AnyOldName3

@AnyOldName3@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stare of the void ...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nutter, nut and nutcase have been used to refer to crazy people for a lot longer than nut has been used to refer to wanking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile at Meta HQ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people don’t see how these things directly affect them because the effects are mostly indirect and the media doesn’t explain why they should care, and many have their social lives tied to using platforms where the other people they know are, so can’t switch to a less evil alternative without becoming a recluse unless a critical mass of their friends are already using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spiderman Arrested In Ukraine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether or not it’s really from Ukraine, it’s not implausible that someone might do something illegal while dressed as Spiderman. People break the law, and if they’re dressed as Spiderman, then they’re likely to be noticed and get arrested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords Are Jacking up Advertised Rents to Dodge New Tenants’ Rights Law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The law was meant to allow tenants to see the real rent up-front so they wouldn’t waste time they didn’t have on viewing properties then get pressured into paying more than they were expecting. That should have driven real rents down because people could skip things out of their budget upfront and know what they found for less was genuinely available for less. Instead, landlords are just displaying huge numbers they know they won’t get, and totally obfuscating the real price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t this scene pre-messing-with, or had she previously been at the CIA facility before the show started?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't have a plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re talking about someone who lives with their parents, but there’s no indication they’ve got any buffer. If there aren’t apprenticeships within walking distance of their parents’ home and they pay poorly enough to not cover housing or commuting costs, then the option of living with parents doesn’t do any good because they can’t use that option while also doing work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't have a plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The long-term prospects are better, but if someone doesn’t have some kind of buffer like savings or the bank of mum and dad to cover the period where their earnings aren’t enough to break even, then the short-term problems make the long-term benefits impossible to actually reach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't have a plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The cost of living for someone with a job can be higher than an unemployed person as they need to live where they can commute from, which can make things like living with parents or not having a car infeasible. If the job doesn’t pay well enough to cover this, then having no income leaves you better off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can theoretically just use a bigger heat exchanger, but it goes from being about the size of the roof the data centre’s going to have anyway to way bigger than the data centre, so with UK land prices, it’s not remotely financially viable. It’s a similar story with dumping heat into the sea. Anywhere close enough to the sea to feasibly dump heat that’s also flat enough to build a data centre and has a significant electricity supply is already going to be full of valuable housing or existing industry, so it’s not going to be cheap. We’re not like America where there’s loads of unused land just outside of towns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Big data centres can’t dissipate the amount of heat they generate without evaporating water, so a ban like that would effectively be a ban on that kind of data centre. Obviously, the companies lobbying for data centres to get built wouldn’t be happy about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Their entire strategy was to win was force a foul and take a penalty kick⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I did see an angle in the BBC coverage either after the game had finished or in the break before extra time where it did indeed look like a foot got stepped on, but the commentators said that even then, it shouldn’t have been a foul as it was clearly accidental and the ball clearly was touched. If Argentina were held to the same standards, they’d have been down to two men by half time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am someone who works out daily and sweats a lot. Just doing laundry doesn't seem to adequately clean the underarms of my shirts. What are some ways to clean these areas of my clothing better?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re using antiperspirant that boasts that it lasts all day, it works by encasing the aluminium salts that make it antiperspirant in microscopic wax beads that are supposed to break open over the day as you move around. This leaves waxy stains behind that are a pain to wash out as the aluminium salts and wax protect each other from detergent and water.

  What works is something acidic that will react with the aluminium salts and ideally the wax, too. I’ve had great success soaking t-shirts in water with some sulfamic acid (also available as coffee machine descaler) for a day or two. Vinegar might work, but it’ll be less effective and so take longer and need more, so will be smelly and more expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Sky News instantly interrupts Zack Polanski when he says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As well as forcing porn sites to ensure all their users are adults, the Online Safety Act also added a bunch of mostly sensible rules about what you can do when your users are children that go beyond what the GDPR does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK newspapers ignore Amnesty International research on anti-trans bias⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a huge number of people in the UK who are transphobic, but under the impression that they hold a centre-ground science-backed opinion just because they acknowledge that some trans people might exist, even if they don’t think they should have any rights. If enough of that kind of person ends up in a newsroom, they’re obviously going to end up publishing a lot of transphobic articles, and they’re going to uncritically repeat the claims of transphobic campaigners as they’ll think they’re just quoting claims of fact. The pro-trans campaigners don’t have to be quoted, though, because they’re just hurling unjustifiable insults when they say things are transphobic, which is ‘obviously’ much worse than anything any gender-critical person might have done, and doesn’t warrant publication.

