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- Comment on Anon describes experience 1 day ago:
Thanks, now I have a plan for trolling my kid’s future kindergarten teacher.
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 3 days ago:
How is this not illegal in the EU?
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 4 days ago:
It depends what they’re tweaking and why. For example, a lot of stuff is tweaked to become “Roundup ready,” and facilitating the mass use of glyphosate is dangerous.
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 4 days ago:
You’re right: plastic is just as recyclable now as it was before.
Which is to say, it continues to largely fail to be recyclable.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 4 days ago:
Only thing it didn’t have like the Basilisk was BT functionality, which in my use case wasn’t a deal breaker.
Batteries are kind of a deal-breaker for me anyway. If I were to get a wireless mouse, it would have to be the kind that’s powered by induction from the mouse pad.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 4 days ago:
I also like my Redragon mouse, a “Griffin M602A-RGB”. I picked it entirely because (a) the shape fits my hand well, with well-sculpted indentations for my thumb, ring, and pinky fingers, and (b) it’s cheap, but not so cheap it isn’t still decent.
- Comment on garbage garbage garbage 5 days ago:
Never mind the bird; everything else about this is fucking ridiculous! I’m talking about both the concept of sending the waste to be composted that far to begin with, and doing do in a truck instead of a train. It’s stupidity^2^.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 5 days ago:
I’m surprised there aren’t massive protests scheduled for July 4.
- Comment on Religion choices 6 days ago:
Brody, 20 years older, in a bolo tie.
- Comment on A slow and painful death 6 days ago:
At least most cars these days no longer inflict burst fire damage when you touch the metal seatbelt buckle, like they used to.
- Comment on Just keep typing, wage slaves 6 days ago:
Look up the story of the Citycorp Center in Manhattan; that’s always a fun one.
- Comment on Just keep typing, wage slaves 6 days ago:
Time is a cube!
- Comment on (PC) Chill farming games (non-Anime)? 1 week ago:
My initial impression of Moonstone Island is that it’s kind of like a cross between Stardew Valley and Pokemon. Does that sound about right?
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
Upton Sinclair has entered the chat
- Comment on PNG is back! 1 week ago:
Wasn’t JPEG XL sabotaged by patents or something?
- Comment on spicy one 2 weeks ago:
Well, now you’ve piqued my curiosity. Got a link?
The Wikipedia article I’m reading right now says that the Indian plate split from Gondwana 100 MY ago (33 MY before the Chicxulub impact), so that’s not the connection. Further down the page, it says that the plate movement might have sped up as it passed over the mantle plume from the impact that created the Deccan Traps (my interpretation, BTW; the science isn’t actually as settled as I’m making it out to be), but it seems to me that that wouldn’t change the “result” of the plate colliding with Asia and creating the Indian Subcontinent, only the timing of the collision.
- Comment on Us? 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Smartwater bottles are popular with ultralight backpackers because they’re cheap, lightweight, and durable enough to survive an entire Appalachian Trail thru-hike.
In other words, it’s fucking ridiculous that they’re sold as single-use plastics.
- Comment on spicy one 2 weeks ago:
Considering that we’re in the midst of the Anthropocene mass extinction event already, I’d say it would be a certainty. The only question would be how bad it would get. Given how much larger that crater would be than Chicxulub, I’m guessing it would exceed the “Great Dying” to take the crown.
- Comment on spicy one 2 weeks ago:
See my last paragraph here. TL;DR: it might indeed do that, but only in the vacuous truth sense that no humans societies would be left to make war.
- Comment on spicy one 2 weeks ago:
No, because (a) that’s way, way bigger than any single bomb would make (the largest nuclear crater ever made was “only” about 390m across), and (b) actual nuclear weapon attacks would be detonated as air-bursts and therefore wouldn’t make craters at all to begin with.
The afore-mentioned crater was the result of an underground test, BTW. The largest bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba, left no crater because it was an air-burst at 4,000m altitude.
- Comment on Movies not starting when they are scheduled. 2 weeks ago:
I was going to mention that this was one of the reasons I like going to the last remaining drive-in theater in my area, since it doesn’t do that. Then I realized that it’s been quite a while since I’ve seen a movie there, and decided to check what’s playing. 3 of the 4 “now playing” movies and 13 out of 15 “coming soon” movies are sequels or reboots. And now I’m mildly infuriated, too.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 2 weeks ago:
You own your individual copy of the game software, end of. It doesn’t fucking matter if it’s on a disc or a digital download.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 2 weeks ago:
It’s not ever true. It is always a lie pushed by copyright-maximalist shysters who hope the public is too cowed to call them on their bullshit.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 2 weeks ago:
Every place that actually gives a shit about property rights.
- Comment on Have you noticed 2 weeks ago:
You’re probably the only one who “nooticed” who the guy in the picture actually was, LOL
- Comment on !peoplebluesky appears to be unmoderated 2 weeks ago:
Not really, no. There is one toxic asshole peddling hate and misinformation that I reported multiple times and would very much like to see banned, but that is not a good reason for me to be given mod powers. I was just in the thread where I encountered him from browsing ‘all,’ not because I have any particular interest in that community.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 2 weeks ago:
It’s also really expensive but it feels like being in the sort of store you’d go to if you were rich, not like being ripped off.
That’s kinda how Whole Foods used to feel, before Amazon bought it.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy markdown — which is better than Reddit markdown in some ways, but worse in others — will automatically do a similar conversion, except it takes three hyphens instead of two (two hyphens gets you an en dash). It’s nice, but also unfortunate because it messes up people’s muscle memory since using only two for it mimics what was customary when writing in ASCII, on mechanical typewriters, etc.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 2 weeks ago:
You’re the one who asked for more info, and then dismissed it when given. That’s your shitty behavior, not mine.
- Comment on PROGRESS 2 weeks ago:
Hmm… apology accepted. But you should eat more Scotch eggs!