bob_wiley
@bob_wiley@lemmy.world
- Comment on Redditor when women 1 year ago:
I wasn’t aware you wanted a list of everyone woman I’ve ever met. I’m not going to provide that, as it’s insane. That’s why I simply mentioned just the most recent. I also didn’t say anything about the entire female population in the world, that’s a bunch of spin you made up in your head. Stop being so sensitive and trying to make things out to be worse than they are. I don’t know you, nor was I thinking about you when I made the post; you don’t need to take it personally.
- Comment on Redditor when women 1 year ago:
I have. The most recent woman I saw was my sister, who does literally all the things I mentioned, and has probably never been on reddit. She might not even know what it is.
- Comment on Redditor when women 1 year ago:
It’s not that people don’t think women have the capability. There is just a general assumption that they’re smart enough not to waste their time with it and they have better things to do, like actual hobbies and friends/family to see.
When I have time to kill I dick around online and usually ignore anything else I could do. Every woman I know is making scrapbooks, knitting her own hats and some more for others, taking care of some kids, building and maintaining relationships with people in the real world, cooking amazing food just because they want it, getting involved in the community, working some extra side jobs, and generally doing stuff to make their world and the world around them better.
Why do you assume the assumption that everyone is a guy online is somehow the result of a negative view on women?
- Comment on Maybe AI won't be taking all of our jobs after all? 1 year ago:
Cooked using monster extract.
- Comment on Why would the immune deficiency foundation do this? 1 year ago:
Only in the rare occurrence of a draft, not a normal way of being. The last time was 50 years ago.
- Comment on Milk 1 year ago:
Someone ordering oat milk is surprised by the number of milk options?
- Comment on Bye biiiittttchhhh 1 year ago:
It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out. They do have some interesting utility. They can be used of power tools directly off the battery. The front trunk can allow for tool storage when the bed is full of whatever. They can be hooked up to your home to provide power during a grid outage. These are all pretty cool, but there will still be a lot of anxiety around running out of power, and the things you mention.
- Comment on The truth about Canada 1 year ago:
- Comment on Master baiter 1 year ago:
Yeah, this stuff isn’t really slang though. They’re replacing the slang with ever more technical replacements in an effort to make something non-offensive, when the idea behind the words is inherently offensive. Then shame is used to drive adoption. Slang I get, this other stuff… it’s just annoying.
- Comment on Master baiter 1 year ago:
I don’t see a point of constantly shifting the words. It’s the meaning that matters. I’ve heard people use “mentally challenged” the same way people used idiot and retard. Now if I look up “mentally challenged” it’s directing me to “Intellectual disability”, which still means in the same thing, so it’s only a matter of time before people start using that and the words have to change again. It all seems so pointless. No one likes being called an idiot, but it’s there will always be a word to cover that meaning. We might as well just use the words we had.
- Comment on Master baiter 1 year ago:
Everyone thinks it’s the other person that needs to change their mind when presented with the new information. Both sides feel like they are right and the other side is stupid for not understanding.
- Comment on Bye biiiittttchhhh 1 year ago:
To be fair, the F150 has been the best selling vehicle in America for something like 40 years. If the Lightning can hold on to that market, that will be a lot of vehicles, even if all it does is that one.
That being said, I’d rather we invest in better infrastructure and transit that reduces the dependance on cars. I don’t know exactly how many jobs that would create vs the auto industry. But across infrastructure, bikes, trains, potentially getting people back into retail shops and out of online everything… It’d image it would be a lot of jobs.
- Comment on Bye biiiittttchhhh 1 year ago:
Ford has plans to build a battery plant in the US which will bring about 2,500 jobs with it. Not doing anything and letting the rest of the world make an deliver the cars to the US would be much worse for the economy than doing nothing at all.
- Comment on Immune to marketing 1 year ago:
I hate them passionately, and will often note the brand in the advert so I can avoid it.
