CountVon
@CountVon@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Millennials Owe 500% More in Student Debt Than Their Parents Did 3 weeks ago:
I paid my student debt, these kids don’t deserve any handouts!
Boomers who paid tuition and living costs that were a manageable fraction of their part time student job that doesn’t even fucking exist anymore.
- Comment on Not even close 4 weeks ago:
No one knows what story she’s denying, or what images she’s claiming are fake. The most likely possibility is that someone is preparing to release a story on the links between her and Epstein. It’s standard practice in journalism to contact the subject of a piece, inform them of the contents of that piece, and request their comments. A request for comment on an upcoming story seems a likely trigger for this reaction. The entire speech strikes me as a thinly veiled threat, essentially saying “If you publish your story I will sue you for defamation.”
- Comment on I think I'll wait for the revised edition 4 weeks ago:
Seems like Betteridge’s Law applies to this book’s title.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 2 months ago:
It’s an initial proof-of-concept. It’ll be developed into more complex games eventually, that’s not really an issue for it
Except it is an issue, just one being masked by the mountains of cash these companies are burning to provide AI. To increase the depth and complexity and actually store state would require orders of magnitude more energy, compute, memory and storage. The AI bubble is causing very single one of those to become more expensive. At some point the market will call bullshit on these companies (“show us profit, or at least exponential revenue growth, or line go down”), at which point these companies will attempt to download the costs onto their users. When people see the bill and realize what these services actually cost, the whole thing is gonna collapse like a flan in a cupboard.
- Comment on A Trump Veto Leaves Republicans in Colorado Parched and Bewildered 3 months ago:
“I never thought the leopard would eat my face!”
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
This, and also maybe oil.
- Comment on Music aficionado 4 months ago:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=IwLSrNu1ppI
Or the 10 hour version, for true gnomecore madness: youtube.com/watch?v=iDNQYJUdxks
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Personhood for some, tiny American flags for others!
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 6 months ago:
The vast majority of this increase is from people playing on Steam Decks
I believe this is incorrect. The Steam survey break down GPUs by description and the Deck’s GPU appears in the results as “AMD Vangogh”, which only accounts for 0.39% of respondents. That implies that the vast majority of survey respondents using Linux are actually on PC, not the Deck.
- Comment on Poor guy 😭 9 months ago:
Apparently! I’d never heard of it either, and I’m pretty sure it’s primarily known for this meme now. Seems like a dumb name for a company, and it’s making for some pretty confusing headlines in this case. I wouldn’t be surprised if they change the company name in an attempt to remove the stain.
- Comment on Poor guy 😭 9 months ago:
In case you’re not just messin’ around: know your meme link
- Comment on Perspective 9 months ago:
People who are too cheap to refinish old stairs. Source: I bought a house that had carpet on the stairs, and when we pulled up the carpet we discovered a worn out eyesore that cost thousands to update. In our case the previous owners were a cash strapped family of two young kids with a third on the way, but the white paint and industrial grey carpet screams “landlord special” to me.
- Comment on Perspective 9 months ago:
I think that’s a heavy duty banister bracket, like this one:
white heavy duty banister bracket
Some banister brackets have a swivel type arrangement so that the bracket can be vertical underneath the handrail, no matter the angle of the handrail. Basic heavy duty brackets like this one are completely fixed in orientation, so they’re installed with the vertical support at an angle to support the handrail. I suspect the bracket in the photo is at a 45ish degree angle and only looks vertical due to the perspective. The banister has been deliberately cropped out of the photo to make the perspective as confusing as possible.
Personally I think the photo was taken from the top of the stairs looking down, based on the wear in the carpet.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 10 months ago:
I must have missed that negative sentiment entirely. I played all three and had no complaints. Did some searching, and apparently a lot of the gripes were related to levels being cut down in size / broken down into pieces to allow for a console release (strict memory requirements). Also I think they changed engines for the 3rd game, or at least a lot of people complain that movement and controls were worse in DS. I guess ignorance is bliss, cause I enjoyed them all.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 10 months ago:
Do you mean Thief: Deadly Shadows? That was the 3rd game in the series, and from what I understand it was pretty well received. The orphanage level alone is so highly regarded that it has its own Wikipedia page.
Now the 2014 reboot, just titled Thief, that was so poorly received the it basically killed the series. It might have been a decent game, but it was not a good Thief game.
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 year ago:
- Comment on Good morning I choose redneck air conditioner. 1 year ago:
Except the car’s HVAC system passes air through a filter. How much of a difference that makes is going to depend on the type of filter and whether it’s been changed sufficiently often, but it’s definitely doing more than nothing.
