Rediphile
@Rediphile@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Anon can’t have a factual argument 2 weeks ago:
There are as many or as few races as we decide to make up at any given time. There is no scientific basis for drawing an objective line between racial groups. And ‘mixed race’ people like me just fuck it up more and more as time goes on.
- Comment on Anon can’t have a factual argument 2 weeks ago:
I feel like there are at least 12 people in Iran… Maybe even 13
- Comment on Pro-Tip: you can discover things other people have known for centuries 5 weeks ago:
I discovered a nice Thai place in my neighborhood recently… Although yes others knew about it, it was still a new discovery to me.
- Comment on Anon catches feelings 5 weeks ago:
Going into anything with low expectations is usually best.
- Comment on You will certainly not regret 1 month ago:
The regret is the missed second beer due to consuming saltines for no reason.
- Comment on You will certainly not regret 1 month ago:
Yes. Just like all recommended calorie intake figures include the calories needed to process the digestion of food.
- Comment on You will certainly not regret 1 month ago:
I’m currently at hour 47 of only beers, no food and no water. Can’t say I’d recommend it.
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
I was in a sauna at +95 Celsius for several minutes the other day. And within the same week I felt -35 Celsius cold on my bare skin.
Both could kill me provided a bit more exposure, but they don’t instantly. Meanwhile, +4 Celsius can also cause death by hypothermia pretty easily in the right circumstances.
So, while I like the idea, I think implementation will be hard as there is no clear death number on either end of the spectrum. Not to mention humidity, clothing, exertion, level of hydration, etc…
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
The freezing point of water seems a hell of a lot more relevant to what humans consider ‘cold’…which is why it’s the zero. The boiling point of water isn’t the zero in Celsius after all.
Also ‘cold’ as a concept is often represented with symbols related to frozen water such as snow flakes and icicles.
- Comment on Hollywood Keeps Reminding Us Why We Need Physical Media More Than Ever - IGN 3 months ago:
No I just memorize all the ones and zeros. /s
But yes, you are correct. I still feel it’s important to remind people that the only alternative to streaming isn’t like DVDs or vinyl records or something.
- Comment on Hollywood Keeps Reminding Us Why We Need Physical Media More Than Ever - IGN 3 months ago:
No need for physical media when it comes to file sharing. But if you really hate the environment so much, I guess yeah… sure, physical media accomplishes something.
I haven’t deleted any downloaded content in about 17 years now.
- Comment on A rant about an experience I had with Google maps today. 3 months ago:
Had you accidentally turned on ‘avoid highways’ by chance? Because the one time that happened to me it was.
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 4 months ago:
I was pointing out that the person calling me a corporate teat sucker was they themself one, as evidenced by their use of an iPhone.
- Comment on Just do it. 4 months ago:
You can give them as obviously as you like. Even hand them the physical card is fine. It’s still fraud if they use it without your explicit permission.
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 4 months ago:
I also trust Apple less…
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 4 months ago:
-Sent from my iPhone
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 4 months ago:
And yet I somehow knew Google was collecting my personal info because it was obvious. That’s the entire point of the company lol.
When someone searches ‘big donkey dicks’ in the url bar … where exactly did they think the browser was pulling those results from? Could it be a website… called Google?
It did exactly what it was described as doing it, which is basically no cookies and no user history (for the user or other users of their computer to see). The TV commercials about buying presents for loved ones never implied anything more.
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 4 months ago:
When most people talk about companies ‘stealing’ their data, it’s just companies doing what they explicitly stated in the terms and conditions and these people agreed to.
The whole Google incognito mode drama right now is a great example of this. It literally always said ‘incognito will not prevent employers, websites you visit, or your ISP from collecting data’ when opening a incognito tab. So yeah, obviously Google also knows what you are looking up and they never implied otherwise at all.
- Comment on UFO believer Ashton Forbes falls for $3k scam with fake evidence 4 months ago:
Anyone good at guarding themselves against people trying to fuck with people doesn’t become a conspiracy theorist in the first place.
- Comment on poggers 5 months ago:
It’s not arbitrary. Really try to think about the problem at hand. The ‘why’ is quite apparent. Ask yourself why did they go with 99+1+98+2… in the first place? And why is that the same as 101+101…? What was the benefit of simplifying it to that? How did it save the student time?
You can deduce this yourself and literally no memorization is involved to figure this out. No formulas needed either.
- Comment on True Story 5 months ago:
See also: wearing pants above belly button like grandpa.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 5 months ago:
That fine, I’ll take the loss for now and later raise prices again once all the other gravel suppliers die out.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 5 months ago:
A lot of times I don’t read the drink sections of the menu because I’m not having a drink. Or I might skip the dessert section. Sometimes the special that the server tells me about sounds so good so I just say ‘I will take that please’ without looking at the menu at all. I don’t read menus cover to cover nor do I inspect all signage on a window…but I guess I will now when visiting the USA since apparently that’s the expectation. If I did notice such a thing before ordering, I would just not eat there.
And any mandatory fee is not a tip by definition so I see this as a completely different issue from tipping culture.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 5 months ago:
I 100% would after offering to pay the full bill as indicated in the menu. I bet 99% they would just accept it too.
- Comment on Unions work. 6 months ago:
You are upset with me for tipping 30% (before this whole raise thing)? The $3 isn’t an issue. I was just asking if it was enough or not.
- Comment on 92% of young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek—here's what they'd give up 6 months ago:
If people are as productive in 4 days as they are in 5 days, I don’t see how the employer would be sacrificing anything at all. They would just be saving a day of office lighting bills.
- Comment on Unions work. 6 months ago:
So I’m good not to tip now, right? Or was my $3 tip on $10 beer (before this raise) not good enough and I should have been tipping more at that time?
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 6 months ago:
The AR-15 was designed in 1956…
- Comment on Military Time vs 24hr? 6 months ago:
Hard to consider using 24hr time amongst the ‘dumb shit’ though.
- Comment on Is there a title (Mr/Ms/Mrs) that is gender neutral? 8 months ago:
I prefer reappropriation of the terms personally.