I’ve been getting a letter from State Farm Insurance every week (sometimes multiple per week… sometimes multiple per day) for over almost 20 years. I’ve moved 15 times and they still follow me. All this has done is guarantee I will never sign up for their shitty insurance. I’ve been thinking about calling them just to try and get the letters to stop. I had to do this with XM… it worked, until I got a new car and another free 3 months. Now I guess I need to call and yell at them again.
- Comment on Immune to marketing 1 year ago:
I don’t know if I’m on the spectrum or not, but I always focus on the details (if not ignoring the ads completely), because my first question is always, “how are they trying to fuck me this time?” The more obvious the emotional appeals and other tricks, the more I think they’re trying to screw people. If they are too over the top I write them off completely without even looking any further into it. If if they have to use that much manipulation, the product probably sucks.
I had a lot of math problems in school that were all about ignoring all the superfluous information to pick out what was needed to answer the actual question. I’m sure stuff like that helped too.
- Comment on Some people crave the flat 1 year ago:
That guy’s story made no sense. He wanted a hotdog with a flat side, so he made a giant hotdog that’s still cylindrical to cut off chucks from?
I feel like there are infinitely better solutions to his, hotdogs rolling off the grill, problem. A couple of skewers, for example.
- Comment on Interstate 60 - 2002 1 year ago:
Box office $8,449… ouch
That being said, I’ll probably watch it. I tend to like stuff like that.
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 1 year ago:
Other than gasoline and expensive fish, we don’t really pay true market price for anything. That would be chaos and I’m not sure why any consumer would want prices to fluctuate that often.
If anything they will use corrections to drive the price up, not down. The only way prices would come down is pressure from competition, without that a reduction in business costs would just mean more margin for the owner.
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 1 year ago:
I’ve seen places with generic QR codes, and at best most would just have a logo in the middle the sticker could easily go around, if that particular target would lead to a big enough pay off. I don’t know what the ROI would be. I don’t know how these hackers make money, but they seem to make enough to make it worth their time.
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 1 year ago:
No one working at the restaurant is analyzing the pixels in a QR code to see if they are in the right spot. A QR looks like a QR code. Show someone 10 QR codes and ask them to pick the one from their restaurant, no way anyone is getting that right based on anything more than dumb luck.
The fake one could even forward on to the normal menu after it does the nasty bits, assuming it’s just installing something that will run in the background. This seems like a great way to get some malware out into the wild, especially if it can’t self-replicate.
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 1 year ago:
Alternatively, they could stop manipulating their prices so much.
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 1 year ago:
If I was forced to stay in a place that said that by family, I’d start getting really petty judging all the things they’re doing which have a bigger environmental impact than some menus.
Like how about the data center running the website to host the menu? Are they using paper napkins? Is anything disposable on the plate I get with my food? How does the bill arrive, is it paper? Is there food waste in the kitchen, what happens to it?
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 1 year ago:
QR codes as menus are a security risk. A bad actor could make up some stickers and put them on the table in place of the menu QR code. The code could then take the user to a malicious site, that they think they should be able to trust.
- Comment on 2 Fiscally Responsible 2 Be Furious 1 year ago:
Everyone on this bus is my family.
- Comment on incredible 1 year ago:
How has no one brought up A Kid in King Arthur’s Court. Am I the only one old enough to remember this?
- Comment on incredible 1 year ago:
A person would have to be able to do enough to get the right person’s attention. Otherwise, they’d be indistinguishable from the town drunk.
- Comment on 😰😰😰 1 year ago:
That makes sense. Seems like it’s Latin, cum has many meanings in Latin, but one of them is “along with”.
- Comment on 😰😰😰 1 year ago:
Any idea what it’s supposed to mean? I feel like I know what I’m going to get if a Google “Indian cum”.
- Comment on Fun fact: With the help of a printer, you can put a picture on paper 1 year ago:
Now take that and stick it in this to decode it.
- Comment on What is wrong with some of you? 1 year ago:
Thanks!
