corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 3 days ago:
I’ve had SMS messages read to me by a third party, not a cop. I’ve had transcripts of ‘private’ cell calls read back to me by a third party, not a cop.
I survived the entire lifetime of skype without having the same, and I guess I hope the same happens with whatsapp.
- Comment on My bank is starting to discontinue web-based online banking in favor of an app. 3 days ago:
Remember: if you leave your bank for this reason, make it known to them and to your friend circle. Encourage them to move to wherever you end up, and tell the bank why. Let’s make a pointless stink about it as we get our friends to safety.
- Comment on Fuckin CEO's and billionaires gotta go 4 days ago:
“an overregulated economy, high energy costs, high labour costs, high taxes and a declining level of education and qualifications.”
Yeah. Because self-regulation and no taxes certainly worked for, for example, America’s skills and education level.
- Comment on If I wrote a script for a movie and sent it off to a studio or whatever. What prevents the person who recieved it from claiming it as their own? 1 week ago:
Nothing. Now go watch Matrix again.
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 1 week ago:
Ridicule.
- Comment on It's true 2 weeks ago:
Go play with one. It’ll get serious FAST
- Comment on No one spells "lose" anymore 2 weeks ago:
You laugh. I dream of this.
- Comment on No one spells "lose" anymore 2 weeks ago:
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People who proclaim others are Grammar Nazis generally may need to focus more on spelling and less on cheesy melodrama.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 2 weeks ago:
Without context? Yeah.
I downvote for lazy spelling, and there’s no way to indicate that. I’ll accept if I downvote a positive idea and in doing so make it seem like I disagree with the positive message instead of just the broken medium, but I’d rather not.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 weeks ago:
you say Roberston enough times, without being an asshole, and even they will figure it out.
And, if you’re my dad, you say “the red-handled robbie” or “point the damned flashlight at the screw, genius”.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 weeks ago:
Roberson
Robbie, if you’re not posh.
- Comment on Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me 2 weeks ago:
Americans will do anything to avoid admitting Robertson was earlier, better, and easier to make.
- Comment on Treat your body like a data centre 3 weeks ago:
treat your body like a datacenter that has been planned poorly and pushed through local government
Fixed it for ya.
Remember, kids, if you like your health data to be safely stored so when you have a car accident you can survive with a drug allergy (long enough to get the bill, if American), then you want that data stored where it’s safe. That’s a datacenter. If you like the idea of criminals getting their just desserts one day, you want the evidence stored safely where fire/flood/tornado/theft/vandalism can’t destroy it and deny us justice. That’s a datacenter (and maybe a salt mine in nevada, but you get it).
If you hate evaporative cooling and diesel power generation, you hate bad datacenters, and you need to rail against councils approving bad plans and/or you need to ensure the new council you elect will slap the ratfuckers with legal challenge after enviro violation until they can do little else but sell it off to someone else (ohai code compliance on sold structures).
- Comment on Everytime 🤧 3 weeks ago:
Words in title: 1
Words spelled wrongly in title: 1
- Comment on I need an adult 4 weeks ago:
You need an English teacher.
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 4 weeks ago:
Just lift the fuckin seat to pee then omg
Use your foot for that if you have to
- wipe seat. It’s fine.
- If you’re at a seat, be seated; standing is over there.
- wash hands like silkwood after
Is this only trivial for gen-X?
- Comment on In Open Carry states, is it also allowed to openly carry bladed weapons like Swords? Bow and arrow? 5 weeks ago:
In Alberta, Canada’s Texas, swords may be carried if sheathed. My buddy wore a broadsword to uni class - slung over the back in that way that you maybe slice off your ear if you need to draw it - until the uni banned it on their property.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 5 weeks ago:
Are you trying to shoplift and you have a harder time now?
Careful, my dude. Lemmy promotes an ends-means justification on some crime, mostly via demonification. There’s no discussion on this particular ethical dilemma, despite a firm stance in other instances.
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 1 month ago:
Ha! I’ll tell my barber he doesn’t need to do Uber anymore, since his day job is paying so well.
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 1 month ago:
every 8 weeks and spend like $25
$35+ every 3 weeks here. I sublimate from Tidy to Schlub overnight on day 22.
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 1 month ago:
My barber has to do Uber on the side. He sold his shop and now works there for the new owner until his other barber gig grows. He’s a refugee from Mosul and a really great guy, but he’s not getting enough from the barbering.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 1 month ago:
I think he is. Sorry.
- Comment on If your in jail and you have a heart condition, and they taser you and you die are they responsible? Even if they know you have a heart condition? 1 month ago:
Depends.
Non-US? Maybe.
US? Does your estate have a reeeally good lawyer? No? Then no.
- Comment on Republicans head home for the summer after a string of losses in Congress 1 month ago:
In related news, evolution is hard to see up close.
- Comment on How can people with ADHD possibly enjoy movies if they daydream and can't focus on the movie? 1 month ago:
Is “second screening” a name for people bringing bright screens into the theatre? Like, so they can watch tiktoks and disturb everyone else? Is every so ridiculously inconsiderate that they can’t even go to the movies anymore?
I sense if I still went to the theatre after covid that I’d quickly hate something new about it.
- Comment on Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company 1 month ago:
They think with whatever the fuck makes you think of people as “resources”.
Yeah. They change their own titles, but I worry it’s still the same – they just remembered the ‘human’ part of ‘human resources’ is merely an adjective.
- Comment on Gamer Logic 😡 1 month ago:
See: Survivorship Bias
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 1 month ago:
As I’ve said before: HOW ABOUT NO
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 1 month ago:
There are five things you should ever say to police:
Is that a request or an order?
I don’t answer questions.
I don’t consent to any search.
Am I free to go?
I am exercising my right to remain silent.
Note that. Outside America, the rules will be different. Even in Canada, rights are very different. Less bearings and shootings, but our Article 5 is nowhere near as powerful at the 5th amendment.
- Comment on How do I survive the US immigration? 1 month ago:
if they decide that you should strip down to your underwear, there’s nothing you can do about it (I’ve heard that this happens).
This definitely happens, but it’s nothing new. I have a piece of steel supporting my ulna after a bad fight (and I can’t fight anymore). It sets off metal detectors, or it used to in the 1990s and 2000s, and definitely the ones that cropped up after 9/11 in NYC.
TSA people are so great; very focused in their efforts to kinda be power-trippy dicks at times. I can confirm that if you want to be swimsuit-level strip-searched in an out-of-the-way corner in full view of everyone, just flying into America is how we do it; ask to skip the cancer box for extra fun. CALL it the ‘cancer box’ if you really wanna be sure. I’m thankful for my brief military stint as it has removed all shame from my being and I was able to get processed quickly enough each time.
I’m super-rural and super-white, so that may be the super-power helping me avoid the worst of problems, and I’m sorry their racism makes everyone else’s experience that much worse than even mine.