Chainweasel
@Chainweasel@lemmy.world
- Comment on This seat reservation doesn't reserve any seats 4 days ago:
It means you can sit anywhere you want and you’re not stuck in an assigned seat.
You get on the train early you can have any seat you want.
This seems like the exact opposite of infuriating. - Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I don’t have kids myself, but I understand that it’s the employers fault they don’t extend the same privileges to me, not the parents fault for receiving the privilege.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 1 week ago:
It just depends on how you say it out loud.
Here in the us, we would say today is December 11th, so we write it the same way, 12/11.
Other parts of the world would say today is the 11th of December, so they write it that way, 11/12. - Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
Do you want to see the people who killed Osama Bin Laden prosecuted?
Because the United Heath CEO killed far more people, including many more children, than Bin Laden did on 9/11. - Comment on If the US dissolves for whatever reason and goes into a state of anarchy what would happen to the rest of the world? 2 weeks ago:
The next biggest economy would likely fill the power vacuum, which at the moment would be China.
European countries with likely band together but still align their policies closer to Russian polices because they’re a more imminent threat than China.
There would probably be several small brush wars as countries try to to consolidate power amongst regional areas like North America and the Middle East.
Fragile ceasefires backed by American influence would pretty quickly dissolve like between North and South Korea.
And in a few decades everything will settle into a new “normal” just like it did when other great empires have lost their influence. - Comment on New report claims gamers spend more time watching videos about gaming than playing games 2 weeks ago:
Because who can afford a new gaming rig/system AND games to play on it?
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely.
There are two ways to make sure nuclear weapons are never used in war:- No one has any nukes
- Everyone has nukes.
#1 is never going to happen. The US, Russia, and China are for sure never ever giving up their nuclear weapons.
So #2 it is, level the playing field and give everyone nuclear weapons. A nation is far less likely to use a nuclear weapon if they know they can and will get nuked back right away. - Comment on Will Firefox die for good if Google is forced to sell off Chrome? 4 weeks ago:
The opposite. Google won’t be able to leverage chrome to drive website design and Internet policy anymore and it’ll give smaller companies an opportunity to get a better foothold in the market. That’s the whole point in breaking them off from Google in the first place.
- Comment on At what age do we switch from measuring a human by length to by height? 4 weeks ago:
About the time they start walking.
Once they’re standing up, they’re tall.
While they’re still laying down, they’re long. - Comment on Are illegal streaming sites really getting shut down a lot lately or has it always been like this? 4 weeks ago:
It’s more or less always been like this.
p2p services like Napster were getting a shut down and replaced with limewire, then limewire was shut down and replaced with FrostWire. The Pirate Bay has been shut down at least half a dozen times, demonoid was shut down 6 years ago, Grooveshark was once an ad free music streaming service but tried to go legit at some point to save themselves, every few years the movie and record industries get a burr up their ass and go for the piracy and streaming websites. But these websites have always been like a Hydra and when one of them is killed, several more eventually pop up to take their place. - Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 5 weeks ago:
As someone who grew up with horses, in most cases the hole is dug first with a ramp, the horse is walked into the hole, then it’s euthanized.
- Comment on Did binders used to be called tablets? 1 month ago:
Tablets are notebooks that the paper flips vertically over the top instead of folding to the left or right
- Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating? 1 month ago:
Voltage is the same but wattage is not.
Most of your phone chargers will be 65w or less while a laptop isn’t going to charge on fewer than 100w most of the time. - Comment on Why do I feel sick every time I go out to eat with my gf? 2 months ago:
Placebo effect?
Maybe you got a touch of food poisoning one of the first times and now you subconsciously associate it with date nights? - Comment on If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics? 2 months ago:
Not as a Republican.
- Comment on Help me to settle on a face design for the character I've just added to my game, called The Humorless Toaster. (It's only here to make toast, not listen to your nonsense.) 3 months ago:
Yep
- Comment on Help me to settle on a face design for the character I've just added to my game, called The Humorless Toaster. (It's only here to make toast, not listen to your nonsense.) 3 months ago:
2, but make him look more indifferent and less angry I think.
- Comment on Can I run mint Linux from an external drive? 4 months ago:
The “superior OS” is whichever one meets the users needs the best.
For most people Windows works just fine because a PC is an appliance to them, and an important feature of an appliance is simplicity for the user.
But for others Linux works better, especially if you want to do anything server related - Comment on Could President Biden fully legalize cannabis before he leaves office? 4 months ago:
Trump also could have won in 2020 and we’d already be living in the dictatorship with no prospect of an election this November, so does the “you” in this time realize how lucky you are?
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 5 months ago:
Depends on where you live, does it snow a lot? If so then AWD is absolutely better.
- Comment on $500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final form 5 months ago:
Why won’t anyone make these with a GBA layout?
My old GBA was my favorite way to play Gameboy and GBC games because it’s just easier to hold. - Comment on Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less 5 months ago:
$16.99 was pretty steep for how much I used it, I just cancelled.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
Fucking Internet lefties
Ah, there it is.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
That’s a long way to go to avoid a question, several paragraphs and you can’t even come up with one name.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
Who do you have in mind?
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- Comment on Is 0.3 quarts extra too mich oil in a car? 5 months ago:
Some of that oil will be used to fill the filter so you’re fine.
- Comment on New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega 5 months ago:
So they’re turning it into a Driver/GTA clone?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
So you’ll know it’s supposed to be funny.
If you’ve ever watched the the videos of the Big Bang Theory sitcom with the laugh tracks removed, you’ll notice it feels a lot more like a group of people being shitty and verbally abusive towards each other and it’s not all that funny without being told to laugh.
Why go through the trouble of writing an actual funny dialogue when you can just tell the viewers it’s funny and they’ll laugh? - Comment on What happens if I never activate Windows? 6 months ago:
It’ll harass you to activate it indefinitely but Microsoft has a policy that they’d rather have people steal their operating system than pay for someone else’s, so ultimately that’s it. It’ll just annoy you.