tempest

@tempest@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida ounces⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I’m pretty sure the American system is defined using SI units so it’s mostly because of American exceptionalism and a fetish for unit conversion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like a condo roof

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good trash or bad trash?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The quality of the media was not as good perhaps but I do miss when the world moved just a little bit slower.

  No 24h news cycle, no social media, no being pressured to be connected and available to work at all times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean this is sorta one of the things an autocracy does well. You might get substandard work and a lot of graft but when the order comes down no one gets to complain when they run a train line through your house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically all fruits are vegetables since a vegetable is just a plant we eat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is it about flat warm soda that appeals to you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reality is more like there are just a few massive suppliers for restaurants. Sysco just offers paper straws and removes plastic ones and every establishment just orders a different SKU the next week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I don’t give one shit about the paper straws. I wonder if the people who don’t like them let their drinks sit for hours and chew on the straw till their soggy. Every paper straw I’ve had has lasted the length of time it takes me to drink the drink.

  Still banning those things but not fucking everything else in the supermarket that is packaged in plastic is such a massive and stupid waste of everyone’s time and effort. Such an imperceptible inch forward they almost deserve no praise at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean sure, but I’ve been stuck at lights that long too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  China would never let that happen, it would end up being a China US proxy war… Which it always was

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a Russian pls confirm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok boomer, calm down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I preface this with the caveat that all grants are subjective and you can like what you like.

  Stardew Valley is a love letter to the harvest Moon games(and I guess rune factory as well). If you have ever encountered those games you immediately know what to do in Stardew.

  I think where Stardew is different is that it came later and benefited massively from the “cozy game” popularity.

  While I played harvest Moon on a super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, and Gameboy my girl friend who did not have that exposure growing up loves Stardew. This generational and gender Crossing game has tapped markets that were not available back then. Couple that with the fact that at this point you can play that game on basically any platform from phone to console, new and old and it’s totally understandable why this headline might be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King forgot his crown⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to a quick Google fraud in Japan is

  obtaining property or illicit economic advantages through deceit.

  Gifts I assume are property here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any male dominated channel that ever “gives advice” gets shunted into that pipeline by algo pretty consistently.

  I like stand up comedy and it’s a full time job keeping Rogan out of my suggestions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, sounds like someone who uses the wrong bathroom to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How streaming changed the way you watch TV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that was exactly my thought.

  I don’t miss commercials at all (and am annoyed they appear to be creeping back) but I do miss the mono culture quite a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It does have that, but don’t for a minute think they actually control chromium. If Google wanted to they could make life very difficult for brave.

  Currently brave still has support for manifest v2 but that will eventually be removed and the more brave diverges from the upstream the more work is required to keep it going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aging is fun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You just need to hydrate a bunch. I drink Gatorade or a ton of water after any alcohol. Obviously if you go out and drink a 12 pack that won’t help you but 3 beers in a night should definitely not leave you feeling like crap the next morning.

  Actually even if you don’t drink you should stay hydrated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes trains⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t even take into account that a lot of rails in the US are owned by Canadian companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ke$he's Quantum Party⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correct Grindr Response⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is implied

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can still mangle a Robbie of you have the wrong size but you do have to work at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This says less about toddlers than it does about what Apple knows the public requires to use a computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How dare you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t needs a little more jpeg if you ask me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking google did it again, they "fixed" something that never broken. This time they make thumbnails way too big even with 70% zoom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reality is that more and more web users are phone and tablet only.

  Phones and tablets are consumer devices and most users are consumers rather than creators. This is especially true outside the Anglo-sphere and in developing countries.

  All this to say it’s going to get worse and may never get better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as people complain about electron (some valid, some not) Linux has benefited quite a bit to the cross platform availability of local applications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone give me money so I can find out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are not usually real gold though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reality is that there is no tax break large enough to make up the difference in costs for a lot of things. Even with tariffs China is still cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No no those other countries will pay the tariffs.