Rivalarrival
@Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 2 days ago:
Best Buy is great.
Never thought I would ever read that. They were famous for their pushy staff. I absolutely hated going there. The last time I was in a Best Buy, Amazon was still a bookstore. I had a cart with $2000 worth of products that I couldn’t buy at Staples, Office Max, or Target. The cashier pissed me off so badly with their persistant warranty upsell that I left everything at the register and walked out.
- Comment on Why do airports place a cap on 10,000 USD for undeclared cash? 4 days ago:
While I can’t really advise going to the USA right now, it’s not like they will confiscate cash above $10,000.
travelhost.com/…/class-action-lawsuit-to-stop-tsa…
en.wikipedia.org/…/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United…
In the US, you should never have more cash on your person than you can afford to lose.
- Comment on Can a company stop operating in a country to avoid paying a lawsuit? 1 week ago:
Theoretically, yes. It happens all the time. X/Twitter did something like this with Brazil a couple years ago.
The two governments would negotiate the grievance. They could also go after other related businesses: When Xitter pulled out of Brazil, Brazil assessed Xitter’s fines against Starlink.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The meme isn’t about committing genocide with nuclear weapons. The meme is about having made a ridiculous and obscene ultimatum. It’s about his intimidation tactics. He tries to bluff his way through negotiations with outlandish threats, and looks like an idiot when anyone calls his bluffs.
- Comment on I think my sister asked this. But why can't we have a pirate community? Like not teaching how to pirate but just articles on streaming is raising prices, stuff from torrentfreak.com and other things? 2 weeks ago:
Again, federation. You aren’t leaving this instance just because you interact with another instance. You aren’t leaving your friends behind. With federation, they already have access to your new community.
The idea of begging an instance admin to change their position is the antithesis of federation. Join or start a community on an instance where that community is welcomed, appreciated, and supported. If that isn’t here, find another one. If you can’t find one, go start your very own instance just to host your comm.
Lemmy != Reddit. Don’t bring that Reddit mindset here.
- Comment on I think my sister asked this. But why can't we have a pirate community? Like not teaching how to pirate but just articles on streaming is raising prices, stuff from torrentfreak.com and other things? 2 weeks ago:
If this instance isn’t friendly to the community you want, why don’t you just start that community on another instance? This is exactly what federation is for.
- Comment on I have a plan 2 weeks ago:
Just make sure you get that gaudy nightmare currently in progress on the east lawn.
- Comment on Why did USAF pilot survival kits have nylons? 2 weeks ago:
They can help prevent chafing and blisters. They’re a good base layer under thermal underwear. They can keep some insects, leeches, and other parasites from biting.
US Soldiers in Iraq commonly requested family members send pantyhose in care packages.
- Comment on Does having a child with someone give you any legal right to their property? 3 weeks ago:
(Caveat: IANAL)
The specific property, no, probably not.
However, a child is owed “support” from both parents, normally in the form of direct care. Where one parent is not providing direct care, they can be ordered to provide financial support to the parent who is providing direct care.
If Alex and Maya have come to an agreement where Alex will provide that mansion in lieu if direct support or financial support, Maya has a claim to the property. If Alex is subject to a support order that includes providing the mansion to Maya, Maya has a claim. Barring a scenario including the house as support, Alex will owe money to caregiver Maya (or Maya will owe money to caregiver Alex) but will not owe the house itself.
- Comment on My friend is 31 and is constantly breaking out in acne. She also gets very irritated/argumentative before her period. Is this normal for her age? 3 weeks ago:
Have her talk to a doctor about Demodex Mites.
- Comment on Reform Welsh election candidate pictured performing Nazi salute 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 4 weeks ago:
At that time, a cross would have carried about the same meaning as a noose.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 5 weeks ago:
Yes. And I am being serious.
When JD Vance has a Congress that will back him (which he will have in 10 months), he, and a majority of the Cabinet, can invoke Section 4 of the 25th amendment. He can declare the President incapable of performing his duties, and step up to the plate. Congress then has the opportunity to decide whether to support his coup, or reinstate Trump to the presidency.
To be successful, he will have to immediately blame Trump for attempting to block the midterm elections, and appoint a special prosecutor to look into the full scope of Trump’s numerous, unadjudicated crimes.
For (most) of the next 10 months, JD Vance will have to continue to appear to support Trump’s presidency, and Trump will have to continue his own Trumpiness.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 5 weeks ago:
But once we get approval to for thermonuclear detonations in the middle east, we can modify the plan. We don’t need to dig a new canal if we just blow up any Iranian sites capable of attacking ships in the strait.
- Comment on Glorious cracked out wall kitten returns with more wisdom for the masses. 5 weeks ago:
Backing out of a parking space, you must yield to traffic within the lane of traffic However, you are on the wrong end of the vehicle to properly observe traffic within the lane. With restricted vision and attention focused on the maneuver, you are also burdened with deconflicting traffic that has the right-of-way over you.
Backing in, you begin the maneuver from a lane in which you are already established. You have the right-of-way over that lane until you have completely departed that lane. While you are distracted and focused on the backing maneuver, conflicting traffic is legally obligated to avoid you.
“Backing in” exploits “right-of-way” to improve safety for both you and your fellow travelers.
- Comment on My glasses 1 month ago:
That’s an occultist.
An opthalmologist is an appointed official who investigates complaints by taxpayers against government departments.
- Comment on don't let your memes stay dreams 1 month ago:
The masses don’t spontaneously self-organize for the purpose of giving one person all their power. That requires external coordination by the entity receiving that power.