- Comment on Who can relate? 1 year ago:
Father David Michael? Never trust someone with two first names.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 1 year ago:
I don’t dislike that art style in general, but to my mind it seems like a poor fit for a Dragon Age game. I guess they’re pivotinf strongly away from the series dark and gritty roots, which is unfortunate because I think that was one of its strong points.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 1 year ago:
Watching Skill Up’s review now, and oof. That art style… that writing. Don’t know who they made this game for, but it’s definitely not me.
- Comment on After eating, when do you digest food the fastest, laying down, sitting or standing? 1 year ago:
No, the opposite actually! Any amount of exercise will help with GI motility, but intense exercise causes the digestive system to slow down (source).
- Comment on After eating, when do you digest food the fastest, laying down, sitting or standing? 1 year ago:
None of the above. The correct answer is walking. Moving around helps kickstart the GI tract.
- Comment on Why does my beard grow back faster after shaving? 1 year ago:
I don’t believe it actually does grow back faster, it just seems that way. The first inch or so gives the impression of growing back faster because the hairs are thicker at the base so they’re more visible and less prone to breakage.
- Comment on Is Ryze Mushroom Coffee Just Another Craze? 1 year ago:
Is there any benefit at all
Maybe! There’s at least some scientific evidence that chemical compounds in mushrooms can have medicinal effects.
Bias disclaimer: I put a lion’s mane mushroom tincture in my morning tea because it may have a neuroprotective effect (source). My father’s father had dementia, my father is currently in a home with profound dementia, the chances it’s going to happen to me are very high. It’ll be years before I know whether lion’s mane mushroom will do anything for me, but I’m willing to try anything as long as it’s affordable and has at least some plausible evidence behind it. This isn’t the only thing I’m doing of course, I’ve also overhauled my diet (MIND diet) and lost 30 pounds (obesity is correlated with dementia).
why can’t you make it your self by pulverizing dried mushrooms of the same variety they use into powder and making the coffee yourself?
You absolutely could. Or, you know, just eat some of the same mushrooms. The benefit to dried products like Ryze, or tinctures like the one I use, are that they’re more easily transportable and have a longer shelf life. I’ve cooked up fresh lion’s mane mushrooms several times, but not super often because they’re not in many stores in my area and tend to be pricey for the amount you get. I’ve also grown my own from a kit but that takes significant time and a little bit of daily attention to maintain optimal growing conditions. The tincture is convenient and relatively affordable as far as daily supplements go.
- Comment on I wonder what they smell like. 1 year ago:
They smell like plastic, metal, complex hydrocarbons, and death.
- Comment on Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather? 1 year ago:
MinuteCast from AccuWeather does exactly this. It looks at your location, looks at radar data for storm systems approaching your location, and estimates when precipitation will start at your location and how intense it will be. It’s generally pretty accurate, with some limitations. It seems to be pretty good for consistent rainstorms but it can get tripped up by pop-up thunderstorms, where the radar track can go suddenly from no rain to downpour. It doesn’t make predictions more then 2-3 hours out because past that timeframe it’s not easy to predict if weather will continue on its current track or change direction. Even with the limitations, I use it all the time. Mostly to tell if I should take the dogs out right away, or if I should wait an hour or two.
- Comment on Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan accused of being 'serial tax evaders' over online businesses including OnlyFans 1 year ago:
The money came from products they sold online as well as their OnlyFans sites
Why do these guys have OnlyFans revenue? I doubt they’re selling pics of themselves. Why would the models featured in those sites not cut out the Tate brothers and just deal with OnlyFans directly? The models provide the content, OnlyFans provides the platform… so what value do the Tate brothers provide? I have to imagine the answer to the first question is “threats” and the answer to the second is “nothing.” These guys are just digital pimps.
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 1 year ago:
I’m not sure it fits 100% with what you’re looking for, but I’ll take chance and recommend Slice & Dice (Google Play, Apple App Store). Free demo, no ads, single in-app purchase to unlock the full version. This game is easily the best value-for-dollar mobile game I’ve ever purchased.
- Comment on Ironing 1 year ago:
Oh for sure, those are a communal resource.
- Comment on Is there a standard/preferred list order for non-alphanumeric characters? 2 years ago:
There is a Unicode Technical Standard for this, called the Unicode Collation Algorithm. Whether everyone uses it, I can’t say. As it says on the linked page:
Conformance to the Unicode Standard does not imply conformance to any UTS.
So in other words it’s possible to conform to the Unicode Standard without adhering to the Unicode Collation Algorithm.
