oatscoop
@oatscoop@midwest.social
- Comment on It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology 1 day ago:
Makeup isn’t, though. We all just need to get down with the clown.
Brb, buying FIZZ 34.30 -0.26(0.75%) 🠳
- Comment on Number 1 🏥 6 days ago:
There’s greed (particularly with overpriced private ambulances) but ambulance are legitimately expensive to operate in the USA.
- Comment on Number 1 🏥 6 days ago:
It’s unfortunately legally required to transport someone that’s not A&Ox4.
It’s annoying when we know someone really doesn’t need to go, but if we don’t the responders are looking at losing their job, license, a lawsuit, or even being criminally charged.
- Comment on Number 1 🏥 6 days ago:
EMS can not force you to go to the hospital anywhere in the USA unless you’ve been arrested, are suicidal, a danger to others, or aren’t oriented to “person, place, time, and event”.
If you’re none of the above you can tell whoever is saying “you have to go” to fuck off.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 1 week ago:
Any useful definition of gambling needs to take into account its potential and actual scale of addiction, along with degree of harm.
“Is it technically gambling” is far less important than those aforementioned aspects.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 1 week ago:
blahaj.zone
I’m afraid that you’re well past any hope of removing Arch from your life. The best that can be done is managing your install. I suggest sequestering Arch to an old Thinkpad to slow its spread.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 1 week ago:
… the offical linux shop I understand that Linyos Torovoltos grew up under communism and originally couldn’t legally sell Lunix – but the Soviets lost the cold war.
I’d rather spend a few bucks for a legitimate copy than risk installing some virus infested illegal version I found on some sketchy website.
- Comment on It's literally science 3 weeks ago:
That sounds like a lot of work …
Are you sure there aren’t easy solutions that only involve spending money and not effort? Maybe a pill or expensive chair?
- Comment on Bacon off the menu for Peppa Pig family show in Grimsby 4 weeks ago:
I glad to see Peppa Pig is adhering to the proud British tradition of traumatizing children with horrifying real-life interpretations beloved animated characters.
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 4 weeks ago:
Selective breeding is no different than natural evolution in how drastically it can change an organism given enough time and the right selections for “fitness”.
So you could produce a domesticated, tame zebra – but waiting on and favoring the right mutations would take a very long time and be prohibitively expensive. It’s possible, but not realistically feasible.
- Comment on Anon gets nostalgic 1 month ago:
Music was about joy?
In fairness, I’m not sure those genres are “hipster”. Though Death Cab for Cutie is and most of their songs are depressing.
- Comment on Norway anon pirates 1 month ago:
Can I interest you in a NAS and an old laptop running debian plugged into a TV, with the Ethernet cable running to it duck-taped to the wall?
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 month ago:
I’d say the seasoning is different enough to call it a distinct thing, though the cooking method is identical. Like New York vs Chicago tavern style pizza.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 1 month ago:
Boston baked beans with pork belly also deserves a mention.
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 2 months ago:
It was called a McCormick Reaper.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months ago:
Still used by Garmin InReach SOS/communicators
- Comment on I dunno 3 months ago:
Don’t ask anyone over the age of 45 how they remember resistor color codes …
- Comment on I dunno 3 months ago:
8 5 - 5 * 2 + CR .
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 3 months ago:
“AI” has become synonymous with “Generative AI”
- Comment on Snatching the 12-gauge over the door with the quickness. [sound on] 3 months 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 5 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! 6 months ago:
Oh, fuck off.
- Comment on Good news. :) 6 months ago:
Illinois is down.
- Comment on winter fans 6 months ago:
-15°C
Sitting beside a wood stove with a hot drink, good food, and sauna.
- Comment on Make America Great! 6 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 7 months ago:
Weird … It looks like I can sign up for an account on dbzer0 even though I’m not actually an anarchist.