Without that entity driving them, the masses don’t yield their power. That entity is ultimately responsible for what it has convinced the masses to do.
- Comment on don't let your memes stay dreams 1 month ago:
Without the powerful people in question, the apathy of the masses wouldn’t be a problem.
- Comment on After the 6th payment the burrito is mine 💀💀💀 1 month ago:
A closer analogy is Copyright Registration. You submit a work to the copyright office, claiming to be the original artist. If there is ever a dispute, the submission serves as evidence as to the date and time you claimed the work. If it predates the claims of another, and they can’t prove you transferred the work to them, you win the case.
- Comment on Ouch 1 month ago:
He ate his paint chips with salsa.
- Comment on Is it a good idea to use an Android phone as an external SSD for backing up my home folder? 2 months ago:
There’s usually a lot of private data in the home folder. I feel compromise or loss of my phone is a greater risk than loss of my home folder. I’d use an SD card before I’d use a phone.
- Comment on Important Announcement 2 months ago:
Except for your first sentence, I would agree with you. Don’t hurt people directly though. Starting a war helps no one.
You seem to be assuming I meant some sort of unlawful harm. My phrasing was quite deliberate: I advocated no specific actions whatsoever. You brought “hurt people” and “starting a war” into this conversation; not I.
The choice of what actions to take is left to you; I am not involving myself in that decision. My advocacy is strictly limited to the choice of targets: Do not take direct action against ICE agents. They are merely a distraction from the problem class. Redirect any action you might choose to take against ICE to the people getting rich while the rest of us starve.
I will raise one point:
The point of protesting is to shame leaders into change.
Our leaders are shameless. There is no point in trying to shame the shameless. The purpose of protesting must be something else. Otherwise, protesting is pointless.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If Vance initiates 25th amendment proceedings before January 20th, 2027, he sacrifices the possibility of a second term.
- Comment on Important Announcement 2 months ago:
Whatever you want to do to an ICE agent, do instead to the people living in the biggest house you can find.
- Comment on Lost at sea 2 months ago:
Not a protractor. Dividers. But the fact that you don’t know that is consistent with your comment.
- Comment on If I hear "% is a mathematical operator" one more time... 2 months ago:
Modulo is much easier to understand with clocks.
Suppose It is currently midnight. What time will it be in 3 hours? 3 mod 24 = 3. It will be 03:00
What time will it be in 27 hours? 27 mod 24 = 3. It will be 03:00 we go through a whole day (24 hours) to get back to midnight, then another 3 hours.
What time will it be 48 hours from now? 48 mod 24 = 0. 48 hours from midnight will be midnight.
What time will it be 6 hours from now? 6 mod 24 = 6.
Conceptually, X mod Y means that instead of 24 hours per day, we are splitting the day into Y “hours”, labeled 0 to Y-1. We start at 0, and pass through X “hours”. X mod Y is the “hour” we finish up in at the end. 5 mod 2 means we have a 2-hour day, with hours 0 and 1. We pass through 5 of those hours. When we finish, are we at hour 0 or hour 1?
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 2 months ago:
Sure. Once every billionaire has been taxed out of existence, and if we still don’t have enough money, we can start talking about increasing the retirement age.
If, on the other hand, taxing the billionaires out of existence is more than we need, we can lower the retirement age.
We could start collecting social security at 40 if we taxed the ultra-rich properly.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 2 months ago:
Two of the three points he made are total horseshit, but let’s not throw out that last one:
If we could get the average American to
start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later --not retire – orwork better during their lifetime because they’re healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy.Universal Health Care fucking now.
- Comment on "Without carrying out any actual hacking, simply by logging in with an arbitrary Google account" 2 months ago:
A formal, legal right to privacy is completely irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Kids will gain the formal right to privacy at some point in their lives, and they will review their childhood experiences through the lens of a competent, adult mind. When they come across memories of being secretly spied upon, a healthy kid should feel that they were victimized.
An unhealthy (former) kid will deem such invasions of privacy as normal, acceptable behavior and is very likely to go on to victimize others. Perhaps their own kids; perhaps other people. Perhaps they will simply support anti-privacy issues like this one when they come up.
The general case is that non-consensual recording is a crime. Denying the kid the personal agency to prosecute the offender is just another way in which the kid is victimized.
- Comment on "Without carrying out any actual hacking, simply by logging in with an arbitrary Google account" 2 months ago:
Being generous, what you described doesn’t seem unreasonable on its own. My criticism is based on the context of this discussion: using stuffed animals to record children.
You responded to a query about whether using stuffed animals to record children violated children’s privacy with “In my experience, absolutely not.”
Re-reading your points, you seem to be talking about supervising text conversations between kids. That’s a completely separate issue. It can be reasonable to read their conversations, if you have raised this possibility with them, and discussed the purpose of doing so.
But this thread is about IoT Teddy Bears, not text messages. Charitably, I have to assume you are simply off topic, and my only real criticism is that discussing the contents of those messages with anyone but them violates their privacy.
If and when a kid comes across this discussion, I want to make sure they are aware of just how egregious a violation it is to have hidden recording devices in their personal space. In most jurisdictions, recording without the knowledge and consent of at least one party to the conversation is considered “wiretapping” or “eavesdropping”, and is not just a violation of their privacy; it is a criminal act. If anyone - including your parents - has listening or other recording devices installed in your personal space, you should tell teachers, guidance counselors, principals, and similar trusted adults.
