halcyoncmdr
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
- Comment on ADL defends Nazi salute 22 hours ago:
Never trust someone with two first names. Been following that advice my entire life and I’ve yet to find an exception, they’re always a piece of shit.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 2 days ago:
Tencent happen to own large portions of nearly every video game company on the planet to start with, and a ton of other large companies, 600+ of them in fact. Large enough positions to directly affect board decisions if they wanted to. And that assumes overt sudden changes and not more subtle things.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 2 days ago:
Yeah. You might want to look into some other foreign owned companies as well. Tencent owns a metric shit ton of “American” companies for instance, I bet there’s several on that list that would surprise you.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Rednote isn’t trying to attract foreign users. It’s only blowing up because of the imminent app ban affecting TikTok, same as other apps like Lemon8.
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 5 days ago:
Country borders are just lines on a map. They don’t exist in the real world.
If only everyone was able to experience the overview effect, a lot of our issues could potentially fix themselves.
- Comment on Reason for Walmart online product reviews frequently being service related? 2 weeks ago:
This is why many/most reviews are actually useless.
Many people use reviews to complain, about anything, especially if it has nothing to do with the product because it’s the easiest way to try and get it out of their system.
Combined with fake reviews, astroturfed reviews from undisclosed free products, and the average user having no knowledge of a product or category to compare against, etc. and I’d even say most reviews are effectively useless.
On the bright side, seeing any of those types of phrases in the review means you can effectively ignore that review entirely.
- Comment on Does the southern hemisphere get colder farther from the pole? Why? 3 weeks ago:
While the North and South poles match the planet’s axis of spin. If you’re comparing differences in latitude, you’re looking at it as if the Earth were spinning around a vertical point between the poles, but the planet itself is tilted 23.5° compared to the solar plane. Plus we’re in an elliptical orbit, not circular, and that axis of tilt also wobbles about from the pull of not only the Sun but also the gas giants in our solar system like Saturn and Jupiter, and of course the Moon which also gives us our regular tides.
There’s a lot of factors that go into orbital mechanics. All of which result in our planet having widely varying tidal forces, distinct seasons, but still resulting in an overall stable and balanced ecosystem.
- Comment on Oh well... 3 weeks ago:
Not telling someone why you are firing them isn’t a magical lawsuit avoidance option. In a wrongful termination lawsuit, the courts take context into account specifically because of shitty companies/managers trying to hide behind exactly that.
- Comment on Oh well... 3 weeks ago:
There are still limits, even in at will and right to work states there are some protections.
Revoking approved time off after it’s already started is definitely a valid reason for a wrongful termination lawsuit. Especially if you have evidence of previous bullshit.
That’s why you should always get everything that seems even remotely bullshit in writing, and have your own backups.
- Comment on Counterpoint, don’t settle 3 weeks ago:
The Try Guys never went anywhere, one dipshit revealed himself. The rest of the group kept going, and they have expanded to a larger group with several different shows now.
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"? 4 weeks ago:
They can say whatever they want about him without actually stranding him in Russia to literally be a potential further leak. The info he leaked is different than his knowledge of processes and systems.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah so many people talk about Snowden going to Russia and ignore the fact that he was only in Russia transferring to another plane when his passport was cancelled stranding him there. The choice was basically stay there, or go back to the US, and that wasn’t really an option.
Why the US would want to leave him in Russia as a potential asset for Russian intelligence to break instead of letting him get to a different country that isn’t such a direct threat though is a really good question.
- Comment on We dumb 5 weeks ago:
I know you’re being cheeky, but we did get an answer to what the Ultimate Question was…
spoiler
The Ultimate Question “What do you get when you multiply six by nine” is found by Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
- Comment on Ice cream machine is also broken 1 month ago:
They usually do, it’s pennies to the government. Notice however, it’s information leading to the arrest AND conviction. They’re not getting paid anytime soon, if at all.
