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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube devs be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a business plan because business=money, but how about creators host their own videos and share them through BitTorrent. No need to deliver real time video, users just download what they want to watch then watch them as they become available. Funding occurs through Kofi or Patreon etc. They’ll need to publish the magnet links somewhere but that’s a whole load cheaper than publishing RT video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but critics always have to say shit films are good and good films are shit; that way we keep thinking they’ve got some amazing insight that’s worth them being paid oodles of cash. If they said good films were good and shit films were shit we’d all be like “no shit Sherlock” and kick them unpaid out of the building.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you’re talking about is for a minority to raise arms against the democratically elected government. again, not what I’m saying.

  Then I recommend you crack open a dictionary and check the meanings of “get organized, involved, and armed”, “stand, fight, and maybe even die” (your exact wording). Because raising arms against a democratically elected goverrnment IS EXACTLY what you are saying, albeit that you might not be saying you necessarily want to start that fight, but it certainly looks like it to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy.ca user Is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Naah, Moose came later, he was the chap who came down from a mountain with a couple of iPads, then drove out of the desert in a Triumph, or something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horrors We've Unleashed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but those little bastards started it. People call what’s happening in Gaza a genocide but that’s nothing compared with the mozzie kill count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So now I have to PAY you to NOT store files on my device that I don't want?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “To change all cookie settings click_here” <-- this is the bit you want. It’s free to reject all the cookies yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The devil will walk on earth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? When are you guys celebrating Halloween? The only Friday 13ths in 2024 are in September and December.

  Also I thought the calendar cycles every 400 years. So if Fri 13th Oct 2024 exists, which it doesn’t, then Fri 13th Oct 1624 and 2424 also, er, don’t exist.

  ♫ In the year 2424, if trolls are still alive… ♫

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon enjoys time with his father⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah but that’s where all this gender fluidity/ambiguity gets interesting. OP might be a trans-dude, so “she” (apologies for the hypothetical deadgendering but it’s illustrative) would technically then be straight with no risk of butt defects (unless they did that of course) but with some risk of birth defects as he could then have been impregnated by his dad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make a wsh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another splendd Kapwng cartoon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eternal fire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you cite any peer reviewed studies that show scientific thinking necessarily leads away from omnivory?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2real5me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But you DO have a PhD. Claiming it is somehow not valid is a criticism of the establishment that awarded it to you. You’re just suffering from impostor syndrome, that’s all.

  Also, no employer will consider someone fresh out of education, even someone with a PhD, to have vast quantitites of useful real-world experience, so even declaring a PhD won’t see you land your first job with the expectations that you’ll ace every bit of it from day one.

  It’s good that you realise you know nothing. That is both accurate and useful. But don’t take it too far. What your PhD proves is that you have an ability to learn, understand and communicate, and THAT is what employers are looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon needs viewers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For extra points, write some random almost coherent stuff, ROT13 it then steganographise it into those dick pics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choosing violence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like it’s not just me that goes “ok then, try arguing with this” when power cycling an unresponsive computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It hurts.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a friend who thinks LOL means “lots of love” and uses it as a generic signoff.

  Had to reread it several times when he wrote “Mother in law died yesterday LOL”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK section of my local supermarket is taking the piss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m British and I only eat beans and curry, so I can’t see any problem here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How One Man Lost $740,000 to Scammers Targeting His Retirement Savings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, just a Cory Doctorow. Didn’t you hear they now come in six-packs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linguistics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or perhaps it’s a level of intelligence beyond your limited comprehension.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I’m not well enough versed in American politics to know who’s blue or red.

  Whether you should vote or not doesn’t depend on the people around you. It is your right to have your say. The result is the cumulative effect of everyone in your area doing the same. Whether you think you’re surrounded by millions of blues or millions of reds doesn’t make any difference. Your perception may be incorrect, and your analysis, that there is literally zero chance that your vote will matter, is incorrect.

  Nobody knows the results of an election until the votes are in and have been counted. It doesn’t matter that your area has always been red, blue, green, turquoise, pink or whatever. Areas can change allegiance, and it is by individuals getting out and voting.

  If you don’t vote, you strengthen the position of those who vote the other way. It is not considered a protest vote because the system would prefer to consider this as voter apathy. If you want to register a protest vote and “none of the above” isn’t an option, find the official way to spoil your ballot paper and do that, but whatever you do, get out and vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linguistics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great post. Fnrb wijjk blerb phtooie wagawaga nkkjqqz frup walawala madooie.

  Edit: What do you mean you haven’t got a clue what I’m talking about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Penguins ❤️⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Has homosexuality been redefined?

  I thought huddling together for warmth in cold weather was a survival technique: a method for staying alive, rather than counting as a sex act.

  And two males bringing up an orphaned child seems like a jolly nice thing to do for the child and the community. If an orphanage is staffed by one sex, does that make the whole place a massive L/G orgy even if nobody is having sex with anyone else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hee hee⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope he was wearing a sonky

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fucking hate the job search⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OK so next time you’ve done your work for the day, try going home early. Do let us know how it goes.

  You aren’t paid by the hour as long as it suits the company. As soon as it suits you, you’re damn well going to sit there until 5pm staring at the ceiling if you have to, THEN you can go home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get scattered⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same way I’d explain a sciency-type person who doesn’t know the difference between there, their and they’re.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jenkins.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if Brutus took over, Brutey?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mind = blown⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This whale is near. That country is far away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GDP: UK economy fails to grow during wet April⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is plausible. I read about the most delightfully English thing ever: we were going to have a revolution, everything was set and we were all ready to go, the day arrived but it was pissing it down, so we all collectively said “fuck that” and stayed at home. Brilliant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I thought some abbreviations/emoticons meant vs what they actually meant⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know someone who insists LOL means “lots of love”.

  His text “My mother-in-law died last night LOL” still fails to parse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Next time you’re driving somewhere, just pick a pedal and push it to see if it has the desired effect. If you go faster that’s the gas. If you go slower that’s the brake. If neither of them do anything try switching the engine on. You might need to fiddle with the gearstick as well, one of them makes you go backwards, the others are forwards. Just experiment and you’ll figure it out.

  Preferably well away from any othe traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try doing it with IOCCC code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyday, as an American⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We even like combining them in one thing. Tyres are measured using inches for one dimension and millimetres for the other two.