OutlierBlue
@OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value 5 days ago:
Oof that’s more than twice my value.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 6 days ago:
And at this point I’m too afraid to ask
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 week ago:
Did you just make up a scenario and then try to shame them for not using the critical thinking you just invented?
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 1 week ago:
Now imagine if there was some way a government could take a percentage of that and put it towards improving society as a whole.
Oh well, guess we’re fucked.
- Comment on My kids named one of our hens "Chloe", and I are think that's an inappropriate name for a bird. 1 week ago:
Yep your wife is correct.
- Comment on My kids named one of our hens "Chloe", and I are think that's an inappropriate name for a bird. 1 week ago:
Your wife is probably right.
You should explian to us why you think it’s inappropriate.
- Comment on i am speed 1 week ago:
Tortoise got a crush on the lawn mower.
- Comment on Cooking pizza 1 week ago:
“Cooking”
- Comment on Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity 1 week ago:
A Russian troll wouldn’t have to say anything. He’d sit there laughing at you making excuses while your country destroyed itself.
- Comment on Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity 1 week ago:
Oh, so what you actually want is for us to dash our bodies upon the stones and get shot to death by cops, is it? What a completely reasonable ask! One that I’m sure you won’t be doing yourself, of course. That’s our job.
Please work on your reading comprehension. Nowhere did I even imply that’s what you should be doing.
I was contrasting the level of bravery and energy between them and you. They stormed Normandy to save foreign nations and yet you’re making excuses to not even get off the couch to save your own.
- Comment on Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity 1 week ago:
I’ll let you know after Trump tries to annex us. Actually, no I won’t because I’ll be out doing it and not making excuses on the internet.
- Comment on Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity 1 week ago:
the country itself was literally under attack by an outside enemy
Your country is literally under attack by an inside enemy
a guarantee that they would get something in return if we won the war.
You’ll get your democracy.
- Comment on Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity 1 week ago:
Your grandparents stormed the beaches at Normandy and you’re whining and making excuses about why you’re letting your country slide into fascism.
Is this what you’re going to tell your grandkids when they ask why you didn’t stop it?
“Home of the brave”. Maybe long ago.
- Comment on Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity 1 week ago:
What were we supposed to do?
Actually protest with direct action. Whining online and walking around with a sign once a month doesn’t do shit against a fascist.
Organize. Disrupt. Disobey.
- Comment on Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity 1 week ago:
And it’s an AI search that I’m sure will provide accurate and reliable information.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 1 week ago:
Reddit is centralist heaven compared to Lemmy!
Reddit used to be a utopia like Lemmy before all the dipshits showed up. It was very left-leaning, and there’s a reason /r/atheism was so prominent.
- Comment on What a shocker! 1 week ago:
I know how to French kiss, but not Danish kiss. Thanks for teaching me, stranger.
- Comment on Funny 1 week ago:
No, but they’ve tried the reverse. They’ve tried and tried convincing gay people to be straight and it doesn’t work. That’s not how it works.
If you think you have a choice to be one way or the other, then you do. Because you’re bi.
- Comment on Funny 1 week ago:
I believe everybody is bisexual at first
Then you’re bisexual. If your “first” instinct was that both genders could be attractive, you’re bisexual. But societal pressure convinced you to only seek out heterosexual relationships.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s the AI that requested time off.
- Comment on Speculation 2 weeks ago:
Birds: A 360° turn is a complete circle so they’d keep going in the direction they’re going in.
- Comment on Developer wants to build 60 apartments and 24 parking spots. New York politician tells him to build less housing and more parking spots 2 weeks ago:
They don’t want people living on the streets, but they don’t want homeless cars even more.
- Comment on Did you ever use your Toe to turn one of these on or off? 2 weeks ago:
It actually clocked the processor down rather than speeding things up.
In the early days of PCs games usually just ran as fast as the processor ran. As the processors got faster, games started to run too quickly to play. The turbo button slowed down the processor speed so you could still play those older games.
Now games use the clock to determine how quickly things happen, not the speed of the processor, so we don’t have that problem.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 weeks ago:
Here in Canada we just canceled our digital services tax to please Trump.
Now he’s making more demands, so it was well worth it.
- Comment on UK Users Need to Post Selfie or Photo ID to View Reddit's r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage 2 weeks ago:
Oh good. All I have to do is hand Peter Fucking Thiel my identity and internet history.
That is NO relief at all!
- Comment on AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers 2 weeks ago:
The best part of this is they plan to irrigate crops with reclaimed fracking water!
- Comment on UK Users Need to Post Selfie or Photo ID to View Reddit's r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage 2 weeks ago:
This is so they can identify everyone who uses the internet.
- Comment on Does trump know he cheats at golf? 2 weeks ago:
Samuel L Jackson knows he cheats.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 3 weeks ago:
This is exactly the problem and how we go into this mess in the first place. When we read terrible things are happening, instead of getting mad and doing something we choose to ignore it and pretend it’s not happening. That allows the terrible people to keep doing whatever they want.
Sure, it’s easier to ignore it now for your mental health, but when things get even worse, you’ll be worse off too. It’s worth some stress and pain now to prevent even more in the future.
If you don’t like what you read in the news, organize and take action. Don’t bury your head in the sand. It won’t get better on its own.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 3 weeks ago:
That’s a great way to look at it if you’re coming from a place of privilege where it doesn’t affect you directly. The Palestinians don’t get to say “it’s just a trend”. It’s not just a trend for the immigrants being rounded up in concentration camps. Or for the homeless and mentally ill Trump has just declared will also be rounded up. And for the LGBTQ who are soon to follow.
And the destruction of the environment we all rely on to survive isn’t “just a trend”.
You’re only able to have the luxury of thinking it’s a trend because it hasn’t affected you. Yet.