haywire7
@haywire7@lemmy.world
- Comment on Building a neighborhood like this in North America would cause a civil war 2 weeks ago:
Not shown, the two homeless guys arguing over a bin bag of plastic bottles they want to cash in.
Bikes don’t stop for anyone in Amsterdam, the trams are great for getting around but as soon as you get off one you are in bike town and you need to pay attention to what’s going on around you.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
They want to annihilate the second hand market, so every copy sold is through them. Trading in your old games you don’t play to buy the next one is a staple of console life for many, but Sony doesn’t get a cut of the second hand games sold.
CeX is the place to go to get games near me, seeing as Game got swallowed by Sports Direct and hollowed out leaving Smyths, Argos and supermarkets the place to buy new games. Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft would love CeX to implode but it won’t happen whilst there are a steady stream of console gamers trading in the latest games to pick up an older one they never played or a random movie.
- Comment on These "warnings" that some people think mean anything 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t that warning more about braking distance so you don’t smack into the back of it if they slam the brakes on?
- Comment on As per my last email 1 month ago:
Say it with a New York accent, problem solved!
- Comment on As per my last email 1 month ago:
Replace the second U with an S and it gains a lot of functionality.
- Comment on Bottom gear 1 month ago:
Downvoters have never watched too gear then
- Comment on how to build a loopback device 1 month ago:
Network loops are real. Network loops are common. Network loops are the leading cause of people screaming “for fucks sake!” After spending far too long looking for other solutions to why the network goes down intermittently.
- Comment on Why do so many older people talk to themselves in public? 1 month ago:
Who else is gonna listen?
Sometimes saying things out loud helps people make sense of them, I don’t know all the science behind it but I’m sure there is a good reason.
- Comment on If I could a buffalo chicken chili kale salad would the show off my cooking skills? 2 months ago:
Depending on your tastes a cottage pie or moussaka are simple (each has their own challenges like the mash on the cottage pie) but they are tasty and can look quite good in a big crock pot or something.
If you are doing this to impress then no matter what, tidy up after yourself and have a plan for any leftovers if you make too much.
- Comment on What is with alot of movie or tv torrents being in Russian all of a sudden? 2 months ago:
Russia pirating everything is why the R5 DVD was a thing. Usually rushed out before any other region to try and stop them pirating a movie.
- Comment on No Such Thing 2 months ago:
Inflation is the single biggest issue in the system imho Inflation is why shareholders expect more money this year than last year, so companies do shitty things to squeeze money out of a company for them. Doing the same thing year on year doesn’t always mean you get more.
Take farmers, they aren’t getting more for milk or grain year on year. The companies that process those things have been pushing up prices and squeezing the farmers that are paying more for feed, fuel and other things though.
Companies existing just to service investors and shareholders is destroying everyday life as they try to min-max there way through.
Water companies on the verge of collapse as lack of investment catches up with them. Shrinkflation in products we buy and use. Examples are everywhere but the “experts” are still taught from the same books written 50 years ago. Theory of economics is just a theory, try looking at what is happening out there for a while instead.
/Rant over
- Comment on How would you safely and privately child-proof a PC? 2 months ago:
If you are going the Windows route Microsofts family settings can create a child account that is locked down and has usage time limits and a bed time that will lock the PC.
It isn’t perfect but does give you some insight into what they are using he PC for.
Google do something similar for Android devices + Chrome/Google search.
OpenDNS has a family friendly DNS that is filtered and free to add another layer to any device.
As others have said anything you do will only slow them down. It’s like swearing, you can ban them doing it around you but they’ll still do it at school with their friends. Sometimes they’ll slip up and use a word at the wrong time and you will have to remind them what is appropriate but as a parent it’s what you are there for, helping them form a decent set of guidelines on what and when things are appropriate.
- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 2 months ago:
I am looking the BBC playing the large orange pant shitter at his own game and him hating it.
I hold all news outlets in the same regard, they sensationalise or ignore when it suits them and are there as Ad space more than anything for the most part. Clickbait. Clickbait. Clickbait. Traffic, Ads, REVENUE.
The cycle has kinda put me off most news sites/feeds.
- Comment on Every time 2 months ago:
Cries in Max Payne.
Borderlands I haven’t watched, the trailer was enough to put me off.
The first Resident Evil I really liked though. The Street Fighter movie with Vandamme and Kylie was camp fun.
- Comment on Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its CEO and a 26% rise to its finance director 3 months ago:
The government would have to take the hit and substitute the shares for bonds of equal or greater value. They should never lose value at least going forward.
- Comment on Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its CEO and a 26% rise to its finance director 3 months ago:
They will run out of money altogether inside a year and cannot attract new investment at the moment.
They should not be paying any of the top level management at all, let alone paying them bonuses.
Nationalise the water, gas and electricity suppliers. Nationalise public transport, railways and buses especially. Sod shareholders and make the bloody things work properly and stay working.
- Comment on How come people are stupid nowadays? Especially on social media 4 months ago:
There is also the proven method of finding the right answer to anything, post the wrong one on the internet and let people argue.
- Comment on Survey says... 4 months ago:
Politicians Hedge fund management Influencers
Not exhaustive but a good start
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 5 months ago:
I have played a lot of Destiny 2, I really enjoyed Final Shape and just after but the portal was the beginning of the end. It killed the flow and the scale of the game in one go.
I’ll probably jump in for some of the changes and to slaughter a few teams in Gambit one more time but I doubt I’ll play much at all after that.
- Comment on Rules of the pirate code 10 months ago:
Is that at all or just sad tears?
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 10 months ago:
Easy. It’s a scam to screw over anyone they feel like.
It stopped being a can the applicant afford their current outgoings and afford this loan type system a loooong time ago. Now it’s a noose round the neck of anyone that has ever lost a job and missed a couple of payments or got screwed over by a company changing billing software. The number means nothing, I’m sure on some kind of grading curve it averages out but so would throwing darts at a board and assigning scores that way.
The rich fail up and everyone else has to play by the rules or get fucked over.
/Rant over
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- Comment on Caption this. 11 months ago:
Put this on your head and I’ll shoot it off, it’ll be funny!
- Comment on Umm, okay then... 11 months ago:
They are tasty though
- Comment on The difficult choices of life 11 months ago:
Assflation?
- Comment on Anon goes to a steakhouse 1 year ago:
And a good Google/trust pilot out of you seeing as the boss gives out a bonus for those
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 1 year ago:
There’s a lot of episodes that only have impact of you are invested in the characters. Some are or self contained so could be worth a watch but it depends on the audience.
If anyone that likes sci-fi asks me I always say DS9. It has plot arcs and characters that grow, also a few silly and not so good bits but it stands up.
If they like that or like something similar like Stargate, seaquest, farscape or Sliders then we can find something for them, if they haven’t really tried sci-fi then you could do worse than strange new worlds within Trek or commit and try The Expanse for some modern sci-fi that kicks ass.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 year ago:
That is one strong unit, the thought of the weight of those devices gives me back pain.
- Comment on the wolves inside me 1 year ago:
Tell them you value their beliefs?
- 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. 1 year ago:
What if your PC has no camera?