kent_eh
@kent_eh@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting 4 days ago:
But only mildly.
Certainly not infuriating enough to do something about the problem…
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 6 days ago:
Walmart was also telling their employees in some states how to apply to food banks and other social supports, because they refused to pay their workers adequately.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
“Somebody else will pay the salaries of our customers”.
That’s been the mindset of these business “leaders” for a few decades already.
The difference is now they have a tool that promises them that they can eliminate workers at an increasingly rapid rate.
Of course that’s a false promise, but once they realize that, a helluva lot of damage will have been done.
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 1 week ago:
but it gets you into a place where you CAN start to fix those.
True, but unfortunately too often that first step doesn’t get followed up on.
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 1 week ago:
By providing no-strings housing first, you make all the other issues easier to deal with.
First, absolutely, but not in isolation.
If that person doesn’t also get some help dealing with the issues that led to their homelessness, they’re likely to end up back on the street in the future.
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 1 week ago:
Ending homelessness is easy, but people also want to end hunger, and sickness, and poverty, and…
The thing that complicates solutions is that those issues often overlap and one can be the cause of some of the others.
If (as one example)someone’s addiction has led to mental health issues and then homelessness, then dealing with one of those issues in isolation isn’t going to be a long term solution for that person.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
You can’t 100% 3D print a working gun that won’t be as dangerous to the user as it is to the target.
You still need some actual metal gun parts to make it do gun things properly.
- Comment on How to deal with people who obtusely miss your point on Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
This has been a problem since the early days of usenet.
I suspect there is no good solution
- Comment on Disc drive needed 4 weeks ago:
You ever have a car cd player that plays files?
It’s pretty common.
My current car can do that (2019 Toyota)
As could every car I have owned in the previous couple decades.
- Comment on Absolutely 5 weeks ago:
Winning any sort of “best local food” award almost always means the price jumps immediately.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 1 month ago:
she’s kind of bland in my opinion (compared with European left at least).
Compared to European politics, the USA doesn’t really have any “left”.
Most Democrats would be considered center-right in a lot of other countries.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 1 month ago:
common sense
Careful with that term these days.
The rightwingnuts tend to call their anti-progressiveness talking points “common sense”.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 1 month ago:
For some religious people, lust is a hard sin to fight.
That line of thinking is what leads to burquas being mandatory in some countries.
Control yourself, not other people.
And if you can’t, then get proper help (not a preacher), don’t just mask the problem.
- Comment on Rumors of his death have been greatly exaggerated 1 month ago:
Can someone lend me some eyebleach, I seem to have run out.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 1 month ago:
And in his old riding, he had over 20 opponents
That was mostly the “longest ballot” folks.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 1 month ago:
nor Canada.
Example: Pierre Polierve, leader of the opposition party who lost his seat in the last General election and had another MP (in one of his party’s safest constituencies in the country) resign so he could run (and win) in a by-election there.
- Comment on Valid point 2 months ago:
Gen X has been skipped again.
I’m not mad at that.
The less we are noticed, the more autonomy we have.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
A few years ago my city installed a bunch of bike maintenance stands, comple with tools (attached to cables) and within a month all the cables had been cut and the tools were all gone. The tire pumps were destroyed and the signs were obscured with spray paint.
They tried to repair them a couple of times but the shitbirds just reached them again.
- Comment on Unexpected item in the bagging area! 2 months ago:
by keeping them in dead end jobs.
What you call a “dead end job”, many people call the “first job in my resume”.
And, as anyone early in life had discovered the hard way, getting a reasonable job with zero work experience on your resume is almost impossible.
- Comment on How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it? 3 months ago:
Because killing a leader without a plan for who will replace them isn’t very efficient
And often leads to a worse leader seizing power out of the chaos and power vacuum that the assassination created.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 3 months ago:
Mobile carriers are mostly IPv6-only these days.
I was going to point that out as well.
Your phone is probably on an IP6 network right now.
And it will be NATted to an IP4 address when it leaves the carrier’s network to interact with the public internet.
- Comment on Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules 3 months ago:
You’d be holding more than one person liable if you were holding people liable at all
Sounds good to me.
Having some corporate abstraction shield the people who make irresponsible or dangerous choices may be beneficial to thoae decision makers, but it is very much not good for society.
- Comment on Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules 3 months ago:
because individuals can’t be held accountable
That’s just laziness. There are individuals who can be held accountable.
Starting with the executives who signed off on these things being put on the road in the first place.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 4 months ago:
The manufacturers definitely have a large share of the blame, but people still have the agency to make better choices.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 4 months ago:
Trump is nothing, he’s unimportant in the grand scheme of things
The USA isn’t the way it is because Trump is the president, Trump is president because of the way the USA is…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Even sadder that people keep falling for it.
- Comment on whos your favorite borg? mine is localhost 5 months ago:
I am Pentium of Borg.
You will be approximated.
I don’t care if it’s an ancient reference.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 6 months ago:
Hello my brother.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 7 months ago:
there’s no reason why we can’t have pretty colours too
The reason is the bell curve of body shapes and the marketing departments in the mainstream companies desire to only target the very middle of the bell curve.
- Comment on I just want to play a game... 8 months ago:
Sail the seas matey.
It has always been a better “customer experience” than being an actual customer.