boonhet
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- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 17 hours ago:
It’s a class war, but many boomers are scabs.
Remember when there was a worker shortage and retired boomers went and volunteered at chain restaurants so they wouldn’t have to raise wages to attract workers? Remember all the “millennials are so entitled, they want to be PAID FOR WORK” style posts by boomers, back when some non-boomers still used Facebook so we had access to their posts?
It’s not their fault they’ve been brainwashed by right-wing propaganda, but they for sure are fighting against anything resembling economic justice.
And obviously much like any generation, you can’t make sweeping statements about them. There are right-wing nutters in their 20s and even their teens out there right now and there are obviously boomers who aren’t selfish assholes.
- Comment on this is canon penis lore 3 days ago:
Yeah tf is that “as long as” clause doing there? If I worked at, say, the FBI, I’d be paying that instance admin a visit.
- Comment on this is canon penis lore 3 days ago:
Also make sure to keep in shape by running with scissors. Keeps both you and your peephole slim.
- Comment on Male vs female birds 4 days ago:
Is it still ILS if I’m just overweight so my actual lats get in the way of pressing my arms at my sides?
- Comment on The Two Genders 5 days ago:
Even better, don’t focus on the majority OR the minority. Wait till the game’s out before you make a decision. Don’t preorder shit.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 6 days ago:
That’s one yeah
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 6 days ago:
There’s about 5 games a decade that are exciting anymore even, unfortunately. I might just have to give up gaming then.
- Comment on This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason 1 week ago:
At least 14, maybe 15 - because it was 1 just a bit over 13 years ago (I’m sure if the baby was nearly 2, it would’ve been labeled as such)
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 week ago:
Exactly.
It’s like promoting Linux to people: Why would I care that my operating system is open source? Or free for that matter if I pirate it anyway?
Some people never will care.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 week ago:
This doesn’t work. It will never work. You can’t shame conscious consumers into voting with their wallets while the other 99% keeps buying the bad practices.
Thing is, if nobody on Lemmy, and literally nobody in general who cares about anticheat, buys GTA 6, you know what effect that would have on the company’s bottom line? None, they’ll make record profits.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 week ago:
Yeah I don’t even want to talk about that at this point…
Anyone who wants “their IP” can find a way to do it regardless of any kernel level anticheat anyway.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 week ago:
Yes, that’s part of the StopKillingGames agenda as well. Allow us to control our own servers! For fuck’s sake, it’s CHEAPER for them, because WE’RE paying for hosting. A dedicated server costs money! And it keeps people buying into the ecosystem after the initial sales high because you form communities and then tell people IRL how awesome the game is. Assuming you have time for real life friends of course.
I’m not against the existence of a matchmaking system, or even against it being the default. Just give us a tiny menu item “Dedicated Servers” somewhere and keep that one around forever, even when the publisher is long bankrupt because the CEO blew all their profit on sculptures of oddly shaped penises or something.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 week ago:
Maybe you’re not coming across them regularly but they’re well known outside the corporate world - not to the extent of Microsoft but it’s not the last time they’ll be in the spotlight.
Indeed, not regularly. I only had the pleasure of hearing about them when I had a job that mandated it. They are explicitly targeted at business users.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 week ago:
It should be said that I’m not against games detecting cheaters and banning them from online play. It’s very specifically kernel-level anticheats that I can’t stand on principle.
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- Comment on Me at 13 asking if I can have Christmas dinner at the adults' table [Day 15] 1 week ago:
They can, however, be made at orgies.
- Comment on He was pretty awful too, you know. 1 week ago:
This is what I don’t get tbh. Japanese cars were supposed to be economical and environmentally friendlier. Yet when a heavier German car has more power, it still uses less fuel because the Japanese don’t know how to make a diesel engine that doesn’t suck and gasoline engines just plain suck unless we’re talking about a performance engine that’s meant to be enjoyed.
They figured things out with hybrids long ago, but few models got plug-in hybrid variants until like 5-6 years ago which was way too late. And the local Toyota dealer still proudly advertises that they sell hybrids that don’t need to be plugged in. Why? A German car with 3 years of depreciation is going to get me more power, luxury, interior space and better fuel economy for LESS MONEY. Sure it’s a 3 year old German car but I can pay a mechanic if needed and I’m not afraid to do timing chains or anything valvetrain related if it really comes down to that.