  I don’t know how we convince these people to re-examine their position just in case they’ve accidentally been horribly transphobic for years, as any hint of a suggestion that they might be a smidge transphobic is received like you’d claimed they’d been campaigning to reopen Auschwitz, so everything gets treated as if you’re being ridiculous and tremendously insulting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s just worried about the power bill. It costs a lot to heat and light an infinite number of rooms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bee Brushie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally avoid doing so. Dying after one sting is specific to honey bees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cuba Libre 🇨🇺⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the Wikipedia page, it seems like a fairly normal cancer vaccine. The thing limiting these in North America and Europe is that you can’t legally do drug trials on people until you’ve tried all the approved medicines for that condition first, as trial drugs might do nothing and might cause side effects, and the placebo control group would literally not be getting any treatment. By the time cancer patients have tried all the existing treatments, they’re usually either already dead, or already cancer-free, so the only trial participants left are already nearly dead, and likely to keel over immediately no matter how good the trial drug. That means things that drug companies have known will work for over a decade still aren’t available, and once they are, they’ll need to be unreasonably expensive just to break even.

  Either this one has finally got over these kinds of hurdle after years of effort, or Cuba’s been doing trials that wouldn’t be legal elsewhere. Even if they have, it’s not necessarily a criticism - if a trade embargo stops you accessing lots of medicines, then you need to get through fewer of them before you’ve tried everything available and can start trial drugs. Once it’s fully approved, it won’t need to be expensive, as the research costs can be offset against the cost savings from treating patients, as everything’s state-funded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fairly common sentiment that ‘good billionaires’ like Newell will demonstrate that seeking profit by making things people want to buy is more profitable than ruining things people were already buying so margins are higher, thereby making the bad billionaires want to copy them, and then capitalism will start working for the common people, and that therefore seizing the means of production is unnecessary as long as they praise gaben. Pointing out that he’s still accumulating the value of other people’s labour as quickly as he can and he’s just less short-sighted about it, rather than aiming to do good, can be helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir has ‘unlimited access’ to patient data, investigation reveals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, but the Palantir man on the radio said that the NHS remains the legal data controller, so everything is fine and we can ignore the fact that all this means is that if Palantir do anything illegal with the data it’ll be the NHS that’s liable for letting them see it, so they can do what they want and if there’s any backlash, it’ll be the taxpayer who pays compensation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, we have the blueprints!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They only need space for the ones temporarily removed for maintenance. Once they’re deployed, they’re free to leave the room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Britain, no one would think roommates slept in the same room. The possible words for that would be ones like spouse or sibling and anyone else sharing a bedroom outside of an army barracks or youth hostel would be super weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir under fire for X 'manifesto' from co-founder Alex Karp⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, but the Palantir man on the radio said that the NHS remains the legal data controller, so everything is fine and we can ignore the fact that all this means is that if Palantir do anything illegal with the data it’ll be the NHS that’s liable for letting them see it, so they can do what they want and if there’s any backlash, it’ll be the taxpayer who pays compensation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a proprietary software problem rather than a being connected to the internet problem. One of the send-a-notification-when-it’s-done devices I set up took about as much effort as setting the right time on a phone alarm about ten times because the device’s firmware was open source with no companies’ bullshit involved, so all I had to do was navigate to the right page in Home Assistant and pick the right phone from a dropdown and the right even for the notification to trigger on from a dropdown. That’s not wildly different from picking the right time from a dropdown on a phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, that’s specific to it being proprietary software. I’ve got some devices in my home that are connected to the local network (but not the internet), and have configured Home Assistant (which I’ve got running on an old desktop PC) to send a notification to my phone when it detects that those devices report that they’re finished with what they do. That’ll keep working until I turn off the Home Assistant server or replace the devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s more effort per wash instead of being something that only needs setting up one and then will work forever. Also, it’s common for post-90s appliances to include sensors and vary the cycle time based on how dirty the water gets. Except for the data privacy and security concerns, which are mainly because it’s proprietary software rather than inherent in Internet-connected devices, there’s no advantage to using your phone timer over getting a notification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuel is so expensive I can't afford the school run — what can I do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s expected that parents drive their children to primary school, or at least to a nearby carpark within walking distance. If you don’t live within easy walking distance of a primary school, you just have to have a car or no children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuel is so expensive I can't afford the school run — what can I do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Primary schools tend not to be fed by busses, and lots of children need to go to primary school rather than high school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m baffled that I didn’t already know that lootboxes were created by the husband of the woman that the Pulp hit Common People was most likely written about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Priorities people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The context: the UK ended slavery within the empire by taking out a huge loan to buy all the slaves in the empire, then freeing them. The loan wasn’t fully paid off until recently, so UK taxpayers were effectively paying for money that had been given to slave owners. However, it quickly and decisively put a stop to slavery in a lot of the world without much fuss or objection, when it otherwise could have triggered wars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaysadilla⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cultural appropriation is something like McDonald’s advertising a new Indian burger and it’s just a beefburger with some chillies in it, i.e. someone’s attempting to gain from a bastardised caracature of the culture that wouldn’t be something someone from that culture would participate in. Right wing pundits intentionally misrepresented it as things like eating a traditional dish from another culture to make it sound stupid so people would dismiss it, and then people who’d only heard the misrepresentation but wanted to do the right thing or at least appear to be doing the right thing started acting like it was immoral to participate in any culture you weren’t born into.