Adderbox76

@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  • Odyssey 5 (Only lasted a season, but damn…)

  • Boardwalk Empire (for some reason the least talked about and most forgotten HBO show)

  • Into the Badlands (Deserved a longer life. Great martial arts action in a post-apocalypse)

  • First Wave (Nostrodamus, Conspiracy theories and the first wave of an secret Alien invasion)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you pronounce "centaur" and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I pronounce it “Phil”. And he would appreciate it if you would stop staring at his missing eye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jon Lovitz Wants A Reboot Of ‘The Critic’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL Jon Lovitz isn’t dead. His career was just doing a damn good impression of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Team Calls Europe ‘Pathetic’ in Leaked Signal Group Chat Messages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just don’t get how these morons honestly don’t grasp the idea that America’s global “reach” is entirely dependent on having military bases overseas in friendly countries.

  Do they honestly think their influence remains the moment they’re told to get their troops off the fucking continent and every country pulls a Norway and stops refueling their ships?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is indeed dangerous to rely on any one country for too much

  Cries in Canadian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The U.S. is like any other country; it has its share of assholes. But I generally avoid painting everyone of however many million people with the same broad brush.

  There is a somewhat obnoxious level of patriotism to Americans in general that comes from simply being the biggest economy and a net cultural exporter to the rest of the world; think blue jeans and coca-cola, metaphorically. (I’m sorry, Americans, but it’s true. Put on your big boy pants and deal with the criticism like adults, please.)

  But it only rises to the level of arrogance in those people who think that the rest of the world only exists because of them and should behave as some sort of client state to American hegemony.

  That’s not all Americans. Heck, I’d say it’s not even most Americans. But they’re just really really loud and drown out everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens when I ignore the cookie preference dialogue on websites?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens when I ignore the cookie preference dialogue on websites?

  You get stuck with the leftovers; which is usually the maple flavour or those really really dry shortbread cookies that feel like dust in your mouth. And you’re not allowed a drink of milk to wash it down.

  It helps to get in line early for your cookie preferences.

  What? … Wrong cookies?

  Sorry about that. I stand by what I said however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨telecommunications dish⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why’s your aardvark wearing a cone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be his best book since Name of the Rose

  My personal favourite is The Island of the Day Before. Though I haven’t read either in years and it might be nostalgia because that was my first introduction to Eco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Marketing.

  Convincing stupid people that their self-worth is based on how much they spend.

  Not a thing that is exclusive to Apple, of course. It’s how society has been since the 80s and Reaganomics, with Nike and other running shoes being the first really noticeable marketing push in that regard.

  Where Apple paved the way is that, even back then, a company would make a product, assign a profit margin to it (traditionally about 30-40%), and sell it at that price…

  Apple came along and said, “the only limit to a profit margin is how much you can convince stupid people to pay. We’ll use billions of dollars in advertising to convince people that they’re sub-human if they don’t agree with it. If the consumer is dumb enough to pay 250% profit margin for a phone device that costs us literally a couple hundred bucks to make…than that’s on them and their own stupidity.”

  So in short, profit margin is no longer a relatively stable number dictated by market forces and the relative strength of the economy, and (thanks to Apple) instead has become a function of marketing. How much can you convince suckers to spend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best review of it I read was:

  “DFW is a perfect example of what happens when people think they are above editing.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve honestly never made it through the whole thing.

  Tried to, back in the day. It’s one of those things that’s expected of you if you want to be a proper turtleneck wearing, pretentious literati as a university student. (I was a douche, okay…I admit it…it’s the same reason I fought my way through War and Peace and Foucault’s Pendulum) But I’m much better now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a pretext for invasion. Just like invading Afganistan was to intervene in order to get Al-Queda. Or invading Iraq was about getting the Taliban… etc… etc… etc…

  If America wants a war with someone for oil/economic pressure/etc… (really whatever reason they choose to make up) they simply say that there are terrorists there.

  I’m calling it now and saying that in two weeks he declares the Quebec Sovereignty movement a terrorist organization for reasons…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't the deep state stopped trump?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those dreadfully dangerous Antifa terrorists sure have gone silent too, haven’t they.

