted?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I will absolutely downvote some people I disagree with if I think they are making a bad faith argument or I think their view is bad. If the masses decide my opinion is wrong then it will work out in the end. If not, then it must have been a bad comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good offer! Which one should I pick?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Like I said, it would be better if they listed the full price. My only argument is that it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that’s had a subscription. Mildly irritating is a fair assessment, it just doesn’t bother me personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good offer! Which one should I pick?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like the monthly price is 10€ per month. I just looked mine up and it’s $9.99. my 1 year option is $4.99 (50%) and the 2 year option is $2.99 (70%). So the percentages don’t line up with mine, but they are consistent in that 1 month is $10. If OP is paying monthly with no commitment, then I don’t find volume pricing infuriating, but I do find it odd that the percentages aren’t the same across the board. Of course if you’re already on a $2.99 plan and they’re grandfathering you into pricing, then I have no problems with any of it. That’s how every subscription like this works, discounts for longer commitment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good offer! Which one should I pick?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what I’m missing here. The pricing looks fair. Longer term agreements usually mean cheaper per month pricing. It looks like OP is on a 24 month plan that I assume is expiring. What the infuriating part? It’s it that the ad popped up on the first place?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it were suddenly revealed that a significant number of questions posted in this comm were ai bots would that bother you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. They provide no value and often times trained off if stolen data. Even the “good” bots that inline convert imperial to metric or fahrenheit to Celsius or similar, I think are annoying. I think all bots should be banned, zero tolerance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Footballer Thierry Henry, super famous. In French it’s “on-ray” and in English it’s “hen-ree”. In my opinion, there’s one way to pronounce that last name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the deal with Caitlan Clarke and pretty much the whole WNBA is against her? She drains 3 pointers like I never seen and they treat her like ruffing up a man. Shouldn't they congratulate her?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Back to back to back Big 10 champion, getting back to back 2nd in the NCAA championship, and being the all time leading scorer for collegiate women’s basketball don’t really sound like she’s never been a winner. Further, per this article viewership dropped by more than 50% when she was out with an injury.

  You’re just being a hater.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the deal with Caitlan Clarke and pretty much the whole WNBA is against her? She drains 3 pointers like I never seen and they treat her like ruffing up a man. Shouldn't they congratulate her?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re partially right. The thing is that she gets beat up and doesn’t get the calls. WNBA refs are notoriously bad. I believe that at least for the first year, she was selling out games and getting viewership. The WNBA has their golden goose and all they have to do is market it. They aren’t going to attract viewers for rough play in a way that hockey does for fights. They need to invest in the quality and exposure of their product not the rage bait. Where news gets clicks for hot takes, the WNBA isn’t making the bulk of their profits from journalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have 2 x 250GB Samsung 840 SSDs as cache drives in my unraid server. That’s been their job for about 5 years. Before that, they were in a RAID 0 on my main desktop for many years. I just looked at their attributes in Unraid and they’ve been online for 15y 7d for one of them and 15y 11m and their remaining wear level is 65% and 69% respectively. One of those drives may fill and clear 3+ times a day where other days it could be 25-50%, so I’d consider at least that one as heavy use. They other is mostly just app data and lower transfer volume.

  Those are old tech drives that are small capacity and have a lot of transfers on them in my arr setup and manual process before that. To still have more than 50% life is a testament to how good the wear leveling is and how the write count isn’t all that important for 99% of applications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of true. The cheapest nvme drives can be that low. Quality drives are in the low thousands. They do wear leveling to maximize the life of the sectors. I’m reading that it would take roughly 600 times the drives capacity of writes before a sector reaching the limit on a quality drive. It’s still not the best choice for a cache drive, but enterprise grade nvme drives have significantly more cycles before failure. Unless there’s really heavy traffic, an nvme cache would last years before possible issues.

  In OPs case, I’d just install the games on the SSD rather than cache them. Ideally, get a larger drive even if it’s used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to New York City⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in a city where most of the bike lanes are just a dedicated shoulder. When I’m driving on these roads, 100% of the time if I’m following someone, they will drift into the bike lane. I also ride my bike in that lane, so I’m extra alert to it. Not so much a parking issue, but lazy and distracted drivers are a plenty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then it doesn’t belong in no stupid question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t just respond. You immediately went feral. Like I said, you weren’t looking for responses, you were looking for confirmation of your views. When you didn’t get it, you lashed out like a child.

  You can respond however you want, but actions have reactions, and this is that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t my comment. And if it was, my point still stands. Don’t ask questions if you don’t want to hear opposing answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you were fishing for confirmation rather than looking for opinions? Don’t ask a polarizing question if you can’t stomach the answers you don’t agree with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fortunate enough that my last and current jobs have been accommodating if I need to duck out for an appointment. In general the expectation is to make up the time, but that’s flexible depending on how much time is missed.