- Comment on Lt. Gov. Patrick vows to ban all THC in Texas 1 month ago:
While other border states have done the right thing, legalized, and taxed it to increase revenues and ensure a minimum safe quality, you can always rely on Texas to do the opposite.
- Comment on what a moment to live 1 month ago:
I’m fine, just trying to understand why you’re even here if you don’t want to participate in conversation.
- Comment on what a moment to live 1 month ago:
If you only care about the facts, read the fucking article and ignore the comments. No one here is an expert or involved in the investigation, we’re here to talk about it.
For whatever reason, you seem to not understand the function of a comment section, and feel the need to voice that. Not sure why.
- Comment on what a moment to live 1 month ago:
Might as well. No empathy for merchants of death.
The insurance companies are the death panels politicians used to talk about like the bogeyman, not the government.
Don’t really give a shit about any of the rich assholes making decisions about who should die just to increase shareholder returns.
- Comment on what a moment to live 1 month ago:
Not just new clothes, probably a reversible backpack so when leaving the park the backpack wasn’t even the same color.
- Comment on huehuehue 1 month ago:
And the marijuana stuff leads back to both the tobacco and wood fiber industries. Cannabis is a threat to tobacco, and hemp is a threat to darn near everything wood fiber is used for. That one even more so because it grows so dramatically faster than a new forest.
- Comment on Meal prep 1 month ago:
Nah see they’ve got one of those fancy dual air dryers in the picture. One side is clearly for food and the other for beverages.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 1 month ago:
Don’t know, the couple of articles I saw going around didn’t actually have any actual info in them, just the report by a random person in Germany which is one of the Premium Lite (or whatever they want to call it) regions.
I don’t really care that much to be honest. I pay for YouTube Premium. My region doesn’t have a Lite option. I pay for several reasons, not just the lack of ads. I pay so the content creators I watch get paid more for my view. I pay for no ads. I pay for the bundled YouTube Music. All of those are part of my usage. The lack of ads is only one aspect. For others that may be different, and for them the price justification may be different as well if they’re only paying to remove ads.
Not to mention that partial ad experiences at a lower cost are an inevitable middle option to regular ad and no-ad options. YouTube isn’t anywhere near the first to do this, and they definitely won’t be the last. Complaining about it will do absolutely nothing, they don’t give a shit and the only people that could force a change are shareholders, who only care about profits at this point. Customer satisfaction for a company like Google means fucking nothing.
So why expend the energy? That can be focused elsewhere to much more effect.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 1 month ago:
There’s premium content, no ads, the creator gets paid significantly more for your Premium view, and bundled YouTube Music.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 1 month ago:
IIRC that was specifically related to YouTube testing out a new Premium tier that allowed some ads, but also cost less, and only in specific markets.
Not everywhere, and not regular Premium subscriptions, unlike how most posts try to make it sound, including yours.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 1 month ago:
And Ko-Fi takes between 0-5%.
- Comment on Will Firefox die for good if Google is forced to sell off Chrome? 1 month ago:
It doesn’t even earn any money.
Neither do the rotisserie chickens at the store. Or Costco’s $1.50 hot dog and soda combo.
Chrome isn’t intended to make money, it’s a loss leader.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 1 month ago:
There is a nearly zero percent chance that the game developers are also cloud experts. Having the same parent company means almost nothing, especially when you get to the size of places like Microsoft. The internal bureaucracy can actually make getting things accomplished properly worse. External contracts are usually pretty clear on what’s provided for the payment. Internal processes are often much more blurry, if not completely muddy.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 1 month ago:
I’d say it’s more on how the developers setup their system to utilize (or not utilize) those dynamic capabilities.
The game devs not taking advantage of that properly should be on them. Put the blame where it belongs.Don’t let the devs off the hook just because you want to at least partially blame the MS cloud. Microsoft’s systems CAN handle dynamic loads when setup properly, we see it all the time.
- Comment on We have the best shaped states, don't we folks 2 months ago:
After learning about the chef, it becomes impossible to not see him anymore when looking at the states.