  It’s almost as though they never existed.

  Right now, we need Antifa to be everything that the right wings pretended Antifa was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More and more every day…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Found the Spartan warrior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there is no photos of earth from space?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are no stupid questions.

  But there are in fact, some very stupid ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if USA invades Canada?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You think a U.S. military base isn’t getting kicked the fuck out of a foreign country the moment they are declared an enemy? Or do you have such a little opinion of everyone else that you think a couple of military bases will immediately take over every European county at once?

  If America invades Canada it’s global reach becomes null and void essentially the next day. Every Nato country expels American military personnel, by force if necessary, and America’s role in the world is done, regardless if they win against Canada or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what if another country staged a coup in the US and deposed trump?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Putin is currently staging a coup, and it’s on the United States’ dime. If all of this is somehow actually the machinations of Putin, you can’t help but be impressed with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you like the smell of bookstores?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  oh god yes. ESPECIALLY used book stores. Shared stories have a particular smell that just speaks of history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone here good at drawing political cartoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Update - Idea has been claimed. If he changes his mind I’ll post it publically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone here good at drawing political cartoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I might end up doing that. The reason I didn’t do it immediately was because as cool as that would be, I’m relatively sure some AI slop would crawl into the responses and end up shared (which would make me sad) versus just giving the idea (and credit) to a single human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone here good at drawing political cartoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  power cool community

  Didn’t even know that was a thing, to be honest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone know what Trump is going to do with people with mental disabilities who get SSDI? Or can someone link me something on Trump and SSDI since google is cleaning up Trump from searches?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You might want to read up on the fascist fascination with Eugenics, my friend.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite literally impossible to implement. Same as true “Libertarianism”. Can’t actually exist.

  Look at it this way. You and your neighbours want no government. No taxes. No laws. No “authority” telling you what to do and how to do it. Great!

  What happens when the road needs to be fixed? Do you fix just the road in front of your house? Or do you negotiate with your neighbours for you all to pay a fair share to get the entire road done? Congratulations…you just invented government.

  So now the road is getting done, but the people doing the work really don’t want to deal with every individual for every particular decision. It’s a much better idea to elect one person to do the communicating. Congratulations…you just invented civics and beaurocracy

  This person that you all agreed to handle all of this stuff doesn’t have time anymore to support himself or his family because he’s dealing with your shit, so he demands that each of you pay an amount to keep in able to feed himself while he administrates your “anarchic society.” Congratulations…you just invented taxes

  Replace “roads” with literally anything else in a community and the end result is the same. Both Libertarians and Anarchists are fucking morons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s DeepSeek AI poses formidable cyber, data privacy threats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are free to learn ‘Xi Jinping thought.’ Doubt this is for the progress of humanity.

  That’s not how Open Source works. Is this Chinese version of the AI likely biased? Yes…almost certainly.

  But Open Source means that anyone can download and use the same source code and same technology to tinker with it and create one that isn’t biased and has nothing to do with the Chinese government.

  The power of Open Source is that regardless of who creates the software originally, a million eyes are literally looking at the code. It’s nearly impossible to hide any shenanigans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon’s founder cedes control to non-profit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. This is the good thing about federation. If you don’t like the community you’re in, move to another one that better aligns to your values. No one’s speech is “limited”, but other instances aren’t forced to listen to you unless they want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you've had or have anger issues, how did you become a better human?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anti-anxiety meds.

  Anxiety isn’t the cause of all people’s short fuse, but it was for me.

  And to be clear, I wasn’t really “anger” issues as in “blowing up at other people”. You don’t work retail long before you learn how to put on a happy face. It was more “anger issues” that I would just seethe to myself at all the stupidity around me, completely unable to let even the littlest shit go.

  Driving was the worst. I was an asshole as a driver. My entire time travelling to work would often be filled with a constant litany of yelling and swearing to myself, knowing full well that the other person can’t hear me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a kink for everything. It may not be a large base, but I’ll bet it’s there.