Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 1 week ago:
Nah it’s the new email marketing meta. So many emojis and ASCII symbols. It’s the new play to try to stand out from all of the existing ad industry noise in people’s email inboxes
- Comment on Mr Incognito 2 weeks ago:
Is there any way to prove that some service like that is actually trustworthy?
This is the right question to ask and the ultimate reason why I don’t use a commercial VPN service. Ultimately a commercial VPN is just moving the trust from the Internet service provider to the VPN provider (or in Tor’s case to the exit node provider)
Personally I just block all ads across everything, select more privacy friendly software, avoid known privacy invading services where feasible and otherwise generally just enjoy not knowing the scope of adtracking because I never see the ads anyways!
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
It gets wonky with a non-cash windfall though. A couple of years ago my wife and I won game tickets valued around $3k which of course you have to pay income tax on which was ultimately around a thousand dollars (I don’t remember exactly, but it was something like 30-50% of the winnings) for just those tickets, which of course since they’re game tickets you then spend more money going to the game. Ultimately we could afford it and enjoyed the experience but I do not want to imagine how that goes for folks who win for example a $40k car and don’t take the cash equivalent option
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
That video of the truck driving over the Ferrari in a parking lot that recently went viral occured because the truck driver literally could not see the vehicle and did not realize there was a problem until their vehicle could not longer move. At least that’s what the truck driver said, but it’s somewhat believable given the sheer height difference between the notably lifted truck and the notably low to the ground Ferrari
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
It is completely unfeasible for cops to try to do anything to curtail that on an individual basis
It’s actually very easy to do and some municipalities actually invest the traffic enforcement time in doing so. The police simply need to ramp up enforcement. Bring a half dozen squad cars and pull over anyone going over the posted speed during rush hour and repeat this a few times and the visibility of multiple cars being pulled over at a time slows traffic down pretty immediately
I just play zebra and enjoy blending into all the other people going 15 over.
If you’re going 15 over then you’re going 15 over. Doesn’t matter if others are doing the same thing, you’ve joined into the unsafe, financially irresponsible and illegal behavior
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
The speed limit in most states isn’t a hard limit
The speed limit is the maximum speed allowed by law. Doesn’t matter if you’re passing, delivering a baby or have gone over that speed a million times and never been pulled over, if you exceed the posted speed limit you are breaking the law. It’s one of the few extremely cut and dry traffic laws
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
Not an excuse for following at an unsafe distance
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
They never said anything indicating anything about what lane they’re driving in. How do you know they’re on roads that even have a left lane to camp in?
- Comment on New Polycule Just Dropped 2 weeks ago:
Nah this is just ageism. Now, I do think there might be a conversation to be had about once medical power of attorney goes into effect if the individual should no longer be permitted to vote, but there’s no set age where everybody lacks the mental faculties to vote.
I’ve had relatives knocking on deaths door by age 60, and I have a 100 year old relative who drives the Amish around as his retirement gig
- Comment on Anon is standmaxxing 2 weeks ago:
I’m on the side of the line that was too old to get super into pokemon/SpongeBob/Harry Potter
Please explain that to my genX parents who need to read some new books and watch some new shows…
- Comment on Anon is standmaxxing 2 weeks ago:
I saw some graffiti that simply read “DEATHMAXXING?” and I still think about that pretty regularly
- Comment on Is there any free game like net hack ? 2 weeks ago:
By memory pixel dungeon is also distributed through Steam
- Comment on heater 3 weeks ago:
I thought that was how Lichs were created tho?
- Comment on Self sacrifice is honorable 3 weeks ago:
Posting pragmatic advice of “don’t burn bridges” on a post advocating for committing career-ending crimes against your former employer is somehow anti-union? Da fuq?
- Comment on that's some fucking aerodynamics bro 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on that's some fucking aerodynamics bro 3 weeks ago:
They might not have been able to do that because of the aircon vent on top, or potentially if they’re concerned about height restrictions
- Comment on Self sacrifice is honorable 3 weeks ago:
I got laid off almost 2 years ago. I now work for the same company again working fewer hours at much higher pay. Layoffs aren’t necessarily the end, and they can very much be the start of renegotiating your position
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 weeks ago:
Jesus Christ that’s not okay!
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- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 weeks ago:
My wife’s going through the same thing right now. Lemme tell you, having your partner literally cry in pain from penetration and lose literally all libido because of the consistent pain ain’t worth the slightly tighter experience
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 weeks ago:
They forgot the bang before their porn sub!
- Comment on Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse time in the games industry' 4 weeks ago:
The crisis is that the triple-A industry is starting to feel consumers loss of interest in them as indie devs continue to outshine them with every release
- Comment on Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI 4 weeks ago:
The Internet is and has always been a lie spreading machine. Both on and off social media.
Your analogy of peeing in the pool is entirely off base. If these were false scientific papers posted to real established scientific journals that would certainly be unacceptable behavior but that’s not what is being discussed here
- Comment on Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI 4 weeks ago:
It’s more a case of when you go to the piss spraying machine you can get mad if you get a little piss on you. Everyone seems to have forgotten that the internet is where people go to tell lies for fun
- Comment on Ever create an account just to leave a negative review? 4 weeks ago:
I worked for a phone manufacturer for a while and got to see firsthand the wild BS that happens with carriers. Primarily how the carrier-branded SKUs consistently provided a much sloppier experience than unlocked. Verizon was pretty bad about it, but Boost Mobile was the absolute worst, loading apps so sketchy that every once in a while Android’s own malicious app removal mechanisms would remove them. One time they preloaded an app that actually caused certain system functionality to not work correctly and we had to start advising people to disable that particular app.
I laughed so hard when the Sprint/T-Mobile merger happened and Boost was propped up to supposedly become national carrier. Looks like they were allowed to fail at that and sell off their radio spectrum and are back to being a MVNO
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
George Carlin was voicing Mr Conductor in the American dubs in the 1990s, so a solid 20 years after the retraction
- Comment on Ever create an account just to leave a negative review? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah this is generally a carrier thing and why people should be buying manufacturer unlocked phones and not directly from the carriers
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
Micron only killed their consumer memory division, they’re still making memory for b2b customers, so they can still affect and be affected by market forces when it comes to memory pricing
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
Might I suggest model railroading? Plenty of expenses to sink money into plus you can make almost everything yourself or buy used stuff from the 80s to save money if you wish too. It can be very time consuming if you want it to be too!
Also you mentioned reading and hiking, both are brilliant hobbies. I fell in love with biking by accident and just rode 7 miles today! Only problem is if you go hard enough into biking you’ll sleep too hard to read before bed!
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got a specific savings account for computer upgrades so I can choose to upgrade whenever it gets enough money collected into it. Only problem is, I don’t want to upgrade that often!
- Comment on It's about the *option* 4 weeks ago:
How dare someone manage to claw themselves into the middle class! For shame!
Seriously dude take a chill pill