matlag
@matlag@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Babe you hardly touch your anti-hunger protein loaf 4 days ago:
Ok, I had to do a search to figure what an “anti-hunger protein loaf” was.
A mix of white eggs, ground meat and oats??
Now I’m absolutely convinced such horrors should not be made in this world.
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think he’s friend with the agents. And based on what he said the demand is higher than the offer, so if he says “swap tool or lose me!”, the answer is “Bye and good luck!”.
“Drop WhatsApp like I did” is the new “It works on my machine” that we could read almost systematically on PC technical forums a few decades ago to whatever problem anyone was reporting: we’re all glad it works for you. It doesn’t help OP.
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 weeks ago:
You never got abused by “people like me”. I was on the side anti-Meta and others.
So no, I don’t owe you shit, and sorry to say that, but you taking on the OP makes you just what kind of person? You didn’t care about how he got in this situation. You don’t care if I was or not one who “abused you”. You just decided to lash out at people randomly.
I wish you to get better.
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 2 weeks ago:
Why not both? Let’s put the mamoth on diet!
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 weeks ago:
Yep! That’s why net neutrality is so important.
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 weeks ago:
So, let me make sure I got that right: you tried to convince people WhatsApp was bad. You obviously failed.
Will you take responsibility for your failure?
No?
So why should the OP do?? Do you have any clue about him promoting WA? For what we know, he could also have been one advocating for alternatives.
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately not. When you’re over-rich, you stop getting income. Not kidding: check these folks, they have no or very low incomes.
They have wealth. An unfathomable wealth.
None of their expensive assets are under their names. They’re under shell companies names. When you claim to pe working all the time, any time of your yacht is working, right?
Then there are the expenses they can’t put on corporate accounts.
For that, they borrow money, at ridiculously low rates because they put a portion of their wealth as a caution.
When they need more money, their wealth has increased so much just because of economic growth that they can borrow more money just putting the wealth increase as a caution, and that’s enough!
Banks are happy with these arrangements because their immense wealth management make them money.Full payment back of these loan will be done upon their death.
Taxing their income is pointless. You need to tax their wealth.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
There was pretty much nowhere else he would have been safe from being extradited to the US, if not immediately, then as a political bargain.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
You’re both correct. There was a lot of changes after him thanks to him. But majority of people still don’t give a shit.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 weeks ago:
Then they reach the ocean where they account for 0.2% (-ish?) of the plastic out there, 50% of the plastic in the ocean is fishing equipment (nets, etc.) for which we did… absolutely nothing.
And no, I’m not advocating in favor of plastic straws. I wish the rules worldwide would have been to make cups and straws mandatory complementary fees. Everyone would bring their own re-usable cups. Then onto disposable cutlery, etc. We managed to ban plastic bags at supermarkets, sure we could get a habit of carrying cups.
Because at the end, the better solution is not to recycle wastes, it’s to stop producing them.
- Comment on I hope they'll make it more contagious 1 month ago:
I can only wonder how long she had to practice to say it so naturally!
- Comment on Vibe management 2 months ago:
We’ve seen that trend for decades already. Neo-liberalism was all about trickling up wealth created by work.
But you see that in all advanced economies: commoners budget are tighter and tighter as cost of life increase faster than wages. That’s the expected outcome of neo-liberalism.
Now politicians pretend the housing crisis is an anomaly and car makers wonder why sales are slowing down. AI is bad, but it only accelerates and amplifies what was already happening.
- Comment on Vibe management 2 months ago:
“Of course it can’t happen to me! It only happens to my idiot users, and I am not an idiot!” [expense blows out of control] “We’re going to have to let go more people for budget reasons. You see people use tokens, and tokens are expensive! We’ll have less people who will use more AI to replace them, I was told the last version improves further productivity!”
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 months ago:
Just like the Epstein billionaires class saw 1984 and thought it was a model for governance, they saw Matrix and thought it was an awesome way to run people’s lives. Of course, they take the role of the central computer while chips in our brains make us happy to obediently serve them.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 months ago:
And don’t forget all the suppliers of the other parts that don’t have any business with datacenters: motherboards makers (not sure they got anything), case makers, power supply makers, peripherals makers, etc.
All of the ecosystem could go down if the bubble lasts long enough.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 months ago:
In the US? You mean other than keeping the shittiest health care system in the world just to be sure no money would go to someone who can’t pay?
