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- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 19 hours ago:
Fuck it, we’re going to six skins.
- Comment on Did the premise of an entity approaching you only when it's not being viewed originate with Doctor Who's Weeping Angels? 1 day ago:
Released October 23, 1988… In Japan.
Us gaijin did not get it until 1990.
- Comment on Seems legit 3 days ago:
Or Geoff.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 4 days ago:
I have never in my life heard anyone actually call weed “dope.”
“Dope” is heroin, and its derivatives and relations.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 6 days ago:
Penguin difficulty? Just git gud, scrub.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
Notwithstanding the instant privacy nightmare this would create, essentially abolishing online anonymity overnight, this is kinda-sorta what MAC addresses are already. As to why MAC addresses can be spoofed so easily without any real impact on anything, refer to my first statement.
- Comment on This is not a stereogram. If you look at it a certain way it will not resolve into anything. 1 week ago:
It’s Dickbutt, isn’t it?
- Comment on Nintendo DMCAs Yuzu forks on GitHub 1 week ago:
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 2 weeks ago:
There’s a reason they are called, internally in business parlance, “Loyalty Programs.”
The point is to get you to come back. Using the Kroger card at Kroger gets you discounts. Or rather, gets you their regular price; their non-card prices are artificially inflated in most cases. So consumers form the idea in their heads that those discounts have value and will return to that store to take advantage of them. This is played up by the retailer in their marketing, who will use terminology to try to make you feel special about the program. (As if it’s not offered to absolutely everyone who will listen, and also everyone who won’t.) Look for words and terms like “exclusive,” “VIP,” or “members only,” or “just for you.”
The buy-stuff-to-get-rewards schemes are the worst, because they prey on the inbuilt sunk cost fallacy neurons in people’s brains. You are statistically likely to buy and spend more if you think you’re going to get something back, or spend a little more than you otherwise would have to meet whatever threshold they set to get the next reward. Even if the reward you get back does not actually match in value to the extra amount(s) you spent. (Hint: It never does. The house always wins.)
Nowadays, of course, they also track and record your purchase history and sell it to whoever will pay. Possibly anonymized in some way, but probably not.
- Comment on We don't take kindly to waves of your type round here 3 weeks ago:
A believe a trident is the traditionally accepted weapon for this quarry, and possibly slightly more effective.
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 4 weeks ago:
Correct answer. I just got an electric clipper and I mow the crop myself whenever it gets long enough to bother me. I don’t have to tip anyone, it only takes a few minutes, and I only have a few short years left where there’ll be anything growing up there anyway.
- Comment on Lemmy is growing and they are coming 4 weeks ago:
You totally can. Mine is a penguin.
Lemmy being what it is, visibility probably depends on a thousand tweaky little factors like which instance you’re on, which instance you’re looking at, and what client you’re using.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 4 weeks ago:
The algorithm makes sense to me, in that on my main PC I pretty much exclusively watch nerd shit on youtube. Tech stuff, 3D printing, machinery, motorcycles, that sort of thing. Youtube therefore probably assumes I am male, so in my Shorts feed seems to be comprised of about 90% boobies, and 10% clips about guns.
But then the algorithm doesn’t make sense to me, because on my living room PC we pretty much exclusively watch cat videos, bird videos, and videos-for-cats (the ones with all birds and squirrels and stuff), How Ridiculous, and Gavin Free. The Shorts feed there is also roughly 90% boobies, but in fairness the remaining 10% appears to be cats.
(Neither instance is logged in to a Google account or anything.)
- Comment on He's got a point 4 weeks ago:
Let me air out two unrelated but similar things that annoyed the shit out of me back in the day.
Your parents then: “That floor mat thingy (referring to the Power Pad) doesn’t count as exercise because it’s still Nintendo. You need to go outside!!!”
Adults now: Middle school phys-ed classes consisting of playing Dance Dance Revolution apparently somehow now “counts” as real exercise.