My Subaru does 35 mpg highway. I got it because I needed a cheap reliable car for a while and I do like the increased ride height. But my older BMW did 47 or better and my slightly newer MB could do 60 on a long run. Both had more power.
In fact the only car I’ve ever owned that drank more fuel than the Subie was a V8 first gen Porsche Cayenne. But that was an honest to god truck. It had diff locks and a two speed transfer case. The transfer case along weighed about as much as the Subaru’s entire powertrain. I just wish I’d held out for the facelift turbo that popped up for sale 2 weeks later… I’d still have the car probably. I had a 90s American full size car with a V6 and plenty of both torque and power. Still took less fuel than the Subaru.
At this point I’ve realized I could buy an Audi Q7 V12 TDi and have better fuel economy. Yes, with 3 times the cylinders as my Outback.
The worst part is, I actually really like the Outback. I want to keep it. But I’ll have to install an LPG kit that costs half the car’s value and thats an extra service in addition to the car already needing an oil change every 2 months. And I’ll probably do it because the Outback has a unique balance between the drivability of a car and the offroadability of a semi ok SUV. It has decent clearance, more than a RAV4 because mine is the USDM model. Not as much as a Land Cruiser but then a Land Cruiser is a big yacht with a tiny engine here in Europe.
- Comment on Admin team update 1 week ago:
It’s a sad day, but (mental) health comes first.
If I ever see you in the street, I’ll buy you a beer or 2. If I still recognize your face from your avatar by then :)
- Comment on The European mind can't comprehend 1 week ago:
That’s a common misconception. The US actually invests a metric fuckton of money into the healthcare system. It’s just that they have the most inefficient possible healthcare system, so providing just medicare, medicaid and VA benefits, which don’t come close to covering everyone, costs more (in %of GDP, not just absolute numbers) than for most countries the cost of subsidizing healthcare for everyone.
Hell, even conservatives might be happier under a socialized healthcare system. There could even be LESS government spending and people would be getting subsidized healthcare.
- Comment on Congratulations. 1 week ago:
War Thunder is a sim game. In the forums, for some reason, classified documents are often leaked (I think to settle arguments over whether X plane/tank/weapon behaves correctly in scenario Y). The Eurofighter Typhoon is a fighter jet built in cooperation between multiple European countries.
- Comment on As a human, here is my human take on unions 1 week ago:
If it operates like an agency, it’s already at a disadvantage because the real profit is being made by someone else anyway. Otherwise it’s a neat idea.
You don’t hire an agency to break even, you hire an agency to work on projects you assume will bring you profit. In my industry in particular, you might hire some agency employees, spend a few hundred thousand a year, to help finish a product that will rake in tens of millions a year, or to create some internal tooling that saves you millions in employee productivity.
- Comment on Anon meets a girl at a wedding 1 week ago:
Yes
- Comment on steal his look 2 weeks ago:
They’re fairly effective if your crime is witnessing someone jump over a metro turnstile I hear
- Comment on steal his look 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, because I thought people were saying random shit that’s mostly not true at all
- Comment on steal his look 2 weeks ago:
Nah it was a Peloton
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
Internal combustion engine based generators aren’t fancy steam engines either - however, they have a lot in common still. It’s still just a way to move around a shaft.
- Comment on How embarrassing 2 weeks ago:
Hopefully at least this will cause some positive change to happen.
Maybe if at least 10 more were to be assassinated, in very rapid succession so they don’t have time to catch on to the plot. And throw in some anti-healthcare politicians too.
I doubt that will ever happen. Tbh, I’m an observer anyway. But one who thinks the country has potential to be so much better, given all the things it’s already great at.
- Comment on How embarrassing 2 weeks ago:
What a chad move tbh
- Comment on A tense moment. 2 weeks ago:
I ha the the fact that the first half of it sounded exactly like me
However, as soon as it got to the hallmark symptom, I felt pretty lucky. I don’t have any sort of post-exertional crash or anything. I’ll be a bit tired but feel good
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 2 weeks ago:
English started becoming the lingua franca before American cultural dominance even. It happened because of British naval superiority and dominance over trade