  Other than that, I decided to not have children, so it’s just my wife, me, and our dogs. My wife is 100% wfh, and I’m wfh 3 days a week, so we always have someone here when needed.

  Before that when I worked retail and there was no leeway, I neglected things I need to do like going to the DMV, doctor and dentist appointments, and other things that technically could wait, but shouldn’t. In emergency situations, I was expected to find coverage, and one time when I couldn’t, I turned in my two weeks because they weren’t budging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if the US got rid of the majority of their bases and brought all the stationed soldiers home? What would be the impact on society, the economy, and other things?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But also in some regions, the implied defense is big too, I’d wager just not the majority of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Osama Bin Laden was given the option: commit terror acts against the US; or install trump as president. With full knowledge of the results of multiple trump presidencys which would he chose?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost 17 years ago, Iowa became the first state to legalize gay marriage. 14 years ago the first states legalize weed. There has been slow but growing acceptance of minorities and large parts of the US since at least the 90s.

  I’m not going to sit here and pretend the US has been all sunshine and rainbows, but it hasn’t always been on a crash course. Reagan was a big turning point for US politics that has certainly degraded the overall political landscape of the US since. It’s undeniable that it’s been a hard downhill for about 10 years now, but we had relative domestic peace for many years before that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Osama Bin Laden was given the option: commit terror acts against the US; or install trump as president. With full knowledge of the results of multiple trump presidencys which would he chose?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s tough. Policies like Citizen United were a direct result of 9/11 and contributed to hidden and foreign money, and more corruption in our elections which may have aided in Trump’s victory but has definitely benefitted the GOP takeover in Congress.

  On the flip side the damage Trump has done to the US has been incalculable. I don’t know if we’ll know the “correct” answer to this for another 15+ years. If significant positive change were to come from this, it wouldn’t nullify Trump’s actions, but it would certainly look different years later. I don’t see it happening, but until it doesn’t, there’s still a chance. There were no wins that came from 9/11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For this particular post, I don’t know that there needs to be a problem to get a response. OP could have just left out all of the back story and asked for new last name ideas. I think the story just adds a little context for the sake of conversation and to help scope potential reaponses. If it is for anonymity, just go with Smith.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch: Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta cuts 1,400 local jobs (video in body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One for his helicopter and another for his built in bionic flight system. He’s rich enough that he can have separate helipads for each.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch: Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta cuts 1,400 local jobs (video in body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this when I was on vacation in Mo’orea a couple of years back. It’s truly egregious. There’s a helipad, jet skis, a floating bouncy house, and more. As ridiculous as that is, his super yacht has a buddy yacht that has a full medical staff on board and travels with it. It looks like a military radar ship with all of the dishes and shit on it.

  Eat the rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never thought about it, but if I do think about it, it does make me a little uncomfortable. I think it may stem from have the focus brought squarely on me, or when I say someone else’s name, I’m putting them in the spotlight.

  It may be similar, but I struggle hard with eye contact. Always have since I was a young child. I can pull it off well enough in professional settings, but otherwise I can’t stare at people’s eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come they don't make generic drugs for cats and dogs. I love my sisters buddy to death. Its just weird that all my meds are generic but animals are name brand. I just hate spend 250 every 3 mon.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth every penny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come they don't make generic drugs for cats and dogs. I love my sisters buddy to death. Its just weird that all my meds are generic but animals are name brand. I just hate spend 250 every 3 mon.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the meds. We were doing a synthesized injection drug for my dog’s elbow dysplasia and arthritis, and that was a custom, specialized, expensive drug. The alternative to carprofen and gabapentin were cheap though. I think we got them and his allergy meds from Costco. Most expensive dog we ever had.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I still bypass Microsoft account creation when reinstalling windows through the "reset this PC" option?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I asked what they have tried, I didn’t say they have to switch. I was providing some information that perhaps they didn’t have. You don’t have to be a righteous butthole about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I still bypass Microsoft account creation when reinstalling windows through the "reset this PC" option?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to boot without network access then do the terminal command.

  What distro of Linux did you use that was so difficult? Something like Mint is very entry level and intuitive. You don’t have to run any terminal commands if you don’t want to, and the out of box configuration is good enough that you don’t have to modify anything for a stable, up to date system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was in the market for a good used car, which car would be the best to outrun the cops?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I too owned a 1987 Caprice Classic. It was my first car but it was already probably 15 years old when I got it. Not sure if they offered it with different engine options, but it was indeed a tank. We called it the boat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Clark and Lois such terrible people and parents in Superman & Lois?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You seriously just jumped from parenting to rape in the same thought. Dude, you should talk to a professional.