And,
Your parents then: “The problem with you kids is you spend all day in front of that tube, watching those stupid movies and playing video games all day instead of reading books. It’s stunting your ability to differentiate fantasy from reality!!!”
Your parents now: Instantly believe every damn fool thing they see on Facebook, even and especially when it is clearly horseshit.
So yeah. I can totally believe that some moron would unironically believe that staring at a screen containing an office application is somehow automatically more “wholesome” than staring at a screen displaying any other content for the same amount of time.
- Comment on Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO 4 weeks ago:
Me either, but living in a college town at that time I observed that people were definitely going around wearing their white earbuds (sometimes even fake ones!) without listening to anything just to be seen wearing the things. It was really rather silly, looking back on it now.
- Comment on Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO 4 weeks ago:
Having met and supported hardware for many Mac users in my day? Yes. If this doesn’t describe you: Congratulations. You’re in the minority.
- Comment on Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO 4 weeks ago:
They have been for decades at this point. Remember the iPod commercials, the ones with the dancing silhouettes of people with the white headphone wires highlighted? In the early 2000’s, those white headphones were a status symbol. A literal fashion accessory, jewelry.
This progressed to the iPhone and then aluminum chassis Macbooks. The majority of people who buy a Macbook Air or Pro aren’t doing it for productivity or any particular workflow reason. They’re doing it so they will be seen at Starbucks or around their quad with a Macbook.
Apple is a marketing company. A hugely successful one, yes, but their main product is not technology. It’s image.
- Comment on 卄乇ㄥㄥ ㄚ乇卂卄 4 weeks ago:
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold…
- Comment on C O L O N I Z E 5 weeks ago:
That guys reply was 20 words fewer than your original post blithering about coconut oil.
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 5 weeks ago:
I believe we have a second one, also.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
None of the assets are “from” Zelda, they’ve all been redrawn, but they sure are quite clearly heavily inspired by A Link to the Past.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
…And get it pointed at something that can catch a pistol round.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
If you are at a hospital in the hood they probably have armed security. The ones in the city nearest me certainly do. One would hope they know how to safely handle a firearm as well as have some manner of secure storage someplace, so that’d probably be their department. At least until the cops inevitably get involved.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
The most lawyer friendly answer is probably C.
I am not a doctor, but I do know how to handle firearms, so I would also unload and ensure that the gun is not in a condition to fire. This would probably dock me points for diluting potential evidence or some such horseshit, but it’d still be the right thing to do. Provided you knew what you were doing.
- Comment on Windows 10 is the last version of Windows 5 weeks ago:
And the thing of it is, millions of non-tech savvy people would not mind about having to move to Windows 11 and would do so in due course if Microsoft didn’t deliberately cripple it so it won’t run on a wide swath of not-too-old hardware.
- Comment on car insurance 5 weeks ago:
Ancient ninja secret of give-no-fucks.
People have become so jaded by driving that they’ve lost the perspective on how much it beats the hell out of walking. Even if you consider being in 25 MPH highway traffic to be “slow,” you’re still covering more distance in an hour than most people would be able to cover on foot in an entire day.
- Comment on car insurance 5 weeks ago:
As your attorney I advise you to buy a bus pass.
- Comment on Facebook now wants to write your posts for you with AI. 5 weeks ago:
I am reminded of the words of Martin Pearson from many years ago:
“I don’t know why I even bother to show up for these gigs. You lot seem to be perfectly capable of entertaining yourselves!”
- Comment on Ah, reddit 5 weeks ago:
Reddit could try not being such a toxic environment to people and maybe they wouldn’t do stuff like this. In this case given that the comment was from 3 years ago, the reason is most likely not because of the API scandal or AI scrapes or reddit going public, but rather some mod or other user was a persistent grade-A asshole to this poster, or started harassing them, or any of innumerable other possible toxic things, and they decided to just take their ball and go home.
I too torched all of my comments on reddit when I left, including the informative ones about niche subjects, and I’m not sorry about it.
- Comment on Adobe putting spam in notification tray on Windows 5 weeks ago:
Crap like this is why I use Corel.