corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name 5 hours ago:
As mentioned previously, I have a weird Rupert J Farnsworth name; it’s the only thing I inherited from a very mean grandfather. I don’t use that name anywhere; even my mom has called me something else since birth.
If LinkedIn found this out, they’d delete my account, I guess, because I don’t use that name there either.
Wheeee.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 6 hours ago:
Before Trump, the office had an image to uphold.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 9 hours ago:
can you imagine conservatives bitching about the spend?!
Nonsense. They wouldn’t even know that ‘spend’ isn’t a noun when you’re not on the car lot. #soFetch
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 9 hours ago:
At grade == weak
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 4 days ago:
Glossed over after someone was shouting about my “A Child.” I think it’s an honor roll student thing but I wandered off.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
We picking favourite features? Let’s talk about headphone jacks. Make it .3mm thicker if all that volume can be consolidated on the header jack they ditched because apparently it can’t fit and wasn’t feeding their radio earbud business enough.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
they engineer a solution that they believe to be a smoother user experience
You had me until this bit. I support my mom and the iPhone she got instead of an android. I have no idea how to use this thing, and she’s the mother of 2.5 nerds. This swishy swoopy UI is so bad it’s toxic.
But I think that’s just a young and sparkle-addicted product management team who forgets that they need to sell to their market and who believe they know better.
- Comment on So me 1 week ago:
please, look at the machines and see if there is a very clear label
My local bodeguero says “okay, that’ll be $12, and tap on the very top when the total appears”.
His machine doesn’t even beg for tips either – they pay their people enough.
- Comment on So me 1 week ago:
We had consensus and critical thinking: if vendors tried to bring out 51 styles of tap-to-pay before, we’d quickly avoid the crap ones and stick to the ones that were consistent and compatible.
No one’s going to put down their groceries and walk out because the tap-to-pay is this inscrutable mess sold off the back of an argentinian van. We’ll just get through it and hope the info isn’t skimmed to drain our accounts.
- Comment on So me 1 week ago:
All of those things have one UI, one process for success, and so all experience is cumulative and transferrable. Tap-to-pay is a new button and process and tap-spot each time, each vendor, each venue.
- Comment on naruto therapy 1 week ago:
u
Yeah, I wouldn’t trust Skippy either.
- Comment on How much spacing while stopped at a red light? 1 week ago:
You don’t need them in turn only lanes
No mention of America.
No it isn’t[:] you’re not required by law to use a turn signal in a turn only lane
No mention of America.
I’m talking about US law and it seems you’re talking about Canadian.
Are you forgetting that 95% of the world’s population lives outside of America?
Minnesota (this is a state in the US) traffic code 169.19 Subd. 5 Signal to turn:
… and incorrect even in America.
What does False Consensus mean?
- Comment on How much spacing while stopped at a red light? 1 week ago:
You don’t need them in turn only lanes
My driving instructor would disagree, as I recall.
- Comment on How much spacing while stopped at a red light? 1 week ago:
Once the light turns green I give a solid three count then I honk
In Ottawa it’s a customary 4 picoseconds.
- Comment on In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand? 1 week ago:
r u going out 2nite?
Before t9, this could save time. After t9, it was needless and tired. In my circle, now, we call that kid-pidgin.
T9 was a mid-'90s thing. We are now closer to a 3c warming target than we are to pre-T9 texting.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 1 week ago:
That sounds like your kids responded in a way that every karate club against.
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 1 week ago:
Cars are not designed to inflict harm. This cheap false equivalence tells us a lot.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I get it. Anarchy looks so great sometimes. But I like roads and schools and hospitals and firemen; and we need to.elect someone who ensure those persist.
And then it’s down to choosing the least-worst bunch to do that. And that’s how it’s been for decades.
So, ask yourself: is changing out this regime and losing a bit of healthcare and a bit of infrastructure and a bit of other things that make life livable here, is that a reasonable exchange?
If you say yes, I respect you. If you say no, I respect you. But we can’t vote single-issue: we have a choice between leadership packages, and we need to evaluate them as a whole. The yanks lost their election by voting single-issue, and ended up allowing the worst choice ever to win.
So vote carefully.
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 2 weeks ago:
Such kneejerk.
WHAT DOES THE MATH SAY?
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 2 weeks ago:
Every time we move house, my office gets smaller. As we have a rule where the work room needs to be self-contained, my space to stash old NICs or HDDs that I need to shred is contracting.
- Comment on Glitter Bats!! 2 weeks ago:
Just find me the place where ‘u’ is still relevant, like they’re using pre-T9 1996 phones and are too lazy to press [9][9][9][6][6][6][8][8] to spell a real world, so I can give them all phones that won’t continue wrecking their wrists from the weight.
Nevermind. They’re a lost cause. Nuke it from orbit.
- Comment on C-c-changes 2 weeks ago:
Comma splice party.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Apparantly
Yep.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The US has extremely strict and aware water safety protocols. It would take just 1 whistleblower to [take down] this operation.
Had. HAD. The US has fired many/most of its inspectors.
75% of American drinking water requires treatment for one thing or another. One of those treatments is supplied by a single vendor out of a single plant in a flood-prone area. Apparently only recently did it receive federal staffing to improve security. This is only one of the many weak links in a supply chain with now absolutely zero oversight.
I wish I was kidding.
- Comment on What do you call your mom (Or moms what do your kids call you) 3 weeks ago:
I call myum “mum”.
Don’t shame people for calling their mothers “mommy” : it sounds so middle-school edgy.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 3 weeks ago:
gaul
gall
- Comment on Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data 3 weeks ago:
For now…
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 3 weeks ago:
Hey. Remember when the beagle spacecraft totally slammed into the Martian countryside because someone used imperial units? 2 year wait for some good times.
- Comment on Movies not starting when they are scheduled. 3 weeks ago:
If the balance is off, by which way? I.E if you’re seated too far to the left, will It be too loud in your left ear, or too quiet?
- Comment on Anon ups his fibre intake 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. I lived in America for 6 years; and when I left, it was primarily because of the tangible risk of getting in a minor car accident and being financially ruined.
Even so, I quickly forget about the undercurrent of fear and avoidance I had with doctors or clinics of any kind.
So we’d rather take abdominal pain so bad it keeps you from functioning, because the alternative could be an expensive nothing-burger.