Pyr_Pressure
@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One 7 hours ago:
How do they determine the beginning of a river? Should it be the furthest point of something? Why isn’t the Missouri River the “Mississippi” and the remaining portion of the Mississippi north of that junction the Missouri instead?
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 3 days ago:
They probably don’t care if you use a different service if you don’t log in to use theirs. If you don’t log in they can’t easily monetize you by tracking your data and building a portfolio. Otherwise you use their resources at a cost and they don’t make money.
So threatening to leave for other services isn’t exactly a threat.
- Comment on An impossible choice 5 days ago:
I would have to put it away in some locked account that only pays interest each year and doesn’t let me have any access for like 20 years. Otherwise it would be gone in 4 months.
- Comment on Karoline Leavitt. She says she wear a cross because she is a good christian. 1 week ago:
Does Trump only hire blonde women with cruxifex necklaces for this job?
- Comment on Languages 2 weeks ago:
French: Every living thing is born without meaning, but non-living things have a gender
- Comment on Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t mind it as long as they do something like italics and little music notes or either end
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 2 weeks ago:
I built my first PC 6 years ago, before PS5 was released.
My PC can still play new release AAA games at high quality graphics and probably will for a number of years still… when it starts to slack a couple hundred $ and it will be good as new.
Was pricey up front but in the end better quality, more choice, and longer lasting.
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 2 weeks ago:
In the area I live in there’s a lot of places 55+ so it limits the amount of housing in the city available to working class people and those trying to raise families, increasing their housing prices. The community has a lot of old folks.
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 2 weeks ago:
The 55+ areas where I live are generally little rancher communities or apartments, some are low income type apartments but many are also luxury type apartments.
I could understand if the apartments or ranchers were built with accessibility in mind like shower bars and taller toilets, etc.
But mostly it’s just because they don’t like screaming children playing in the neighbourhood.
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 2 weeks ago:
Where I live they also have housing exclusive to 55+ so it’s much cheaper since there’s a smaller market for them.
Ruins the housing economy and then holds some that’s only available for themselves for cheap while they downsize for a massive nestegg.
- Comment on Anon accepts a prestigious job 3 weeks ago:
You do realize monkeys would be qualified to be rocket scientists as long as they could do math right?
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 3 weeks ago:
I hate it. I hate how there’s no colour in the world any more. Houses are black and white, cars and black and white, clothes are black and white.
Why do people hate colour?
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 4 weeks ago:
Upper management isn’t only about the work.
Yeah you can do the work, but also probably the person in the office can also do the work.
If the person in the office is the one interacting with the upper management more and the work is being done equally well between them and some unknown person that works remotely why would they hire the person you do not know?
The management position / next level probably entails more people skills and dealing with people so someone you have hardly ever spoken to might not have those skills but the person in the office they know can at least deal with people well.
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 5 weeks ago:
That is literally the entire point of shares. You buy a percentage of the company and give them money so they can use that money to expand and develop.
Why would I give a company money if I don’t get a percentage of that company? It’s not a fuckin donation.
- Comment on Worm logic 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s technically true lol
If your parents were infertile than you wouldn’t exist so you wouldn’t have kids either.
Nothing in that sentence implies that you not being able to have kids means your parents couldn’t have kids.
- Comment on Georgia homeowners are being forced from their homes to help power AI data centers: "It's theft" 5 weeks ago:
Honestly if AI data centres are the reason your electric grid gets upgraded it’s probably worth it. AI bubble will pop and data centres will get closed down but your grid will still be upgraded.
- Comment on 62 Percent Of Countries Won't Have Access To The PlayStation Store On Digital-Exclusive PS6 5 weeks ago:
I was going to skip 5 and get a 6 when it finally came out but I guess 4 will be my last playstation
- Comment on Heh heh 5 weeks ago:
If it’s something like bacon grease you can just wait for it to conceal and then scooped it into trash and wipe with a paper towel.
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 5 weeks ago:
Even if this were actually going to happen, what is he doing? Renting out the US Navy for profit?
Sure maybe a few servicemen may die but at least America will get some money!
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 5 weeks ago:
I recently tried to plan a night out in “the city” and was looking for a hotel since I would like to have a few drinks. I can’t believe how stupid prices are.
A shitty motel is like $400 a night, so you would have to hire a cab already to drive you to a cheaper hotel like 15-20 minutes away.
Nicer hotels are going like $600-$800 a night.
How on earth does anyone afford a vacation for prices like that?
- Comment on They have already decided to promote an existing employee. But play the "search" game and screw you 5 weeks ago:
No all three accepted offer, signed employment letter, went through a certification test that’s required for the work and cost the company $100. Then 2-3 weeks before the start date they say they got a better job.
We hire early to make sure certification can get done, which is why there’s a lag before start date. It’s an outdoor seasonal summer job usually university students.
- Comment on They have already decided to promote an existing employee. But play the "search" game and screw you 5 weeks ago:
Not sure about this situation but I know my company interviews for jobs in order to get redundancy picks. Interviewed someone for a position that had already been hired for, then three weeks before they job was supposed to start the guy phoned and said he wasn’t going to continue with the company for the position. The person that was interviewed late got a call back and hired.
We hire for a short term seasonal job and people screw us over all the time by accepting the job and then continuing to look for a better one and bailing at the last minute, so we have to interview a lot of people as backup options. Had three people bail last minute this year, one of which we didn’t have enough time to re-hire for and had no backups so now we have to try and cover it on top of our normal duties which is a big strain.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
I never got a PlayStation but I was holding out for a PlayStation 6 once it finally got released. If there is no version for physical discs I will definitely not be getting one. Nothing worse then wanting to play a game you haven’t played in a while and then having to redownload it because you had to delete it to free up space for other games.
So much nicer just to be able to throw a disc in and go.
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
You can keep cash in a credit card slot in the phone case. Maybe not coins but I usually keep a 5, 10 and 20 on me for emergencies. Sucks to need to buy something and your phone is dead or fell in water.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 1 month ago:
I think it would be great for a lot of our transportation to be underground. Underground roadways if needed, otherwise a much expanded subway system in cities
Road cause so many issues it’s ridiculous. Have all the roadways and motor vehicles underground and only pedestrian/bikes up top with green spaces and public areas.
- Comment on The President of the United States gave a speech today 1 month ago:
Those are some very clean, new looking vests in the background… as if they have never been used by a real worker.
- Comment on Boomers scolding us about how they were able to buy a house working at a gas station... 1 month ago:
Because he gets a steady supply of money and then in 10-20 years it will be worth 100 years of your rent on top of the 10-20 they collected already.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 month ago:
Probably over 10k CAD. Not sure how old the account Is but it’s quite old.
- Comment on Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate 1 month ago:
Good luck
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 1 month ago:
I don’t even know why they charge such high prices.
I don’t work in academia but I am curious about thing and look up papers all the time.
I have never bought a single one at those ridiculous prices. But if they were reasonable like $1-$3 or something I probably would have an di imagine a lot of people would have.
You make more if 100 people buy a $1 item than 3 people buying a $30 item and the world benefits more.