Jamie
@Jamie@jamie.moe
- Comment on Marketing email's subject made me think my card got hacked 6 months ago:
Escalate to management as quickly as possible so you’re not just annoying some poor front desk worker that had nothing to do with it.
- Comment on What the actual f*** is this Rockstar? 6 months ago:
It’s already beatable right now, there are services in third world countries where people get paid fractions of a penny to solve captchas for machines.
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- Comment on Are shops in the US usually this run down looking? 7 months ago:
I don’t know anyone that actually thinks like that at store level.
- Comment on Are shops in the US usually this run down looking? 7 months ago:
As a retail manager, it looks fine? If the people in front of you are all waiting to check out, they should probably grab people from other departments to cover a few extra registers for a bit, but the store itself looks nice to me.
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 8 months ago:
I think my credit report still says I work at “DOMINOES” after like 5 years of not being there. It doesn’t effect anything, but I get mild amusement out of it being misspelled on top of that.
- Comment on "Hosts" indeed, at least pick one... 8 months ago:
Last week I stayed in a hotel for 3 days at a said and done price that was still about $100 cheaper than this 2 night Airbnb’s base price, not even adding in their fees.
- Comment on Can you take the lint from your dryer and make clothing? 8 months ago:
Shout-out to the GM of the Aaron’s calling me an idiot that doesn’t know how to operate a dryer when they sold me one out the door so clogged I’m amazed my house didn’t light on fire. Swore up and down they quality checked everything, the 2 hours I spent with that machine open scraping the lint out suggests otherwise.
Yes, I’m still salty about it over a year later.
- Comment on the internet is worse. 8 months ago:
There have been examples that are effectively primitive shitposts found carved into walls in Pompeii. People never really change.
- Comment on Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone 8 months ago:
This is a very well written take. Have my upvote.
- Comment on What does this icon mean? 9 months ago:
Weird
<span>Wolf Link 🐺</span>shield - Comment on Videogames in dreamland. Have you, while dreaming, played one, watched one being played or became a videogame character? 9 months ago:
A lot of my dreams “zoom out” and turn out to be me playing a game, usually if too many fantastical elements are happening in it. Most of my dreams are relatively grounded, so my brain tries to explain itself when they aren’t, I guess.
- Comment on Nessie hunters hear sounds but fail to record them 9 months ago:
I always just figure these sorts of claims are done with a wink and a nod as a sort of traditional joke.
Camera technology may have progressed to insanely high quality, but any picture of Nessie or Bigfoot will always be taken with a potato.
- Comment on Will youtube eventually run out of storage? 10 months ago:
They’re already wiping inactive google accounts and all related content. It’s going to be problematic for old videos where the owners haven’t used the account in some time.
I have a friend that passed away past the limit, I’m going to need to make sure to archive all of his stuff or else it’ll all fall into the youtube void.
- Comment on Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life 10 months ago:
I disagree. Consider the average internet user and how much they willingly give up about themselves online. Most of them use social media and have everyone they’ve ever met added on it, they post directly about what they’re doing and often who they’re doing it with, and they lend their engagement at things they like. They use Google for a search engine and don’t block ads.
So really, for the probably 80-90%+ of the population that captures, the massive surveillance network in place just at that level is perfectly sufficient to gleam anything they might want to know. Even if someone does protect their privacy, people they’re connected with still influence their profile through their lack of concern for privacy.
So really, with all that in place, what’s the incentive to have a top secret voice surveillance system built on top of all that? It would destroy the market for any phone doing it if it was ever proven. Why take that risk when you can get everything you want from all those other sources instead?
- Comment on Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life 10 months ago:
It’s possible that she looked up information about cutting down on drinking, and because you’re connected in the ad network system, you also got ads from it. They like to learn who is connected to who and target ads that way. Facebook is, as you might predict, one of the most notorious.
- Comment on Do I have incredibly weak thumbs, or does this instruction exist on boxes just to mess with us? 10 months ago:
I usually just knuckle-punch them in.
- Comment on The fact that people this stupid exist 10 months ago:
I always found the tracking chip conspiracy stuff to be particularly funny. Unfortunately, I never personally met any whackos that believed it.
The best method for very accurately tracking them was the thing they likely used to post about the COVID vaccine tracking you.
- Comment on What is the secret to a happy social-media experience? 10 months ago:
Lemmy has cut out my doomscrolling more than I estimated. I knew it would decrease, but usually I don’t scroll for more than 5 or 10 minutes at a time, and it never interrupts me doing anything else. Makes me look back and realize how unhealthy those algorithms really are.
- Comment on Sam's Club Tips on Paid Deliveries 10 months ago:
If you don’t support it, then don’t do business with any place that expects a tip. Or just get takeout where tipping isn’t expected so much.
As long as the business gets your money, they’re still winning whether you tip or not.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Today I learned ADP is franchised, assuming this guy was even real and not some sort of con artist.
- Comment on You didn't bought it you rented it! 10 months ago:
Additional hot take: get a laser printer for your normal documents and just get photos printed somewhere else. The money you’d spend buying 4x6 photos on someone else’s ink and paper would probably be less than you’ll pay for color ink unless you’re an absolute photo printing maniac. And a laser printer toner cartridge will last you like 1,000+ pages.
- Comment on Villainous 11 months ago:
Dude on the top looks ecstatic because he’s gonna see his friends again soon.
- Comment on what's a reasonable sort for lemmy? 11 months ago:
Top Day/x hours in descending order, based on last visit. Gives you the top voted stuff made in more recent time. Though my default sort is actually by new.
- Comment on Just a thought 11 months ago:
I’m on Linux using ffmpeg on the command line. No Windows or GUIs in sight in this process.
- Comment on Just a thought 11 months ago:
I like a challenge, it’s a little fuzzy, but here’s one that’s just slightly over 10kb.
- Comment on Why have there been large coalitions of countries throughout history that come together to draft agreements about the boundaries of war and what constitutes a war crime (like the Geneva Convention), but none have ever made war itself a crime? 11 months ago:
As mentioned, war is a billion dollar industry. But also, international law is complicated to enforce. Countries aren’t so easy to control that you can just fine them unless there is a greater consequence for not doing so. That greater consequence is often war, or some form of sanction.
But you also have nuclear powers in the mix, making war an ineffective method of enforcement, because the risks of war between two nuclear powers is greater than can justify whatever enforcement caused it. Leaving the next best tool to be sanctions. But not every country will honor those sanctions, and you create these crazy little countries like Iran or North Korea, who build nuclear weapons and cozy up to your enemies instead of you.