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 2 months ago:
You’re wrong and I am going to harass you until you change your mind to prove it!!
Oh, wait…
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 months ago:
I lived in China for 6 years. I experienced smogs dense enough you couldn’t see a building 10m away.
I’ve been travelling to Shanghai on several occasions and went there again last year.
The improvement now vs 10years ago is dramatic! I’m not saying it’s all fine, but I will say this: now I live in Canada (Québec) and forest fires make the air here worse than what it is in Shanghai on a regular basis.
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 months ago:
The trend is what matters. China: electrification is going so fast it’s hard to follow. Pollution is going down very fast. The USA: cancel all plan to promote EVs and weaken regulation on gas cars: pollution is to go up. And that’s not including public transportation offset on the cars density, where China is basically 40 years ahead…
The cross-point on air quality might be much closer than you think.
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 months ago:
It doesn’t, but it has an unapologetic mass surveillance. In China, you use apps on your phone for absolutely everything and anything: all payments, use of public transport, shared bikes, ordering food, etc.
If you say something wrong, or if you’re just in a group chat where someone repeatedly say the wrong thing, your account can be suspended and suddenly you can’t do shit for several days. That keeps people in line, or they find other tricks to communicate, like swapping key words to trick the algorithms, or use VPN, though it’s also forbidden.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 3 months ago:
When your interest are fundamentally opposite to facts, science is your enemy. Destroy it, and there is no rational argument to oppose any of your action.
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 3 months ago:
Nice to meet you! I’m a dude, and I absolutely love horseriding! A passion passed on to me by my father, who himself got from my grandfather, and that I passed on to my daughter! As for girls, in the stables we (daughter and myself) go to, there are many girls, but not many princesses and/or spoiled children.
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 3 months ago:
I would have guessed a “horse girl” is a girl who likes horses and probably horse-riding. Wouldn’t have been surprised: when I was a teen, we had 50% boys/girls horse riders, and today it seems most teen horse-riders are girls.
But this is beyond anything I would have imagined. I guess I’m reaching that age where I can’t comprehend the young’s trends. - Comment on Which government he might be talking about 🤔 4 months ago:
Actually the reason is the US uses 3M$ anti-missile missiles to intercept 20k$ drones. It was obvious from the start they would run out of them way while Iran would keep producing more of their drones (plus the ones they get from Russia).
It’s quite unbelievable they the US were so confident in their capabilities they didn’t bother to learn anything from the war in Ukraine, where swarms of cheap drones have replaced advanced but costly missiles for years now.
So the money may be genuinely used on weapons (and well, lobsters and steaks…). It’s just spent stupid.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 months ago:
Facebook introduces private messages. They’re private. Ah, no! They sold these messages to Microsoft, Amazon and Huawei! – They trust me, dumbfucks!
Facebook has all interest to work for the benefits of its users. Ah, no! They literally experimented on people to see if they could make them more depressed or more happy. – They trust me, dumbfucsk!
Facebook has an active moderation. Ah, no! They knowingly let disinformation spread and lead to a genocide because engagement numbers were good. – They trust me, dumbfucks!
Instagram minds kids and their sensitivities. Ah, no! They have algorithms to exploit their insecurity because engagement numbers were good, who cares if a few of them end up depressed and kill themselves. – They trust me, dumbfucks!
Whatsapp has E2E because they value privacy. Ah, no! The app sends home a copy of the private key on demand, rendering the whole thing pointless. – They trust me, dumbfucks.Meta’s glasses would never take a picture without their wearer’s explicit consent.
Fortunately for them, some people are really really really dumbfucks to a point Forrest Gump would look like a genius next to them.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 months ago:
Yeah, I’m totally going to chill because I can’t see a LED… not. Hell yes, I’m still going to call out creep-glass wearers.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 months ago:
Go ahead and test yours. Repeat after each update and check if it’s location and/or time dependent.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 months ago:
If you orientate your phone with cameras towards people, they’ll assume you’re taking pics or filming. Otherwise, it’s a general purpose device.
If you wear creep-glasses designed to secretly take pics or film people, a lot of people will assume you’re secretly taking pics or filming.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 4 months ago:
I’m wondering if it’s really the vaccine or if what makes you vulnerable to the antivax idea also makes you more prone to neurodegenerescence.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 months ago:
You still fail to understand you don’t need to be continuously filming to monitor what’s going in front of a camera.