ShellMonkey
@ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com
Someone with too much time and server space who decided to host a couple things because reasons.
- Comment on Anon gets a blood transfusion 2 days ago:
Huh, small rabbit hole there, wasn’t aware there was a special baby blood type. So basically someone who has the luck to have dodged what sounds like a super common virus all their life gets to have special uses for their donations.
- Comment on Stars 1 week ago:
Well these guys from Super Mario Galaxy would probably look pretty round from the side I guess.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
Here’s another part of the equation, the owner gets enough of a share of the business profit where they can buy a new house, expand to multiple locations, buy new cars, etc.
The extra couple bucks an hour per employee is a tiny drop in the cost pool per business operational hour compared to that. They could perfectly well keep prices the same without paying sub-minimum wages by taking a smaller cut themselves.
- Comment on Tiny pp 1 week ago:
Gives new meaning to ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’.
- Comment on Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You 2 weeks ago:
They claim $100 B in ‘losses’ to this kind of game. Unless they’re actually running red on their books what they really mean is ‘we think we should make at least $100 B more per year’.
I’m sure that the vast majority of that would go directly to the front of house employees they’re pinning this too
- Comment on anon working as behaviour interventionist 2 weeks ago:
Hey look, another person who’s bitter with everything around them and feels the need to attempt to shame everyone they see.
- Comment on Anon gives up dating apps 3 weeks ago:
Probably one of the most socially friendly places I recall in recent years was a CrossFit gym. I know people shit in them as being full of cultish twats, and to some extent I won’t argue that, but compared to a standard gym there’s quite a ‘us’ rather than ‘me’ vibe to it. Find those kind of places where people look to support and improve each other rather than show off what they know or can do.
Though I’m about the least socially apt person around one thing that really has stuck out to me, don’t go there with a goal other than to do the thing. If you go with the goal of a date you’re gonna be disappointed, go with the intent of doing what you like instead.
- Comment on Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales 3 weeks ago:
So pretty much one of those smart speaker things with a pin on it, for hundreds of $$$ and a subscription to boot? What a great idea…
- Comment on Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never heard of this thing, is it supposed to do what the analyze this picture or ID the song playing features of my phone already could do, or is there something novel I’m missing?
- Comment on Fruit Flies 4 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself, I rather like potatoes, or as the French call them ‘pomme de terre’ which if I recall would literally translate as ‘apple of earth’.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Final Fantasy 5 weeks ago:
Frankly fo my time, best gaming series ever. With a few exceptions each one stands alone as it’s own story, but there are the ever present threads that in some cases turned into almost easter-egg items in a given game. Where are Biggs and Wedge going to show up this time? Can I get my hands on a choccobo? Hey Cid, thanks for the airship…
- Comment on Anon finally touches grass 5 weeks ago:
Under 30? So basically if you can’t see anything lower than their forehead, ohhhh. 😏 /S
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 1 month ago:
Similar concept?
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 1 month ago:
A vote is a vote, but that’s not the solution I spoke of. Rather than trying to push people to disengage or vote 3rd party, neither of which will make any meaningful difference to the situation (even in the million to one chance some 3rd party did get elected, they’re a politician and will do politician things), why not take the situation into your own hands and create the company run by someone who won’t behave like a capitalist?
Create the next Google, but you can be the one who really follows the “don’t be evil” mantra and in the process usurp the throne from the capitalists who have gone wrong. Once that is done you have the ability to simply hand the reigns over to anyone working there and walk away knowing the problem of that particular market is now solved.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 1 month ago:
The amusing thing about the people who complain that capitalists are the root of all problems, they don’t make an effort to correct it.
Take the situation of this story. If your ideals are pure and would have the popular support of a critical mass of people, there is absolutely not one thing preventing the establishment of a company, chartered as a public good corporation, and ran as a non-profit entity to provide these kind of material goods for people at cost, or if someone is willing to subsidise the production even less so if you like. You could even get the seed money from a crowd sourced campaign, or so called ‘angel investors’ no strings attached, no ownership stakes to distribute.
- Comment on English Ivy 1 month ago:
Some of those are absurdly strong. I have wild grapes in my yard that go ahold of an old clothesline with 6 lines across it. Now I didn’t use said line so figured just let it be to feed the birds and such. Turns out it got thick enough that one winter when a particularly heavy snow came through the weight of the snow on the vine mat was enough to bend in the poles that are a good 3 inches thick.
- Comment on anon finds a plothole 2 months ago:
You get a full podium sweep, gotta do some acrobatics to be on all the spots for the pics though.
- Comment on U.S. Announces New Rules Banning Fake Reviews and Testimonials, Allowing Authorities to Seek Civil Penalties Against Violators, Deter AI-Generated Fake Reviews 2 months ago:
Oh come on, you think some would do that? Go in the internet and tell lies?
I mean it is or at least should be a policy on most sites already, it’ll be nice to have some teeth beyond banning their accounts though.
- Comment on Gars 2 months ago:
Dammit, I was stuck thinking of the stuff in a petri dish.
- Comment on Anon drinks milk 3 months ago:
They didn’t say how big a carton. I’d say anything up to a quart is fair game without some eyeballs on you.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 3 months ago:
If they’re already giving exclusive access to Google for search and AI training, my bet is it’s all in a bid for ‘please buy us daddy Google’, and let them handle it from there.
- Comment on Anon's wife is giving birth 3 months ago:
Are we sure these aren’t someone playing with some ai prompts? These seem daft even for 4chan.
- Comment on Meta's CrowdTangle, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear in August as elections take place worldwide. Its replacement isn’t as transparent or accessible. 4 months ago:
After all, they wouldn’t want anyone to call them out on continuing chicanery during such a trivial event as their home country’s presidential election cycle…
- Comment on Global security alliance warns of Russian disinformation campaign using Meliorator AI software allowing for the creation of authentic appearing fictitious personas to post content on X 4 months ago:
Who is surprised here, raise your object manipulation attachment, er, hand…
Yet I see those same posts screen-shot and posted here as though they was reliable news sources.
- Comment on All farts ar funny. Its just a mqtter.of degree 4 months ago:
Someone pulled that formula straight out their ass
- Comment on Has Elon Musk made any sexist remarks? 4 months ago:
Are you looking to complete a bingo card for billionaire dumbassery?
- Comment on Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws 4 months ago:
I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called “Bring Back the Porn!”
- Comment on Games like punch out? 5 months ago:
gamingonlinux.com/…/energetic-boss-rush-big-boy-b…
Just saw on another post
- Comment on Games like punch out? 5 months ago:
I guess do you mean with the cartoonish demeanor or just boxing ones as a whole? Have seen a few on playstation systems like knockout kings but they try and be all serious with it.
- Comment on Just little guys 5 months ago:
Why am I hearing thing in the hydraulic press channel guy’s voice?
It is very dangerous and may attack at any time…
