DebatableRaccoon
@DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What can I put on a street lamp to stop the light in one direction? 5 days ago:
Maybe consider curtains before vandalism.
- Comment on Before Piddy went to jail why didn't the government seize all of his assests? Apparently he's living like a king in prison. 1 week ago:
I couldn’t say for sure, but I don’t believe everything was seized. Anything that couldn’t directly be connected to criminal activity wouldn’t have been touched. Then there’s whatever was hidden away in offshore accounts.
This is also without considering how much more blatant politicians are with their own criminal activity in recent memory. Back in 1992, when Gotti went down, the biggest problem with the US president was he was a warhound. In present day, POTUS is a known criminal several times over and is walking free.
- Comment on Before Piddy went to jail why didn't the government seize all of his assests? Apparently he's living like a king in prison. 1 week ago:
The wealthy live by different rules, even when they’re known criminals, amd especially when they’re friends woth criminals in office.
- Comment on Any free good video upscaler to improve quality? Want to improve the quality of a tv movie done in 2006. 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t really recommend this for a full movie, but after seeing very lacking results from AI video upscalers, both in quality and ridiculous file sizes, I found interesting and surprisingly good results in extracting individual frames from videos, using an AI upscaler on the frames, then stitching them back together.
I’ve been doing this for some old/low res personal videos and some of the upscaled videos have even come out smaller than the originals despite being better quality.
- Comment on A New PS5 Jailbreak May Have Just Opened The Floodgates To Piracy 1 week ago:
Ghost of Yotei was the one that got me pissed off at Sony. I’ve bought multiple of the ported games and GoY was next in line until they raised the wall around their garden again. That said, the total of games I wanted from PS4+5 aren’t enough to warrant buying a console, not at the original price and even less after the increases.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Lunacy is the latest fashion, I swear. There’s having an opinion, sure, but some of the crap these nutbags spew is genuinely within scope of being certifiable.
- Comment on Is importing stuff from abroad free from sales tax? 3 weeks ago:
Unless the seller purposely fluffs the export paperwork like a lot of Chinese vendors do, that sounds like a whole load of import tax coming your way. That said, you already acknowledged the murder of de minimis and the existence of import tax, so I’m not sure why you’re even asking. Don’t trust the links you found out hoping some shady individual in here will teach you the ancient technique for tax dodging?
- Comment on Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon? 3 weeks ago:
NO. Pardons shouldn’t cover unrepentant criminals who know what they’re doing.
- Comment on [Opinion] If Hideo Kojima Games Aren't Safe, No Games Are Safe - Aftermath (Luke Plunkett) 4 weeks ago:
Every dying beast has a spike of survival instinct
- Comment on Do most Americans vote just based on name recognizing without any thinking of the platform? Or pigeon hole a candidate to one issue and vote for them? Even if that issue is way against beliefs? 4 weeks ago:
I’m going to go with ‘yes’ based on an interaction with someone I knew during Trumps first term. She told me she’d voted for him so I asked “Why? You’re working class, female and Mexican. You’re literally everything he loudly hates and will actively be against your best interests”. She said “Because he said he was going to fix taxes”.
- Comment on Why does the Grim Reaper hold a scythe? Was he or she farming or something when they became the grim reaper? 5 weeks ago:
Can’t beat Pratchett when it comes to wise words.
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 5 weeks ago:
Billionaires do that all the time. Still living the way life.
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 5 weeks ago:
There are times when there are objectively bad opinions. For instance - and very on-topic, showing support for a conglomerate that is actively acting against your best interests.
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 5 weeks ago:
Naaah. If you were a trillionaire, you’d have activated the cheat code to be wealthy for at least 4 generations, and who cares about your great-grandkids really?
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 5 weeks ago:
How much do you want to invest in ammo and a solid backing wall?
- Comment on Why do women in golf wear those short/skirt things while the men wear pants? 5 weeks ago:
I see what you did that. Nicely done.
- Comment on Is ASHDOL a good company for an external cd/dvd drive? 1 month ago:
Do the smart thing, save up a bit more money to afford a more reputable, verified unit. Don’t gamble on a clearly rubber-stamped brand. They’re rarely worth it.
- Comment on Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe? 1 month ago:
There can be exceptions to the rule, but there are plenty of indicators with problems occurring in the current film and video game markets that spell out Americans would soon let children see graphic violence than the hideous abomination that is the human nipple.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Police state
- Comment on Would a disk shaped planet have uniform gravity like earth or would it vary depending on whether you're near the center or edges? 1 month ago:
I was hoping to find this
- Comment on Why do celebs commit crimes and such like Tony Romo and his DWI? He had a 180 million dollar deal. Why not hire a driver or stay at home and buy ridiculous shit? 1 month ago:
Because people get bored and there’s no minimum IQ requirement to being a celebrity. If anything, news headlines over multiple decades would imply the opposite.
- Comment on If you could use a Rube Goldberg like contraption on any task you find extremely strenuous, what would it be? 1 month ago:
Bureaucracy.
- Comment on Meal Replacement Drink Suggestions? 2 months ago:
I’ve found Huel to be pretty decent. You mileage may vary for taste and availability though.
- Comment on What stratgies do you have for dealing with people who "live in your head rent free"? 2 months ago:
Same as land scalpers do to anyone who doesn’t pay rent; kick them out
- Comment on PlayStation 5 Bounty for Alternate OS installation 2 months ago:
Same logic as any control freak; anything less than 100% control isn’t good enough.
- Comment on PlayStation 5 Bounty for Alternate OS installation 2 months ago:
For what it’s worth, the bounty is headed by Louis Rossman who’s been a loud voice in the Right to Repair movement with the help of his employer FUTO. The lack of requirement to release publicly is likely so help against anyone who might find the exploit feeling like they’ll become a target for Sony’s lawyers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Tomato, tomahto. OP is still presenting it as fact.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Because you have a bias?
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 2 months ago:
I can’t agree on Schuko because I always found them to be awkward to plug in, sometimes needing to wiggle them while applying an uncomfortable amount of force.
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 2 months ago:
As a Brit, I’m guessing their issues with earthing is that we make everything to have a earth post, even when it’s not needed on a device, but the longer prong that is the earth post on our 3-pin plugs is a security feature of our plug/socket and makes any item that requires earthing to be earthed before it is even powered.
Couldn’t say why they have issues with ring mains though. It became the norm in a post-war Britain when copper was still scarce.