displaced_city_mouse
@displaced_city_mouse@midwest.social
Writer, teacher, data driven humanist. Tech geek, model builder, mini-painter, reader. He/Him.
- Comment on The labeling on OTC pain relievers, etc. This is why I just pop 3 and hope for the best. 1 week ago:
I’ve a list of all the drugs I know from commercials - started writing a song about them all, just need to get the bridges done between verses.
- Comment on The labeling on OTC pain relievers, etc. This is why I just pop 3 and hope for the best. 1 week ago:
Ever listen to the voice over in the commercials for <insert name of drug you don’t need>?
After telling you how much better the drug is than the competitor, but before imploring you to “ask your doctor if <$1> is right for you”, they list the side effects, which often include a worsening of the condition it treats as well as death, all while a bunch of actors get paid to show you what the best scenario looks like.
- Comment on AI "Phone Farm" Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam 2 months ago:
It would have been too sarcastic for them to have touted it as a “legitimate” “new” “business”.
- Comment on Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’ 2 months ago:
Every time I hear someone say something like, “Experts - what do they know?”, I want to reply, "Yeah, you’re right - now, when can I come by to fix your roof? I’m not a roofer - don’t know shit about roofing or construction, actually - but you don’t like experts, and I’m certainly not a roofing expert, just another ignorant monkey with a hammer and a lot of misplaced confidence in my abilities. "
- Comment on Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So 5 months ago:
There’s a similar bill working it’s way through the Senate here in the US.
The Kid’s Online Safety Act has the same problems as the one in the UK, and people here like the EFF have been sounding the alarm. I’ve written to my Congresscritter about it, but sadly, they’re a bloody co-sponsor of the bill. Like the article said, they think the internet is made up of Facebook and Google, and they’re ignoring the impact it will have on the small players, like Lemmy server operators.
In this case, I don’t think just a VPN will help – I think Tor might, as long as the small operators don’t mind being borderline outlaws.
- Comment on Turning my printer on v. turning it off 10 months ago:
Meh, if that happens I’ll just replace the cheap commodity printer… I’m not fixing anything, except the cats.
- Comment on Turning my printer on v. turning it off 10 months ago:
Yes, it’s an accident - the power button is just a touch sensitive spot on the printer - but they do like to play witn paper, so this would invariably lead to more shenanigans.
- Comment on Turning my printer on v. turning it off 10 months ago:
I just spit out my coffee reading that, and I wasn’t drinking coffee at the time…
- Comment on Turning my printer on v. turning it off 10 months ago:
Which is why I don’t mind if they break it - it would let me justify getting a decent laser jet printer.
- Comment on Turning my printer on v. turning it off 10 months ago:
W. T. F.
I will repeat my earlier statement: I hate printers.
- Comment on Turning my printer on v. turning it off 10 months ago:
I appreciate the info, but I wasn’t looking for a solution - I just wanted to vent a little…
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- Comment on Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024) 1 year ago:
the idea that these webs of laws or these models of “how things should work” mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.
Kinda ironic that you are discussing the nonsense of “how things should work” on a federated service where you control the intermediaries you work with and through, which is, IMO, the way things should work.