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- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 21 hours ago:
It was called a McCormick Reaper.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 2 days ago:
In defense of pet rocks: the highest they were ever sold for was the modern equivalent of $24 and nobody was pretending they were worth more.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 1 week ago:
“parental controls”
Yeah … I was the kid that knew how to bypass those and “helped” other kids out in that regard.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 1 week ago:
Or making it illegal to pass a stopped school bus.
Actual “protect children” laws don’t get talked about because absolutely nobody has a problem with them.
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 3 weeks ago:
I imagine some of the “guardrails” the AI was set up with involved emphasizing that it’s a capitalist since the goal is to make money.
“Free stuff is still capitalism” is a workaround.
- Comment on There is software/a technology company/a game named after most of the elements in the periodic table 4 weeks ago:
Still used by Garmin InReach SOS/communicators
- Comment on I dunno 1 month ago:
Don’t ask anyone over the age of 45 how they remember resistor color codes …
- Comment on I dunno 1 month ago:
8 5 - 5 * 2 + CR .
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 1 month ago:
“AI” has become synonymous with “Generative AI”
- Comment on Snatching the 12-gauge over the door with the quickness. [sound on] 1 month ago:
… So the people on the decentralized social media network that was created to get away from corporate bullshit don’t like AI?
I can’t imagine why that is.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 3 months ago:
As long as you’re not being a shitbag: who the fuck cares? Some people don’t like hookups, some do – and it can change depending on circumstances and what phase or like one is at.
Every day I become more convinced a lot of people get stuck at “teenager” when it comes to sex and relationships. It’s not hard: don’t be an asshole, don’t hurt people, and do what makes you happy.
- Comment on Make America Great! 4 months ago:
Oh, fuck off.
- Comment on Good news. :) 4 months ago:
Illinois is down.
- Comment on winter fans 4 months ago:
-15°C
Sitting beside a wood stove with a hot drink, good food, and sauna.
- Comment on Make America Great! 4 months ago:
Native Americans are still people, and it’s a universal truth that people suck.
All the horrible things people do to each other are just easier at scale when you’re not stuck using stone-age technology.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 months ago:
Weird … It looks like I can sign up for an account on dbzer0 even though I’m not actually an anarchist.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 5 months ago:
That is 100% the origin of the phrase.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 5 months ago:
Go to the “Filters” tab in the dashboard. At the bottom of the list click “Import” and paste the URL ( raw.githubusercontent.com/…/LegitimateURLShortene… ) in the box. Then click “Apply” to save it.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 5 months ago:
I follow some writers on Reddit even after I deleted my account and had the same issue. The worst part is it’s no just porn: it’s anything “NSFW” – even mildly so. Posts that were tagged NSFW as a joke weren’t accessible.
I changed my VPN to another country and Reddit was still asking me to log in and show ID until I cleared my cookies and cache.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 8 months ago:
- Comment on America is fucked 8 months ago:
- Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day 9 months ago:
One day you’ll wake up and realize people born on the year you graduated school can legally vote, drink, etc. A short time later those kids have kids of their own … and you are ( or are old enough to be ) a grandparent.
The worst part is you’ll still mentally feel like you’re not much older than your late 20s or 30s.
- Comment on I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car. 9 months ago:
That was the original meaning, but it’s also been co-opted by assholes as an “argument” against providing for people’s basic needs.
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 10 months ago:
Noodles are composed mostly of starches and heat causes gelatinization, which gives noodles their texture and holds them together. Without heat water just causes them to break back down into wet flour.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 11 months ago:
Projectors come with their own set of issues, but at least you can still get a really good one without all the “smart” features.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 11 months ago:
A set of torx screwdrivers and an exacto knife will take care of that.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Anon reads the news 1 year ago:
Base on what I’ve read about this kid: I probably wouldn’t like him as a person. I probably wouldn’t agree with a lot of the things he believes, if not vehemently oppose them. I don’t think he’s a genius – in fact I think he’s probably a similar kind of an edgy, dumb kid I was at that age.
Sometimes “good” people do bad things, and sometimes “bad” people do good things. It’s almost as if real people aren’t one dimensional caricatures.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 year ago:
The states have limited power to defy the feds.
Case in point: legalized marijuana. That said, my fear in regards to states defying laws is:
- Targeted attacks by MAGA terrorists, particularly regarding anything LGBTQ+ or reproductive healthcare related.
- The fed withholding federal funds to punish states that don’t fall in line.
The former is particularly concerning as police and the national guard are predominately right-wing. My state passed the SAFE-T Act to address abuses in the police/justice system. Naturally, various police departments weren’t happy about this, and through obtuse interpretation of the act they’ll claim they can’t legally do vital parts of their job – something I’ve seen multiple times first hand. Refusing to do their job competently in response to MAGA terrorism isn’t hard to imagine.
The later gets tricky. Most of the states that would push back against unjust federal laws are also states that pay more in federal taxes than they receive in aid. The “obvious” solution withhold federal tax dollars to make up the difference … which would be next to impossible in practice. Even if states mange to do it they’d be playing into Republican hands by defunding essential federal services.
- Comment on Anon's gf is native american 1 year ago:
“Huh, interesting. Why aren’t you supposed to look at the moon?”
Most people aren’t psychopaths and actually enjoy sharing their beliefs if you ask in a respectful manner.